Bleakley’s Road Plan Proposes Post Office Surplus for Highways
The piece presents O. D. Bleakley, Republican nominee for Congress, advocating using a share of the first class mail surplus—about 3 750 000 dollars for Pennsylvania—to fund highway construction. It argues the plan ties funds to states’ mail volume and contrasts it with postage reductions, urging Bleakley to press the idea in Congress.
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O. D. Bleakley
Republicaan
Congress
Pennsylvania
Bleakley
House of Representatives
Hogwallow News Roundup of Local Nonsense
Local notes report Luke Mathewsln living in Hogwallow nearly seventy years with no missed mornings. Frisby Hancock sprains his wrist when a clock crank back-fired. The Postmaster laments unreadable handwriting. The Excelsior Jiddling Band dined with Ellick Hellwanger to pressure him on unpaid dues.
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Luke Mathewsln
Frisby Hancock
Excelsior
Ellick Hellwanger
No strike for her era in factory and home life
A World verse contrasts family members reacting to labor strife. Father, brother, uncle join strikes or resist, while mother stays at home cooking and cleaning. The poem centers on a girlHarshly noting the unpaid labor of women and the different responses to worker demands.
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Kate
Mother
Bill
Carranza Delegates Alarmed by Villa Attack on Chihuahua City
The American Mexican Peace Commission hears Pancho Villa’s assault on Chihuahua City alarms Carranza representatives. They accuse Villa of looting arsenals and stores, threaten further incursions within two weeks, and fear the U.S. may withdraw troops. The commission has spent three weeks in session and plans to relocate meetings as the New London hotel season ends.
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New London
Conn
The Goat and the Sway of Prices in Paris Satire
A fragment from Le Rire in Paris features a genteel exchange about stoutness and rising costs. The dialogue hints at social satire, noting how everything has grown and shifted under modern pressures.
Quarantine Snippets on Ills from Teeth to Cholera Morbus
A Windham New York Journal poem laments outdated summer ailments from teething to biliousness and roof leaks. It mocks health boards and rising medical costs as infantile diseases fade from fear while serum expenses and nurse bills swell.
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Health Board
Golden Shore
St. Peter
Windham
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We Resent the Monopoly
A reader questions why Wilson is praised for keeping the United States out of war noting prior presidents Harrison Cleveland Taft and Roosevelt also avoided war. The piece argues that maintaining a large navy yet staying peaceful is puzzling to war supporters.
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Wilson
Harrison
Cleveland
Taft
Roosevelt
Shape Didn’t Matter in Tender Round Steak Request
In a humorous exchange, Mrs. Youngbride dismisses concern over steak shape, insisting only tenderness matters as the butcher asks about serving a round cut. The brief domestic vignette captures a lighthearted kitchen moment.
Not in Real Life Love Entwined in Vaudeville Sketch
A brief item notes a vaudeville sketch featuring a perfumed romance where one character is said to be untrue and another remains smitten. The phrasing hints at stage dating and theatrical flirtation without modern context.
Undefined Willie Pa defines an optimist in joke
A quip frames an optimist as a man who buys hair restorer from a bald headed druggist, delivered as a fatherly comparison between Willie and his Pa. The joke hinges on the baldness and the savvy shopper mindset.
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Willie
Supper to Raise Funds for Hog Ford Church Benches
A supper is planned for Monday night at the home of Jefferson Potlocks to raise money for benches for Hog Ford church. The congregation is asked to remain standing during the event.
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Jefferson Potlocks
Hog Ford
Oyster Supper Planned by Tickville Methodist Ladies
Residents will attend an oyster supper at Tickville tonight hosted by the ladies aid to raise funds for defraying expenses of entertaining the pastor's wife and her select society friends next Wednesday evening.
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Tickville
Excelsior Fiddling Band backs Wilson and Hughes on election night
The Excelsior Fiddling Band agrees to furnish music for the election night. Fit Smith became stuck in a chimney during a winter uncorking, and his wife burned dog hair to smoke him out. Miss Fritzie Allsop See paler is rumored to have given chalk by overdose with matrimonial intent.
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Excelsior Fiddling
Wilson
Hughes
Fit Smith
Fritzie Allsop
End of Week News Roundup on Assassination Plot and Global Affairs
Discovery foiled alleged plot to kill Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in San Francisco. Carranza agrees to curb decree threatening banks in Mexico City after protests by Britain and France. Lassen Peak erupts for two hours in California. Two New York transit strikers arrested for conspiring to kill IRT leaders. John Redmond urges peaceful Home Rule in Ireland. Chamorro elected president of Nicaragua, pro-U.S. stance. British Red Cross steamer destroyed in Dover Straits per Paris wires. Goethals plans December army retirement. Nobleford yields world record wheat per acre. Essad Pasha condemned by Turkish court martial. Victor Carlstrom plans Chicago–New York sunrise flight with mail. Entente navies capture two German submarines. Champ Clark eyed as 1920 presidential candidate. Democrat backing forms post-election.
