Trustee Benjamin Walls Announces Friday Office Hours
Benjamin Walls states he will be at his office in Jackson Jr every Friday to transact business of his office as trustee. He signs the notice with his name.
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Madison Township
Ofison Township
Will Stroube
Mill Creek Fe
Jackson Township
Jackson Jr
Benjamin Walls
Gom
Oliver Stringer
Monroe Township
Bainbridge
Floyd ‘Township
Floyd Fest
Todd
Marion Township
A. Filmore
Simple Mickthorn park remedy shocks local crowd
Local residents report surprising WICK results from a simple remedy sold at Nes Stevens Drug Store. The ad claims a single dose draws foul matter from the body and relieves sour stomach gas and constipation instantly, with Bite in Adler-ika referenced as the German Theory discovered by Jones Stevens Co.
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Mickthorn Park
Adler-ika
Jones-stevens Co
Nes-Stevens Drug Store
How to Bankrupt Doctors
How to Bankrupt Doctors presented with a dubious claim that doctors can be driven out of business by certain remedies. The ad promotes Champlain's Cough Remedy as effective for coughs and colds, praising its safety and wide reputation and urging purchase through dealers.
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New York
Chamain
Texas coal may last only 20 years, warns study
International investigators report the world coal supply could vanish by 2050 while China promises vast future output. United States led 1912 production with 550 million tons, and shifts to remote Arctic and Spitzbergen sites expand the global map of mining.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
International Geological Congress
China
Spitzbergen Island
Advent City
Longyear City
Arctic Coal Company
United States
United States Geological Survey
Civilization
Inventor's Patent Fly Catcher Tale Amid Prison Hall
A New York alienist hears a man in an asylum boast of a patent fly catcher. The scheme involves a parrot cage with dual doors and ladders to trap flies at a marble pedestal, promising riches when the fly falls off a missing rung.
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John H. Girdner
New York
Girdner
John D. Rockefeller
Absent minded Sylvester wears new trousers to lodge
John Sylvester of Hope Lodge creates a stir when his wife, unaware of the purchase, rushes to the hall with a new pair. A lodge brother confirms the sighting as the couple calm and relieved to learn he is well. The item includes a Kipling quip about wit from Rev. George Macdonald and notes England spends 46 million on eggs and poultry with half imported.
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John Sylvester
Hope Lodge
Slyvester
Sylvester
Rudyard Kipling
George B. Macdonald
Macdonald
Mrs. Brown
England
Havre Harbor Improvements and Plans for Brooklyn Basins
Havre harbor upgrades are under review by the New York Dock Department and may influence new tidal basins in South Brooklyn. A $22 million concrete Havre basin project, 1,068 feet wide and with two end basins, will enable handling of large ships and is to be completed in 1918. France plans about $212 million in harbor and navigation works over 56 years, including the Grattiquina Canal, Havre breakwater, and the Seine and Loire dredging as well as the Marseille Medragne dock project costing $2,841,000.
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Paris
Havre
New York Dock Department
Brooklyn
France
Grattiquina
Bordeaux
Seine
Lotre
Ghronde
Marseilles
Royancc de
Cologne Court Finds in Favor of Father Over Half Pass Ticket
A Cologne Court of Appeal ruled in a curious case involving a railway half ticket bought for a son under ten for a Cologne Strasburg return. The boy turned ten during the layover, so the return journey breached the ticket terms, yet the father refused to pay anew and won on appeal.
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Court of Appeal
Cologne
Strasburg
London Globe
Holly Wreath Making Flourishes in Sussex County
Holly wreath production spreads across Sussex County as farmers wives and daughters wrap wreaths for record prices. Starting at 10 cents, some varieties fetch 16 cents amid scarce holly berries. Over 50,000 wreaths have shipped from this area to Western cities, with earnings likely at least $5,000 for local women. Milford correspondence Wilmington Every Evening.
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Sussex County
Milford
Wilmington
Customs of the Mexican girl questioned by El Paso pair
Jerome Horner of El Paso argues common beliefs about Mexican women are mistaken. He says guitars are rare among upper-class women, mantillas are seldom worn on Good Friday, and senoritas do not smoke or regularly attend bullfights.
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Jerome &. Horner
el Paso
Tex
Mantila
Washington Herald
Apple grafting experiment yields fruit in Idaho
In Delta Idaho miners Thomas and Francis Hauck grafted a four year old apple tree limb onto a service berry tree. The grafted limb not only grew but bloomed the next year and produced two yellow apples. The original source tree had never bloomed.
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Delta
Idaho
Thomas
Francis Hauck
Poetic Fragments and Wry Observations in a 19th Century Column
A collection of verse and prose fragments includes lines about women prisoners at Clerkenwell, a London Chronicle note on a bridge bearing, reflections on love and gold, and poems by E Kiser Clinton Scollard and others. The pieces span romantic, labor, and philosophical themes with classical imagery.
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Clerkenwell
London Chronicle
Section Boss Amasses $100000 Farm Fortune
L. M. Wooten, a Birmingham area railroad section boss for 30 years, built a large plantation worth over 100000 dollars. He adopted scientific farming guided by an experimental station, aided by his son, and credits the methods for increasing land value and profits.
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Birmingham
Ala
United States
L. M. Wooten
Lewis’ Turnout
Chester
Wooten
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