Willingness to wreck Gillender Building on Nassau Street
New York notes slow public work as Fifth Avenue changes from homes to business. Gillender Building on Nassau and Wall streets, built 12 to 13 years ago for $500000, is being demolished along with an adjoining eight story block to clear space for a 39 story Bankers Trust skyscraper worth about $3600000. The wrecking crew has 45 days and a $500 daily penalty if delayed, with 50 workers operating around the clock. The granite and other materials are being sold for reuse and tombstone production.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
New Public Library
Fortieth
Forty-second Street
San Francisco
Thirty-seventh Street
Vanderbilts
Vanderbilt
Financial District
Gillender
Nassau and
Wall Streets
Bankers'Trust Company
Metropolitan
Singer
Cee Coors
Nassau
Wall
Wrecker
Island Cat Farms Demand Fur for Muffes on Puget Sound
In Puget Sound a 16 acre island hosts a thriving fur trade with cats raised on rocky shores and dense woods. Boats haul nets full of fish daily to fatten cats whose glossy fur sells for medium priced muffs, while several islands along the western coast maintain similar cat farms and occasional fox and otter breeding. Each year thousands of cats die in round-ups to feed rising fur demand.
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Seattle
Wash
Puget Sound
Rocky Islands
Squirrel Stops Street Car On Madison Road
In Cincinnati the Madison road street car slows to a stop when a gray squirrel repeatedly crosses the track. Motorman Davis warns the animal to stay off the rails as the car crawls past. Passengers watch the creature perched on the Byane lawn and appear amused by the antics.
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Cincinnati; O
Madison Road
Wold! Avenue
Davis
Byane
Rare Shakespearean Item Auctioned in New York Sale
Auctioneers announce a private sale of The Secret History of Macbeth King of Scotland by P Buchan, 1828, a curious memoir printed in Scotland with modernized orthography. Also offered are three Venetian folios from 1563 1565 and 1583 with voyages and a map of New France including Hochelaga and Montreal.
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New York
Merwin-Clayi
Scotland
Manu
P. Buchan
Houchan
A.preas
Boot
Macbeth
Pitta
Buchan
Venice
Finds Aunt in Hunting Room Spokane
Bennett, recently of Salt Lake City and former Columbus resident, locates his aunt Mrs. Mary Grump in Spokane at 325 Riverside Avenue. On arrival he leaves belongings at Union Rescue mission and meets his aunt at a rooming house, where she recognizes him as her nephew.
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Spokane
W. ‘Bennett
Salt Lake
Utah
Columbus
Mary Grump
Riverside Avenue
Bennett
Union Rescue Mission
F. G. Desparies
Fourth of July Festivities At Joliet Penitentiary
Joliet inmates celebrated Independence Day with boxing stages, singing, dancing, vaudeville, and quoits. The prison orchestra performed all morning and a large dinner followed with roast pork coffee and pie, as barrels of lemonade circulated among the men.
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Joliet
Joliet Penitentiary
Waukegan
Ames
Chicago Spring Bluffs
Chicago
Quincy
Sherman Park
West
Michael J. Haley, Jr
M. J. Haley
James
J. L. Stevens
Naperville
du Page County
Rockford
Rock River
Newton Engineering Company
Milwaukee
Murphysboro
Illiois
Rushville
Brooklyn
Birmingham
Cuba
Schuyler
Rock Insland
Fraternal Tribune
Magill
Sterling
John H. Gray
Morrigan
Anna Blount
Gray
Cairo
W. W. Duncan
Fourth
Illinois
Edward B. Mitchell
Carbondale
Mattoon
Mattoon Township
Grayville
Do you know my Eli's secret father knows
A five year old questions a companion about knowledge and Asia in a clever exchange from Harper's Bazaar. The child answers with wit, claiming Asia is among the things his father knows, prompting skepticism from the older boy. The anecdote highlights childlike logic and humor.
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Eli
Asia
Harper's Bazaar
Foot Bath and Ease Promised by Allen’s Tabs
An advertisement touts Allen’s Foot Tabs to relieve foot soreness odor and dampen nervous footness with a home foot bath. It also promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for daily use in shoes and offers free samples by mail. A dialogue about a baby swallowing a gold dollar appears as a separate humorous insertion.
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Allen
Olmates LaBoy
N.Y
Midas Touch and a Cigar Ad in Odd Chronicle
The excerpt blends a mythic Midas joke with a dubious modern ad scene. Midas proclaims future gold touch as a crowd watches, then a dealer offer for a Lewis Single binder straight 5c cigar appears. A quack-like health claim follows, touting Plexsan Polieta laxative products.
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Buenos Alpes
Aires
Argentina
Colon Theater
Hemisphere
Gotham
Island OF
Felines
Squirrel
Lever
Columbus, C
Spokane, Wash
Armour’s
Armour’s Fertilizers
Armour Fertilizer Works
Charley
Dodds
Ana
Midas
Puck
Plarce
Daisy Fly Killer
National Live Stock Com. Co
Kansas City
St. Odtah Mo
S. Oumata
Neb
JotAina
Rio Grande Valley
Splendid Comtract
G. Chapix Tewankte Co
Western Boiler
Monmouth
von Pitquerad & Co
Washington, D
ST. Louis
Harold Boners
Death Ave
Wens
Poulselt
Wen
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