Local notes and social updates from the Montpelier area
Short items report a school board meeting at the high school building, visits by F A Gelkey and wife, Miss Harriett Putnam’s Christmas trip to Illinois, and college students returning home for holidays. Also listed are trading activity, K of P lodge plans, doctor C J Blackman’s schedule, and a rural family update on Isaac Jones’s brief illness after a street incident.
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Garey Mounsy
Indiana University
Ross
Harry Maddox
Hartford City
Harriett Putnam
Fise Rock
Ill
K. Putnam
Cleo Milikan
Mavel Ely
Delaware, O
Local notes and notices from Stuffton Muncie and Montpelier
Kenneth Hayes visits friends in Stuffton and Jed Whitman and Dan Foy plan several days in Kokomo. Mrs. J C Bennett visits Harry Singer in Muncie. Mrs. Doc Griffith and daughter from Alexandria visit sister Mrs. Clem Pmilabaum. Mrs. Anna Risk takes on Central Union toll board. Richard Kerlin returns to Toledo after duties with National Equipment. For sale Duroc boats by Wm E McIntire near Montpelier. Foley remedies advertised. Dr Charles Sellers visits Indianapolis. H C Brannum improves in hospital. Pioneer Drug Store promotes Honey Cough Syrup. Auctioneer Charles M. Cam available. F W Holmes family to Chicago and Freeport for holidays. Foley kidney remedy touted. Mrs Rose Mc grain obituary from Hiland Falls. Hartford City fire dept to hold New Years ball to aid Northeastern Volunteer Firemen. Call 91 to report Christmas guests out of city. Judge Sturgis fixes February venire date.
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Kenneth Hayes
Stuffton
J. C. Bennett
Harry D. Singer
Muncie
Doc Griffith
Alexandria
Clem Pmilabaum
Jed Whitman
Dan Foyleft
Kokomo
Anna Risk
Unon Toll Board
Ida Burris
Montpelier Fair Grounds Sold at $10000 Bid
Levi Huffman, a major stockholder, bought the Montpelier Fair and Driving Park grounds for $10 000 at the administrator sale held at C W Kinnan's office. The bid topped appraised value by 2400, and appears aimed at covering association notes. The sale ends current affairs and a new organization is expected to form to run better races.
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Montpelier Fair
C. W. Kinnan
Levi Huffman
Tumelf
Ecas
Gid Amacciation
Montpelier
Gompers Sentenced to Twelve Months in Buck Stove Boycott Case
Samuel Gompers received a twelve month term from the District of Columbia Supreme Court in the Buck Stove Co boycott case. John Mitchell and Secretary Morrison were sentenced to nine months. Justice Wright imposed the sentences, drawing strong reaction from labor leaders.
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Indianapolis, Inc
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Morrison
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Wright
Buck Stove Co
American Federation of Labor
Las Loosa Red Men Plan Twenty Fourth Anniversary
The Las Loosa tribe of Red Men prepares for its twenty fourth anniversary celebration at the hall next Monday evening December 28. The event is a home coming for out of town members with many braves expected to answer roll call. A fine program will be followed by a banquet served by the Pocahovias sisters. The local order is among the state’s most prosperous.
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Las Loosa
Red Men
Quaker Poet Whittier Early Poetic Call at Haverhill
In Mrs. Abby Woodman's reminiscences of John Greenleaf Whittier, Whittier recalls at age twenty feeling like a real poet and delivering an original poem at the Haverhill academy dedication. He joined Robert Fornswore in reading as part of a street procession honoring the event, contrasted with the stern veteran’s whisky fueled swagger, leaving Whittier humbled by the distinction. He reflects on the moment as the origin of being known as the Quaker poet.
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John Greenleaf
Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
Abby J. Woodman
Oak Kuroll
Haverhill Academy
Men Academy
Robert Fornswore
Windham
Haverhill
New Academy
Strange acidic lake on Sulphur Island New Zealand
A lake about fifty acres in Sulphur Island center near New Zealand sits twelve feet deep and fifteen feet above sea level. Water is hot alkaline with hydrochloric and sulfuric acids at 110 degrees Fahrenheit, emitting dense sulfur fumes. Opposite shore shows massive blowholes with roaring jets and eroded rocks. A boat can be launched, but edges and rivets corrode from the acidic water, posing danger to visitors.
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Sulphur Island
New Zealand
Nacre
Aci
Nci
Race of Ancient Britons and Bracketed Portraits of Prehistoric Peoples
Fragmentary analysis describes early Bronze Age Britons from Aberdeenshire Secthina as broad headed with about five feet tall stature, contrasting with long headed British Neolithic and Bronze Age groups. A stray dialogue from Stray Stories appears among the text.
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Anys
J. Gray
Britain
Life's Journey a Burden for Montpelier Residents
Montpelier residents report heavy burdens of back pain and urinary discomfort. Catharine Chrismer of West Green Street credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid improvement after years of kidney trouble and failed remedies.
