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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
9
All parties indebted to the Plaindealer must call to settle subscriptions job printing and advertising immediately. Get in the habit of buying hardware guns and ammunition from Harlan and Higgins.
An advertisement promotes Preventics as a harmless candy like cold cure from Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin. It claims early use stops colds and grippe and promises free samples and a booklet, urging prompt action to prevent pneumonia.
The Republicans of Indiana will meet in their townships precincts or wards to select delegates to the Republican national convention to be held at Chicago on June 16 1808 under call by the national committee to the electors of the United States.
A meditation on youth's brief song and the open doors from birth to death. The fledgling bird enters warmth then faces Fate through another doorway leading to death and eternal night. Life is a short span between the welcoming house of youthful song and the void of oblivion.
The Indiana Republican State Committee announces plans for district conventions on February 4, 1909 to elect two delegates and two alternates per district for the national convention. Delegates are apportioned by county votes for Fred A. Sims and distributed to townships and precincts. Notices will be published two weeks prior, with meetings scheduled across counties. James P. Goodrich chairs the committee.
Parcel buyers are urged to act with cash or long-time options. Pentreath advertises available lots and a contact phone 330 for details.
A timid rural newcomer to Chicago endures a chaotic first trip on the elevated and streetcar system. He loses his ticket, is jostled by crowds, and struggles to reach Sheridan Park, while locals misdirect him until a helping friend rescues him at last.
A columnist describes the desire to make noise through an analogy about Lincoln and a river steamboat. The piece questions whether people, from steamboat men to automobilists, all seek to project a grand front with loud appearances.
US agents in the Philippines form a matrimonial brokerage to match orphan girls at Hospicio de San Jose. A dowry incentive of 150 dollars is offered to Filipino suitors after thorough scrutiny by official cupids, aiming to marry off the girls.
A French semi scientific magazine rejects the debate on who invented printing and tells a tale of Agesilaus who marked his hand with the word Victory in Greek. A priest’s bull’s liver yielded a visible imprint of Victory after the captain pressed his hand, seen as a divine message and spurring fierce combat.
Consul T. E. Heenan of Odessa reports Russia’s post office savings system, though young, shows steady growth with deposits rising from 501.6 million dollars on August 1, 1903 to 686.5 million dollars on the same date in 1907. He cites no national prosperity rise and attributes the surge to people avoiding large sums at home.
A Harper's Weekly note discusses southern racial attitudes and the circulation of a hand bill for a colored picnic in a grove near Moollie. The flyer promised enticing offerings while warning that good behavior would be strictly enforced to protect attendees' pleasure.
Opposition to feathers argues there are two sides to every question. The article notes that if feathers were banned tomorrow about 30,000 Parisian girls would lose employment. A working girls advocate says if a bird or a girl must perish, the girl should not.
C. G. Minnick of 2968 Darien Street Philadelphia cut from a Secane station tree a forked limb trio made into a one piece stool with a horse hoof hog hoof and an elephant trunk each form carved in natural likeness. The bark was peeled to reveal the figures.
A collage of satirical quips on graft, politics, and daily life. Jabs at salaries, inflation, railroading proverbs, and social mores mingle with lines about ants, lawyers, and a 100 story New York building. Various figures and topics surface in a breezy column fragment.
A collection of light anecdotes and witticisms on marriage, wealth, and society. It references Mr. Bryan and Harry K. Thaw, notes social trends, a Kansas jack rabbit, and June 1906 romance. The tone mimics a small town column with humorous observations and sayings.
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