The Businessman Groom and the Island Dream
John J Fitch, a stringent businessman, marries Elvangeline Blont not for love but as a business prop. He appears content until one evening he proposes a sudden escape to a tropical island in the Pacific, inviting his wife to join a forbidden nocturnal leap to adventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch M'Mackin
John J. Fitch
Fitch
Jim
Elvangeline Blont
Hiram Blent
Acenea Mistresa
Evangeline
Tibar
John Fitch
Eva
Gas appliances cited in Indianapolis industry booklet
The Indiampolls Gas company distributes five thousand booklets titled Mmafampolla In dustries Using Ga Appliances. The pamphlet claims gas appliances save production costs and boost profits, noting many devices fit various businesses and are available in show rooms and catalogs. Indianapolis business readers are urged to consider these money saving devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiampolls Gas Company
Heets Aude
Mmafampolla Industries
Dusincas
Gma
Bualnese
Indianapolia
Patent Leather Shoes Dominate Lead In 1907 Outlook
Boston December reports from The Omni indicate the boot and shoe market shows improvement for spring 1907. Prices remain firm with no concessions feared, leather is strong, and demand for patent leather footwear remains high especially patent leather blucher oxford and ford styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omni
Boston
Mass
Forda
Up-to-Date Patterns From The Sun Fashion Page
The Sun offers ten cent patterns from a leading pattern company with one described each issue. This entry features Misses’ Ticked Shirtwaist with Front-Yoke Paris Pattern No. 1657. Seams allowed, box-pleat center, yoke shaping, three sizes, and prices. Also notes colors, fabrics, and a critical tone about marriage markets in a cluttered ad-like prose.
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Sun Bas
Ite Tendars
The
Sun
Paris
Srni
Described Coat and Hat Trim Details
A satin finished felt coat with matching hat trims in biscuit colored ostrich tips. The outfit trims feature three tiny ostrich tips and the hat turns up at the front and back, matching the coat’s shade.
Hindoo Invasion a Menace in Victoria
Special to The Som Victoria BC December 1 Immigrants from the Orient arrive by the hundreds seeking work as laborers in Victoria and beyond. The presence of Hindoo and Mohammedan newcomers on city streets grows as they push toward Pacific destinations and U.S. opportunities. Calls rise to curb influx and protect white labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Orient
Pacific
America
Dress Coat for a Girl of Nine with Biscuit Velvet Accents
A dress coat features white Breitschwartz fur edging the shoulder line for a nine year old. The smooth biscuit chiffon fabric forms a wide shoulder panel in velvet, with fur rounding these panels. Coat and sleeves described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breitschwartz
Ages of Animals in Life Spans Across Species
A fragmented list notes varied lifespans from marets and mosquitos to tortoises and elephants. It cites centenarian tendencies for turtles, parrots, and whales with ages ranging into decades and even centuries, including a claimed elephant age of 300 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilya
Drainage Plans for Montezuma Swamp Revisited
In Wayne Seneca and Cayuga counties New York a vast swamp named Montezuma marsh has long been a drainage target. Repeated schemes have remained on paper, but renewed interest suggests an imminent, exhaustive examination of the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wayne
Seneca
Cayuga Counties
Montesuma Marsh
Montezuma Marsh
Large and Small Postage Stamps Across History
The largest stamp ever issued is a five cent U S newspaper stamp measuring 4 by 2 inches. The smallest is Mecklenburg Schwerin’s 2 2 pfennig stamp from 1856 at one fourth the size of a regular stamp. About 14 000 distinct stamp kinds have circulated globally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mecklenburg- Bechwerin
Commentary on Navy, Panama Canal, and public affairs
Fragmented remarks touch on Panama Canal for commerce and a navy to guard it, with diverse voices on loans, competition, and government. Mentions include Senator Raley, Hines Harriman system, and Pa Hernolds. Includes assorted cultural asides and parliamentary quorum notes.
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Panama Canal
Red
EE Harriman
Cascaret health and beauty claim in ad copy
An advertisement touts Cascaret tablets as a cure all for complexion, digestion, breath and nerves. It urges carrying a ten cent emergency bar, using one tablet at signs of coated tongue heartburn indigestion or pimples, and claims broad health benefits and nationwide sales by Sterling Remedy Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Remedy Company
The Wedding Ring by Ella K Dearborn
Mantcurists critique wedding rings and marriage norms, arguing rings are poor symbols of lasting bonds. Essay notes that divorces rise, men avoid labels, and historical precedents show marriage as fragile under strain.
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Ella K. Dearborn
Rester
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Royal Baking
Royal
Kew York
the Daily Story
Lttle
Great Pacific
Sse Perens
John
Frisco
Jeremiah PF. Dinan
Jeremiah F. Dinan
San Francisco
Daelaren
Ditan
Thimas
Duke
Poe
Dr.pierces Golden
ASHE
LAR Atlas
Gasi
Nye
William R. Hearst
Bayers
Hindoo
Walker Pike
Hla
Lind
Senator Raley
Wellman
Peary
Uncle Sam
Jack Smith
Tiveryarn
Gens
Pa Hernolds
Cuihay
Fessenden
DY Freed
Trowneyilie
Willih Har
Moris Cahill
John D. Rockefeller
Marie Heen
Yale
Mark Twain
Mark
House of Lords
House of
Isan
Acker
Everett True
Everett
Noah
Babylon
Granaton
Eastor
Macon
ALL Grocers Grocers Supply CO
Indianapolis
Huntington -Page
Delaware St
BIO Seed
H. L. Sanders Mig Siengprerar
Ind Ave
A. L. Sanders
UNION
Painless Dentists
SIN
Penn
Wham
Jos.r. Adams
oMice
St. Residence
Hudson Etrest
Cleeie Deek
Corme
W. A. Hersey
New
P. White
Crescent Machine and Tool CO
Pennsylvania
Brrr
Carr & Wilson Dentists
Penn St
Tel
Acme Bedding CO
Om We
Maryland
Tau
Diaradental College
Delaware and
Ohio Streets
Scott-Miller
Galendarg
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