Change in Music Business Forbes to Merge into Big Company
Change in the music business of E. E Forbes to merge into a larger company. A large sale of pianos and organs at reduced prices will run before September 1 as stock is turned into money or notes. Mr Forbes will be president of the new firm. Anni ston branch address given for catalogs and price lists.
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EB. EF. Forbes
Montgomer
Ala
KH. EF. Forbes
Morbes
Montgomery
Annistog
Eastrenth Street
Building and Led Association
The Old Fashioned Boy
A poem praising a robust boy with a rough, natural, carefree stance. It celebrates a youth unshaped by modern polish, eager appetite, and hands-on innocence. The speaker reflects on how such vigor will mature into a man who honors his roots.
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Detroit
Diplomatic Young Woman Secures State Job Against Odds
A shy applicant enters the attorney general’s office amid a crowd of hopefuls seeking posts. The gruff official admits lack of influence but directs a deputy to create a place for Miss C in the enrolling department, despite stiff competition from lawmakers and staff.
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Statesman
New York Herald
Tady
Sone
State Service
Attorney General
Bhoardly
Miss C
Brown
Devastating Locust Plague Halts Russian Forces Across Front
A vivid account describes locust swarms blanketing troops and horses, blinding officers, clogging rails, and shredding clothing. Trenches burned to scare them failed as swarms overrun fire. Cyprus spent large sums eradicating eggs and pods, with millions of eggs per pod and hundreds of tons of pods destroyed, yet the plague persists.
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Cyprus
Expense of a Yacht Aphrodite Sparks Luxury Debate
The piece notes the 650 ton yacht Aphrodite owned by Colonel Payne with a crew of 60, from first to third mates and engineers to deckhands. It uses the example to question modern yacht extravagance and echoes a quote about avoiding firm opinions.
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Colonel Payne
Aphrodite
Couplain
Urst
Leslie’s Monthly
Delusion on counterfeit goldfish and water reaction
A fragment notes that goldfish sent home are fakes and browning when removed from water in minutes. It mentions Stimson-Slow and Life as sources and includes garbled commentary about beet thieves and Chile Berald. The text is unclear and incomplete but centers on fake goldfish and rapid color change.
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Willie
Goldfisi
Stimson
Folk Cures Through Ages From Devon To Wales
The article surveys old folk beliefs and remedies across regions such as Somersetshire Cornwall and Wales. It notes practices like wearing a leg of mutton knucklebone for health and leading patients through sheep docks at dawn. It recalls a 1848 South Wales tale of a mad donkey bite and churchyard grass eating.
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Coren
Devon and Cornwall
England
South Wales
McCall's Magazine
Ark voyage questions from a boy’s Sunday lesson
A New York Mail and Express item recalls Reginald aged 8 asking how the Rocky mountain goat got on the ark and misquoting animals two by two. His sister tutored him with ark poetry as he studies literal biblical stories for Sunday school.
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Reneic
Reginald
Don Stavia
New York Mail
Uspress
Prescription to sleep by ten from famed surgeon
Julian Ralph in Collier's Weekly relates a tale of a renowned surgeon serving as a throne adviser who tells a fashionable woman with nervous breakdown that his only cure is self discipline. He prescribes going to bed at ten every night to avoid social temptations and health decline.
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Dev
Julian Ralph
Collier's Weekly
A Dog Star Demonstrates Trick Training in Public
A Philadelphia dog trainer notes that a performing dog never forgets its tricks once learned. He explains the teaching method using a sharp command Ip and harness work, then discards the harness as the dog masters turns and somersaults. Passersby smile as the public performer repeats the act.
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Philadelphia
Basuto Sayings From Basuto Metaphor Wisdom
The Basutos use many metaphorical sayings reflecting social values. Examples include mountains never meeting, a mother like a drought sustaining cow, one hand washes another, and a sitting hen never gets fat. The notes mention phrasing about patience and restraint.
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Meeb
Punished and Pardoned Poem from Boston Gazette
A sentimental verse recounts a mother punishing her son, his silent pride, and a late night moment of forgiveness. The scene shifts to a mother's tearful vigil by the child, praying for grace and mercy as she forgives. Reflects on penance, remorse, and maternal compassion.
Blaine Opposes Long Tenures In Diplomacy
James G Blaine favored limited consul tenure, noting a long serving consul in An Hung for 20 years. Evarts asks for caution, revealing the consul had been dead six months.
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James G. Blaine
Blaine
State Department
Evarts
An-Hung
Mr. Evarts
Mr. Blaine
The Shelter of the Dock
A knavish fellow faced a magistrate over trousers theft. Acquitted due to weak evidence, he stayed in the dock, declaring he would leave only after all witnesses were gone because he still wore the trousers. The lawyer finally explained the man’s reason: he had the trousers on.
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London
A Long Twenty
Professor Figgers meets Mrs. Goldwin at a reception and remarks on Prudence turning twenty, noting how time has passed since she was sixteen. He recalls her as a lively child and marvels at her coming of age and growth.
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Professor Figgers
Mrs. Goldwin
Miss Prudence
Little Prue
Prudence
English Colonel Demands Proper Trombone Parade Movements
A colonel in an English regiment, famed for strict drill, complains that trombone players spoil the battalion’s appearance. He instructs the bandmaster to have the musicians slide their instruments in and out in unison.
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Security Bank Building
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Turner & Ross
Anniston
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Dipcoma
Dacamand
C W. Daugette
Robinson Crusoe
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Chile
Berald
Tin Mother
Tie Mother
Sutherland
Boston Gazette
The
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Anniston, Alabama
Capital
STO
C.D. Woodruff
Whllborn
R.Y. Smith
Ums
WM. A. Davis
M. B. Well
H. McKleroy
New England
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