State orders switch to State uniform books after bond ruling
Kentucky officials announce a Mason Circuit Court judgment awarding $10,000 against the American Book Company, prompting county superintendents to cancel existing county adoptions and substitute the State uniform text books. Fuqua directs that using non uniform books is unlawful, with penalties for counties and teachers. Other suits pending against additional publishers.
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Prankfort
Fuqua
Gehral
Kentucky
Mason Circuit Court
American Book Company
Court of Appeals
Mason County Circuit Company
Mason County
Amerian Book Company
Eaid
Commonwealth
County School Book Commission
Mable
Jas. H. Fuqua
Largest real estate sale in years in Hood estate case
The Lebanon Enterprise reports a record sale of Hood estate real estate, handled by Master Commissioner Sam T. Spalding under a Circuit Court order in Flora Hood et al administrators vs I Shelby Irvine et al. Thirteen parcels sold including valuable town lots and surrounding tracts outside the city limits.
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Hood
Sam T. Spalding
Circuit Court
Flora Hood
I. Shelby Irvine
Ballot and Office Drift From Vermont’s Vision
In 1777 Vermont pledged a freeman house chosen by ballot to reflect wisdom and virtue. Now apathy and machine nominating rise, with corporate and party aims steering elections. The danger is intelligent, humble citizens withdrawing from public duties, weakening democracy.
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Vermont
House of Freemen
P. Orth
Atlantic
Worshippers of Strange Gods and Humble Heathens
Fragmentary OCR describes diverse worshippers in Punjab and beyond, noting spike, river, owl, bat, lobster, and snake cults. It mentions earth, Hertha, Demeter, and Pawnees, and hints at ancestral fairs and economical burial practices, with garbled phrases amid scattered references.
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Punjab
Hertha
Demeter
Aber
Among the Cannibals of New Guinea Tribal Life and Encounters
A. B. Pratt reports on cannibal tribes in British New Guinea and their villages perched on mountain ridges. Papuan society features patriarchal yet limited clan rule, polygamy, and hospitality. Tales include a bead credit gambit, a murder feast, and a boy spared by wary youths. The Motu Motu of Hood's Bay display peculiar houses, women’s burden work, and guarded yam gardens.
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A. B. Peatt
British New Guinea
Papas
New Guinea
Pratt
Australia
Port Moresby
Mr. Pratt
Nolay
Arly
Hood's Bay
Soldiers With Fans In War And Peace Time
In Japan fans are not only for women as men also wield them. The passage notes men carry fans even when going to war, a practice seen during warm months.
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Japan
Uncommon Scenes in Manchuria Show Japanese Suffering Fans
A Manila newspaper description notes soldiers in Manchuria resting on the ground and fanning themselves during a lull in hostilities. It praises Japanese bravery and counters claims of effeminacy by their use of fans despite active combat.
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Manchuria
Don’t Borrow Trouble
Weary and worn by dyspepsia and bilious disorders, seek relief with J. Haydon’s drug store. Guaranteed remedy offered at 50e. Fly for relief to be free from load of debt disease and internal heaviness.
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Bright
J. Haydon
Dunne Says Municipal Ownership Has Come to Stay
Chicago Mayor elect Edward F. Dunne told Cooper Union listeners that municipal ownership will endure and that Chicago street railway control should be government run. He urged broader public ownership of railroads telegraphs and express companies as a near certainty and warned the movement has a brief but decisive future. An odd injection about earthquake casualties and tablets appears in the text.
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Edward F. Dunne
Chicago
Cooper Union
New York
Municipal Ownership League
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F.T Cox & CO
Chamberlain
C. J. Haydon
Springfield
Lebanon Enterprise
The
Ballot and Office
Peoples Deposit Bank
Grundy, Claybrooke & McIntire
Yay Carybrooke
Heldman-Heldman & Co
I. Ettlinger & Co
McElrOy & Schultz
Telegraph and Express Companies
India
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