Maber family bids Blairsville farewell to Indiana trip
Charlee Mabon and his wife and three children leave Blairsville for a farm in Nebraska owned by Mabon's brother. A large crowd gathered to wish them well as they rode a trolley toward Indiana for the Masonic Judge meeting. Several Blairsville residents attended and reported a good time. Edward Woodruff traveled to Johnstown on Friday.
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Biafraville
Charlee Mabon
Blairsville
Fian
Jefton Tusedey
Au Ors Hama Fiten County
Neb
Jesse Lintner
J. T. Davis
C. A. Simina
J C. Neabitt
Harry Wiggins
C. F. McGarvey
Harry P. Rhoads
Harry D. Condron
George Wilkinson
K. ©. McAbes
Edward Phillipa
J A. Stokes
CL M, Henry
J& C Gowers
Indiana
Tu Wises
Clarine Marshall
Stella M. Tgan
Elmer T .Taylor
W. &. Turner
Blairsvile
Edward C. Woodruff
Johnstown
Hog price soars in Pittsburg markets
Pittsburg reports the famed $11 hog price briefly topped by an $11.05 hog as local traders note hogs now fetch higher values than Civil War era levels. Separate items: Morristown boy, William Shepherd, 14, shoots and kills his stepfather Jerry McManus after seeing his mother beaten. In Athens a Sandy Creek mine near 209 experiences two gas explosions with no injuries but 400 workers await layoff for at least a month.
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Morristown
William Shepherd
Jerry McManus
Rockledge
Tha
McManus
Athens
Sandy Creek
Land Hunger in Cities and the Farm Appeal
The American public shows increasing land hunger driven by city living costs and job insecurity. Readers are drawn by ads promising quick farming success, even as much of the literature inflates results. Authorities urge caution, study, and professional advice to avoid ruinous investments.
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Rifles
Geographic Oddities of the United States and Places Within
A Boston Globe piece outlines curious U.S. geography events. It notes vast counties Custer Montana and San Bernardino California, a Bristol County Rhode Island small in area, four states meeting near Durango Colorado, Harpers Ferry views into Maryland Virginia and West Virginia, California’s Mount Whitney and Death Valley as extremes, and Yellowstone’s two oceans effect where watershed divides split rivers toward Atlantic and Pacific.
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Verna
Union
Texas
Chicago
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Custer County
Mont
San Bernardino County
Cal
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Delaware
New Jersey
Bristol County
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Colo
Commonwealths
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Utah
New Mexico
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Harpers Ferry
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Virginia
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California
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Death Valley
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Yellowstone Park
Continental Divide
Atlantic
Pacific
Boston Globe
Poison Trees and their deadly reach across worlds
A Sydney Natural History Society talk by A Meston describes the Erythrophlocum Jaboucheri known as the poison tree found only in Queensland and western Africa. The tree yields hard distinctive timber and poisonous beans that killed livestock and affected people, with anecdotal notes on its use and dangers.
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Africa
Sydney Natural History Society
A. Meston
Pork Peninsula
Chill_goe company
Jardine Brothers
Cape York
Gulf
Lucrezia Borgia
Juliet
Romeo
London Standard
Making the Choir Sing in a City Church
The article recalls a minister’s clash with a wayward choir. Dr Samuel West resolved a dispute by ordering the singers to begin with the second verse of a hymn and proclaimed that those who refused to sing never knew God. The hymn was sung as directed.
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Samuel West
West
Milkman jokes about full bottles in Women’s Home Companion
A humorous exchange features Mrs. Youngbride-Mrs. Smith asking why her milk bottles lack cream. The Milkman explains he is too honest, filling bottles to the brim so there is no room for cream, in a light domestic anecdote from the Women’s Home Companion.
Reluctant Candidate Declines Nomination in German Town
In a German town a lone candidate declares himself for nomination but refuses to accept. The scene ends with the candidate stepping down after three times being solicited, amid odd miscommunications and a crowd outside. A separate vignette from St Louis shows a fox terrier feared mad, then defused when a bystander reveals the foam is from a cream puff.
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Uttichu
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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