Local notes highlight health, moves, and plans in Martinsville
Editor notes life in Martinsville with health updates, moving plans, and local activities. Ernest Kellum moves to Johnson township. revival services start February at Church of God Bethel. Many residents visit, work changes noted, and readers urged to test dynamite cap force.
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Ezekiel
Ernest Kellum
Johnson Township
Grandma Fix
Kate Duncan
ER. C. Miller
Golden Mills
L. A. Gilbert
Anderson
Rob Alrey
Ross Smith
Randall
Arthur Blankenbeker
Oklahoma
Chas. Blankenbeker
A. C. Neuhart
French Lick Ind
Millers
Church of God
Bethel
Cox
Hutsonville
Roscoe Cleaver
Brexico
St. Louis
Chas. Cook
Chico
Calif
John Cook
Col
Walker Hull
State University At
Urbana
Venus
Phil Jewel
Dan Sny‘der
Jess Johnson
Lew Sutton
Yes Ballard
New Cape Folly
Gem Peing
Joseph Fishback
Marshall
Texas Rangers No More Will Disband After Legislature Action
A dispatch reports the Texas legislature will end funding for the Rangers and disband the mounted police force once famed for restoring order after the Civil War era violence. The piece credits the Rangers with reducing deadly lawlessness and establishing broad autonomy and effectiveness along the Texas border.
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Texas
South
Texas Rangers
Sense of Danger and intuitive perception in crowds
Dr. Waldo of London argues people should cultivate a sixth sense to sense danger in streets. Lafcadio Hearn recalls preferring intuition over faces in crowds, comparing it to a blind faculty that guides safe movement through dense press.
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Waldo
London
Lafcadio Hearn
A Sight Worth Paying For
A cab and weary horse halt before a public house as a boy greets the driver with a playful line. The driver jokes about paying if the horse runs away, capturing a vignette from the street.
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Preto
Manchester Guardian
Hie Contribution
A brief exchange from the Philadelphia Record notes a weary wayfarer replying he has just completed thirty days in service to the community, answering a solid citizen’s prompt about public good.
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Wayfarer
Philadelphia Record
Nice car quip highlights punctuality joke in Houston Post
Brief humorous exchange notes a car that is praised as the latest model but mocked for missing timely arrivals. The line underscores light newsroom wit about modern mobility.
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Houston Post
Hamlin's Soliloquy in the Museum Scene
Hamlin delivers a wry aside about the tattooed man in the museum. He imagines the fellow could suffer if he ever gets the jimjams. The moment underscores the play’s dark comic tension between characters.
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Hamlin
Women's Clothing Sale Prices Cut Dramatically
Women's skirts that were to five dollars are now 98 cents. Cloaks and furs once priced up to ten dollars drop to 98 cents to 3.98. One and two of a sort cloaks with former prices up to twenty five dollars now 4.98 to 9.98. Cloaks and furs once up to 35 dollars now 10.98 to 12.98. Muslin underwear wraps kimonos and rain coats sacrificed.
Clothing Slaughtered at Factory Outlet Sale
Bargain hunters flock to a clearance event featuring deep discounts on menswear and boys’ pants and suits. Heavy moleskin pants 49c, odd wool pants up to 4 per pair, suits and overcoats 1.98 to 4.98, odd suits up to 12.00, one quarter off Hart Schaffner Marx and premium coats. Wool lined caps 50c.
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Hart Schaffner & Marx
Mrs Louis More to Represent First Lady at Washington Dinners
Mrs Louis More, a Cincinnati native and wife of a university man, is said to be the likely representative of Mrs Taft at diplomatic dinners and major social events in Washington. The piece also covers a domestic sketch of Mrs More and notes on Women’s Clubs civics efforts and public cleanliness initiatives.
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Louis More
Taft
More
Washington
White House
Buckeye
Thes
Ohio
Doybics Intther University
S of
Vnennat
Nnabaraliyris Pawite
Ortun
Women's Clubs
Committee On Civics
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
American Civic Federation
Philip N. Broore
Lost Umbrella On Train Sparks Comedy Search
On a southern Wisconsin train an excited woman demanded her missing umbrella from her sleepy husband. The couple, amid a noisy improvised crowd, searched under seats and around the car with no success as tension and humor rose during the journey.
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Wisconsin
Ee Cane News Eh
Shoe Sale Prices for Men Women and Children
A local shoe sale lists various prices for men women and children. Deals include 48c pair for children 75c and 1 for some shoes, 98c for women's felt to 1.75 shoes, 98c for boys odd styles, 1.48 for men odd sizes, 2 to 2.50 work and dress shoes, 2.48 for men in patent calf and colt skins, 25c slippers, 25c fleeced underwear, and one quarter off all men and boys winter underwear and union suits.
Bargains in Weir & Weir Real Estate Loans Ad
Real estate notice offers multiple parcels near Marshall Walnut Prairie Terre Haute and West Union. Listings include 60 to 225 acres with features such as cultivated land, woods, barns and wells priced from 40 to 70 per acre.
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Main St
Marshall
Walnut Prairie
Terre Haute
West Union
Westfield
Auburn
Corner Salt and Provisions Ad Promotes Bargains
An old styled ad from Martinsville lists salt in barrels and bags at 1.25 dollars per barrel, oats 5 cents per pound, rice 5 cents per pound, flour 80 cents per sack, fancy potatoes 80 cents per bushel, corn meal 20 cents per sack, Continental coffee the best for the money, and produce prices with market quotes.
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Martinsville
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