Dawg Fight Sparks Dispute at Hog Ford Moonshine House
A dog fight drew attention and sparked a quarrel at the Hog Ford Moonshine still house. One dog belonged to Poke Eazley and the other to Jefferson Potlocks, with the dispute arising from a misunderstanding between their owners.
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Hog Ford Moonshine
Eazley
Jefferson Potlocks
Mule Walks Again After Persimmon Tree Support
Tobe Moseley's mule regains ability to walk after days propped up beside a persimmon tree. The incident highlights the animal's stubborn resilience and the owner's relief.
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Tobe Moseley
Geese Fattened for Christmas in Musket Ridge Fields
Pletcher Henschep keeps geese fattened for Christmas and released them to graze in the Musket Ridge corn patches seeding a rustic holiday scene.
Local colorful notes on fashion and rural courting
A Miss Hostetter Hocks removes her plain gold band as style shifts. A mule ridden by Yam Sims is tied at the fence outside the Calf Ribs neighborhood home Sunday evening, and onlookers remark on Yam’s slow pace to pasture when courting.
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Calf Ribs
Yam
Hog Ford Church to Hear New Sermon Next Sunday
Attendance is expected to rise at Hog Ford Church as the preacher tests a new sermon during the Sunday service. The event promises a fresh message and the continuation of weekly worship in the community.
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Hog Ford
Slim Pickens Receives Dandruff Cure Bottle by Mail
Slim Pickens has received through the mails a bottle of dandruff cure and is taking two teaspoonfuls after each meal.
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Slim Pickens
Dog Hill preacher condemns Musket Ringe Moonshine site
The Dog Hill preacher denounces the Musket Ringe Moonshine still house and calls for its demolition. Ellick Hellwanger pledges to undertake a large demolition job himself.
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Dog Hill
Ellick Hellwanger
Peruvians use clever ruse sinks Chilean warship
In a 19th century naval anecdote from Stephen Coleridge, Peruvians feigned a rescue of a drifting fruit barge to lure Chilean boats, then unleashed a concealed dynamite charge on a large warship. A later ruse involved a captured craft rigged to explode as the crew attempted to tow it away, destroying the ship and shocking observers.
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Peru
Chile
Stephen Coleridge
Callao
Huacho
Are Your Wages Guaranteed Insurance Ad
An advertisement urges protecting income through insurance and compares earnings to a rich man’s property. It highlights health accident and property loss risks, praising the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company of Boston and its claims service with district manager J. R. Stuart in Warren, Pa.
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Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
America
J. R. Stuar
Warren
Mark Twain and The Crowd’s Shared Wit
A recount from Paine’s Boys’ Life of Mark Twain describes a moment at a speaking event where Twain plays along with a standing ovation and the crowd misreads a neighbor’s name as his own. Twain’s quick remark about an umbrella, joking that only an Englishman wouldn’t steal it, becomes a celebrated quip echoed worldwide.
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Mark Twain
England
Swift
Paine
St. Nicholas
Classified Ad Requests and Help Wanted Blurbs
Classified advertisements include Wanted Housekeeper by W. R. Smail in East Hickory Pa and a capable girl needed for general housework with good pay at 408 Market Street. Dates Sept 14 and Oct 5 appear in the lines.
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W. R. Smail
East Hickory
Market Street
Timber for Sale on Gould Tract in Warren County Pa
Bids for timber on 200 acres known as the Gould Tract in Glade township Warren County Pa are due by November 1. The southeast corner of Warrant No 5545 is included with bid rights reserved to reject all bids. Contact Mrs Jennie Gould Way 554 Orange Street Riverside California. Marcus Aaron named by Governor Brumbaugh to the State Board of Education.
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Gould
Glade Township
Warren County
Jennie Gould Way
Orange Street
Riverside
California
Shoes for the Whole Family Sale at Better Shoes
Advertises footwear sale at the store home featuring family sizes from 19 cents to 5 dollars. Promotes bargains under the motto Better Shoes for less Money.
We Do Job Printing in Art Preservative Style
The Mail Printing Co offers sample work and estimates from 229 Pennsylvania Avenue, Warren, Pennsylvania.
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Mail Printing CO
Pennsylvania Avenue
W. Warren Penna
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