High School Squirbs Chronicle School Notes Nimrod and Nick
A lively collection of items from the high school scene. Mentions music lessons weekly, a well attended Thursday debate, Chester joining the band, and post card sales at the Record office. Notes on student absences, greetings, and leap year humor alongside calls for better behavior in the cloak room.
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Carrie Rhodes
Cotia
Reoord
H. S. and
Grammar Room
Tueyselves
Local shoppers savor end of season curtain sale
L B Yount and his daughter Austie visit Chicago this week while local stores promote Harvey Bogey items. Alspaugh and Babcock handle Harper Bogey. The note touts cloaks at half price and Richardson Dry Goods Co offers dark outing flannels at 3 cents.
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Alspaugh & Babcock
Richardson Dry Goods Co
Weather and social notes from Silver Creek January
January weather note from Silver Creek. William Landis and wife visited J B Richards. Sam Rager delivered a hog field at Akron Tuesday and is a hustler who enjoys feeding stock. Isaac Pratt and wife visited Elza Brady. Mrs Clarence Eber and daughter Glee stay with her parents nearby. Subscription promo included.
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William Landis
J. B. Richards
Sam Rager
Akron
Sam
Isaac Pratt
Elza Brady
Clarence Eber
Glee
Phrenology Talk Ends in Comedic Twist at Interex
Boggs, a self styled scientific craniologist, quizzes strangers on mental traits while praising his wife’s intellect. He singles out two women observers then a blast reveals one of the women is actually Boggs’ wife, deflating his boasts.
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Boggs
Uncle Joe Cannon Nods To Barber Silence
Tarper's Weekly recalls Uncle Joe Cannon disliking talk. a Washington barber asks to trim his hair and Cannon quips he prefers silence over any method to cut from the middle while saving the ends.
Classify Him. A Literary Exchange from Philadelphia Press
In a brief exchange, Cholis confesses a preference for England and wants to be king's subject while Miss Peprey retorts that he can only be an object. The dialogue reflects colonial era themes and nationality tensions as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
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Cholis
England
Miss Pepprey
Philadelphia Press
Suburban Living Cook Salaries and Quips
A fragmentary column recalls a living cook asking about monthly pay while jokingly noting a salary of 1714 cents an hour with holiday double pay. Other items include a garden scene about a gardener naming a radish after his wife and a quip about trustworthiness in a fishing club member.
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Norah Gonigan
Puck
Weathered loaf prompts meteorite joke in Yonkers paper
In a humorous local note Mrs Bacon questions her heavy bread and Mr Bacon jokes it might be a meteorite from last night’s fall, as reported by Yonkers Statesman in a light community item.
Second best remedy hinted in old keeper’s toast
A quirky exchange suggests avoiding beer wine and spirits as the second best remedy. The cheeky couplet frames a gamekeeper warning and a bon mots style tease about cures and moderation.
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Davior
Waeill Goetor
Bolling Family Exhibit Exposes Pocahontas Descendants
At the Jamestown exposition Social Economy hall a Virginia school for the deaf and blind exhibit displays the Bolling family, Pocahontas’ descendants. It features John and Thomas Bolling Jr who were deaf, sent by Major Thomas Bolling in 1775 to the Braidwood school in Edinburgh, marking early American deaf education.
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Virginia School For
Staunton
Bolling
America
John
Thomas Bolling
Pith and Point from Attehison Globe on Credit and Compliments
The column riffes on debt and usury with men who borrow paying high interest. It argues fairness, personal faults, and the abundance of spending opportunities. It notes that people often dismiss compliments while urging self improvement and prudent living.
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Lex Era
Attehison Globe
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Summe Bro’s Hardware
Silver Lake
N. A. Cary
Sliver Lake, Indiana
Ira Leckrone
Silver Lake, Ind
Swihart’s Store
Robinson’s
H. Rager
L. O. Jones
THE
Mecca
Haney & Bouse
Mark
United States
A. J
McCall
LASS
Cnet
BON
Buss
Naive Herbs
Heruse
Tia
As. L? Meloy
Syracuse
Bliss Co
Fashington
Dig
Moses
the Record Office
Nimrod
Nick
Harry H
Glen
Chester
Bernard
Zeta-Zeta Literary Society
H.S. Building
Lance
Emery
Jim
L. B. “Yount
Austie
Chicago
Silver Creek
Nyone
Rees
W. Eacente
Conmaunnien Bank
Roetanitenea
Sonn &C
Heamor
Record Office
Stubb
Penn
Chicago News
Green
Bragegs
Brown
Braggs
Detroit Tribune
Tra Legkhone
Srivasus Funxer
Pres
W. H. Keegy
Tresse Heensler
Ast
Cash
RA Leckrone
Sylvanus
Edwin Stout
Noah Frantz
J. GC. Babcock
C. Cavender
W. H. Kern
Commercial State Bank
Silver Lake, Indiana
Claude Malthews
Pocahontas
Bolling Family
Indiana
Wichita
Texas
Oklahoma
C. Leroy Leonard
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