The Boss Announces German Telephone Service
The Boss notes an installation of a German telephone for German friends to place orders in their language. The driver will deliver in English, and he adds that they are continuing to sell many items.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
5
Millinery Goods at Prices Lower Than Ever Dreamed
A brief advert notes unusually low millinery prices after our regular discounts. It invites readers to consider picking up hats and related accessories at deeply reduced rates, stressing exceptional value.
Licorice Root Trade in Asia Minor Fields
Licorice root grows wild in Asia Minor with Meander plains producing the best quality. Harvesting starts in October and peasants deliver to depots for payment. drying reduces weight by half by May or June. Exports to the United States total about 14,210 tons annually worth $550,000, shipped as raw material for licorice paste and tobacco flavoring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia Minor
Syria
Mesopotamia
Caucasia
Siberia
China
Chile Seeks American Engineers for Mining Ventures
Filipe Sol, a Chilean consulting engineer, and Juan M. Gatica, Chile’s attorney general, arrive in the United States to recruit competent American engineers for Chile’s mining and locomotive needs. Sol says Chile’s mining fields need skilled engineering, with gold veins under tapped potential and saltpeter mines underutilized. He notes private promises from Philadelphia engineers but declines public disclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Filipe Sol
Republic of Chile
Juan M. Gatica
United States
Valparaiso
Philadelphia Telegraph
Chile
Mr. Sol
Niagara Falls
New York
Philadelphia
Duck Ties Up Telephone System
A spoonbill duck caused a long distance line outage east of New York when it snagged two wires in a dramatic midair collision. Lineman report found the bird, with a broken neck, suspended by the cables just east of Altamont near the Northwestern railroad, twisting the lines into a short circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Altamont
Northwestern
Walton Ed Martin and kin visit Kokomo and beyond
Tribune special correspondence covers Walton Ed Martin and family Sunday at Kokomo plus numerous local visits. The piece notes George and Joe Baldwin from New Mexico visiting their mother and many neighbors, trips to Indianapolis, Frankfort, Tipton, and nearby towns with multiple relatives and social calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Martin
Kokomo
George and
Joe Baldwin
New Mexico
J. M. Webster
Indianapolis
Clarence
Dave Drake
Eastman Sanitarium
Sylvester Moore
Greencastle
Walton Friends
Earl Appleton
Tipton
Spet
Meleena Bumgarner
Kate Davis
Frankfort
E. H. Spivey
Virgil Flomerfelt
Blanche
Nathan McManus
Anoka
Home Telephone Company
Walton
Joe Ford
M. EB
Lincoln
Elmer Oden
Ed. Martin
Neff
Charles Searight
Galveston
John Turnpaugh
Earl Turnpaugh
Pence
Ind
Owen Robinson
Willard Brooks
Peru
Brooks
Norman Millers
Arthur Miller
Cleveland
Frank Wendling
T. J. Walker
John Walker
Charles
Harry Walker
Arthur
D. A. Stough
Kenneth
Lloyd
George Bennett
Gertrude
Daisy
Margaret Shaw
Port Huron
Mich
Charles E. Walker
Butler
Wendling
Royal Centre Hosts Reserves In Tight 10–8 Bout
Royal Center's Royal Centre Buke Barrow visits his mother as Mrs. S. M. Kistler and Grace Rhody stay at Kistler's cottage. Bryce Burton returns from Danville Illinois due to his mother's illness, now improving. Crescent Juniors of Kewanna beat the Royal Center Reserves 10 to 8 in an engaging match, with a rematch planned in a couple of weeks at Kewanna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buke Barrow
Crescent
Kewanna
Royal Center
This Place
Delphi Residents Noted In Local Travel Log
Flora kK D Callane visited Delphi on Tuesday. Emmett Small resumed his road work. Dr. Thomas Peters and his wife spent Monday in Delphi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett Small
Thomas Peters
Delphi
Bees mark man s coming in a race between Italian and German bees
Outing Magazine notes all honey bees originate from Europe or Asia and share no racial differences. It traces the spread of German and Italian bees in America from the 17th to 19th centuries, describing hybrids and the indistinguishability of wild and domesticated bees as Europeans and Indians observed boundary shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Asia
Mississippi
Outing Magazine
Old professor probes insect social life with scent clues
A witty exchange hints that renowned entomologist keeps chasing bugs to reveal insect social behavior. The banter notes moth balls as a playful nod to entomology.
Double Paying Taxes Tale From New York Office
A New York tax collector recalls cases of people mistakenly paying taxes twice or paying others taxes. A clerk recounts returning a $600 receipted bill and receiving another payment for the same amount, and a caller who had already paid his bill three weeks earlier. Women are observed paying husbands poll taxes and sometimes others taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chile as New England of South America and rapid industrial growth
J Gilbert Van Marter notes Chile’s Americanization with widespread North American influence from railways to newspapers. He cites $360 million in three years invested in nitrates, copper, mining, railways, irrigation canals, cold storage, sawmills, and farms as Chileans pursue extensive industrial development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
J. Gilbert van Marter
New England
South America
Santiago
United States
Martins’ Revenge at Farm Nests Attacked by Sparrows
Country Life reports a farm Tale where two house martins nested against an attic window each year. A sparrow occupied one nest, later martins blocked the nest hole, and a boy broke away nest parts to find the sparrow dead on her eggs, the martins having walled her in.
Age of sermons proves with ancient hour glasses
The Dundee Advertiser notes that the 20 minute sermon is a modern idea. In 1564 St Catherine's Aldgate recorded paying one shilling for an hour glass that hung by the pulpit to time a sermon. A rare 18 minute glass survives in the Chapel Royal Savoy, placed there in 1867.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Catherine’s Aldgate
Chapel Royal
Savoy
Dundee Advertiser
Beggar asks price of square meal in restaurant
A beggar pleads for the price of a square meal and is warned by a dyspeptic diner not to enter the restaurant for it, with the warning that a square meal may not be available. The exchange is recounted in a Philadelphia press item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Noble birth claim swamps Prussian Po land villagers
A Konitz priest replies to a government circular asserting that all 40 families in his village congregation are of noble birth, illustrating how noble ranks have proliferated in Po land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussian
Poland
Konitz
Clothes of the Man
Fragmentary note discusses clothing as a social signal and its use in judging character, with a wry caveat that attire can influence perception more than inner worth.
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