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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Not Any Better.

DIR. Brown remained about The ssnt
all day yesterday ard was no better this
norniug between "a aud 1 o'clock when
the HERALD reporter heard from him
Al that time, ho~ ever, be was resting
some better than Tor several hours pre-,
y,ous but was yer, weak. LOVING hands
are doing ali 10 their power to relieve
his sufferings isis sister. Mrs W J.
Helm. II 90 umbia. s. L., arrived IN
the city yesterday morning and Is nov
by his bedside where she will remain
until a charge comes either for the bet
ter or worse
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

N. NJ. Lawrence, Superintendent Of
the Oxford Orphan Asylum, was In the
city short while yesterday morning en-
route home from Raleigh.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

Closing out new lot ladies and chill
DIRE Is capes at extremely low figures.
,.sll quick before sll are closed out, al
the Leading Racket Store.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
A
Few
Words
About
Printing.

Cheap prices in Printing means
cheap workmanship and cheaper n a.
terial. We are not runningan auction
house or Cheap John establishment,
and will not meet every body's price s.
If you want good work and good mate
rial, we think we can satisfy you 81
to prices. Watch for our next
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
WE PAY POSTAGE

Free Of all charges, we will mail to
anyone our advanced illustrated cata-
logue for 1897 Gust issued) It contains
5s4 illustrations of Furniture, Carpets,
Lace Curtains, Bedding, Stoves, Lamps,
Refrigerators, Baby Carriages, etc. You
save the middleman's profits by trading
with the manufacturer, as You are pay.
ing local dealers double our prices. Drop
a postal now for our money saver.
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+. j. CHENEY, & Go

Toledo, ONO.
We, the Undersigned, have
known F. ]. Cheney for the last
Is years, and believe, him per
fectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able
TO carry out any obligations
made by their firm
West & Truax. Wholesale Drug
gistists, Toledo, @.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75c., per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

See the Sinking Ship, Great Raft
Scene, Harbor at Naples, Moving Wall.
Asylum.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

nH. Seats on sale at vaughan's Drug
Store. Pfices-R SERVED. 5sc. General
Admission soc. Gallery, ssc.
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RoM,s Tais

We offer One Hundred Dollors
reward for.any case Of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
n ri CHEMEY a. 90
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senate TuIaIs Dowa .5iuey.

parties age negroes.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

To begin with, babies are terribly I'M
posed upon, despite their frightful
methods OF nocturnal retaliation. AS
soon as they have exercised their pre-
rogatiye Of being born and Of having
their sex create intense disappointment,
they are the recipients OF many arti-
cles of clothing. one grandmother will
send ten little flannel shirt-waists about
the size Of a pen-wiper), and another
will contribute a flannel petticoat forty
times too long, with embroidery in
white silk upon Il. Various aunts. first
cousins. and sympathlzers will throw in
other species OF petticoats. crotcheted
Jackets. shoes. et cetera. and last. but
not least, some fiend will contribute a
tight-htting skull-cap. into which the
victims plastic skull is poured. With
these accoutrements the defenceless
imp is harnessed up. and on a sweet
summer afternoon, with the thermometer
at 90. the anti-slumber agitator gOeth
forth 20 be inspected by the critical
world In vain does he ct, or she)
sweat and wheeze and sniff and wbim-
per and grunt and groan. There Is no
escape from the Klondike costume. His
lungs are drowned In dry-goods and hts
voice is smothered in a gauzy veil OF
silk All his identity is lost, and not
one square-inch Of the real article IL
visible 10 the public II you stop 10
inspect the youngster you have to pick
your way through dozens of strata OF
and when at last you reach
the meat you discover a red-hot little
mite. peppered with heat bumps and
tuning with impotent Indignation. Who
can blame them for their antics at
night? Who can wonder that they rise
10 questions Of personal privilege when
the hours are small? IL is then. and
then alone, that they have a chance 10
stretch and to seek revenge.
THE IDLE REPORTER.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

as he believes, out of the forward"
policy recently adopted along the from
tier. To that policy the brilliant officer
referred TO above and some Of the men
best acquainted with the country and the
people between India and Afghanistan
are strongly opposed Military posts, I'M
accompanied by civil administration, have
been established in the territories belong
ing TO independent tribes. and the result,
instead Of inducing the tribesmen TO be-
come friendly toward the British, has had
an opposite effect.
The forward" policy has also resulted
In increasing the discomfort felt toward
MS by the Ameer. When the question OF
the Mohmand country was being settled,
Abdur Rahman wanted to include the
whole of it within the Afghan border.
The Indian Government refused TO allow
this, and divided the district occupied by
the tribe in half. one portion going to
Afghanstan, the other being included IN
the Indian empire. This highly incensed
the Ameer and the tribesmen who wished
to become Afghan subjects, and they are
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

