Local notices and ads from Norwalk area papers
A collage of 1880s era items notes and ads including shoe sales by Philpott's and Davis & Son, visits by Mrs Smith and Miss Rowland, a sewer and water inspector appointment, a maple sugar outlook, entertainment at Oberlin Tabernacle, district I O O F meeting reports, legal notices of divorces and public service payments, and a potential sheriff seizure petition involving C A Cox and John T Brooks with local addresses and dates embedded.
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M M. Smith
Clyde
J. S. Lawrence
CG. W. Anderson
Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms Boy Climbs Tree Liability
In Jackson on February 21 the state supreme court ruled a small boy has an inalienable right to climb trees. A McComb boy touched an electric wire on a tree, was shocked, and his parents sued. The court held the company liable, rejecting the claim it could not anticipate a child would climb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Miss
State Supreme Court
McComb
Supreme Court
Widows’ Pact Leads to Double Change of Life
In Cumberland Pennsylvania Port Matilda a pact between widow Mary Washtacion and widower George McDonald of McDonald’s village led McDonald to marry Mrs Margaret Mery, widow of his late school friend Mars, an engineer killed when his engine overturned. McDonald, 60, and the bride, 24, wed after McDonald cared for the widow and her children.
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Cumberland
Mary
George Washtacion McDonald
Port Matilép
Matt McDonald
Margaret Mery
Mars
McDonald
Mrs Chas Guth Hair Parlor Ad
Mrs Chas Guth offers shampooing facial scalp massage manicure hair dressing and singeing at 12 30 to 4 30 pm on Tuesday and Thursday. Parlor hours and home phone 958 R for appointments. Davis Son advertise Sorosis and John Kelley shoes at sale prices 2 15 6 %
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Sorosis
John Kelley
Davis
Ministers Meet Friday for Action on City Cleanup
City ministers plan a Friday 12 30 meeting at Rev Sara Friday’s study to map a campaign for further temperance action after the council rejected a petition to bar stalls in saloons. They condemn the council move and intend decisive steps possibly leading to a local option vote.
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Sara
Alarm clock fire starter earns early-morning fame
Waterbury Connecticut business figure J Paris, town owl jeweler and first selectman of Tacoma Slon, devises a labor saving alarm clock stove trigger. An alarm clock attached to a string winds a mechanism that opens a stove pipe damper to start a morning blaze. Burns plans to apply for a patent as other merchants hail the invention as genius in zero degree weather.
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Waterbury
J. Paris
TacomaSlon
Burns
Thomaston
Foreman Pleads Guilty to Assault Charge
Jacob Donahue foreman of Hunker Williams sewer contractors appeared before the mayor on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to an assault on Wellington Hicks last Monday noon. He was fined ten dollars and costs totaling about five dollars, which he paid. Hicks arrived late to work and Donahue struck him with a hatchet.
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Jacob Donahue
Fox Hunker & Williams
Wellington Hicks
Fire House 10 to Receive Engine Room Flooring Upgrade
The board of public service will invite bids to install verified parquet flooring in the engine room at the water works power station. Estimated cost about $950. Akron company representative told the board on Wednesday that the flooring should be durable and easy to clean to prevent dust damage to machinery.
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Board of Public Service
Akron Com Peni
Road maintenance guidance stresses drainage and material quality
A New Jersey highway official argues that road wear hinges on drainage and surface material. Proper hard surface, deep enough to bear traffic, prevents wear. good drainage, underdrains, and periodic extra coatings during heavy strains preserve roads and minimize costly repairs. Continuous, section-based oversight improves outcomes.
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Robert A. Meeker
New Jersey
Good Roads Magazine
Traction Dreams vs Real Lines Across Ohio
A Cleveland era debate questions suburban trolley expansion claims. Reports claim Southwestern, Lake Shore Electric, Webb and Birchfield lines, with mergers and buys rumored, but sources say such deals are dreams. Cleveland Southwestern consolidates current properties. Lake Shore has not bought Birchfield and shows no intent to do so.
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Cleveland
Sais Finance
Southwestern
Mansfield
Columbus
Mt. Vernon
Webb
Bucyrus
Birchfield
Shelby Junction
Norwalk
Lake
Ohio
Cleveland & Southwestern
Ohio Central
Lake Shore Electric
Girl Foils Burglar in The Hargreaves Flat
Miss Helen G Fessenden daughter of Samuel Fessenden Stamford Conn state attorney and two time US senate candidate faced a masked burglar in her 72nd street New York apartment. She handed over two dollars after noting no jewels and directed the thief to a fire escape before alerting her father. The intruder fled and hotel staff investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hargreaves
Also Mentioned on This Page
KKK
Wellington
Broom
B. Bridge St
Philpott
S. Dedatt
Tom Potter
Citizen’s Gas & Electric Company
Evangelist Lyon
Oberlin Tabernacle
Davis & Son
G. A. R. Hall
Oberlin
Man
Join Conry
W. Klinkler
Amherst
Thomas Youngs
Sophia Rowland
Elyvia
G. W. Johnson
Philpott’s
The
W. M. Laundon
A E Lord
Philpott's
Wilson J. Haynes
Elyria
Dr. Houghton
James Foley
Heighton Avenue
Henry Slife
C. 8. Martin
Elyria Proom Shop
Bridge Street
E. S Carter
East Bridge Street
England
Mrs Austin
Court of Common Peas
Imre Eros
Hungary
Sebastian Farkas
Charles Illes
Court House
Washington
Wednesay Night
Hennesy & Brother
Price & Hurley
Hunker & Williams
H. B. Mathews
Ferguson & Purcell
John T. Brooks
Court of Common Pleas
Broad Street
C. A. Cox
Elyria Real
Cox
Fried Cares
Conry & Mueller
Ars
Rawson
Hehe
Bell
BOYG
Pengiong
Chas. Guth
Masonic Temple
N. Y
Ues
Biggs & Everard Company
Finance
Prowler
District Court of the United States
Bell Hardware Company
Lorain
Court
Harold Remington
N. B
Co. C. Heffleman
East Broad St
the China Shop
A. F. Burrell
Middle Ave
Smith Bros
Mathew
Smith Sros
Sugar
Gorn
Inc
Japan
Max
Hart
Kiyria
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