Commissioner Sale of Real Estate in Putnam County Indiana
Public notice of a court ordered commissioners sale in Greencastle Indiana facing multiple parcels totaling about 187.50 acres. Bids are cash with staggered payments and mortgage security, offered in parcels or as whole. Also auction of municipal bonds of Clinton Parke and Putnam counties. Sale date December 19 1914 at 10 30 a m. The executor is William B Vestal with legal counsel Allee James Allee and Hays Murphy.
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Putnam Cirspit Court
Howig Rightsell
James Right
Court House
Greencastle
Putnam County
Indiana
Section 15
North Range
Issid Tract
Township 12
Eel River
William B
Vestal
Allee, James & Allee
Missioner
Samuel Rightsell
Clinton, Tromery
Parke
William B. Vestal
Hays & Murphy
Dream of a Home in the Village
Miss Lucretia clings to a lifelong dream of a home while Jim Kaylor returns after years apart. He reveals he never married and offers a future together, rekindling hope that her longing for a settled life may finally be fulfilled.
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Miss Lucretia
Jeanette
Jim Kaylor
Lucretia
Jim
West
John Hill
John
Ares
Barber Shops and Trades Across Regions Compared
A reading lists 54,491 barber shops with regional counts: 1 New England 427 in the Middle Atlantic 805 in the Central 5,908 in the Western and 5,738 in the Southern States. The text questions whether barbering as a craft is widespread or declining across regions.
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New England
Middle Atlantic
Central
Not Disinterested A Massachusetts Professor
A Massachusetts professor voices a tough view on beef cuts and nutrition, comparing the nourishment of choice cuts to literary or dental industry concerns, with a hint of irony about a factory or publication in New York. The piece mirrors a period style on appetite and commerce.
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Massachusetts
New York
Six Thousand Mile Motorboat Race to End at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
The New York to San Francisco motorboat race begins October 1 1915 at Sea Gate New York from the Atlantic Yacht Club. It covers routes via Charleston Key West Cuba Caribbean Colon Panama Canal Panama northward to Cor into Salina Cruz and San Pedro then ends in San Francisco Bay during the International Yacht Regatta. The event aims for a $10 000 prize offered by the Panama Pacific Exposition and draws hundreds of thousands of spectators at the finish. The route highlights San Francisco Bay as a premier yachting harbor and the Exposition Yacht Harbor as safe anchorage.
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New York
San Francisco
Sea Gate
Atlantic Yacht Club
Exposition Yacht Harbor
Exposition Grounds
Charleston
Key West
Cuba
Caribbean Sea
Colon
Panama Canal
Panama
Corinto
Nicaragua
Salina Cruz
Mexico
San Pedro
Cal
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate
Mount ‘Tamalpa
Pioneers of Trick Photography in Early Film That Wowed Audiences
An exploration of early cinema tricks and stop and substitution, detailing how fake accidents used dummy limbs and toy models to create convincing illusion. Highlighted are Robert W. Paul and a famed forty-foot train wreck scene using life-size model cars.
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Charles W. Collins
Green Book
Alexis Carrell
Glaebarlatanium
Robert W. Paul
Violin Maker Seeks Arizona Plant For Fine Instruments
Chicago expert W C Stenger says high quality violins require specific wood, curing, and oil finishes. He believes dry high altitude air aids oil hardening and plans to locate a Tucson plant, citing Cremona Italy as a parallel for famed violin making.
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W. C. Stenger
Chicago
Stenger
Arizona
Tucson
Cremona
Italy
Chicago justice of the peace suggests dropping word obey in marriage rites
Mrs. C. W. McCulloch of Chicago told a reporter she will omit the word obey from marriage ceremonies as “meaningless” in modern times. She said obedience is for animals and likened the idea of endless love to a belligerent husband eight years after a wedding.
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C. W. McCulloch
Chicago
Justice of the Peace
Gracious! Children at play in back and front rooms
Quoted exchanges describe children at play in a household with boys in the back room playing "Teddy with his big stick" and girls in the front room playing "The Daughters of the Revolution" amid lively remarks.
