Canadian Hare Skin Blankets A North American Craft
A detailed account explains how Canadian hare skins are transformed into seven foot long tubes sewn into a white seven foot square blanket. Indian women craft the warm durable coverings by curling skins into tubes and stitching edges with sinew, yielding light, highly prized bedding, rarely seen outside Canada. An old chief recounts labor and numbers behind a rabbit blanket, illustrating survival and communal skill in winter trapping.
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United States
Canada
Washington Post
Uncertain Shakespeare Facts Sketch Career and Death
The passage questions the certainty of details about Shakespeare. It notes his career likely began around 1589 when he was about twenty six, his retirement in 1616, and suggests a birth year near 1864 with death at age fifty two, reflecting broad scholarly uncertainty.
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York American
Public Library Receives Noted Poet’s Work
A fragmentary notice describes a poet being sent to a public library with Shelley's Prometheus Now referenced, reflecting cultural and poetic interest. The text is incomplete but indicates a literary presentation or donation to a library setting.
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el Far Shelley
English Swords and Their World of Price and Craft
A London factory tour reveals 70 000 swords yearly and steel from Sheffield. Each sword passes 60 to 70 processes, tests, and various price tiers from infantry to royal regalia, including a dusky monarch sword at £80 and Siam orders at £750. Mirage reports from Paris note flamingoes misread as Arab horsemen near a lake.
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London
Sheffield
Toledo
Hussar
Foreign Office
Siam
M. Flammarion
Seine
Paris
Ile
Algiers
Lost Girl at Coney Island Reunited with Care
A small girl lost at Coney Island was sheltered by police until her parents were found. The matron soothed her with a candy cat toy, which she played with all day. The toy later disappeared and the child asked to let it be, saying it had grown dirty.
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Coney Island
Polie
Money Worry
Quote from Brother Williams in the Atlanta Constitution about money as a source of trouble and distrust. The speaker likens money to a rattlesnake, noting confusion and constant risk whether gaining or keeping it, and the disdain that follows either having or giving it away.
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Brother Williams
Atlanta Constitution
Clergyman Aide Announces Afternoon Service Change
A New Jersey village clergyman asked his clerk to notify that no service would occur in the afternoon due to his officiating elsewhere. The clerk, after the service, relayed a garbled notice indicating the change.
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New Jersey
Clercomin
Tami
Beggar’s one leg tale sparks oddities and rail plans
A one legged beggar in New York collected trifles from passersby aided by crutches and a regular patron. Mr White recalls a startling moment when the mendicant unstrapped his leg. The column also notes a wedding, a duchess, and a Paris made to order green soap for celebrities. Southern Railway announces through Pullman service Raleigh to Atlanta with connections via Salisbury and Greensboro.
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New York
Mr White
White
Wal
Rascal
Tramp Seeks Kindness From White Haired Host
A tramp says he walked miles to see a kindly host who was rumored to be generous to men like him. The old man replies with a wry challenge asking the tramp to contradict that rumor as he leaves, then offers a courteous good morning.
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London Express
Glycerine as Medicinal Aid in Golden Medical Discovery
The article extols glycerine used in Dr Merce medicines, praising its nutritive, antiseptic and mucous-relieving properties. It claims glycerine enhances extraction from roots, aids digestion, builds health, and improves lingering coughs and lung ailments, citing Dr Finley Ellingwood. It warns effectiveness varies by condition and cautions against miracles.
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Merce
Finley Ellingwood
Tenenett Med. College
Chicago
RLV
Peres
Muffata
SY. A
Seaboard Train Schedule Details for Durham 1908
Timetable notice effective Sept 13 1908 outlines Durham departures and connections. No. 238 connects at Henderson with No. 38 to Portsmouth Norfolk arriving 5 40 PM with transfers to A C L for Eastern Carolina and Steamship lines to Washington Baltimore Cape Charles New York Boston. No. 241 arrives 4 30 PM No. 221 arrives 10 05 AM and departures listed. Durham Southern No. 41 runs 3 15 PM to Apex 4 25 PM linking to No. 41 and 43 for Charlotte Wilmington Atlanta Birmingham Memphis and West, plus Columbia Savannah Jacksonville and Florida. Contact agents F W Woodward and R L Montgomery or call 11.
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Durham
Henderson
Portsmouth- Norfolk
Weldon
Carolina
Portsmouth-Norfolk
Washington
Baltimore
Cape Charles
New York
Boston
Richmond
Durham & Southern
Apex
Seaboard
Charlotte
Wilmington
Atlanta
Birmingham
Memphis
Columbia
Savannah
Jacksonville
Florida
F. W. Woodward
Union
R. L. Montgomery
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Duke of
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Southern Railway
Raleigh
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Alanta
Greensboro
Salisbury
Asheville
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Cincinnati
Pullman Reservation
Calon
W. H. McClamery
R. H. DeButts
R. L. Vernon
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Charlotte Observer
North Carolina
Observer
the Sunday Observer
Addreva
the Observer CO
Charlotte N C
Mary Irvin
Pam City
Cardus
Junius H. Smith
East Main Street
Durham, N.C
Octa D.jthomas
Ranger
Strong, Vere LE
Dekalb Fence Co
B.ill
Kansas City, MO
Taylor Phipps CO
ANG. Mekly
Gh Mann & Co
Scientific American
Swediss Magazine
Aiman
AddWress
R. C. Peacock
Success Magazine Bldg
Holladay Studio
AIR Line Railway
C. H. Gattis
Leigh, N. C
Durham County Court
Lizzie Smith
Henry M. Smith
Durham County
Durham Recorder
Parham
Court House
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