Tariff Revisions Backed by Editorial Consensus Across States
A Chicago Tribune survey of over 4000 editors nationwide finds broad support for tariff revision, with emphasis on intelligent reform rather than party politics. Editors argue protection is due for improvement and a tariff commission report should guide a careful, permanent adjustment sought by both consumers and manufacturers.
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Cago Tribune
Congress
Rea
the Tribune
Editora Atero
Iriff
Ohionia
Foley Kidney Pills Prove Quick Relief for Kidney Troubles
M Balent of 1214 Little St Streator Ill says time loss pay and bladder trouble ruined his work until he used Foley Kidney Pills for a short time. He reports full recovery and better health, calling the pills a tonic that helps the working man.
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M. Balent
Little St
Cemetery Meeting Set at Mt Carmel on August 5
A meeting for all persons interred in Mt Carmel cemetery is scheduled for Saturday August 5 at p.m. at the church in Wartownship. All are invited to attend. important business to be transacted.
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Mt. Carmel
Wartownship
Diet Plan for Children From a New York Physician
A physician’s diet schedule for healthy and malnourished children outlines meals from breakfast to supper. It includes milk, cereals, eggs, meat portions, vegetables, fruits, breads, and dairy at set times, with alternatives like fish, beans, and desserts, emphasizing balanced intake.
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New York
E. M. Sill
No Confidence in Courts Mock Marriage Line
A Chicago actress preparing for a wedding jokes about rehearsing marriage vows. She reads the phrase Till death do us part from a prayer book, prompting a friend to quip that it sounds like lacking confidence in the courts.
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Chicago
Friends o Mine. A List of Everyday Characters
A Baltimore Sun line celebrates ordinary people and figures who brighten life. The piece playfully lists a dog, a baby, a smiling woman, a dime-swindling storyteller, a blooming flower girl, a sun-quiet bird, a preacher of practicality, a promise-free politician, and a visiting admirer of a wife’s cream puffs as “friends.”
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God Bless
Baltimore Sun
Life of Berlin Centered on Three Streets
A National Magazine sketch notes Berlin as a staid capital transformed into a bright European city. Life concentrates on Friedrichstrasse Liepsigerstrasse and Unter den Linden while beyond them darkness falls and the city’s merriment centers there.
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Berlin
Europe
Friedrichstrasse
Liepsigerstrasse
Unter den Linden
The Dear Children The Maid in Boston
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a scene where children cause mischief in a parlor. Master Jimmie breaks a window Miss Jane strikes a dog with a stone and Master Bobbie harms a strange girl. The mother dismisses the scene as typical child activity.
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Boston
Jimmie
Miss Jane
Jingles
Bobbie
Jane
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Physician’s Answer About Mustache and Hair Color
A patient asks why his mustache remains black while his hair is gray. The physician answers that the mustache is twenty years younger than the hair.
Coming Events Calendar for Attica and Surrounding Areas
Listings show Attica Chautauqua at Park August 11 to 20 plus Ravine Old Settlers in Yeddo August 17 and Riverside Old Settlers August 6. Free Methodist camp meeting at Ravine Park August 23 to September 3. Pine Village Stock Show August 31 to September 2. State Fair in Indianapolis September 4 to 8, Boswell and Covington Fairs September 12 to 15. Redmen Powwow in Lafayette September 21 and Woodmen Logrolling at Ravine Park in September.
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Attica Chautauqua, Park
Ravine Park
Attica
Pine Village
Indianapolis
Boswell
Covington
Redmen
Lafayette
Ravire Park
Quick home remedy tale from Strand Oklahoma
D Frankel recalls wife urging doctor visit for a boil but applied Backlen's Arica Salve instead. The salve reportedly cured the boil quickly and is praised as a fast healer for buros, scalda cuta, corns, bruises, sprains and swellings. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
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D. Frankel
Strand
Okla
Backlen
Expenditures and Tax Levies for Cain Township 1912
Trustees propose yearly expenditures and tax levies for 1912 at the advisory board meeting. Items include township expenditures 2022 with 15c tax per 100 dollars, local tuition 3370 with 25c tax, special school tax 6067 with 45c, road taxes 3370 with 25c plus additional road tax 31345 with 10c, poor expenditures 34 with tax on 100, and other items 1500 with 10c. Total expenditures 16311 and total tax 131c per hundred. Taxables include land and improvements 844,205. personal property 101,015. railroads etc. 851,015. mortgage exemption credit 140,450.
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Hillsboro
Wabash Township proposes 1911 tax levies and expenditures
The Trustee of Wabash Township Fountain County Indiana proposes annual expenditures and tax levies for the coming year. Items include Township Expenditures 1109. Local Tuition Expenditures 1541.75 with 245 cents tax and 50 cent per poll. Special School Expenditures 1850 with 30 cents tax and 50 cent per poll. Road Expenditures 1541 with 25 cents tax. Additional Road Expenditures 61 with 10 cents tax. Poor Expenditures 316 with 5 cents tax. Total expenditures 5973.75 and total tax levy 113 cents. Total taxables 616705 and 175 polls. C M Coggins Trustee. Snoddy Milla July 29, 1911.
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Wabash Township
Fountain County
Indiana
C. M. Coggins
Snoddy Milla
Ind
Expenditures and Tax Levies for Fulton Township 1912
Fulton Township trustees set 1912 budget at 1410 for township expenditures with 20 cents per $100 tax. Local tuition spends 2200 with 32 cents. road tax 1.80 with 30 cents. additional road 600 with 10 cents. poor expenditures 300.70 with 5 cents. Total expenditures 9300.70 and total tax 142. Taxable values shown include land 402,545 and personal property 597,260 with 182 polls. Signed BYA VOARNAY trustee, dated August 1, 1911.
