A Very Convenient Fellow Who Sets the Pace in Housing
A New York Times excerpt mocks the ideal tenant, describing a man who has no children, high finances, and no complaints, who compels landladies to accommodate him and makes others accept higher rents or worse service. The piece lampoons the myth of the perfect tenant and shows how landlords bend to the dominant renter’s expectations.
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Persis
New York Times
S.S.S
J. A. Talbert
Winona
Miss
Hot Springs
THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
A Lesson In Finance From a Ring Illustration
The Rev Dr avid Gregg recounts a parable to teach money sense. A wife, unaware of money value, desires a $1000 ring. Her husband orders his banker to send $1000 in pennies and coins, shocking her into realizing the ring’s price and prompting her to abandon the purchase.
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Avid Gregg
Derivation of the word dollar from thal to daler
The piece traces the dollar’s origin to the German thal valley and Joachimsthaler. It notes Joachim’s valley mining city in Bohemia, the silver coin of Sixteenth century, and how joa chimsthaler became thaler and then daler. English adoption followed with spelling changes.
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Thal
Bohemia
Joachimsthal
Joachim’s Valley
Germany
Denmark
The Giant Redwood's Silent Bloodless Work
A giant redwood in California lifts water from its roots to the crown. Its stem reaches 350 feet, and millions of tender leaves release gallons daily. The water to replace that loss requires lifting through 500 feet of vertical space, a force unseen yet essential, as noted by Popular Science Monthly.
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California
Popular Science Monthly
Parlor Observation and Cafe Dining Cars Between Memphis and Atlanta
Parlor observation and cafe dining cars operate between Memphis Tennessee and Atlanta Georgia with departures from Memphis at 8 15 p m and arrivals in Atlanta 10 15 p m via K C O M B R R and Southern Railway No 36 Returning leaves Atlanta at 6 a m arriving Memphis 8 05 p m via Southern Railway No 35 to Birmingham then K M B RR Also in service are Pullman sleeping cars Memphis to Atlanta departing Memphis 9 10 p m arriving Atlanta 11 30 a m 5 31 11 Model Laundry advert follows.
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Memphis
Tenn
Atlanta
Birmingham and Southern Railway
Southern Railway
Birmingham
Pullman
Administrator's Sale of Anniston Real Estate
Public sale by M. L. Sawyer administratrix of S. D. Sawyer estate under Calhoun County Probate Court order. On Oct 7 2001 at 12 noon in front of the Probate Judge’s office Anniston Alabama the property includes SW4 of SW11 Township 16S Range 5E with a one acre corner removed, Lot 1 Block 190 Glen Addie front 70 feet plus 70 feet depth, a four foot wide strip to an alley, and Lot 12 Block 262 fronting 524 feet on Gurnee Street with 140 feet depth to an alley. A cash sale. Sept. 14 1901.
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Emmett F. Crook
Calhoun County
M. L. Sawyer
D. Sawyer
Ala
Township
Glen Addie Street
Fourth Street
Gurnee Street
Anniston
S. D. Sawyer
Notice to Non-Resident in Caloun County Alabama
Notice of attachment issued against non resident defendant 8 L Arnold in T A Stewart vs 8 L Arnold Two boxes household goods levied upon under an August 1901 attachment Publication to run weekly for three weeks in Evening Star and mail copy to defendant at residence when known Judgment dated August 20 1901 by Justice of the Peace A F McGuer
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T. A. Stewart
L. Arnold
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Weekly Republic
the Republic
the Anniston
Republic
the Office of the Republic
Eleventh Street
New Court House
Proprietors
U.S
Gap
Epoe
Ray’ “ Griffith,t. , Iphis, Tens
Geo, H. Lee
Gen Pass. Agt
Little Rock, Ark
the Gaines Marble Co
Cartersville
D. R. Gaines
West Fourteenth Street
State of Alabama
Caloun County
R. J. Saywell
Morris
Morrisville, Ala
Bell Telephone Connection
Castoria
Peecepe
New York
Wiih
Bears
Union Depot
Southern Railwa
Booth
Rome
Louisville
Nashville Railroad
Alabama Minera Division
Mrepua Bi Pats Association
Abama
W. Sexton
Annison, Ala
Empire
West Tenth St
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