Williams and Owens and Williams Real Estate Ad
An extensive classified ad lists houses and lots for sale in Columbus with prices and terms, including No. 68 six room house $1200, No. 70 $2500 modern home, No. 73 corner lot $1500, and other properties with cash or payment plans. It also notes a rumor about a local factory assignment being false, local hires, and social updates.
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Tere
Simost
Aesus
New South
Owens & Williams Bas
Highland Ave
19Th Street
Orinoco
Woman Pleads For Husband To Try George Wood Load
A woman pleads with her husband to test a load of J. JA. Georges wood. The scene centers on her plea and the couple's interaction over the timber. The report focuses on the urging tone and the material in question.
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J. JA. George
Doctor Joins New Castle Visit After Polite Stay
Dr. Jeffers left yesterday morning for New Castle after a successful visit where he conducted much business and was described as a perfect gentleman.
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New Castle
Jeffers
Weather Telegram Warns 25 Degree Drop As Wind Hinders Signal
Owens and Williams received a telegram from the weather bureau predicting a twenty five degree fall by morning. Mr Owens said they could not hoist the weather signal because of the high wind.
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Owens& Williams
Weather Bureau
Disgraceful Hair Pulling Incident Reported Downtown
Two women were involved in a Saturday night hair pulling in the north end of the city. The event was described as making the night hideous. Names of the parties could not be learned or published in the fall.
Miss Grace Alexander Visits Kinney Then Returns Home
Miss Grace Alexander, visiting Miss Josephine Kinney for a few days, returned to her Franklin home last evening. Minnie Miller died Saturday at her Swengel's addition home. Funeral Sunday at 3 p.m. Second Baptist church, burial in city cemetery. A correction notes F. M. Stevens & Co liabilities were mis-stated. expected range corrected from about 40 000 to about 20 000 with asserts around 30 000.
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Grace Alexander
Franklin
Josephine Kinney
Minnie Miller
Swengel’s Addition
Second Baptist Church
F.M. Stevens & Co
Glassware and tinware sold cheap by local printer
A local shop advertises job printing and guarantees work with prices reasonable. They tout a large stock of glass ware and tinware at low prices to clear for spring. Also note an insurance office at 436 Fourth Street and a late city light issue caused by a smoke stack at the city laundry.
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Citizens’ Electric Light
Steve Wood Trades Dollar for Goods at Local Store
A Rushville man Haven visited town seeking a bicycle he lent previously. With Officer Ferguson's help the borrower was found. Jerry Lacy and Harry Champion of Keithtown had a drunken quarrel. Champion knocked Lacy down and they fled across Hawcreek, prompting a warrant to be issued for their arrest.
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Haven
Rushville
Ferguson
Jerry Lacy
Harry Champion
Keithtown
Champion
Lacy
Hawcreek
Miscellaneous items from distant lands and science notes
A Bible trio in the British Museum. a Flam borough codfish with 59 hooks inside. a Sabine river floating island near Orange Texas. two boys set a squirrel afire in Haskell Maine. Restau rant decency sign in Ashland Oregon. Decatur Tennessee servant wage rule. tunnels cost trends. Clackamas hatchery salmon disease. artificial ears perfected with rubber, hand painted, selling for $100 each.
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British Museum
Flamborough Head
England
Sabine River
Orange
Tex
Haskell
Asburn
Ore
Decatur
Hoosac
Mount Denis
St. Gothard
Arlberg
Hubbard
Clackamas
Oregon City
Washington
Salmon
Ingenious Paris Kitchen Frauds Exposed in Longstanding Tricks
The article details longtime Paris food frauds such as bouillon made with oil beads, beef stock without beef, and ham bones passed as real ham. It notes workers like bouillon eyes and bone dealers profiting from fake bones, with a jab at ham abundance in Paris.
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Paris
France
So & Man
Boston Herald
Beemer and Deemer Drop Midnight Pursuit Tale
The Detroit Free Press recalls a late night walk home in which Beemer and Deemer are chased by an unseen follower. Both yell police, reach home safely, and pledge to drop the entire matter where it stands, sharing exaggerated accounts at lunch the next day.
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Beemer
Detroit Free Press
Deemer
Man Catches 250-Pound Buck in Arms in Michigan
Harry Middlehouse of Grand Rapids captured a wild 250 pound deer in his arms after a struggle near Remus. With help from Farwell, they restrained the animal with a halter and took it to be kept in a city park in Grand Rapids for a future home.
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Harry Middlehouse
Grand Rapids
Mich
Remus
Middlehouse
Farwell
Fanwell
Colt Kicked Boy Forty Five Years Ago Now Saner
A 15 year old boy in Portland Maine was kicked by a colt causing a head wound and years of mental illness. Surgeons later relieved pressure on his brain and he regained sanity. He asks if the colt got away, while forty five years of life remain a blank.
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Clem Wallis
Portland
The Egyptian Afterglow Phenomenon
The text describes a local Egyptian twilight peculiarity where darkness falls quickly after sunset, followed by a 20 to 30 minute pale interval, then a rapid brightening to a golden purple lilac glow before fading back to darkness. The sequence concludes with the phenomenon called the Egyptian afterglow.
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Egypt
Three-Days' Dance in Brighton for Charity
A plan for what could be the longest ball on record in Brighton England aims to run three days and nights to benefit a sick poor dispensary. Relays of musicians and dancers will perform waltzes mazurkas and schottisches with daytime rests. Patronesses include the duchess of Teck countess of Munster Baroness de Worms and Lady Ellis among others led by the lord lieutenant the marquis of Abergavenny as nominal head.
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Brighton
England
Charity
New York Journal
Teck
Countess of Munster
de Worms
Ellis
Pocock
Pentry
Marquis of Abergavenny
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