Notable Notables and a Night of Politics and Wit
A garbled 18th century vignette recalls the Estates General and the French Revolution, detailing the third estate’s march to a national assembly amid noble contempt. It also recounts John Bright’s anecdote about a hostess and a rug, illustrating candid political repartee at a dinner.
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Witabiog
Yersailles
Lowe
Stiles
National Assembly
Revolution
New York American
John Bright
John
Weddings Tie Blairsville Pair In Early 1911 Ceremonies
Miss Jennie Lucile Boon of Blairsville and Audley B. Hamilton, formerly of Blairsville now in the South, wed at the bride’s brother-in-law and sister’s home. The couple plan to reside at Cedar Creek Tennessee. Clarence Moore of Johnstown and Ora M Skinner of Smicksburg were married January 18 1911 by Rev J W Cary at the Methodist Episcopal Parsonage on Church Street.
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Jennie Lucile Boon
Bilairsville
Audley B. Hamilton
M. R. Kyle
Stanton
Kentucky
Blairsville
Cedar Creek
Tennessee
Clarence Moore
Johnstown
Ora M. Skinner
Smicksburg
J. W. Cary
Methodist Episcopal Church
Church Street
For Sale A Steel Tire Runabout No 1 Condition
For sale a steel tire runabout in No 1 condition cheap to quick buyer inquiry J R Wettling Also for sale or Kens Jona Rt Stumpf property corner at Severit sand School streets inquire J W Mack Marshall building Oden
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Eighth Street
T. L. Edwards
Marshall Building
Reznor Gas
Progress
J. R. Wettling
Kens-Jona Rt
Severit Sand School Streets
J. W. Mack
Marshall
Oden
Wanted representative in Indiana county for Renewal line
Wanted a representative in Indiana county to sell Renewal Varnish and Renewal Cleanser. New legitimate articles in demand. Used by all. A profitable business can be quickly established. Small capital required. Vaceed Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Pittsburg, Pa. WOT & Ss.
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Indiana County
Vaceed Manufacturing Co., Ltd
Pittsburg
WOT & Ss
Found pair of nose glasses near Post Office
About three weeks ago a pair of nose glasses in a case with a small chain attached was found in front of the Post Office. The owner can claim them at the Gazette office by paying 20 cents for this notice.
Lost Pur item between cemetery and station
Pur item lost between the Catholic cemetery on Water street and the B R & P station. Finder please leave at the Gazette office.
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Water Street
Gazette Office
Bonds To Be Redeemed By Greenwich Coal & Coke Co
Four hundred ninety six six per cent First Mortgage Bonds issued by Greenwich Coal and Coke Company will be redeemed at par value plus accrued interest. Redemption occurs April 1, 1911, at the offices of The Savings & Trust Company of Indiana, Pennsylvania, as trustee. Interest on bonds called for redemption will cease on that date.
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Greenwich Coal & Coke Company
Hambers
Savibxs & Trust Company
Ind
Ama
Pennsylygnia
Fragmentary Local News Snippet
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Fer LaGrinpe Cou and Stulty Colds with unclear events. Names like Keke Ful Hoey and Ver igins Quok appear mid text alongside incomplete phrases about selling or distributing something.
The Curious Electric Eel Discovery
The electric eel of Brazil streams possesses a renatural electric battery. Beneath the skin are longitudinal electric organs with bundles near the back and near the tail. These cells number in the hundreds and are richly supplied with nerves. In action the organ acts like a powerful galvanic battery with a positive interior and negative posterior, discharging at a control point. Chemical compounds are decomposed and magnetized effects observed.
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Brazil
Venice
The Roman Forum and Its Rise in Ancient Rome
The Forum started as a market and slowly became Rome's political center by 470 BC. It housed assemblies for tribes and grew with temples and public buildings. It was famed as the heart of ancient life and the source of early laws that governed the known world for centuries.
