Change in Business Be Forbes Merges Into Big Company
Be Forbes of Montgomery Alabama plans merging its piano and organ business into a larger firm on September 1. A large stock sale cuts prices to convert inventory before the change, with several people taking stock in the new company and Mr. BK Forbes named president. Catalogues with instrument prices available on request, Anniston branch 25 East Fifth Street.
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Anniston
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Bound for the Front Montenegrin Valor and a Prince’s Command
A wartime scene depicts Montenegrin courage as a prince counsels a boy to return home rather than face further combat. The exchange highlights family duty, sacrifice, and the vow to fight in the next battle.
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Orea
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Palen
Dik
Eap
Tn Howe
Howe
Chinese Proverbs about wealth ease and self reliance
A collection of traditional sayings on prudence wealth and governance. Notable lines urge planning before need value of good deeds and self responsibility urging minimal desires and personal effort over meddling with others affairs.
New York Elevator Sparks Alarm In Skyscrapers
An upstate visitor touring New York skyscrapers rode a local elevator to the sixteenth floor and then, after a switch, was instantly lowered to the ground floor by an express elevator. He exclaimed that the ride seemed as fast as jumping, highlighting safety concerns aboard city towers.
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Ile
City Time
New York Post
Ghostly Satellite Opposite the Sun Puzzles Astronomers
The fragment describes a faint disk seen opposite the sun, called ganzenhien. Professor Pickering speculates it could be a cemetery or meteoric satellite of Earth, possibly a cloud of meteors about 1,000,000 miles away, revolving once a year so sun and satellite stay opposite.
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Pickering
Carlsbad Springs and Royal Visitors Draw Season
Rolling Springs notes describe Carlsbad perched on a thin crust over boiling springs. The Sprudel hot spring pumps 130,000 gallons daily at varying temperatures. For over a century the water has been famed as a cure, attracting royal visitors from May 1 to September 20 each year.
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Carlsbad
Pater You Are Very Forward Sir In My Day
A witty observation on manners contrasts past and present courtship etiquette. The speaker notes younger men now hesitate to call unless explicitly told not to, reflecting social change with humor.
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Pater
A Sympathetic Dodge Coffee Salesman Story
A Brooklyn coffee house salesman, alleged to have a clever ordering scheme, is recalled by a Manhattan housewife who mistook him for her late sister. He feigned distress and described losing a sister, prompting her and a neighbor to buy coffee, revealing a iffy tactic framed as sympathy.
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Brooklyn
Tle
New York Mail and Express
Persian Tears as Medicine in Persia
A physician returning from Persia reports that tears are thought to cure certain chronic illnesses. Priests collect tears at funerals by giving mourners sponges to shed tears, then squeeze them into bottles for use as medicine. Crocodile tears from insincere mourners are not discussed by the priests.
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Persia
Winning a Juror in a French Criminal Case
The famous French lawyer M. Lachaud realizes one juror is hostile. A sunbeam exposes the juror as the curtain is adjusted. He gently requests the court to lower the curtain, winning the juror’s attention and aiding his case.
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M. Lachaud
M. Luehaud
Sailor doubts as Hessian general nears American coast
In 1776 Hessian General Knyphausen warns his captain about the long voyage to suppress the American rebels asking if they may have already sailed past America in darkness. The dialogue reveals errors by those claiming expert knowledge of America and its people.
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Knyphausen
America
Americans
Untitled Verse Fragment by Alfred Austin
Fragmentary verse describes a woman in a fair land waking with a smile and enduring love and pain. The speaker recalls her tenderness and prayer, noting a final smile in death as the world ends in a exalted image. Independent attribution to Alfred Austin is included.
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Alfred Austin
Self Phosphorescent Diamonds At Night Tempers Kept In Shop
A traveler's tale from New Orleans Times-Democrat describes diamonds that glow faintly in darkness when heated or pressed. An Amsterdam visit revealed cutters noting stones emitting a pale radiance in dim light, with yellower gems reportedly more phosphorescent.
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Amsterdam
California
New York
New Orleans Times-Democrat
What the Eye Reveals on Temperament and Character
The passage links eye features to mental state and character. It notes that upper lid coverage over half the pupil signals cool deliberation, while a horizontal upper eyelid across the pupil indicates mental ability. Unsteady, jerking eyes suggest unsettled minds and brown or black eye color is common among lunatics.
Sunday School Lesson Turns Odd Verse Jest
A Sunday school teacher asked little girls to quote Scripture for a tale about a cruel boy who harms cats. One girl rose and solemnly replied Whatsoever God has joined together let no man put asunder indicating the mix of tale and verse in a Carthage Press report.
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Carthage Press
Scottish Farmer Elected School Board Member Visits School
An elderly Scottish farmer, newly elected to the local school board, visited the school and quizzed the class. He asked the boys to name a “more thing,” and after a pause a boy in a buck seat stood and replied in broad dialect, asking about where to fetch hay for a horse.
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London
Above Suspicion and the Forgery Remark by Brother Dickey
A race member sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery prompts Brother Dickey to declare that education would have prevented such fate. He admits he cannot read or write and laments his illiteracy. In Abyssinia coffee grows wild and is named Kaffa from a district there.
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Atlanta Constitution
Abyssinia
Kaffa
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