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Newspaper
Hartford Republican
Location
Hartford, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
8
The article outlines seasonal road-usage rules, specifying load limits per wheel for wagons and vehicles with tires of various widths. It explains weight distribution on axles, caps limits at 500 pounds per inch of tire width for tires up to 2 inches, and 400 pounds per additional inch for wider tires, urging public cooperation to protect roads.
Acme Lodges hosted a taritorical review of local Masonry during the Monday gathering. Rough River Lodge elected officers for a three year term with McDowell A Fogle as trustee. The Maccabees banquet featured many members and guests with toasts. Woodmen of the World honored graves on Thanksgiving. Obituaries note Irish born Jamies Farrell, head of United States Steel, and reflections on his wartime travels and Lusitania anecdotes.
An attendant at a baggage counter questions a traveler named Pat. The name seems obliterated, prompting Pat to insist the true name is O'Brien. A brief exchange unfolds, reflecting a humorous misprint or misreading in the bag check.
Farm for sale featuring 278 acres with 414 miles from Princeton Ky and 2 miles from Scottsburg. One third level one third rolling one third hill with a good five room dwelling two tenant houses a tobacco barn and hard water on 3 acres. Located on a public road terms easy or trade for small farm or city property. Apply at The Republican Office.
Hazard Kentucky December 4 In addition to a large Kentucky River Coal Corporation deal with its allied Stag Coal Company of Virginia the Swift Coal and Timber Company entered Carrs Fork district taking up valuable tracts including John T Horn lands El Whittaker lands and others totaling over 1000 acres The Kentucky River Coal Corporation has bought out the Ben Stacy lands on Lotts Creek about 400 acres all under lease with No 4 enamel For Sale Good 120 acre farm on Rough River west of Hartford 60 acres in cultivation and 60 acres woodland Improved Apply Tinsley and Barnett Hartford Kentucky Beaver Dam Department December 6 Mr and Mrs Charlie Williams were guests of Mrs J F Alford and family Sunday Mr Claude Shults spent last weekend at his home near Narrows Miss Myrtle Park was the guest of Miss Elin McKenney last Saturday night Mr and Mrs Burso Jones gave a Thanksgiving dinner in honor of Mrs Jones mother Mrs Westerfield of Denver Colorado A very enjoyable evening was spent at a party given by the boys at the opera house Monday evening Miss Fannie Plener was the guest of Mr and Mrs Morgan James last week Some interesting bucketball games are expected as a result of the organization of teams in the Baptist and Methodist Sunday Schools recently Business Scholarship We have for sale a scholarship good for a complete course in either Bookkeeping and Accounting or Stenographers Course in the Owensboro Business and Educational College For particulars apply at Kupabifean office.
Majoga N J and Jobo B Mill ar watch a trolley go by when a sudden explosive flash wounds Mill ar's eye. Physicians remove glass fragments and puzzle why a sunray from a windshield or headlight reflection caused the lacerations and heat.
Territorial and private gold pieces circulated in Georgia California Oregon and Colorado in the 1840s to 1860s as a convenient exchange medium. A Denver firm’s private mint prompted Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase to push a law, enacted in 1864, to end private coinage after a Gruber story highlighted early counterfeit concerns.
A fragment from London Telegraph recounts Han Dyck visiting Frans Hals, urging a two hour portrait done hastily. Hals starts, impressing Van Dyck who swaps roles, then Van Dyck astonishes all with his own painting, earning chorus of praise that “You are Van Dyck.”
A survey notes that nominees often declined. In November 1847 the Abel faction held a New York convention nominating John P. Tate for President and Leicester King for Vice President. Hale declined, ticket abandoned. The Free Soil Democrats nominated Hale in Pittsburgh, who won 156,140 votes across twenty states.
The piece surveys police epithets such as copper peeler bobby and notes their origins. It cites the officer who cops people, the term copper from the force founder Sir Robert Peel, and mentions a backward spelling origin as well as Dundee slang snout from helmet style.
A masked policeman interposed between two young men after a fight. One, bleeding from the nose, pointed at the other and declared the latter could name a person if he wished. The other refused to speak.
The article notes that early earth expanded rapidly through meteoric matter accretion and that this process continues at a slow pace today, with an estimated annual addition of about 130,000 tons.
A fragmented OCR snippet from Detroit News press text shows a strange exchange about conduct and faith. Phrases mention avoiding politics or religion and going to church, with garbled quotes and a brief allusion to deserved behavior and patient bearing.
War dispatches claim the Teutonic Allies have reached Targoviste and driven Romanians toward the rail line near Titu while Bucharest is said to have fallen. Greece and Romania face upheaval as Central Powers hold western rail links and Athens reports unrest in the capital. Separate ad copy promotes a combined Christmas subscription offer from Youth's Companion and McCall's Magazine.
In elections held across Fall River Haverhill Leominster and Taunton dry forces won four new supporters while license advocates failed to swing towns. New Bedford stayed wet by a reduced margin Holyoke and Springfield remained wet and nearby cities largely held their positions.
New Orleans area report notes J W C Hart of the Lone Star Confederate Veterans claims hundreds of Civil War widows or heirs receive pensions. He says girls aged fifteen or sixteen seek veterans for pensions that will extend to the year 2000. Hart cites Confederate records bureau and says Washington officials withhold information.
European critics accuse the United States of greed and sentimentality over war gains. The World argues Americans did not seek fortune from Europe’s calamity and would forego any benefit to end bloodshed. It stresses that prosperity arose only after disruption and that the nation remains empathetic to stricken peoples.
A teacher prompts pupils to name the wicked seed sower in the parable of the tares. One student answers by referencing his mother, citing a familiar phrase as the lesson turns to a personal anecdote. A rough note mentions a Hart property for sale at 260 dollars.
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