Dick Paulding Begins Banking Career in Pettis Debt Case
Dick Paulding starts at the bottom of the financial ladder to collect a $200,000 debt from eccentric magnate Hiram Pettis and courts Eleanor Pettis. The mission leads Dick to Europe and ends with a marriage arranged by Pettis and his daughter. The couple learns the debt was a matchmaking ruse to bring them together and test Dick’s business mettle.
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Peter Paulding
Dick Paulding
Bos
Hiram Yettis
Tie
Pettis
Peter
Pettus, Pinkerton & Permain
Tiram Pettl
Dilek
Milinnaire
Eleanor Pettis
Ian
Tick
North Pole
Hiram Pettis
Europe
Eleanor
Frienus
Earth
Paiva
Fon
Paradise
Lick
Paulding
Peter Pauldings
Mme
Nick
A Gift Time Thought by a Kansas City Times quipster
A brief, wry exchange contrasts mood and fortune with a pessimist vowing to stop grumbling and an optimist noting how many poorer relatives he has. The line captures a quick humor beat about relative wealth and perspective.
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Tye
Kansas City Times
Said What He Meant.
A visitor drops a penny to a boy named Jamie in a bunk and asks what he plays. The boy responds with a demand for more as a worried parent and dame react in the scene featuring Chicace Trilmaine.
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Jamie
Dame
Papa
Chicace Trilmaine
Good News From Freeport on Doan's Kidney Pills
Freeport readers report relief from back pain via Doan's Kidney Pills. Jerry Driscoll of 156 Cherry Street credits the pills for alleviating backache, improved kidney secretions, and restored health after visiting Emmett's drug store. Price 50 cents, Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo is sole agent for the United States. Remember the name Doan's.
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Freeport
Dean
Jerry Driscoll
Cherry Street
Ill
Emmett
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United
Freeport urged to boost local factories and trade
Merchants and manufacturers in Freeport hear calls to back home industries over distant stores. Speakers emphasize lower prices, local job creation, and investment to attract more factories, with pledges of funds and support from business leaders and farmers.
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Freeport
Chicago
State Street
Middle West
General Assembly
Springfield
J. Fred Smith
Stover Engine Works
Smith
Lancaster
A. J. Stukenberg
Stukenberg
John Bruce
Florence Township
Bruce
William H. Wagner
N. T. Cobb
William G. Krape
Wagner
Ife
Mr. Wagner
Cobb
Krape
W. A. Hance
Stover Manufacturing Company
Invention weighs fly soul on tiny California scale
A California jeweler builds a pocket scale within a watch case to measure the fly’s soul as the weight difference between a living fly and its dead body. The device, by J L Liedler, uses a four million nine hundred thousandth of an ounce per degree and shows a fixed twenty three degree difference.
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California
Fts
J. L. Liedler
Liedler
Indians and publicity drive on St Croix river jam
William Hanley recalls a tale of Indian workers on a tube drive near Taylors Falls. A paddled jam involved six Indians who worked with white men. An inspector urged the group to publicize their names in the paper. A quip about six Indians dead in the paper followed the pause.
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William Hanley
Clanter
St. Croix
Taylors Falls
Frawley
Duluth News-Tribune
Five Brothers and Fifty Years at Cambridge Junction Church
Fifty years after five brothers occupied a pew at St. Michaels church Cambridge Junction Michigan they again shared the same seat to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication. The brothers A B Dewey George Dewey I S Dewey and J W Dewey attended the jubilee with church records kept since 1840 by Francis S Dewey and John W Dewey the present clerk.
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Zoutpansberg
Transkei
Cape Colony
Johannesburg
St. Michaels Church
Cambridge Junction
Mich
A.B. Dewey
George Dewey
IS. Dewey
I.S. Dewey
J. W. Dewey
Francis S. Dewey
John W. Dewey
Visible Music and Kidney Pills Advertisements
A description of an acoustic oscillograph showing a visible musical curve on a screen is given as a new device by Mr Bowron. The ad promotes Pineules for the kidneys as golden globules claimed to purify blood, offering a 30 day trial for $1.00, sold by H J Moogk and P Guenther.
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Bowron
H. J. Moogk
P. Guenther
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Shearer
Hance
Rawleigh
George A. Rogers
F. A. Read
Edward Bengston
Addison Bidwell
Jacob Weiss
M. B. Marvin
Herbert A. Shearer
Kaffir Kraals
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlante
Maternitus
J. Laible
Adams Street
Muscatel
Japan
Burrell Brothers
Stephenson St
Stephenson County
Baltimore
Choice
California Times
C. G. Schoeffel
Kansas City
Grand , Canyon
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa
Geo. T. Guunip
Gen
Adams Si
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