Sale of County Bonds by Caroline County in 1910
Caroline County invites sealed proposals for 8000 dollars of county bonds issued under Chapter 395. Bonds start at 500 dollars, 4 percent interest, payable semiannually, with 1000 dollars redeemable each July. Bids due June 19, 1910 at 2 pm in Denton. bids must be at par with accrued interest. right to reject bids reserved. ISAAC L. Dukes, Clerk. May 20, 1910.
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Acts of Assembly
Caroline County
Denton
Maryland
ISAAC L. DUKES
The Tale of a Man Wrongly Accused of Murder
A man recalls coming to Mer tford for work, being duped by a stranger who gave counterfeit bills, and facing a murder charge he insists he did not commit. He recounts arrest, a trial, later discovery of the real killer, and his plan to vanish and disfigure himself to avoid recognition.
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Mertford
Younustian
wy daudhury
William [Hugtins
Sam Nicholas Van Winkle
Tie
Eli
Thad
amy
havins
Mortford
tean
Kissing Was Costly In New Traven Colony
In May 1060 the governor heard the case of Jacob Murline and Sarah Tuttle accused of kissing. He noted impropriety, lectured them, and ordered each to pay a 200 shillings fine to the colony.
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Murlne
New Traven
Jacob Murline
Sarah Tuttle
Jacob
Sarah
Raymond
Persian Weavers and Their Handloom Carpets
Mrs Hume Griffith describes Persian carpet making in Behuind the Well In Persia and Turkish Arabia. The warp is a simple frame loom and the woof is hand woven with no shuttle. Workers sit underground with water flowing in the center rooms. A child reads the master’s coded instructions in a high pitched monotone while overseers supervise the slow grinding routine.
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Hume Griffith
Persia
Arabia
Wonders of a Watch Detail Its Size and Power
Harper's Weekly outlines the intricate watch mechanism noting about 175 parts and 2406 operations in construction. It recounts daily and yearly hammer blows on the fork totaling hundreds of millions, and claims four sea powers worth of drive with a single horsepower enough for 270 million watches, all requiring minimal lubrication for a year.
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Harper’s Weekly
Time's Changes. Father Reflects on Time's Fashion Passing
A reflective exchange where a father recalls that the fashion of this world passes away and a daughter notes future needs due to employment and hardships, hinting at changing fortunes in a domestic setting.
Jefferson’s Pictures A Landscape From Imagination
Jefferson created a renowned landscape painted entirely from imagination. He favored forest scenes with large tree trunks and old mills with water wheels, even claiming to make water run uphill. A club incident quoted him praising his own work, and the anecdote cites a winter scene painted in his sitting room and displayed to acclaim at the Players club.
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Jefferson
We tnd
Players club
James Barnes
Bookman
Mosquito Bars and An African Bed Experience
Ida Vera Simonton recalls life on the equator describing the vital use of a mosquito bar to block insects, a water filter, and quinine against malaria. She details a native carpenter bed of bamboo with tightly packed leaves, a hard surface, and a grass pillow, noting sleep was difficult and leaf turning nightly was essential.
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Ida Vera Simonton
Africa
Friendship’s decay and life through true bonds
A reflection on friendship contrasting false friendship that rots relationships with true friendship that revives and animates the connected beings, underscoring loyalty and vitality as the foundations of genuine support.
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Valericiennes
Sea yard
Emiraider
Pronsy Postacsss
chsy suds
SALTIMORE
Bis
MULLIN
Wilmington
Nichols & Shepard Co
Battle Creek
Mich
A. E. WHEATLEY
R.F.D
Oak Grove
Del
Nichols
Griffith Branch
Cou- Commissioners
I. L. DUKES
Mother Gray
New York
Rample Sateen
alien 8
Olmsted
Le Roy
Mie
H.L. Cooper
ALA
Wright J. G. Coo
COOPER, WRIGHT & COOPER
Fire Insurance Agents, LAW BUILDING
DENTON, MD
North British and Mercantiles Insurance Company of
North America
Farmers’ Fire
German Alliance
Springfield Fire and Marine Fire
Gurard Fire and Marine Phoenix
Hartford, Conn
Citizens
Missouri Union
Orphans’ Court
Marysland
THOMAS H. TNOBBS
THOMAS H. HOBBS, JR
Thomas H. Hobbs
FRANK L. ROBERTS
fl. Lay Beaven
Washington & Dover Sts
EASTON, MD
Hamburg
Anderson
Valencennes
DR Uo
whit tin
therow aloo
c. pane
COLUMBIA
MOTORAIL
BALTIMORE
New York Connection
Jas. McCreery & Co
Barrsville
Hardware Store
Oliver
Quick Meal
H. B. Davis Paints
Brussels
BK. H. STAPFORE
BURRSVILLE, MD
HAMMOND
KING
A. K. Robins & Co
ERNEST D, STURMER
Jeweler
Optician
EASTON
Caroling
CAROLINE
ALBERT G. TOWLES
ESC
preventohnson
EQUATORIAL AFRICA
ws FF
FIR
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