Carrying Mail Routes Opened For Individual Carriers
Postmaster General official visits Edgefield to discuss letting South Carolina star routes be carried directly by individual contractors. Bids due December 1 1903 for July 1 1904 to June 30 1908 service with personal supervision required. Details include box and satchel delivery rules schedules and bond requirements for multiple routes and distances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Burr
Deteral
Edgefield
Bruopson
Bigefield
Post Office Department
United States
South Carolina
Ropers
Chavis
Velma
Meeting Street
Elmwood
Waycross
Fond
Cold Springs
Franklin
Edgefeld
Tula
Cleora
Rehoboth
Parksville
Pleasant Lane
Delphi
Cogburn
Smigley
Johnston
Bond
Augusta
Poverty Air and Vardys
Lenoir
Woodlawn
Morgan
Bone
Prescott
Madock
Colliers
Meckies
N.O
Fafa
Clarks Will
Self
Pirona
McKendree
Kimwood
ROOT WASHERS AND VEGETABLE WASHER DEPICTED
The article describes low cost root washers using a kerosene barrel in a frame with two openings to rinse potatoes and roots efficiently. A second device shows a circular cylinder with jars and ends cut out for easy turning to clean vegetables quickly. It also mentions a tub or half barrel setup and includes a humorous hen story and farm machinery care tips followed by a note on Russian playing cards as an imperial monopoly and soldiers discarding cards before battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Ohio Valley
Jewel Street Mexico A Bracelet Tale of Jealousy and Death
The well known Jewel Street in Mexico City derives its name from a gold bracelet set with precious stones made for Isabel de la Garside y Tovar. Her husband, Senor Alonso Fernandez de Bobadilla, suspects infidelity after reading a letter from a trusted friend Raoul de Tara. He shadows Isabel, confronts her, and upon finding her with the bracelet he fatally stabs her. The murder and betrayal lead all to tragedy as both bodies are found and the husband retreats to a monastery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Isabel de la Garside Y Tovar
Mexico
Senor
Alonso Sernandez de Bobadilla
Senor Fernandez
Senor Raoul de Tara
Dolla Isabel
Dofia Isabel
Isabel
Alonso Fernandez de Bobadilla
Elihu Root Reflects on City Life and Soil
Secretary of War Elihu Root, returning to Clinton, Oneida County, urged balance between urban progress and rural roots at a So ny Sons of Oneida dinner. He warned city life sharpens minds yet strains nerves and moral fiber, advocating a return to the soil and a pigeon as a symbol over Franklin’s eagle. He contrasted urban and rural character and urged preservation of our old life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elihu Root
Jas
Clinton
Oneida County
Society of the Sons of Oneida
Savoy
Naional
Oneida
Ben Franklin
Sun
Codfish Balls and Grocer's Weighing Troubles
Household recipes describe mixing shredded codfish with mashed potatoes, seasoning with milk and butter, shaping into small balls, coating in egg and bread crumbs, then frying in deep fat. The piece ends with a note that dishonest grocers rarely correct weigh errors.
A Cavalryman and His Bathing Auditors Tale
A Philadelphia Telegram item recounts a cavalryman’s quarrel with auditors over bath expenses. It includes a humorous anecdote testing horse endurance in Kansas City and a child’s funeral play scene on Lamonte street, Manayunk with a doll’s wake in a black box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamonte Street
Manayunk
Philadelphia Telegram
Quiet confession by Willie on drive with Mr Speedway
In a New Orleans Times-Democrat piece a cautious mother asks Willie if he thanked Mr Speedway for driving him. Willie whispers yes but says he was told not to mention it. He also boasts to his sister about tricking a fellow who insulted her style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludwig Stieda
Germany
Ile
Trof. Stieda
Willie
Mr. Speedway
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mary
James
Tilrits
Inconveniently Long and a Patchwork Teaser
A Philadelphia ledger anecdote recalls a funeral sermon that stretched long enough to worry an undertaker. A string of humorous vignettes follows, from a button saving a marriage to a comically tragic telegram about a missing son, ending with a witticism about jokes.
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Cobb
Farrand
J. A. Holland
S. C
Philadelphia
Broadway
J. B. White
G. W. Shackeford
Sam
W. J. Rutherford
Morris
W. J. Rutherford & Co
Reynolds and
Washington Streets
Georgia
Babcock
Masury
H. H. Coskery
Broad St
Augusta, Ga
David Slusky
Augusta Ga
Gouther Hilway
W.A. Torn
S.h.hazowice
W. H. Tayzos
Washington, D.C
Jewel Street
Pumas Kivdasn
Wasiiliston
Congress
Kansas City
Tew
Boardman
Philadelphia Ledger
Ite
Jules
Becaus
Kilmer
Bristol
Lombard Tran Works & Supply
Cc Augusta
P. Mi. Whitman
7Th Street
Iit
Thedfort
Changoga Medicine Co
Marwan
Ark
Cope of Orisis
James Vich
SCHS
Rochester
New York
Caren Cut
Pris
U.S. and
Forden
Mattog
Freg
Swift & CO
Pitt
Carolton
jGood Denim
Iladies
Furniture ‘Department
Jane
Mer
Olor
D Street
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