Sheraton Furniture and Hepplewhite: A Georgian Link
Detroit News writer Edith B. Crumb notes the close relationship between Sheraton and Hepplewhite furniture, detailing Sheraton's ornate style, Louis XVI influences, lyre backs, and the distinctive chair frames with rectangular backs, upholstered seats, and joined arm supports.
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Thomas Sheraton
Prince of Wales
George IV
Edith B. Crumb
Detroit News
Sheraton
Hepplewhite
Tower of London Group Dates Back to Year 1078
A Boston Globe writer notes the Tower of London originated with William the Conqueror in 1078. The complex evolved from a single White Tower to a fortress housing palace and treasury. Beefeaters guard the site, and Traitors Gate once ferried prisoners to trial.
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Tower of London
Tower of
London
White Tower
William the Conqueror
Boston Globe
Alfred the Great
Charles II
Thames
Tower
Tower Hill
Insulation Options for Old Homes and Attics
A heating engineer asserts insulation boils down to type and amount. Old houses are tougher to insulate yet benefit by cooling summers and heating winters. For attic use either insulate the roof or insulate between floor joists for cheaper storage space.
Bills and Resolutions in Legislative Practice
A concise explainer notes how a bill differs from a joint resolution and a senate or house resolution. It clarifies that concurrent resolutions involve both houses, while a joint resolution starts with a resolving clause and a bill with an enacting clause.
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Senate
House
Courtesan Letters Sell To National Library
A collection of Madame de Maintenon correspondence including letters to the marquise de Dangeau sold to the Bibliotheque Nationale for 340 dollars. A Josephine letter to Talleyrand fetched 144 dollars and Montespan autographs brought 134 dollars in Indianapolis News.
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Madame de Maintenon
Louis XIV
Marquise de Dangeau
Bibliotheque Nationale
Josephine
Napoleon
Talleyrand
Marquise de Montespan
Indianapolis News
Ostrich at London Zoo Ate Odd Items
A recently deceased ostrich at the London Zoo was found to have consumed a variety of objects including two handkerchiefs three gloves a camera film spool string a pencil a comb a bicycle tire valve a clock key a glove fastener a piece of wood part of a rolled gold necklace two collar studs a penny four halfpennies and a Belgian coin.
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London Zoo
Indiana State Fair A Great Exposition
Russell G. East Richmond Ind president of the Indiana Board of Agriculture calls the Indiana State Fair one of the greatest expositions in the United States. He says the fair considers every interest, pursues excellence despite economic conditions, and highlights 4 H work and agricultural progress statewide. The report notes many local social visits and community notices surrounding the fair period.
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Russell G. East
Richmond
Ind
Indiana Board of Agriculture
Indiana State Fair
United States
State Board of Agriculture
Indiana
Canada
Ancient Pompeii Rent Sign Reveals 79 A.D. Ads
A Detroit News excerpt describes painted rent signs found on Pompeii and Herculaneum ruins from the Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. One sign for Julia Felix lists lettings from the first to the sixth of August for five years, including a bath venereum and ninety shops.
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Pompeii
Herculanum
Vesuvius
Julia Felix
Spurius Felix
Detroit’ News
Ancient Artifacts Found Near Kurukshetra Forge 200 B C Date
Dr Sita Ram curator of the Lahore museum discovers mounds near Kurukshetra in India containing sculptures terra cotta statues and other ancient art likely dating to 200 B C The forest region had seen little human visitation for centuries before the expedition.
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Kurukshetra Forest
Lahore
India
Sita Ram
Lahore Museum
Doctor Ram
Sleep Emphasized As Greatest Need By Wisconsin Professor
A Wisconsin University professor emeritus urged the audience to prioritize sleep. He contrasted adult night habits with a baby sleeping about 20 hours daily and noted a child’s clear grasp of sleep’s value.
