Curious Customs and Quirky Royal Edicts Across Time
A nostalgic column samples odd traditions and official habits from Europe and Russia. It recalls Latin royal phrases guiding British bills, Empress Catherine’s century old rum perquisite, and a mysterious guard in a Petersburg garden born from a dropped moonbeam. The piece blends folklore with archival quirks and imperial misrule.
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Asplied
H Ot Edward the Confessor
Commons
House of Lords
Peers
House of Jords
Tin Majesty
Jord
Catherine
Eimperor
Paul
Mimi
Naslednik
Abe
Jamaica
Minally
Bismarck
St Petersburg
Diplomatiat
Boon Biemarck Potteed
Cxar
Wid
Wade
Aentry
York Brose
Meeting of Manufacturers at Waldorf Astoria
New York May 15 Representatives of the nation’s business interests from nearly all states gather at the Waldorf Astoria for the sixteenth annual National Association of Manufacturers session. President John Kirby Jr chairs the opening meeting devoted to executive business. The agenda includes accident prevention industrial relief banking currency immigration education patent reform and tariff commission creation with reports and discussions planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
National Associaion of
John Kirby, Jr
Seastone
Plang
Tariff Commission
Local Notes and Visits Across Mt Vernon and Danville
Short locals note numerous residents and visitors around Mt Vernon Danville Gambier and Newark including Mr David Jones Miss Josie Trimble and Miss Julia Berry with many relatives and friends. Several business trips and social calls are reported plus upcoming events at Danville Buckeye City and Gambier with school banquets church dedications and a Park theatre appearance. Local ads mention Hanford's Balsam and garden items along with department store offerings and furniture in Mt Vernon.
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Hutter
Egge
David Jones
Newark
Mt. Vernon
Hanford
Josie Trimble
Danville
Frank Stansfield
Akron
Julia Berry
B. G. Hare
Wica
FL. Babbley
Paola
Kansas
Mt Vernon
Buckeye City
Scntt
Olle
Vincent Smithhister
Porcelain week sale and local visitors noted in Gambier
Mrs CIAPEHES Berger of Columbus and Mrs T Berger of Mt Vernon are guests of Mrs JH Norrick of Fredericktown. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Perry of Cleveland spent Sunday in Gambier visiting the Perrys. The basement department advertises Hagtish Porcelain with liberal discounts. Mr Frank Champion was taken from his home on East Pleasant Street to Mt Vernon Hospital for pneumonia treatment. He then was moved to McCormick’s in Winson Tune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
1. Vernon Grays
Lexington, Ohio
Lexington
Lester Ong
Starling Medical School
Columbus
Mt. Vernon
A. Mitchel
Woolson
Jy. A. Stream
Rather Gunn
Charles Chase
Newark
Woolken's
Lenry McDaniel
Wenkemin
Woolson's Department
Mra. Ciapehes Berger
T. Berger
Xuesta
J. JH. Norrick
Predericktown
Wilfred Perry
Cleveland
Gambier
Perry
WM. Carlisle
Hagtish
A. A. Dowden
Prank Chompion
Enat Pleasant St
Mt. Vernon Hospital
McCormick
Winsin- Tunce
Young Brandon Farm Boy Injured In Harrow Mishap
Clyde Johnsons son, a Brandon youth, fell from a harrow when the horses jerked the implement. He twisted and badly broke both bones of the right ankle with torn ligaments, yet walked briefly after the accident before doctors confirmed the severity.
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Clyde
Edward Johnson
Brandon
Youkum
Circus shuts down factories amid strike impact
A Milanvision IGA event caused production pause at two ginse factories on Saturday as workers, including hundreds of boys, reportedly deserted during an elephant act. Factories suspended operations for the day, leaving about five hundred displaced from their jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milanision
Cote Cerns
Missing Wife and Borderman Disappear in Mill Creek Park
John B. Boggio foreman of stone masons at Mill Creek Park reports his wife vanished with $1,100 she had been sent to bank. Aboard prior to disappearance Adolfo Grosso a boarder in the same house also disappeared. Boggio had regularly given funds to his wife for safekeeping.
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Youngstown
John B. Boggio
Mill Creek Park
Adolfo Grosso
Boggio
Naval gun pointers and the telescope crossbar story
A wartime article explains telescope sight and crossbar enhancements for gun pointers. It describes how these tools allow aiming at distant targets without eye strain, and details the dramatic, dangerous imagery of naval gunnery from an observer’s perspective.
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Ware
In Tune with a Rasping Voice Lawyer Ban
The Baltimore American notes a sharp vocal signature used by a lawyer named Ban in a theatrical or musical snippet. The piece comments on a raspy delivery and a puzzled reaction from listeners. No further names or dates are provided in the readable text.
