Richmond Clearance Sale Offers Wide Apparel Deals
A massive January sale in Richmond features Essex Mills Union Suits, wool vests, shirts, and drawers at deep discounts. Many items include gloves, silks, and blankets with prices slashed from fractions of a dollar to under $5, aiming to clear overstocked stock across men, women, and children.
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Essex Mills Union
Saaran
Erere Seco
Paneancee Menue
Dr. Wright
Jan- Moss FN Spo
Cheney
Jeffery car promises luxury and refined engineering
The Jeffery car is pitched as a top quality vehicle with a strong engine and added conveniences. It emphasizes refined luxury, easy control, perfect service, and is advertised with a request to send for a catalogue.
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Jeffery
Jeffery Car
Local Briefs Highlight Visits and Parish Plans
H H Bryan attended an Indianapolis event Saturday. Virginia Barnett and Mrs Kate Blue visited Indianapolis last week. The Presbyterian church plans Sunday services both morning and evening. Miss Ethel Bertsch joined sister Mary at Battle Creek for a banquet at the sanitarium welcoming new visitors. Jeremiah Myers bought forty acres of Moses Meyers estate north of Pleasant Hill church at 55 dollars per acre, no buildings. The town board approved building two cemetery outbuildings at Riverside for male and female use. Funeral services for Mrs Anna Zimmer an were held at Locust Grove church with Rev Boyer of Dayton in charge. Large turnout of relatives and friends. burial beside Locust Grove cemetery. Relatives attending from far included numerous Herrs, Ellebarger, Good, Rummel, Brenner, Gascho, and Peirce families from Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa.
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Ethel Bertsch
Mary
Battle Creek
Mich
Moses Meyers
Pleasant Hill Church
Jeremiah Myers
Anna Zimmeran
Locust Grove Church
Rev. Boyer
Dayton
Ohio
Christian Herr
Orville Herr
Lizzie Snyder
North Hampton
D. R. Ellebarger
Piqua
Ed Ellebarger
Richmond
Wm. Zimmerman
Oxford Junction
Iowa
John R. Rummel
Logansport
Lizzie Kauffman
Amanda Good
Rudolph Good
Alex. Good
Arcadia
Jacob Brenner
Atlanta
John Fisher
Mary Fenner
John Gascho
Jonathan Gascho
Noblesville
Henry Lafever
Anett Peirce
Cheater Peirce
Indianapolia
Miltion Social: Eaton of Meetings and Installations
Miss Kate Baker visits Indianapolis. multiple social visits across Milton include Honeywell meeting in Richmond. Eastern Star installs Milton Chapter officers with Mrs Anna Banes presiding. banquet and toasts follow as Cambridge City guests attend and local officials reorganize town boards.
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Eastern Star
Anna Banes
Metamora
Indiana
Mary Beeson
Nora Brown
Ada Goebel
Cambridge City
W. M
Chas. Wheeler
Mrs. Goebel
Anna Ranes
Institution of Milton
Cambridge
Mesers
Mesidemes
Fred Goebel
Meadames M. E
Nihilist plots at Paris luncheon end in death
In Paris Mile Elise Portier hosts a luncheon for a visiting prince while Ivan Kerchoff, a nihilist admirer, vows to die for Elise and poisons the orange at table. He exposes the plot to kill both the prince and Elise’s father, and is soon hunted by authorities. He dies a week later at the hands of nihilists.
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Paris
Papa
Russia
Siberia
M. Portier
Portier
Ivan Kerchoff
Elise
Mile
Milo
Mademoiselle
Ivan
Kerchoff
Mile. Portier
Prince
Messieurs
Elise Portier
Pie Kate Baked Brings Joy to Children
Poem about Kate making a pie with ripe red apples. Children enjoy the crust and filling, laughter, and shared dessert.
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Kate
The Burden Bearers A Fable
A short fable explains that birds without wings gain strength by sharing burdens among all, except the ostrich who carries little and cannot fly. The moral: burdens borne for others become blessings.
Boy Scouts Badge Totals Highlight Summer Progress
National headquarters reports 21 643 badges issued with 1 141 workt badges. Boys advance from tenderfoot to first class and pursue proficiency medals. The 1912 to 1913 summer period shows 935 men commissioned as scout masters, 286 as assistant masters, and 100 as scout commissioners along with a spike in correspondence from 53 883 to 97 967 pieces.
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Boy Scouts of America
Who Wrote That A Literary Game Answers List
A classroom quiz lists questions on author names for classic works. The answer key names Will Carleton Washington Irving Nathaniel Hawthorne Sir Walter Scott Charles Dickens Harriet Beecher Stowe William Shakespeare Henry W Longfellow John G Whitier Eugene Field James Whitcomb Riley Rudyard Kipling.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Shakespeare
Henry W. Longfellow
John G. Whittier
Eugene Field
James Whitcomb Riley
Rudyard Kipling
Ocean Depths Revealed Depth Records Across Atlantic
The deepest sea point is in the south Atlantic between Tristan da Cunha and the Rio de la Plata, at 40 236 feet. North Atlantic depths near Newfoundland reach 27 480 feet, with 34 000 feet south of Bermuda. Average ocean depth lies between 2000 and 2500 fathoms.
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South Atlantic Ocean
Tristan d’Acunha
Rio de la Plata
North Atlantic Ocean
Newfoundland
Bermuda Islands
Corn In Many Lands
The article notes maize origin in the Americas but records its global spread and diverse names. It mentions British usage maize or Indian corn, Dutch Hungarian Turkish wheat in Holland and Hungary, Syrian dhurra in Egypt, and mealies in South African colonies.
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America
Tea Mays
Great Britain
Holland
Hungary
Egypt
Fish Out of Place in Odd Caption Puzzle
A riddle style verse asks what Gsh may be said to be out of place among items like a perch in a cage and a skate in a cutter shop, noting a sole at the boot and whiting near a mastel and a lady's neck, weaving nautical and domestic imagery.
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Indianapolis
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Billheimer & Oglesber
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W. E. Williams
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Ed Wilson
Oliver Wallace
Frank DuGramat
Paul Ferris
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Karl Weyl
Paul Caldwell
Carl Williams
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Mary Walker
Emmet Crowe
Honeywell
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C. A. Roark
Ruth Leverton
Violet Marley
Vene Beeson
Treas
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Lisa Whitenack
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Connersville
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