Local Francesville Ads and Notices Highlight Daily Commerce
Clark's Grocery promotes flour price rise and seed potatoes while Star Store advertises oxford shoes. Francesville notices report poultry buyers sought, dairies and farms for sale, new drugstore offerings, and local deaths and illnesses. Diphtheria cases near Nauvoo trigger quarantines. Postmaster hires Carrie Garling. local official A. J. Baughman seeks county seat. obituary for Mrs. Sarah H Folger.
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Star Store
Fred Smallfelt
Francesville
Ind
Burget’s
Clark’s
Clark's
James Hayworth
Lafayette
Burger & Sona
John Coey
Winamac
Grieger’s
Clyde Netherton
Wanted Salesman and Collector for Singer Company
Job ad from Singer Machine Company at 15 West 3rd Street Peru Indiana seeking a salesman and a collector. Contact C. M. Bledsoe with the Ma’gr designation for applications.
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Singer Machine Company
West 3Rd St
Peru
Ind
C. M. Bledsoe
Improved Seed Corn For Sale Note Crabbs Reynolds Taylor
Improved Learning Seed Corn for sale by Crabbs Reynolds Taylor Company advertised offering high quality seed corn. The listing highlights improved seed stock from Crabbs Reynolds Taylor and Associates targeting farmers seeking better yields.
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Crabbs, Reynolds, Taylor Company
Mont Hathaway heads to Chicago and New Orleans on dredging bid
Mont Hathaway left Tuesday for Chicago and New Orleans to confer with coastal parties about a large drainage territory. He aims to secure a major contract for his dredging company.
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Mont Hathaway
Chicago
New Orleans
Mont
Winamac Democrat- Journal
Local Paint Ad Promotes Indiana Indestructible Paint
A printer's advertisement urges buyers to purchase Indiana Indestructible Paint ground in pure linseed oil guaranteed for five years. Dye and Thompson Lumper Co. and DeWitt's Little Early Risers liver pills are also mentioned, sold by Blue.
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Indiana
Dye & Thompson Lumper Co
DeWitt
Blue Front Drug Store
Healing Salve for Burns and Chapped Hands
A healing salve for burns sores sore nipples and chapped hands Cham berlain's Salve is praised for instant burn relief and scar-free healing unless the burn is very severe. Price 25 cents. For sale by City Drug.
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Chamberlain
City Drug Store
Star Store Corset Trial Offer Reads Two-Week Return
American Beauty Corsete advertised with a two week wear test and money back refund if not satisfied. Star Store promotes risk free fashion purchase.
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Star Store
Pointed skulls and head shaping among Malekula natives
A National Geographic writer notes egg shaped heads on Malekula people once seen as inferior. Head conical shaping comes from binding cords around infants with mats, causing distress yet admired. A mother proudly shows the result while a well treated girl later marries a chief.
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Malekula
Hebrides
National Geographic Magazine
Poetry Painting and Furniture in Rossetti Circle
Rossetti urged painting over books and said poetry should inspire art. Morris embraced painting and later furniture making, initially seen as decorative craft under Rossetti influence. Rossetti described Morris' large chairs as Barbarossa era style with backs painted from Morris poems.
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Rossetti
Morris
Barbarossa
Testimony of Eyewitnesses in Snow Drift Exchange
A dialog between two men in the Chicago Tribune recounts exaggerated snow drift claims. The mackintosh man insists drifts were 600 feet high while the cinnamon beard man cites 900 feet depths and locations on a mountain slope and a gorge.
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Chicago Tribune
Pig Bone Bracelets From New Hebrides Pigs
Natives of the New Hebrides in the Pacific raise pigs for bracelets. They remove the upper canine teeth to allow the lower tusks to grow freely, spiraling to long lengths. The tip may circle the root, and a complete pig tooth bracelet becomes a valuable jewel worn on the wrist or hung by a string around the neck.
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New Hebrides
Pacific Ocean
What He Should Say
A south Washington colored preacher ends a long sermon on The Way of the Trans ooh Is Hard. He points to sin and penalty and asks what more to say. A sleepy colored youth in the front pew cries for Amen and to go home.
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South Washington
Washington Stas
How Fear Is Instilled In Children Says Burnham
Clara Louise Burnham argues in Appleton's Monthly that most children are born without fear and that parents and nurses cause fear through anxious reactions. She criticizes dwelling on fear in front of kids and condemns frightening entertainments like Peter Pan’s Captain Hook, noting a child once hid his head asking if the pirates had left.
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Clara Louise Burnham
Appleton’s Monthly
Captain Hook
Peter Pan
Man with presence of mind in balloon incident
Mrs. Jenks questions her husband about unusual presence of mind after reading a Youth's Companion item. He replies calmly that if a man fell from a balloon he would wait to see where he landed while moving to safety. The exchange highlights practical nerve and caution.
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Sarah H Folger
Francesville
William
Barkley Township
Redmond
Horace
Illinois
Mrs. Jenks
Mr. Jenks
Weight of five dollar gold piece compared with one dollar bills
The article explains estimating the weight of a five dollar gold piece against one dollar bills. It notes guesses from 50 to 500 bills, but actual balance shows six and a half one dollar bills equal the weight of a five dollar gold piece, making the ratio close to five to six.
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Francesville Tribune
Judson Fitzpatrick
Tribune
County Recorder
Marion M. Mazwell
Pulaski County
Republican County Convertion
B.G. Oglesby
Wm. Byera
Burget
Lone
Helen
T. W. Kelsey
William Porter
Lady’s and
Vent ’E
F. L
Blue Front
Bertha Hayworth
Crawfordaville
Elizabeth McCoy
George R. Clayton
Fay
Nannie Reed
Monon
Notick
J. R. Hayworth and Co
Bill Street
Samuel Back
South Bend
Thomas McCormick
Reynolds
Valparaiso
Buosiness
Butter and Eggs
Arthur Combs
Cribe
Elgie ZeNers
Nauvoo
Calvin Myers
Carrie Garling
Garling
Sam
A. J Baughman
Baughman
J. W. Burger & Sons
John F. Judy
Judyville, Indiana
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