Leather Profiteer Scandal at Gramercy Club
At the Players' club in Gramercy park a leather profiteer story unfolds. Butler Glaenzer recalls helping Peter Sweeney Johnson choose a library for his Fifth Avenue house and the rebound of a famed dictionary. A caddie described as a diplomat keeps players in the game with quiet apologies after bad shots.
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Gramercy Park
Butler Glaenzer
Peter Sweeney Johnson
Fifth Avenue House
New York
A Little Cliff Dweller Adds to Festive Fame
Four and a half year old Marshall charmed a Christmas dinner with quick wit. He listened to adults pose conundrums and answered with a playful pun, declaring a door is not a door when it is a m a Door hed.
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Marshall
Irish regiment ration episode ends with loaf short
A quartermaster and his assistant in an Irish regiment face a short loaf as they prepare rations. The assistant asks who will receive it but the quartermaster tells him to keep it. A final line notes that most women do not realize that pretty women are in the minority.
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Mike
Indiana items report price cuts and local projects
An Indiana roundup notes An Anderson creamery cuts milk to 12 cents a quart. Alexandria reopens Orestes Silo factory for spring. Michigan City buys Lake Michigan Water stock to gain municipal ownership. Pension bills for sixty five plus without support passage in State House. Humane society formed in Indianapolis with support from American Humane Association. Hammond to build a $150000 soldiers memorial park, five trustees named. Noblesville barn fire destroys large frame barn with $12000 loss. Plymouth bank robbery case moved to circuit court for murder trial. Purdue warns farmers to test seed corn after cold spell. Jeffersonville considers moving Indiana Reformatory to aid state manufacturing. Anderson high school congestion forces 100 senior class to study at home, total city schools enrollment above 4000. Laporte reports Indiana's first-degree murder conviction of a blind man, life sentence. Tomatoes grown in Indiana last year averaged $16 a ton. 150k–175k tons produced. Attica land sale of 1901 acres at about $250 per acre. Danville federation opposes new county roads to avoid higher taxes.
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Anderson
Alexandria
Orestes Silo Company
Michigan City
Lake Michigan Water Company
Indianapolis
George H W. James
Humane Society
Indianapolis Humane Society
R. P. Craven
American Humane Association
State Society
Haimimond Hamimond
Middle West
Noblesville
Floyd McDonald
Plymouth
J. J. Fox
J. H. Burns
Arthur Silbert
Joseph Byers
Culver Exchange Bank
Jacob R. Laine
Marshall Circuit
Lafayette
Aa. T. Wiancko
Soils and Crops Department
Agricultural Experiment Station
Purdue University
Jeffersonville
Indiana General Assembly
W. A. Dean
Laporte
Indiana
Albert Pryce
Blackford
Pryce
Laurent Greene
Greene
The Land We Love and Christian Citizenship Lesson
February lessons discuss citizenship with a focus on loving God and neighbor as central commandments. It explores civil duties under Rome, the obligation to pay taxes, and the call to be better citizens by aligning life with faith in Jesus Christ in a church education context.
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Jesus
Asin
Caesar
Christ
God
Jesus Christ
Worldly Fame Reflected in Mortality and Change
The quotes compare fame to shifting winds and note it ignores the living while serving the dead. Dante warns that fame shifts like wind, while Colton suggests fame is an undertaker shaping funerals and trailing the grave.
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Dante
Colton
Fame and Covenant Echo Across Narrow River
A reflective line compares fame to a river, noting its narrow cradle and broader reach only when seen from distance, invoking the idea of fame growing through distant view and interpretation.
Soldier killed in France credited Tanlac for health recovery
A report notes a soldier who recovered health credited the well known Tanlac medicine for her improvement before her death in France, highlighting her belief in the remedy as a key factor in her recovery.
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France
Endorsement for Tanlac by Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd in Evansville
Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd attributes her health recovery to Tanlac after her son Corporal James B. Gresham was killed in France. She describes digestion, rheumatic pain, sleep loss, and nervous strain improving with Tanlac, saying it restored appetite, reduced joint swelling, steadied nerves, and enabled daily tasks. Adv advertising note.
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Tanlac
Alice Gresham Dodd
Gresham
Gavin Park
Evansville
Ind
Indiana
James B. Gresham
France
Dodd
United States
Taniac
Adv
Two Financial Classes Debated by Baggs and Bings
It is stated that the world is divided into borrowers and lenders. Baggs argues two classes exist, while Bings counters that lenders will not lend to those who wish to borrow.
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Baggs
Bings
Red Cross Ball Blue Declared Finest Product Worldwide
The statement proclaims Red Cross Ball Blue as the finest product of its kind, with every woman who has used it affirming the claim as true.
Comic Exchange Sparks Kitchen Chat About Scandal
In a light moment the host and guest joke about serving entertaining gossip as a meal. A witty reply suggests mixing up rumors as a dessert, keeping the mood playful and social.
Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription Endorsed for Weak Women
South Bend Indiana Mrs Samuel Romine testifies that Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription strengthened her in young girlhood and remains the best tonic for weakness and nervousness. The medicine is sold in tablets or liquid by druggists nationwide.
Eatonic and Batonic Relief Claimed by Reader
A reader cites rapid relief from Eatonic and Batonic for acid stomach bloating and indigestion. The note says Eatonic helps digestion and gains from food while Batonic neutralizes acidity and gas, with a large box offered at a small price with druggist’s guarantee.
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Eatonic
C. O. Frappir
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Keers
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Paris
CSAT
Nyel
Chicago
Postum Cereal
Postum Cereal Co. Inc
Battle Creek Mich
Attica
Fountain County
Murdock Syndicate
Frank Nave
Danville
Hendricks County Federation of Farmers
P. B. Fitzwater
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Covenant
Dean
James Lacy
Fifth St
Columbus
Doan
Foster -Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Y
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W. F. Young, Inc
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Springfield
Mass
Detroit
Riley
Columbia Avenue
Mich
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Aurora
Ill
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Department of Immigration
Ottawa
Can
J. M. Maclachlan
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