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Wisconsin University
Administrator Announces Public Sale of Smiley Estate
The administrator of the James R. Smiley estate will hold a public auction on Wednesday May 17 at 1 30 pm at the deceased’s residence one mile south of Knightstown. Items include household furnishings antiques farm tools a horse a cow and calf and more. Cash terms. Charles F Baxter Administrator Clarence Carr Auctioneer.
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James R. Smiley
Said
Decedent
Knightstown
Wanted Young Poland China Male Hog
Wanted young Poland China male hog. Phone 102. Lost ladies black pocket book on canning factory road to I S and S C Home. Return to this office. Reward. For Sale rabbit hutches inquire at this office. Wool wanted highest prices paid for wool. Ralph Siler and Raymond Finney. 45 ris on. Fade proof wallpaper 72c up. Painting interior and exterior estimates freely given. Phone 79. Ratliff jeweler for attractive prices on watch spectacles and clock repairing. Good used watches for sale Knightstown Indiana. For sale or trade corn planter double discs plows cultivators trailers etc Gatewood shop. Wanted sheep to shear 124cc per head Raymond Finney call 8. For sale garden plants of all kinds trans planted strong and healthy flowering plants in pots. Open evenings Elbert O Leavelle North McCullum St Knightstown Ind.
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Ratliff
Knightstown
Indiana
Elbert O. Leavelle
North
McCullum St. Knightstown
Ind
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Majorie
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Noah Leisure
Fred McManus
Indianapolis
Artie Clevidence
Lena Ireland
Butlah Scott
New Castle
Guy Ewing
Mrs. Thomas Bush
Florence Hadley
W. P. Henley
O. C. McCarty
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Florence Henley
Kokomo
Oscar Alexander
Marie
Edna Miller
al McDaniel
George Kulmer
Clark Gause
Donald Addison
Rosemary Rhodes
Cecile Fern
Donald Cook
Wilkinson
Warren Moss
Walter Walker
J. J. Rogers
Pendleton
Jesse Henley
Henry McIilvaine
George Havens
Ladoga
James Sharer
Near Dunreith
Charles Moore
Harold Ruby
Circleville
Albany, Ind
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James Bowen
Ft. Wayne
J. A. Lineback
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Herbert Brooks
Shirley Sunday
Bert ‘Parish
Mrs. Mariam Parish
Jeff Leisure
Lowell
Charles Nordloh
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Bert Sharer
Mt. Jackson Sanitarium
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Anna Jackson
Guy Wildridge
Bayard Baker
Carthage
Jesse McFarland
Rushville
Douglas Dickerson
Walter Hill
Edgar Hill
Cleve Geise
Louise Taylor
Joan Edwards
Rosalie Humes
Gilbert Miner
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ralph Litch
Violet Lancaster
Ralph Moore
Stan Worthington
Worley Lakins
Stewart McNight
Frank Overman
Sunshine Circle
Oren Miller
Will Silers
Delilah Barber
F. M. Miller
Vera
Lawrence Johnson
Orville Gahimer
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Henry Gahimer
John Neeb
Blueridge
Elmer Wilkinson
Frank White
Chesley
Verna Hill
Anna J. Sipe
Dorothy
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Sarah Sipe
Orange
Anna Jean Kizer
Arlis Lukins
Jesse Kizer
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J. F. Leisure
James Sauders
Cecil Pike
Sarah Stager
Allen Blacklidge
W. J. Henley
Grace Drake
Mazie Harlow
Betty Moore
Mt. ‘Jackson Sanitarium
Roy Herkless
Crawley
New Salem
Patterson
Clarksburg
Donald Staten
C. A. Norris
Frederick
J. A. Taylor
Carolyn Norris
Frank C. Guyatt
Butler University
Rufus M. Jones
God
First Friends Church
B. C
Gotham
Addison’s Meat Market
Hansel Miller
Henderson
Alice Jordan
First Stret
Jesse Pitts
E. C. Stone
Morristown
Charles F. Baxter
Clarence Carr
Pitman & Wilson
Rexall Druggists
Poland
Canning Factory Road
I. S
S. C
Ralph Siler
Raymond Finney
Gatewood’s Shop
Knightstown Furniture
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