Tale of a small town youth chasing big city riches
The story follows Tommy Wilkins from Stringville who leaves a modest life for Chicago's temptations. He finds a dry goods job at twelve dollars weekly but faces steep board costs and sparse social connections. After eight months with eight dollars saved, a letter from his sister invites him home to marry and accept a simpler life back in Stringville.
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Keoumy Wilkins
Tommy
Tommy Wilkins
Chad
Soamumy Wilkins
Sstsov
de Boweti
Brown
Sis
Tommy Wilazon
Lam
Hart
Buster
Sisip
Ned
Chicago
Axe
Taway
Amnion
Trmhoe
Tamon
de Smith
WEA
Smith
Femm
Mr. Milkins
J“ Wilkins
Stringville
Solomon & Isaacs
Teringville
Miss DeSmith
Tommy Tamatally
Somette
Gaye
Ellows
Springville
Cost of Good Roads in Illinois by a Road Commissioner
George Stevens, a road commissioner with eleven years in Illinois, explains a stone and gravel road can be built for about 4.55 per rod or 1 456 per mile using a twenty horsepower traction engine. He notes six loads of rubble or gravel per rod for average work near Rockford and regrets lacking a stone crusher.
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George Stevens
Illinois
Rockford
Lessons On Road Building From Louisiana School Leaders
A Louisiana meeting of parish superintendents in Baton Rouge in 1907 urged integrating road building into education. The resolution calls for school institutes associations and teachers to teach road construction concepts and promote better highways and methods to the community.
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Baton Rouge
The
Good Roads Magazine
Teachers’ Association
School Improvement Association
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promised to Help Women
A historical promotion claiming nature and a woman's work heal female illness. It cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women's ills and includes a testimonial from Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri describing twelve years of suffering and recovery after following Pinkham's guidance.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Bertha Muff
N.C. St
Louisiana
The Earths Interior and An Egg Demonstration
The article recalls Lord Kelvin arguing the earth's interior is solid using spinning eggs. A raw egg loses momentum while a boiled egg keeps spinning, suggesting a liquid core would halt rotation. It notes the lasting impact on science history from Kelvin's reasoning.
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World of
Science
Lord Kelvin
Earth
London
Value of Good Roads in Maryland Policy
Governor Warfield champions road improvements as a lasting public investment. He notes that good roads cost money but are cheaper than ongoing repairs for poor infrastructure. Maryland's geological survey roads cost similar to northern and southern counterparts and will require low maintenance.
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Warfield
Maryland
State Geological Survey Commission
Prizes For Road Building In Ontario Townships
The Ontario Motor League awarded last November a $500 prize to Etobicoke for improving a mile of road west from Humber River to Mimico Creek. Markham won $100 for a mile from the village. Additional prizes of $50 and 25 were given to the supervising officials. Recommendations came from A W Campbell, commissioner of public works and committee chair.
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Ontario Motor League
Etobicoke
Ont
Humber River
Mimico Creek
Good Roads Magazine
Markham
A. W. Carmpbell
Doan's Kidney Pills Praised by Aberdeen Woman
Mrs. A. McLean of Aberdeen Washington reports severe backaches dizziness and urinary trouble improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She bought the remedy at Red Cross Drug Store and recommends it to others with kidney complaints. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by all dealers priced cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
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Aberdeen
Bright
Doan
A. McLean
North K Street
Wash
Dean
Red Cross Drug Store
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffal
New York
Washington State Democratic Delegates Scheduled May 1908
The Washington State Central Committee calls a state convention in Spokane on May 18 1908 at 11 am to elect ten delegates to the National Democratic Convention in Denver July 7 1908. Delegates allocated by county votes from the 1906 judicial race with two from each county and one per fifty thousand votes or major fraction. Attest Carld Eshelman Secretary.
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Washington State Central Committee
Democratic Party
Tacoma
Denver
Col
United States
Supreme Court
State of Washington
Agotor
Secaee
Belgwis. Oscost
Asotin
Slincoln
Benton
Sthurston
Deccom
Kiltaan
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Aydia E. Pinkham
Wishkah and Park Sts
J. J. Carney
East Wishkah Street
the Herald
Grand Theatre
E. B. Benn
Mer
Jules Murry
Paul Gilmore
the Wheel OF Love
Democratic Party of State of Washington
Carl D. Eshelman
Herald ‘Cintery
Toigure
Total A. R. Titlow
the Herald For
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