Bargain City Real Estate Listings Offer Cheap Homes
A classified sale lists numerous properties from three-room cottages to large modern houses in Maple Grove and surrounding townships. Prices span from $400 to $2,500 with easy monthly terms and trade options. Numerous lots, farms, and rental properties are advertised with cash and mortgage deals.
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Franklin St
Lurching Avenue
Maple Grove
Eventh
Eighth Streets
Samblien Township
Brown County
Metamorphosis of a Plant in Repeated Quarters
A writer notes that a pentedria crassipes plant adapted to changing containers from a bowl to a boiler to a crock. Half the plant was divided and given as slips, the other half grew upward with large leaves and air bulbs. The plant is praised for its glassy waxy leaves and minimal care.
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Sayu
Meehan
Moving a Brick Chimney Shows Gracious Precision
A brick chimney 85 feet high and seven feet square, weighing about 103 tons, was moved 950 feet over rough ground at Shelter Island Suffolk County New York without damage. It rested on greased skids and blocks, using a grain capstan and one horse, completed in nine days with four men. Earlier, a 52 foot chimney at Bridgehampton moved similarly, both done without accidents.
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Manhauset
Shelter Island
Suffolk County
N. Y
Scientific American
Bridgehampton
T IRESOME OLD TIMERS and Pervading Expressions You Wish You Might Hear No More
A satirical meditation on overused quotations and the modern intolerance for familiar witticisms. The piece cites chestnuts and famous lines like The Last Rose of Summer and A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever, noting reactions to quotations in speech and writing.
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The
New York Herald
Wheel Found at John A George’s Bicycle Shop
Bradford found a fine Angus wheel in front of John A George’s bicycle store and it was brought to the Star office after the owner did not claim it. Owner can hire the wheel by proving property. the ad also promotes Kinney & Kinney insurance offerings and warns against substitutes in goods.
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Bradford
John A. George
George
Mr. George
Star Office
For Sale in Waitsville Two Story Home and Orchard
For sale Tenacres and a two story dwelling with a barn and a large fruit orchard in Waits ville. Seller will trade for property in Columbus. Advertisement appears in this newspaper.
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Franklin
Waitsville
Columbus
Sunday Dinners Featured at Fashion Ressaurant
The text promotes fashionable Sunday dinners at Fashion Ressaurant, 609 Washington Street, inviting guests to entertain friends or family at hotels or restaurants during Sunday dinner hour. It emphasizes special attention to Sunday meals and reports patrons’ high satisfaction.
Taotai Probed On English By Chinese Audience
A report from Nanking recounts Li Yaotai, the taotai, asked if he knew English. He answered yes, triggering a comic scene as he kowtowed on the marble floor while the emperor berated him for ignorance and ordered him to study an English book for three years.
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Liu
Nanking
Taotai
Li Yaotai
Chios
England
Saotai
Manchin
Yaotai
Scare the Song Birds in the Park Amid Bicycle Crowds
A Chicago Tribune excerpt recounts a South Park policeman lamenting that bicycles have driven away songbirds. He notes parks overrun by riders who roost and rest in shady spots, leaving sparrows as the main nests, with orioles thrushes, catbirds, and robins largely vanished.
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Old South Park
The
Chicago Tribune
Rivalry of two towns over a bridge at Lake Superior
The article describes a long feud between Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin over a bridge across the St. Louis River at the western end of Lake Superior. It notes Congressional action, stalled progress, and opposing senators Quay and Vilas shaping the dispute as debate over charter changes and steel supplies.
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Daleth
Superior
Puluth
Minn
Wis
Lake Superior
Senate
Washington Post
St. Louis
Northwest
Duluth
Congress
Pennsylvania Steel Mens
Senator Quay
Senator Vilas
Superiorites
Phrygian Cap and the Enguys Fleap in Russian Exile Scene
The North American Review notes a new alliance between Phrygian city and Suout to threaten exiles fleeing czardom. Spies move among Zurich and Lausanne Russians posing as students, while England’s Russians gain freedoms amid a shift in elite opinion. The Underground Russia circle shows moderating aims and a push for representative assemblies, echoed by Free Russia.
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French
Czardom
North American Review
Zurich
Caneva
Lausanne
England
Turkey
Yale Lamp Hit Expose Sparks Science Debate
A Yale student allegedly fired at a lamp in Diviz hall and a famed professor traced the ball to a bystander’s room. The student confessed, admitted an error in the professor’s calculations, and urged the matter be dropped as the minister “flatly” denied knowledge.
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Diviz Hall
Yale
Saga the
Hart Courant
Teasor
Dove
Timepiece Confusion Sparks Genteel Gaffe Among Women
A New Sun letter describes a social gathering where women forget their watches and argue over time. The president, secretary, and treasurer all claim they forgot theirs, while a draft president unveils a timepiece and tries to reassure the group with a lighthearted pause.
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New Sun
Ommittee
Sta
Wateben
Howe
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