Popular Mechanics Promises Guides for Home and Shop
An advertisement offers Popular Mechanics magazine at 91.50 per year or 25 cents per issue. It highlights articles on engines, repairs, and amateur mechanics, inviting readers to request a free sample from the Chicago address. It targets a broad audience of all ages and classes.
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Amateur Mechanics
Telocate Mission Furniture
Catsiasieray
White
Cory Today Popular Mechanics CO
W. Washington Se
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How to Transfer Pictures Using Soap Turpentine Solution
In a historic note, instructions show transferring printed pictures to various surfaces using one bar soap in a gallon of hot water plus half a pint of turpentine. After soaking overnight and bottling, apply with a finger or brush and press image onto the target, with glass lantern slides varnished first. Also mentions a dog tax due notice from the city clerk MARTIN C. LUTHER.
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China
Popular Science Monthly
Old Pickbones and the secret best wishes
Montague Williams recounts a tale of a miserly old man nicknamed Old Pickbones who valued wishes as secret wealth. On his death he left ten thousand pounds to an anonymous well-wisher who sent him yearly cards reading Best wishes at this time to you. The cards were saved in a packet, implying a hidden benefactor.
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Montague Williams
Persia Maintained Poet Laureate Before 1896 Abolishment
The article notes Persia along with England as rare holders of a poet laureate post in recent times. It says Muzaffar ed-Din abolished the Persian laureate in 1896, after centuries of duties beyond those of Britain. Narcisse Persin recalls royal caravans included a poet laureate to verse the shah’s sayings and deeds.
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Persia
England
Muzaffar-ed-Din
Teheran
Narcisse Persin
M. Persin
The Justice Essay and Courtroom Quips
A Philadelphia lawyer recounts an enterprising client who trusts witnesses more than counsel and believes justice is on his side after talking to jurors. The excerpt includes sharp retorts by Charles Phillipps to a London judge and various brief anecdotes from church notices to street humor.
Tales of a Republican Hat and the Dancing Bear
A London embassy attach recalls Michael Joseph Barry stating the phrase Republican hat may mean a hat without a crown. A wealthy widow funds poverty relief and recalls an amusing case where a poorly clad woman explains her husband’s dancing bear that devoured him left the woman nameless.
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London
Michael Joseph Barry
Dublin
Barry
For Sale and Rent Short Classified Items
Brief classified notes show orbs for sale including seed oats, a 16 year old Thacker orb, and two residences for rent in the business district with contact M G Riebeling. Also one serres fifty four years old listed by J D Baker with phone 133-w.
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Bebe Ateri
M. G. Riebeling
J. D. Baker
Loom Purchase Sparks Carpet Weaving Plans
Mrs G W Moore of Sixth Street declares readiness to weave carpets and rugs after buying a loom and expresses satisfaction with the new craft.
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G. W. Moore
Sixth Street
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