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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
8
Fragmentary notes describe a sequence of items and names with unclear meaning. The text references places and people but lacks coherent events or outcomes to summarize with clarity.
A narrator compares steamboat men and motorists, noting the loud horns and showy vehicles. He mocks the notion that louder equipment proves dominance on water and roads, asking if both groups like to make a big display with their gear.
An OCR fragment lists Dr Shoop's Night Cure and HITEL PHARMACY with scattered notes about sales, location hints, and odd product mentions. The text is fragmented, with references to a saloon, Urol business, and various garbled place names and prices. The readable items suggest a period advertisement page with multiple small notices.
Notice adapts the schedule for the Clinton Moeal Society with Jan 7 190s as the deadline for settlements. It lists charges for city and country calls, prescriptions, confinement cases, mileage, and office work with cash amounts and notes on credit listing. Indebted members are urged to settle to have names entered on the society credit list. officers include Olivers Pres, White Pres, See Treas.
Notifies residents of Clinton township Vermillion county Indiana that William Kelley, a resident and business owner, applies to the county commissioners at the January 1908 term for a one-year license to retail spirituous vinous and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under a quart with on premise drinking. Location is a ground floor room in a two story brick building on Main Street.
A semi scientific French magazine treats Agesilaus as the first printer by an inverted Greek inscription he scratched on his hand. Before battle he marked the word Victory, later seen as a divine message by soldiers who fought with renewed vigor.
Consul T. E. Heenan of Odessa notes Russia’s post office savings bank shows healthy growth since its late origin. Deposits rise by about 16 million dollars annually from 501.6 million in 1905 to 686.5 million in 1997, driven by people preferring safe savings over storing money at home.
A damaged passage outlines a dispute over a proposed policy and a public event described as a picnic or gathering. It notes confusion over expected language and several contested statements, mentioning a vote or approval and references to a slave past and public notices.
The piece discusses an argument about feathers and a clash over cycling or trapping ethics. It cites a New York press voice urging humane treatment, noting that if a bird or girl must perish, the girl should not be sacrificed.
Philadelphia man C. G. Minnick cut a forked limb trio from a tree near Secane station to craft a one piece three legged stool. The three limbs form a horse hoof a hog split hoof and an elephant trunk with mouth and trunk carved to look lifelike. He stripped the bark to complete the natural looking figures.
A fragmentary poetic meditation portrays a lone leaf as debris from the Tree of Life, symbolizing human destiny and magic dreams. Vague imagery shifts to sunshine, mossy barns, springs, and fairies, then to darker lines about sorrow, pain, and a river journey.
In a humorous scene editor Richard Harding Davidson censors a letter from “Uncle” Zed Hopkins about killing the family dog Shep. Zed demands defaming the Higgins family be published, signs the piece, storms out, and the editor keeps the column running citing local stubbornness and humor.
A watchmaker bends over a Lady's watch using a magnifier as a spectator notes eye strain. The artisan says work is good for eyes and cites an oculist who advised daily use of a magnifying glass. The piece ends with a remark about watchmakers keeping sharp sight.
An incident at Veale’s involves Thomas Poole who denounced Coleridge and Wordsworth, calling a man a fool. Poole expressed remorse later, debating whether an apology would satisfy the offended party, while the dialogue reflects social tensions and reputational stakes in London.
A fragment describes a Mediterranean shellfish yielding a viscous substance used to bind and attach fibers to socks. The filaments are spun from the shellfish material, dried and carded to produce a burnished golden brown thread. One pound of coarse filament yields about three ounces of fine thread.
The passage recalls Louise de Conde as a purposeless petitioner who begged God for trivial aims such as recovering a ball of wool from under her chair. The memoir fragment contrasts her romantic ideal with a blunt judgment of her vulgar and middle class nature.
The chef instructs an apprentice to brush off powder from nutmegs, calling it bloom. A lad jokes about bloom while the chef explains natives coat nutmegs with ground oyster shells to deter weevils during long voyages. The shell powder causes a torn nose and must be brushed away.
The youngest daughter Bertha shows a fiery drawing of a little girl by a cat before a fireplace. The mother praises the work but notes the girl appears frightened. Bertha replies a burnt child dreads the fire, a cautionary line echoed in the Chicago Tribune excerpt.
A London Lancet remark on the quiet valor of individuals who battle disease misfortune and peril abroad and at home, noting that those who fight unseen foes often go unpraised while visible combat earns loud acclaim.
Pop, an architect, ponders if an artist is a perfect child about money matters as plans and estimates contrast with a new house and a curious son asking.
Home Notea quote emphasizes effort and discipline to sculpt identity, suggesting character forms through action rather than imagination. The line underlines personal development via consistent work.
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