Nautical Talk Grants Nantucket Its Quirky Flavor
The Nantucket piece preserves local speech and nautical terms adapted to land life. It recalls a widow’s sea flavored boarding house, sailors’ phrases like set it and hove short, and whimsical will clauses by Obed Macy. A life saving station oil theft note closes the vignette.
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Newburyport
John C. Crosby
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Nantucket
America
Obed Macy
Hardy Jane
Jotham
Mother
Windard
Union Street
Great Point
Caleb Cushman
Carthage plant strengthens giant steel shaft by boiling in oil
A 30,000 pound hollow-bored tumbler shaft for gold dredging in California was heat treated at a Carthage plant. The giant piece, costing about 17000 dollars, was heated to just below melting and submerged in a huge oil bath, boiling and sputtering as it boiled away.
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Cincinnati
Carthage
California
Man Finds Honey Rind Mixed In Message in Bread
An Indianapolis man recalls bringing home honey with a good deal of comb. His youngest child asked for bread and butter and honey with rind, saying he wanted some of the rind too, illustrating a humorous household moment.
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Indianapolis
World monetary stock totals at about $50.6 billion
Based on official data from the director of the mint, the monetary stocks of fifty six principal countries were estimated in U S dollars. The computation places the world money supply at approximately $50 636 058 000.
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Mint
Beauty Chats By Edna Kent Forbes
A columnist reflects on how grandmotherly simplicity shaped young girls versus modern sophistication. She cautions fourteen year olds to retain youthfulness through simple dress, while acknowledging they seek beauty aids. Emphasizes skincare, hair care, and balanced self care as vital for later charm.
Ferocious fur bearing animals threaten field life
The mink, sable, otter, marten, ermine and fox are described as destroyers of local animal life, with seals at sea also posing a threat. Skunks are less ferocious but raid eggs and poultry yards, similar to raccoons in reducing bird numbers and farms.
Abner L Lewis Announces Candidacy For County Judge
Abner L. Lewis of Denison announces his bid for Grayson County County Judge. A long-time local lawyer, Lewis previously ran for the post six years ago and was defeated by a slim margin. He served in the U S Navy during World War I, attaining lieutenant rank and duties as supply officer and Judge Advocate, earning high praise for his disciplined service.
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The
Sun
Abner L. Lewis
Denison
Lewis
Grayson County
Judge Steed
U. S. Navy
New Orleans
U. S. S. Kittery
Naval Overseas Transportation Service
Eighth Naval District
Navy
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Offering Reward
$100 Reward, $100 Catarrh is a local disease greatly influenced by constitutional conditions. It therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine destroys the foundation of the disease, gives the patient strength by improving the general health and assists nature in doing its work. 100.00 for any case of Catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Druggists 75c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
Nature
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Abner L. Lewis Cited as Honest Crooked Judge Candidate
The notice proclaims Abner L. Lewis as an honest upstanding man with broad experience and ten years of general legal practice. Supporters say a narrow defeat margin, the reward for a good loser, and his people’s appeal will propel his election, likening him to a peerless candidate.
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Abner L. Lewis
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ZA SU Pitts
Parsons
Kan
Santa Cruz
Edna Kent Forbes
First National Bank
Whitewright
Texas
U. S
Federal Reserve Bank
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State of Texas
County of
Grayson
R. A. Gillett
Ben Savage
S. E. Jones
C. B. Bryant
R. H. May
Leola Lucey
Sherman Hall
Austin College
Jacques Glockner
Sherman
Linn Bros. Phonograph Co
A. Y. Creager
F. W. Creacer
A. Y. Creager & Co
Sherman, Texas
Pathe Sapphire Bell
Pathe
Scientific American
Pathe Phonograph
R. C. Brown
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