Bonn’s Aged Crowd and Widows’ Rows in Bonn
An elderly Bonn portrait describes a city of students and elders. One quarter of residents are readers and many are widows living in “widows’ rows.” The old men frequent the library front, while women keep age in check with fashionable attire. Nighttime clubs, daily routines, and deliberate Rhine outings define their lively, orderly final years.
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Rhine
Uisof Gerbiuny
Dtudens
Elise Alloby
Bonn
Qt Ag
Bown
Berlin
Patriarche
Dluser
Dssemble
Gret
Gettier
Blamblich
Fragmented Dialect Fragments From An Odd Column
A highly garbled Maryland New York Times style fragment weaves stray verses about a hobble child and odd streetcar warnings. The readable text mentions a caution about boarding trains or boats with a streetcar, an umbrella, and delays as vehicles fail to move, with scattered nonsensical phrases and names.
Gray is Good War Color: New German Uniform
A fragment notes a new gray field uniform said to reduce visibility at night, though readable text claims it vanishes in daylight, with cavalry mistaking gray-clad riders for riderless horses. Mentions Buenga Alres eggs coat price as five cents.
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Korse
Retail building supplies and hardware sale list
A Walnut Stock sale item catalog lists handsonely finished goods at regular 3450 value now offered at 3.75. It features wire nails 7 to 60 penny packages, Tar Felt Roofing 2-ply 108 sq ft rolls at 50 cents, Rubber Roofing 2-ply 1.40 to 1.60 per 108 sq ft roll, galvanized corrugated steel roofing at 3.30 per 100 sq ft, Red Barn Paints in 1.25 and 0.80 per gallon, Cold Water Paint in 5 lb packs at 0.40 each, Graphite Roof Paint at 1.25 per gallon, Buggy Wheels sets at 8.00, Bar Iron 1.80–1.90 per 100 lbs, Buggy Axles set at 1.25, and Buggy Rims 0.75 per set.
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Io & Ib
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Hobbie
New York Times
Mary
Harparrn Bazari
Alead
Oug
Imay
Elthyr
Buenga Alres
Ostermoor Mattresses
Ostermoor
Atock
We, C. E
CLINE
Mendel
Nottingham
Fall
Tota
Mick
Sirea
C. Thos. Kemp
Frederick, Md
Doll Bros
Market Street
the Ebert Hardware CO
West Patrick Street
Steven
Edwin Devilbiss
Amos Urwee Jobn N. Glary
Devilbiss & Urner
Insurance
Albaugh
N. Market
St. FreDerick, Md
Ernest Helfenstein
Jas. E. Doll
South Market Street
Citizen National Bank
Columbus Enott
Besant
Ksott
Ebon
Carty
Carty’s
Patrick Street
Lowenstein
Schloss
Baltimore
B. Rosenour & Sons
Market and
Patrick Streets
City Opera House
Frederick
O. P. Bennett
Fahrmey
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