City notes and social events amid Elk River depot plans
Local notes report a debate over depot and Jackson block plots near Elk River with mentions of improvements boosting property values. Mrs Helfrich returns from Charlevoix visit. sewing society meets July 19. Ida Richie and Herman LaCure marry. Vera McCormick visits state street. new signs at Bane plumbing and Ky Selka grocery. vaudeville at Lyr ic features Kisbaum Bowens Krauman Alden. dirt streets being improved by city crew. P M Railway grading outlines. Traverse City plans a 125 room hotel costing 100000 in downtown, winter adaptations to top floors. local subscription confirmed.
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Ida Richie
Herman LaCure
Cass Street
Wm. H. Mason
the Christian Detroit
J Ray. Ford A. Eltis
Vera McCormick
Union Street
Roy Richie
State Street
Acme
Traverse City
How It Works Out First Coal Dealer Exchange
A fragmented dialogue shows a debate over profit on coal sales. One dealer claims twenty five percent for four tons, arguing the deal favors the rich in large lots while leaves the poor with smaller portions. The exchange highlights inequity in pricing and distribution.
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Lita
Judge Rules On Bank Know-You Requirement In Check Debate
In a courtroom exchange the judge remarks on whether bank staff must know a signer to honor a check. The discussion centers on identity verification and the bank’s obligation to process payment, highlighting tensions between personal familiarity and financial credibility.
Java's Death Plant Baffles Early Knowledge of Flora
A fragment notes a plant in Java described as emitting a suffocating perfume that overcomes a full grown man if inhaled for long and kills all insect life within its influence, illustrating a sensational historical claim about jungle flora.
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Java
Noted Phrase Echoes Tired Man in Racial Retort
The Atlanta Constitution quotes a humorous old Black speaker describing a man too tired to move or act, saying his only exercise is falling from grace and, once fallen, too tired to eat again.
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Atlanta Constitution
Suspicious Man Declares Odd Marriage Plans
Ike Van Quentin voices a plan to marry a slim woman with a fat sister to ensure the clothes for his fiancée are her own, signaling frustration with his current schemes.
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Calesa
Ike van Quentin
New Summer Library Titles At City Library
The City Library announces new summer reading books including Irving Bachellor The Light in the Clearing Temple Bailey Mistress Anne and many more titles by Conrad DeMorgan Ford Sewell and Zane Grey among others. Readers can explore fiction by Joseph Conrad Wm DeMorgan and Sax Rohmer plus works by Langston and Ruck in a wide catalog.
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Bachellor
Irving
Bailey
Temple
Anne
Bellamy
F. R
Browne
P. E
Scars
Buckrose
J. Z
Burnett
Frances H
Conrad
Joseph
Victory
DeMorgan
Joseph Vance
Farnel
Jeffrey
Ford
Sewell
Torchy Foster
Maximilian
Shoestrings
Gregory
Jackson
Short Cut
Grey
Zane
Hall
Gertrude
Aurora the Magnificent
Towells W. D
Leatherwood God
Dunne
Alexander
Jacobs
W. W
Kelly
Eleanor
Titildares
Storm
Kerr
Sophie
Rychakovskaya
V. L
Bohemia
Lefevre
Edwin
Latton
Elizabeth M
Cracker Box School
Lynde
Frances
Aresby
McFee
Wim
Martin
Helen R
Fitzenbergers
Mason
Four Feathers
Norton
Roy
The
Kent
Ogden
G. W
Rustler
Wind River
Oppenheim
E. P
Kingdom of the Blind
Partridge
E. B
Pier
Jerry
Poole
Ernest
Roche
Roe
Vingle
Royle
E. M
Ruck
Berta
Bert
Scott
UT. R
Sherwood
Margaret
Tobenkin
Elias
Witte
Wallace
Edgar
Clue
Candle
Weston
George
Mary
Whitaker
Herman
Old Superstitions Shared Across Slav Bohemian Albanian Customs
A clipped column describes regional beliefs about hearth fires and family practices in Slav, Bohemian, and Albanian regions. It notes restrictions on taking fire from the hearth and waiting periods after birth, with brief streetwise anecdotes about neighbors, wisdom from Solomon, and a Chicago News quip.
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Bohemia
Albania
Solomon
King Solomon
Leo
Chicago News
Whaling Industry Expands Off Portuguese African Coast
Whaling has become a established industry off the Portuguese African coast. The humpbacked whale averages about 60 feet in length and the orca slows sperm whale about 40 feet. Telephone your drug needs to 208 Citizens or R80. Scott's City Drug Store.
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Scott's City Drug Store
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Traverse City Press
Gothic Press Printing Service
C. E. Myers
Mpr
Myers & Myers
South Union Street
Elk River
Skirt Co
Avery
John Helfrich
Maple Street
Amandus Byers
Charlevoix
Companion Sewing Society
Mr. C. Gore
Ninth St
Bane Plumbing Shop
Kyselka Grocery
the Lyric
Sam Kisbaum
Paul Bowens
Krauman
Littl Alden
Cleota Gonkiin
Fifteenth Street
Hen Abdiz
Bev
Belah
Sen iMor
P.M. Railway Co
C. Mee Beeeaee
S.amson
Nicholson
Union St
Knabe
Grinnell Bros
Suess Voile
Pform
Ed Saith
Comace
Globe Dept. Store
City Library
Para
Phougit
F. O. B. Detroit
Saxon Agency
F. C. Rice
East Front Street
Citz
Hughes Electric
City Electric Light
EB. Krone St
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