Local government directory lists city officers and church notices
Directory shows city government names including Mayor G H Moore and Aldermen plus county officials like Clerk Superior Court and Tax Collector. Also lists trustees, school board, roads and revenues, notaries, registrars, and multiple church congregations with service times and Sunday Schools.
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G.H. Moore
A. West
Jos. Townsend
J. Smith
T. F Jacksonson
W. II
Jane Oisy Marshal
Wm. Housley
Trustees City School
John H. Moore J, M. Brooksher
A.W. Cain
County Board OF Education
W. B. Lowe
J. M. Ridley
W.T. Dowdy
D. Pierce
D. W. Caldwell
Carl Shults
John H. Moore
W. L. Ash
O. Meaders
T. BE. Christian
Auraria
W. A. Hutcheson
J. P
Cane Creek
Luther Justus
J. P. Cr
N. P. Jones’ Creek
M. H. Kendall
N. P. Martin’s Ford
J. G. Martin
J. P. Nimblewill
J. M. Calhoun
N. P. Porter Stet d
Bo B. Ricketts
N. P
J.M. Duckett
Wanted: hosiery sales agents for guaranteed stock
Help wanted for International Stocking Mills in Norristown Pennsylvania. Position offers 408 week full time and $1.00 an hour spare time. No experience required. Eliminate darn ing. Open to men or women to take orders for hosiery for men women and children.
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International Stocking Mills
Norristown
If I Had the Power Henry Mencken Pope of America
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot describes Sinclair Lewis returning from Europe with a manuscript for a sequel to Main Street. He jokes that Henry Mencken should be pope of America, promoting a “message of sophistication” to shape American households by a simple experiment.
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Sinclair Lewis
Europe
Henry Mencken
America
Lewis
London
Henry
Norfolk
Last of Empires and Japan’s Imperial Line
The author discusses imperial decline in Europe with Russia Germany Austria and Turkey fading. England as a crowned republic persists and Japan may be the last empire due to royal zeal and clear succession for Prince Hirohito as noted by Isaac Marcosson in the Saturday Evening Post.
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Russia
Germany
Austria
Turkey
George
England
Beaconsfield
Victoria
India
Japan
Hirohito
Isaac F. Marcosson
Saturday Evening Post
In His Father's Steps
The Washington Star recalls Theodore Roosevelt Jr and companions hiking near Rock Creek park. A note describes Roosevelt Junior leading a trio from Rock Creek toward the zoo area, wearing a bare head and old red sweater as they cut around Iron House Hill.
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Rock Creek Park
Sixteenth Street
Rock Creek
Iron House Hill
Zoo
Nicky
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Washington Star
Music Increases Egg Supply From Toronto Poultry Farm
Two Toronto university graduates own a poultry farm near Toronto and report higher egg production when hens hear music. They observed a drop from 160 to 75 eggs a day after a ferret scare, then a singer improved output. They heard of a farmer using a gramophone gaining about 8 percent more eggs.
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Toronto University
Toronto
Farmer in the Street Seeks Goose in Odd Exchange
A narrator recalls seeing a man dressed like a farmer approaching as a goose attempts to fly past the yard. The man looks for something, and when asked if he seeks a goose he pauses, seemingly convinced he has found one.
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Enay
Exschange
Animals Frozen to Death Stripped of Meat by Reds
In Yakima area a Yakima tribe stockpiles meat for a year with little cost or labor. They have stripped all game animals from Mount Adams forest slopes, drying smoking and canning the meat for food. The harsh winter caused heavy losses to cattle and sheep, but the tribe still uses such stockpiled meat when needed.
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Mount Adams
Agents Wanted to Sell Original Watkins Products
Territorial sale opportunity for the J. R. Watkins Co. Good City area open. Offers include free samples and a prompt reply from Dept. 79 Memphis Tennessee.
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Watkins
J. R. Watkins Co
Dept
Memphis
Tenn
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Internal Cure
An early 20th century advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh by an internal action through the blood. It asserts use for that disease only and offers free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Pavement Billboard Invention Makes Water Ads
A device resembling a lawn roller prints ads on asphalt by spraying water through a perforated belt. As an operator pushes it, a stencil drum leaves wet bands that reveal dark pavement with dry white letters, creating temporary signs on city streets.
