Skating Rink Announcement for North Tonawanda Facility
The Roller Skating Rink on the Rouss lot Market street near City Hall expects completion around Dec 7 07 with 8450 square feet and 600 seats. It will use Winslow Ball Bearing Skates with strict rules for ladies children tobacco and behavior plus a morning private use option and a military band in the evening.
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Rouss
Market Street
City Hall
North Tonawanda
New York
James Moling
Albert H
Baltimore and Ohio Schedule November 17 1907
Complete daily train schedule listing departures to Harpers Ferry Hagerstown Frederick Martinsburg and major lines to Chicago Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Washington Philadelphia and New York with times and exceptions for Sundays and Mondays.
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Staunton Depar
Burg
Ladi Om Igper Il Acm
Hagerstown
Frederick
Baltimore
Martinsburg
Way Stations
Chicago
Columbus
Wheeling
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisvill
Washington
Philadelphia
York
The Glove That Built a Romantic Life
Hobbs, a 92 year old bachelor, cherishes a lost small glove. He imagines a ideal mistress from it and searches Jones department store, hoping a girl who lost the glove will advertise or return it. He reads an ad offering return with no questions, then grows unsettled. The tale tracks his romantic fixation and its thwarted hope.
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Weill
Hobbs
Lost and
Jones’ Department
Jones’ Department Store
Winchester to Bluemont Stage Line Schedule Excerpt
Daily except Sunday route from Winchester via Berryville and Bluemont with times for westbound arrivals from 6 00 a m to 6 40 p m and connections to trains, noting meeting trains at Berryville and Winchester. Managed by Maurice F Gastleman Castleman’s Ferry va.
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Winchester
Berryville
Bluemont
Shenandoah River
Hotel Evans
Jordan Springs Junction
Lake View
Battletown
Castleman’s
Blue Ride Inn
Washington
Maurice F. Gastleman
Castleman’s Ferry
Cumberland Valley R R Time Table July 21 1907
Cumberland Valley Railroad schedule lists daily trains at Winchester stations with arrival times 9:25 am 12:30 pm and 7:13 pm. Trade operations daily except Sunday directed by M. C. Kennedy vice president and general manager.
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Cumberland Valley
R. R
Winchester Tek
M.C. Kennedy
New Discovery Medicine Promises Stomach Reform
An interview with L. T. Cooper describes a medicine that purportedly regulates the stomach to cure widespread ill health. Monroe Brown of Winchester, Massachusetts, testifies to relief from catarrh, rheumatism, gas, and heart palpitations after using Cooper’s preparation.
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L. T. Cooper
Cooper
Europe
Monroe Brown
Hancock Street
Winchester
Mass
Brown
Boston
Mend Silk StockingsWith Crochet For Hidden Seam
Silk stockings are costly and fragile. A raveling runs down the leg if not mended quickly. Crochet the edges with fine silk to hide the seam and preserve the appearance.
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Harper's
Uses for Old Waists and How to Rework Them
Discarded white shirtwaists can be repurposed into corset covers guimpes chemises for children or ladies. Cut fronts provide prettified neck and arm shapes while turn over collars yield embroidered fronts. Edges are bound with bias mar row braid and a plain waist forms a foundation for sheer chemisettes.
Doctor's Lessons in Patience Essay Note
A Saturday Evening Post piece reflects on professional life and bills that fail to convert to payment. It considers patience as a lesson taught by aging doctors and distant colleagues.
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A &Soung Dottor
Saturday Evening Post
Saved Mistress Trouble
Confidential maid recounts meeting the master on the stairs after he just left the club and stating their thoughts, as recorded by Fliegennie Blatter.
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Fliegennie Blatter
New Orleans Supper Observed By Curious Tourist
In New Orleans supper time described by Automobile a northern tourist watches locals eat six fried oysters at 30 cents a half dozen alongside chicken salad beer and a charlotte russe, a favored combination.
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New Orleans
Swallow Your Complexion Not in Medicine
The note promotes a natural approach to complexion, urging that good skin comes from within. It advises eating greens like vegetables and dandelion salad rather than relying on medicine for benefits to appearance.
Croakers as Society Pets Rein In Exotic Frogs
A London dispatch notes frogs have replaced monkeys as fashionable pets among self styled society ladies. The piece highlights rare varieties, including the Amazoloi river frog, valued at about $100 each.
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London
Amazoloi River
Laplanders Venerate Sacred Drums
Laplanders honor their sacred drums hollowed from pine or birch trunks with one end covered. A section of wood on the underside remains as a handle for use and ritual.
Record shows Glasgow ships sailing to U.S. under foreign flags
Six years after the close, records reveal 130 loaded ships sailed from Glasgow to the United States and each carried a foreign flag, underscoring a remarkable global ties era.
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Glasgow
United States
Queen Alexandra Etiquette Foe Bans Public Affection
In Britain Queen Alexandra bans affection as breach of etiquette. An unused mint coin briefly appears. The consort of the British sovereign faces death for making love to her majesty, unless the king intervenes.
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Alexandra
Eingland i
Britain
Problem of the Sea and the North Sea Fish Shift
A British expert notes that a finite fish supply means fishing methods favor some species over others. In the North Sea this causes the stronger fish to rise in importance while plaice declines, signaling a shift in value among species.
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North Sea
Absurdity limits in Tooting two villas named Jodine Arnica
In a London suburb of Tooting two adjacent villas have been nicknamed Jodine and Arnica. The quirky pairing draws local curiosity as residents note the unusual names on prime properties.
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Tooting
London
Jodine
Arnica
Elgar Deflects Criticism of American Composers
Sir Edward Elgar, touring New York and Pittsburg with his Apostles and The Kingdom, was asked about reports he had criticized American composers. He replied enigmatically that he admires many Americans and has no wish to disguise their work.
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Edward
Edward Elgar
New York
Pittsburg
Public sale of a desirable house and lot in Frederick County
By decree in Murphy v Catlett et al, the Frederick County Circuit Court will offer for sale at public auction in front of the Winchester Court House at 22 o clock on December 7 1907 a desirable house and about two acres of land near Brucetown along the road to Middleway. Terms: half cash day of sale, balance in one year with interest secured by deed of trust and insurance. M M Lynch bond with approved security guaranteed. Given November 6 1907 at Fredericksburg Virginia Clerk.
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B. M. Murphy
J. B. Catlett
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Court House
Winchester
Mary
Middleway
M. M. Lynch
Phil. H
Virginiity
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