Public Sale of Cattle Machinery and Household Goods
A public sale starts at 10 oclock with cattle including two cows aged 5 and 7 and two 20 month old heifers, assorted farm machinery such as a 24 percent Fairbanks Morse engine, New Holland reed mill, Farm er's Friend swing saw, wagon gear, mower, rake and gear, grain oil and other farm tools. Household furniture listed plus small items. Terms: cash for sums under 10, credit six months with interest bearing bankable note. Auctioneer Leo vako Covey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price farm
dearborn
York
HOUSENOLD PFURNITURE
M. LIDEN
Leovako Covey
Divorce Suit Seeks Decree in Caroline County Court
In Equity in the Circuit Court for Caroline County a divorce a vinculo matrimonii is sought by Gladys Downs Bracumlick against Peter Bracumlick. The bill states they married February 1898, separated March 1902 after abandonment, with no children and Peters nonresidence in Maryland. Notice ordered by the court to publish in a Caroline County newspaper four weeks before April 25 1916, with appearance set for May 1.
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Caroline County
Chancery
Gladys Downs Bracumlick
Peter Bracumlick
Gladys Downs Braculick
Peter Braeumlick
Maryland
Gladys Downs Braeumlick
Caroline
Circuit Court
equity
Peter Bracumlich
J. KEMP STEVENS
J KEMP STEVENS
The First Tooth Festival and a Family Journey
A tale traces Tom Norton and family crossing toward Florida to homestead near Kissimmee while Tom hides a still. Jeff, left to guard the wagon, outwits a whisky gang, breaking into the box and concealing evidence. The sheriff exposes the ruse as empty bottles mislead, and the family continues toward Gainesville to claim land.
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FRANK H. SWEET
American Press Association
Tom Norton
belug
sears
Tom
south Georgia
Norton
Jeff
fie
NANCE
Florida
Jeffs
Suwanee
Lake region
Orlando
Kigsimmee
les
Kissimmee
Charlotte Harper
Charlotte Anthor
Bartow
fundag
sonny
Pap
Jem
Kissiminee
thority
Jeff Astencil
Waal
Jim
Jety
Jef
hys father
Gainesville
There Is No Right in a wife asks for money
A New York Herald motto questions moral paths when a husband lacks funds. It notes that under such stress any action may seem wrong, highlighting a timeless tension between need and fidelity in marriage.
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New York Herald
Beastly Business in Suburban Commuter Life
Plainfield and Somerville commuters are portrayed in a satirical piece as facing a beastly business. A Plainfield commuter is noted for raising bull terriers while a Bunyan quote urges inner quiet over outward comforts.
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Plainfield
Somerville
Plainfeld
Bunyan
Monster Plow Built for Ten Horses Moves with Fifty
A Bakersfield California farm official designed a giant plow meant for ten horses to pull a fifty inch furrow. The test required fifty horses and four men to guide, but failed economically. A wiser mathematician later advised cubing the capacity of the twelve inch plow as width increased.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Harper’s Weekly
Measuring mountains by an ordinary thermometer
The article explains that rising air lowers the boiling point of water, enabling height estimates with a thermobarometer or hypsometer. It notes limitations from non uniform air pressure and contrasts with barometers, citing Ganot on potential ten foot accuracy for mountain height in theory, with practical caveats.
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Ganot
Chicago Record-Herald
An Effective Alarm From Flannigan’s Cannon Prank
A discharged artillery man in his village builds a booby trap using a rusty cannon aimed at his front door. A brick shatters the constable’s door as villagers converge, while Flannigan returns to boast of his improvised alarm device and its supposed training benefits.
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Flannigan
Bedad
Pearson's Weekly
Old Scottish Words From East Aberdeenshire
A Glaswegian reader lists quaint Scottish terms still common in East Aberdeenshire. Mowse means dangerous or uncanny to be mowse. Counnached indicates spoiled or utterly ruined. Blaud means to sell. Gar dies or gaurdies refers to a child’s forearm. The note cites usage like dinna blaud your clean plea and describes a very old phrase for a baby’s plump arms.
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Aberdeenshire
bonnie
gardies
Glasgo
Lerald
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ERNEST D, STARVER
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rizht
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fey
Middletown Farms
Pure Dairy Products
Middletown, Del
Putin
Suratuhoor
focal merchant
Sembus
Gardon and Drewer
J. Bolciano & Son
Wood
T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN
Virginia
Richmond
G. T. REDDEN & CO
MAUD JOHNSON
Fifth avenue
Denton
Sandtown
Hillsboro
E. W. DEEN
Denton, Md
aPAat
Smithville
FRANK L. ROBERTS
H. Lay Beaven Cor
Washington & Dover Sts
LASTON, MID
Derry
Madras
India
Poplins
E. T. ORME
ANDERSONTOWN
J. H. HEMMONS
Ridgely, Md
Baltimore
copenhagen
BALTIMORE, MD
RED ROCK FOMATO
Delaware
Bloomsdale
D. Landreth Seed Company
BLOOMSDALE SEED FARMS
BRISTOL
Market Street
Thomas O'Connell
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
Scarlet
Timothy
Peallay
R. J. S. BULLOCK
MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS
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