Notice and Order for Issue of $25,000 School Bonds
Navajo County Arizona Board of Supervisors announces public sale of 25 bonds in Snowflake District No. 5. Bonds total 25000 dollars, 6 percent interest, 40 year term, redeemable after 10 years. Sealed bids due January 7, 1918, at 10 am in Holbrook Court House with $22000 certified check. bid at par plus accrued interest. Publication in Holbrook News for five consecutive weeks starting late November 1917.
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Navajo County
State of Arizona
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Arizona
Navajo
Court House
Holbrook
A. D
R. C. Creswell
Puritan Was Early Riser In Boston Bell Traditions
A Boston Transcript summary describes how New England curfew bells marked the day from colonial times. It explains shifts from eight to nine in morning and nine at night, with later insertions of noon bells for merchants and town meetings.
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Massachusetts
Boston Transcript
Boston
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Rome
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Novel surgical device for esophageal stricture relief
A New York physician describes an early diagnostic and treatment aid for malignant esophageal strictures. The method uses a washed intestinal bag shaped over a rubber tube to form a swallowable container, filled with bismuth to outline the stricture on X rays.
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Goldfish Books and a Literary Mix Up
A reader, famed for broad literary tastes, seeks a book on goldfish at a shop. The clerk misidentifies the request, thinking she wants Goldsmith's works, highlighting the humorous clash between high culture and a quirky shopping moment from the Indianapolis News.
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Indianapolis News
Fine workmanship praised on baseball field layout
The Woman's Home Companion columnist H. Cloudy lauds the meticulous design of a baseball field noting how the distance from home plate to first is precise and the play sequence from fielding to throw to the waiting unit depends on minimal delays. The piece implies umpire discretion hinges on steady execution.
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When Not Under Control Golf Gossip
A light exchange casts doubt on perfect command of voice and sleep talk. The dialogue shifts to golf, with a quip that golf is not an old man's game but a sport an older man wishes he had embraced earlier.
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A Complete Education and Underground Eels
A Complete Education recounts a family legacy of college breeding and literary culture tracing seven generations with references to Agassiz Holmes Longfellow and Hawthorne. Underground Eels describes a farm well experiment where eels surfaced in a water hole and streamed toward the coast with several weighing up to six pounds.
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Longfellow
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Bos 1
Tar South
Boyd
Are Composers Short Lived and Deaf Musicians Noted
A survey notes that many famed composers suffered from physical infirmities and shortened lifespans. It cites deaths ages 33 to 57 and mentions Beethoven becoming deaf before death, with Baek, Haydn, and Händel living longer. It also alludes to sources of Spanish law and classical influences on legal systems.
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Sehuann
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
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