Blacksmith Department Offers Shaping Shoes and Repairs
Local blacksmith advertises horseshoeing and general repair services. Brings horses for shoeing and plows for sharpening.
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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
6
Bennett the Wagon Master Promises Superior Wagons
The writer asserts unmatched skill in wagon building, claiming to be the top woodwork designer and master of the craft. He invites readers to have their wagons built by him, predicting Bennett’s name will appear on more wagons than Sheridan’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reader
Bennett
Sheridan
Tie
Hind
la Ecole Polytechnique
Wikeole Polytechnique
Bertrand
Ato LaEcole Polytech- Mauve
Justance
French Academy
Pascal
Academy of Sciences
Paint Department Promises High Class Decorating Services
A seller touts refined painting and decorative skills using traditional lead and oil methods with gum varnish. The ad invites patrons to bring their buggies for painting and notes a lasting, lustrous finish.
General Repairing and Hardware Ad Listings
An old classified line offers a variety of repair services and hardware items. It highlights tools, carriages, harnesses, and assorted ironwork with notes on welding and blacksmithing crafts. The ad mentions a broad inventory and experienced, skilled workmanship.
Marvelous Mental Calculators From History
The article surveys famous mental calculators and child prodigies. It highlights Crauss as a gifted mathematician, notes his early rapid calculations and future work in algebra and astronomy, and contrasts with others like Dave Petersen Buxton and Joseph Bertrand, detailing extraordinary memory, rapid head calculations, and early education challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Case
Crauss
Mather
Carnally
Gauss
Dave
Hamburg
Csechis
Hitie
Petersen
Tle
Sheen Imi
Dase
Buxton
Phe
Snander
Tom Fuller
Virginia
Darboux
Joseph Bertrand
Paris
Deed of a Hero in the Indian Rebellion Telegraphist Brendish
A young telegraph assistant W Brendish sent from Delhi to Vimballa the first news of a major uprising in 1857. He and fellow boy Pilkington kept lines open as Delhi and the Punjab were threatened, enabling the British to learn of the revolt and save the empire. Brendish received a life pension for his service and later died in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ajhoy
W. Brendish
Delhi
Vimballa
Edward Wirbart
Punjab
Tudia
Meerut
Yooung
Brendish
Pilkington
Ofice
Wodd
Tie
Lim
Sir Edward
Trendish
India
Fans and courtship by lottery of the fan in 18th century society
A May 1711 London Spectator snippet describes ladies drilled in fan use and four flutter types. It notes London and Bath assemblies where gentlemen chose partners by a fan lottery, a practice noted by Boswell Steele Pope and Guy who praised the fan as Venus’s invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Spectator
Choicing
Tondon
Bath
Boswell
Steele
Pope
Guy
Venus
Chinese Eating Habits and Meat Variety
A London Standard summary notes Chinese cuisine uses a wide range of meats due to limited grazing land. Beef is common amid Buddhist avoidance of killing animals. pork ranks after rice as a staple. Pork mutton and fowl are prominent in markets. omnivorous fish intake is high. rare mentions of cats and dogs appear in some tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cazes
London
Stanmird
Birds Destroyed After Steamer St Cuthbert Fire
One thousand eight hundred Hungarian partridges and Mongolian pheasants consigned to Kidiana and to be distributed by the State Game and Fish Commissioner were burned with the steamer St Cuthbert off Halifax. The birds, captured in Austro Hungary, were young and destined to replace quail declining in the state. An effort will be made to duplicate the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kidiana
State Game and Fish Commissioner
St. Cuthbert
Halifax
Austro—Hungary
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Promises Relief for Constipation
An advertisement claims women are prone to constipation and indigestion and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle, effective, and guaranteed remedy. It cites Mrs Tyner of St Louis and asserts a money back guarantee if not cures, with prices 50 cents and a dollar two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Caldwell
Tyner
McLaren Ave
St. Louis
Dr. Caldweill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Binkley
Blacksmith Department
Woodwork Department
Paint Department
Rubber Tire Department
Sheridan, End
A. E. Bennett
Scientific American
E. Elliott
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