Real Estate Transfers and a Barnegat School Tale
A series of property transfers includes H C Flemming to Elisha Sharp 38.36 acres and multiple other deeds, with prices from $10 to $400 and various heirs and trustees. The column ends with a humorous Barnegat school anecdote about George Washington, noting a pupil’s remark on his role as a general.
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H.C. Flemming
Admr
Elisha Sharp
Jwo
Flett
B. F. Laughlin
B. F. Curfman
D. Stillwell
Lucy Littlefield
Husb
T. F. Callaghan
Lewis Rogers
Wanless
Minnie C. Wanless
Jno
Brisbane
Blaylock
Mary E. Cummins
D. D. Deskins
G. W. Brentner
C. R. Chapin
Central
Newberg
Wm. D. Clark
Mary E. Hawley
D. D. Bayley
I. B. Crow
John Flett
C. H. Griner
H. F. Richards
B. Rowland
Geo. T. Hardwick
Hiram
Clarissa Maynard
Hurley & Large
Anson B
Joseph Knotts
J. Perkins
Darley A. Honey
B. A. Snider
George
George Washington
Washington
Delaware
Right temperature for work: 50 to 60 degrees advised
The North Carolina state board of health urges cool dry air for work. Seventy degrees is too hot causing fatigue and illness. best all round work temperature is about 50 degrees with lower for physical tasks. European homes run around 60 and 68 in most cases.
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North Carolina State Board of Health
Europe
Huntington Nates
West Point
Annapolis
Feast of Death Declared By Gypsy Queen Mary
Queen Mary of the Romany gypsies near Ford City Michigan proclaims a spring feast of death in memory of Stella Stankovitch 101 mother of Queen Mary. The camp endures harsh winter winds as a feverish child lies ill and a bare backdrop frames a planned open air feast with roast lamb pig cabbage and sauerkraut to be free and welcoming between Easter and May.
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Mary
Michigan
United States
Stella Stankovitch
Queen Mary
Ford City
Stella
Kansas City Star
Fatal Street Music Area of England’s Humorist John Leech
The death of famed humorist John Leech is attributed to the strain of constant exposure to street music. Reportedly his sensitivity to noise and organ grinders near his studio contributed to a fatal angina, with Punch editor Mark Lemon citing disturbances as a primary cause in a letter.
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England
John Leech
Leech
Bass
M. P
Mark Lemon
Punch
London
What Comes Next In Naval Terminology
A Philadelphia Ledger passage defines a dreadnaught as a large heavily armed battleship. It then explains a superdreadnaught as even bigger and more powerful, created to outmatch dreadnaughts and intimidate them.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Safe Flanbdule Questions Singleton About Marriage
Conversation in Life magazine features Safe and Singleton debating marriage. Singleton says women viewed him as unfortunate and not in need of reforming nor desirable as a husband.
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Flanbdule
Singleton
Started Early: A Witty Exchange on Suspected Motives
A London Telegraph quip notes a wife suspecting her husband married for money after she had to pay the minister. The remark highlights social attitudes toward marriage and financial concerns in a humorous exchange.
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London Telegraph
Crabs and Toads and Life Spans Noted
The excerpt contrasts life spans of crabs, oysters, and amphibians with a remark on insensitivity to moral pain attributed to white men and red men. It cites examples such as crabs living decades and oysters about four years, frogs shorter than toads up to thirty six years, and includes a quote attributed to ophile Gautier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theophile Gautier
Bids Sought for County Rock Crushing Contracts
County clerk announces public bids for quarry and rock crushing at Poor Farm and quarries to supply road material in Yamhill county Oregon. Bidders must deposit a specified amount with bids due by 11 o clock a.m. Published in McMinnville on April 24 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Wilson
Yamhill County
Oregon
McMinnville
Ore
Administrator's Notice for Estate of S Edwards
Notice from Clarence Butt attorney for First issue. Estate of S Edwards, deceased. Last issue May 3, 1917. Appointment date April 5, 1917. Content references Uialathsoee as tenon of Boy her deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Edwards
Clarence Butt
Notice of Sheriff's Sale in Yamhill County Oregon
The sheriff of Yamhill County Oregon will sell at public auction on May 5 1917 at 11 o clock AM at the county courthouse to satisfy an execution and order of sale issued March 28 1917 and received April 4 1917. Property includes Lots Two and Three in the Newberg addition and an undivided half interest in Lot Four in Block Fourteen Central Addition to Newberg along with appurtenances and improvements. The sale proceeds go to the mortgage and costs with $4904.00 principal and $250.00 attorney fees plus $9400 in com and disbursements. W G Henderson Sheriff.
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N. Mah
Dudley Colcord
Fogle Leden
Heck
Pss
Bership
Oregon
Edward Clifford bin But
Frank Zibe Clemmens
Charles “Teary Dobbs
Alver Collard
Abraham Cook
N. Crosby
Yamhill Electric
Apa
Yamhill County
P. Oliver
Seeeberg
Yambhi
Newberg
Newbee
Yamhill
Deid Lot
First Street
Sieter Liew Gaierke
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W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
Reliable Funeral Directors
Undertakers
Hodson & Elliott
Bate
C. R. Charin
de. H. C. Dixon
van Valin
Dental Parlors
U. S. Mational Bank
DR. A. M. Davis
Ferguson's
H. M. Massey
P. F. Hawkins
First National Bank
Littlefield & Romig
Physicians and Surgeons
First Nat
Thos. W. Hester
Dixon Building
White
Res. White
John 8. Rankin
U. S. National Bank
Blue
Brown
Sarah E. Smith
E. E. Daniels
T. C. Staley
Sash and Door Factory
Main Street
Pacific College
Gold “Q” Club
Imperial Hotel
Christian Associations
P. C
Chemawa
Multnomah Club
Old College
University Stars
Colcord
Pacific University of Forest Grove
Chemawa Indians
Willamette University
Portland
Smith M. Kimberlin
N. E
Glen Jones
Hubbard
Anna M. Laughlin
H. C. Robison
R.R
Laughlin
S. A. Williamson
G. T. Hardwick
Cavell
W. G. Henderson
Sherif
Newberg, Oregon
Excelsi
C. K. Spaulding Logging CO
Lone Fir Dairy
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
C. H. Schuster
Rexall
Liggett’s
Lowney
Lynn B. Ferguson
J. L. van Blaricom
Devereaux
Comreos
Newberg Bakery
J. H. Sherlock
Prop
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