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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1901
Page
25
In a Western town narrator recalls years with a Virginian doctor and his Kentucky thoroughbred, plus his own Morgan and Nellie the mare. A runaway buckboard, a perilous bridge, a looping arroyos scene, and a tense rescue end with horses stuck and a narrow escape.
Readers asked about dates for equinoxes and Easter 1957, Seth Low's mayoral plurality, and congressional apportionment. Other queries cover the Turkish title pasha, US consular at Guadalajara, lead round bar weight, matrimony newspapers, shafting bearing rules, baseball base distances, and applying for a guns machinist job at a navy yard.
The text lists various holidays and observances across states including Confederate day on May 2, Mecklenburg Declaration anniversary, Jefferson Davis birthday June 3, Pioneer or pioneers day July 24, Bennington battle day Aug 16, admission day Sept 9 and Oct 31 for California and Nevada, All Saints' day Nov 1, and Arbor day on differing dates by state or Governor. It notes Every Saturday afternoon is a legal holiday in some states.
Advices from New York indicate foreign underwriters are thriving by issuing life policies on King Edward during coronation year. Merchants hold vast inventories and fear ruin if the King dies before or during ceremonies. Rates surged as rumours of the King’s health spread, with Lloyds showing policies up to twenty guineas per cent. No Queen Alexandra coverage is quoted.
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