New Albany Ends Season With Record-Setting 230 to 16
The New Albany High School football team posted an 8 game season record, defeating Salem Jeffersonville Paoli Madison and others. Captain Walker and Coach Newton led a light but spirited squad that achieved a historic 230 to 16 scoring margin, with Buerk and Fleming sharing top TD and goal statistics.
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Capt. Walker
Newton
Will Coolman
Salem
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Paoli
Madison
Buerk
Only Our Own: the O O O Girls Club of 1908
The 1908 girls formed a secret club named Only Our Own with no fixed meeting days. They hosted a January 2 reception for the Senior Boys in the High School Gym to improve class fellowship, with a playful reveal of the club name amidst jokes about girls keeping secrets.
Poems on School Life From N A H S Girls
A playful verse reflects on the many girls at N A H S who are loved by the students. It notes a core girl loved by each, plus near-loves and others kept in respectful friendship, ending with a jab at a mischief maker who scribbles on collars.
What He Was Looking For
A dialogue unfolds as a woman chides Edward for staring at other women and the suitor defends himself claiming to search for a prettier face than hers. The exchange hints at social flirting and witty rebuttal. The text reflects a New York press style of the era.
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Edward
Benedict
New-York
A City and the Press in a Modern Metropolis
The piece argues that a city resembles a vast commercial house where advertising drives success. It asserts newspapers are the key co operators of municipal development and growth, while noting Berlin’s press lags behind in vitality and enterprise.
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Berlin
The Boys Behind Us Fiddle With Our Hair
A light verse noting school life where many boys earn smiles from girls yet those who sit behind us and toy with our hair are the least welcome. The poem contrasts liked classmates with bothersome ones in a high school setting.
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Tuxi
Unclear fragmentary notice from old newspaper page
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Mrs Brown Mrs Smith Gear and a husband’s business growth with receipts and appointments. Readable names scant. no clear event, date, or location established.
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Brown
Smith
Gore
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted for Women’s Health
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female health issues. It claims many women report improvement, cites letters from women, and emphasizes root and herb ingredients that act on the feminine system to restore health.
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Lyan E. Pinkham
Sven
Thas
Lyan Mess
Mer Tate
Lydia EK
Lydia Pinkham
T. Dr
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bolero Revival Appears In Fashion Notes
Snapshots of La Mode highlight a revival of the bolero jacket with handmade trimmings. Linen collars, ribbon butterfly bows, and soutache decorate gowns. blue chiffon princess dresses paired with pongee jackets and a white pongee ensemble feature Eton style coats and linen cuffs.
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Eton
Shirt waist pattern offered in seven bust sizes
A notice describes a shirt waist pattern available in seven bust sizes from 33 to 44 inches. Send the cent price to the office to receive the pattern promptly. The ad mentions trims and a popular coat finishing using silk loop and buttons made at home from odd ends of silk.
Beaded stockings rise in fashion for summer wear
Amy Varnum notes three quarter hose with beaded embroidery in tan black and white, priced from 50 cents to 5 dollars. She praises home decorating options and cheap plain stockings as money savers while highlighting matching slippers and beadwork for house wear.
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Queen Victoria
Amy
Fire Alarm Stations Listed In City Districts
Public notice lists multiple fire alarm stations with intersections around Vincennes Street Main Street East Fourth Spring East Ninth Fifth Seventh and River G Works East Eleventh Vincennes Beeler streets Charlestown Road Robinsons Pants Factory East Third Railroad Vincennes Exin avenue East Seventh Spring streets and other crossings.
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Stresta
Oulbertson
Reel
Pal
Ouiberteon
River G
Vincennes and
Beeler
Spring Streets
Main
Vincennes
Thorns
Goer
Goneturtee
Market
East Tenth
Elm Streets
Fifteenth St
Oulberteen Avenue
Charlestown
T. Robinson's
East Third and Railroad
Exin Avenue
East Seventh
Chartrea
East
Silver Street
R. R
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M. Gobmann
L. Holmes
Og McHais
Pale
Hace Ice Aepando
J. Buerk
Ce Cite
Tees
S. Walker
Rudy
J. Kintner
Walker
Coolman Sabs
Briscoe, McClure, Biscopink
B. Hartley
University School
West Baden
Ke.m.s
Lo K.M.S
New
Fleming
Erni
Heazlitt
Holmes
THE
O. O. O. Club
Asic
Aileen
Lydia
Finkham
Pearl St
Ind
Dauveney & Co
Attates
Detroit
Hotel Tuller Cou Adams
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