Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 April 1885 — Page 8

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Tde^niphliic from a Railway Train. An important invention has been pert cted Mr. Lucius J. Phelps. It is an arrange it of machinery by which a running rail* «ray train is enabled to telegraph fiomany feint on the route to any station behind or fcfrim it. Thus collisions and dangerous •eddents may be avoided. Pa&sengers will be aide to send messages as easily as from A station.

The principle of which Mr. Phelps has Availed in this invention is based upon A carious fact. It is known that, however

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electric wires are insulated, a ceramount of the fluid always escapes, further, if two wires are placed alongside «acb other, without touching, and an electric ••rrent is passed through one wire, a current will also pass through the other, in an opposite direction. Thus the complete circuit, which must always exist in electrical trans* mission, establishes itself between the two wires. This communication of 'electricity from one wire to another through which no «urrent has been passed is called e'iectrical induction. By means of electrical inluction the system of telegraphing has been applied kj Mr. Phelps to trains in motion. An in solated telegraph wire is run along the rail way track. It is boxed up in wooden boards and placed in the track midway between the two rails, as seen in the illustration.

TRACK TELEGRAPH WIRE.

The boxed-up telegraph wire runs along the fe-ack the whole length of the road. That is the first part of the plan. The

.second

part consists of the arrangement within She car. Between its forward and rear trucks, fnll length, underneath the floor, the other wire, called the induction coil, runs. This wire fe of copper, coiled many times (90 times in Mr. Phelps' invention),so as to make a strong transjnitter or receiver of the electric impulses. The -oblong coil of wire is covered with rubber hose. & is then put inside a gas-pipe and placed in position beneath the car, immediately over the central track wire upon the ground. The distance between the two is about 7 inches. So strong, however, were the electric impulses passing between the wire upon the ground and that underneath the car that in Sw trial trip, upon a double track, a message was sent from the car over a wire upon the «ther track, though it was four feet below .that on which the car was running. We are enly in our infancy as far as knowledge of the possibilities of olectricity goes.

The induction coil runs a wire up through the floor in a corner of the car. There the telegraphic receiving and sending machine is placed, and there the messages are clicked out that run to and fro. This is a polarized relay instrument, also designed by Mr. Phelpa It is so' finely constructed as to catch and transmit the most delicate electric impulses.

THE CAR.

"Thus every railway car becomes a movable telegraphic station. It is exceedingly interesting also to note

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the telophone has been utilized in this invention. At the end of the line in the railway station office a telephone receiver is placed, so that to the operator there the buz* •i«g sotinds made by the spelling out of the Morse alphabet on the car come through tho telophone.

These are the main features of this invention. Its first practical appliance has been an tho Now York, New Haven and Hartford railway. It is operated between the Harlem river station and the New Rochello junction, a distance of 12 miles. Three miles of the distance are trestlework, and the track crosses two rivers by drawbridges. This route was probably selected because it presents uatur ally every obstacle to the success of the plan that would be apt to occur. Yet the final experiment was wholly successful. Whilo the train was moving at the rate of 40 miles an hour the conductor telegraphed a message to Mr. Phelps at the end of the line, and received his reply.

Thus one more noble appliance for the wfety of railway trains and passengers has apparently been perfected. Had it been in nsn when the Tay bridge went down in the «torm with a loaded railway train the world wight have known something about that Irightful disaster.

New VMS for StwI.

The process by which mild steel is made bM produced a revolution in metal work. It tea been found that in the manufacture of piping steel can be largely substituted not only for

iron,

but for lead, bran and copper

as well. Five years ago it occurred to the president of a company that manufactured brass and copper seamless pipe to try whether ynUH steel could not be substituted for those metals. He experimented on the matter with perfect success. Drawn steel pipe was made by the same process and same tools and machinery employed for the brass and copper pipe. Steel was cheaper than either brass or copper, ocawequontiy seamless steel pipe began rifc once to be substituted for tubing of those metals. It will feervafter be used instead of iron for gaspipe, not being subject to leakage, as iron pipes are. The steel is so much stronger than iroo. It has been found, too, that the mild steel can be used most advantageously in the manufacture of milk cans. A steel milk can is a novelty worth teeing, and it is said to be as useful as i» aew. No amount of whangI*! jns *»urt it Hie new process is aho bi ~x the making of clock spring*.*

But ttat was not all. To the surprise of the expeu.!* t?rs, it was few 1 that the process of «ira ling the tailing cmnged the character «f ths? steeL It became regularly tampered no iastie. It wooM spring back when cotrMra «d, and rang like a bell when struck wit: hammer. Teats showed afao a marvelous increase in strength of the cold drawn steel. Hie metal rf a steel botier only ore-thirtieth an inch la thickness bore a prenur* of OBI pounds to the square inch.

