Wedding Gift Capers Among Twin Star Cowboys
Raymond’s announcement shocks friends who vow to buy a personal wedding present. Pepper, Tony Goff, and Jink Prose ride to Penfield to pick a gift, debating lamps and risk of offense, then smash a shelf in Farount emporium while paying $46 for broken glass and wares.
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Raymond
Popper
Tony Goff
Emmerett Hodge
Fimmerett Hodge
Tony
Jink
Penfield
Twin Star
Red Spider
Jink Prose
Emmerett
Cox
Winder
Macrchandise
Mr. Pepper
Faroun T Emporium
Wink Prole
Aga Pretty Girl
Prola
Pepper
Mies
Wedding present risk ends in shattered shop and gifts
Jink Prole and companions shop for a wedding present for Emmerett Raymond in a general store, break china and glassware, pay $22 wholesale loss, and the storekeeper accepts $8 more. A girl in the shop encourages mending and gifting the repaired items as the wedding present, revealing Emmerett’s name and sparking a shared resolve among the trio.
Close Call From Death in Manila Bay Storm
Letters from Lester Perkins describe a harrowing night at sea after a 60 foot tug wrecked on a fish trap in Manila Bay. He drifted for 14 hours, clung to a fish trap, fended off a Chinaman and a Filipino woman seeking his life preserver, and was rescued exhausted after ten days in hospital. Perkins, age 21, works at the Manila customs house and is brother to kite expert Samuel I. Perkins.
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S. Perkins
Savin Hill
Lester
Samuel I. Perkins
Young Perkins
Manila Bay
Perkins
Manila
Boston Transcript
End of Vacation Argument in the Garden
In a Sunday garden scene over tea, a married couple debate a “thorough” vacation apart, citing Doc Sawyer. The wife offers to go alone while the husband keeps six children nearby, ending with a mutual "Humph" as a concession reaches a stalemate.
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Doc Sawyer
Humph
William
The Miraculous Pitcher story told by a Portland teacher
A Portland Oregon elementary class hearing the tale of The Miraculous Pitcher prompts the teacher to ask about experiences in small towns. Young Oscar from Seattle answers with enthusiasm, illustrating cross city references as children share travel memories.
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New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Portland
Ore
Oscar
Seattle
Border Story Highlights Cross Border Turmoil
A Boston Traveler item recalls a Border incident where an American wounded across the line is identified as Patrick O'Ryan y Vasquez. He is described as armed to the teeth when taken to safety, and quips about being "American enough to shoot" and "Mexican enough to miss or shoot."
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Southwest
Patrick O'Ryan Y Vasquez
Boston
Spooning Spots Jerome 8 McWade Seeks Fresh Air Fund
Duluth phil anthropist Jerome McWade paused in an eloquent appeal for a fresh-air fund to tell a story. He recalls a country-weeker questioned on his return about countryside wonders. A boy asks what hedges are and learns they are made of bushes leaves and sweethearts.
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Jerome
McWade
Duluth
Man's Preposterous Appetite in World's Work
Herbert W. Fisher cites a July World's Work example where a Dutch physician shows a bay load as big as a mastodon to illustrate excess food consumption. He notes the boy’s astonishment at a yearly surplus beyond needs. The passage underscores pervasive overindulgence across generations.
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Herbert W. Fisher
The Weak Brained French Anecdote at Fifth Avenue
A fragmented diary like note claims the French are deteriorating with stray phrases about Fifth Avenue Riverside Drive and a recalled trip to Pygnog. The garbled text hints at language decline and personal memory without clear events or names.
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Fifth Avenue
Riverside Drive
Pygnog
Public Sales At Three Estates In Rayne And East Wheatfield
Public sale notices list auctions at the late Peter Custer farm in Tanoma Rayne township on Tuesday September 12 at 1:00 listing buggy harness farm machinery tools lumber and more Jacob T Rager sale near Wehrum East Wheatfield township on Thursday September 14 at 1:00 offering five horses milk cows buggy wagon gear and land with orchard and timber and a Nicholas Hoffman sale near Indiana on Friday September 15 at 1:00 featuring a gray mare wagon harness farm gear Montgomery grain cradle and more all to the highest bidder plus a brief comic exchange from Celtic Stranger about a police case and a ten dollar fee.
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Peter] Custer
Tanoma
Rayne Township
David J, Helman
Pxr
Jacob T. Rager
Wehrum
Wheatheld Township
Ballanea
C. Cameron
Nicholas Hoffman
Indiana
Punxsutawney Road
Montgomery
R. D
W. P. Loring
FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE SUNLIGHT LIMITS TUBERCULOSIS SPREAD
A Paris health register over 12 years links overcrowding and poor sanitation less than lack of sunshine to tuberculosis spread. Older sunlit dwellings with many rooms and servants showed fewer TB cases than new luxury apartments with limited light and air. Sunlight should flood rooms, even with shades raised, to promote health.
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Paris
Armours Fertilizer Promoted For Better Crops
An advertisement touts Armours Fertilizer as a natural plant food made from slaughterhouse refuse. It claims it harms land less than chemical products and offers grain drills, specifically the Hoosier, for sale with a call to inspect.
Mr. Franks Douglass Notice of Stockholders Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the board of directors of Clymer Manufacturing Company will hold a stockholders meeting at its office in Indiana Borough on Saturday September 30 1911 at 10 30 o clock A M to consider the proposed site of the company's property and its disposition Attest Guthrie president and SHwart secretary Indiana Pa August 30 1911
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Clymer Manufacturing Company
Indiana
Atelock A. M
Clymer Manufacthurting Company
Oa. Guthrie
W. S.hwart
Auditor's Notice From Indiana County Court Audit
The auditor appointed by the Orphans Court of Indiana County announces proceeding to collect and report distribution of funds under a decree. He will attend at the Marshall Building in Indiana on February 8 to oversee the distribution and allow interested parties to attend.
Auditor's Notice On Estate Of Joseph Mc Cracken
An auditor appointed by the Orphans' Court of Indigna county will attend to settle and report the distribution of funds held by J Z Mel Cracken as Executor of Joseph Mc Cracken's estate in Grant Township. The session is at 2 o'clock PM on Tuesday September 26 in the Citizens National Bank Building Tudiana Borough. Interested parties may attend.
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Orphans’ Court
Indigna County
J. Z. Mel Cracken
Joseph McCracken
Grant Township
Citizen's National Bank
Tudiana
Proposed Amendment to Pennsylvania Constitution Consolidating Courts
Text of joint resolution proposing to consolidate Allegheny County courts of common pleas into a single Allegheny court and reorganize Philadelphia and Allegheny judicial structure. Sets numbers, jurisdiction divisions, venue rules, and effective date January 1 after adoption. Includes signature of Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert McAfugh.
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Commonwealth
General Assembly
Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania
Ordi
Secretary OF the Commonwealth
Courts of Common Pleas
Allegheny County
Renate
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Enageenle
Court of Common Pleas
Common Pleas
County of
Allegheny
Robert McAfdhh
The
Pennsylvania Amendment on Debt Limits Read in Joint Session
A joint resolution proposes amending Article Nine Section Eight of the Pennsylvania Constitution. The revised text tightens debt limits to seven percent of assessed property value, with exceptions for Philadelphia subway and port projects under a funded sinking plan. The measure awaits further legislative action.
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Pennsylvania
Senate
House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Philadelphia
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