So FAR as I know, there's only one
remedy. ana that. while. of course, il
doesn't satisfy the human cells, is
10 my mind the best possible compro-
mise. IL seems TO me That II the fends
could be tethered by a steel chain 10
our front gates after the manner of an
orsan-stinder's monkey, we might at
least enjoy a brief respite. Don't pre-
sumo that / want them tied by a small
chain only a few feet long. No, no;
thar would never do The sense OF their
inability 10 harass you would crush
them--would cause them 10 droop and
die. Let the chain be so long that IL
will allow them 10 have a wide range.
Give II sufficient length 10 enable them
10 go within onc-millionth OF an inch
OF tho car-track-so close. In fact, that
they can feel the icy breath of death
on their rudy cheeks. Whatever you
do, don't deprive them OF that delicious
sense of danger and Of the sweet as
suranca that they are making life a
misery 10 you. Measure OF the DIS
lance carefully. Have the chain just
right certainly not an inch TOO short.
Get a belt and fasten Ii around their
waists. Then attach the chain. Beg
and beseech them with tears in your
eyes not to go within mile OF the
tracks. Don't tell your VIE OF splnsler
sister about it. To make this bondage
at all bearable TO the children, your
wife must faint when the experiment
is first tried, and it is absolutely neces-
sary for your spinster sister to go into
Mysteries. And then when, against a
thousand injunctions from you, they
dart ont directly 'in front OF the cars.
you. too. must shrek out wildly for
them 10 come back. This Will make
them go TO the utmost limits OF the
chains. IL the hair OF the motOrman
doesn't stand on ends. and the lady pas
sengers do not yell, and the car isn't
instantaneously checked up. with i'm
mense damage 10 the machinery, your
experiment will he a failure. II won't
take the fiends Il moment 10 realize that
there Is no actual danger. Then an
Overwhelming sense or their inability TO
make you miserable will come over them.
and they VIII dfoop and die.
The trading stamp enterprise. recently |
inaugurated In Richmond by progressive !
merchants who want our trade and also !
our cash ia ooo1 thing and Ike
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

The trading stamp enterprise. recently
iDsugurated In Richmond by progressive
merchants. who want our trade and also
our cash. Is a good thing. and like all
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

Somebody has said in a song that
"All COors Like Alike 20 Me-" and Dor
rowing part of this phraseology, / think
] may add that all babies also look
alike 10 my eyes True, women can de-
tect in their mushy little physiognomies
resemblances that startle the world, but
then women can do many remarkable
things that are ineXplicabe TO US. AS
one biack-eyed pea differeth from an
other IN individuality, 50 one infant diff
fereth from his contemporaries only in
the color OF his veil or the blackness
Of his nurse. To my mind they are all
alilIe-all atoms in that inchoate mass
OF humanity which does so much to
make US forget mosquitoes or religion
at night and patieI &c in the day AT
best they are but a qulvering. gelatinOus
mass Of very hot red meat, wrapped
in many layers OF clothes, and with a
superauity OF raiment which causeth
ven the most experienced TO question
no existence Of their less. When you
dngerly and apprehensively ret a grip
)n one. amid many injunctions 10 han
lie with care" you secretly wish that
Nature had strengthened its spine with
ramrods Of steel. Verify you believe
its head-i e. three-fOurths OF the
whole croatue-wili drop OH from mere
excess OF weight. and when its fuzzy
Uranium fails to do this. you marvel at
the strength OF its neck. In the midst
Of these observations and your fears
that tho infant cannot maintain the
unity OF its constituent parts. you sol
EMMY swear, with a deliberate con-
seriousness OF your perjury. that the en-
bryonic citizen IS a miniature reproduc-
ton Of its mother or a shocking and
whiskerless likeness Of its pa. In Your
heart you know you are lying. and you
blush before the unconscious gullibility
OF its parents. But all the same,
stlIl. small voice keeps saying 10 you:
1.-THE darned little thing looks just like
all them 20 me-" and you keep wonder
ing how IL could be identified among a
collection composed Of some eighteen or
twenty specimens Of this interesting
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

