Princeton Piano offers affordable ownership plan and free month
An advertisement extols Princeton Pianos with a no interest plan, $5 down and $1.50 weekly for 182 weeks, delivering a $375 piano for $278.66 plus eight styles and a one year full credit option if replaced. It also touts factory direct pricing and free freight, then pivots to a lengthy essay on library care and the value of books, urging quiet study and respectful handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Macauley
England
John Brown
Marjorie
Spectator
Comper
Wakefield
Editor Sees Boom From Clearing Clearfield Bachelor Lot
Editor Short of the Clearfield Republican jokes that marrying off all bachelors over 25 would spark 300 new homes, urging the Chamber of Commerce to act and spur growth in Clearfield.
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Short
The
Clearfield
Republican
Chamber of Commerce
Mary and the lamb learns to advertise in trade tale
A moral tale set around Mary and her brother John in a village store. John smokes and ignores customers while merchants who advertise prosper. Mary laments the lost lamb and learns the value of advertising for business success.
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Mary
John
Mail Order Skepticism Prompts Cash Sale in Warren
In a Warren hardware store a shopper balks at mail order pricing and insists on paying cash for a saw. He pays $1.65 price plus 2 cents postage and 5 cents money order, plus 25 cents expressage, and must wait two weeks, totaling $1.67. The clerk notes ordering from Sears Roebuck would be slower and more costly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Sears Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Rhymed Requiem Obituary Notation From DuBois Express
An obituary note uses a rhymed epitaph referring to a deceased citizen known as old Ten Per Cent. The verse mocks thrift and generosity, noting the soul’s fate and an ironic image of heaven with harps and rent collection.
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DuBois Express
Joax-I envy Noah in longest rainstorm record
Joax jokes about Noah during a rainstorm, noting the long duration and the humor of lending an umbrella. Hoax questions why, then explains Noah was caught in the longest rainstorm on record, making the umbrella joke even clearer.
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Joax
Poetry for Today Market Jingle
Fragmentary verse notes market trip and price. Mentions home return and a judge. Shows playful, archaic rhythm and a consumer scene without full context.
Chorus Girl Diaries Expose How Chorus Members Track Chaps
A humorous yet revealing look at chorus girls keeping notebooks of their encounters with men while on tour. The piece describes route diaries or chap records listing hotels, personal sketches, and prospects, with examples from St Louis Louisville and Kansas City and names of multiple men.
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Flossy Footlight
Kansas City
Flossie
Chicago
Jean Louise
Corinne LeClaire
St. Louis
Bath
Will Stanley
Olive Street
Henry Ellis
St. Joe
Henry Smith
Virginia Triplightly
The
Mice’’ Company
Mamie le Voie
Henry
Virginia
Global Happenings From A Wide Range Of News
A roundup notes Taft endorsement in Kentucky and Arizona statehood inaugurations in Phoenix. Sun Yat Sen resigns, Yuan Shih Kai elected in Nankin. British strike risks coal blast furnaces, and a large Trafalgar Square demonstration occurs. A train wreck near Altoona kills three passengers, with many injured.
Witness Confusion In Court Over Birthplace Testimony
Transcript shows a lawyer's examination of a middle aged Black woman as a witness. The exchange questions whether the daughter was born in wedlock. The witness corrects the interpretation stating she was born in Harrodsburg Kentucky, not wedlock. A judge interjects during the questioning.
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Nevah
Husband’s excuse on voyage says he was half seas over
In a Europe trip anecdote Mrs. Bibbs accuses her husband of intoxication. He replies he cannot help being half seas over, a playful defense tied to his condition during travel.
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Europe
Hunter's Humorous Defiance After Being Shot
A hunter mistaken for a deer was shot and later revived by a hospital nurse. He told the nurse he cared less about dying and more about not being treated as game, a remark that shows his dry, defiant spirit.
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Hunter
Flag and Dog Burial Spark Protest Over Military Desecration
Mrs. Isabel Worrall Ball protests to Secretary of War Stimson over the burial of the aviation school mascot dog in the American flag at College Park Maryland. She calls the act repugnant and demands reprimand for those responsible. The ceremony included a full military funeral with taps.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Aeronautical Corps
College Park
Isabel Worrall Ball
Woman's Relief Corps National Committee For the Prevention
Stimson
Aviation
Secretary of War
Violence at Shelbyville and varied legal cases
Reports state three Black men were lynched by a mob in Shelbyville Tennessee for the murder of a railroad detective. Joseph J Bitter testified to opposing violence during a strike. Supreme Court ruled initiative and referendum laws are political questions not for judicial review. The court also dismissed Mrs Leeds claim for 110000 extra duty on imported pearls. Yuan Shu Kai notified powers of his election as president of the Chinese republic and asked for recognition of a new regime.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
Joseph J. Bitter
Lawrence
Supreme Court
Leeds
Yuan Shu Kai
Chinese Republic
General Li Yuen Heng elected vice president in China
The report notes General Li Yuen Heng being elected vice president of the Chinese republic. In Albany a bill proposes a yearly airship tax of five dollars and aviator license fee of two dollars. Gifford Pinchot warns that logging methods threaten state forests. Two trainmen die in a rear end collision in the Hoosac tunnel as freight cars burn at the east portal. Firecracker joke resolution discussed at Rochester ironworkers convention per F M Ryan.
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Li Yuen Heng
Lawrence Mill
Central Labor Union Committee
Albany
Gifford Pinchot
Hoosack
Rochester
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International
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Aesh
London
Vienna
Heidelberg
Stockholm
Remembigr Exchange Hotel
W. F. Frederick Piano Company
Penna Ava West
Warren Pa
B. G. Lewton
Mgr
Warren Mail
the Home Folk’'S Newspaper
Mail Printing Company
A. Larson
8. M. Sloan
Proprietors and Publishers
J. A. Larson
Ofice
Warren, Penna
American Press Association
New York
Noah
Poetry For Today
Chappies
Louisville
L. Horton
Hasily
Frank Henry
Globe
Nowell Salmon
Republican State Central Committee of
Kentucky
Taft
Leovisville
Senate
Arizona
Phoenix
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan Shih Kai
National Assembly
Nankin
Milyutin
Moscow
Glasgow
Caracas
Secretary of State
Knox
Venezuela
Warrior’s Ridge
Altoona
Mexico
State Department
Paso
Woonaay
Trafalgar Square
Graham Gilmore
House Sugar
General Strike
Central Labor Union of
Ironworkers’ Union
Indianapolis
Oswego
N. Y
St. Lawrence Valley
Caneva
Tripoli
Charles Mifflin Hammond
Roosevelt
Washington
Senator la Follette
Colonel Roosevelt
Mass
Central Labor Union
Bo’n
Dog
Flag
Cash Grocery
Warren, Pa
Ry, St
Warren National Bank
AGDE
Kopf & Henry
Pennsylvania Avenue West
Roth
Jexale
Rexall
Seigfrieds’ Pharmacy
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