Improvements for Good and Rural Delivery Ahead
The piece argues that electric roads and rural free delivery boost local business and papers. Editor Needham cites Columbus to Newark traction and rural routes lifting weekly circulation, countering fears of hurting small towns and detailing trade gains and stronger local media.
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W. S. Needham
Ohio
Buckeye Press Association
Needham
Columbus, Buckeye Lake & Newark Traction Company
Columbus
Hebron
Newark
Reynoldsville
Kirkeraville
Mr. Needham
Interurban railroad and rural free mail delivery urged for Troy
The passage argues that electric interurban railways and rural free mail delivery will boost a town's growth without harming the home newspaper. It urges residents to adopt these improvements quickly as essential for progress and broad community benefit in Troy.
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Troy
Newark Undertaker Highlights Advertising Opening
An Newark New Jersey undertaker celebrated a relocation and new ware rooms with an open evening dubbed an opening. He showcased a Mortuary Chapel seating a hundred and explained goods and services beyond standard care for patients transferred from doctors. The piece comments on growing advertising in solemn trades.
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Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Inventor Promises Cable Mail System to Replace Rural Carriers
A speaker touts a new invention that would replace rural mail carriers with an endless cable suspended on poles delivering and collecting mail by clockwork. The claim follows praise for the free rural mail system and hints at further developments to come.
Troy Plans Gala Day For Sons of Organized Labor
Troy will take a day off Monday and wear gala attire to honor the sons of organized labor. The gates of the city will be ajar and many visitors will pour in. Troy's fame for enterprise and hospitality will be evident on such auspicious occasions.
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Troy
Sons of Organized Labor
Madison County Fair Closes With Picnic And Demonstration
Amid chatter of graft and political games, the piece notes Macedonia’s turmoil under Ottoman rule and Bulgarian resistance. It mentions the seventh annual Madison County Fair in Highland I, with the city’s gates turned over for the event this week and a concluding picnic.
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Macedonia
Highland I
Madison County
Texas revivalist warns hell at 453 degrees
A Texas revivalist declares hell burns at 453 degrees Fahrenheit yet asserts some people will still choose that fate despite the warning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hell
Washington Letter on Root Taft and Philippine Changes
Washington notes report Elihu Root resigns as Secretary of War to take effect January 1904 with Governor General Taft succeeding him and Luke E Wright to become Governor General of the Philippines General Wright would replace Taft on the Philippine Commission and Conger or Rockhill loom in vacancies The president defends Root and touts Wright as capable amid Dawes Commission graft probes and Post Office scandal fallout.
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Washington, D. C
Elihu Root
William Taft
Mr. Root
Oyster Bay
Luke E. Wright
Governor Taft
Philippines
Root
Roosevelt
Secretary Root
Taft
Hanna
McKinley
Platt
New York
Philippes
Washington
Manila
Tennessee
Judge Taft
Wright
General Wright
Philippine Commission
Conger
Peking
William W. Rockhill
China
Indian Territory
al Be
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Dawes Commission
United States
Soper
James H. Huckleberry
Benjamin H. Colbert
Post Office
Bristow
Echoes The Longest Sentence in a Classroom Exchange
A teacher asks how many students recall the longest sentence they read, prompting Billy to recall a grim line stating imprisonment for life from a sales item, revealing a stark, clipped exchange.
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Billy
Mum
William
Sales
Mani
Enamored Wed Divorced and Other Quips From Life
A fragmentary collection of witty lines and dramatic snippets. The passages touch on marriage, finances, and social quips. Notable lines reference a bride asking about high balls, a man’s wisdom with money, and a Fort Sumter gunner’s death.
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John
Twenty Five Years Ago This Week in Troy
From The Weekly Bulletin September 5 1878 Joseph Kiesel enlarging boot and shoe store Rev Robert Stewart and wife returned from northern trip Rev J H Mize resigned pastorate Troy Baptist church Andrew McMicken from Cincinnati land interests Nelson Montgomery drove 160 hogs to Coles county Charles A Herb Aston seeking sheriff nomination for Republican ticket R E Jacobs threshed wheat with high yields The upper corn at the pie school partitioned into two units due to graduation of the school George Henderson began erection of a new residence on the old homestead 24 miles northwest of the city
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Joseph Kiesel
Robert Stewart
J. H. Mize
Troy Baptist Church
Andrew McMicken
Cincinnati
R. E. Jacobs
George Henderson
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