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Ming
Baltimore
Mexican Women and Obituary Notice Collide in 19th Century Context
The article discusses perceptions of Mexican women, noting class differences, hygiene, attire, and traditional roles, with praise for drawn work and motherhood. It shifts to a local obituary for George Hess of Knox County, detailing birth, residence near Mt. Vernon, surviving relatives, lodge memberships, sudden illness from bowel obstruction, and funeral arrangements at Mulberry Street M. P. Church with interment at Mound View cemetery.
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George Hess
George Heys
Greenwood Avenna
Knox County
Mt. Vernon
Bessie Hess
Jasper
Joseph Hess
Katherine Hess
Thomas Grimwood
Daughters of Rebekah
Daughters of Liberty
Quindaro Lodge
O. F
Kokostng Encampment
Hewie
Mulberry Street
M. P
Quindaro Lodge No
Mound View Cemetery
Mrs Amanda Baller Dies After Illness at Home
Mrs Amanda Baller died at her Bangs home Sunday night after an illness of over a year caused by complications. She was 62 and survived by her husband Rev A B Baller. The remains will be taken to Sidney Ohio for funeral and interment.
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Amanda Baller
A. B. Baller
Sidney
Ohio
Lengthening the Day Laborers Debate a Gun Standstill
A LondonAnswers fragment reports two waterworks laborers debating who ordered the gun to stand still. One praises the other as a scholar while the other shrugs, blaming an unnamed gun contractor for seeking a longer day’s work.
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Bob
Lendoo
Unclear excerpt from a historic page text
Fragmentary lines reference household meals and a club in Toledo, with dialogue about comforts, breakfast, coffee, and discharging a cook, but no coherent storyline, dates, or identifiable persons.
Public notice of three Percheron draft stallions for service
A notice from a Mansfield Avenue barn offers three imported full-blooded draft stallions for public service. Havas 73850 is a Percheron weighing 2100 pounds. Two sorrel Belgians, Carlos de Vodero and Marquis de Monerosu, weigh 2290 and 4 years respectively. Insurance terms range from 16 to 20 dollars per living colt. Mares accepted with caution. nonreturning owners lose insurance. Breeding season advised, with care and responsibility emphasized.
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St My Barn
Mansfield Avenue
Havas
Carlos de Vodero
Brin d'Or
Marquis de Monerosu
le Dernier
Rini
Newsboys Urged On Despite Lorimer Senate Loss
Even as Mr. Lorimer ultimately loses his seat in the senate the paper urges newsboys to stay encouraged. The item notes Lorimer as a boy and suggests he was once thought to be all right, reflecting a local tone of resilience and public spirit.
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England
Moya
Dally Ramon
Rum
Etold
Piot
Mary Willams and
Niles
George Dial
High Street
William T. Buxton
Massillon
W. M. Koons
Mt. Gilead
Dr. D
Samuel Thatcher
Mt. Liberty
C. P. Rich
Centerbury
Dresden
Ohla
Earnest Sebluppadake
Gleveland
Joseph McManus
Roiswet
Jeolloway
Mise Marella Porter
Mt. Vern
Mee
Ro Howe
Minn ‘Tanmon
Mister Lawrence Stream
George T. Stream
Mia
Robert Clarke Jr
Vernon
Robert Clarke
North Main Street
Clinton Williamea
Loxford
Western College
Helen Henley
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Manifeld
Loren Hoxton
Billings
Montana
Harry Coyle
Thfe
Tom Kelley
Crown Heads of
Europe
the Park Theatre
Aloo Keen
Oakland
May Workin
Kent Shaffer
Floyd Horton
Karien Roas
Charing Shallenourger
Woor
Tor
Lee
Harker Lybarger
Relex Tives
Florence Kring
Norman Pry
Charles McManin
Lawrence Mitchell
Lack
Miin Candace Mitchell
Chicago
Roy Snow
Greentown
Panay Vail
Coshocton
Frederick Burtnett
Howard
Clifford Brentiinger
Alfred Fillmore
Tn Gambier
W. B. Robinson
New York City
Isaac Cuenot
Fredericktown
Mizatirth Reynolds
Mary
Margaret
Sarah Reynolds
Waehner's
BB. Gullind
Clarence Fry
Columbus Road
Woolson’s Department
Sarah
Gantt
Harch
Woolson's
Arnold Store
Mt. Vernan
Clyde Johnson
Meyer-Lindorf Company
Corticelli Silk Co
Charming Shirt
Meyer - Lindorf Co
Mpxican
Tye
Rome
Toledo
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