and somewhat Garelessly-handled force
sent out TO collect a fine. News Of the
occurrence, travelling with that rapidity
which is Characteristic OF the East be-
came known at points where ill-feeling
existed against the British, and, melted
by the Mullahs or priests. the tribesmen
thought 1t a favorable opportunity for
settling some of their own scores when
the enemy was engaged elsewhere.
The whole trouble, however. has arisen
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

is quite likely he Is very much pleased at
the turn affairs have taken, and would
doubtlessly secretly encourage them, he
is far too clever to openly defy the
British power. without which he could not
remain on the throne.
There is. therefore, CLEAN OF light in
what Is otherwise very gloomy prospect.
At the same time it is impossible to fore
see what an Oriental potentate may do.
especially when his pride is suffering un-
der what he considers two very severe
rebuIs
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

now taking advantage of the disturbance
at other points Of the frontier TO join the
enemies OF the British domination.
Our informant, who is personally ac-
quainted with the Amer, has very high
opinion of that ruler. who is one OF the
ablest and most astute men in Asia. He
would, no doubt. like to be entirely free
from the British suzerainty, but he is. at
the same time, keenly aware that he
cannot do without British help. While it
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19
They Didn't Grow.
Nokal Anzeiger.)

4 peasant who regularly attended the
market in the neighboring town. on see
ing the children of the orphanage walk
ing by in procession, was heard to re-
mark: How strange! l have now been
coming 10 town for the last twenty years,
and those brats never get any bigger.
They're just the same size as when my
father was alive"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

good things, should be pushed. While
| do not recall any undertaking establish
ments that have entered into the COM
blnatlon, | think that they too should
furnish us nducements-and great ones
to do business with them. often has
ii occurred 10 me that it would pay
funeral directors to dispense free cucum-
bers and tomatoes. and green apple pies
to the public. for these three articles OF
diet have ever been their best friends
and most potent agents. To my mind
the cucumber is the queen OF Indigestion
a sovereign that sits enthroned in a realm
OF torment and tyranniZes the world
through the medium Of nightmares and
dyspepsia When the resurrection trumpet
is sounded, myriad VIII be the numbers
Of her subjects who, having died for her
cause. will rise TO do her homage. Great
will be those hosts who have gone down
amid (or rather on the outside of
blaze OF internal glory in her behalf. The
green of the cucumber will glow on their
spiritual escutcheons like the Illuminated
verdure OF the lustrous June-bug. And |
II the cucumber, with its wartc0yered |
features, is the queen Of Indigestion. |
verify, the rudy smooth-compeXione |
tomato is the heir-apparent. InsidIous |
and perfidious. cordial, yet treacherous. |
tions with US. and then, a viper warmed |
on our hearths. it stngs its benefactors.
Never trust tomato. unless you !
find II in the society OF
black-eyed pea These latter brunette
vegetables seem to exert a most benign
influence over this heir-apparent, and
soften 1t in its stern determination
TO conquer mankind.
And the green-apple piel Oh. thou love-
" angei-hastener. with thy halo of obltu-
airy notices, how love thee often hast
thou found me In the Silly night, and
spoken with that still. small. which COM
menced with a whisper and ended with
a shout. What is homo without mother
or boyhood without pies? And what is
pie without green apples? And what,
OH what is Indigestion without this
eyer-useful ally? And 50 ! say unto the
Scatter these three abroad
the cucumber. the tomato. and the green
apple pie-and undoubtedly you will he
saying three months hence that the Nc
Kinley administration has been a very
one Qor YOU.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19

That Is the way all druggists sell
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic for Chills
and Malaria. II is simply Iron and
QuInine in tasteiess form. Children love
H. Adults prefer II to bitter, nausest-
Inc fnrica prica INA
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-19
HOW TO FOOL THEN.
THE IDLER TALKS ABOUT Chill
DREN AND THE ELECTRIC CARS.
THREE FRIENDS OF INDIGESTION,
A Tribute to Cucumbers, Tomatoes,
and Apple Pie-Something About
New Babies and Their Grievances
Their POt Clothes.