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Dean
Montpelier
Catharine Chrismer
West Green Street
Ind
Language Origins From Old Battles and Norman Roots
A compact note traces English word origins from Viking battle cries to Norman French roots. Hurrah and huzza derive from crusader and Viking phrases, yes from oyez, no from con Ka, mister from magister, and mistress from the old title. The piece also links gentlemanship to shield bearers and bearing arias in earlier centuries.
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England
Sopiia Western
Tom Jones
New York World
Sunday Suits and Shame in The Next Street but One
A district nurse recalls a London laborer who kept worn work clothes after a theft left him unable to replace them. His proper suit, made by an Irish tailor, framed his dignity and Sunday embarrassment, lasting twenty nine years of careful living before his death.
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London
Warbler Hair Hints at Musician's Tale
A London Mail note recalls a youth who claimed the greatest tenor once praised him for singing without accompaniment. The compliment followed a solo that impressed the singer, leaving the youth with a beatific smile as the sun lit his face.
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London Mail
The Sun's Light Brightness Compared in Early Report
The Sun's light is estimated to exceed the moon by 000,000 times with its disk about 90,000 times brighter than a candle flame and over four times brighter than the brightest crater on an electric arc light. The darkest sun spot is far brighter than limelight.
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New York American
How to Fish in the Angler’s Humor
A brief Fishing Gazette note urges anglers to wait for fish to be in the humor to bite. It warns that chasing fish when they are not in the mood is futile in both sea and freshwater fishing.
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Fishing Gazette
Development of a Negative Comment in a Dark Room
A Philadelphia Press remark notes a photographer saying a negative must be developed in a dark room. The comment implies skepticism toward encouragement from a low gas setting during a portrait session.
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Philadelphia Press
Advising folk who like to watch while others take risks
A Washington Star quotation mocks people who continually give advice. Uncle Eben suggests such advisors often enjoy watching others bear the risk rather than face it themselves.
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Uncle Eben
Washington: Star
Constellation Names and The Polar Star Origins
A Minneapolis Tribune piece discusses how the Pole Star Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, known as the triones or Greater and Lesser Wain, derive names from various cultures. It notes Arabic and Iroquois influences, Aryan language links, and the term cynosure from the dog’s tail reference to the pole star.
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Liomer
Uris Minor
Minneapolis Tribune
How Nora Coaxed the Tips
A hotel corridor scene shows Nora, a cheerful Irish chamber maid, help an aged scrubwoman carry a heavy pail upstairs. Onlookers praise her kindness and note she earns more tips than others, funding a winter visit to her home in Ireland. The hotel proprietor and another man witness the act.
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Nora
Ireland
New York Tribune
Oddities of Color Blindness Documented
An article explains incomplete color blindness and how red green or violet perception varies. It notes how red blind see blue and violet as similar, green blind misperceive stars and stripes, and violet blind misperceive the flag colors, with total color blindness altering blue and red appearances.
Idol Shattered By Casual Appearance Of Hero
An admirer met her favorite author and described a stark, unheroic scene. She found him at a garden gate in shirt sleeves, swearing at a grocery boy, with cropped hair and a week of stubble, the most terribly human specimen she ever saw.
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Atlanta Constitution
The Wickedest Bit of Sea
The so called wickedest sea is not Dover or yacht routes but the Cape of Good Hope region. Sailors note the roughest waters lie off the eastern Cape Colony rather than familiar European passages.
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Engish Channel
Dover Strait
St. Jean de Luis
Pauillac
Adoes
Cadiz
Tangier
Cape Horn
Vailors
Cape of Good. Hope
Cape Colony
Scotsman in Trousers Riles London News Style
The correspondent’s request is declined and the London News remarks that a Scotsman almost always wears trousers. The note defends truth and humor in reporting on attire, contrasting smass and kilts with everyday dress.
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Harry
Smass
London News
Ambitious Young Woman Presses Stage Dream
A gushing young lady declares she longs to talk with a popular actor and insists she is eager to go on the stage. The renowned actor responds with a courteous remark, noting her evident enthusiasm.
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Histrion
Woman compared to irregular French verb in marriage talk
Father Vaughan of London preached on marriage and recalled a woman who said once that all men are alike in moods. He replied that woman is like an irregular French verb and must be studied in all her moods or a man will misinterpret her, to his disadvantage.
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Father Vaughan
London
Dramatic Decline Noted In Modern Theatre
A National Review critique laments the current state of theater deeming carpenters and wigmakers overshadow the playwright in the last fifty years. A Baltimore American quip contrasts a song with rent, noting domestic memories.
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National Review
Mr. Jerkins
Reprieve and Rumor in Urban Gossip Column
The Kansas City Independent jokes about social plays and theater plans. A line from Puck and a quip about time allowances for bed behavior hint at light gossip and flirtatious banter amid city life.
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Lfe
Puck
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F. M. Holmes
Chicago
Freeport
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Montpelier Milling Co
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Hiland Falls
N.Y
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