Veedersburg School Board Seeks Banks for Public Funds Deposits
The School Board of Finance of Veedersburg Indiana invites written proposals from banks and trust companies to hold public funds on deposit. Bids must be on official forms, with personal or surety bonds, and collateral bonds where required. Submissions due during business hours at the Board office, Veedersburg, Fountain County. Executed by President S M Billings and Secretary Zeb E Bone.
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Veederaburg
Fountain
Indiana
United States
Boards of Finance
Veedersburg
8. M. Billings
Zeb E. Bone
Notice for Bids on Asylum Supplies in Mountain County
The county asylum Superintendent files three month estimates for meats groceries dry goods house furnishings and other inmate materials. Bids due by noon with bids per requisition on file in the Auditor's Office. Commissioners may reject any or all bids. W B Gray Auditor Mountain county.
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County Asylum
Auditor’s
W. B. Gray
Auditor
Mountain County
Notice to bids for Fountain County material and supplies
Fountain County Board of Commissioners invites proposals for year ahead supplies including blank books records stationery and related items. Bids due by 12 o clock in the Auditor's office Covington Indiana. Board may reject bids and re advertise.
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Board of Lesioners
County of
Fountain
Fountain County
Court House
Covington
Indiana
Old Time Doctors Treated Ailments With Fever Piles and Bleeding
Historical medical practice painted as violent misadventure. Doctors blamed fever for any sickness and used bleeding, plasters, and burning as routine remedies. Patients faced water denial, heat, and heavy meals while nobles overindulged in wine and meat, with famous physicians courted for lavish regimens.
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S. G. Tallentyre
Cornhill Magazine
Montesquieu
Walpole
Voltaire
Tronchin
Cheyne
Garth
Brown
Louis XIV
Duchess of Tremouille
Duke of Bedford
Freak Paintings and the Freak Class of Masterpieces
A Kansas City Star report recounts that great art often comes from odd places and materials. It cites tiny corn grain paintings by a Flemish artist, a two mile long river panorama by John Banvarn, Murillo’s large canvas, and Salvator Rosa’s costlier wager to prove value in art.
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Mississippi River
John Banvarn
Watertown
D. D
Father of Waters
Murillo
Padua
Salvator Rosa
Florence
Rosa
St. John’s Wood
London
J. E. Hodgson
Hodgson
Kansas City Star
Marquis Disguised Footman Receives Free Surgery
A French surgeon Velpeau tells a visiting marquis that an urgent operation costs 4000 francs. The marquis declines. Later a footman of a nobleman seeks treatment, and the doctor reveals a sign up demand of 10000 francs for the public charity bureau to confess the ruse. The marquis is believed to have paid. Also notes Gewitternose in Germany and Danish sea level observations.
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Velpeau
Hopital de 19 Charite
Faubourg St. Germain
Marquis
Ile
Monsieur
Public Charity Bureau
Yaris
Marquis de D
Germany
Denmark
The Devil's Knell in Yorkshire Bells
Among Yorkshire bells a famous one named Black Tom of Soothill was donated to a church to atone for a murder. Ringed each Christmas Eve, its midnight toll is called the devil's knell and is linked to the belief that the devil died when Christ was born.
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Dewsbury
Yorkshire
England
Soothill
London Standard
Shut Him Up Baidheaded Gentleman
A humorous London Tit-Bits snippet features a chatty shoesole and a fastidious gentleman in a hotel setting. The exchange reveals social friction over timing and politeness with wry colonial tone.
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London
Do you wish to find out the really sublime?
A reflective line on seeking deeper meaning and repentance linked to prayer and a historical figure name Napoleon appears in a contemplative inquiry.
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Napoleon
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