Bohemian harness-maker seeks wife to fund shop
An Indianapolis ad finds a Bohemian harness maker in Cleveland seeking a wife with capital to help open a harness store. He notes he will hear applicants after a test, while recounting how one candidate failed to fry an egg. Photographs exchanged by mail, with widow welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kina
Indianapolis
Joe Hruby
Broadway
Cleveland
Hruby
Bohemia
Franz Josef
America
Tips for Cooking Game Season Delicacies
Practical guidance on preparing game for the table with broiled quail fricassee and roast duck. Steps cover dressing, soaking to remove gamey flavor, keeping skin on for juiciness, and methods for broiling, fricassee, and roasting with herbs, onions, and lard. Includes serving ideas and portion guidance.
When Baby Writes A Letter To Daddy
A whimsical piece from Women's Home Companion about a baby’s playful attempt to write to her distant father. The child uses Grandma's spectacles, dips a pen in ink, and decorates pages with dots and dashes, scattering paper shreds across the floor as she fills envelopes with blank pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby
Daddy
Gander Feather Man Sparks Rummage Sale Folklore
The powder-feather man frequents the rummage sale at 30 Ken tucky-ave for Hall-place M. E. Church. He buys clothes for poor friends' children and suggested a gander feather adorning a hat, earning him the nickname. A seller offered a plush jacket, but he dismissed it as a dead cabbage head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky-ave
Hall-place
M. E. Church
Silver nails in shoes claim on Hunker Creek
Tacoma observer T F Beaudet reports nine silver shoe nails found at claim 35 on Hunker creek bedrock at 110 feet. Nails resemble modern versions but are pure silver, with a cast iron hinge piece also recovered. Bonanza creek reveals drift work in solid rock indicating prior activity in the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
T. F. Beaudet
Hunker Creek
John Beaudet
Bonanza Creek
Waa
Koch alimony suit amid separation action in supreme court
New York November 21 Mrs Alice Koch sues for alimony while pending separation action in the state supreme court. The couple wed after an ante nuptial agreement. Koch wanted to move to a small apartment above a store, but Mrs Koch refused, preferring the comfortable home over the tenement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
York
Alice ‘Koch
Supreme Court
Andrs. Koch
Koch
George
Hoosierisms and Oddities From Indiana Towns
A collage of humorous notes from Indiana: Rochester revels with a Peru visitor drinking Carrie Nations. Union City readers mock church door crowds. Willis Hammer of Spiceland made sorghum molasses and cider. a Muncie football dreamer breaks a jardiniere. Washington hosts a cake walk and possum roast with 100 possums sought. Shelbyville officer frees a rig. a Crawfordsville druggist touts a castor oil sandwich. clay county men lay telegraph poles but face a landowner sentry and a bull. contract grants legal advertising to the Daily Reporter.
The Latest Styles In Funerals And Grave Robbery Fears
A historical excerpt discusses wholesale grave robberies and undertakers response. Leathered phrases describe steel vaults cement vaults and walled tombs with slabs as ways to deter theft, noting copper caskets at seventy five dollars and Gov Mount and McKinley era prices. Private house funerals grow in popularity and tailoring for burial attire is sold at defined price ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Mount
McKinley
Vanderbilt's luck in horse show tied to box thirteen hoodoo
New York observers note Alfred G. Vanderbilt's misfortune at a November horse show. His Gray Cloud heavy weight carriage horse drew the gate from the ring in box 13, while his later four in hand team drew praise but only a high commendation, as judges and crowd watched.
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New York
Vanderbilt
Gray Cloud
Lawrence
Francis T. Underhilt
H. K. Bloodgood
Mr. Vanderbilt
Strange Visitor Haunts Quiet Yorkshire Cottage Tale
A narrator recalls a chilling night in a cottage near a farm in Yorkshire. After a phantom rap at the door a unseen visitor manifests as a headless man in evening dress, prompting fear, a chase, and a frantic escape. Wardrobe, tools, and a panic-filled morning add to the eerie account from the St. Louis Mirror reprint.
