Oil Boom Sparks Race for Leases in Killbuck Field
In Killbuck about to open, investors race for leases as drilling materials arrive. Prominent figures like Colonel Pren Metham and Beard & McCarty push operations, with plans to test sands by August 20. The town expects rapid growth and widespread change if casings come in.
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Killsuck
Killbuck
Ounto
Pren Metham
Fostoria Company
Beard
Smith
William Jones
Jones
Wone
Toledo
Dibil
Holmes County
Wells
Hhis
Farm For Sale Near Keene Ohio
Farm known as the George d lies two and one half miles east of Keene Ohio. For particulars inquire of Ney Winklepleck Keene Ohio sale notice published June 25 1941.
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George d
Ney Winklepleck
Keene
Ohio
Hope Rises as Peking Advance Urged by Berlin
Berlin reports high hope for safety of foreigners in Peking and urges immediate advance. Meantime, the German foreign office backs a commander acceptable to powers, while a delay at sea due to military and climate reasons is noted.
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Berlin
Aug
Peking
Baron von Ketteler
Foreign Office
Germany
Munich
Ablegemein Zeitung
Washington
United States
Chaffee
Japan
Feeling of certainty that legationers alive at Peking
Washington reports doubt has given way to certainty that the legationers at Peking and the marines who reached the capital are alive as of July 22 and likely to remain so until they are released. Officials doubt Chaffee’s forward march has begun. some foreign commanders prefer delaying until late August. Daily dispatches show mixed signals on reinforcements and on the fate of the legations under siege.
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Peking
Washington
Li Hung Chang
Ching
Tuan
Tess
Chaffee
United States
Monilli
Fourteenth Infantry
London
Clamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
An old advertisement claims Clamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is risk free with a refund if not satisfied. EB Anderson's Drug and Book Store at No 2 Forbes block touts it as universally admitted the most successful bowel remedy and the only reliable option.
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EB. Anderson
Forbes Block
Sour notes on Chinese diplomacy and London transit
A column quotes a Boston Herald excerpt criticizing the Chinese foreign office as senile and inefficient, with anecdotes from Sir Harry Parkes and a San Francisco girl in London about omnibus chaos. It also discusses summer cold hands and feet, offering sugar as a simple warm remedy and contrasting medical approaches.
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China
Seidmore
Foreign Office
Tsang-I-Ramen
Grlr
Dar
Tung-Li-Yamen
Harry Parkes
Boston Herald
London
Washington Star
Cant Beat the Game and a Religious Endorsement
A Washington Star quote recounts a betting scene at races where a man bets on every race to lose and wins twenty dollars yet loses thirty. Rev. J M Yingling of Cumberland Maryland endorses Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy noting reliable results and recommends it for sale by C E Anderson 1m.
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Washington Star
J. M. Yingling
Bedford Street Methodist Church
Cumberland, Md
Chamberlain
C. E. Anderson
Trunk Salesman Tries Patience in department store
In a Chicago News style anecdote a clever clerk pesters a customer seeking trunks and bathing trunks. The exchange highlights showroom overbearing salesmanship and the customer’s insistence on finding the right item amid a noisy, humorous scene. The piece then shifts to a Century Magazine note on flag decoration for civic parades.
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Ido Pet
Chicago News
Clerical Salaries in Massachusetts Congregational Churches
The Year Book of the Congregationalists shows Massachusetts clergymen salaries. No pastor earns over 5000. three Boston churches likely pay more. Seven churches in state pay 5000, six pay 4000, 24 pay 3000 to 4000, many below 1000. Common salaries around 800, with many under that. some as low as 350. Only a few at the top receive adequate compensation for years of training.
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Massachusetts
Congregationalists
United States
Henry A. Hazen
Auburndale
Mass
Boston
Andover Oldest Graduate Rev Elias Sizes A Missionary Legacy
The Rev. Elias Sizes D D LE D, famed missionary in Turkey, is cited as Andover Theological Seminary’s oldest living graduate. He worked for years on Bible translations in Armenian Bulgarian Turkish and other languages and earned DPD DD from Andover in 1833 and LLD from Amherst in 1871.
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Andover
Elias Sizes
Turkey
Andover Themusical Seminary
Smyrna
Ish
Sbort
American Bible Societies
Riggs
Syriec
Hanover College
Town
Amherst
Mike Holds Ground Amid Troubled Front Step Exchange
A distorted Washington Star passage shows a confrontation on a front step where a woman urges someone to leave. Mike asserts calm and control, saying a muzzled dog cannot bite and that authorities will handle the threat.
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Mike
Washington Star
Birds Thrive Except In Three States
Statistics show the nations birds thriving in most areas with only North Carolina California and Oregon failing to hold their own.
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North Carolina
California
Oregon
Fountain items appeal in alert note for sale
Disjointed notice indicates an event tomorrow on August 4 about placing or selling fountain items. The fragmentary text suggests a sales action or auction related to fountains but lacks full details.
500 Pairs of Wool Blankets Advertised for August Sale
An advertisement touts 500 pairs of wool blankets at the lowest price ever, bought a year ago at a 25 percent savings, with an extra 10 percent cash discount during August. The lot includes about 100 slumber robes and a window display. claimants urged to act quickly before the supply runs out.
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Daggett
Conger
Firiox
Legation
Washingon. Ans
McKinley
Cantoh
War Department
Tien Tain
Indiana
Maccann
Sladen
Allens
Mitchell
Bryce
Tien Tsin
Flintshire
Ninth Infantry
Coolidge
Corbin
Shiles
Legation of
Wan Shéshan
Navy Department
Ruten
San Francisco
Kure
Oregon Apnn
Valleyo
Cal
Mare Island Dry Dock
Ranger
Philippines
Lu Hai Huan
Meade
Fifteenth Infantry
Third Cavalry
Towne
Lincoln
Neb
Aus
Charles A. Towne
Brian
Chicago
Bryan
Mr. Towne
New Yorker
5. A. Knopf
New York
Tuberculosis Congress
Isdr
Linn
Lew
Simps
Simmons
Simmens
Charles & Lamb Sars
National Society of Mural Painters
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