Cold weather does not start or end plant dormancy
Scientific American reports ten year studies by Dr. Frederick V. Coville of the Department of Agriculture showing that dormancy in native trees and shrubs begins before winter and that cold exposure is needed to resume growth. The findings debunk the belief that frost or warmth alone triggers dormancy or regrowth.
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Frederick V. Coville
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Jack Frost
Coville
Scientific American
Liars Pretty Well Matched
An American poultry farmer visits England and boasts of American farming feats while a bluff English farmer challenges his claims. The tale contrasts tall American yarns with English practicality as they discuss hatched eggs and hen settings.
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England
America
United States
Maister
Ipswich
Houston Post
The Sex of the Planes and Other Brief Miscellany
A Bel gian postal service airship anecdote in Congo shows natives differentiating male and female birds by behavior. Also noted are remarks by Louis Franck on Belgian colonies and a Oska loosa college professor’s postwar hardship, plus a wry exchange about engagement economics from a Latin instructor and a young Indy.
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Stanley Pool
Congo
Bat
Louis Franck
Sorbonne
H. O. Vance
Oskaloosa College
Oskaloosa
Indy
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Antiquities Found In Hillock Stomachs Baffle Antiquarians
Treasure trove clues puzzle antiquarians as coins are recovered from animals slaughtered after grazing on Sheepey marshes. Readings include a 1705 Victor Amed of Sardinia coin, a 1074 Charles Uffarthing, a George III half penny of 1806, and a 1727 Mamburg shilling reported by the London Mail.
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Victor Amed
Sardinia
Charles Uffarthing
George
London Mail
Man Mountain Eats Like Four in One
A Siberian-born farmer named Kazanloff, described as 3 feet 3 inches tall and 485 pounds, reportedly consumes vast quantities daily. He reportedly eats four meals a day with milk eggs meat bread potatoes beans and large amounts of wine and beer, seeking to return to his father's farm while a famine threat looms.
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Kazanloff
The
I Can Medical Association
Ned
Higer
Siberia
Hun
Qlineinnati Baquirer
Grasshopper Shoes Aid Childrens Hopping Exercise
The Philadelphia Ledger describes May 0, South gate of New York invention of giant mechanical grasshoppers strapped to a child's feet. With steel legs and rubber feet, the devices let a child hop skip or jump more actively and cover ground quickly, cushioning shocks and adding a lightness perception.
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Southgate
New York
Philadelphia Ledger
Ultra-thin Gold Film Weighs From Copper Plate
A film of gold 12,798,000th inch thick has been made and is nearly four square feet per grain. The process starts with copper plated in an electric bath to deposit gold, then the copper is dissolved in nitric acid to leave the floating gold film, which is collected on a glass plate.
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Popular Science Monthly
Mount Everest Height Confirmed by Indian Survey
The Indian survey fixes Mount Everest at 20,141 feet the globe’s highest known point. Yet extreme altitudes remain puzzling as climbers risk illness and the record heights cited include 24,000 feet by the Duke of the Abruzzi and Norwegians on Kabru near Darjeeling.
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Mount Everest
Himalayas
Duke of the Abruzzi
Doctor and goats in a comic hospital scene
A doctor congratulates a new father when a burly goat bolts through as the caller jokes about selling the goat. The father offhand asks the doctor if he would buy the goat, while the doctor questions the bill. The exchange ends with the father asking for the price of the bill.
Also Mentioned on This Page
JH. Baker
Townsend
Christian
Daves Tipy Tia
M. Davis
É. ‘C. Porter
Peck Voroner
Cantrell Surveyor
R. E. Baker
John Evans
G.G. Evans
W. J. Free
D. O. Johnson
H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
A. B. Keith
Church OF God
Ella Fry
Ela Fry
G H McGuire
Dahlonega
Moore & Earlys
Martin
Harney Station
Omaha
Nebraska
North Georgia Agricultural College
M. D. Dubose
J.M. Brooksher & Sons
H. A. Stacy
Bradyville
Thedford’s
Mr. Stacy
William H. Fish
Supreme Court
Foeman
Pennsylvania
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