Divorce Proceedings in Jackson County Highlighted
Ethel Merker and William Merker, a couple married about a year ago, petition for divorce in Jackson County courts. The case notes the wife’s seventeen and the husband’s sixteen ages, lack of parental consent, and calls for legal separation. Commentary criticizes youths’ marriages and urges parental discipline.
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Ethel Merker
Wilhiam Merker
Jackson County
Josane Haber
Icix
Ethel
Willie
Nightcaps and a pardon for a late stroll plan
Young husband and wife exchange playful banter about gifts and plans for the evening. The wife mentions a prior night out with Sparkles and hopes the husband enjoys the new items, while urging him to try them on.
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Tor
Sparkles
Sou
Pearson's
The Urward of Kindness on a New Zealand Platform
A kind hearted man on a New Zealand railway platform helped during an incident with a circus elephant. As the train began moving the elephant grabbed the man by the trunk and pulled him along. The locomotive halted and the man was rescued from the elephant’s hold.
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Urward
New Zealand
Young Grant's Colt in a Schoolboy Tale of a Horse
The story recounts Ulysses Grant aiming to own a colt from Halston. The owner asks $25, the father offers $20, and after patient persistence Grant persuades the owner to accept $25 through repeated bargaining. The horse becomes a long running tale of schoolyard teasing, then grants the boy the colt for a time before it ends up as a worn, wheel-pulled ferryboat horse along the Ohio River.
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Amis
Amos
Suér
Athens County
Grant
Georgetown
Halston
Sir. Marston
Clynses
Ulysses
Tia
Ade
Mrr. Statstan’s
Pater
Ulysse
Ohio
Kentucky
Oho River
Perpetual Light Lamp in Lemialana Described as Unceasing Flame
A Times-Democrat correspondent calls the lamp between Lake Borgne and Mississippi a remarkable beacon in a desolate marsh land near Bay St. Louis and Chinchuba. It burns continuously, sighted from the rail line, fed by oil and kept lit four times yearly, never flickering.
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Lemialana
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lake Borgne
Mississippi
Bay St. Louis
Chinchuba
Loulaville and Nashville Railroad
Marinera
Peter
Washing Across Asia From Garments to Streams
The article describes Japanese and Korean washing practices, noting air drying on boards, sun ironing, and high labor among Korean washerwomen. It mentions washing in cold water or streams, paddling clothes until they shine, and contrasts methods across Orient cultures.
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Orient
Chicago News
Gossip and Oddities From Two Papers and A Glass Note
Fragmentary chatter about a fashionable man and a traveling suitor, a directive to attend to business at ten, plus a note about a Paris made transparent glass from kelp. The item reads like a collage of early 20th century clippings with witty remarks and a science tidbit.
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Richmond Dispatch
Unclear Testimony at City Matrimonial Registry
A young Darisian witness escorted to the mayor’s office to witness marriage formalities. he consented but interrupted the proceedings with a plea to pause the arrangements. He asked if the affair could be presented as a sad occurrence, halting the ceremony.
Say Jinks and the watch in a nickel plated case
A Baltimore American snippet jokes about a fine gold watch replaced by a nickel plated piece. It then shifts to a remark on petitions and addresses to the sovereign or Parliament, noting postage rules for weights under two pounds.
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Earth
Herald
Jinks
Baltimore American
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Noah
Morgan
Settie
Commonwealth
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Scott
Druvedars
Howne Cisinus
New York
Hood
Young Grant
Athens
Adam Porepageh
SLLS
J. A. Bailey
W. W. Cole
Lewis Sells
Peter Sells
America
Madixon Square Garden
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Diavolo
Madison Sunaire Garden
Gaynelis Croyle
Aurora Zouaves
Europe
A-Paw & Sells Bros. Jackson
Shooting Star
DUO DE Vene
Dalle Julian
Emma Slickney
the Queeca
the Arena
Merrick
Arenic
CLINE
Drug &Tulle
Lara
Chothy
Chicago Post
Paris
Thedford's
Blackdraught
the Great Family Medicine
Thedford
Drg
Gist
A. J. GR
Edna Thompson
Cline’s
Aarasstial Wat
Tach Notind Enka
Standard Oil CO
Pires Davis
Kid McCor
Fitzaimmons
Louisville
Memphis
New Orleans
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Denver
Broadway
NEW Best Service
Pulman
Cinchanati
Pacific Coast
Thoreday
H. Garrabee
Chillicothe
Southern Railway
West Indies
Mexico
California
St. Angustine
Palm Beach
Miami
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Tampa
Port Tampa
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Thomasville
Charleston
Aiken
Augusta
Pinehurst
Asheville
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Granus B
Aitax, A. G. P
Baxpwice
Feneral
J. ML. Cou
W. A. Tore Trafis
Ass’t Pass
Trafic
Washington D.C
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