Pensioned Spokane Workhorse Jerry Ends 18 Years Service
Jerry the bay gelding served 18 years with a Spokane express company never missing a day of work. He helped guard treasures, once thwarted a staged robbery by backing a wagon into a revolver blast, and dictated daily rounds from dawn to six. He retires to a pasture five miles from town to graze in clover and alfalfa.
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Spokane
Wash
Jerry
Great Express
Heathes
Ford
Ofice
Upstaire
Weatero
New York Man Never Kissed Finds Love at Last
Olin W. Hill secretary of the Carnegie Safe Deposit company, age over forty and famed for not kissing anyone in New York, reveals his engagement to Miss Martha Brown of Seattle. He planned to announce after her mother arrives, correcting false rumors of an engagement to a stenographer. Hill says he has never been in love or proposed before, and that he believes one should not kiss until marriage.
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New York
Olin W. Hill
Carnegie Safe Deposit Company
Misa Brown
Carnegie Trust Company
Hin
Posters of Ballet Dancers Spark Patrol from Inmates
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania inmates at an old ladies home sighted scantily clad ballet posters across the wall used for theater advertising. They collected newspapers and painted a covering over the opposite street posters to protest the display.
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Wilkenbarre
Unclear text from Coln New York item
The readable segment mentions Coln New York and a fragmented reference to a dollar specimen with an inscription and engraving. Details are obscured, yielding no clear event, person, or organizational context to summarize.
Danger in leather chrome tanning risks health and blood poisoning
A London report warns of cheap boots tanned with chromic acid using a chrome tanning process. An inspector of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children collapsed while wearing such boots, needing hospital treatment. Experts note danger when tanning is done hastily by unqualified workers and chromium compounds can cause chrome sores and skin ulcers.
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London
England
National Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Leathersellera
Schulte
Strand Orm
South America
Largest Turtle Is Landed In New West Lake Catch
St Louis resident Prerichs of 1027 North Broadway nabbed a giant snapping turtle at Dui lake on the East Side. The 36 inch diameter, 27 pound specimen was hauled from the water and fed into a turtle soup dinner with friends after the catch. He spotted the turtle from Sehingsear Center Ville station and surprised it as it grabbed the bait and refused to release.
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St. Louis
Jobo Preridis
North Broadway
Dui Lake
Prerichs
Frerichs
Curfew Policy Adopted by Cheney Normal Faculty
A Cheney State Normal School meeting led by Dean of Women Miss Johnsosn agreed on student home curfews and living standards. The plan limits study hours to weeknights from 7 20 to 10 30 with later entertainment allowed only under approval and supervision.
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Spokane
Waah
Gtate Normal School
Cheney
Mise Johneson
Revely Company
Cleappreved
Darius Green author views flying machine dream alive
John Townsend Trowbridge author of the poem Darius Green and His Flying Machine attended a Boston art show. The aged writer toured Arlington Mason to see a modern flying machine, meeting aviators like Glenn Hammond White and Wilbur Wright and reflecting on the evolution and future of powered flight.
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Boston
John Townsend Trowbridge
Darius Green
Trowbridge
Arlington
Mason
Hoe
Twice struck by lightning sinks Henry Clay statue in Lexington
In Lexington Kentucky lightning struck a Henry Clay memorial statue twice destroying the original and a replacement before dedication. The episode mirrors Clay's historic stature and the memorials built to honor his public service.
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Henry Clay
Lexington, Ky
Lexington
Kentucky
Funere Japan Tokyo Incomplete Entry
A fragment from a Tokyo Japan notice mentions a funeral related event with limited readable details. Names, dates, or concrete actions are not fully legible in the fragment.
Untitled Local Query on Wedding Status
A fragmentary note questions if Wille Hardy ever married and asks to wear his clothing, reflecting a personal inquiry about marriage and attire.
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Mr. Heavywelett
Wille
Willie
Ste
Rest and Peace with Cuticura for Infant Skin Ailments
Sleep for babies and rest for fretted mothers come with a hot bath using Cullours Soap and 8 gentle anointing with Cuticura Ointment. This treatment provides relief from itching burning eczema rashes and crusted bubors and can aid sleep for both parent and child. Potters Drug & Chem Corp offers a free 32 page Cuticura Hook on care and treatment of skin and scalp for all ages.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
An Exacting Personage
A farmer counts on steady labor as summer boarders depart and the hired man remains content amid ongoing work and worry.
At Leisure Seldom Done: Martin Notes Tasks
A terse remark by Martin hints that tasks left for leisure time often go unfinished. The line underscores procrastination and the tendency to delay work until no longer convenient.
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Martin
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