Local Consumer Urges Buying Here to Support Community
A Parma Michigan News clipping argues buyers should trust local merchants over mail order houses. It cites short weight and inferior quality in catalog goods, recounts farmer losses from mismeasured twine, and urges keeping money in the community to support hometown stores.
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Parma
Mich
Chicago
the Falls
8. D
Leader
A. G. Enderton
Walter
Okla
Union Signal
Crookston, Minn
Consumer
Hat Fire in Manchester Church Stuns Congregation
An incident during a Heaton Moor service saw a hat catch fire from a gas bracket. A choir member sprinted to the affected woman and, after the hat pins were removed by two schoolboys, protected her with his coat as the flames were put out. The crowd reacted with amusement and shock.
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Heaton Moor
Manchester
England
Congre
Gation
Bethnal Green: From pastoral charm to lawless report
The London Chronicle recalls Bethnal Green once seen as idyllic, noting a shift to a lawless state revealed to the police commission. Pepys described June 1663 as a pleasant stroll with ladies after dinner. A domestic note offers a curious remedy for a cat reluctant to relocate involving butter and a cellar.
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Bethnal-Green
Police Commission
London Chronicle
Pepys
W. Rider
Bethnal Green Beggar House Recalled in Ballads
The piece contrasts a famous blind beggar of Bethnal Green once praised in ballads with Pepys era straw berry growing days and Matthew Arnold’s later view of squalid Bethnal Green streets.
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Bethnal Green
Percy
Daylye
Charitie
Bessee
Pepy
Matthew Arnold
New York Lt Governor Lewis S Chandler Favours Court Tennis
Lewis S Chandler the new lieutenant governor of New York is a devotee of court tennis. He spends weekends at Tuxedo and is constantly in the tennis court.
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Lewis S. Chandler
New York
Eight Room Farm House Design With Septic System
An article by William A. Radford discusses an eight room two story farm house with a large cellar and attic. It covers heating with hot air furnaces, ventilation, water supply, drainage and the septic tank system, plus verandas and practical layouts for rural living and family comfort.
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England
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