Local notes on community events and wanderings
A patchwork of small town notices and personal updates. The piece describes visits, business dealings, renovations, and family events around the area, including plans for farm building, people arriving from Chicago and California, and a wedding anniversary celebration. It also includes short mentions of insurance, real estate, and a medical remedy advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birt Strand
Hiscrodt
Brennen
Faye
Brannell
Chicago
Charade Game Instructions and Global Sayings
A fragment describes group charades usable without scenery, with items found in dining rooms and household cues. It lists clues like the ribbon on a bow and standard household objects to symbolize phrases, plus a section of nationality gags and a closing plea about a four year old wanting a bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amery
Canta
China
Evolution of aquatic life in forests and rivers
A Boston Herald excerpt discusses a theory from Heary Fairfield Osborn on a transition from land lizards to fish like forms, the emergence of dolphins among mammals, and the role of forests and rivers in sustaining fertility and preventing riverbank floods by maintaining soil and bed stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
Italy
Wurttemberg
Fairfield Osborn
Foresta
Rivera
Boston Herald
Lice Remedy Published In Obscure Washington County Page
A fragment from a Washington County page shows a editor urging delinquent readers to pay up while a domestic lice remedy advises removing birds from cages, using kerosene oil and cloth to drive lice away, and a must in bag method for pest control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaries
Family liniment and grooming remedy instructions
A historical note describes a household liniment recipe with ingredients such as quinine, gallic acid, and alcohol, plus steps to dissolve, mix, and heat to a gel. It also gives dated advice on air drying clothing, recommending stockings hung by the toes and nightdresses from the shoulders to avoid dragging.
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Ithe Bt
Drs. J
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Ot Thor
GoldBeld
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LFAR
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Bigis Grove
Korat Universita
Saveral Whitesale
B.J. Saxton
J Thermpy
Mr. Saxton
B. Ex Wing
Renwick
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Parmeter
Wing
Prisa
Sad ‘Mya
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Legge
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Visto
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J. B. Cole
North
Cumberland
Themera
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Rothier
Burdynamite
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Calton
Avery
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Washington County
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Slaxton’s
B. J. Saxton
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Hanes
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Dieter Drenrh
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Thedford
Buell & Morse
Lety T
Washington
Missouri River
OM Watson
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Walyon
Georgia
Mr. Watson
France
Napaleor
Thomas Aleftersane
Keapie
Tom Watsons
UBL West 42Nd Street
Nave Fert Chey
R. King's
Jay Hew
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