A Soldier's Wooing After the Spanish American War
A veteran recounts a humorous hospital romance aboard a troop ship to Cuba. He describes a beautiful nurse who uses a thermometer and ice to test his feverish longing, then tows him toward declaring love despite comic mishaps. The tale ends with the narrator professing love and becoming a husband and father.
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Montaul
Point In
Venus
Cuba
Qates
Abe
Perindestan
Lretve
Coars
Epward
Spinney
Strange Lake Tehad Draws Renewed African Interest
In the past two years Lake Tehad in Africa has attracted attention as its surface and depth oscillate over two decades. A device to prevent bulb theft uses a keyed socket that cannot be removed without the key.
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Africa
Tehad
Inet
Republican County Convention Notice for Gratiot County
A Republican Convention for Gratiot County will meet at Ithaca Court House on Friday February 5 1909 at 11 am to elect seventeen delegates for the Grand Rapids assembly. Townships and cities including Pine River Seville St Louis wards Alma are allotted representation as ordered by the county committee and dated January 12 1909 with Brown as vice chairman and McCall as secretary.
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Gratiot
Court House
Ithaca
Grand Id Rapids
Lusitesa
Sal
St. Louis
Alma
Pine River
Seville
City of St
Brown
EB. J. McCall
New Blacksmith Shop Opens at Wright House Livery
Fountain and Anderson announce a new blacksmith shop at the Wright house livery barn offering first class horse shoeing repair work and wagon tasks for all. Customers may have horses or work while in town. Features include a Little Giant Axle Lathe.
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Fountain & Anderson
Wright House
Lab8th
Advertised Letters List for Week Ending January 1909
The weekly advertised letters list includes Thos Connell Mrs Rebecca Gardner Lorenzo Holmes George Musser Mirian Wallace N Tarkon and F Brown. If uncalled for by January 25 the items will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
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Thos. Connell
Rebecca Gardner
Lorenzo B. Holmes
George Musser
Mirian Wallace
N. ‘Tarkon
Easy to Make Medicine at Home Shake It Up
A New York daily recipe on a simple preservation remedy for backache and kidney or bladder trouble. Fluid Extract Dandelion half ounce, Compound Kargon one ounce, Compound Syrup Sassparilia three ounces. Shake and take in spoonful doses after meals and at bedtime. Local druggists say ingredients are common and inexpensive to obtain or have prepared. Teachers urged to try, noting potential kidney cleansing benefits.
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New York
Bright
Gratiot County Teachers Institute Set for January Session
The Gratiot County Teachers Association Institute will meet at the city High School on Friday and Saturday January 29 and 30. Noted educators Prof W D Henderson of the University of Michigan and Prof R D Calkins of Central Michigan Normal School will lead a full two day program with topics on geography reading sanitation and civics. The event promises up to date instruction and practical teacher aids for the county.
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Gratiot County Teachers’ Association Institute
Pike
W. D. Henderson
University of Michigan
R. D. Colkins
Central Michigan Normal School of
Mt. Pleasant
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Republican County Convention
F. Brown, P
G. E. Garnard
F. E. Ellsworth
Florence Coy
J. N. Day
Opera House
J. M. Wolfe
Evolution of A Boy
U. of M. Music
R. D. Calkins
Edna B. Watson
R.D. Calkins
Prin. Lynn B. Albert
Xenia B. Mason
New Constitution
Michigan Civics
Forsythe
Bargain
M. Blumrosen
C.L
G.m.delavan
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