OH these electricians and the chill
dren. How they keep our hearts i'm our
mouths and make our useless lives
misery The streets aren't big enough
fof both, and neither is willing TO 90.
Every day, every hour-nay, every min
ute-we expect to hear that the twins
have been ground 10 a pulp and can
they surreptitiously carried in their
mouths. II street were 500 yards wide.
and only 10 feet OF it were covered by
the tracks. those 10 feet would ire
sistibly draw the imps. 10 the exclusion
Of all the surrounding territory, even
as the ma gnet draweth STEEL Ten thou
sand times a day we snatch the young
sters from imminent death, and hardly
have We corralled them in our front
yards, ere they scoot out again. Good
sense Of danger that makes our blood
run cold. Heavcnsi how II does their
souls good To see our hearts in our
mouths, and to know that they are
making US think life isn't worth living.
Persuasion cannot check the wriggling
Of these human cells, threats can
not intimidate them, and cajolery fails
to turn them from the path Of danger.
Nothing short Of this possibility OF be-
ing reduced to sausage can satisfy them.
II electric-cars were so arranged that
they could glide as harmlessly over chill
dren as over a sheet Of paper. all their
destinations would be- lost TO our tor
mentors.
The record-union., 1897-10-15

casts. Mr.. Harmon has already OBJ
served phenomena relating TO fog bear
ing winds that will be interesting as
well as helpful to San Francisco.
He has made other discoveries, how
ever, that may in the future be espe-
cially valuable to the fruit raisers of
the State. He has ascertained that
with only one exception in fifteen OBJ
servStions rain viii follow within thir-
ty-siX hours after a high wind. He
has additional information in re-
gard TO summer rains, so injurious to
raislns and drying fruits, that he viii
use to save the farmers and fruit
growers crops throughout the State.
He has recorded indications of cold
waves that viii little later in the au-
tumn and in the early spring result
IN destructive frosts. These two dis
coveries alone he deems of sufficient
value for the maintenance of a station
on the mountain
A rain warning given only two weeks
ago SAVED hundreds, perhaps thousands.
Of dollars worth of fruit Farmers
and fruitgrowers will appreciate the
money value of timely warnings of
possible or impending rain or frost.
MAE ELEANOR GATES.
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A HEAVYWEIGHT sCoRCHER.
Quarter of Ton of Human Flesh
on a 1o-Pound Wheel.

Joe w. Grimes, the heaviest bicycle
rider in the world, arrived in Whitman
tic, Conn, from Boston Monday even
ing and registered at the Hooker
HOUSE. Joe weighs over 500 pounds
and the genial landlord held up both
hands when he saw that mountain of
flesh rolling in through the front door.
The cook got a glimpse of the human
elephant as he waddled down the cor
ridor and straightway tainted, while
the elevator boy ran and hid in the
safe. Such alarm was uncalled for
however, for the heavyweight walked
to his room and slept in an ordinary
bed without it's breaking down; and
for eating, the hole he made in the
hotels bountiful supply of provender
wasAhardly perceptible and the writer
was assured by the clerks that the
story that Mr.. Grimes breakfast con-
sisted of two whole chickens, eight
pounds of beefsteak and a gallon of
milk was entirely false.
After breakfast next morning the big
fellow came out of the hotel and rode
down street on his 29-pound, "A gear,
Cleveland bicycle to the local agency of
the Cleveland wheel, where he was
weighed, the scales tipping at 515
pounds. After this he held reception
and for several hours a curious crowd
surrounded him, and asked him ques-
tions which would have been most en-
barrassing to an ordinary mortal, and
felt of the muscles in his legs and
arms. These members We're hard as
boards and the several physicians who
examined them considered this quite
wonderful, as generally the muscles of
such abnormal development are soft
and flabby One of the doctors told
the Willimantic Chronicle" man that
Mr.. Grimes was in the best of health
a slight cough.
Some of the questions addressed to
Mr.. Grimes and the answers follow:
Q.-How tall are you?
Ask feet three inches.
Q.-What size collar do you wear?
A.-Twentytwo and a half
Q.-What are your leg measure
ments?
A-Forty-two inches at the thigh
and a twenty-six calf.
Q.-And your waist?
A.-Only sixty-three inches.
Q.-How old are you?
A.-Twenty- eight.
Q.-Of course your clothes are made
to order?
A-Yes.
Q.-Do you travel in your wheeling
costume?
Ayes, I wear it nearly all the
time. L only carry one other suit with
me and that is a dress suit
Q.-When did you first begin to ride
a wheel?
Am 1892
Odd you ever weigh more than
you do now?
Ayes. Once I weighed $40 pounds,
but that was before took to bicycling.
The scorcher left at 11:23 for New
York He had TO go sideways through
the door of the Air Line car and once
inside he occupied two seats Upon
seeing him the conductor made all the
other passengers sit on the opposite
side Of the car and gave orders to the
engineer to run slowly for fear of hot
box
The record-union., 1897-10-15

WANTED-CHAMBE for country
and girls for housework Employment
Office, 921 Sixth St; phone 541 red.
The record-union., 1897-10-15

ST. o0-EIGHT-ROOM HOUSE; RENTS
for SIT month; big bargain Third
street. between l. and NJ. Call on Curtis,
Carmichael S Brand.
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LEADING JEWELERSo SSgsS: Of gsS:

and Fourth streets; sign of the town clock
H. Wachhorst.
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BUSINESS CARDS,
DRESS AND cLoAKMAK1NG.

