Paid with a Flag Rich ducal estates and feudal banners
The article describes how on Waterloo anniversaries each year the Duke of Wellington must present a new flag to the king to honor his lease of Strathfieldsaye. The flag is placed over the bust of the duke in Windsor’s guardroom and must be sent by the duke or the estate is forfeited. Similar rites apply to Blenheim and the Marlborough estates.
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England
Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
Strathfieldsaye
Windsor Castle
Blenheim
Duke of Marlborough
Windsor
London
Man Moves House Twenty Three Miles With All In It
George Stumpf and his crew moved a 10 by 30 foot three room house from North Hartland to Hall Meadow in Winsted Connecticut, a distance of twenty three miles. They lived in the house during the trip, eating, reading papers, and socializing by the kitchen stove at night. Five years earlier Stumpf had relocated the same house from Huntington Massachusetts to North Hartland where he ran a lumber business.
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Stumpf
Winsted
Conn
George Stumpf
North Hartland
Hall Meadow
Huntington
Mass
Peddler Sloane Endows Churches After Death
Edgar Allen Sloane a traveling tinsmith buried in Lisbon North Carolina left a will directing 10000 to First Baptist Church Minneapolis 4000 to a Manitoba theological school and the rest to eastern relatives He died under a train wheel near Beaumont California while roaming the country and had lived ten years in Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
Minn
Edgar Allen Sloane
Lisbon
N. C
Sloane
First Baptist Church of
Manitoba
Beaumont
Cal
Victor Hugo Exile Sketch of Hauteville House Studio
The article recounts Sir William Butler's description of Victor Hugo in Guernsey. Hauteville house attic studio features a glass wall with sea views, a small camp bed, a work table he called a carpenter bench, and a routine shaping Les Miserables Les Travailleurs de la Mer and poetry in the mornings before dejeuner.
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Victor Hugo
Guernsey
Sir William Butler
Hauteville House
Jethoo
Sark
Alderney
Casquet Rocks
Cherbourg
Dejeuner
Treating a Dog Bite and Rabies Facts from Dr Reilly
Patient guidance on dog bite first aid and rabies prevention. Urges prompt wound care and cauterization, Pasteur treatment if needed, and notes rabies origin by inoculation, higher male dog aggression, temperate zones, and muzzling as a preventive measure. Concludes with rabies symptoms and lack of known remedy.
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Tropics
Arctic
John J. Reilly
Ten Tons of Playing Cards Shipped to Orient
Shipments of nearly 100000 decks were loaded aboard the Japanese steamship Tamba Maru for ports in the orient. The cards arrived from the east by train and are bound for Macao China a gambling center near Hongkong.
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Orient
Seattle
Wash
Macao
China
Monte Carlo
Hongkong
Pearl
Canton River
Kennewick Barber Shop Reopens At Old Stand
The Hotel Kennewick Barber Shop resumes service inviting back old customers and welcoming new ones. Emphasizes quality work and cleanliness to attract patrons.
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Kennewick
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MR. Henry Peck
Peddler
Fortune
Bluebell
Lily
IHC
International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated
Portland
THOR
Pacific Power & Light Oé
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