Then all at ooce It occurred to the experimenter* to wonder whether gran-barrel oould not be made of this unique new proems ateel. That, too, was tried. It was so so©MMful that Una it was determined to make alarge«**i Mg^gun of steel. Om advantage will be the lessening of an aoonnoos weight In large aanswn. fhn cannco was at

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pounds to the square inch. It seems almost unbelievable. This siege-gun has been sent to Sandy Hook, to the.officers of the artillery corps there. They will try to buret it in the yumal course of testing cannon. The gun is something hitherto unheard of in military science, being a cannon whose walls are of metal only one inch and a half thick, and yet Mng able to fire a 100-pound shot.

Tobacco Palp for Paper Making. Anew invention of great interest to paper makers and tobacco growers is announced from Waverly, N. Y. W. W. Bennett, of that place, has discovered a process for utilising the hitherto useless stalks and stems of the tobacco plant as a substitute for wood pulp in the manufacture of paper. The idea is comparatively simple, and if the results are as striking as represented, will prove of great value to manufacturers, the tobacco pulp, it is claimed, producing a much stronger paper than wood, at a much smaller cost. Samples of papa* made by flila process under favorable conditions show comparatively few defects, and the strength is said to have been successfully tested by lifting a 100-pound boy on a single broad sheet. A great point in the manufacture of the pulp is the fact that only the ordinary machinery found in every paper mill is required—beaters, rotary and grinding mar chines—while wood has to be skinned, strapped, relieved of knots and rotten parts, and grated. The average quality of wood used loses from sixty to eighty per cent, in war/te, and the most expensive chemical process of reducing it to pulp brings the amount of waste down only to fifty-two per cent. Tobacco stalk, however, reduced by a purely mechanical process to a bone-dry pulp, shows a waste of only five per cent If the new invention proves successful it will be hailed with delight by tobacco farmers as well as by paper makers for the tobacco stalk has always been a burden, good for nothing save manure. A thousand and one unsuccessful attempts have been made to utilize it for almost every conceivable purpose, and the patent office contains the relics of numerous chimerical inventions. Now, however, the farmers can have the stuff taken off their hands, and can secure as much manure as before from the juice extracted in the process of reduction. The tobacco plant, as is kqpwn, furuisues one of the toughest of fibres.

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Arbor Day In Pennsylvania. It is now becoming the pleasing and useful fashion for the various states to have a given holiday for tree-planting throughout their jurisdiction. Gov. Patuson has named April 16 as tree-planting day in Pennsylvania. These words from his proclamation on the subject have a touch of wisdom: "To aid in the systematic encouragement of tree-planting throughout our various communities to awaken and cultivate among the young a taste for the study of nature and some knowledge of the necessity, profit and" delight of agricultural pursuits to arouse public attention to the necessity of preserving and perpetuating to a proper degree the forests of the state, that we may escape the threatening peril of their wanton destruction and to carry out the concurrent resolution of the general assembly, I recommend that the people of the commonwealth do, on the day named, plant trees along the streets, by the roadsides, in parks and commons, around public buildings, and in waste places that they distribute information in regard to trees, shrubbery and forests, and that they encourage tree-planting in every way possible."

New Mother Hubbard Dress. A very pretty Mother Hubbard wrapper lately worn had a yoke and sleeve cuffs of pale blue velvet, polka dotted with creamcolored silk chenille. The full skirt, of cream-colorod camel's hair, was laid down the front in three wide box plaits, which reached from the yoke to the foot of the skirt. The skirt was gathered to the yoke in the back. An inside belt, tacked to the back and side seams, and fastened snugly to the waist next to the lining, gave a trim look to the figure of the wearer, and a four-inch ribbon of pale blue velvet, fastened to the outside on the side seam, was brought forward and tied in a bow, the long ends low on the front of the skirt. The style of this wrapper for a stout and rather short-waisted person is about the only Mother Hubbard which such figures can dare to adopt. The original Mother Hubbard was too voluminous for any but the most slender forms.

Bonnets for Baby Girls.

We present two very pretty ones this week for little girls, from the time they can walk up to the age of 5 or & years old. The first one is the capote shape. It is made of white cashmere. A curtain and headpiece are cut separate. The curtain is made upon stiff foundation muslin, covered with a proper lining. The curtain is cut rounding to fit the neck, wider behind, and narrowing to a point as it ap-

CAPOTK. proachee the chin.

The headpiece also cranes to a blunt point over the middle of the forehead. The headpiece is pUitwri in small folds, behind, to fit the back of head, and the curtain is then gathered to fit that Around the face the hood held in its place by wire. Insertion one and a quarter inch wide, is sewed around the curtain and front of the bonnet. The inserting is edged with a thin fold of white satin, upon which lace an inch and a quarter wide is wwed. That forms a handsome finish all around the hood. Front filled in with several folds of full niching, in one erf which are loops of narrow satin ribbon. Upon the top rosettes of ruching and white oatrfch tips tied under the chin with loope of white ribbon.