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Bacame
Acropolis
Athousome
Raising Chickens Disaster Spellbinds Suburban Family
A suburban man returns home to find his wife in tears after a kitchen mishap with a new autowork device, while a chaotic scene unfolds with a duck incubator claiming a dramatic explosion and chickens escaping through the roof. A global bird swarm anecdote from South Africa is noted as a remarkable night viewed as the world’s most astonishing sight, with thousands of birds densely packed in a living blanket-like mass.
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Martha
Chicago News
South Africa
Pleasant Farowsti minister announces departure from Vermont church
A local minister, amid tensions in Sisqua town, announces his departure after community conflicts. He states he will pursue a new path, claiming the devil has power over him as he leaves the town church.
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Arpanet
Missed Signals From Home Front Messages
Fragmentary wartime telegram style chatter shows a mother asking about a son’s safe return and a daughter describing changes at home, including a mustache. The garbled text hints at concern for a loved one’s status while referencing a possible military service context.
Fragmented OCR: Local Page Teases Unclear Item
Readable text fragments describe a local page item with vague details. Key specifics such as names, places, dates, or outcomes are not discernible from the available OCR. The record preserves only partial context of a probable community brief.
Dramatic Wheeling Trial Interruption Over Poison Claims
Mrs. Laura Mainsworth Schenk’s trial in Wheeling sees a sudden collapse in court as defense vows to summon every local doctor and druggist to testify about poison, while physicians insist arsenic or lead poisoning caused the husband’s illness. The judge restricts courtroom access to women amid the tense proceedings.
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Cour
Wheeling
W Va
Tan
Laura Mainsworth Sehenk
Schenk
R. Drinkard
O'Brien
J. Jd. P. O'Brien
Anornsy
Tandlan
George A. Coleman
JB. Moulet
University , Virginia
Foreigner killer arrests two tormentors in Freeland salon
In Freeland a crowd taunted by a foreigner led to a deadly ambush as Hewelton and Paydun, both 19, faced assailants leaving a salon. One man, Ignace Sicchio, fled in rage and firearm was used to strike two tormented men, killing them. Police reports from Washington and Meadville describe other local accidents and injuries.
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Hewelton
Paydun
Avengine Jocwlar
Freeland
Ignace Sicchio
Allen
Chinaman’s death pact and ancestral beliefs in crime tale
A fragmentary passage discusses a Chinaman driven to kill himself on his enemy’s premises to avenge anger and the belief that ancestral spirits will seek ongoing vengeance. It notes fears of officials cracking down under such circumstances and mentions harsh stereotypes about Chinese poverty and rites, as cited in National Geographic Magazine.
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Kenneth &. Junior
National Geographic Magazine
Testimonial Tale Involving Earl Grey And Self Writ Petition
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Suith recounts a story from his reminiscences about Earl Grey praising a testimonial. Grey discovers the authorial self praise, and Sir Henry explains the joke by saying he wrote it himself. The tale underscores themes of merit and self-endorsement in public service.
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Sir Henry Suith
City of London Police
Earl Grey
Kix Henry Smith
Sir Henry
Eat Grey
Chilton and Watson in West Virginia nominating caucus
A West Virginia Democratic caucus in Charleston nominated Chilton for the long term and Watson to take Senator Davis's seat on the eleventh ballot. Watson led early, reaching forty votes. McGraw of Wheeling was a key rival with twenty-five. Holt and Tierney also drew votes as Chilton led the initial balloting. Justice of the Peace case: Wilkes-Harre man Hastie sentenced for election law violations to indeterminate sentence from one to seven years.
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Charleston
Chilton
Watson
John
Holt
Iuntington
Wuttson
Tierney
Cornwell
McGraw
Bennett
Edimiston
Narhai
Scott
W. OK. Chilton
Fanntes
Daha McGraw
Justice of Peace
Wilkes-Harre
Hastie
Pesce
Thomas McCue
Pittsburg Markets Livestock and Poultry Prices Report
Market bulletins show prices for cattle hogs sheep and poultry across several grades. Bulls cows calves and veal values listed with ranges for prime good fair and common quality, alongside annunciations for stockyard items and regional naming conventions.
