Furniture van used to collect taxes in Lincoln
Lincoln Nebraska December 16 tax collection used a large furniture van with banners Distress warrants served to visit wealthy delinquents. Mrs Emma H Holmes paid a 60 dollar levy on a grand piano at her home while W S Summers US district attorney paid 75 dollars for the law library when reached by phone.
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Lincoln, Neb
Fox
Branson
Emma H. Holmes
Sheriff's Office
Duns
Mainst
Law Library
W. 8
Summers
United States
Nebraska
G. W. Blake
Blake
Women raise funds by whisker trimming and more at church
Maywood Illinois December 183 The First Congregational Church women plan antique oak parlors with plush. They funded a pipe organ last year and even sold church whiskers at 35 cents each. Subquehanna Pennsylvania December 13 The Welshill Methodist Church owes 100 dollars. young women will saw wood for a nearby acid factory, earning one dollar per cord split in half. the fastest will win ten dollars.
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Maywood, Til
First Congregational Church
Maywood
Subquehanna
Welshill
Special Thanksgiving Proclaimed For Little Owa Girl
Governor Leslie M. Shaw issued a special proclamation to honor a northeast Iowa girl who was ill on November 28 and could not celebrate Thanksgiving. He sent a turkey with compliments and granted the request for an extra day of Thanksgiving, replying to a letter signed by Mary but withholding her name and residence. The message urged another Thanksgiving on a later Thursday, though details remain unconfirmed.
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Des Moines
Leslie M. Shaw
Mary
Marw
Child Hears Peek a Boo Ends With Head in Kettle
Three year old Charles Moublich crawled into a kitchen closet and put an agateware kettle on his head. His mother, a policeman, and doctors spent eight hours freeing him after vaseline lubrication finally removed the kettle. The boy left amused and wiser, saying he would not play with it again.
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New York
Charles Moublich
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Aes Ie
Charlie
Harvard Chorus Electrifies Yale Game With Rallying Hymn
A Harvard student, O G Frantz, conducted a 15 000 strong chorus with a 40 piece brass band at Yale Harvard football clash. Frantz used a megaphone and aides along a two block expanse to cue the crowd as they sang Fair Harvard and Harvard Harvard in a fervent display before Yale hosts. A spectator remarked he traveled 2000 miles to witness Harvard's anthem.
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Yale
Harvard
O. G. Frantz
Frantz
Happiness and Health as Goals Promoted by Local Ads
An OCR fragment promotes health as a proper life goal and endorses Hood's Sarsaparilla. It also references pianos at factory prices this month and Baldwin's Music & Stores. The fragment shows era advertising language with period feel.
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Jonit
Hood
Baldwin's Mualc. & Stes
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Promoted For Nervous Dyspepsia
An Indianapolis reader touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for nervous dyspepsia whose effects spread to heart, kidneys, and bowels. The letter claims the product restores flesh and sleep and offers a little book from Stuart Co. and 50 cent full sized packages at all druggists.
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A. W. Sharper
Prospect St
Indianapolis
Ind
Stuart
Stuart Co
Marshall, Mich
Tuberculosis Experiments Claimed Genuine but Patient Falls Ill
Dr George D Barney of Brooklyn asserts his cattle to human tuberculosis transmission experiments are valid as Emma King a trained nurse inoculated with the bacteria develops the disease in her right lung. Barney cites affidavits from New York lung specialists and vows a cure while Miss King remains in Jersey City amid controversy.
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New York
George D. Barney
Brooklyn
Emma King
Barney
Miss King
Pie lids pry arrest sparks bakery door mystery
A suspect in a bank robbery case in Kokomo Indiana was released after explaining a railroad spike found on him was used to open bakery biscuits and pies at back doors. The convulsed court freed him immediately.
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