Indiana Women Highlight at State Fair and Insurance Reforms
Indiana merchants and officials report Auditor Billheimer's push to reform life insurance as a model for other states. Colorado Insurance Commissioner E. E. Rittenhouse lauds Billheimer's methods. The Indiana fair opens September 9 featuring extensive exhibits by farm women in livestock poultry fruit and flowers, art and home crafts plus music and racing events.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Billheimer
Indiana
E. E. Rittenhouse
Colorado
Cyrus W. Neal
Neal
Fire
State Board of Agriculture
State Board
Weber Band of
Cincinnati
Much Officered Man Heads Indiana School for the Deaf
Superintendent Richard O. Johnson of the Indiana State School for the Deaf opens the sixty fourth annual session on Wednesday September 25. Johnson has led the school for twenty four years and holds multiple national posts including president of the conference of superintendents of the American Schools for the Deaf and director of the American Association to Promote the Teach of Speech to the Deaf.
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Richard O. Johnson
Indiana State School For the Deaf
Johnson
School For the Deaf
Conference of Superintendenta of the American Schools For the Deaf
American Association To Promote the
Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
National Educational Association
Reward of Faith In Ohio Church Lightning Tests
A congregational tale from Ohio recounts Abr Sipes funding two church buildings without insurance. Both buildings were struck by lightning and burned. After finding ore on the site, the church assets were sold for many times the original land cost, prompting Sipes to praise divine economy.
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Ohio
Abr
Sipes
Brother Sipes
Old Carlsbad and the Carlsbad Cure Through History
A historical overview of Carlsbad Bohemia as an ancient health resort chartered since 1401. It describes the shift from bath-focused cures to drinking Carlsbad water around 1500 under Dr Pay er and notes the extreme bathing regimen nicknamed the hautfresser or skin eater.
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Carlsbad
Bohemia
Kaiser Carl [V
Kaiser Carl IV
Payer
Elbogen
William Herschel and the Saturn ringed planet
Sir William Herschel set up his telescope at Windsor Castle for Queen Charlotte and the court to view Saturn. Clouds hid the sky that night yet the queen and ladies saw Saturn and its rings clearly through the instrument. Herschel had prepared a cardboard model of the Saturnian system with a back lamp to illuminate it.
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William Herschel
Windsor Castle
Charlotte
Herschel
Westminster Gazette
Bailie Macduff Bet Baited In Nap Game
In a London An swers report a wary Bailie Macduff is lured to a friend's house and loses 50 shillings in a nap game. After parting with his last coin he angrily protests refusing supper and questions how ham could be worth 50 shillings.
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Bailie Macduff
London
New York as a city of constant cooking says visiting woman
A Western woman describes New York as a place with perpetual aroma of coffee and broiling meat. She notes meals appear when smells suggest, with breakfast described as a movable feast from 6 a.m. to noon, reflecting city food culture.
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New York
Style and hats spark quick quips from Harper’s Weekly
A humorous exchange on radical changes in men’s hats prompts a jab about bald spots. A separate Plato quote emphasizes virtue in private and public life.
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Harper’s Weekly
Women and Merr Suffer From Kidney Trouble
An old newspaper advert warns that kidney trouble harms both women and men, reduces ambition and cheer, and may cause bed wetting in children. It touts Swamp-Root by Dr Kilmer as a remedy, offering samples and pamphlets from Binghamton New York.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
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the Grocery
Mmccomas & Sullivan
the Fountain Trust Company
J. M. Wilkey
Sec
Covington, Ind
G. W. Martin
Liberty and 4Th Sts
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Olney & McDaid
Clinton
Iowa
Atlantic
Pacific
Sele Manufacturers
Fifth Avenue
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Bys, Hedges, Drug CO
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Old Carlsbad
Plato
Merr
Dr. Kilmer
McCall
United
McCall'a
The
Queen of Fashion
Ove O'S
Eralash Commission
Pattern Catalogua
Booda
Fremum Catalous
Tiik McCall CO
LE Joe Deyséy
Covington
Lve Covington
Attica
Main Li
Ine
Eastern Mail
Expros@ally
Buffalo Mail
Mail
Express
Continental Limited
Lafafayete
Western Express
St Louis
E. W. Richeson
Toledo, St. Louis & Western
Veedersburg
Mailand Express
Toledo
St. Louis
Chavisaran
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