Baltimore City Hall bid leads state news roundup
The Cumberland city hall bid stands at seventy five thousand dollars as Baltimore builders submit offers while statewide election instructions are issued by Attorney General Lobe Strauss. An orphan training school is proposed in Annapolis and the Western Mary shops debate grows with Cumberland visitors to Baltimore. Major rail and port matters surface including the arrival of the largest ship to Baltimore, the Preatoria, and a glimpse of local political organizing for Congress. A shooting accident on Hooper’s Island injures Mrs Blowers. a courtroom dispute in Annapolis sets six trustees for Annapolis public schools. A League supporting Addison J. Mullikin forms as three conveyances record ground rents for Stone Harvey estate. Fire department seeks funds for a chemical engine and a boy’s Wild West event ends with injuries.
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Cumberlaind
Baltimore
Wicomico
Padance
Auiilsatooi I
Itl
Pittsburg
United Rally the Will
Tabs Gray
Orphans’ Court
Hagerstown
Baltuimond
Preatoria
Albert Blowers
Hooper's Island
Cau Bridge
Annapolis
Anne Arundel County
Aumnapois
Addison J. Mullikin
Congress
Addison BE. Mulitta Cayipalgo
Record Office
Stone Harvey
Euston
Paul
Eilrx
John Weiseniller
Cummberinyd
Lassoud
Bruher
John Stiner
A. A. Roeder
Frederick Market Prices From Frederick County Farmers Exchange
Prices furnish wheat flour and feed values corrected August 17 1910. Wheat No 4 white 1.00 corn bar corn 3 60 per bbl shelled corn 70c per bushel rye 45c to 60c per bushel hay baled No 1 Timothy 19 to 20 mixed 16 to 18 not baled 10 to 12 straw balled wheat 8 to 10 oats 8 to 10 flour winter wheat 5.35 to 5.85 spring wheat 6.00 to 6.50 cornmeal 1.60 to 1.70 per 100 lb mill feed bran 25.50 middlings 29.50 red dog 2.20 to 2.30 per sack dairy feeds 24 to 25 per ton cotton seed meal 24 to 35 seeds Timothy 3 to 3.25 per bushel clover 7.00 to 8.00 per bushel potatoes 4.50 to 0.0 per bushel there never has been and never will be any means for advertising devised superior to the newspaper.
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Timothy
Glover
Strange wedding gifts from the past prompt gossip
A Chicago Record-Herald item recalls odd wedding gifts given to aging couples. One English hunter received two coffins and artifical teeth while a rival writer got a scrap-book of critical clippings. An undertaker gifted two coffins to a crusty west merchant and spinster wife, with a note promising usefulness. A brass cage was presented to restrain a wayward young wife in another tale. The notes imply envy and scandal among donors.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Pirates of Hongkong and the Real Bloodthirsty Kind
An account in Harper's Magazine recounts Hongkong harbor piracy by ruthless gangs blending with fishermen and dock workers. A river steamer Salaam is attacked after a staged dinner alarm, with shots fired and a ship driven to the bank, adding another tragedy to maritime crimes on the Sikiang frontier.
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Hongkong
Bish
Pearl
Ace Swamps
Salaam
A.ride
W. A. Aylward
Harper's Magazine
Table All Right inquirers find solid support
A prospective guest asks if the table is good and receives a hearty reply declaring it excellent with heavy legs. The exchange hints at confidence in seating quality and reliability, while mentioning top polls and a judge’s favor in a brief, stage-like dialogue.
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Tle
England's Queen Known For Large Fur Collection
Queen Mary, famed for a vast fur collection, owns one of the world's most remarkable sets including a Raglan satins robe given on her birthday. She prefers fur garments, but reportedly dislikes ermine, and her automobling coat showcases thousands of tails perfectly matched to resemble a single piece.
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Egar
Solent
New York Coin Toss Tale Echoes Rural Superstition
An octogenarian recalls a superstition that boys from upstate came to New York to toss a coin over a house and claim it. He recounts testing the belief with a three cent piece before buying a corner lot, noting such fortune chasing is folly today and mocking those who rely on coin throwing over the Singer Building.
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New York
New’ York
Upstate
Singer
Father and Son View Opposite Standpoints on Helping Humanity
A Chicago physician and his rural-born father meet and discuss meaning over care for the needy. The old man urges service over money, praising the son’s daily work at a free dispensary where many patients receive aid, while recalling his own rural life.
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Chicago
Amr
Victorian Theatrical Manipulation Exposed by Hugo and Dumas
The article describes how Dumas and Victor Hugo used theater politics to push their plays. Hugo would threaten changes and leverage casting to influence stage design and personnel, securing favors through manipulation. It mentions Sturt's 1845 46 discovery of Australia's great stony desert and its harsh, largely barren landscape north of the Darling River.
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Dumas the Elder
Victor Hugo
Dumas
Porte St. Martin
Milo
Georges
Mmo
Dorval
Bocage
Loakroy
Provost
Frederieck
Horel
Frederick
Hugo
Rincourt
Laferriere
Mile George
Horél
Uttle
Australia
Captain Sturt
Darling
Sturt
Oranorat
Mafia Alarm in Sicily as Bandits Shoot and Loot
Sicilian bandits in three groups terrorize Al camo district, destroying vines of Signor Vesco, killing a town councilor, and incinerating warehouses of wine merchants. A farmer is killed on the highway and brigands quarrel over loot, while police face local obstruction.
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Alcamo
Signor Vesco
Grisala
Galicio
Rollo
Corleone
Hongkong Drops Philippine Sugar Supply
Hongkong has ceased buying Philippine sugar and will depend on Java for its raw sugar. Americans bought up the Philippine stocks while neither American nor European beet sugar can compete with the China market in the Far East cane sugar trade.
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Hongkong
Java
China
First annual agriculture and commerce exhibition in Bangkok
Americans liked what in the first annual exhibition of agriculture and commerce held in Bangkok in April last. It was noted that American interests may soon control Guatemala's railways as well.
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Exhibition of Agriculture and Commerce
Bangkok
Guatemala
American Inter
Eats
Railways
GIST BLAIR Announces Congressional Platform in Maryland
Gist Blair of Montgomery County declares a Republican platform for the Sixth Congressional District. He pledges to serve as a business advocate, push for Western Maryland development, better rail and bank facilities, and ongoing campaign purity while seeking voter support and recognition as a district representative. The statement is published in Silver Spring, MD.
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Blair
Montgomery County
Sixth Congressional District
Congress
Federal
Washington
Ora
Natrmons
Springfield
Wetern
Maryland
Witthrnese
Becauee
Becaube
Gist Blair
Silver Spring
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the State
Jeven
Frederick County Farmers’ Exchange
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Mhoto
American Press Association
England
Sherman
Washinaton
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