Local notes from Martingville crowd and surrounding area
Community news roundup with names of residents and visiting relatives. Updates include Baker and Rowland health, Baker and Grand Turn visits, Bechtold in Cleveland, Kimlin in Oklahoma, farming near Darien, Deahl sale to Steve Alrey, Claypool paralysis in Oklahoma, Melton accident with sow, Germain McNary fries sale, wage on frozen produce, storage and weather impacts, storm damage to Bill Sutton’s barn, Aken buys Melton interest, Sunday school convention, Maud Gregg from Chicago visiting, April 3 hide sale, May wedding of O'Brien and Martha Fry, Tom Johnson farm sale, interurban rail delay, Woodlawn school entertainment for primary chart, Shawers homestead claim near Kanza Cola, death of Mr Welsh in North Dakota, Dan Miller’s long trek from Pennsylvania, and a note on his loyalty to the Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Deahl
Steve Alrey
Elisha Claypool
Oklahoma
Jim Melton
Cleone
Germain & McNary
Woodlawn School
James Phillips
John Shawse
Kanza Cola
Shawrer
Shawer
George Welsh
Noth Dakota
Werd Ster
Dewees
Buford
Welsh
Dolson Township
North Dakota
Dan Miller
Pennsylvania
Terre Haute
Dan
Zybrigade
The
Herald
Savings at Timely Specials Offer Crockery and Tinware
A store promotes timely specials to save money on Tinware Enameled Ware Crockery and China inviting readers to switch purchases for cost relief. The ad emphasizes ongoing savings across home goods and encourages customers to buy locally.
Curtains Offer Best Value Across Wide Price Range
A local retailer touts lace curtains as sensible buys with prices from 1.00 to 150.00, claiming durable quality and strong value despite not being the largest stock or highest priced.
Ladies Knit Vests Bargain Quality Three Prices
The ad highlights three knit vest prices 10c 25c for two 2c and 15c straight grade. Vests are described as large full size not needing stretching and claimed to be better material than typical for these prices.
Hosiery Offers Repeat Customer Savings
A retailer touts repeated sales to loyal customers of ladies and children's hosiery. The ad claims durable, wear well stock at lower prices, inviting readers to let them supply their hosiery needs.
Good Ribbons At Low Prices From Direct Mills
A local store advertises good ribbons in a direct mill buy model offering wide colors and shades at low prices. It highlights extra wide ribbons for 10c per yard and emphasizes quality for the price.
Notice to Contractors for Clark County Printed Matter Bids
Seal bids for furnishing blanks stationary and other printed matter for Clark county officers must be received at the County Clerk's office by 12 oclock noon May 13 1910. The committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids or parts thereof.
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Clark County
Fata Morgana Seen Over Messina Strait Conditions
The fata morgana is a rare aerial mirage near the Messina Strait requiring a 45 degree sun angle calm sea and strong tidal current. Observers on Calabria’s heights may see shifting arches castles and ships that appear and vanish with rainbow-like halos, associated with Princess Morgana legends and good fortune beliefs.
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Strait of Messina
Sicily
Italy
Calabria
Messina
Steflinan
Morgana
The florin origin and diffusion in Europe
The florin, famed modern coin, originated in Florence and gave its name to the city according to some. Others tie the name to a flower device shown on the coin. Austria and Holland kept the florin as a monetary unit when European usage was broadest due to Italian city states and diverse coinage across the continent.
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Florence
France
America
Austria
Holland
Europe
Italy
The Autocrat and the Son on Reputation
The recon dite person recalls the autocrat's remark that a man bears a reputation he expects to have someday. The practical observer notes his son just out of college echoed a thought about keeping or projecting reputation despite uncertainty.
Fragmentary note hints at value and desire for jewelry
The text sketches a vague idea of measuring value by spending power and mentions a pig that rarely shows interest in toys or jewelry. It includes stray phrases about tomorrow and a ring, with unclear names or dates.
