Local Township and City Officials Listing
Mayor and aldermen offices and ward representatives. city clerk treasurer and attorney. township officials including supervisor town clerk assessor and commissioners. peace officers constables and pound master listed. Masonic and Odd Fellows lodge secretaries and meeting times. labor union officers and meeting nights. fraternal and district court officers noted with meeting times and locations.
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W. Rawson
Wm. Notbury
Mondenall
Wm. Hampe
Wm Kimberlin
R. H. Hoge
H. C. Gerfen
S. Avis
John Deimling, Jr
Frank Collins
Assensor
Wim
Rohnitza
AH. Kuhmann
W. Mille
EB. Jacobs
R C. Morrisa
M. HF. Auwarter
Edward Joseph
J. N. Jarvis
Philip Eckert
H. ©. Kersey
Henry Schuler
Fred Schuter
Persistent Advertising and London Landmarks Erode History
A feature contrasts steady advertising and patient industry with London’s waning landmarks. It notes ongoing demolition along Holborn, including Furnival’s Inn top chambers where Dickens wrote part of Pickwick Papers, the Old Bell, Bidler’s Hotel, and the Horse and Groom, relics tied to Queen Anne era and highwaymen legends.
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London
Holborn
Furnival’s Inn
Charles Dickens
Bidler
Leather Lane
Great North Road
Jonathan Wild
College of Surgeons
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Hard
Circus Paid the Mortgage in a Kansas Editor's Call for Help
A Kansas editor explains his mortgage debt to the town’s circus by offering flexible ad space in his paper. The circus would pay 280 dollars to cover the mortgage, with the editor warning that the paper must be supported to avoid foreclosure. A 369 grammes force beetle story follows about a bug that can cut metal.
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Kansas
Scott
Kannas
F. W. Devoe
New York
French Rail Co Paints Carriages With Poetic Images
A French railroad company has painted the exterior of its passenger coaches with large images of stars, fishes, birds, and other poetic devices. The aim is to help passengers identify their carriage and class from amid the crowd at dusk when they alight for refreshments.
Tile whistle lets dogs hear inaudible sounds
Mr Galton, renowned anthropologist, devised a tile whistle with an adjustable plug that can be made increasingly shrill until no note remains audible to humans, yet a dog still hears it and responds to the call.
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Mr. Galton
Camp Outfits of Aluminum Show Lightweight Klondike Sets
Aluminum camping outfits marketed as Klondike gear weigh minimal amounts. A six person set includes thirty nine pieces and weighs 13 pounds with four pots, a coffee pot, two frying pans, six cups and utensils, a shaker set, and plates. Pots are oval. largest measures 10% by 7% inches. Smaller three and two person sets exist at 6% and 4 pounds respectively.
The Difference and Armor of Warships
The piece notes that humans have six ocular muscles allowing lateral eye movement while many quadrupeds have an eyelid suspension muscle not needed by humans. It also discusses ship armor, detailing belt armor from 16% to 944 inches and turret armor from 15 to 17 inches thick.
Mistaken Sleep Habits and Harmful Remedies Cited
A fragment discusses sleep exposure to draughts, quick fixes like alcoholic stimulants, and eating without appetite. It warns against relying on remedies that provide instant relief but harm later and critiques routine housekeeping habits as unproductive.
Pille for Plants and The Hoghish Language
A note on plant nutrition via buried pilllike salta cases under roots and a claim that English has over 250000 words, significantly more than major Romance languages combined in local authority records.
Subterranean Lake Found Near Boise City Idaho
A hot water lake lies 400 feet underground near Boise City Idaho with an average temperature of 170 degrees. The egg plant is native to Africa and South America.
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Ants
Africa
South America
Brummels Wardrobe and Morning Toilet Described
A historical sketch details Brummel's elaborate dressing routine and the studio like dressing room he used with the prince regent visiting for the toilet. It notes his strict cleanliness, rumored barbering, multiple shirt changes, and distinctive attire from morning Hessians to evening trousers.
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Brummel
Germany
Zinc City A Zinc Built Town In Portuguese East Africa Beira
Beira in Portuguese East Africa is described as a zinc city where all houses hotels and public buildings are zinc. A rapid six month growth fed by zinc from France England and America created miles of zinc streets and facilities. The heat makes living conditions harsh and even hospitals coffins and stretchers are zinc.Overall the piece emphasizes a city dominated by the metal and built for rapid housing.
Prince Schwarzenberg Landed Estate Holdings
A European magnate, the Prince of Schwarzenberg, owns 207,371 hectares across Austria Bohemia and Bavaria. The estate supports 296 industries employing 7,108 people including 1,480 women. Special insurance arrangements exclude daily laborers from contributions while sharing benefits.
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Europe
Prince of Schwarzenberg
Austria
Bohemia
Bavaria
Amethysts Return to Fashion in Jewelry
Old time necklaces and brooches of amethyst, once out of fashion, are popular again. The stone is praised for its exquisite coloring and its claimed ability to enhance skin whiteness. Its soft purple depths are noted for comfort and appeal.
