Application for Liquor License in Ferdinand Indiana
A male citizen of twenty one seeks license from Dubois County Commissioners at the February 1908 term to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in a 24 by 30 foot room on Lot 18 Barkman addition Ferdinand fronting Ohio Street for one year with privilege to serve luncheons and confection in accordance with the act licensing intoxicating liquors.
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Ferdinand
Board of Commissioners
Dubois County
Indiana
Barknan
Towit
Ohio Street
Ferdinand Township
State of
From Jest to Harnest in a Bohemia of Love
In a staged romantic scheme at a lakeside hotel Ralph Dewey contrives an engagement test among three women. Alice White and Captain Aymer fall in love for real after a prank, while Hildegarde Aymer’s plot collapses as true affection blooms. Dewey abandons the ruse and is left alone with unrequited plans.
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Pierce Trevor
Ralph Dewey
Dewey
Alice White
Alice
Trevor
Hildegarde Aymer
Mary Bell
Hildegarde
Kent
Mr. Dewey
Kate
Miss Bell
Ralph
Miss White
Captain Kent
Misa White
Rebbe
War Department
Aymer
Alicé
Jove
Sister Mine
Tie
Shia
Miss
Dealing in Short Weights Across Local Markets
The chief of the Bureau of Weights and Measures describes widespread fraud in weights and measures by butchers, grocers, fish peddlers, poul try dealers, coal dealers, and department stores. Scales are tampered with by adjusting dials, adding under-pan fats, or using tickets to hide short weighings, with customers rarely noting or prosecuting.
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Bureau of Weights and Measures
Thought Reading in the House of Commons Anecdote
Stuart Cumberland recounts a thought reading with Mr. Gladstone in the smoking room. Gladstone starts with 5 but shifts to 6 due to leap year, and Cumberland confirms the change. He then notes Joseph Chamberlain’s tobacco habit interrupted the test, but later the experiment finishes.
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Stuart Cumberland
Mr. Gladstone
House of Commons
Cumberland
Joseph Chamberlain
Mr. Chamberlain
Millionaire Palaces on Fifth Avenue Redefined Market
The article notes Fifth Avenue mansions have become standard merchandise for speculators. It cites builders shifting from $30,000 to $41,000 homes to speculative $400,000 to $600,000 mansions in six years, with buyers purchasing sight unseen. It questions whether buyers crave the idea or the prestige of living on America’s premier residential thoroughfare.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
America
Magasine
Mary and Robert confront a changing romance in art circle
Mary hosts Robert in her Bohemian studio where she speaks of love, art, and a free living with a writer friend. Robert confesses a six year silent love for Mary, while she hints she may not be the only woman on his mind. This encounter reveals longing, ambition, and a clash between conventional life and artistic independence.
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Mary
Bohemia
Mapleton
Robert
Turna
Robert Nearing
Gilbert
Brother
Sbe
Ted Hartley
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Jowan L. Bretz
John K. Chappell
Petersburg
Dubois
Pike
Dist
Henry Landgrebe
Bainbridge Township
Cass Township
August Remke
Henry B. Dall
Cory
Ots Sas
Cate
Ted
Elenor Frost
Elenor
Eienor
Grace
Meg
Kapsas
Harnest
Fernes
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