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Telegraph
Bya Voarnay
Teastay
Electric Bitters Solved Longtime Stomach Trouble
Modders ville Michigan resident Doho W Modders suffered 15 years from a digestive ailment that resisted treatment. After trying various remedies he found relief with Electric Bitters, reporting renewed appetite and improved liver and kidneys. Bottles 50 cents with guarantee.
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Doho W. Modders
Moddersville Mich
Look Pleasant and Laugh at Grim Wholesome Image
A quotation frames a critique of grim virtue and the idea that piety equates to severity. The speaker warns against trusting those who never show laughter, contrasting seriousness with genuine wholesomeness.
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New York Press
Administrator's Notice of Private Sale in Fountain County
The Estate of Martin H. Clark, deceased, via the Circuit Court, will sell at private sale at The Fountain Trust Company Covington at 10 a.m. August 19 1911 and thereafter, a team of work horses and buggy and all Clark Lumber Coal and Wood Yard stock including lumber hardware doors sash glass tools coal and sewer tile. The sale may be in whole or parcels with option to lease yard buildings. Minimum price is appraised value with one third cash and balance in up to six nine months notes 6 percent interest with security and attorney fees. Secretary J M Wilkey and Attorney H C Yount. 8 4 11 13.
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Anti
Fountain Trust Company
Covington
Indiana
Gaid
Clark Lumber
J. M. Wilkey
H.C. Yount
Life Saved at Deaths Door by Dr. King's New Discovery
Wellington Texas resident W R Patterson recalls near grave illness after two years of doctor treatment. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with a full recovery from consumption and lung troubles, now weighing 87 pounds and years of health. Trial bottle free, price 31.00 for full size.
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W. R. Patterson
Wellington
Tex
Proof Positive. Mrs. De Pretty Horrora
A quick social aside notes a woman who passed is a young man in disguise. The husband questions how the speaker knows, and the woman remarks she read his face rather than his attire.
Mule in temper kicks barn boards at Buialo Express
A humorous item from the Buialo Express notes the Horasae's Comment where a mule in a temper kicks several barn boards. The animal mutters about fresh aft cranks as a self remark.
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Buialo Express
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Advertised by Chicago Reader
E M Stewart of 1034 Wolfram St Chicago reports relief from hay fever and summer colds using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. The testimonial claims many sufferers will benefit from his experience and notes the product is for sale by all druggists.
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Foley
E. M Stewart
Wolfram St
Chicago
Kilby 1 gains in stocks enough for touring car
Kilby 1 made enough money in stocks last week to buy a touring car. Dane questions the purchase, Kilby laments wishing he had done it. The exchange appears in Bouston Transcript by Ear and includes a line about fashion and sympathy with the Audible society from Mrs. Lapsiing.
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Kilby
Dane
Paying the Bill and the Doctor Visit Advice
Knicker Books offer guidance on what to do before a doctor arrives while the later suggestions remain unclear. A judge comments on practical steps following the visit.
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Booker
Thieves Steal Health But Dr King’s Pills Restore
I W Bends of Coality Alabama fought twelve years of aliver and kidney trouble but Dr King’s New Life Pills cured his ailments. The pills combat Constipation Malaria Headache and Dyspepsia and cost 25 cents at druggists.
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I. W. Bends
Coality
Ala
Dr. King
Pilla
Notice of Administration in Fountain County Indiana
The Fountain Trust Company is named administrator of the estate of Martin H. Clark deceased, appointed and qualified by the Fountain County Circuit Court. The estate is stated to be solvent. H. C. Yount is the attorney. Tt 1-3.
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Circuit Court
Fountain County
Indiana
Martin H. Clark
Fountain Trust Company
Jericho Leaves Claim Powerful Constipation Cure
Advertises Jericho Leaves from the Holy Land as a natural laxative that relieves and soothes the intestinal tract better than drugs. Describes palatability and gentle cleansing, with mail order details and a money back guarantee. Includes offer to purchase by twenty five cents and money order.
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Holy Land
Jericho
Jorjan
U.S
Peckham Schoolboy Barred for Inability to Learn
A London County Council education committee report details a Peckham schoolboy nearly 13 who has learned only two or three letters, cannot write or calculate, and is expelled from school. The panel cites his persistent inability to progress and the need to remove him.
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Peckham
London County Council
Dichotomy as medical fee split term borrowed from botany
The London Hospital notes that the term dichotomy, once a botanical word, has been adopted by the U S medical press to describe illicit practice dividing a surgeon or specialist fee with the referring practitioner who sent the patient.
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United States
London Hospital
Evolution of vessel lighting marked by Butler and lights
The use of red and green navigation lights on ships began on the Hudson River in 1862. General Benjamin F. Butler supported the introduction by backing a factory that produced the lights.
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Gen. Butler
Hudson River
Benjamin F. Butler
Executor Named in Parmella Crane Estate Case
Qualified by the Circuit Court of Fountain County Indiana as Executor of Parmella Crane's estate Thomas A Clifton receives appointment.
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Blic
Tariff Commission
Ite
Taft
Commission
Els
Globe Democrat
Cemetery Meeting
Republican
Old Settlers
Yeddo
Riverside Old Settlers
Cain Township
Daly P. Frazier
Fulton Township
Ofice
Cates
Etter
H. C. Yount
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Bwikk Uuly
Dearborn St
J. A. McGil
Parmella Crane
Thomas A. Clifton
Parker
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