Real estate bargains offered by Owens & Williams
The firm lists numerous properties for sale including cottages with 3 rooms and outbuildings, large houses on Hutchins and Maple Grove, vacant lots in Columbus, and farms in Brown and Harrison townships. Prices range from 400 to 12 000 with cash or monthly payment options. Several parcels are sold as a group and trades for city property are noted. Listings include No. 63 through No. 111 with detailed descriptions and locations.
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Washington St
Franklin
Hutchins Avenue
Maple Grove
Seventh
Swengel
Ohio Township
Brown County
Jackson Township
Chiplace
Waymansville
Harrison Township
Sandcreek Township
Clay Township
Jess
Wayne Township
Fifth St
Maple Avenue
Gita Bour Ry
Tenth Street
Ramblen Township
Irwin
Columbus
Reed and
Seventh Streets
Court House
The Sultans Heir and His Four Brothers in Istanbul
The London Echo reports that Ottoman succession favors the sultan’s eldest brother Rechad Effendi, not the sultan’s eldest son Selim. Rechad, handsome and well informed, lives as a guarded life prisoner in the Tcheragan palace while Princely rivals and Armenia tensions swirl around Constantinople.
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London Echo
Rechad Effendi
Eay
Murad V
Waredin
Suliman
Prince Selim
Tcheragan
Rechad
Armenia
Constantinople
Crete
Ornamental Molded Mosaic Flooring Process Described
Yale Scientific Monthly reports a new floor mosaic method using sawdust wood flour and shavings bound with shellac and cement under heat and pressure. Colored by natural wood dye and alcohol dyes, the result adapts to living rooms and private dwellings and resists temperature changes.
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Yale Scientific Monthly
The Trolley Buzz and the Headache Cure
A Brooklyn resident explains the trolley buzz a sound some riders hear constantly while traveling on streetcars. He claims a three mile ride cures his headaches though he notes no electricity enters the car, suggesting the air carries a healing effect.
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Brooklyn
New York
Electric protection of safes lined to sound alarm
A new safe protection uses an electric lining inside cabinets or vaults. Thin metal sheets trigger an alarm on any pin or tampering. Doors seal with heavy lag bolts and require time to remove to open, with a steel alarm box hood protected against tampering.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Conductor Samuel Sharp’s 13 Misfortunes Spark Superstition
The city notes Conductor Samuel Sharp, a 13th child, famed for bad luck. His life includes a 13 week hospital stay after a wreck at 13, inherited 1300 dollars lost when the bank failed, a wife who died at 13 South Thirteenth Street, and 13 men struck by his train. He refuses to punch the 13th trip, asking passengers to do it.
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Samuel Sharp
Oy Ping Town
Philadelphia Record
Samuel
South Thirteenth Street
Moravian Death Customs Highlighted in Bethlehem Article
Clifford Howard describes Moravians of Bethlehem Pennsylvania where death is announced by trombone music from the church belfry. The trumpet like tones signal a soul’s departure and mourning is avoided while faith holds death as entrance to a brighter home. Trombone choirs accompany funerals and open air services across occasions.
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Clifford Howard
Ladies’ Home Journal
Bethlehem
Rat Catcher of Paris Catches Over a Million Rats
A Paris official, M. Henri Dayve, chief rat catcher for 35 years, claims to have caught over 1,000,000 rats with his hands. He recalls earning well during the siege, selling live rats to restaurants and for rat battles, with prices from 20 to 60 cents and as high as 13 dollars for 100 rats.
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Paris
M. Henri Dayve
M. Dayve
No Man Can Afford Shabby Clothes, Lawyer Says
A Barnesville lawyer defends wearing costly new clothes, arguing in a public scene that no man can afford shabby attire. He claims respect hinges on outward appearance and cites social judgment as justification for debt and display.
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Barnesville
Atlanta
Pipe explosion wounds French hotelier near Paris
Gartridge in tobacco pipe caused fatal accident at Mantes close to Paris. A hotel proprietor, part of a sportsmen party, kept tobacco and cartridges in one pocket. Powder from a cartridge leaked, mixed with tobacco, he lit his pipe, it exploded, a fragment pierced his eye and brain, causing death.
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Gartridge
Mantes
Paris
His Quite Fashionabdie Sunday Dinners at Washington Street
Restaurateur offers Sunday dinners at 609 Washington Street promising continued customer satisfaction. Patrons have praised past efforts and the business invites ongoing support and favorable reviews.
Touch returns after rabbit nerve graft in severed arm
An English gardener regains sensation in a lifeless right arm after nerve ends were sutured and a rabbit spinal cord graft connected the median nerve. Eleven days in he felt pin scratches on the thumb area and palm. progress continued with sensation spreading to the index and middle fingers.
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Europe
Types of Jews and global distribution described
An essay describes Jewish diversity by typology into dolichocephalic and brachycephalic groups, linking Sephardic and Ashkenazi strains to regions from Spain and Italy to Poland and Germany. It notes Jews in Africa, India, and China adopting local languages and customs, illustrating widespread linguistic and cultural fusion.
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Africa
Setif
Guelma
Biskra
Morocco
Timbuctoo
Sahara
Abyssinia
India
Bombay
Cochin
China
Italy
France
Germany
Postal Facilities in 1800 Business Letter Slow Stages
In 1800 the business field was restricted and communication slow. Merchants kept ledgers, quill pens, sand to dry ink, no envelopes or stamps, no street letter boxes, and prepayment for postage with high rates. A letter between Boston and New York or Philadelphia cost 18% and 85 tenths to Washington, taking days.
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The
Atlantic
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
United States
Hotels in China Attract Guests With High Titles
The article notes hotels in Canton flaunt grand signs such as The Fortunate Star The Golden Profits and The Rank Conferring to lure travelers. Rooms are tiny and smoky while tea saloons employ singers and elocutionists. A dog and cat stew restaurant is also mentioned as a costly local oddity.
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Lippincott’s
Canton
China
Yeast of Long Descent From Cromwell Era Keeps Alive
Barbara Curran of East Orrington Maine guards a two quart earthen crock of yeast brought from Ireland in 1646. The leaven survived voyages and wars, renewed with potatoes, preserved through generations, and linked to Cromwell era bread making and a great great grandmother hanged for her service to King Charles I.
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Ireland
Cromwell
Barbara Curran
East
Orrington
New York Sun
America
Boston
Medford
East Orrington
India Shawls Imitations Made in France Say Experts
The Chautauquan notes Tibet goat imports boosted France produced cashmere shawls that closely imitate Indian originals. Experts differ on detectability noting the genuine India shawl has a more even weave and brighter colors. Borders center pieces are sewn separately then joined. many so called real India shawls are made in France.
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France
India
Tibet
Chinese Preventive of Rabies Cure by Eating Liver of Dog
A French missionary in China reports locals used raw dog liver after bites to prevent hydrophobia. Five bitten Chinese in March last year showed no rabies, feeding liver or broth. The claim, though unconfirmed, aligns with early isopathic ideas linked to Pasteur and Koch. Maryland tobacco and rice cultivation plans also noted with crop yields and regional history.
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China
Plinius
Pasteur and Koch
Maryland
Baltimore News
New Jersey
Delaware
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Ft. Worth
Henrietta
Alma Station
St. Worth
Denver
Fexce
Bartholomew County
Esi
Sultan
WQOD
Uheap
En and Mining Journal
Kingdom of
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Reilroede
Goverment
Gil
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the Fashion Festaurant
Rabbit
William Hamilton
Kitts
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