Origins and meanings behind familiar phrases
A tailor in Samarcand keeps a pebble in a pot for every burial then dies and is said to have gone to pot. A baker’s dozen derives from London bread trades where a dozen plus an extra loaf was common. Also noted is the proverb about “an ax to grind” from Poor Robert the Scribe’s Essays.
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Samarcand
Asia
London
Robert
Miner
Femi
United Kiatas
Nee Amentries
Sentific
United States
Peierta
Canada
Mwa
Trireo
Goa
Electric Bitters Credited With Malaria and Liver Cure
E Bainbridge Moneday of Clay County Texas and D J Wilcoxson of Horse Cave Kentucky report dramatic recoveries from malaria fever jaundice kidney liver and stomach disorders after using Electric Bitters. They claim the remedy saved lives and wards off illnesses. Price 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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E. Bainbridge Moneday
Counsry Atty
Clay Co
Tex
D. J. Wilcoxson
Horse Cave
Poughkeepsie Woman Buys Sealskin Jacket for 150 Dollars
A young Poughkeepsie woman recently bought a sealskin jacket from a New York firm paying 150 dollars, earned from her own fancy needlework bands. President Cleveland proposes to ruin U S manufacturers by making the nation an auction mart for European cheap labor products.
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Poughkeepsie
New York
Cleveland
United States
Noted trotting stallion dies in Versailles Kentucky
Messenger Chief a famed trotting stallion died Thursday night in Versailles Kentucky from rupture. He was valued at twenty thousand dollars.
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Messenger Chief
Versailles
Macon
Tom Woolfolk
Indianapolis
Jus. Burns
Ladies Aid Society of the
Pomeroy M
Local notes report mining accident and suicides near Shawnee
The Shawnee district records a miner named John James injured by slate fall with a cut head and broken leg. Henry Wilson of Perry County Infirmary dies by suicide with a gun. A Mrs Yontz falls ill and dies next morning after a car trip near Thornville.
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Shawnee
John James
Henry Wilson
Perry County Infirmary
John Yontz
Thornville
Washington County Farmers’ Institute
Henry B. Wilson
Belpre Township
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