Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition Opens In 1907
An eight mile Hampton Roads site near Norfolk Va hosts the Jamestown Ter-Centennial exposition starting April 2 1907. The event will feature a grand naval display with ships from gunboats to man of war, spectacular pageantry, and a selective industrial exhibit showing the growth of the nation. Recreated colonial architecture and landscape design will frame government and state buildings along the waterfront as the center of attention for 1907.
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Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Virginia
Hampton Hotels
America
James
United State
Callad at the Wrong Place
An elant hero pleads at a cottage back door on waslday asking for help after losing his Jeg. The woman snaps and shuts the door, ending the appeal in a curt exchange from Tadivs’ Tome Journal.
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Waslday
Flarrely
Modern Robin Hoods and the Lost Archery Skill
The fragment laments changing times as skill at archery wanes. It hints that local talent shifts toward women and questions whether traditional archers like Alii, Hh. Goon, Robin Woods, and fal tla Johns will be found producing bows with Morris Lube, amid village life in Maglale Country.
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Thingland
Robin Woods
Fal Tla Johns
Wanda
Mearrow
Maglale
Notice To Taxpayers of the Town of Jordan
Notice to taxpayers of Jordan about tax collection starting Wednesday December 26 with weekly bank visits at Citizens Bank Saturdays until December 1 and Farmers Bank of Browntown Mondays December 8 and January 7. Balance of time at home. Come early and avoid the rush. Treasurer Kuvrger.
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Jordan
Citizens Bank
Farmers Bank of Browntown
Kuvrger
Tax collection notice for Town of Tlarno
Notice to taxpayers states Harp C. Beckman will collect taxes at home on December 26 and 27 and 29, at Citizens bank in Monroe on Fridays and Saturdays, and at home otherwise except Saturdays when he remains at the Monroe bank through February 1.
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Citizens Bank
Monroe
Harp C. Beckman
A Welsh Jury and a Narrow Cut of Verdict
An English judge and counsel recount a Welsh jury acquittal after a lawyer’s Welsh address. The piece notes Bramwell’s restraint and a self referential quip about the jury’s understanding. It also sketches how “Picking away” routes through terrain, illustrating trial brevity and decision loops with a travel metaphor from Outing Magazine.
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Baron Bramwell
South Wales
Name Coincidences At Cambridge and Leeds Marriages
An English paper notes name coincidences from Cambridge and Leeds. Two Japanese students, M Seda and M Wisug, have adjacent surnames on a residence list. J Lanter recalls filling a vacant village pulpit once, the preacher sharing the surname Ox. In Leeds a Miss Orange married Mr Peel, foreshadowing a possible hyphenated offspring. A diary fragment cites Ann Devil who later marries Mr Angel, a curious turn noted by Dr. John Epps.
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Cambridge University
M. Seda
M. Wisug
Lst
J. Lanter
Leeds
Orange
Peel
John Epps
Ann Devil
Ann Angel
Mary
Angel
Daring Russian General Roams Shipka Ridge Amid Battle
During the fiercest fighting at Shipka Pass General Dragomtrott, stout and calm, rode ahead of his troops. He dismounted, walked along a ridge under Turkish fire, and yelled to his men to seize the moment. The battalion cheered, rallied, and charged, forcing the Turks to retreat.
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Shipka Pass
Dragomtrott
Lim
Why Randa Help Marching Music As A Stimulus For Soldiers
The text discusses how music fosters cadence and boosts exertion by stimulating new nerve centers. It notes weariness is often mental and that muscles outpace nerves, so music can renew energy during marching. It suggests music provides a pleasant stimulus to replace monotony and fatigue in soldiers.
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Randa
Tley
Starting Tight Screws On a Screw Press
The article explains starting a tht screw with a screwdriver held firmly without turning, then gripping sideways with clove-like jaws near the screw head to turn it. It notes that waxy glue is better than rivets and warns to leave only the tip on the screw to avoid bending a badly tempered tool.
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Scientific American
Notice to Taxpayers in Monroe for Lawn taxes collection
Taxes may be paid at the Commercial and Savings Bank of Monroe for the Lawn of Monroe, where collection will occur on dates listed: Saturday December 29, and every Saturday in January, plus the first and second Mondays in January. Frep Farsan, Treasurer.
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Commercial and Savings Bank
Monroe
Frep Farsan
Treas
Boarders Wanted Near Post Office at Mc Cuimmant House
Mrs Schillmann seeks a few boarders two blocks east of the post office at the Mc Cuimmant house offering lodging.
Milk fed kid gloves from French goatherds warned
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes that true milk fed kids yield the softest and most pliable kid gloves. French mountaineers rear kids with mothers in rocky enclosures, avoiding grass to preserve skin texture.
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France
Ctueinnatl Enquirer
Tuxedo Name Origin Tied to Duck Cedar Site
The tuxedo coat derives its name from the Tuxedo colony once known as Duck Cedar. Original settlers like George Tidabech named the area, where the fish pond lake and cedar trees inspired the evolving place name before it became Tuxedo.
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Tuxedo
George Tidabéch
Tidabech
Husband of imprisoned suffragette pledges daily fund
While his wife, one of the suffragettes jailed in London, remains imprisoned, Pethick Lawrence promises to subscribe fifty dollars a day to the suffrage fund for each day of her confinement. The motive, whether sympathy or gratitude, is not stated.
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Pethick Lawrence
London
Woman's Suffrage Fund
Tilton Auctioneer BLT Debates a Heckler in Brouhaha
William Lang known as BLT the veteran Tilton auctioneer faces a heckler who jokes about a fly landing on his head. Lang fires back with a sharp retort about the heckler slipping up if a horse slips through.
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William 2 Lang
Tilton
Bil
Needed a Light Engagement prompts social snub over match
Kandor tells Galley Roxby engagement sparks opposition from her people who deem him unequal despite her wealth. He probes why she agrees, pondering family pressures and social odds.
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Galley
Busts and a Clerk's Quip Stir Boston Newspaper Room
An exchange recounts a moment in a Boston building's newspaper room where a visitor objects to Irish busts. A clerk replies that a bust of Lucifer exists in the periodical room, noting he was not Irish, highlighting humor over cultural figures in the public space.
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Hush O'Brien
Boston
John Doyle O'Reilly
Nan
Iriahmen
Lucifer
Riter Visits Father Then Heads to Ainsworth for Work
Theodore Riter, son of Richard Riter, is visiting his father and left for Ainsworth Nebraska today. He is employed as an operator for the Northwestern road.
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Theodore Riter
Richard Riter
Ainsworth
Neb
Fragmented excerpts reveal stray humor and Milton praise
The passage blends a Chicago Tribune style anecdote about a five cent lunch counter prank with a question about a Rogued divorce and a note on Milton. It cites Audruy Vani the Roman consul and ends by claiming Milton valued Paradise Lost over other works, noting his 1629 poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity as his earliest and best.
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Walter
Tess
Chicago
Milton
Nilton
Inabable Verbiage From a Genteel Household
A fragment presents a child named Mabel speaking to a parent about a figure named Iust Lave who keeps money hidden. The dialogue hints at tension over concealment and trust within the household dynamics and social propriety.
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Mabel
Papa
For Sale Fifteen Polard Chins Pigs and Sows
Fragmentary ad notes fifteen Polard chin pigs and the same number of sows eligible to register. Mentions location one mile south of aguaro Taos SurtH. It references lending trouble and patience as apportionment but details are unclear.
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Aguaro
Taos
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