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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
7
In a tense scene Hall Bonnatello and his assistant Flodie discuss bills, pay, and a costly party. He teases her about finances while hinting at personal pressures as they prepare for a grand public event and the photographer’s grasp on truth.
Hall Bonnatelle learns his uncle's will leaves over four million to the heir if he marries by twenty eight. A judge, Doremus, explains the condition and hints at a wakeover party, while Hall contemplates courting a quick marriage to secure the fortune. Flodie encourages a practical match as the countdown to midnight begins.
The city of Turin plans a modern public lighting upgrade costing about 490000. Work runs from 114 to 1916 with main streets squares and avenues lit by incandescent lamps. About 9000 lamps at 2000 candle power each to be installed, plus smaller lamps of 6000 to 200 candle power. Current will come from the municipal electric station.
In Lansing Michigan a dry era contrasted with a wet one, showing higher factory efficiency and lower public costs. Beatt led morale efforts in a dry period, while merchants and officials faced higher prisoner feeding costs and altered business conditions after Lansing reverted to wet. The piece cites a 1,200 vote margin for going dry and notes engine costs falling 70 cents per horsepower in a rival company during dry times.
A temperance sermon questions if liquor traffic pays the United States financially and morally. It cites 1913 liquor revenue of $78,616,989 for state and local governments, per capita $2, and notes cities over 2,500 population. It argues the revenue is only a fraction of total income and calls to end the trade.
All social clubs of Atlanta Georgia are barred from dispensing liquor in any form. The decision asserts rigid democracy in enforcement, denying aristocratic privilege and making the wealthy answerable for violations. The ruling credits Pagan and Jackson of the Men and Religion advertising effort for their persistence.
A satirical piece advising frugal living and social foibles. It mocks domestic budgeting, entertaining, and husbandly habits with humorous anecdotes about guests, creditors, and dinners. The tone imitates old newspaper humor columns.
A garbled morning exchange discusses a 124 inch gun and a shelly item priced at 600. The speaker notes someone would not shoot such a shelly at his worst enemy, reflecting a heated but unclear street exchange.
A war correspondent voices a personal conflict about love and identity. He jokes about a lover’s demand to shave, while his passport shows him with whiskers, highlighting tensions between appearance and official documents.
The passage shows a couple discussing duplicates and a father's gift amid wedding preparations. The bride jokes about duplicating a check while the groom or a companion comments on the idea, hinting at admiration for a shared gesture and a wish to repeat it.
In a brief exchange, Madge comments on present styles making one look girlish, while Marjorie defends the look, noting her skirts mirror those she wore at age twelve, with a playful tone from Puck.
Excerpt reflects uncertain social commentary with fragmented lines about love longing and discouragement. A quoted voice attributed to Lynette Fremire in Judge discusses affection boundaries and emotional vulnerability.
An article fragment describes a baseball manager in a camp scenario chastising a hotel worker named Sutton for tardiness with food. Sutton promises improvement but later delivers cold grids with stale cakes. A ruler or figure named IMI questions the value of the old cakes and Button responds about bringing them for a draft.
The Kansas City Star quotes a plaintiff in a divorce case describing a night disturbance as he awoke with his head wounded by alcohol and his wife seeking a mate, prompting DeLaary M. Trimmins to remark on the wasteful conduct and its impact on the case.
A brief night incident describes Keen Wit Gotcha-T colliding with a burglar who fled through him after an attempted break in. Jake questions how the suspect escaped as Gotcha-T notes the intruder used his body to exit.
A fragmented 19th century style note discusses suspicion from a policeman examining a wall. The text weaves errant phrases about being covered with a vine and a paren-like fragment. It hints at studying nature by avoiding a correspondence school and a remark about watching neighbors.
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