Unique Voting Contest in Co-Operative Booking Exchange
A community contest offers a free box or five seats for three attractions to the woman with the most votes. Voting uses coupons from newspaper nominees and season tickets, with 500 votes per nomination blank and 200 or 400 vote coupons attached to tickets. Top five standings updated periodically.
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Co-Operative Booking Exchange
Victor Hugo Stevenson
Alexander Dumas
Entertainment
Lyceum Journal
William M. Thackeray
Walter Scott
Charles Dickens
Victor Hugo
Jorge Eliot
Shakespeare
Chas. Dickens
Plutarch
Washington Irving
Hawthorne
Macauley
Edgar A. Poe
Sir Walter Scott
Waverly
Ate
Local Markets Prices for Grains and Livestock
Old market list detailing grain bids for Wheat No 1 white No 2 red oats shelled corn beans rye buckwheat hay clover seed timothy and other feeds. Live stock values for hogs beef cattle sheep and veal calves with dressed meats pricing and various hides furs and produce items including butter potatoes and produce listings.
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Leo
Hans
Bashel
Electric Bitters Endure Severe Strain Says Satisfied User
Mrs J B Vande Sando of Kirkland Lib credits Electric Bitters with preventing breakdown during a three month severe strain. Advert shows a Wheatland and Suns store headline and notes health benefits and 50c price. The ad claims strong tonic effects and guarantees satisfaction, citing a New York Times tablet about Life Insurance origins in 1843.
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J.B. Vande Sando
Karkland
Lib
W Street
Hanover Square
Morris Robinson
United States
New York Times
Bucklin's Arnica Salve Cures Longstanding Leg Injury
In aWatertown Wisconsin note J A Swensen says ten years of cover and fifteen doctors failed to cure a leg injury until Bucklin's Arnica Salve healed it completely. The testimonial mentions skin eruptions boils fever sores and a range of ailments and notes Weston and Sons as sellers in Korea Salt Rhine.
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J. A. Swensen
Watertown
Wts
Bucklin
Korea
Weston and Sons
Bebles Rocked to Sleep by a Clock
In New York a new cradle called Thin displays an ante idea. It is a baby swing cradle driven by a clockwork mechanism. The infant sits in a hammock cradle while the clock winds for about twenty to forty five minutes, offering a gentle rocking motion. The inventor has several of his own children.
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Bebles
New York
Hammrock
How to Pay Your Grocery Bills With Hens and Powders
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune page mocks frugal advice urging payment of grocery bills by keeping hens. It promotes Harvell's Condition Powders as a staple product, described as the best producer with full weight, priced 250 a package, and features a light, satirical quote about Mr. Gigshaw and Mrs. Lap sling amid scattered advertisements.
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Harvell
Wheaton & Son
A Man of Iron Nerve and Health Promised by Pills
An old advertisement extols Dr King s New Life Pills as a regulator guaranteeing iron nerves and robust health. It links stomach liver kidneys and bowels in order to achieve a keen brain and strong body, urging purchase at Wheaton and Sons for 2c.
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Wheaton
Dr. King
New York Plans Titanic Subway Expansion
The New York Public Service Commission outlines a vast subway project nearly double the size of the Interborough system. Spanning 44 miles with four-track tubes, it requires 9.16 million cubic yards of excavation and 205000 tons of iron and steel, aiming to serve up to 1,000,000 daily riders.
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New York Public Service Commission
Tri-Borough
Interborough System
Fort Hamilton
Coney Island
Brooklyn
East River
Manhattan
Harlem River
Bronx
Woodlawn
Eigneers
Ead
Washington Monument
New York
Santa Fe
N. M
United States
Public Service Commission
Railway Tries Gasoline Car Torpedo Boat Style
An eastern railroad plans tests of a new gasoline car dubbed the torpedo beat. The 70 by 10 foot steel car seats 16 in a separate smoking compartment and carries a 200 horsepower engine with twelve cylinders. It averaged 42 miles per hour on test runs near Philadelphia, reaching 59.5 mph at times, and uses acetylene lighting with hot water jacketed heat. The Canadian export of batter remains small, barely affecting British markets.
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Chiladelphia
Local notes from Sumner area on Tuesday visits and travels
Mrs Holdah Mangus, Wr Kirker's, Norma Wood, Worden Wood, Mrs F J Graham, Mrs Lydia Hoey, Murl Bogart, Brett Tucker, H A Claw, Mrs Pred Fullerton, Arthur Mulford family, Paul Walker, Mrs Hate Monks, Dr J Groban party, Mrs Wai Phillips, Ceclie Phillips, Harry Parris, Frank Ostrander, Seymour Harris, Clayton Jones, Mrs G M Jones, Nelson Clow, Farwell visitors, Frank Cooley family moves, Mrs M J Finch, Miss Stunde, Reason Forquer, Riverdale visit, Mrs Story and Mrs Darling, Flossie Slater, Lizzie Fisher, O A Buston, Lizete Fisher, Orville Colebhorp, Neetie Hogart.
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Holdah Mangus
Brett Tucker
Detroit
H. A. Claw
Arbor
Pred Fullerton
Laverne
Arthur Mulford
Pneumonuia
Birdwall
Paul Walker
Farwell
Hate Monks
Mary Elmer
Nelson Clow
St. Louis
Seymour Harris
Frank Cooley
Fred Cooley
M. J. Finch
Trerse City
Stunde
Carson City
Riverdale
Samuel Story
Marie Darling
J. Harvey
Flossie Slater
Lizzie Fisher
Metoskew
Idea
Lizete Fisher
Mt. Peasant
Selives
Orville Colebhorp
Breckrule
Neetie Hogart
Grand Rapids
Muldan Mangus
Grange Young People in Old Fredonia No 1 NY
Special correspondence details Grange No 1 founded April 15 1808 as oldest U S grange with 499 members including 60 young people. Youth group formed January 1910, schedules readings debates plays and banquets, and hosts programs for parents and public. They advocate rest rooms in villages and note a rural play by Harry M Doty.
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Fredonia
No. 1
New York State
Fredonia N. Yui Grange No
United States
Grange No. 1
Grange
Grange Young People's Society
Guvr
Sheridan Grange
Feld
Chautsuqua Lake
Our Grange
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Longfellow
Kipling
Emerson
Cood
Daly
Mame
C. F. Brown
Mammoth
Titanic
Subway
Sumner
J. Groban
Alma
Wai. Phillips
Cecile
Elwell
Harry Parris
Frank Ostrander
Edisore
Seymour, Harris
Wife
Clayton Jones
Edmore
G. M. Jones
Grange Young People
Harry M. Doty
Chatham, N
Sackett's Corner Folks
Granges
Old
New England
Molly
Virginia
Philadelphis
Bank of Riverdale
Riverdale, Mich
N. W. Struble
F. H. Rowland
John G. Young
Riverdale Bell Phone
Michigan
Riverdale Elevator CO
M. L. Perrigo
Forest Hill
Gratiot County
M. L. Perrigo Hardware and Implement
Mich
Argada
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