Coming Events At Lunds Hall and Local Venues
The Swastika Pleasure Club hosts a private dance at Lunds Hall Dalton on Saturday evening November 14. The Forester Team of the Woodmen plans a baile at Schwab's Hall on Thanksgiving Eve with a Camp Masquerade Ball on New Year's Eve. I Will Division No 613 Locomotive Engineers holds a ball at Lunds Hall Dolton on Thanksgiving Eve. The Best Boys announce a dance at Lunds Hall on Saturday evening December 12.
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Swastika Pleasure Club
Lund’s Hall
Dalton
Forester
Woodmen
Schwab’s Hall
No. 613
Locomotive Engineers
Dolton
Yew Trees in Churchyards and a Thriller Note
Readable passages discuss why yew trees were planted in churchyards to protect cattle and preserve wood for mak ing bows. A fragment titled A Thriller mentions a character observing tortoises and a curious exchange about country life.
Lesson in English About Inconsistency
A father explains inconsistency to Freddy by illustrating a man who growls all day and then goes home to kick the dog for barking at night. The dialogue highlights the clash between outward behavior and internal conduct.
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Freddy
As the Playwright Sees it in Showbill Grumble
The playwright laments lack of justice in billing order saying the manager appears first the star second the billboard printer third and the playwright last in size. He argues the billboards should feature the playwright three feet tall next the star and finally the manager.
Ants Recede After Clove Scattering In Pantry
Home tip suggests scattering dried cloves on pantry shelves and ant hotspots to drive ants away within a few days. Provides no scientific explanation but offers a simple seasonal pest remedy.
Australian Yate Tree Timber Claims Highest Strength
The gate tree of western Australia grows up to 100 feet tall and 2144 to three feet in diameter. Tests show average tensile strength around 24,000 psi, akin to cast iron, with some specimens resisting 17% tons per square inch, similar to wrought iron.
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Western Australia
High School notes on literary society program
The T T H S Literary Society opened with violin pieces from the High School Orchestra and solos by George Stevens and Miss Hazard. A student political symposium featured speakers defending Republicanism Democracy Prohibition Socialism with Floyd Wiedemann praised as a gifted orator.
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T. T. H. S. Literary Society
Iola
Stanley Dempsey
George Stevenson
Miss Hazard
Roscoe Sonneborn
Floyd Wiedemann
Harvey Anderson
Louis Geiman
Floyd Weidemann
Zepata City
Train Wreck Delays C C L Freight Near 139th and Clinois
A collision occurred Monday night at 10 o clock between eastbound merchandise freight No 91 and westbound switch engine No 113 at 139th and Clinois streets after a misread order. The crew escaped with minor injuries while engines and cars suffered damage and the line reopened Tuesday morning at 9 30.
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C C. L
Clinois Streets
Illinois Central
Henry Hilmer
Peru
Ind
Notice for school gutter and rain pipe bids 1908
Board of Education District 148 Dalton Illinois will receive bids at Park Avenue School Building on Thursday November 12 1908 at 8 PM for installing gutters and rain water pipes on the Chicago Street School Building Gutter material is twenty two gauge galvanized iron vertical spouts twenty six gauge tar paper under gutters at low points gutters painted before and after installation Information available from Henry J Diliner Committee on Buildings and Grounds secretary F W Ropison By order of the Board of Education
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Board of Education
Dalton
Ill
Park Avenue
Chicago Street
Henry J. Diliner
F. W. Ropison
Ballot Reform Urged After Large Ballot Voters Criticize Sticker System
A dated discussion argues the ballot's size and structure hinder informed choice. It urges reducing elective offices and changing the ballot to prevent straight party voting. The piece notes widespread party influence over offices and records a Post Card Directory Company survey of Riverdale and Dalton residences for photographs.
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Post Card Directory
Riverdale
Dalton
For Sale A Day Mare and Household Goods
For sale a day mare four years old, broke to drive single or double, plus a lot of household goods. Details at Dolton Bakery. John Vandenberg buys the bakery from M. Paulson in Dolton and will take possession November 14. Vandenberg is known in Dolton and Riverdale and should draw a large patronage as Paulson heads southwest for the winter.
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Boston
Alban P. Reich
Dolton Bakery
John Vandenberg
M. Paulson
Dolton
Vandenberg
Riverdale
Mr. Paulson
Raffle for sewing machine postponed to December 5
The raffle for a sewing machine donated by C Benjamin of Dalton, originally scheduled for November 7, has been postponed to December 5.
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C. Benjamin
Dalton
Taft Faces Likely Supreme Court Vacancies During Term
The incoming President Taft will likely appoint several justices as three current members exceed retirement age. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan Brewer Peckham have passed 70, suggesting retirement or death may create multiple vacancies. Existing appointments trace to Hayes Cleveland Harrison McKinley Roosevelt, forming two thirds of the bench.
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Taft
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Uller
Justice Harlan
Justice Brewer
White
Justice Peckham
Justice McKenna
Justice Holmes
Justice Day
Justice Moody
Harlan, Brewer and Peckham
Harlan
Hayes
White and Peckham
Cleveland
Harrison
McKenna
Groundless Accusation Dialogue Noted
The exchange features Peppery and Kloseman arguing about a claim. Peppery defends his frugality and denies fabricating a lie while Kloseman calls the accusation ridiculous and misinformed.
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Kloseman
Strange Marriages In Odd Places Across England
Reports tell of weddings held in odd locations in England including a church partly demolished for a new building and a marriage about to take place in a burned church with firefighters still attending the ruins. An eleven-year-old boy was saved after falling into the bay near Canal street, Stapleton, when his shirt caught on a spike and a rescuer freed him.
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Christchurch
England
William Lohening
Canal Street
Stapleton
Henry Kirehine
Emeralds From Juzo Mines In Colombia Described
The article notes emeralds entering the market from the famed Juzo mines in Bayaca Colombia on the eastern Andes slope about 70 miles north-northwest of Santa Fe de Bogota. It also mentions another mine Las quez a two day mule journey from Maza.
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Juzo
Columbian
Bayaca
Santa Fe de Bogota
Maza
Fasting as a Religious Rite at Narita Temple
The Japan Times reports devotees visit Narita to fast twice yearly in a specially built fasting hall. In the year, 226 men and 102 women fasted, with durations from under a week to five weeks. Motives include wealth and status, business gains, family safety, disease cures, and general luck, with few fasting in gratitude for past prayers.
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Japan Times
Narita
Fore 'n' Art Quote Fragment
A clipped line quotes Edmund Burke on forward view versus heritage, noting people who never reflect on their ancestry. The item presents as a brief epigraph snippet in a historical page.
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Edmund Burke
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Fredericka Street
Propper
Kern & Ripley
United States Supreme Court
Alban Reich, Jeweler
Sones
Louis E. Reich
Chicago
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms Con
New Haven
Gonn
Warburton
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