Albany urged to form Thomson Band for open air concerts
Alfred Smith and Foster Stagg led talks in Albany Tuesday with local merchants about backing a Thomson Band concert series. The 25 member group, guided by Harley Booth, seeks community leadership and school-age players, inviting Albany residents to join and sponsor the band through letters to Booth-Paddock Music Co. in Clinton, Iowa.
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Alfred Smith
Thomson Band
Foster Stagg
Albany
Thomson
Harley Booth
Smith
Clinton
Iowa
Booth-Paddock Music Co
Albany Review
Fireworks warned as Fourth of July risk to children
Dr. Cummings warns public health records show thousands injured and hundreds killed each year by fireworks while adults accept risk. He cites small devices cause burns, infections, and amputations. The piece notes Lincoln film makers Alan Ray Rockett spent years researching and recreating Salem village for authenticity.
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Lincoln
Cummings
Public Health Service
Aland Ray Rockett
Abraham Lincoln
Salem
Last Slave Law Victim Anthony Urns in Massachusetts History
Anthony Urns, a former enslaved person who escaped in 1863, was the last to be seized in Massachusetts under the 1850 fugitive slave law. He was arrested in 1854 and returned to his owner, marking a final such enforcement in the state.
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Anthony Urns
Massachusetts
Mississippi
New Salem
Anne Rutledge
Anne
Kihe
Lincoln
Sangamon County
Springfield
Senate
Douglas
Althou
Mary Todd
Washington
White House
Glass eyes increasingly hard to detect among people
In this country about one in every two hundred persons wears a glass eye. The article notes that advancements in glass eye manufacturing in recent years make them less noticeable, though detecting them remains challenging.
Ancient heating methods and stoves in use
The article describes historical heating styles including concealed fire stoves used by the ancients and German stoves, portable braziers, and English open grate fires still common though fuel is wasted. A fragment mentions a Want Ad.
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England
New Circular on Farm Rope Uses by I P Blauser
A new circular from the College of Agriculture University of Illinois presents Practical Uses of Rope on the Farm. It covers thirty four hitches knots and loops with step by step directions and illustrations to improve efficiency and safety in farm work.
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I. P. Blauser
College Farm Mechanics Department
College of Agriculture
University of Ilinois
Widow Bargains Shroud with Grim Village Dealer
A widow, grieving her husband, visits a village store to buy a burial shroud. The storekeeper quotes a price, she counters she can travel to the next village for half. He retorts that the corpse will heave highness through in a weak.
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Clinton Business College
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Jack Armstrong
Denton Offut
Sally Stephen A. Douglas
William Scott
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Nell Craig
Trene Hunt
Wescott
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Otis Harlan
Louise Fazenda
William Humphrey
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William Moran
Walter Rogers
James Welch
Willis Marks
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