Topsy Turvy to Be Staged by Wayland Academy Seniors
Senior class at Wayland Academy will present the lively farce Topsy Turvy on Saturday night in Wayland. Students from Grace Hill and Crawfordsville were noted in city visits and shopping trips during the week. The W C T U plans a 2 30 p m May 9 meeting at Mrs T J McElhinneys home with devotional study on Love John 4 and open discussion Why Do I Hate the Liquor Traffic.
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John Buxbaum
Grace Hill
Margaret Twinam
Crawfordsville
Academy
Wayland
T. J. McElhinney
Narrow Escape Prompts Salve Endorsement
G W Cloyd of Plunk Mo recounts a four year old accident in which a jimson bar pierced his thumb. A doctor urged amputation but he treated the wound with Bucklen's Amica Salve and recovered. Available for 25 cents at Stewart's pharmacy.
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G. W. Cloyd
Plunk
Bucklen
Stewart’s
Why People Trade at the Royal Market
A 1915 market note extols the Royal Market as a clean, well stocked place for meat fish poultry and pickles with seasonable vegetables at low prices. It notes W M Whitenton of the Missouri Rock Island division staying in town and a Rock Island Milwaukee rail collision inquiry in Davenport. Mrs Joyce of Claremont New Hampshire praises Foley's Kidney Cure. Mr and Mrs Nicholson arrive from Ainsworth for a brief visit.
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Royal
W. M. Whitenton
Missouri Division
Rock Island
M. J. Kennelly
Milwaukee
Davenport
Living Lions in Norfolk Window and Colonial Oddities
Norfolk at the Jamestown exposition era displays a carnival mood with a lion cubs in a store window and a stray rat chase on Granby street. A brass cannon relic, a 24 pound shot, and brick streets amid magnolias frame a portrait of a city rich in colonial lore and historic sites.
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John Smith
Norfolk
Towhatan
New York Evening Sun
Hon. Powhatan
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Hampton Roads
Chicago
Granby Street
Patrick Henry
Henry Clay
Thomas Moore
General Lafayette
Merrimac
Monitor
Virginia Waters
Fortress Monroe
Church Street
Lord Dunmore
St. Paul’s
Slag Railroad Ties Promising New Industry In Philadelphia
Martin FF Nolan, a penniless wanderer, spurred by a Germantown sermon, invents railroad ties from slag. A Philadelphia group controls the patent with John H Converse among investors, claiming worth over a million each. No stock will be sold, though a New York firm offered 100000 in stock.
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Germantown
Martin FF. Nolan
Philadelphia
New York Times
Nolan
John R. McIntyre
Mr. McIntyre
John H. Converse
Baldwin Locomotive Works
New York
Wisconsin Farms Poised to Grow Potatoes for Alcohol Fuel
The University of Wisconsin Agricultural College begins trials with three new German potato varieties said to yield 300 to 500 bushels per acre. If successful in Wisconsin, these coarse potatoes could supply starch for cheap alcohol fuel, addressing material costs for production.
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Agricultural Department
University of Wisconsin Agricultural College
Milwaukee Sentinel
Germany
Wisconsin
Union
Bronze Capitol Doors Near Casting Finish Says Herald
Washington sculptor Louis Amaties designs large bronze doors for the main west entrance at the Capitol. The doors will be about eight feet wide and thirteen feet high and depict the nation’s intellectual and physical progress, with the east entrance doors already showing America’s discovery.
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Capitol
Washington
Louis Amaties
Washington Herald
America
Senate
House
United States
Fossil Crocodile Found in Yorkshire Clay
A London cable dispatch reports a large crocodile fossil unearthed in a Filey Yorkshire clay deposit. The find includes several large vertebrae and some large scales, paralleling notable paleontological discoveries elsewhere.
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Yorkshire
Lowa
New York Sun
Filey
Eye Injury Leaves Milts Dickens Bedbound
Milt Dicken remains in bed after a wood splinter penetrated his lower eyelid, injuring the eye. An abscess developed last Saturday but doctors expect no lasting loss of sight. Also note relief from rheumatic pain with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm as cited by Patrolman Rodland Curry of Key West. Cook & Sherman sell it.
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Milt Dicken
Rodland Curry
Cof
Cook & Sherman
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Oxfords
Oxford
Frank L. Wilson & Co
California Fruit
Lombardo’s
Fruit Store
Chas. Hays
Southwest Corner Square
W. E. Acheson
Haskins
Kate Buckley
Acheson
Dougherty Bros
R. Stuart & Sons
Old Norfolk
Virginia City
Elizabeth River
Lord Dunmorte
Edward
Zephyr & Harlequin Ginghams
The
Eldorado
Howard Benn
Ainsworth
J. A. Harwood
South Side
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