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Pittsburg
Butler
Pannevunte
Ohio
WSIS
A Busy Man and the Need for a Receiver
The text contends that when a man's business fails to balance, care for livestock falters, and personal duties suffer, his affairs warrant a temporary receiver. It cites Dallas Love Sharp’s remarks in the Atlante and mentions a college president balancing demanding scholarly duties with personal care and study, lamenting the flood of epoch making books.
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Touker
Dallas Love Sharp
Hugo's Advertising Tactics and City Honors
Hugo drafted his book ads for Notre Dame de Paris and Les Miserables, praising his modern world scope in a note cited by the London Globe. Canterbury records show old city honors granted for service, cures, and marriage, while a New York World piece compares animal kicks, noting camels versus mules in a quirky column.
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Hugo
Victor Hugo
Noveliat
Notre Dame de Paris
London Globe
Hospital Visitor Murmurs About a Motorcar Accident
A visitor at a hospital asks what a surgeon is doing bending over a patient. The surgeon explains the person was struck by a motorcar and poses imply a misstep in a stride of misfortune as the rowdown fooling enders.
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Balgmore Americas
Obicege Beard Herald Quotation Reveals Family Ture
An obituary quote from Herald presents a fragment about Pittsun and a family dispute over a wife’s hats. The readable text hints at dignity and public perception of conduct, with unclear names and relationships. Further context is needed for full clarity.
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Pittsun
Carey
Fragmented query about titles and names in a puzzle style
The text appears to seek guidance on using Dr before a name and after a date variations, with garbled phrases about witches and a public notice style. The readable parts suggest questions about title placement and proper form for names in a noisy historical document fragment.
Field tale of a man digging a hole for a jest
A Rochester Democrat-Chronicle fragment recalls a man in a field with a crooked adoke and a toy, joking about hard work as he digs a hole with a spade. The scene ends with the other man rolling with laughter at the unexpected mischief.
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Tian
Mng
Rochester Democrat-Chronicle
Cannibal Feast Tale From New Guinea Report
An old newspaper fragment recounts a extreme cannibal tale in New Guinea. It describes a ship near Russell Island with captives and looting, a shore party taking prisoners, and natives allegedly eating nearly all the captives except one elderly survivor who later escaped to tell the tale.
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Lan Benetrice Grimmbaw
New Guinea
China
Australia
Sapon
Ruseel
Guinea
Diabe
Imprisonment For Debt in 18th Century Britain
The Dundee Advertiser notes the old debtors prisons in England and Ireland, where in 1759 about 20,000 people were imprisoned for debt. Courts sealed fates over unpaid conts, families suffered, and facilities like infirmaries and baths were absent, sparking reflections on progress.
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England
King's Bench
Marstilses
Borough Compter
Great Britain
Ireland
Dundee Advertiser
How Far Can You See to the Edge of Space
The text discusses human visual limits in old sources. It cites tests using the star Aldor near the Great Bear as a reference and notes Arabs reportedly identifying Jupiter’s moons with the naked eye. It claims Peruvians as the longest sighted people, with Humboldt noting Indians spotting a white-clad figure eighteen miles away, a possible farthest record.
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Jupiter
Arth
Humboldt
Haman
Far Alout
Rector complains pay for Oxford sermon as Henry V joke unfolds
A country rector visiting Oxford complains to Dr Routh that five pounds to preach is inadequate after travel and labor. The professor notes the line as fine but derides the phrase as uncouth and misleading while the composer defensively argues hens have teeth in a humorous exchange sourced from the Chicago News.
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Oxford
Chicago News
Fragmentary OCR reflects comic dialogue in illustrated tale
The readable lines show garbled dialogue about May Nagget, a man, and a married status. The snippet appears from an illustrated piece with dialog, offering little clear narrative or names beyond the misread terms.
The Motions Encey Four Ag Necessary to Remove
Fragmentary text presents unclear statements about motions and removal. The readable parts reference conditions and procedures but lack concrete names dates places or outcomes. Further context is needed to identify the specific event or decision described.
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Mae
Atple
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