A Fable of the Future in a Small Town
A humorous tale of Stringtown's Stingiest Man seeking efficiency by moving to Millionville to save postage. Earlier habits of buying tiny Washington Franklin McKinley stickers for mail caused local stores to close, and by 1919 he begins buying more art to appease a powerful mail order figure, challenging stingy traditions.
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Millionville
Stringtown
A. D
G. Washington
B. Franklin
W. McKinley
Odon Area Social and Business Visits Report
Residents and visitors frequent Odon and surrounding areas with multiple trips for work and family. Notable movements include trustees, doctors, and relatives from Loogootee Washington Bramble and Illinois, plus a new birth and a measles outbreak in the district.
Trustee Notice For Madison Township Trustee’s Weekly Office
Notice to all persons having business with the trustee of Madison township I will be at my office or about town on Friday of each week to attend township business.
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Madison Township
Trustee Notice for Van Buren Township Office Visit
Notice to all with business in Van Buren township that I will be in the May office at the post office in Eaglesville each Saturday. This official visit cadence aims to meet residents and conduct township matters.
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van Buren Township
Eaglesville
Labor unions and Mr Watson in Indiana politics
The Washington Herald states it has no preference among Indiana Republican gubernatorial hopefuls including Watson Taylor Miller and Charles Miller. It condemns labor leaders and Democratic organizers Perkins and Feick for attacking Watson to sow division, calling the fight a broader Republican party struggle and urging unified support for the party’s candidate.
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Watson
Washington Herald
Indiana
The
Herald
Mr. Taylor
Hugh Miler
Charles Miller
Repubicans
Daviess County
Indianapolis
James E. Watson
Jack Gowdy
Mr. Watson
Edgar A. Perkins
Fred Feick
Edgar Perkins
Feick
John C. Chaney
Congress
Cyrus E. Davis
Chaney
Gompers
Perkins
Taggert
Republican Party
Republican Party of
Lincoln’s Joke on Who Was Responsible for Harpers Ferry
A humorous Civil War anecdote recalls President Lincoln testing generals after Harpers Ferry surrender. Lincoln teased blame on Lee with a playful quip, saying General Lee was the man responsible, leaving the four officers unsettled as they left the room.
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Warners Ferry
Lincoln
Lee
Harpers Ferry
Milroy
Hooker
Joe
General Lee
Sleep Mysteries and the Brain’s Hidden Watch
A Times-Democrat piece discusses sleep’s powers in daily work. It cites punka workers who sleep while turning fans, poets writing in dreams, and sailors waking from sleep to haul gear, noting a brainwatch mechanism guiding waking at set times.
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India
Punka Cody
Coleridge
Kubla Khan
R. L. Stevenson
Corelli
Longfellow
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Penny for a priceless Gutenberg book
A penny purchase yielded a 1440 dated volume believed unreadable until a friend brought it to the British Museum. Officials offered 90 pounds, the museum’s limit without trustee approval, and the book proved to be Gutenberg’s first printed work, nearly priceless.
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British Museum
Gutenberg
London
Solomon and the Wise Judge in Sunday School Tale
A Sunday school tale recalls Solomon judging a dispute between two women over a baby. He asks for a sword to divide the infant, so each woman would claim half, illustrating a clever, though violent, resolution.
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Solomon
Disadvantage Quip Stirs Laughs In Yonkers Statesman
A brief exchange questions a speaker's wit. The gag cites Bacon and Egbert with a line about his single talk, noted as occurring when he tried to open a car window. The snippet captures a lighthearted editorial voice from the Yonkers paper.
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Egbert
Yonkers Statesman
Had a Woman to Blame
A brief humorous exchange from the Chicago Record-Herald about misfortune and luck. A man laments dropping spectacles while his wife steps on them, and he jokes that if he had dropped his own glasses he would have stepped on them.
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Chicago Record-Herald
The Poet Answered on a Shared Birthday
A Bohemian note records a poet remark about being born on the same day as Emerson's death and calls the coincidence a cruel misfortune to literature. The exchange hints at literary frictions and personal reflection on destiny.
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Emerson
Remarkable Humming Bird Nest Hidden in Lichen
A vivid account describes a hummingbird nest built from plant down and coated with gray green lichens, camouflaged among dead branches. The observer recalls a long search in an orchard, finally locating the nest in a low apple tree containing two fresh eggs, in early June, from a piece titled Experiences With Humming Birds by H. K. Job in Outing Magazine.
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H. K. Job
Outing Magazine
The Smallest Screws Explained by Factories
The article details scale model screws made in watch factories, describing their microscopic size, 260 threads per inch, four thousandths of an inch diameter, and double-sized heads. It notes mass production, counting by weight, and blind-tactile work steps culminating in polishing by automatic machines.
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Chicago Record- Herald
The Drama of Londons Fog Chronicle
A Strand Magazine passage describes London fog as a vast, misty world with dark history and hidden humor. It notes murders and abductions under its cloak, but also occasional lighter incidents in the city’s nocturnal hours.
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London
Magog
Strand Magazine
Train Schedule Update for Indiana Route 1908
Effective February 23 1908 trains run daily from Terre Haute to Seymour with stops at Jasonville Linton Beehunter Elvora Odon Bedford and arrival times 11 15 am and 3 35 pm. For timetable details contact local agent at Grand Central Station 32.
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Terre Haute
Jasonville
Linton - Beehunter
Elvora Odon Bedford
Seymour
Iliene
Ytocal
Radley
G. P
Grand Centra
Seymour Bedford
Odon
Inora Beehunter
Linton
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Metropolis
Via
Raguesville News
W.B. French
Hiram Sims
Esq
Hackler
C. E. O’dell
J. W. Trueblood
Loogootee
Wm. Aikman
Washington
Sims’ Township
Raymond and
Jesse Westfall
Montgomery
Fred Byrer
Shiloh
Henry Woodruff
Don
John O’ Maley
Bramble
Frank Overton
Frank Walker
Here
Sydney Jackson
Elmer Maryfield
T.B. Rankin
Jas. Cunningham
Robert B. Williams
Alex Moora
Williama
Mrs
John
Young
R. D. Winkelpleck
Michael Dunn
Jax
Richard Doyle
Warren Hackler
George Hackler
Joseph Williams
Illinois
J. D. Hackler
Mrs. Starlin Woodruff
Squire Hackler
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Cal
Portland
Ore
Tacoma
Seattle
Spokane
Wash
Vancouver
B. C
Sleep Mysteries
Southern Indiana Railway
Informa
T.A
North BO
Cardy
Appie G. Barnes
Alto, Tex
Cardus
Ladies Advisory Cent
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
Velvetine
Undertaker
SEARS
Bradford
Kutch Farm
DR. C. 0
Clemmer
NEW Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange
Mass
Meyer Mus
JOR Sals Ae
Hendersen
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