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Teddy
Daughters of the Revolution
White Doctors and Savage Minds in Strand Tales
Mrs F Rowling a medical missionary in Gayaza Uganda shares tales from Strand Magazine on patients faith in white medicine. She notes natives take whatever drug is offered and often prefer topical application to swallowing pills illustrating a curious cultural trait. A woman with ear pain swallowed pills then tried to drop them in her ear and another attempted to sniff them up her nostrils.
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F. Rowling
Gayaza
Uganda
Strand Magazine
Dogs as Working Companions in Germany and England
The piece notes dachshunds as favored and useful in Germany, with English bulldogs and fox terriers varying in popularity. It mentions dogs harnessed to four wheeled trucks, often pulled by a man and a dog, sometimes overburdened and exhausted. It observes dogs in streets are mongrel mastiff types, generally well treated. It references affection for Poms and King Charles spaniels among German ladies and English sisters at home.
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Germany
Charleses
The Price of Progress and a Grand Clock in St Petersburg
The British Medical Journal notes modern diseases from calcium carbide fumes and aniline dye use along with caisson disease and telegrapher's cramp as industrial hazards. It also cites a remarkable clock in St Petersburg showing global times and celestial cycles across many calendars.
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British Medical Journal
St. Petersburg
Russia
Lassie the Dog Guides Schoolgirl Home by Voice Over Phone
The Scotch collie Lassie protects and escorts 12 year old Miss Margaret Simmons after her telephoned summons. Lassie recognizes her mistress voice, barks to attract attention, and leads the girl home from a friend’s house each evening.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lassie
Margaret Simmons
The
Telephone Review
Margaret
Miss Margaret
Hungry Feeling Art Critic Exchange
The artist defends the work saying LT put feelings into the picture and the critic counters with a scrambled egg like sky. The artist questions what the critic implies while defending the emotional backstory of the painting.
Not a Serious Objection in a Puck Quip
A witty dialogue features a young man and a rich widow as they discuss marriage. The widow notes age, and the man jokes that their married life will hasten his aging. The exchange captures a light humorous tone from Puck.
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Puck
Notice to non residents in Putnam divorce case
In the Putnam Circuit Court Grace Summers sues George Summers for divorce as a non resident defendant. The defendant must appear January 11, 1915 at Greencastle Court House or demur. failure to do so will foreclose from answering. Clerk Arthur J. Hamrick notes the filing and attorney William M. Sutherlin. St Weekly Nov. 20th.
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Putnam Circuit Court
Grace Summers
George Summers
William M. Sutherlin
Indiana
Greencastle
A. D
Arthur J. Hamrick
Atty
Mothers Favorite Endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Mrs. Verne Shaffer of Vandergrift Pennsylvania says she gives Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to her children for colds and coughs and finds it always helps, superior to other medicines. She recommends others try it. For sale by all dealers.
Notice of Final Settlement of Minetta Taylor Estate
Creditors heirs and legatees of Minetta Taylor deceased must appear in Putnam Circuit Court at Greencastle Indiana on December 7 1914 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares. Clerk Arthur J Hamrick November 1 1914. St SD Nov 20.
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Minetta Taylor
Putnam Circuit Court
Greencastle
Indiana
Arthur J. Hamrick
St SD
Mollie Sillery
Notice of Final Settlement of Estate in Putnam County
Notice to heirs and legatees of Mollie Sillery deceased to appear in Putnam Circuit Court at Greencastle Indiana on December 15 to show proof of heirship and receive distributive shares as of November 19 1914. Arthur J Hamrick Clerk Putnam Circuit Court November 27 8thly
W. W. Tucker Physician and Surgeon in Greencastle Ind
Dr W W Tucker practices medicine and surgery from an office on Vine Street between Washington and Walnut in Greencastle Indiana.
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Bence
South Vine Street
Greencastle, Ind
Vine Street
Washington and
Welnut St
Greencastle
Ind
W. M. McGaughey
Evans’ Block
South Jackson Street
Bloomington
Seminary Streets
Mrs McClain Praises Croup Remedy For Son Ray
Mrs W R McClain of Blairsville Pa says Chamberlains Cough Remedy relieves croup quickly and is a positive cure. She keeps it in the house and recommends it for this trouble. available from all dealers.
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Army of Barbers
Proto
J- Waters & Cos
Exposition
Eternity
Savage
Medicine
DOG
DR. O. Ps. Overstreet
W. W. Tucker
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