Swift and Wood's halfpence coinage controversy in Ireland
A historical report recalls Jonathan Swift’s opposition to Wood’s halfpence in Ireland around 200 years ago. The British government settled on a reduced coinage, Lord Carteret mediated, a probe offered a reward for the Drupler letters author, and Swift challenged tyranny as the grand jury rejected the printer, leaving the coin never circulating in Ireland.
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Wood
Ireland
Great Britain
Jonathan Swift
St. Patrick’s
Cuba
Esire
Treland
Swift
Fem
Pierre
Carteret Wes
Leutenaant
Superstition stirlings to the owl in tenero
fragmentary OCR yields a garbled note mentioning superstition, stirlings, and an owl with unclear context. No identifiable persons, places, or events are readable to anchor a factual summary.
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Stirlings
Owl
Fie
Tenorance
Inek
Erlang
T Teen
The Owl as a Farmer’s Ally in Nighttime Hunts
The article extols the owl as a beneficial, nocturnal hunter that aids agriculture by controlling harmful rodents. It notes owls emerge at dusk, hunt through the night, and retreat at dawn, with keen eyes enabling precise strikes on mice and other pests.
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Los Angeles Times
Gleaning, Bells, and Puffins in Rural Parish Life
Gleaners pay a penny to the bell ringer as the harvest bell rings at 9 pm and 5 pm in some parishes near London. A puffin is described as a burrowing, fiercely biting bird that digs holes up to four feet deep to find food, maintaining its numbers on lonely rookeries despite other fowl being culled.
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London
Philadelphia Ledger
Broad Arrow Mark Used on British Government Stores
The broad arrow marks British government stores to identify public property and impose penalties on possession of marked goods. It originated under Henry, viscount Sydney, and was used by the Ordnance department from 1698 to 1702 and later in the ordnance survey to denote measurement points.
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Henry
Viscount of Sydney
Earl of Romney
Minster General of Ordnance
British Ordnance Survey
Tactless Banter Sparks Guess About Age
A humorous exchange unfolds with Miss G asking about age and a man guessing thirty five. The woman counters that the guess is ten years off, prompting playful insistence that he could not be forty five.
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Miss G
T. Mi
Sear Indy
Boston Transcript
Public sale at W. W. Sellars farm North Fillmore Ind
Public auction to be held at the W. W. Sellars farm in North Fillmore Indiana on Thursday April 15 1920 starting at 10 30 a m. Items include six black angus cows with calves two yearling steers an Angus bull and more cattle hogs hay oats a corn planter plus six month six percent interest terms on overdue balances and eight percent if unpaid at maturity. Auctioneers will conduct the sale with dinner served by the Methodist Church Ladies Aid.
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W. W
Ladies’ Aid of Methodist Church
Fillmore
Classified Ads and Local Notices
A collection of local classified items listing farms for trade for city property, farm and household goods for sale, a household auction notice, a repair shop ad, egg sales from E R O Hair Fillmore Ind, job ad for a girl, vacuum cleaner rental, mortgage exemption notices, and contacts including Brown and Moffett O Hair Putnam Electric Herbert Gentry J Rector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown &Moffett
City
Herbert Gentry
East Hanna Street
O. J. Rector
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Opera House
A. Cook
Mgr
Albert E. Smith
Earl Williams
Vitagraph
Bulls Eye Film Company
Gale Henry
Sfiam and
Herald
Dean Swift
Certainteed
Certain-teed Products Corporation
St. Louis
Vine Street
England
Hay Ieee Y
Drugoests
Seller & Bain
J. Rector and
Albert Hunter
Kemp
Ind
Putnam Electric Company
E. R. O'Hair
Fillmore, Ind
Harris
Court House
County Recorder
O, T, Elis
HURST
Greencastle
Department of
Shoes Paint Stores
Rugsires
Gent
Hurst & CO
Via
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Indiana
Hliness
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
T. WH
Indianapolis
Central National Bank
Hutchinson Bros
Hamrick Station
Foster Wimmers
Bainbridge
J. S. Case Thrashing Machine Products
Jess
Roy Ford
N. Jack
J. I. Case
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