Fat Prizes Attract English Pros Entering U S Motor Sports
English professionals expected to race Americans at the Illinois State Fair motor cycle events on Friday and Saturday September 1 and 2. Prize money draws top riders and international entrants with Wright airplanes to display during the exhibitions.
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Yeptember
Wilte
Ana Tur
United States
Bu Cie Board of Agricultures
Thea
Olmer
Fridas
Bulllishead
Iluet State
Avs
Illinois Central Railroad backs farm fair exhibit plan
Illinois Central Railroad seeks active interest for a state fair display across six counties. Boys under 21 from various districts can collect farm product exhibits with rail shipment to Sprenetie for free. Prizes total 1250 across grains vegetables fruits and forage plants plus a 500 grand sweepstakes.
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Illinois Centre
Cing
Ilinois
Fie
Cariye
Bay
Clair
Board of Agriculture
Illnois Central
Joe Carr
Mlinois Central
Chicago & Alton
State ‘Fair Grounds
Watches For The Blind Open Their Time By Tact
A New York Times report describes watches made without crystals for the sightless. Raised numerals and tactile hands let a blind person tell the hour by touch, using a hunting case style case with embossed numerals.
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Mans
New York Times
Meat for Music and the Ox Minuet Tale
The article recounts odd musical titles born from publishers efforts to boost sales. An anecdote tells how a butcher and his daughters admired Haydn and asked for a wedding minuet. A band circled an ox as a gift, and the piece became known as the Ox minuet.
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Haydn
Imousse
Olinuet
Traydn
W. Froancis Gates
Franklin learned manners and public life through daily practice
The text recounts Franklin gathering thirteen small manners principles, applying one each week for four weeks, and continuing annually, shaping a renowned statesman. It notes a China archway custom of hanging boots as farewell symbols and discusses praise for Shakespeare's Othello as a dramatic peak in English drama.
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Franklin
Frank Haoofetry
Hartington Finerson
Engineering Magazine
China
Hananhua
William Winter
Pottie
Fragmented comic exchange on kitchen duties and gossip
A fragmented transcript shows a playful exchange about a green servant girls and a wife instructing to add nutmeg to custard. The dialogue references a mistress or partner and a humorous trial of a domestic mishap with confusion over tasks and reactions.
Logan and wife endure peril to support Union cause
A sketch in The Illinois Statesman recalls Mrs. Logan’s fearless ride to Mar ion to warn her husband, then General Logan, of threats against his life. She defied mobs, urged him to face the crowd, and later followed him to the front while tending to home duties and farming at home.
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John A. Logan
Illinois Statesman
Logan
Congress
Lincoln
Sumter
Marion
Mars Logan
Carbondale
Captain Swindell
Assum
Southern Illinois
Wiust
Sherlock Holmes Stories Run Daily in Chicago Record Herald
The Chicago Record Herald expands its Sherlock Holmes output by printing both short and long tales daily, following Sunday episodes from its earlier series Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The plan includes A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, with readers flocking to the paper for world famous detective fiction.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Chicago
Herald
Colimans
Sherlock Holmes
Record Herald
Hondr
Hare
Conan Doyle
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Fors
Cotte Mercia
Sturm Fur Rureu
Nycia
Illinois Central Railroad
Robert Ier
Cates Roth
Caren
Tnt
enErys Logan
Black Eagle
Gourt
I Marshall
Hughes’ Department Store
New Cloaks & Women’s Suits
Hughes
Joe Eee
Cole
Shipe Hardware Co
OUR
State of Illinois
Clark
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