Receiver's Sale of Meyer Brothers Partnership Assets
The Receiver for Meyer Brothers of Clinton Indiana announces a public auction of the firm’s partnership assets including stock, furniture, equipment, cash registers, accounts, leases and all items used in the business. The sale, ordered by the Vermilion Circuit Court, begins December 8 1907 and continues daily until sold, at cash terms and for not less than the appraised value, subject to court approval.
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Meyer Brothers
Clinton
Indiana
Vermillion Circuit Court
Meyer Bros
Trunk buyer urged to choose local merchants over out of town sellers
A citizen is urged to avoid a so called Lafay ette trunk maker who allegedly buys ready made trunks from outside factories and sells at high prices. Citizens are advised to buy from home merchants to save money. Mrs. John Tice of Grand Rapids is visiting Clinton and recently toured Indianapolis to see her hospitalized husband. The mining situation remains steady with miners employed. Thanksgiving visits include Dan Nichols and wife in Newport with son Clay. Miss Jessie Wiltermood of Newport visited Mabel Hopkins. Hopkins hosted Annabelle Swayne at Opedo last week. W A Satterlee returned from Texas Panhandle trip. Col R H Washburn and Mrs Jackson Sears were Newport visitors last Saturday.
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Lafayette
John Tice
Grand Rapids, Mich
Clinton
Indianapolis
Dan Nichols
Newport
Clay
Tenant With Fire-Escape Steps Causes Landlord Suspicion
A Philadelphia loft tenant requested hinged stair steps with a lowering cord system to mimic a fire escape. The landlord agreed, only to find the tenant lowering the stairs for select visitors who whistle, while others are ignored. The tenant claims the whistle signals friends, creditors based on his reply. The hinges remain in use.
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Philadelphia
Repis
Icelanders Live Longer On Average
A 1905 census shows Icelanders average 61.8 years, roughly double the earlier life expectancy. Sweden and Norway record 50.02 and 49.94 years, while Iceland enjoys steady life expectancy despite rare earthquakes and minimal modern news impact.
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Iceland
Sweden
Norway
Leith
Reykjavik
Inventor’s Family Enjoys Motor Outings After Breakthrough
A Chicago man recalls a resident who failed in several ventures before prospering from a wheel invention. His wife and two young daughters soon rode daily in a motor car. In a park drive the inventor’s wife sits stiffly as a daughter jokes about not looking as if the water were boiling.
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Chicago
Oldest Republics: San Marino and Andorra Claim Top Rank
The article identifies Switzerland as the oldest surviving republic but notes two smaller medieval states, San Marino on Mount Titano in Italy and Andorra in the Pyrenees, as contenders for the oldest republic. It cites Charlemagne’s era and medieval roots, with no fixed founding date for either.
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Switzerland
Republic of
San Marino
Italy
Mount Titano
Europe
Andorra
Pyrenees
Woes of the Druggist
A druggist laments patrons who treat his shop as public space and recalls a reckless demand. A stranger called during heavy rain asking the store to mail two two-cent postage stamps to her home three blocks away.
Why Letters Are Unwritten in the Home
A writer asks why households neglect writing supplies as they do pantry staples. Not the cost but lack of thought keeps a poor pen stamp or envelope on hand, leaving many letters unanswered due to insouciance rather than expense.
Sign Says Who Runs This Place In Ox Like Restaurant Sign
A Cleveland man recalls a Galion restaurant sign that proclaims the management runs the place if trouble starts. The sign features a big proprietor described as weighing about 200 pounds and built like a prize ox. The remark appears in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Galion
Cleveland
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wonderful bull-dog tale of Bully Bumipski mischief
A narrator recalls a bull-dog named Bumipski who loves bones and sleeps by the fireplace. The dog causes mischief after each nap as the speaker disciplines him for bed-snuggling and bedspread marks. The tale ends with the dog’s proof of misbehavior and a playful plea about opinions on such a pet.
