The Birth of the National Cash Register Company
In Coalton Ohio in the early eighties James Kitty sold a cheap contrivance to a mining store owner. The device recorded cash sales on paper and cost under twenty dollars, sold for a hundred. The Paterson brothers bought two units, profit rose to twelve thousand dollars in a year, leading to control and renaming of the business as National Cash Register.
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James Kitty
Coalton
Ohio
Patterson Brothers
Music as a Pastime or as a Livelihood
A discussion on whether music should be pursued as a livelihood or as culture. The piece argues music is more demanding than tailoring and notes many earn a living from it. For a livelihood, a boy would need about six hours daily and one lesson each day. for cultural study, a fraction of the day suffices, yielding broad but fleeting knowledge.
London name debates link to sacred groves and lakes
Philologists in Britain debate London’s origin with theories tying it to a Welsh fort by a lake and to a Norse sacred grove from Lund. They note a Yorkshire town named Lund and Svensk Lund that once traded with Rome, suggesting shared sacred grove sites for Bronze Age sun worship.
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London
Great Britain
Lyn
Lund
Lunden
Yorkshire
Scandinavia
Sweden
Britain
Boston Transcript
Bark Vital Part of Tree
The article defines the tree stem as the trunk extending from roots to crown, with bark wood and pith. It explains heartwood and sapwood, the cambium between wood and bark, and notes the cambium as the vital layer where new wood and bark form.
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American Tree Association
Coal Riches Prove Britain's Ancient Global Edge
British coal abundance for a country of its size, with seams stacking deep and outcrops at the surface, suggests tropical past conditions in these islands. The land was once linked to the continent, with England's coal likely extending under the Channel into northern France, Belgium, and Flanders.
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Great Britain
England
North Sea
France
Belgium
Flanders
origins of baseball and birthplaces debated
The article traces baseball origins with Philadelphia claiming 1833 and New York citing the 1843 Washington club as early. It notes baseball became national in 1858 with the National Association of Baseball Players forming amid clubs from New York and surrounding areas.
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East
Philadelphia
New York
All Pairs at Wedding at Traralgon Australia
A recent double wedding at Traralgon Australia saw sisters Ivy and Ethel Matheson united with brothers Roy and Lenard Battley. Best men R Pudney and J Pudney were brothers, bridesmaids Miss Matheson, groomsmen LB Webb and C Webb, clergy Reverends Prickett and Craig former fellow students. Traveling outfits for both brides were identical.
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Traralgon
Australia
Ivy
Ethel Matheson
Roy
Lenard Battley
J. Pudney
Misses Matheson
C. Webb
Prickett
Craig
Optimism vs Pessimism Talk From The Young
A Springfield Union snippet contrasts youth, who see the future with optimism, with middle aged and old, who argue experience brings pessimism yet reveals life as a pretty good world. The discussion centers on whether youth or age carries clearer hope.
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Springfield Union
Assignees Sale of Canning Property in Federalsburg
Public sale of two lots with a large cannery and warehouse in Federalsburg Maryland will occur in front of Eastern Shore Trust Company Bank on a 1927 date between 2 and 4 p m. The property fronts the Nanticoke River includes wharf and landing with a water tower exclusion and ingress rights. Terms are half cash day of sale and balance in six months with note, or all cash. Assignees Henry R Lewis and J Owen Knotts announce. Auctioneer James Temple.
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Robert W. Messenger
Anna Z. Messenger
Thomas H. Chambers
Henry R. Lewis
J. Owen Knotts
Caroline County
Liber L. B. T
Eastern Shore Trust Company Bank
Federalsburg
Maryland
Nanticoke
Bridge Street
Dr. Galloway
Herman Wright
Nanticoke River
Assignee Merriken Ratification Promised in County Notice
Assignee CALVERT C. MERRIKEN to be ratified unless objections shown by November 19 after publication in Caroline county newspapers once weekly for four weeks before October 17. Report notes sales amounting to 1200 dollars. Clerk: T. Clayton Horsey.
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Calvert C. Merriken
Caroline County
T. Clayton Horsey
True Pete
Tl. Clayton Horsey
Notice of ancillary letters testamentary in Maryland
The subscriber of Caroline county Maryland has obtained ancillary letters testamentary from the Orphans' Court for Caroline county on the personal estate of the deceased.
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Caroline County
Orphans’ Court
Maryland
Eight Room House with porches and outbuildings
Describes an eight room house with upstairs and downstairs halls, front and back porches including a screened back porch, summer kitchen, large light cement floor cellar, large cement floor garage, fuel and implement house, chicken house 17 by 21, feed house 9 by 12, young fruit and shaded trees in a splendid location. Terms to suit purchaser, possession at year end, apply to"}
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Roland F. Carter
Virgie M. Carter
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Medford Price
Oscar Butler
Frances Butler
Althea Butler
Nancy Ellen Stormont
Catherine Butler
Tra L. Butler
Ira L. Butler
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Chancery
John T. Carter
Sarah C. Butler
T. Pliny Fisher
John T. Carter, Jr
Wilmington
Delaware
Jacksonville
Florida
Circuit Court
Nisi
Charles A. Rampmeyer
Mary Rampmeyer
Christopher J. Hall
Sussex County
Perrone
Franklin T. Johnson
Denton
John L. Everngam
Alda P. Whitby
Hrothers, Inc
Esso
Standard Oil Company
CN. J
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Hi. C. Wrigit
Second St
WM. Pepper Constable
Maryland Trust Building
Baltimore
Elkton
Plaza
Blades, Rosenfeld & Frederick
Attorneya At Law
Fidelity
Market Street
Denton National Bane
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Goldsboro Bank
Paris
Goldsboro
Robert Jarrell, JR
Chrysler Cars
Ford
Maxwell
Caroline Auto Sales Co
Cary
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F. B. Nuttle
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Navy
Wallace Barry
Raymond Hatton
Josephine Dunn
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