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Newspaper

Prescott Daily News

Location

Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America

Date

Oct 03, 1908

Page

4

Visitors and locals span Prescott travel and hunting tale

Dr T W McDaniel of Bought ton visited Prescott this morning. Dale Wilson returned to work at the telegraph office after a week or more away in Kansas City. Rev W K Tanson of De Queen spent last night here and left for home after several days nearby. Dale Wilson and W A Huff hunted squirrels yesterday with Wilson claiming either 14 squirrels and a mile walked or one squirrel and 14 miles walked, exact count unclear.

Dale Wilson Telegraph Kanesas City W. K. Tanson de- Queen W. A. Huff Dale

In the Hands of the Enemy at Theatorium and more local notes

Local notices report film goings on with Circus Boy at Theatorium and discussion of In the Hands of the Enemy. Mentions visitors like T. H. Ware and Joe Bailey, clerk-elect, plus travel to Hope and Texarkana. The New York Store closes Oct 7 for a holiday and reopens Tuesday.

New York Theatorium Joe Bailey Prescott

Hesterly's Cold Tablets Endorsed for Early Symptoms

Autumn colds are common and can linger into winter with serious results. Prevention matters, so keep remedies on hand and take action at the first signs. Hesterly's Cold Tablets are presented as a reliable and trustworthy option.

Hesterly Belre

Prescott News Briefs Touch On Local Happenings

Prescott residents report busy streets and strong shop activity as the skating rink at the park plans a tonight opening. Mrs Dolphus Whitten of Nashville visits, and Mrs W G Kennedy of Little Rock joins her husband, the theater manager, at a popular Arkansas cinema.

W. G. Kennedy Little Rock Theaterum Arkansas

Instrument measures hardness of metals with rebound test

A glass tube device drops a jewel-hardened steel ball of 40 grains to gauge metal hardness. The rebound height, with 100 representing carbon steel average hardness, serves as a hardness indicator for tool steels and tempering safety.

Grammar His Forte Story of a Kansas School Maam

A Kansas school ma am faced a world of trouble teaching a pupil arithmetic. The job grew so arduous she complained to the child's father. He replies that Jimme comes but faults him being honest and notes he was a good gramatist but a poor arithmeticker.

Kansas Pater Jimme

If you continue In the Way you are going no one will ever be sincerely gerry for your death.

A fragment from the Houston Post quotes a grim exchange about mortality and remarriage, capturing a dark witticism in a terse, newspaper-voice line. The brief item conveys a funerary undertone and domestic drift in a single overheard remark.

Gerry Houston Post

The Typewriter Burglar Strikes in Toulouse Flat

A Toulouse apartment reports an unusual burglary by a typewriter burglar who left a neatly typed note. The letter mocks the resident, claims to be a professional typist, admits stealing money and some translations, and warns against a return visit. The thief cannot sell a second-hand typewriter and signs off without a name.

France Toulouse Ike Evenine

Sloop St Marys Linked to Valparaiso Bombardment Stand

The old sloop St Marys, aging toward auction at sixty five, bore 22 guns yet symbolized a navy with 2,200 guns afloat. Under Captain Colvocoresses she earned a delay to bombardment of Valparaiso, the Spanish admiral noting her line of fire. The ship’s name echoes Maryland’s early colonial capital, like Jamestown and Plymouth.

St. Mary's Colvocoresses Valparaiso Colvoceresses Maryland Jamestown Plymouth

Practical Fashions Pattern No 2557 for skirts

Fashion notice explains pattern No 2557 for a fashionable skirt with invert fashion details. It lists fabric options, sizes from two to four inches waist measure, and yardage requirements for various width fabrics, plus trimming and how to order by sending 19 cents to Pattern Department with name address size and pattern number.

Paris

Too Much of It

A truncated dialogue scene shows a millionaire interviewing a young applicant for a chauffeur post. The candidate boasts of reckless experience claiming to have held 17 different jobs in the last nine months, provoking cautious scrutiny from the interviewer.

Also Mentioned on This Page

T. W. McDaniel Boughton Fenway Baker Drugstore S. T. P. LeMay New Lewisville Mallisa Scott Mr. Jenkins Our City Dr. Guthrie Doctor Quitman, Ark O. L. Dunaway Bee Branch Prof. Dunaway W. A. Hutt H. W. White Hope Ed. Caruthers C. C. Hamby Niobra Blair John Warren Oklahoma Will Waller Monk Christopher Texarkana Eugene Norman Pine Bluff Duvall’s Bluff Theaterium T. HW. Ware Fulton Esterly Prescott’s Progressive Drug Store Texas Dolphus Whitten Nashville Nevada County Drug Store THE Citizens Bank Prescott, Arkansas A. E. Shankle
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