May See Through a Wire Telephograph Swedish Invention
A Swedish invention called the telephograph claims to do for the eye what the telephone does for the ear. It can be attached to a telephone so a person using it can hear and also see the person they are speaking to. It promises visual communication over distance.
Mexico Cemetery Sign Says Only Local Dead May Be Buried
An American visitor to a town in Chinacha, Mexico, reports a gate sign at the village cemetery reading that only the dead who live in the village may be interred, by order of the civil region judge. The phrasing reflects a curious, possibly mistranslated local ordinance.
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Mexico
Chinacha
Lead Pencil Trade Centers in Bavarian Forest and City
Two thousand two hundred acres of cedar are cut each year on the Continent to supply wood for lead pencil casings. Bavaria hosts twenty six pencil works, twenty three of which are in Nuremberg, the principal hub of the lead pencil industry.
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Bavaria
Nuremburg
Cold Water as a Stimulant Reported by Authority
A high authority notes cold water acts as a valuable stimulant for many people. It is described as more heart-stimulating than brandy. The author personally drinks half a wine glass of cold water and observes a pulse rise from 76 to over 100.
Hand Sewn Boots Feature Thousands Of Stitches
A craftsman explains that a pair of hand-sewn boots contains nearly 3,000 stitches revealing the precision and skill behind traditional shoemaking as viewers admire detailed stitching and finish in a regional feature.
Gunpowder in hunting and its social adoption
The article traces how gunpowder spread from nobles to common hunters over generations, noting Maximilian as an early sportsman who preferred the cross bow. It recounts stories of distant shots, measures to curb peechery and loafers using guns, and notes firearms finally overtook other weapons for certain hunts in the late 1500s, especially the deer hunt.
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Chamois
An Intelligent Bird Story of a Clever Bullfinch
A storyteller describes a bullfinch that seems to anticipate its mistress leaving and return home. The bird, kept three rooms away with an open door, tests keenness by waiting at the doorway and startling from its twig to perch on her shoulder singing as the apple pip is offered.
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Abe
King of Belgium a Born Speculator
A historical note says the King of Belgium inherited three quarters of a million sterling from his parents and used it to speculate in Panama Canal stock, earning an estimated four million before an obsession with the Congo Free State led him to sink his fortune, with unclear prospects for recovery.
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King
Belgium
Panama Canal
Congo Free State
Big Ben Proves Accurate Within One Second Weekly
Big Ben of Westminster is cited as the world’s largest and most powerful clock. It remains accurate to less than a second per week. Winding the mechanism takes five hours per weight, done twice weekly, allowing eight and a half days of operation. The dial measures 22% feet in diameter.
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Wesminster
Handy Medicine Cabinet with numbered pockets and alarm
A new medicine cabinet features numbered pockets for bottle storage, dials to indicate the next bottle, and an alarm clock to signal the hour. Drawers hold powders and pills for organized dispensing.
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Handy Medicine Cabinet
Dramatic Terms Traced to Saracens and English Army
The text traces drama and fife origins to Saracens and the English army under the Duke of Cumberland in 1745. It notes the Guards as the first corps to adopt the fife.
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Duke of Cumberland
Doors Open Outward in Classical Homes
In Greek and Roman houses doors open outward forcing pedestrians to knock before exiting to avoid collisions with passers by. Shakespeare by Heart notes convict Shall in Connecticut State prison memorizes plays during fourteen years of confinement. Bamboo pens persist in India for over a millennium. Geraniums aid healing for wounds where skin is rubbed off.
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Shakespeare
Garrison
Shall
Connecticut
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A. F
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Masonic Hall
Sashmonth
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Bwirn
Neilson Lodge
O. F
John
Peregwan
N. G. Row’t Wiilliamson
Pisgah
L. Haaumn
C. P. Bror
Mentor Lodge
No- 165
K. of P
Castle Hall
Schott
Amity Camp
Droli'a
Gro.p. Simpson
V. C. Avauat Duout
Germania Lodge
Fred Biffart
Faep Eiser
Hennan Surtu
T. M
K. of H
Troy Dist
Croil’s Hall
G. L. Exmott
Mae Grawa Evnott
Kaskaskia Tribe
H. of
P. Hall
W.J. Geldsner
D. G. Jones
United Mine Workers of America
Troy
Central Hall
Jones
Chas. Wandling
John PF. Claytor
American Federation of Labor
Meeta Ewry
James N. Jarvis
Dawson
Stan. Ritcher
Citizens' Building and Loan Association
W. F. Warrer
Methodist Church
C.S. McGulium
Punter
Presbyterian Church
J. A. Heywolds
EV. Protestantv
G. Plassman
ST. Paul's
L. W. Corneall
ST. Jerome's Catholic
Bev Ang. Forater
Epworth League
Methodlat
Troy Cemetery
Mobara
Julian A Ball
Wm. Wild
Troy Public School
Jo. Hollitt
de Ghia We
W. W. Edwards
Tamang
Cook
Dee Seay
Harding
Bath
Menig Kawaon
Collin
E B. Ranfro
Bilas Bhadwick
Circus
India
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