Estate of Tabia Marti late 1908 accounting hearing
In the Fountain Circuit Court February Term Charles Vertes as administrator presented and filed an account of Tabia Marti deceased. The hearing to approve the account and vouchers is set for February the courts seeks creditors to appear and show any objections. Charles Valk attorney Lucas Nebek r represents the estate.
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Marti
Charles Vertessa
Tabia Marti
Prowlat
Bip
Charles Yalhk
Notice to Defendants in Fountain County Court
Public filing in Fountain Circuit Court to sell estate of Amanda Murphy et al to pay debts and clear title. Unknown defendants are to be served by general designation. hearing set for March 28 1910 at Covington court house. docket includes lot 13 in Wallace Town. Clerk Anson G. Madden and attorney O B Rateliff present. notice dated January 22 1910.
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Aaid
Duttoner
Perann
Amanda Murphy
David Hybarger
Hybarger
Abner Bybarger
Bybarger
Filmore Spook
Elizabeth Murphy
Clara Murphy
James Murphy
Murphy
John Smith
Kate Smith
John BR. Murphy
Alicea Smith
George Smith
Rose Smith
Milton Smith
Alvin Smith
Stephen Bell
Isahella N. Bell
William F. Johnson and Johnson
Indiana
Anid
Wallace
Fountain County
Covington
Suburban Burglary Fear Recalled By Elderly Narrator
A group discusses a string of burglaries in a suburb where a couple recalls nightly break ins. The elderly man reassures his wife that they are too used to intruders, noting burglars always enter through the dining room window and exit the same way.
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Conversatinae
Barshire
Mary
John
Oss
The Giraffe An Odd Collier's Weekly Sketch
A humorous Collier's Weekly excerpt describes a giraffe as a long necked creature with mismatched body parts and far apart head and stomach. It jokes about its eating habits, color, habitat, and wartime antics while poking fun at common sense and African life and parasites.
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Animal Kingdom
Neek
Africa
Collier’s Weekly
Extracting Wood Oil from the Wood Oil Tree
Chinese wood oil is obtained by pressing or extracting the wood. The oil color varies with extraction, is usually heated, very thick and black. It forms a durable lacquer for wood, harder than boill linseed oil, and dries faster in damp than dry air. The residue after renewal of fly off acts as fertilizer and can destroy insect pests feeding on roots.
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China
Scientiic American
Miner warns against dangerous throat improvised aid
The Dundee Advertiser reports at an ambulance lecture in Elphinstone East Lothian a miner mocked a suggested choking remedy using a painted penknife to cut the throat. He warned that if the victim died relatives would prosecute for murder and if he survived he would be accused of attempting the cut.
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Elphinstone
East Lothian
Dundee Advertiser
The British Museum Early Visitor Guard System
In the museum's early days a century ago visitors were supervised by attendants guiding groups through the galleries. The note describes how each batch of visitors was escorted as they moved between exhibits.
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The
British Museum
Ready For it. Spinster Exchange Sparks Wit
A brief humor item notes a playful exchange where a man boasted about always asking the right thing at the right time and a spinster responds with a witty retort. The quip captures a lighthearted tone and flirtatious banter.
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Yeeusy
Loendon
Fretwork Answer Sparks Father Son Reflection
A brief, reflective exchange contrasts a child’s question about wrinkles with a father’s metaphor of fretwork, suggesting growth and complexity through parental guidance. The line captures a quiet moment of learning and meaning.
Struggles Over Early Arithmetic in Colonial Schools
An old commentator notes colonial school struggles with arithmetic teaching. Wingate and Hodder arithmetic books, successors to Pike's, demanded 363 memorized rules with little explanation. Teachers relied on manuscript sums, with few processors offered and total reliance on rote practice.
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Colonial School
Wingate
Winslow
Massachusetts
Pythigoras
Hodder
Pike
Barbed Wire Inventor Recounts World Changing Fences
A New York Press profile details Isaac L. Ellwood’s barbed wire breakthrough. A neighbor’s pigs inspired the first fence, strangers saw its value, Ellwood borrowed 1000 dollars to start a shop, later amassing about 15 million dollars.
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Isaac L. Ellwood
de Kalb
Ellwood
New York Press
The Water Lily Sun Symbol in Ancient Beliefs
The piece notes the water lily opens at sunrise and closes at sunset, shaping ancient reverence for the sun. Pliny reports the lotus in the Euphrates sinks at night to inaccessible depths, then rises with the sun, inspiring views of the lily as a world emblem in Egyptian symbolism.
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Susset
Pliny
Euphrates
Hancarville
Jungle Folk In Africa dialogue prompts pupil to voice color bias
Excerpt quotes R B Milligan on direct speech in Africa and a pupil named Bojedi who declines to be white. The student says Africans think they are better looking, provoking reflection on color and identity across cultures without graphic detail.
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Africa
R. B. Milligan
Mu Agaon
Bojedi
Madaria
Mr. Milligan
Wonder She’s Cross and the Quiet Struggles Within
A fragmentary passage describes a woman’s daily irritations and headaches, noting she should not bear sole blame for moods. It suggests that understanding from family and simple care can help a tired, unwell person, while critiquing stereotypes about women’s weakness.
Short Stories and Social Notes From Early America
The United States ranks third as a manufacturer exporter. A wreath for Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Lincoln City Indiana was funded by two thousand five hundred Indianapolis schoolchildren giving one cent each. The report also notes charitable meals in New York and Brooklyn for 149 637 people during 1906, funded by a penny coffee stand program.
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United States
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Lincoln City
Ind
Indianapolis
Maine
Ording
J. M Lamadrid
St. Andrew's
New York
Brooklyn
Hoosier Sam in Colorado Telegram Reports Local Officer Shot
Sam Matthews received a telegram stating Peter H. Gookins formerly of Tipton Indiana had been shot and killed in Loveland Colorado. Gookins was longtime cashier at Haynes Shook store in Tipton.
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Hoosier
Sam
Colorado
Tipton
Ind
Sam Matthews
Peter H. Gookins
Loveland
Mr. Gookins
Haynes & Shook
Fragmented Verse Snippets From Historic Papers
A fragmented OCR sample presents quips and verse with garbled lines from Cleveland Leader and New York Sun style pieces. The text includes dialogue about grass seed, money, and a pun on fate, with stray names and misprints typical of early 20th century newspapers. The rough fragments resemble a poetical column or humor section.
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