Giant Granville drum and its town memory survive
A long, lively feature describes a colossal drum built in Granville with a head from a whole hide, shipped to the Pacific, exhibited in Boston where a collapse ruined the display, and how the drum became local legend. It covers drum production details, from heads to the peeler machine, plus notes on the region’s manufacturing minutiae.
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Grenville
Mase
Granvils
Granville
Boston
Pacific Coast
The Famous Graph Family Tele- Phono- Photo- Auto Bio
A Detroit Free Press item previews a humorously titled family album niche titled The Famous Graph Family with notes on marriage, style, and witty lines about women and relationships. It references Rose Melville and a Green Book Album.
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Detroit Free Press
Rose Melville
Some Day City Improvement Vision Uttered In Rhetorical Plea
A speaker envisions a cleaner city with better management of tenements and fumigation, prohibition of wallpaper in apartments, and higher standards for playgrounds and public buildings. The speaker imagines reduced graft and a universally improved civic life, urging collective effort toward these hopes.
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United States
Appointment of Leo Cawker as City Poundkeeper
The article reports Fred W. Luening announcing the appointment of Miss Leogpeanin? as City Poundkeeper for 90 days emergency then subject to Civil Service Board rulings. Miss Cawker has long served for animals and accepts the post at a salary of $50 a month, amid social society considerations and no other applicants.
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Mil Joy Paiy
Waukes
Fred W. Zuening
Mias Leo
I. Cawker
Civil Service Board
Pointed Paragraphs and Parables in Everyday Life
A collection of wry maxims on money memory and social behavior. It notes that the value of a dollar shifts with direction of movement and that a good memory means forgetting unpleasant things. It jokes about typewriters, marriage, and a cabinetmaker transforming new furniture to look aged.
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Chicago News
Fragmentary Sage Advice and Odd Evening Query
A scratched collection of aphorisms on law, manners, and imagination contrasts with a child’s bedtime question. The text mixes wry observations on marriage, vanity, and authority with a playful exchange where a mother helps her child count to sleep, ending with a puzzled query about trillions.
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Wille
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