Mutual Insurance By HOMER LEE WARREN
Jacob Fletcher and wife Mary, long married, face distrust after a life policy is taken out. Insurer’s agent sows temptation. fear of murder and phantom threats lead to paranoia. A fall in the pond reveals both insured and insurer are unprotected, ending in mutual realization that neither is insured.
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Mutual Insurance
Homer Lee Warren
Jacob Fletcher
Mary
Jie
Fletcher
Iin
Hper
Jacob
Lenard
Ajay
Mary Fletcher
Jake
Sure Pay Life Insurance Company
Licensing Ribbons and Banned Hats in European Cities
The note surveys odd by laws in London Lucerne and Vienna. London restricts beer casks by hour. Lucerne bans hats over eighteen inches and requires a 75 cent annual license for ribbons or artificial adornments. Vienna enforces a strict cycling code with proficiency certificates and mandatory police photographs for cyclists, who must wear a brass number on the bicycle.
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London
Lucerne
Vienna
Europe
Teaching Business as Practical Training Shift
A Detroit News Tribune excerpt notes a fifty year merchant believed business could not be learned in schools. Today high volumes and modern methods force practical training in shops and schools, replacing old apprenticeship. The piece argues that offices, stores, and factories demand on the job learning rather than classroom instruction.
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Detroit News
Tribune
The Nagging Habit Destroying Home Comfort
A moral essay warns against continual nagging and sarcastic speech that wounds others. It notes nagging grows unconsciously, damages relationships, and drives people away. It urges guarding speech, choosing kindness, and avoiding petty barbs. The piece cites a journal quote about speech revealing character.
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Vatuau
Milwarkee Journal
Marked For Death A Wichita Doctor’s Faith Tale
Dr Shults a Wichita veteran recounts a near death at a Washington area hospital. He notes the hospital laundry’s nightly ritual of delivering clean undergarments to dying patients. A nurse placed clean clothes by his bed and Ella Chase prayed with him, daughter of Salmon P. Chase. He survived the night and the clothes were removed in the morning.
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Shults
Wichita
Washington
Mr. Shutts
Ella Chase
Kate Chase Sprague
Salmon P. Chase
the Treasury
Kansas City Journal
Prejudiced professor jokes about marriage bias in class
A Columbia English professor George Rice Carpenter tells students to read themes. A classmate asks his view on the topic of girls from American cities. He replies that by marriage he is hopelessly prejudiced, a Bos ton-born wife influencing his view. The note appears in the New York Times. Also notes on a hosiery novelty of paper stockings, priced at 14 cents a pair, promising easier laundry and postponed matrimony.
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George Rice Carpenter
Columbia University
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
New York
New York Times
Mexican Herald
East African progress reshapes daily life under German rule
The text notes dramatic changes among the black population in German East Africa with adoption of European goods and customs. It cites use of plates, cups, glasses, saucers, spoons, knives, umbrellas, and occasionally clocks, along with soap and kerosene. Markets show tea with sugar, women wear European dress, and men use sewing machines even inland.
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East Africa
Benson's Plasters Promise Quick Relief For Ailments
Benson's Plasters claim rapid comfort for coughs colds aches pains and rheumatic limb trouble. The ad asserts they speed relief with a strong sales pitch urging genuine product from Seabury Johnson and shipping prepaid in the United States for 25 cents each.
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Benson’s
Benton
United States
Seabury & Johnson, Mig
Chemists
N.Y
Grant, Swinburne, and a house by the station tale
A fragmented 19th century note recounts Robert Grant facing a street change near his house to aid railway access. It mentions compensation fears, then shifts to a Swinburne anecdote about coastal trips and a poetic record praising his lifelong love of swimming and the sea.
Oldest American organ to travel from Portsmouth chapel to Boston
The organ in the State Street Episcopal chapel Portsmouth N E is claimed to be America’s oldest and will be shown in Boston. Brought from London in 1713, it stood in King’s Chapel Boston where Benjamin Franklin played it. Sold to Newburyport about eighty years later, it was bought in 1836 by Rev. Dr. Charles Burroughs and given to the Portsmouth chapel.
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State Street Episcopal Church
Portsmouth
N.el
America
Boston
London
King’s Chapel
Benjamin Franklin
Newburyport
Charles Burroughs
Ambiguous Acreage Notes Near Indiana Region
Fragmentary land descriptions list 86 acres two miles east of Indians and 124 acres three miles south of Indiana, with 108 acres fourteen miles south and 160 acres two miles north of an unnamed reference point. Details are incomplete for precise location or ownership.
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Indiana
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A. &. Richardson
Piaco
Robert Grant
University
Coftezotte
Anntaire
Sitys R. Ta
Ilway Company
Grant
Aburne
Swinming
Mr. Swinhurve
California
Call and Sea Us
Farmers’ Bank Building
Clymer Manufacturing Co
Philadelphia Street
Rowe College
Johnstown
PENNA
Jiplat
Mos
Estey
Court House
Work & Son
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Frantz Bros
Rossmoyne, Indiana CO
Pennsylvania
Aaa
Ea la Tt
McFarland & Turner
I. McFarland, Smith & MacCartney
A. L. Smith
Colymer Manufacturing
Philadelphia St
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John B. Taylor
Ieee A. Pe
North Dakota
Jroom
Genter
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