Promoters Use Charity Campaigns to Deceive Investors
W R Morehouse warns that charity fund drives tied to raffles and tickets often divert most proceeds to promoters. In a case selling a new car raffle, the charity received about 26 cents of each dollar while promoters kept 62 cents and 22 cents covered expenses. Similar schemes span woolen mill promotions with false endorsements and fake contracts. Investors should verify facts with bankers before committing funds.
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Public Relations Commission
American Bankers Association
United States
Gavaral
Chamber of Commerce
Imposing Appellation "Singapore" and Its Meaning
The name Singapore, used for the capital of the Straits Settlements in Malayan region, is said to mean lion's town. The origin reflects historical labeling of the island as a stronghold and trading center.
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Singapore
Straits Settlements
Malayan
Gasoline’s Rise From Waste to Principal Petrochemicals
Historical note outlines how gasoline went from a discarded byproduct to a core petroleum product with the advent of the internal combustion engine. It discusses early storage hazards, shifting demand from kerosene to gasoline, and the modern push for engine efficiency and cost reduction.
Sweetness Found in Life’s Little Things
A reflective meditation on finding joy in small moments and simple acts. The piece notes that trouble touches all, but quiet pleasures like a letter, encouragement, a child’s gratitude, or a dog's greeting enrich life. It urges savoring daily kindness despite occasional disappointment.
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The
London Chronicle
Officer's Dignity Cut No Figure With Pat
A veteran recalls a camp moment when Abraham Leginski nicknamed Pat defied formality. The general arrived on horseback to inspect mobilization, Pat steadied the horse and posed the officer for a photo as the company laughed and the general watched.
Sunset over Bab DjJedid described in diary
A vivid desert scene near Bab DjJedid with gold light over arid plains, mauve Trozza and Serdj mountains, and towers under a rosy evening sky. The muezzin’s call to prayer echoing as shepherds feed, from the Diary of Russell Beresford.
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Trozza
Serdj
Russell Beresford
Inventions by Women Highlight Practical Domestic Tools
A single unnamed inventor, a woman, is credited with practical ideas including a matte silverware decurving fork and spoon design to prevent plate snags, a portable desk for travelers, a lock faucet for metal containers, and a needle threader for sewing machines.
Open spaces and the pull of the wild
The Kansas City Times quotes a reflection on primal love for open spaces not filled with buildings. It praises breathing outdoors under stars and moon, drawing inspiration from fields and winds, and the solitude and renewal it offers the individual soul.
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Kansas City Times
Proclamation Posts Warning on Local Property
A Los Angeles sportsperson returning from a fishing trip reports finding a crude proclamation tacked to a tree. It warns trespassers will be prosecuted and mentions two dogs and a double barrel shotgun, phrased with rustic slang.
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Los Angeles
Notus
Bank Robbed Man Shuts Local Drug Store
A seven year old, Robert, reports on a local drug store changing hands and says the owner has “gone bank robbed,” implying the business is out of business. The casual remark frames the humorous misstatement as a disaster for the shop’s fate.
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Robert
Mr. Brown
Buying movement follows early nervousness in ring purchase
A brief market note from New Orleans hints that a buyer has finally decided to purchase the ring, contrasting early trepidation with a firm commitment.
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New Orleans
Times-Picayune
Great Minds Attuned to Nature's Temples
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes nature as a sincere temple where the universal Spirit finds worship in groves mountainsides shores and open spaces. It contrasts nature with artificial needs and cites Socrates Villon Goldsmith Whitman Jesus as figures who connected with the spirit of nature.
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Socrates
Goldsmith
Walt Whitman
Jesus
Cincinnati
Enquirer
Early Friction Match of Primitive Design
A historical note on early friction matches arising from Italy in 1786 with the Portable Fire Box, the Promethean Match by Samuel Jones in 1828, and John Walker of Stockton on Tees credited with the first real friction match in 1826, sold for a shilling or two pence per box.
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Italy
Samuel Jones
John Walker
Stockton-on-Tess
Listen to It Grow on a Warm Spring Day
On the first warm spring day, seek a clump of enlalia. Stand quietly as new shoots push between last year’s stalks and the dead calms crack with a sharp click. The young growth expands swiftly in the spring sunshine until the old wood snaps.
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Nature Magazine
New Yellowstone Geyser Opens Large Stream in Park
A new geyser has appeared in Yellowstone National Park, rapidly becoming one of the world’s largest. It erupts twice daily with a water column about 75 feet high for three hours, with a crater roughly 100 feet by 120 feet by 8 feet deep, near the historic Excelsior geyser which stopped in 1888.
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Yellowstone National Park
Gravitation of Justice Upholds Enduring Institutions
A speech fragment argues that enduring structures must be plumb with justice, comparing earthly gravitation to moral order. It asserts that nations may suffer wrongs and apparent defeats, yet eternal justice aligns with the Throne of God and political systems must reflect this truth.
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God
John PP
Altgeld
Too Late Cecil’s Silent Dinner Remark
A family rule bars Cecil from speaking at dinner if late. He tries to speak but is silenced by his mother. After the meal he reveals his intention to say that baby was filling father’s socks with condensed milk.
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Cecil
One More Letter and ready to go
A father prepares to leave as his daughter offers a last letter she has “undressed” and asks about stamping letters with a coat sleeve in the morning. The fragment hints at routine mail duties and a family scene with playful banter.
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Dad
Reward Offered for Illegal Bounty Collectors
Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Assn offers a one hundred dollar reward to any individual not a regular law officer who helps arrest and convict anyone collecting bounty funds illegally. Ad appears November 4.
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Ilegally
Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Assn
Pope Enters Vatican Prison Protest of 1870
The Pope is described as a voluntary prisoner of the Vatican in a protest against the Quirinal. The act dates to 1870 and frames the pontiff as confined by church limits during the Vatican dispute.
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Vatican
Quirinal
Assyrian Hair and Adornment Customs Describe Ceremonial Styles
Assyrian men wore hair covered with gold powder and gold thread, with curled beards and hair. Eyebrows were painted, while Assyrian women did not curl their hair.
The Better Part Sage of Chinatown Quote
Ail Ho, the sage of Chinatown, warns that one cannot choose good friends but must live worthily so that good friends may choose us. This hopeful reflection appears in a Washington Star quotation.
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Ail Ho
Chinatown
Washington Star
Executive Session Secret in Liberty Magazine
A legislative body holds an executive session from which the general public is excluded, cited in an answered question in Liberty Magazine.
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Liberty Magazine
Reward Offered For Sheep Thief And Camp Robber Convictions
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers association offers a reward of 250 dollars for the conviction of any sheep thief and a reward of 100 dollars for the conviction of any camp robber.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers’ Association
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the Tribune
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Abraham Leginski
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Yellowstone
First National Bank
Bank OF Strength and Service
Land Office
PAP Tna Ago
Pearl I. Smith
Witton
Montana
Curtis H. Glover
Dartmouth College
Hanover, N. H
Pope
Leggat Hotel
Butte
Alex. Leggat
Mer
Lewis & Walker
P.O
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Wyoming
Bette, Mont
Geo. M. Gosman
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Atkeson Dairy
M. Paumie
Galena St
Butte, Mont
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