MARVELOUS PALMISTRY OFFER AT MERRIMACK STREET
Palmistry advertisement from Oriental Temple of Palmistry and Astrology at 81 Merrimack Street invites both sexes to have their hands read for 25 or 50 cents. Office hours 9 am to 9 pm daily. Claims numerous recommendations from officials and professionals and promises readings on life, marriage, divorce, law, and business.
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Sterling Palmist
Oriental Temple of Palmistry
Merrimack Street
Mde
Publc
Courier-Citizen
Palmer’s Palmistry Service Cuts Sugar Prices
The Sterling Palmist offers psychic readings at 81 Merrimac Street with charges of 36 and 50 cents. Office hours 9 a.m. to daily and Sunday. Telephone 1880. Also Dickson's Tea Store at 68 Merrimack Street advertises granulated sugar at sixteen pounds for $1 delivered free to tea and coffee customers.
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Oriental Temple of Palmistry
Merrimac Street
Dickson’s Tea Store
Merrimack Street
Handwritten palm reader closes mail in 1909 inquiry list
The Sterling Palmist stops taking new letters to answer specimens sent to the Courier-Citizen. Readings offered at 81 Merrimack Street and office hours 9 to 9. The page prints brief personality notes for recipients, including GEO and Violet Melligan, with forecasts of travel, fortune, and old age.
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Oriental Sterling Palmist
Courier-Citizen
Junoc
Grace B
Brewster
Rebecca
Geo
Z. X
Phil
Violet Melligan
The Lake Shore line era and its enduring service
A nostalgic reflection credits a century of development along the Lake Shore route, praising a vast network that now whirls thousands east and west at speed with safety and ease. The text urges travelers to choose the Lake Shore for a superior journey under the “Via The Lake Shore” banner.
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Lake Shore
Waytheea
Cs Trunk A
Removal and Clearance Sale at Holmes Specialty Store
After 11 years at 124 and 126 Merrimack Street Chris Holmes plans to move and vacate the store. His collection of this season's best ladies and misses ready to wear garments must be sold at once with terrific reductions. Sale begins Friday at 9 a.m. See Caris Holmes's specialty ad.
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Merrimack Street
Chris Holmes
Caris
Holmes
Ady
Confederates Gather in Louisville for Fifteenth U S Veterans Meet
Louisville hosts thousands for the fifteenth annual United Confederate Veterans convention as General Wheeler and General Stephen D. Lee receive cheers. General Lee presides, using a gavel carved from Fort Sumter wood. Strong attendance and patriotic sentiment mark the event in Hopkins Theatre.
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Louisville
United Confederate Veterans
United Song of Confederate Veterans
Hopkins Theatre
Marion W. Ripey
Sons of Veterans
W. R. Bingham
N. R. Tisdale
Rusk
Tex
Simon Boliver Buckner
Young
Stephen Lee
Joe” Wheeler
Carrie Peyton Wheeler
Wheeler
Stephen D. Lee
Gen. Lee
Appomattox
Henry W. Grady
Lee
Fort Sumter
First Attack In Force On Fortress Monroe
Fort Monroe Virginia reports the first forceful attack at 7 o'clock as Admiral Dickins's squadron moves eight ships in an arc between Cape Henry and Cape Charles. A half hour bombardment ends with no closer approach than 10 miles. The fleet includes the Texas Hartford four monitors and two smaller ships. Puritan identified as having freed from mud at Point Lookout. Admiral Dickins probes Washington and Baltimore defenses while Fort Monroe intercepts a message about a supposed 2:30 attack that fails to occur.
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Fort Monroe
Admiral Dickins
Cape Henry
Cape Charles
Texas
Hartford
Point Lookout
Dicking
Chesapeake
Washington
Baltimore
Admiral Dicking
Newark
Taft at Miami university speaks on expansion and justice
Secretary Taft at Miami University argues for the United States’ material expansion and peaceful influence abroad, criticizes Chinese exclusion for its harsh tests, warns against injuring trade, and urges justice in domestic issues such as divorce and official salaries. He questions uniform marriage law and reflects on administration fairness. The remarks close with a comic strip exchange from Yonkers Statesman.
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Oxford
Miami University
William H. Taft
Taft
California
Congress
Far West
Opgar
Congress of the Union
Supreme Court of
United States
Friday Petticoat Day Offers Novelty Petticoats
Friday Petticoat Day features golf petticoats for short skirts made of cambric with tuck flounces. Richer lawn styles priced at $1.00 and $1.50 are displayed alongside sunburst lawn petticoats for wear under shirts and dresses. Finest lawn in many shades with a 25 inch accordion pleated flounce. $2.00 value, selling quickly.
Petticoats offered at Friday sale at Merrimack Street
An advertisement lists $100 for eleven silk petticoats sold yesterday at $8.00 each. They describe rustling taffeta with a tucked flounce and silk dust ruffle. The seller marks these down to clear space for better skirts at this price nearby on Merrimack Street.
Much Desired Witness Before Grand Jury
Chicago June 14 John C Driscoll the much desired witness in the bribery investigation by the state's attorney and grand jury appeared for three hours. The proceedings were secret but it was said he did not reveal all startling stories of corruption. Assistant State Attorney Fake expressed satisfaction with early results. Driscoll disclosed strikes causes settlements and sums paid to labor leaders and detailed his role in forming the Coal Team Owners Association and ties to Albert Young.
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Chicago
John C. Driscoll
Grand Jury
Inquisitor
Driscoll
Fake
State
Attor
Erie Train Struck Auto Near Goshen Kills Couple
Middleton NY June 14 An Erie train struck an automobile driven by Richard Sayer of Englewood NJ, with his wife and two sons aboard The Sayers were killed instantly and their sons gravely injured The chauffeur escaped by leaping clear after warning by bystanders not to cross the tracks
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Sayer
Six Inch Shell Explodes Aboard British Battleship Magnificent
Gibraltar June 14 During gun practice on the British first class battleship Magnificent off Tetuan a six inch shell exploded due to breech defect. Eighteen persons were wounded including four officers, eleven seriously. The blast occurred inside the gun.
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Gibraltar
Tetuan
Translation of Daudet sketch on John Byng printed
The Liberal paper Nashua Shiza in St. Petersburg on June 15 prints a Daudet translation about John Byng, the English admiral shot for cowardice in 1757, omitting Rear Admiral Nebo Jatoff from mention.
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St. Petersburg
Nashua Shiza
Nebo~atoff
Daudet
John Byng
Nickel Plate Reduces Fares to Portland and West Coast
Nickel Plate Road offers very low round trip rates to Portland and other Pacific Coast points with daily tickets to Portland and return for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. On select days in June July and August passengers may travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles and return for various national conventions. Write L. P. Burgess Hi FE. P. A. Old South bridge Boston for details on routes rates sleepers and schedules.
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Nickel Plate Road
Portland
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Los Angeles
L. P. Burgess
Hi FE. P. A
Old South Pbridg
Boston
Aes
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Madras
Selvage
Palmer Street
Oriental Temple
Merrimack St
Lowell, Mass
United Country
Fortress Monroe
Washington Life
Ace
Commerce
Equitable
Gotham
Yonkers Statesman
WHITE
Merrimack St.—lé
Percales
Manhattan
Eagle Make
Daylight
American House Bik
Central Street
Erie
Rhodes Hair Store
Supolio
T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
Haut-Ton
Gouraud
U. S
Canada
Europe
Ford
T. Hopkins
Great Jones St
New York
Gardner Bros
Pine Street
Highlands
Optician Geo. G. Rogers
Mass
Ernest R. Crawford
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