Counterfeit Detectors Advertise Bad Bills As Real
New York concerns counterfeiters who buy counterfeit money at face value. Professional detectors test bills with a microscope and notify the treasury, then hand over genuine notes for a bad bill if it matches an unknown type. The scheme serves as advertisement for the counterfeiters and prompts U S Secret Service investigations.
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New York
Whee Tak
Mer
United States Treasury Department
United States Secret Service
Master James and the front of a pill puzzle
Five year old James asks his mother and nurse questions during a morning at home. He inquires which is the front of a pill and whether the speaking snake to Eve was "talk ish" as he delays his walk to think.
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James
Eve
New York Press
Curran’s Witty Exchange with Father O Leary
The famed Irish advocate Curran parried with Father O Leary in a playful encounter. Curran wished for a key to cereaf and the priest hinted at a trap, joking that a key to the other place would let him out.
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Curran
O’leary
Cereaf
Father O’leary
The Pekin Gazette Declares Its Ancient Heritage
The Pekin Gazette traces lineage to a 1340 daily bulletin. It notes the long history of Chinese reading traditions and the paper's survival through centuries as Europe later developed its own press.
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Pekin Gazette
CIA
Europe
Pekin Newsmen and a Diplomatic Bet over a Daughter
A fragment describes Pekin gossip about Chinese in the newspaper trade and a comical scene where a rich father refuses a marriage, but a suitor offers a hundred thousand via check to settle the matter.
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Pekin
Pearson’s Weekly
Fireless cooker quip and sea passage items from Chicago Herald
A humorous exchange about a fireless cooker faces a kitchen feud as a wife resists husband and threatens a rival. The text then shifts to a Hythe Sandwich board used for passing surf, describing its large coffin shape and dimensions while noting regional features and strengths in movement.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Hythe
Riya
Tea in Kashmir Two methods of Kashmir tea preparation
The article describes two ways to make tea in Kashmir. One method uses cold water boiled long, then more cold water and milk. The second method adds soda and water, boils, then adds milk salt and butter before a final boil.
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Kashmir
The Needly Far Away and the Near Neighbors Question
A sermon prompts reflection on charitable barrels sent from cities to distant villages and vice versa. The narrator questions whether people distant in miles show more compassion than those nearby and ponders personal selflessness toward neighbors close at hand. The piece explores misplaced focus in moral duty.
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Ering T
Errman
Real Estate Transfers and Certificates of Change
Real estate transfers listed for 80 to 194x200 ft parcels and 230 acre blocks in multiple townships. Transactions show buyer banks, individuals, and firms paying amounts from $10 to $14 000 with dates unspecified. Properties include sections in sections 31 36 5 22 23 9 10 15 22 23 etc and additions in Newberg Willamina Everest Amity and McMinnville.
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Edward Barton & Wi
Herman Sommer
Hurley & Large
Newberg
James W Barks
James & Lottit & Marsh
Robt Read
Tra
Barber & Wi
Axel Nelson
Barbers
Browning
Flora H Et Alto
Merchant
Everest
A Butler
J H Switzer
Fairview
James E Buckley
Joseph Bixby
Churchman
Eakin & E L
Knickerbocker
South
Sheridan
Clark
Francis C & Mary
Bayley
Roth & Wf
Greensthall
Amity
Duran
Sylvanus E & Clara
Lewis
Sec
Tis
Elwood
L M Smith & C C Ferguson
T Macy
Thomas E Conner
McMinnville
Perie Mark & Wi
Turner
Bowley Land
E B Merchant
J D Gordon
C C
Morton Et al
Morton Co
J O Henderson
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Monarch
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Pendleton
Oregon City
Vienna
Hudson Bros
Aetna
Clothiers
Frank Aldrich
Commercial Bank of Vancouver
E Blake Baird
L M Scroggin
J B Graves
Alfred A Baker & Wt
Irissa
Robert W McCall & Wf
Geo E White
P McLaughlin & Wf
Akin & E L Knickerbocker Part
South Sheridan
Newville
James Johnson
Sid Wixon
Isaac & Eliza Roberts
Edwards
Portland-Yamhill Land Co
Elizabeth Akin
H Hall & Wf
Ruff Kleinserg & Fulmer
Clyde C
Fred Harris
Elizabeth D Harris
Herman Herbers
Wm Rehr
Joseph Hepp
Arthur W Hepp
Jesse Parrish
Elizabeth Hibbs
Sophia Hibbs
Hodson & Wf
Alva C Garner
Wallace
R J Hutchcroft
Ruhla
Anna E Eckerson
Matthew Halldict
Emma Rubens
Theodore Rubens
Wheatland
F Seal
Walter Bechtel
Joseph Watts
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