Marrying Squire of Brazil Indiana Ends Marrying Record
George FE Law, Justice of the Peace at 134 Franklin St Brazil Indiana, renowned as the "Marrying Squire," notes he married more couples than any Indiana official. He wrote in 1906 endorsing Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain and sleep, and on January 6 1909 confirmed recommending the remedy to others since first using it.
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George FE. Law
Justice of the Peace
Franklin St
Brazil
Ind
Squire
Indiana
Judge Law
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Bankers Wife and the Peanut Stand Jests Highlight Stage, Cartoons
A collection of humorous vignettes opens with a boastful eastern banker's wife who calls for “my husband’s bank” on the trolley. A tramp candidly retorts “my old woman’s peanut stand” and the line echoes as a comic refrain. The page also recalls stage blunders, editor quarrels, a wildfire tale, and a Wisconsin couple’s turn to Postum, praising new ideas for health and happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Well- Ville
Government experiments cut coal mine deaths and dust risk
A U S Geological Survey station in Pittsburgh advances safety steps to cut mine fatalities. It reports that safety explosives are unsafe and dust explosions occur without gas present, prompting standardization and rescue training for miners and operators nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Geological Survey
Pittsburg
Mononah
West Virginia
Hanna
Wyoming
Marianna
Pennsylvania
Sas
Une Une
No Royal Road to Education Warns Against Easy Learning
The Herald cites President Eliot and President Fliot urging higher standards in public and private schools. It argues education results from student effort, condemns bargain education, and warns there is no royal road to true learning, stressing the cost in effort and consequences of mediocrity.
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Fliot
Suffragette Chrystal Macmillan Defines Women as Persons
London suffragette Chrystal Macmillan argues that the legal sense of the word person should include women. She traces the word’s history from Latin persona to actor’s mask, through its ecclesiastical use, to its current broad meaning as any body. She notes women’ s desire to be counted as persons under franchise law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Butler
Chrystal Macmillan
London
Electric Fish of the Nile
The electric fish of the Nile possess a body wide electrical organ. It lies in the skin and comprises millions of disks arranged in connected compartments with nerve terminals. A forceful current runs from head to tail, stunning small fish with up to 200 volts in an eight inch specimen.
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Nile
Western Canada's Splendid Crop Yield for 1908
A Canadian agricultural census reports strong harvests across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It notes wheat and oats values, settler letters praising homesteads near rail lines, climate, schools, and new roads, with emphasis on Alberta’s growth and opportunities for settlers from the United States.
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Department of Agbculine
Ogawa
Canada
Wester Canadia
Manlio
Saskatchewan
Central Canada
United States
Oscar J. King
Kitmenton
Alberta
King
Melannes
Detroit
Michigan
Pradele
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lNoy
Chicago
Horce Greeley
Ben Franklin
Horace Greeley
Punkinville
F. L
Atlanta Constitution
Bulletin Win
Mine
Possible
Charles Kingeley
The
Western Canada
Tory Reports
France
Saint Martin
Uinor
Tannls Guigo
Joseph
Alexandre
Pierre
Louis
Vincent
Jean Andre
Gabriel
Guigo
Cuticura
Miss Ann Poursons
Northfield
Dee
Potter Dt & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Moston
Kavanagh
John
Son
Boston
Milwaukee
Northwest
Pickands, Brown & Company
Colby-Abbott Bidy
Milwaukee, Wis
Sloan
Miment
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
U.S. A
Mayer
George
Martha Washington
F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dodds
Gare
Caden Colle
Pac
Ofl
Wisconsin
Union
New York States
Emperor Willan Oat
Salzer
Ccm
Timothy
Palser
Coliore
Bey
John A. Salzer
Compan
Ewe Crosse
Wis
Hides, mUey Woot
Ion Bergman
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