Public notices from Putnam County Indiana 1923
Probate notice appoints Ebenezer Quinnette as administrator of Hulda J. Cummings estate noting insolvency. Also Greencastle notices fix public improvement assessments and remonstrance hearing date for Johnson Street property owners with assessment roll on file at city clerk.
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Circuit Court
Putnam County
State of
Indiana
Hulda J. Cummings
Johnson Street
Greencastle
Common Council
City
Charles H. Zeis
Gwin Ensign
Jefferson Township
Through the Gilad Eyes of 2 Woman excerpt note
A short excerpt notes that marriage cannot transform a dud man into a responsible husband. The writer Jane Doe argues matrimony lacks alchemy to redeem a rake or cad into a stable partner. The opinion appears in a reflective passage about romantic ideals.
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2 Woman
Jane Doe
Estimating Special School Fund and Tuition Funds Levy
A 1923 town financial summary outlines proposed levies for Special School Fund and Tuition Fund, detailing expenditures for repairs, supplies, teacher pay, and ground ice. It lists totals raised by taxation, balances, and the number of polls, with tax appeal deadlines and collection figures.
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Legal Service
Will Clean Biggest Flag With Vacuum Machine
The world's largest free hanging flag, 87 feet wide and 70 feet four inches long, will soon be cleaned in the Post Office department court using a vacuum cleaner. Previously washed by dry cleaning, the wool banner will have its dust whisked away as workers tackle the immense fabric.
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Postal Department
Post Office Department
School Bank Is Successful in Seattle
Seattle children saved 65 000 dollars in three months under the public school savings bank plan that began March 23 000 students have deposited money Supt Thomas R Cole says. The first day average was 56 cents per depositor and over three months the average grew to 2 62. The savings plan will continue with the start of next school year.
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Seattle
Wash
Thomas R. Cole
Tongue slips become quip as meat man jokes
A New Haven meat dealer dismisses an accidental tongue slip with a light remark, calling it merely a lapsus linguae as bystanders share a brief, wry moment.
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New Haven Evening Register
Must Command Sympathy Nations And Their Neighbors
A concise reflection on how nations gain power through the sympathy of their neighbors, quoting Bovee. The passage emphasizes the moral and social leverage of public sentiment in international relations.
Belief in Devils Among Fiji Natives
The Fiji natives hold strong beliefs in ghosts or devils, citing rock indentations that resemble footprints as proof. They describe devils as good or bad, with one island native recalling a white bearded, harmless devil who roams at night to take plantains, likely mistaking an old goat for a spirit.
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Fiji
New York Tribune
Curious Spanish Walking Stick Betrothal Custom
A young man courting a senorita in parts of Spain visits the parents for three consecutive days at the same hour. On the final call he leaves his walking stick, and if he is to win the bride the cane is returned to him at the next visit, signaling accepted suitor status.
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Spain
Coal Burning Requires Vast Air Amount
The article explains that carbon is the main element in coal and that to burn one pound of pure carbon 11.6 pounds of pure air are needed. It uses a thought experiment of a column one inch square extending 40 miles high to illustrate the air quantity, noting a pound of coal would form a column one inch by three feet.
Figures Show Country's Growth Bank Deposits Rise
A New York City bank today holds deposits exceeding twenty one times the total deposits of all city banks in 1547. In 1847 New York banks totaled 28 million dollars in deposits with 11 million in specie and about 7 million in circulation.
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New York City
New York
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R. A. Ogg
Fred W. Thomas Corporation
Thomas Building
Herald Office
Fillmore
Ira Nichols
The
Herald
Farrow
Duroes
Russell Cooper
R. G
Los
Overland
Ladies Aid
Union Chapel Church
Morton
Lowis B. Cowgill
E. Frenklin St
Central
Yee
Total Road Fund
Poper Een Irae
Tee
Stew Eee
Levy
Townsnid
Ted Tess
Cebit Caves
State Board of Tax Commissioners
State Board
G. E
Ogles
Butcher
Opera House
A. Cook
Mer
Rosemary Theby
Metro
Daniel Carson Goodman
Can Mason
Plumeater
Pop Tuttle
J. E. McCurry
West Side Square
Greencastle Ind
R. P. Mullins
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