MUTILATED MONEY NOTES FASCINATING AT TREASURY OFFICE
The United States Treasury Redemption Bureau handles mutilated currency from many causes. Experts decipher burnt chads and reassemble pieces to recover face value. Cases include money burned in fires, mice damage, and odd accidents. One farmer was fined $1,000 for perjury after false claims about missing halves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Treasury
Mammon
West
Kansas
Secret Service
New York Tribune
Why He Doubted Her in the Indianapolis Journal
In a brief note, Belinda claims a photograph captured her unaware, while the other speaker challenges her statement. The exchange hints at skepticism over the image and who truly posed for it, reflecting social doubt about photographed portraits.
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Belinda
Indianapolis Journal
The Penalty of Music for Brass Players
A veteran musician laments how deafness ends many careers in brass playing. He cites constant ear vibration from long hours on cornet, trombone, and horn as the cause, noting some performers quit before damage becomes obvious while others persevere until hearing fails. The piece cites Kangas City Star.
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Criac
Deniitus
Tiiny Hiuslelitis
Kangad City
Kangas City
An Incident In The Boyhood Life Of Louis XIII Of France
The Atlantic recounts a childhood episode of Louis XIII with Sully visiting St Germain. The young dauphin and his attendants stage a drill with toy arms as Sully hands out crowns. One last coin remains and is seized, while the boy notes he did not receive pay, reflecting later frugality attributed to Mme de Monglat.
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Louisa XIII
France
Dauphin
Louis XIII
Duke of
M. de Sully
Mme, de Monglat
Mel
Hereward
Louis
Mme. de Mongiat
Warning to Borrowers Sparks Domestic Comedy
A Kansas City Journal item riffs on a borrower who sends his boy for a neighbor’s paper. In the scramble a bee stand is felled, a barbed wire fence broken, a cow eats corn and dies, a churn spills cream on kittens, false teeth drop, a baby ruins a car pet, a hired man elopes with the oldest daughter, hens are disturbed, and calves chew shirt tails in a chaotic chain of mishaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Journal
Different Ways In Relating To Vaccination And Oaths
In Singapore a court anecdote contrasts religious views on vaccination and kissing the Bible with a story about John Chinaman. When asked how he would be sworn he says, Kill im cock break im saucer smell im book all the same. This Chambers' Journal joke reflects colonial humor on oath rituals.
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John Chinaman
Singapore
India
John
Optical shop advertises eye exams and glasses
The ad urges readers with blurred or tired eyes to visit the Progress office for eye examinations with affordable glasses and stylish frames. It promotes Lanoline Eye Balm for various eye ailments and lists frame options, cases, chains, and accessories. It also notes a political scandal involving government appointees and ward influences in Cuba.
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Stoira
Lensea
Professional cards from Vienna Georgia attorneys and doctors
A historical page lists W V Harvard MA Fleming D L Henderson I F Powell and Powell & Son John F Powell George W Wooten O T Stovall and doctors including Dr C T Stovall Dr O G Mobley Dr H Mobley and Dr J M Whitthread. Offices are shown in Vienna with addresses near Court House and Stovall's building. Phone numbers and practice areas are noted with dates 1904 1907 and 1909.
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D L Henderson
Offleg
Stovall
Naw
Vienna
I F Powell
TW Powell
Watts Powell
John F Powell
Spo Aipon
Court House
Union
Coffin Seller Manuel Bids in Unadilla Notice
MANUEL undertaker adverts for coffins and burial fixtures inviting purchases. All corpses delivered within fifteen miles. Yours to serve, MANUEL, Unadilla, Ga.
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Manuel
Unadilla
Spavin Liniment Promises Quick Horse Blemish Cure
English Spavin Liniment removes lumps blemishes from horses including spavin splints and stifles. Claims blood spaying curbs ting-bone and swollen throats. Save 00 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold by Dr O Stovall druggist Vienna Ga.
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O' Stovall
Vienna
Bennett Scarborough Readsied Groceries At Wholesale Prices
Cordele merchant Bennett Scarborough plans to load a wagon with groceries offered at wholesale prices to serve local customers. He emphasizes value and community support as he prepares the delivery route.
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Bennett Scarborough
Cordele
Examination to Teach in Public Schools Held in Vienna
The next general examination for teacher applicants will occur at the Academy in Vienna on Saturday June 16 1900. Those without a license who wish to teach next year must take this examination as no more will be held until next summer. Be G Greune 0/8 0 D 0 5211000 4t
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Academy
Vienna
BE. G. Greune
Notice to Teachers in Dooly County
A notice states white teachers currently teaching public schools in Dooly County and any white who holds a license to teach must attend an institute at Heard's Opera House in Vienna on Monday June 11 at 10 a.m. for five days per law. Colored teachers must meet in Unadilla at the same time for a separate purpose. Nonattendance incurs a fine.
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Dooly
Heard’s Opera House
Vienna
Unadilla
Dixie Flyer and Dixie route trains from Macon to Columbus and Birmingham
Fragmentary notice describes Rail service changes and connections on a Dixie Flyer route through Macon to St. Louis Jacksonville Tifton and Valdosta with through services via 8eB and 0.8 Bazemo William Chmokly Shaw Vice-President and Rhodes General Paws Agent at Shicon Vienna Georgia.
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Ventiat
Macon
Columbus
Birmingham
Leepar
St. Louis Mo
Jacksonville
Vie Tifton
Quadland Bideper
Micon
Jick Gongillevin
Valdosta
Macon Union
William Chmokly Shaw
I Rhodes
Paws
Shicon
Vienna
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Eiven
Hin Hix
Perte
Treasury Redemption Bureau
Optios
EW Peck
Paris
Hazel
Ward Heelers
Cuba
W. V. Harvard
Vienna, Ga
MA Fleming
Sini
Eaubast al Taautron
Geo. W, Wooten
Cotton Atrent
Bree
Daroxum
The
Mason, Southwestern
Oconee
Bomen Eerie
Bednarek Piccuits
Bupreme T
United States Bankruptcy Court
0. T. Stovall
Urig
Pe Wank
Biving
WS Howell
Gall
Tolgoyona
Fealdence
Calhoun & C6
HA Mobley
Byromville
JM Whithread
SEN
Undertaker
E.G. Greene
C. D.C
DR. Carlisle
R. I. Carlisle
Unadilla, GA
Carlisle & Co
Yatesville, GA
Dooly County
J. H. Woodwarp & Son
Busan
Va Ordh
Woodward & Son
Comminaton Law
G, R, Ellis
Américay
W. Thigpen
Tra
Washington, W.C
Georgia Southern
Floridary
Suwanee River
Tim
Ghioo Dixie
Woke Fc
Ok Shoo
Fly
Flyer
Itep
Ashburn Ayana
Witton
Lake Olt
Iga
Ofey
Hampton
Wall
Palatka
Waivosta
Connectio
Miliv
Palavice
Central Railway
Plumboy
Irmingham
Atlanta
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