Cain Stricken with Nueralgia of the Heart in City Incident
F M Cain, 60, suffered neu ralgia of the heart and collapsed on Merrill and Illinois streets Wednesday evening. He was taken to his son's home on Pleasant Street. William Fuerst was lightly injured by a streetcar while observing the incident.
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F. M. Cain
Merrill and
Illinois-sts
Pleasant St
William Fuerst
Cain
Automobile at Elks carnival offers prize prize car
It is a dandy automobile to be disposed of at the Elks carnival. The car has been finished and will be shown in a Washington street store window in a few days. The Elks boast it is the finest seen in the city and offer 750 dollars to the finder. The National company of this city built it.
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Elks
Washington St
The
National Company
Will Meet Friday Night by First Ward Improvement Club
The First Ward Improvement Club will meet Friday at 7 30 p m at 1714 Hillside Ave to discuss extending the Columbia Ave street car line and sidewalk improvements on several streets.
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First Ward Improvement Club
Hillside Are. A
Columbia Ave
Savaral
Croup Remedy Cited by Evangelist for Infant Cure
Elder John W. Rowees of Filley testifies that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured his infant's violent croup last winter and prevented future attacks when used at first symptoms. He praises its safety for babies and adults, noting it contains no opium. Sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Rowees
Filley
Chamberlain
Reading of Foreign Papers in Indianapolis Decreasing
About 1 500 foreign papers reach Indianapolis monthly with 400 delivered by post and the rest through news dealers. Over 100 publications, mostly English, with German, Scotch, and French also present. Few Italian titles due to southern Italian readers. Most immigrants focus on American affairs. few dailies reach readers. German dailies dropped among reasons. Many illustrated and art journals. Figaro and other titles now scarce. Scotch readers favor their homeland papers. fashion journals go to large stores, some homes in the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Italy
Sicily
Figaro
London Punch
Fliegende Blaetter
London Graphic
Black and White
London Illustrated News
Stolen stamps to be sold by a fence, officials say
Indianapolis post office and Secret Service discuss the Chicago theft of stamps. Fences with countrywide reach would handle sale of the loot in large blocks to business customers, with crooks reluctant to aid authorities. Printing office names on stamps is suggested to curb disposal.
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Post Office
Indianapolis
Chicago
Chicago Post Office
Secret Service
Sam
al Crook
Swirl of Society Hears Local Marriages and Travel Plans
Representative and Mrs. Overstreet head to Washington on Saturday. Mrs. Bronson hosted a card party on N Capitol Ave. Mrs. Sewall will lunch for Miss Holman. Mrs. Bingham travels to Fairhaven Vermont for Rev and Mrs Dwight Spencer’s golden wedding. Mary Stephen wed Frank Jordan at Park Ave home. State weddings listed in Hagerstown Kokomo Centerville New Albany Decatur Ill.
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Overstreet
Washington
H. M. Bronson
N. Capitolave
May Wright Sewall
Josephine Holman
Frank L. Bingham
Fairhaven
Dwight Spencer
S. Muhlt
N. Hlinoisst
Mary F. Stephen
Frank C. Jordan
Joseph Stephen
Parkave
Hagerstown
Sarah Greenleaf
George W. Wheland
Chattanooga
Tenn
Kokomo
Margaret Quinn
Patrick Graney
Logansport
Centerville
Anna Merritt
Arthur McMahan
New Albany
Mary Dishman
James 3. Baldwin
Decatur, Ill
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Rochester
Peru
Raglan
Union City
Willis Hammer
Cicero Watts
Greenfield
Muncie
Shelbyville
Luther
Crawfordsville
California
Clay County
Daily Reporter
Tbc
Indianapoli
Comercial Club
Pondence
Met
Plainfield
Harry Tutewiler
State Embalming Board
Mr. Tutewiler
Alfred Vanderbilt
DAILY
Avatine
STORY
Andrew Wise
Yorkshire
Dowley
Maudsley
W. Washington
Combination Clothing Co
Oblast
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