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Toy
Dr Byles the Guard and a Thanksgiving Cider Jest
The Puritan divine Mather Byles famed for wit and Tory views was confined in his house with a guard after a 1777 sentence. On Thanksgiving the sentinel vanished to fetch cider for Byles who kept guard over himself, quipping about the situation.
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Byles
Mather Byle
Boston
Hollis Street Congregational Church
England
Board of War
Sentinel
Dr Byles
The Ancient Bow and Its Global Form
The article traces bow designs from Scythian C shaped bows to Tartars, Greek four foot bows, and Roman entry into Britain. It notes English longbows and arbalests shaping medieval warfare, with arbalests needing mechanical aids to string and carrying fifty arrows in the van.
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Britain
Crecy
Poitiers
Agincourt
St. James
Why She Couldn't Accept
A Philadelphia Times item recounts a broker who dialed the wrong number and overheard a flirtatious conversation. The mistaken caller invites the “dear” to lunch and a show, but the other party reveals her husband is at home, indicating a wrong-number embarrassment.
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Philadelphia Times
Weight of Atmosphere and Its Properties
The atmosphere is a mechanical mix of nitrogen and oxygen in a four to one ratio with small amounts of carbonic acid gas and water vapor. It reaches about fifty miles thick, possibly extending to 500 miles, and exerts fifteen pounds per square inch of surface pressure, weighing over eleven and a half trillion pounds. An adult inhales one gallon of air per minute and uses about thirty ounces of oxygen daily. A gas jet consumes as much oxygen as four to five people.
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Globe
Bostonian recalls General Warren’s fall at Bunker Hill
In a satirical note from Puck, the Bostonian declares General Warren fell as a joke about a potential moving picture act. The Chicago observer casts a speculative gaze up and down the Bu oker Hill monument, hinting at the era’s pop culture framing.
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Warren Fell
Sol
Chicago
Buoker Hill Monument
Puck
As Good as Refused. A Romantic Quip in Chicago Record-Herald
A fragmentary quote reports a woman saying she would marry if the man settled down and worked at something worthwhile. The exchange is labeled as nearly equal in wit and irony, reflecting contemporary attitudes toward caution and romance.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Shoe Sale Promises Broad Footwear Selection
Big lot of women's shoes and oxfords in petenh vici and kid offered. Includes BBC Play shoes Grover's soite shoes Queen Quality women’s styles Wicket-Gardner men’s options Stacy Adams line. Steven's 124¢c crash noted. 81x90 inch sheets and 18c 42x36 inch pillow cases appear in stray text.
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Vici
Kid
Css
BBC
Grover
Queen
Wicket-Gardner
Stacy Adams
Phantom coach haunts English manor before family death
A spectral four horse coach is seen at a southwest England manor foretelling a family member’s fatal change. Guests heard the phantom on Christmas, the next morning telegram reveals the manor head’s death, a repeat of a forty year-old omen.
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England
Chriistmas
Remarkable man studies words in dictionary
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes a man who calmly looks up unfamiliar words in the dictionary rather than forcing them into conversation. The piece celebrates measured self control and literacy over flash.
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Louiisville Courter-Journal
How could he have married that termagant wife of his
A Baltimore American quote notes the irony that the wife was “maid of money” in a light remark about marriage.
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Baltimore American
Quote exchange and social tease from London Telegraph text
Fragmentary dialogue features a waiter and Mr McTavish with playful reproach and a joke about memory. The garbled lines suggest a clipped newspaper item or column snippet showing social banter and a literary aside.
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Bez Pardon
Mr. McTavish
Mannie
London Telegraph
Seed Potatoes and Fruits Bargains in Local Offer
Seed potatoes prices drop with many varieties listed for sale per bushel and per peck. California peaches advertised as 25 cent grade and smoked jowls and pickled pork offer bargain meat by the pound. Flour brands Magnolia Martinsville Randall's Queen Gold Medal noted with lower sack prices.
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Martinsville
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