Law Firm Ad Mentions Crum Jaqua Crum and Notarial Work
Crum Jaqua Crum Attorneys at Law advertise from an office above a Bedford National Bank theater in Ta with Frank Wisdom. Special attention to estate settlements and notarial work including abstracts.
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McCoun & Brant
Court Street
Court House
Bedford
Iowa
B. Crum
HH. P. Jaqua
W. B Crum, Jr Crum
JAQUA
R. T. Burrell
Frank Wisdom
Law National Bank
A Dinner in Japan and Other Tales from Leslie's Weekly
A humorous Leslie's Weekly account by Homer Croy recounts arriving in an inland Japanese town and misadventures seeking a hotel and meals. He endures a bare dining room, milk stool, chopsticks, and a misread menu revealing horse meat, later contrasting with John Muir and Harriman in a separate vignette.
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Sjapan
Homer Croy
Leslie’s Weekly
Gondrab
Etter Pet
Sifsmiie
Tay Bone Opier
A Touch of Gold Restores Dignity in London
In London the actor Henry E. Dixey meets a hungry American performer who refuses to beg for work. Dixey gives him a sovereign, and the man’s mood shifts from prideful menace to gratitude. He plans to eat and then return soon to perform at the Cafe Royal.
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London
Henry E. Dixey
Strand
Dixey
Direy
Cabby
Cafe Royal
Detroit Free Press
Impolite Officials and the Paris Carrot Lesson
A Parisian mayoralty reports a mid day incident where a small public employee munching carrots was told to return at 2. The new chief of the bureau dismissed the delay and urged a proper welcome, ending with a humane lesson about dignity in public service.
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Paris
France
Monsieur
Tam
Bureau
Indianapolis News
Mathematical Prizes and Wit in Period Notices
The piece notes the Goettinge Academy offering 21000 for a general Fermat proof and the French Academy granting 53200 for top math work. It recaps Mark Twain on women’s education with a Hartford speech ending in a joking marital tip. It includes quips on pedigrees, flirtation, and diplomacy exchanges from various papers.
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Academy of Sciences of
Mark Twain
Hartford
Springfield Arsenal and its enduring rifle making craft
The Springfield armory and its complex of foundries show how sixty distinct small arms types evolved from early flintlock Brown Bess to today’s 80 caliber rifle. It details the manufacturing steps from steel billets to rifling, barrel finishing, browning, and assembly while noting the armory’s cost to the government and its role in arming troops quickly in emergencies.
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Longfellow
Springfeld Arsenal
New England
Springfield
Springfeld
United States
Ordnance Department
Browning
Edison Monthly
Ancient Alexandria mocked rulers with caustic wit
The article recounts how Alexandrians mocked rulers with nicknames and satirical pranks. It notes Hadrian’s description of the city as wealthy yet spiteful and gives examples from Ptolemies, Seleucus, Vespasian, Herod Agrippa, and Caracalla. Caracalla’s brutal purge punished the city’s jeering elite.
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Veuthe
Alexandria
Arthur EB. P. Brome Weigall
Cleopatra
Hadrian
Ptolemy IX
Ptolemy X
Ptolemy XIII
Seleucus
Vespasian
Scullion
Herod Agrippa
Agrippa
Caligula
Gobell
Caracalla
Alexander the Great
South American Nhambiquara Described As Primitive Tribe
In The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition Miller portrays the Nhambiquara as a likely lowest civilization type in South America. Colonol Rondon secured peaceful relations after initial hostilities, with the tribe trading beads and surviving on mandioca, fruits, game, and honey. They live in grass huts, hunt with six foot palm wood bows and bamboo arrows, and sleep on the ground after foraging through jungle tramps.
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Roosevelt-Rondon Rcientific
Mr. L. ©. Miller
Colonel Rondon
Rondon
The Frenchwoman and Hate In Millinery Trade Compare
The passage contrasts French and English milliners noting lower start up costs in France as French makers imagine finished hats. It cites a New York Tribune quip about French imagination contrasted with English insistence on a completed product.
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France
England
New York Tribune
Blood Stains on Silk Remedy From Home Companion
An old home remedy gives steps to remove a bloodstain from silk by placing four inches of white sewing silk in the mouth, moistening, rolling into a ball, and gently rubbing the stain until it vanishes. The note adds a quip from the Kansas City Journal about a frugal husband.
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Kansas City Journal
Why She Goes as Dinner Guest Cited by Detroit Free Press
A reader notes that despite disliking her, they attend dinners to find fault in everything she does. The piece links thrift as a principle, urging it to serve, not dominate.
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Detroit
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Main Street
L. T. McCoun
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Buikiinge Town
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Taylor Party
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Herve Fire Proofity Deposit Boxes
Japan
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Harriman
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Clayton Bedgwick Cooper
Richmond
Louisville Courier-Journal
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Robert
OUR Army Rifles
Uncle Sam
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