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Bumipski
Bones
Wit and Irony in Everyday Encounters Across a Busy Day
A series of humorous reflections on daily life in a bustling city. Vignettes touch on engagement rings, shoe shining in Chicago, Thanksgiving mishaps with a cat, a centennial banker in Massachusetts, stale eggs in a dining room, a Washington parade blunder, rummage sales, hypocrisy, hot air from small men, and truth telling. The piece closes with quips on honesty, arithmetic mishaps, and office superstition.
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Chicago
Massachusetts
Washington
Autumn football days spark college fields and crowds
The poem-like note contrasts Philadelphia and St. Louis papers as autumn signals football season. It imagines college players growing fit for battle and a crowd roaring as a player seeks to hold the eye while another returns to win.
Nation echoes dented prices and wartime witticisms
A quirky collage notes higher false teeth costs with a pun on gum and eggs stored for winter. It jokes about possible war with Japan and a cracky line about thick shelled hickory nuts, reflecting lighthearted headlines from multiple papers.
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Atlanta
Columbus
Ohio
Japan
Jingo
Houston
Tex
Laundry etiquette note from Panhandle Stearr Laundry
A Texas newspaper snippet urges customers to carry money for laundry to avoid delays and missing items. The notice, attributed to Panhandle Stearr Laundry, humorously warns that the shop will forget to return laundry if payment is not provided, reflecting a cautionary service tip for users of clean linen.
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Texas
Panhandle Stearr Laundry
Children’s day and the sunbeam joins the class
A family plans a white dress for Children's Day and lets two year old Roy, dubbed the sunbeam, attend Sunday school if well behaved. He watches infant and other classes march in and is inspired by a line of ants in the grounds, exclaiming it must be Children’s Day with the ants.
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Mamma
Gertrude
Dess
Roy
Sunbeam
Lady Bountiful Questions Peasant About Ill Wife
A parish visitor, the Lady Bountiful, calls on a cottage where a peasant family lives. The wife Mary is described as an invalid and the exchange focuses on whether jelly or strawberry jam would be better to send. The peasant humorously prefers jam and dodges the jelly request.
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Mary
Renly
Fashion in Medicine Shows Shifts in Drug Sales
Dr Grimbert reports to the French Academy that old medicines like opium laudanum iodine and bismuth hold steady sales while leeches decline from 50 000 in 1876 to 12 000 in the current year. Glycero phosphates and antipyrins fall 50 percent and quinine drops 24 percent. New drugs such as pyramidon and asperine show enormous gains.
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French Academy of Medicine
Grimbert
Paris
Manage Finances and a Thrifty Exchange Between Artist and Writer
A female narrator berates a male artist for lending money with sarcasm as he enters and smokes. She recalls returning two dollars of five borrowed after a watercolor sale and admits she spent the windfall foolishly. He consoles her, promising not to let her waste money again.
Dissipated Men of Genius and Henley’s Circle
Ed Gan Jepson defends the memory of Ernest Dawson in a London Academy piece. He says Dawson drank whisky as a solace amid consumption and accuses Henley of inspiring a dangerous whisky fashion among younger writers. Jepson cites drownings among three top minds as a consequence.
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W. E. Henley
Edgar Jepson
London Academy
Ernest Dawson
Mr. Jepson
Henley
Volcanic Ash Cement Gains Demand in Asia Markets
Nagasaki paper notes cement made from volcanic ash used alone or with sand and Portland cement. Ash cement is cheaper and nearly as effective. blends show greater strength. Dockyards and naval docks have been built with ash cement and large exports reach Korea, north China, Shanghai and Formosa amid rising demand.
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Nagasaki
Japan
Korea
North China
Shanghai
Formosa
International Courtesy at the Pier
An exceptionally pretty girl stands on a chair at the pier watching the racing with an English flag lieutenant beside her. Two Frenchmen sit behind on another chair. She asks in French if she obstructs their view and a man replies he prefers the obstruction to the view, a remark described as a finer flower of courtesy.
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Mademoiselle
the Tatler
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