Tennessee divorce suit ends in surprise quick wedding
In a backwoods Tennessee courthouse Sam Hester and Aunt Nan, seeking a divorce after thirty five years, end up being remarried by license on the spot. The judge pressed for the decree. Nan’s former suitor Parson Bradley steps in, and the old couple is suddenly wed again right there, astonishing onlookers.
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Tennessee
Sam Hester
Sam
Nan
Jedge
Aunt Nan
Rou
Parson Bradley
Arkansaw
Mrs. Martin Visits In Rainy Scene At St. Nicholas
A timid visit unfolds as Mrs. Martin arrives wearing a nightgown coat and blue slippers. The pair chat about a cookbook tale, spinach bread, and Thanksgiving cookery, while rain falls and a tea sounds from the next room before Mrs. Martin departs with a mock carriage in hand.
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Barbara
Mamma
Mrs. Marin
Mrs. Martin
Cloris Chandler
Thia
Lark
Thasten
Fashion Notes and Society Curiosities Across England and America
Fashion trends include verdicts on love and tears, with Mrs Annie Besant praised for oratory. News profile of Mother Catherine Seton’s death in New York. Skirt alterations introduce new panel and tabber effects. whiskers fading as clean shaven looks return. Perfuming the skin by weekly hypodermic injections with floral essences gains interest among fashionable women.
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Paris
England
Annie Besant
Westminster Hall
Catherine Seton
Convent of Mercy
New York City
Lieut. Wm. Seton
Navy
Housekeeper’s
Little Shavers and Curious Quotes in Babyland
A collage of playful antique vignettes from Philadelphia Record style notes a girl choosing pie dreams of miners and a talkative child Frederick recounting a trip with his mother. Gentle humor and tender family scenes echo in this brisk extracts of child speech and country summer life.
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Philadelphia Record
Firat
Bennie
Toasted Cheese on Toast and Dandruff Remedy
A vintage recipe describes mixing cheese pepper egg and milk to a thick cream then spooning over warm buttered toast served hot and immediate. Another home remedy uses sulphur dissolved in water to saturate the scalp daily to remove dandruff and soften hair over weeks.
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Detroit Free Press
Harvest Excursions Offer Reduced Pennsylvania Lines Tickets
On September 15 and 29, excursion tickets will be sold at reduced round trip rates from major stations on the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh to western, northwestern, and southwestern points with food returning for thirty days from sale.
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Pittsburgh
West
H. M. Bronson
A. G. P. Agant
Indianapolis
Oscar G. Murray
D. B. Martin
PLS
T. AL
Cincinnati
Indianapolis Public Works bids for sidewalks and sewers
The Department of Public Works of Indianapolis issues multiple notices to contractors on September 14 1891 inviting sealed proposals by September 26 for brick sidewalk grading on Oriola Street from Lincoln Lane to the second alley and for brick sewers on Pennsylvan ia and Illinois streets with specified diameters, manholes, and house connections, plans on file, Board reserves right to reject bids, A W Conduit and A W Ondutt president.
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Department OF Public Works
Indianapolis
Ind
Board of Public Works
Bourteecth Street
Meridian Street
Tennessee Street
A. W. Consuitt
Public Works, Indianapolis, Ltd
Oriola Street
Lincoln Lane
Cnotce
City of
Imp. Hes
Buwker
Mast Street
Coburn Street
Morris Street
Imp
Rural Street
Pruitt Street
Jisp. Ies
Bloyd Street
Imp. Res
Mural Street
Lawrence Street
Sixsi Street
Delaware Street
Alabama Street
Katharine Street
Kern Way Avenue
Low- Trance Street
Lloyd Street
Fern Way Avenue
Pennsylvania Street
Pratt Street
Second Street
Seventh Street
Market Street
Crage Street
Crase Street
A. W. Onduitt
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