Waists. g; Skirts, 81 So 92l Sixth street.
MISS N. MURPHY, DRESSMAKER.
Removed to S101a K, where she will be
pleased to see old patrons and friends.
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Riches.

Everett Wrest-I see that beer is so
cents a glass in Klondike Geei If a
feller had a keg of it there he'd be rich
/ Dismal Dawson-Huh, If a feller had
a keg of it right here at home he'd be
| rich.-Indianapolis Journal.
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Leading Him Astray.

Brown--I wish could remember what
it was my wife wanted me to bring
home.
Smith-I've found that it's less trou-
BILE, in the long run, to forget those
things-Puck
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MUSIC AND ART.
PERSONALS.

DIR. RECORDS RESTORATIVE PILLS.
the great nerve tonic and SPECIFIC for
exhausted vitality, physical debility
wasted forces. etc. approved by the
medical celebrities of the world AGENT.
J. G. Steele, Cos Market street, Palace
Hotel, S. +. Price, box of 80, 81 Is: Of
100. 81 of 2c0. 50 so; of 400, S6; prepara-
tory pills, s.. Send for circular.
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TO LET-1517 FOURTEENTH STREET,
5 roorned cottage; modern improvements
rent SIS. Inquire at 1903 l street.
oc15-It%
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7O7 1 ST.-NICELY FURNISHED FRONT
room and back parior.
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LOST-FOUND.

LOST-A GENTLEMAN'S SILVER
Watch, A. b. w. Raymond movement;
also a gold filled chain. Finder return to
Twenty-ffth and streets and be re-
Warded 1t*
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FINANCIAL.
oPTICIAN.

WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
optical goods: eyes tested free by a
competent graduated optician. KLUNE
& FLOBERG. dealers in jewelry and
precious stones.
The record-union., 1897-10-15

FILTERED WATER BATHS. 922 NINTH
street Ladies and gentlemen.
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REAL ESTATE AND EMPLOYMENT
office: All kinds of help furnished Of
nee zoos Sd st. Phone 574. d. Rice Prop.
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TO LET Or RENT.

70 LET35-ROOM COTTAGE WITH ALL
modern conveniences. sos f street. Ap-
ply at $40 Ninth street.
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WANTED.

JAPANESE WANTS TO TAKE CON
tract to cut stove or four foot wood;
could handle from so cords to 5000 cords.
Apply to or address r. Hatori, p. Q.
box, SS, Sacramento. o15-3t*
WANTED-BY THOROUGHLY COMPE-
tent woman, situation to do cooking in
the country Address 1114 K street.
Oo15-9ts
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10ELIHBLE
" and ENTERPRISIN
Sacramento Dealers.
BREAD.

PDEAD FRESH MORNINGS AND
CA<A<HDs afternoons: also hot rolls
Bread. Squash, Custard and Lemon Pies
q speciality. Ann Arbor Bakery, 1912 J
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MEETING NOTICES.

A. o. U. W-SACRAMENTO LODGE,
No. S0.-Regular meeting THIS (Friday)
EVENING, at 1880 o'clock, in Foresters
Hall. Grand Master Winter will be pres
ent and eXemplify both degrees on a
of the order is urged to be present Vis-
iting members cordially invited to at
tend QO j. R. WHEAT, NJ W.
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C0AI DEALER IN ALL KINDS or
49, wood, coal and coke. Prompt
delivery guaranteed. Yard and Office I4Zo-
1422 street. Telephone 2SS. Thomas
Coulter.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

S23 New French Dyeing and Cleaning
Works just opened. J. Duchez, Prop
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WANTED-BY YOUNG MAN, WORK
Of any kind. Apply H. KEMP, 22I0
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RAG CARPET WEAVING; OLD CAR
pet into rugs. Mrs. Johnson, liza Eighth