Blanket Sale At Spec ial Prices From Geo Wyman Co
Geo Wyman & Co offers a large stock of slightly soiled sample blankets at discount July. Items include baby blankets lap robes slumber robes red and white all cotton wool blends in various sizes. White wool blankets priced $5 to $6 now $3.00. Shoppers invited to visit to view the collection and bargains.
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Geo. Wyman & Co
Oliver Hotel
South Bend
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Auditorium Annex
Chicago
Crockery Department Bargains on Fancy China Sets
We offer four tables of sample china from Germany and Austria at about half price. Prices are 25c 50c 75c and 1.00 per item.
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Germany
Austria
Domestic textile ad offers cotton batting and textiles
An advertisement lists cotton batting in various weights and prices from 5c to 15c per roll, antiseptic items, machine rolled batts, Simpsons Silkelines, carpet warp by skein or pound, and Stark's two bushel grain bags with delivery terms.
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Simpsons
Stark
Underwear and Hosiery Sale Notice
Cleaning out summer undergarments and hosiery at deep discounts. Women men and children offered 50c 25c 15c prices, with stockings for 10c and 15c. Encourages customers to visit and shop the stocked items.
Southern Arkansas Lands Ideal for Farming and Stock
Advertises Southern Arkansas as fertile for corn cotton and small grains with porous clay soil and good drainage. Describes 10 months range, stock country, and future crops like clover and alfalfa. Rates announced for Homeseekers booklets on specified dates. E W Labeaume G P and T A Cotton Belt Route St Louis Mo.
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Southern
Arkansas
E. W. Labeaume
G. P
T. A
St. Louis
Clarivoyants Palmist Francis Darnell Opens Elkhart Parlor
Local notice announces Francis Darnell a clairvoyant palmist now at 212 Marion Street Elkhart offering life love and divorce guidance. Readings priced half for seven days with discreet quiet parlors from 9 to 8 30.
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Palmist
Ledium
Elkhart
Marion Street
Francis Darnell
Marjon Street
Saint Francis Valley Lands Offer Rich River Bottom Farms
Francis Valley lands in southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas offer rich river bottom soil for corn wheat oats clover timothy alfalfa fruits and vegetables with big yields and open winters. Lands are cheap now but rising. homeseeker rates listed for August 15 September 5 19 October 3 and 17. Send for St Francis Valley Booklet from E W LaBeaume G P and T A Cotton Belt Route St Louis Mo.
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Missouri
Arkansas
St. Francis Valley
W. Labe
Aume
G. P
T. A
St.Louis
Excursion Routes listed for Niagara Falls and Montreal trip
A brief notice outlines an August 24 excursion visiting Niagara Falls Toronto Alexandria and Montreal via Lake Shore Bay routes. Details emphasize travel by sea and land segments and note key stops along the way.
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Niagara
Falls
Toronto
Alexandria
Bay
Montreal
the Lake
Vast Laguna Dam Plan Near Yuma in California Project
A major irrigation scheme the Laguna dam near Yuma is described as a settling basin to remove sediment for Colorado River irrigation. The Yuma project spans two sides, with main canals 10 and 16 miles long and numerous laterals totaling 182 miles, including extensive drainage works to prevent waterlogging.
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Great West
United States
California
Portland
Laguna
Yuma
Ariz
John Ki. Prince
Los Angeles
United States Geological Survey
Laguna Dam
Sierra Madre Mountains
Colorado
Colorado River
Arizona
Gula
Mexican Boundary Line
Mississippi
Valley
Mesa
Cult of the Child Gains Steam in England
In England the Church Eclectic notes a rising trend of valuing child life among the upper and middle classes. The "cult" of the child appears fashionable, with a tendency to exaggerate little ones sayings and doings, yet the movement is seen as generally in the right direction.
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England
Lfe
Cummins Warns of Peril in Big Trusts and Railways
Iowa Governor A B Cummins warned that national drift toward big trusts and railways threatens the common people. He urged civic virtue and rejected government ownership, urging reform to curb corporate influence and defend impartial government. He cited 210000 miles of rail main track and nearly 14 billion dollars capital, calling for fair regulation and strict ethics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Cummins
Chautauqua
Iowa
Faglls
Iowa Falls
Chicago Record-Herald
Cummins
Odd Cargo For Schooner Henry J Smith To West Africa
A Boston dispatch reports the schooner Henry J Smith leaves for a trading voyage to West Africa with an odd assortment of cargo including phonographs records sewing machines portable house kerosene beer beads jewelry hardware ice cream freezers ice machines stoves corsets and other odds and ends
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Boston
Henry J. Smith
West Africa
Boston Dispatch
New York Tribune
Cure For Lunacy Theatre At Sainte Anne Paris Asylum
A theater for lunatics built at Sainte Anne asylum in Paris features professionals, nurses, and patients acting. Doctors express belief in the therapeutic value of the stage as part of treatment.
