Tailor made suits offered at New York Store event
Special orders for ladies' tailor made suits will be taken at the New York Store Saturday January 18 1902. Our eastern representative will attend. Ladies of Devils Lake and vicinity invited to come and select.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Devils Lake
Stade & Swee
Evans
Rip van Winkle
Opera| House
Opera
Rip
Joseph Jefferson
Altar Society
St. Joseph’s Church
A. Routier
Second Street
M. E. Church
J. Q. Adams
Stade & Syee
Mule Eats Wagon Scarecrow: Town News
Charlotte grocer A Harris loses a mule and most of a delivery wagon after a single night. The poplar wagon frame is eaten to the floor before the animal dies. Cum King recalls a Civil War tale of army mules chewing through wooden fodder with no fatal outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Harris
Charlotte
N. C
Cum King
Squire Maxwell
Observer
Sam Harris
King
Sam
Staunton
Harris
Maoris Cook With Volcano Heat In New Zealand
The Maoris use nearby volcanoes to cook vegetables by digging a five to six foot pit lined with straw and earth. They fill the pit with potatoes and mangoes, cover it, and let the volcano heat bake the food. The earth then serves as a storehouse for their harvest.
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New Zealand
Detroit Free Press
Home Made Pure Air and Other Notices From 1901 Era
A Philadelphia inventor markets a pine wood vapor purifier to soothe lung and throat ailments by circulating distilled pine vapors through a building. Also included are statistics on 1901 UK ship launchings totaling 1233 vessels and 1,797,675 tons, Sinai turquoise mining concessions, an Indian plant named philotaces that emits electric sparks, and a remark about men with grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
England
Dallas
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Clyde
Home, Foreign, and Colonial Service
Honest record of Sophie Holmes at the Treasury in 1860s
A Ladies' Home Journal writer lauds Sophie Holmes, a Black woman first hired by Gen. Spinner as a temporary charwoman. In April 1862 she discovered a package of thousand dollar notes, guarded the treasure and alerted Spinner who then appointed her matron in the blue division. The amount in the package is reported as thirty thousand to seven hundred thousand dollars.
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Treasury Department
Ladies’ Home Journal
Sophie Holmes
Gen. Spinner
United States
Treasury
Carnegie's 60 Cent Debt Sparks Gentle Roar at St Andrews
The St Andrews Golf Club bulletin board in Westchester listed Andrew Carnegie for 60 cents owed for incidental club fees. The New York Tribune notes Carnegie laughed it off after returning from Scotland, confirming the barbed rule that members must pay such small debts within the contracting month or face posting alongside others.
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Andrew Carnegie
St. Andrews
Westchester
New York Tribune
Steel Tmuater
Carnegie
Bonnie Stotland
Bulletin Board
Poaching Methods Described On Adirondack Streams And Sturgeon
The article details poachers using a stick and hook to snag trout in New York streams, harming sport by catching wary fish. It also notes sturgeon hunting along Detroit River and Lake Superior inflows, with divers failing to reach 200 feet due to equipment limits and dangers.
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Adirondacks
New York
Detroit River
Lake Superior
New York Times
Fieberman
Alaska farming capacity and Danish agricultural leadership
Alaska offers a potential 10 000 square miles for cultivation and attracts interest in farming viability. Denmark tops per capita agricultural investment with an average capital of 5595 dollars per inhabitant.
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Alaska
Denmark
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Nanee
W. A. Anderson
Midway
Co-Operative Store
GBAIN
PoreKs
Logal
Louis Miller
Grand Harbor
First National Bank
Miss Whiting
Perth
T. A. Haslam
A. J. Cogswell
Twin Cities
Bell
Co- Operative
B.S Estes
St. Paul Fur Coat
F. W. Mann & Son
John Cain
Bisbee
J. F. Chapman
K. of P. Lodge
Rocky Mountain
C. W. Greene
Tom Maloney
Cleveland Township
XIX Century Club
Hail
Stoner
Grand Forks
Hodgkinson’s Drug Store
Rockford
Co-Operative
C.A. Grow
Charley
Cando
Eastern Star
Pedro
Masonic Hall
Charley White
Wm. H. Reid
Minnie Jamieson
Frank Pitcher
H. Elliott
Elliott
John W. Maher
Ray Rice
Ray
Farmer
Edmore
Madison Medicine Co
Haslam
Willson Kaley
Chamberlain
Greene’s Drug Store
Horsman
North Dakota
Johnson
A. Haslam
Gee. Rodenbach
Bernice Kelley
Crary
Dora Kane
Brainard & Co’s
Harry van Liew
Minot
Martha Prindeville
Minneapolis
T. A. Jaslam’s
F. W. Pearson
New York Nine Insurance Company
Pierson
Lion Coffee
Pecknecaares Nalform
New
Kovel
Sinai
Mount Sinai
Persia
India
Philotaces Electric
Staty Centa
East Aero
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