Brav e Toiler Surprises with Frugal Lifelong Service
Owasco Indiana veteran John Anderson, earning $1.50 a day, nursed parents through long illnesses, paid his mother's doctor and funeral bills, faced paralysis after full debt payoff, and supported a wife and four children. He refused charity, kept a small legacy untouched, and never abandoned family duties or obligations. He also worked as a station agent and post office keeper while nursing 21 typhoid cases, a testament to resilience and integrity.
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Owasco
Clinton County
Ind
John Anderson
Anderson
John
Jong
Monon Road
Moving platform promises boroughwide transit revival in New York
Rail and civil engineering circles await New York Citys first moving platform plan accepted by the Rapid Transit Commission after three years of study. The underground system would run a four-tier sequence on a single line from river to river serving Thirty fourth Street with 75 000 riders an hour, at an estimated cost of 5 million dollars. The article also notes a saltwater fish restaurant attracting novelty seekers and the impending sale of Audubon Park lands to a developer syndicate, plus two Revolutionary War letters auctioned locally.
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New York
Rapid Transit ‘Commission
Jon
Washington letter offers commissary of prisoners role to Boudinot
A 1777 Morris Town letter by George Washington, signed twice, outlines the duties of the commissary of prisoners and names Elias Boudinot, a loyal New Jersey patriot, for the post. The document notes Hamilton from Middlebrook in 1779 and is entirely in Washingtons handwriting on the second letter.
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Hamilton
Middlebrook
Washington
George Washington
Elias Boudinott
New Jersey
Morristown
Gambling Law Sustained in Mills Novelty Case
Boise March 16 The Statesman reports Judge Stewart upheld the state anti gambling law overruling Mills Novelty Co vs W C Dunbar. The case grew from police seizure of coin slot machines during Boise fair week and a later replevin effort. The decision centers on the legality of seizing and destroying gambling devices under penal code provisions.
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Boise
the Statesman
Stewart
Mills Novelty Company
W. C. Dunbar
Constable A. Anderson
Justice Dunbar
Novelty Company
Idaho
Supreme Court of Missouri
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Brave Toiler
New York News
Mawenne Sanntue Aan
Lower East Side
Audubon Park
Manhattan
Grinnell
Alexander
Asturia
SESS
Nezperce
R. H. Wallace
J. F. Englehorn
Indian Springs
Fifth Avenue
Bears
Castoria
Joseph Cigar
Farner & Bartlett
Lewiston, Idaho
THE
OWL Bar
Main Street
R. L. Latimer
Prop
Pacific Brewing and Malting Co
Lewiston National Bank
H. T. Madgwick
Lewiston
Bartlett & Cox
Yantis Args
McAllister Addition
Seventh Avenue
Kamiah
Vineland
Skinner & Ounce
Bollinger
United States Smelting Co
United States
Salt Lake City, Utah
United States Smeltting Co
Bingham Junction
Utah
Itis Chase & Sanborn
the Russell Grocery
John F. Hurlbut, M.D
Idaho Tea Company
Main ST
Clyde J
Poo E
Lewiston Fuel & Ig
Mint Baker 4& Smith
Clark Building
GEO. W. Tannahil
Courts of
Telephone
CLYDE
Wash
Seattle Wash
Jamison, Bldg
Judd
Pendleton
Naylor & Nor
Jay Woodworth
Net Room 3
Vollmer
Leak
tHors
Mallory & Lydoo
Charles G. Kas
Thiessen
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