Japan’s future empire to include Korea and Manchuria
Walter Wellman reports from Portsmouth that Japan will build a vast future empire across Asia’s mainland with a dominant Sea of Japan, controlling shores and inland provinces. He cites a Japanese Monroe doctrine opposing European moves near the sea and warns of no peace if Russia rejects a treaty.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Portsmouth
N. H
Walter Wellman
Asia
Korea
Manchuria
Siberia
Japan
Sea of Japan
United States
Caribbean Sea
Russia
Rattlesnake Dinner Lighting Up Lincoln Feast
Lincoln man W. J. Smith savored a remarkable rattlesnake menu served at a Bridger mountain camping party near Casper Wyoming celebrating a wedding anniversary of L. B. Ostrander and L. A. Morrison. The feast featured rattlesnake soup breaded rattlesnake pudding and more prepared over greasewood fire.
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Reptile
Lincoln
Neb
W. J. Smith
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
L. B. Ostrander
Billings
Mont
L. A. Morrison
Bridger Mountain
Caspar
Wyo
United States
A Will's Prayer Team Stakes Out Inheritance
John T. O'Conner, a Kansas City stage electrician, must quit the theatrical business and attend mass each Sunday or lose his portion of his father Patrick O'Conner's estate. The will, filed in probate court, leaves 30 000 Victoria copper shares, two Decatur Illinois lots, and the O'Conner home valued at about 35 000 dollars, to be forfeited to other relatives if he refuses the conditions.
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John T. O’connor
Orpheum Theater
Kansas City
Chicago Record-Herald
Patrick O’conner
John T. O’conner
Victoria Copper Mining
Decatur
Ill
O'Conner
O’conner
Mass
Pittsburg Pie Press Turns Out Forty Pies a Minute
A Pittsburg inventor unveils a machine that produces forty pies per minute, or 2,400 an hour, using a press that shapes fruit and flour into uniform, brown crusts. The device promises rapid production as wives have long learned pie making by hand.
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Pittsburg
Walter
Ae Sinclair
Parlor Car Trains Extend Through Service to Indianapolis
Northbound notice: Big Four trains 33 34 41 and 42 include parlor cars to Indianapolis. Trains 41 42, the Winona Flyer, connect at Indianapolis for Cincinnati Terre Haute and St. Louis. Train 38 runs through to Louisville with a Greensburg connection for Cincinnati. G A Henry agent.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Terre Haute
St. Louis
Louisville
Greensburg
G. A. Henry
For Sale At a Bargain Gasoline Overland Runabout
A gasoline Overland runabout in poor condition priced at 600 dollars, offered at half price. Owner has a larger car and invites inquiries at Langdon's Auto Garage on North Main Street.
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Langdon’s
Moni
North Main Street
Haskins Home Made Fried Cakes
Fragmentary OCR reads Haskins Home Made Fried Cakes with unclear context. No further details on event, location, or date available from this snippet.
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Francis Valley Lands
P “ Chichester
Sad
Chichester Cheruteal Ue
Madiaos Square
John W. Kistner
South Main Street
Center Street
A. E. Schuler
Felt’s
Notion Store
Alice H. Horton, M. D
Pratt Areet
Crown
C. M. Dowell
D.D.S
Dalton Bldg
Main Street
Bell Phone
R. Lafranco
Lafranco
Philelphis, Pa
L. A
M.S
Michigan Southern
And
Art
RPAGT
Roatintn
Eik
Auch Khana
Old Road
Air Line
Trhusewes
Grand Rapids
Pacific Express
Buffalo
Elk & Chgo
Toledo & Chic
Lake Shore
Western Express
Sunda
Cleveland
Erie
O. F. Daly
A. J. Smith
A. L
Walt
A. Ee
Benton Harbor
Granger
Goshen Wear
Warsaw
P.m
m.D.m. Renton Harbor
Wabash
Angefsod
Marion
S. C. Barwick
B. F. Kuhn, M.D
G. B. Hoppingarner
Marion St
Bell
Lockwood
James A. Work
Eat
St. Specialtiea—Cnedais Disiag
J.l.hively, D.O
Goodrich
Eyas
P. Turner
South Main St
DR. Spohn
N. E. Cor
Beardsley Ave
J. F. Werner
Deauty
Hagzerty
Sieatx Ave
Wim. Gabel
State St
B. Short
Elkhart. Ls
É. E. Harter
Garster
George N. Schaff
South Third Street
Ali
Hermit Rereedy Co
Bristol
Personett
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