Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-05
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works does not operate in duluth as

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1t does here, says the Philadelphia
Record. The private company which
supplied the Zenith City Of the
Unsalted Seas with water had Its In
take pipes near the sewage outlet, and
pumped typhoid fever germs into the
homes of the people. In one month
there were more than one thousand
cases of the disease, and travelling men
and others Stunned the city. Then
came popular demand for municipal
ownership, and the water and gas
plants were bought by the city for
$1,250,00O. Today there is not a case
of typhoid fever in the place, and the
people have voted in favor of the es.
tablishment by the city of an inde-
pendent telephone line and an electric
lighting plant.
At sheriff's sale in New York
recently, thirteen rubber bags, weigh
ing over 800 pounds each the prop
erty of the Miller Salvage Co., were
bought by Benjamin f. Conway for
$500. The Miller Salvage Co., were
incorporated in New Jersey, in Feb
ruary, 1899, with $125,OOO capital, to
float wrecked vessels by means of
rubber bags inflated by air. 1t was
announced at the sale that the bags
offered had been used in an attempt
to float the Spanish war vessels sunk
off the coast of Cuba during the re-
cent war. The sale was made by vir-
tue of an attachment against the Miller
company in favor of Mr.. Conway to
the amount of 1853 so that the price
above quoted signifies nothing as to
the present value of the bags.
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There has been for a week, some.
thing intoxicating in the air. 1t Is the
breath of spring, which urges men and
women to buy new clothes and go off
on long trips together. The springs
breath also causes little boys all over
the country to do precisely the same
Last week, for instance the young
sters got out their roller skates ana
skinned over the asphalt streets with
loud yels of excitement. This week
they will get their tops out-not their
whipping tops for they belong to the
fall-but their spinning tops, which
they will balance pompously in the
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first really warm, soft spring day
comes they will begin to play marbles.
Everywhere, at the same time, they
will begin to play marbles. Hoops
will come when the season is we'll
under way, and kite-hying time will
arrive with the fall from the maple
trees of their millions of seed-pods,
which the boys call 'squirters.'
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Dingle-dangles are those narrow rib
bons of black silk, tipped at the ends
with brass points which have been
hanging lately from the waists OF
many young women. They resemble
shoes laces, and the story of their ori-
gin us feminine ornaments IS interest
ing.
They were invented" milliner
says, lin Paris. A milliner sat rackIng
his brain one afternoon for some new
idea to spring upon the women, and
while his eyes rested absently on an
old fashioned print of a girl in a bod
ice that laced down front as corset
laces. The broad silk string in the
bodice attracted him. 1t was of silk
ribbon, and 1t was pointed at the end
with metal. 1t resembled Il shoestrng.
An idiotic idea came to the man mill,
ncr, and he bought some dozens of
those wide black shoelaces that are
worn in Oxford ties. He tipped them
with gilt wire, and hung them in a
bunch from the waist of an afternoon
gown. They had an instantaneous sue,
cess. 1t wasn't long before, under the
charming name Of dingle-dangles, they
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