Democrats Plan Marion Banquet for Eleventh District
The Grant County Jefferson club in Marion Indiana will host a social banquet for Eleventh district Democrats on Tuesday evening December 2. Toasts will include M T Shively as toastmaster Marcus Kilgore on Thomas Jefferson and John Nelson on the Eleventh District with responses by J T Cox and others.
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Marion
Ind
Grant County Jefferson Club
M. T. Shively
Grant County
Jefferson Club
Marcus M. Kilgore
Thomas Jefferson
Daniel W. Simms
Lafayette
Samuel E. Cook
Huntington
Harry B. Smith
Hartford City
Indiana Democratic League
Harry B. Darling
Laporte
Nelson G. Hunter
Wabash
John C. Nelson
Logansport
Eleventh Congressional District
George W. Rauch
Eleventh
J. T. Cox
Peru
No Struggle At All Joke Quips Mentioned In Post
A Houston Post quote notes a humorous line about a husband’s supposed lack of struggle and falling in love at first sight. The remark highlights a joking exchange surrounding romance and perception of effort in relationships.
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Houston Post
Operatic Star FrancesLee sues Hammerstein for 100000 damages
New York report says Miss Francesa Lee claims Oscar Hammerstein failed to make her a grand opera star, citing past letters as proof while Hammerstein denies competence and validity of claims. He argues services rendered were not worth the amount and cites statute of limitations.
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New York
Francesa Lee
Oscar Hammerstein
Miss Lee
Mr. Hammerstein
Hammerstein
City
United States
Olympia Theater
The
Olympia
Dittenheefer
Gerber
James
Imass Lee
Bessie
Jean de Reszke
Boosie
Oscar
Bruce
Europe
Fields Theater
Edward Stephenson
John Stephenson
Unionized printing houses restored in Logansport
In Logansport on December 18, the local typographical union resolved differences with Longwell-Cummings printers, and the entire city’s printing establishments are now unionized again.
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Logansport, Lrd
Longwell-Cummings
Delivery Room Rush at Big Store Seethes with 17 Wagons
A visit to the store delivery department at 5:30 p m reveals a vast, noisy operation. 17 wagons and five furniture vans in use plus 45 horses in relays, with warehouses packed and staff scrambling to keep up. A quiet complaint girl moments cause chaos, as a missing spool triggers a chaotic search.
First Florida strawberries reach Indianapolis markets
The Hon. Bill Wells pauses at a fashionable grocery as a market news snippet notes the arrival of Florida strawberries in Indianapolis. He jokes about prices, shopping choices, and apples, with wholesale costs and local vendors mentioned, ending with a snack of popcorn balls.
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Florida
Indianapolis
Bill Wells
Allen County
Bill
Cole-da-rad
Large owl killed by traction car near Scottsburg
Scottsburg Ind Dec 18 The largest owl killed in southern Indiana in years was blinded by a Louisville and Indianapolis Traction Company headlight as it struck the front of a car several nights ago. The owl measured 40 percent inches from tip to tip and will be mounted for exhibition in a company office.
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Scottsburg
Ind
Indiana
Louisville & Indianapolis Traction Company
Scottsburg Ao
Whiskey for lame back and rheumatism formula
An editorial note discusses whiskey as a cure for lame back and rheumatism among the fraternity. It presents a recipe blending whiskey Toris compound and Sarsaparita syrup with doses before meals and at night, urging trial by those afflicted.
Crafting a Colorful Twelve Month Blotter Gift
A Woman's Home Companion idea uses two blotting papers in contrasting colors to form twelve small blotters ten by four inches. Paste a calendar month on each blotter, arrange colors in alternating order, and bind with ribbon and a bow. Red and green blotters tied with red ribbon suit Christmas.
Waron Ward and a roach tale from Cleveland journalist
George V. Kelcey recalls Artemus Ward visiting his Cleveland hotel room the night before a panco rama lecture. Three or four large roaches scurried about. Ward joked he was fond of roaches and relayed a tale of rescuing a roach in a bowl of water with a half walnut shell.
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George V. Kelcey
Cleveland
Artemus Ward
Roach Tale From Boston Globe Inspires House Full of Roaches
A Boston Globe anecdote describes a man helping a roach by offering a boat made from toothpicks and a hair as a fishing line. The roach slept from exhaustion after the meal, and the narrator later freed it. The humorous tale ends with the remark that the roaches now fill his home.
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Haustion
Boston Globe
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A. M. Iis
MONON
North Humen Street
Claypool
Union Station
Pennsylvania
Lulisville Division
Madison
Chicago Division
Chicago Express
Lumber Coal and Coke Co
Jasonville
Castoria
Atwaye
Sienstare
Lala
Snes
Rubens Kixrge
ClictRie
Noboy
Rubens
West Washington Street
Che Pel
King OF Clothiers
Boots
Polk’s Milk
Ingen
Oleg
Delaware and
Ohio Streets
Xmas
North
Pennsylvania St
Oren
ONAN
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