Hindrance to Live Merchant and Mail Order Competition
Edward T. Hale argues that home merchants should be patronized over catalogue houses. He laments dead or stagnant local stores, contrasts two Wisconsin towns, praising active, advertised, customer friendly merchants and criticizing stores that fail to stock or show goods or advertise.
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Wisconsin
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES AND THE DIFFERENCE LIES
The piece recounts tales of Bucephalus pulling Alexander the Great from sleep to ride enemy risk, Haroun al Rashid using Arabian scouts, and a retired clergyman describing a horse re-nailing a dropped shoe. It ends with a quip on grand opera versus opera showing a contrast in appreciation.
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Lord Granville
Royal Philosophical Society
Smithson
Smithsonian Institution
America
Alexander the Great
Bucephalus
Haroun-el- Rashid
Irene
Constantinople
Ishmael
New England
Our
Divorce gains doom in Indiana record 1907
Indianapolis April 25. Indiana’s divorce rate rose in 1907 while marriages did not. The Indiana bureau of statistics reports 3,980 divorces and 28,702 marriages that year. Marion county led with 598 divorces. Jasper county had none. Cruel treatment and abandonment were the leading grounds. infidelity and failure to provide rose as well.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana Bureau of Statistics
Marion County
Vigo
Vanderburg
Allen
Madison
Delaware
Jasper County
Jasper
Union County
Scott
Newton
Ohio
Lake and Clark Counties
Lake
Clark
United States Census Bureau
The Actor’s Complaint From A Grim Physician
The physician declares a grim prognosis offering ten more years of work. The actor, furious, curses the doctor for withholding the warning and laments losing at least seven fare well seasons.
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Jesse Burton
Rex
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YALE
Ellwood
Elwood Rabbit
Scott's
Weekly Payment House of
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Edward T. Hale
Harry
Lom
Dorothy Dodd
C. H. Stratton Loan
Sullivan
India
Long & Warren
P. A. Barco
Briggs
Strouse & Bros
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