Youth news kids publish Bud paper in Springfield
The Bud, a tiny weekly by Benjamin G. Garner Aiden H. Hosterman and Hazel D. Hosterman of Springfield, earns Washington second class mail status but faces delivery troubles as carriers fail and weather disrupts routes. The column highlights young experiences from Jack Pierce to Dorothy Bruce and ends with a tender poem about a three year old sister who catches colds from drafts.
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Benjamin G. Garner
Aiden H. Hosterman
Hazel D. Hosterman
Springfield
Che Bud
Washington
Ius
Jack Pierce
Neva Kissel
Berth Pierce
Kate Staley
Dorothy Bruce
Helen
Marguerite Alley
Johnny Boffenbarger
Robert Traine
An Old Pigpen and Remarkable Tiny Watch
A Canadian farmer’s pigs fell forty five feet into a deep oil-wit h hole on his land. Two piglets were rescued after a month of daily corn feeding. A Geneva workshop produced a world’s smallest watch with 100 parts and valued at 1250 dollars. Other notes cover bottle drift experiments and a five year old’s letter about his growing puppy.
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Geneva
Western Australia
The Loss of the Swan and a Whale Towing
A first mate's account from Lloyd's Register details the brig Swan, a Liverpool trader under Captain Streeter, attacked off the African coast. A drunken shore party is slain, 400 natives board, the brig is towed by a whale that hooks the anchor, and the ship is damaged and abandoned with only one survivor, the narrator, rescued by a French ship at Brest.
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C. B. Lewis
Lloyd's Register
Swan
Benyin
Streeter
Liberia
Hottentots
Brest
The Face of a Bishop and the Bank Loan
A tale from Bishop Whipple's era recounts a bank loan given to rescue his stepson in New Mexico. A mother’s dream predicted the dire need, the cashier granted $500 on the bishop’s face and word, and the loan was repaid when the bishop returned home.
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Whipple
Bishop Whipple
Cornelia Whipple
Faribault
Minn
Church of God
Deceptive Theory About Cheaper Living Sparks Alarm
Opie Read’s Chicago American tale highlights a marriage prank inspired by a claim that a couple can live cheaper together. It contrasts foolish budgeting ideas with real costs from a boarding house and ends noting Massachusetts’ mining rumor and local thrillers from South Boston to New Bedford.
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Opie
Chicago American
Passing of the Bouquet in New York Fashions
New York florists regret the bouquet's decline as a common style beyond weddings. Women wear flowers less, debutantes drop bouquets, and informal afternoon receptions reduce floral displays. Florists still sell flowers but bouquet making may fade into a lost art, with violets remaining common and table decorations the florist’s focus.
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New York
New York Sun
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Masachusetts
J. Telford
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Ford & Stewart
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J Wood Clark
Farmers’ Bank
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Indiana
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C. Wateor
Frank Keener
YyAtson & Keener
Deposit Bank
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Elkin
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John Hipieroe
Attorney-Atlaw
J. M. Cunningham Building
Indiana, Ps
John. Bane
Ldee Peelor
George 1. Feit
Peelor & Feit
Eir Care
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John 3. Fisher
Cunningham
Langham
Farmers Bank
John L. Garry
Hianee
Avid Blair
Philadelphia Atreat
Indiana House
John Houer
Thia Hotel
American
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Proprie
Cannon House
W. H. Crawsor
First Plaza
Booma
L. Moorhead
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B. Buterbaugh
N. F. Ehrenfeld
South Sixth Street
A. Crossman
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Farmers
James H.st.clair
South Street
Rowe College
Johnstown
Penn
D. I. Rowe
Orphan's Court
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Ambrose Pickles
John F. Thompson
Blacklick Township
W. M. Mahan
John E. Pierce
Christena Bell
Lowman
Cash Clothing CO
Shields
M. H. Wilson
Hetrick Bros., Proprietors
Lockard
Indiana, Penn’a
Model Flouring Mill
Rossmayne Flouring Mills
Frantz Bros
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