Indiana’s Must Register Cars Law Enacted in 1921
A new Indiana act requires certificates of title for autos, with 50 cent fee, lifetime title to original owner, and strict rules for dealers. The law makes operating without title a felony after 90 days and imposes penalties for removing marks, while establishing an Auto Theft Fund and duties for the Secretary of State to track stolen and recovered vehicles. Fred Sargent of Monticello is named local registrar to inform owners.
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Indiana
Fred Sargent
Monticello
White County
Auto Theft Fund
Secretary of State
Tire price list with assorted sizes and non skid notes
A fragmented price notice lists tire sizes such as 30x315 32x31 31x4 and 34x41 with non skid description. It includes variations like plain and Bax entries with prices roughing around 1.00 and other unclear values.
Mirage in Nevada Desert Witnesses Moving Mirage Scene
A desert observer describes a Nevada mirage showing camp scenes with wagons horses and a camp fire that appear and vanish. Two coyotes and grazing horses watch the moving images as the scene shifts and finally fades into the desert heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirage
Nevada Desert
Mirage Lake
Fminus A. Mills
Saturday Evening Post
May flowers and luck across cultures
A compact survey of superstitions about flowers. Crocus, anemone, wild daisy, rose petals, and the cuckoo flower are linked to luck, healing, and protection in Austria, Egypt, France, Devon, the Turkic regions, and Samoa, with customs from wrapping to avoid misfortune to guarding petals to influence destinies.
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Austria
Egypt
French
Devonshire
England
Samoa
Tea's Uneasy Roots In A Mythic Chinese Legend
An article recounts a Chinese legend about Darma son of an Indian king visiting China in 519 A D. Devout yet austere he slept, wept, cut off his eyelids, and Ga turned into chan leaves. The tale links eyelids to tea plants and traces tea's arrival to China then London.
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Darma
China
London
High Living at the American Sunday Supper
An Englishman experiences his first American Sunday night supper filled with multiple dishes. He samples everything on the table and tries a fish ball with honey, then warns a neighbor after noticing a strong, unsettling taste.
Growth and effort for better marriages urged
Advice urges married couples to work on growing together through effort and care. It notes no human relationship, especially marriage, thrives without attention and emphasizes unselfishness and thoughtful practice as keys to stronger unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Magazine
Adventurers Leave Relics From South Seas and War in Museums
A Scots collector benevolently donates a large South Sea relics collection to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. An American, a veteran, gifts a Boxer flag to the Golden Gate Memorial Museum in San Francisco. The Boxer flag recalls the siege of the legations and wartime ordeals. the South Sea items mark journeys of two strong men in distant lands.
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Pacific Coast
South Sea
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Golden Gate Memorial Museum
San Francisco
Legations
St. Mihiel
Meuse
Argonne
Ypres
How to hang and display pictures neatly
Instructions for preparing paper on frame for picture backing and hanging methods. It covers wetting paper, applying paste, pressing, locating a beam for a hidden wire, lining up with mopboard, using two nails to hide wire, and using brass-headed tacks at the frame corners to allow air flow behind the mounted picture.
How to Remove a Cork From a Bottle and The Lilae Tree
A guide advises greasing the bottle neck with vaseline and cooling it, then using a hatpin to pierce the cork or shaking to block the neck. Heat or pour hot water to expand air and drive out the cork with a small bang. The Lilae Tree is praised as among the finest flowering trees with a strong fragrance and olive family ties.
Dowries By Weight In Colonial Boston And Philadelphia Tales
The tale of Hannah Hull Sewall balances pine tree shillings as a dowry while Joseph Richardson later boasts a daughter is “worth her weight in gold” and actually gifts gold to seal a marriage. An earlier Boston mint master story contrasts with Richardson's pledge in a later era.
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Boston
John Hull
Massachusetts
Hannah
Hannah Hull
Samuel Sewall
New England
Joseph Richardson
Philadelphia
Sarah
Nichol Wain
Richardson
Captain Hall
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Machlom
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Seertog
Neca
Ghent
Titte Angeles
Manu
Facturer
Das the
Fik
Mater Ve Pte Bey
Ruane
Yees
The
Tire Shop
Beence
Bax
Herald
BUICK
Eber of
Satifacton
Flint
Michigan
Buick Motor Company
Flint, Mich
Cara
Pulaski County
Many
Adams
Jefferson
Carroll County
Monticello Lumber & Coal Co
J. Brearley
D. Meeker
DELCO
Delco-Light
J. C. Reece
Monticello, Ind
Delco -Light Company
Jimmy
Prince Albert
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