Nail Studded Tree Tale In Old Vienna
A narrator escorting Maud Wemyss in Vienna recalls a nail studded tree and a centuries old blacksmith tale. A deformed hunchback and a kind, flower bringing suitor woo a locked girl named Kathi through a window in a staged legend that ends with a hoped marriage to a master blacksmith.
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Graben
Maud Wemyss
Baltimore
Augustine
Austria
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Blue Danube
Miss Wemyss
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement Claim
Mrs Geo E Hickok of 62 Poplar Street Brightwood testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved back pains and weakness after years of discomfort. She notes her husband, with kidney trouble since an accident, also benefited and urges readers to use only Doan's.
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Geo. E. Hickok
Poplar St
Brightwood
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Doan
One Laughs at Locksmiths Kathi and Escape Tale
In a village tale a locksmith father seals his daughter Kathi in with an iron nailed tree lock. A loving hunchback crafts a key, but only after a final fifth nail is placed do the lovers flee by rope ladder. The father forgives and the pair live happily, with the locksmith still amused by the escape.
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Kathi
Hoosierisms and local items drift through Indiana evenings
A集collection notes suicides over land and lack thereof in Indiana with a biting social aside. It mentions a northern man’s death, a southern man’s land burden, a possible division of land, and a satire on land ownership. Also reports on a dog poisoner in Muncie, poultry thefts in New county, and a Fort Wayne jail stint for alleged robbers. Ice conditions on Lake Michigan and a note on fresh air warmth.
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Frank Moore
Wm. Jones
Alen
Aew
Fort Wayne
Day nursery seeks donations for its daily care
The Day nursery at 521 E. Wabash St. appeals for clothes food toys and funds. Grandma Lizzie A. Mellinger runs the facility aiding mothers at work with 9 to 13 children daily, open 6 30 a m to 6 30 p m, charging five cents a day and relying on donations after founder Miss Nellie Wiles.
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Day
E. Wabash St
Lizzie A. Mellinger
Nellie Wiles
Mellinger
E. Wabash St. House
Town pumps wear and tear as prohibitionists converge
Bloomington residents urge the city council to pass an ordinance making sales of knotty wood a misdemeanor with fines and imprisonment. Logansport and Wabash Gas Co halts patrons using bored mixers to curb waste. Wawasee Lake ice activity presents a teaching moment as shore ice uproots rocks and damages Pickwick Epert’s and Wright’s points.
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Ci.zens
Bloomington
Spencer Standard
Wawasee Lake
Syracuse Register
Pickwick
Epert’s
Wright
Publishers in session in New York as Turner dies in London
Col Francis J Turner, Boer scout, dies in London while American publishers association convenes in New York. Artist Albert Bierstadt dies in New York from illness. John B Larkin, a Democrat, chosen controller of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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American Publishers’ Association
New York
Francis J. Turner
London
Albert Bierstadt
John B.larkin
Pittsburg
Kopf of Illinois Legislature a Chicago lawyer and soldier
Col Charles W Kopf born 1870 Chicago rose to Illinois House after serving three years as colonel on Governor Tanner staff. Prominent in Illinois National Guard, led West Park Commission affairs shaping Garfield Douglass Humboldt parks. Active Mason and Shriner, noted lawyer with major district win and role in General Assembly. Springfield 1901.
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Ashland Boulevard
John R. Tanner
Illinois National Guard
Col. Kopf
West Park Commissioners of
Great West Side
Garfield
Douglass
Humboldt
Illinois House of Representatives
General Assembly
Springfield
Pepsin Syrup CO
Monticello
Ill
Dr. Caldwell
Mysterious thief turns out to be a black sheep
Fairmont residents feared a thief stealing news papers bread and milk. Edward Bedell armed himself and aimed at a dark object on his steps before discovering the culprit was a black sheep dining on his breakfast rolls.
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New York
Fairmont
Edward Bedell
Clinton Ave
Drink Triggered Brawl at Local Saloon
Isaac Goldman bartender at Delaware and Court streets and Sherman Breeding a colored man were jailed Wednesday for alleged mutual assault after Breeding allegedly tried to refuse paying for a drink and Goldman carved three gashes in him.
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Isaac Goldman
Delaware and Court Sts
Sherman Breeding
Breeding
Goldman
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