The Foreign Dealer
Questioning who provided support during hardship invites readers to compare local home merchants with distant big stores. It asks how shopkeepers aided illness, unemployment, fundraising, and church needs, and who offered comfort after a burial. It contrasts local newspaper care with distant Chicago or New York papers in moments of need.
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Sears & Roebuck
Montgomery Ward & Co
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Chicago
Siegel,Cooper & Co
Miniature Portraits Show Highlights Ivory Painting
New York hosts a Society of Miniature Painters exhibition highlighting ivory as the preferred medium to let the panel’s surface depth show through. Among 194 contributors, Miss Tillian Bayliss stands out with a piece titled A Stualy, praised for its refined brushwork and texture.
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New York
Society of Miniature Portrait’ Painters of America
Tillian Bayliss
Edwin Bayliss
Michigan schools offered historical pictures and flag reward
Through the State Superintendent in Michigan Hom. Delos Fall of Lansing and The Youth's Companion of Boston offer to the 100 schools showing the most effort in improving school grounds during 1904. Six historical pictures will be awarded to each of the top ten schools and a large American flag to the best overall performers. State Superintendent Fall cooperates and will publicize the offer statewide.
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Michigan
Hom. Delos Fall
Lansing
Boston
Washington
Lafayette
Burgo
Juvenile pair confess after theft. goods recovered
Aged 16 years, two boys were captured by Northwestern detective Peter Vallely on information from local special policeman George McCarthy. Upon arrest they confessed, with strong evidence shown by recovered stolen goods as proof of their guilt.
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Peter Vallely
Northwestern
George McCarthy
Walleley
Ontonagon Mineral Lands Sold At Public Auction
Receiver James Mercer of Republic Mining Co sold 380 acres in Ontonagon County at auction in Ontonagon TP Chadbourne of Houghton bid $1500. The property in the Porcupine mountains was sparsely worked and now valued mainly for timber per the Houghton Mining Gazette.
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James Mercer
Republic Mining Company
Ontonagon
Chadbourne
Houghton
A. C. Mackenzie
Negaunee
Porc Apine Mountains
Houghten Mining Gazette
Resignations Stir City Police and Public Affairs
Chief Burdick and Captain Bestehens resign amid grand jury probing alleged police extortion of gambling house operators and canal bridge and sewer system robbery schemes. Proseuctor vows full, bottomed inquiry. Lord & Thomas founder D M Lord retires. A L Thomas to succeed as president of the agency.
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N. A. Burdick
Frank Bestehens
Sea
Burdick
Loope & Whiteside
D. M. Lord
Lord & Thomas
Chicago
Northwest
A. L.thomas
Lord
Mystery Box Car Robberies Solved by Escanaba Boys
The Range Tribune confirms two Escanaba youths Ed Herring aged 18 and Fred Buillard confessed to box car robberies. They left on the eleven o'clock train Saturday morning en route to Menominee for examination. Both come from prominent families and are well known in the community.
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