Relic lamp dealer shifts to new lighting era push
Harvey Lansing, owner of a long standing lamp shop on Race Street, resists modern lighting changes as wholesale shifts to new systems. Calvin Moore of a popular lighting network bores into him with an offer, sparking a dramatic clash that ends with Lansing planning a bold counter move to embrace large scale competition.
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Urope
Plarvey Lansing
Harve
Race Street
Granddad
Harvey
China
Second Street
Lansing
Lamp
Calvin Moore
Moore
Harvey Lansing
Eue
New Light Company
New York
Lansi
Onc Oe
Mr. Moore
Reed
Lewis
Ibination Shiperk
Fragmentary Note from The New Light Booklet
A reader notes a man placing a New Light booklet in his coat pocket before continuing a scene. The excerpt ends with a parenthetical tease: to be continued.
Plucky boy seeks work and school instead of hunger
A small boy named David, almost seven, pleads to work for a merchant to help his crying mother. The merchant tears up at the tale and offers a breakfast, then funds school rather than employment, promising a week of food and clothes for the boy while he studies.
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Maan
David
Roberts
Fredericksburg official seal note from 1919 writ
A 1919 court writ from Fredericksburg Texas closes with an address to a defendant to study hard and be fed, offering a dollar for food and urging not to cry. The document bears the official seal and is dated June 25 1919.
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Fredericksburg
Texas
Debtors Suit Involving Fredericksburg Land Trust
Notice summons D C Mosley of Gillespie County Texas for debt suit filed by Frederic Bx0? Land Company led by Louis Priess Adolph Koennecke Ernst Hohenberger and Alfred Petsch. Case seeks foreclosure on Lot 2 and Lot 3 Block 32 South Heights Frederick after payments defaulted 225 dollars with 7 percent interest and 10 percent attorney fees plus costs. Court at Gillespie County Courthouse Frederick returns not.
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State OF Texas
Gillespie County
Mosley
Texas
Yeur
Gillespie
Fredericksburg
A. D
A.D
Frederic
Louis Priess
Adolph
Albert Hansex Koennecke
Ernst
Herman R. Hohenberger
Alfred P. C. Petsch
D. C. Mosley
South Heights
Frederick Willespie
Jesuit
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Word and Works
Tue
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta, GA
Richard Henke
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N.J
Otto Crenweige
Spahn
San Antonio
Secor Saft
Enone
America
Europe
Kerrville
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