Wildcat Tale Highlights Arkansas Camp Adventure
In a rugged Arkansas White River setting forty miles from the railroad, a group recounts deer drives and a wildcat encounter. Doc Simona recalls climbing a log to leap a briar maze and landing atop a large wild cat, fearing an optical illusion as the animal thrashed below, then escaping with gear intact.
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Areenidek
Turkey
Doe
Cley
Arkansas Widernan
White River
Vive Olan
Doc” Sitemons
Landerfoot
Waa
Building Up Trade Through Advertising and Competition
D. M. Carr argues mid winter to early spring is best for local merchants to boost sales via advertising. He notes mail order houses draw rural shoppers, urges farmers to study catalogs, and urges merchants to use price quotes and publicity to compete. He stresses home merchants show goods, keep costs down, and avoid false economies while embracing disciplined advertising.
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de Serpin
Tle
Joer
Cata Joguex
Tre Wall Town
D. M. Carr
Keep to the Front and The Call to Up-to-Date Business
A brisk exhortation urges readers to join the front rank of progress in business. It stresses intelligent, systematic work, staying current with markets, and adopting new methods to avoid failure, with a call to act now or risk welfare and success.
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Step-Lively
Sounded Like It. Mia de Style and the Food of Love
A courtroom style fragment shows Mia de Style and Patrick arguing over piano practice and marriage plans. Judge presides as references to "food of love" and "plans" appear in a clipped, dramatic exchange.
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Mia
The Fate of Small Retailers and Economic Foundations
A fragmented discussion argues that small retailers endure as essential social and economic units. It asserts trade goods flow from settlers to towns, local government forms, and banks arise from growing communities, while large stores may supplement yet cannot erase the need for small shops.
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Peselaiteta
Eldley
Premium deception targets postal customers in New York
A New York mail order scheme promised a valuable silver fruit dish for 88 cents, claiming the buyer was on a lucky list. Five thousand letters were sent, urging payment as packing charges. The fraud has troubled the post office and harmed unsuspecting citizens.
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Department of Government
New York City
New York
Post Office Department
Competition and trade in mercantile life
The article argues competition stimulates trade as a natural outcome of intelligent wants and exchange. It defines wants and supply as drivers of trade, notes competition shows ambition to excel, and asserts that 90 percent of mercantile participants fail, suggesting competition can be unhealthy and a fetal disease when misdirected.
Money Ill Spent Advertising in Small Towns
A critique of overhyped take advertising schemes used by out of town grafters. The piece argues most schemes waste money for merchants and praises home papers as the best medium. It warns about posters and targeted blizzard tactics and urges reliance on the local newspaper.
Ancient kissing customs across nations and eras
A historical survey traces kissing as a ritual from early Christian bishops at the altar to royal and court ceremonials in Britain and Europe. It notes variations such as the under the mistletoe kiss in Russia and America, Mecca’s sacred kiss, and a satirical critique by John Wesley of dueling lip kisses in 1754.
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Custon
Devonshire
John Wesley
Tis Journal
Limerick
Fring
Teéland
Russia
Eyeh Otter
Heezay
Privre Solidiers
Japan
Bhusland
America
Man Chases Union Car Delivers Letter At Post Office
A derailed morning scene shows Jaceil chasing a Union Street car at Ruclid and East Eighty Ninth, shouting a request to drop a letter at the post office. The conductor halts, the man hands the note, then jogs away, the bell rope barely holding.
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Jaceil May
Ruclid
East Eighty Ninth Street
Union Station
Civeland Plain Dealer
Ohio State News: Fire at Arcade building in Washington
A 14 year old boy confessed to starting a fire at the Arcade building in Washington to seek excitement. A loaded revolver and a stolen watch valued at five dollars were involved. a clerk helped prevent greater damage by alerting others as the blaze began near midnight while nearby residents slept.
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Bryan
O'Cliford Kline
Waushan
Tuk
Railroad Crossing Accident Prompts Toledo Study
The Ohio Railroad Commission released a gubernatorial report on the February Toledo grade crossing disaster in which eight people died. It calls for remedies including measures to reduce risk at crossings, such as metal troughs over trolley wires and shared future funding responsibilities, while noting no single fix can fully prevent similar events.
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Columban
State Railroad Commission
Gubernorite
Toledo
Winstein Road
Canton Controversy Over McKinley Baptism Sparks Debate
Local contention in Canton Ohio centers on whether President McKinley was sprinkled or baptized. Rev Waxton of First M E church and Rev Welshimer of First Christian church clash, with Rev Bostow claiming McKinley was sprinkled at age 14 in Poland Ohio. Other clergy cite immersion, Morton and Mor ton differing on entry details.
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Canton
Mc Kinley
E. 0
Waxton
Yantor
M. BE
Welshimer
Pasion
Bostow
Poland
Hoy
Welchmer
A. D. Morton
MeKinley
Mos Honing County
Protest Against Senate Seed Bill Sparks State Debate
In Cincinnati officials and business leaders urged opposition as the legislature pushed IstttstIttate jen bifl No 440 to prevent seed adulteration and misbranding. The bill would place seed oversight with the food and dairy commission, with penalties including heavy fines and prison terms for violations.
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Senate
Cinciynwi
Chamber of Commerce
Gener Assembly
IstttstIttate
Jen
Yale
Despondent youth, 17, commits suicide in Nelsonville
Nelsonville Ohio reports a 17 year old colored youth, Stanely Newsom, fatally shoots himself in the head over a love affair. Parents opposed his going with the girl Successful Fox Drive in Springfield sees 690 participants. one fox caught and sold to Walter Hyde of Mechanicsburg for a drive there. Flood danger recedes in Gallipolis as Ohio river rises slowly. Maumee River rises with gorge at Phillied's Island threatening a big flood. Longworths dined with Buckeye Republican club in Columbus. tickets sold for 1000.
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Darkess
Dee
Doc
Fveg
Simmona
Emory
Mays
Ed Morton
Nelsonville
Stanley Newsom
Springfield
Catawba
Aucton
Walter Hyde
Mechanicsburg
Maumee
Toledo
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