The second bonnet is a tasteful poke for little girls. A crown Is cut, round In front «nd at the skies, and square across the back for gather*. This is cut out of the lining and foundation material. The crown piece has a wire around the edge. Take now two double-fold MUs of white cashmere, two inches deep fa front and one and a quarter inch at the bw*, Gather them full together. Upon the outside of them pot a single frill of the cashmere, embroidered at tbe edge with silk. These three are gathered all together and sewed around the wired edge of the crown piece. Plait the crown piece in •nail folds to fit in behind at the neck. Tha malarial for the crown is embroidered white ashiimn Bead the hood up to a peak hi fnot, and mi in around the face with full ruching. FfflintfcetoB part, at the peak, with the niching and saoa. Trim top wfih full loom of ribbon. Tke of

TERHE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

Care of the Hand*.

It is perhaps mora fficult to find a (uuWy Pynrf than a pretty face, not that we are born with an uglier hand than face, but because the hand becomes coarse and rough from the work it has to do. Curiously enough, also, less attention is given to the hands than to the face, although they really require more care, precisely on account of their exposed position and the hard work they are frequently called upon to do. And yet a white and delicate hand is very charming, and worthy of quite as much attention as the face, if not more and even a cook may have IOSB coarse hands if she will by always using glycerine or honey after washing her hands, and by never using coarse yellow soap, but a little bran or oatmeal (which one can keep in the soap stand) instead of soap, and which will clean the h*nH« quite as well as soap and keep them soft at the same' time, whatever may be the amount of work she may have to do, and to whatever exposure to heat and cold the hands maybe subjected. These same precautions may be adopted by ladies wno occupy themselves with any rough wArk in the house, and moreover they should always wear gloves, which will, more *.h«n anything, keep the hands soft and clean, and

thus"

dispense with

tiie necessity of too frequent washing. Many ladies, however, who never do any kind of work have arse red hands, especially during the cold weather, and they make them worse and redder by holding them to the fire, causing them also not unfrequently to crack and chap. Better rub them with a little lavender water or eau de Cologne to restore warmth and aid to make them more delicate and soft. I would, moreover, advise ladies who have naturally rough, coarse hands to rub them at night with cold cream, and to wear loose, long gloves. Another thing, never use soap, unless this be mixed with alaiond paste or meal. It is better in any case to use only almond paste or honey and almond paste, which you can procure already prepared at any of our great perfumers. The only objection to these pastes and meals for the hands is their expense, but economical ladies can dispense with them by nsiiig glycerine and honey instead of almond pastes, and plain bran and oatmeal instead of almond and other fancy meals.

Should the hands become hard or horny through any unusual work, the best thing is to wash them for the time with pumicestone and lemon. Lemon, indeed, is always good for the hands. It cleans them as well as soap, and makes them soft. It also prevents the skin growing up the nail, if the fingers be well rubbed with it after washing. Apropos of nails, never use a pick or file to them. Clean them with a brush, if required, but they should never be allowed to require a brush, nor will they require one if the hands are frequently washed and the fingers well rubbed with the half of a lemon, into which the fingers are thrust and turned until the nails are perfectly clean. Lemon not only prevents the skin at the root of the nail from growing upward, but it also prevents the skin shedding at the sides of the fingers. When cutting the nails care should be taken to cut them of the shape of the fingers themselves, and neither longer nor ihorter than the fingers. Very long pointed nails are as ugly in their way as very short and square nails. The use of cold cream and gloves at night will also preserve the nails soft, and prevent them from cracking, which they will do if the nails are hard. ?Th« New Costumes.

The toultiure is an established fact in fashion, and with it, of course, comes an increased width of skirts this mainly in the back, where the skirt is usually laid in broad double or triple box-plaits its length—these caught by tapes underneath two or three times, in double-finger lengths apart, then if pressed in place they remain in folds. There is but little plaiting, puffing and ruffling seen all of this seems to be left for basques and round waists. The melon, the surplice, the shirred waist, all are very popular, and vests, plastrons of every shape, revers, berthes, bretelles, straps, forks, tongues and buckles, all serve to build up and make a special prominence of the upper part of the dress. "l

Of combinations there is no end eveii the satins and prints have the plain and figured side by side, as if one never thought of purchasing a plain frock.

Skirts are made with broad panel plaits on the front and sides, with fans of perhaps a contrasting material or color from the knee down, the top of the plaits ornamented with embroidery or the new transparent braiding that is destined to have an important place in fashion's usage the coming season. This is made of fiat worsted braid in two different widths, arranged in open broad patterns, that, often of a width to trim the panel plaits as described, are still wider to form distinct panels, and then formed in narrower designs for other parts of the costume.

The transparent paneling is found to be a very effective trimming for the princess, that is popularly revived, with other old-time freaks. The back of princess has two full broad box-plaits, the broad panels of braid trim the sides, and smaller made pieces of the braid form collar, cuffs, and perhaps a vest turning at the basque line with jacket effect to the panel sides.

The oval plastron is reproduced on both silk and wool suits, closing at the throat, drawn or sloped back over the bust, and again closed at the top of the darts or, at the waistline.

The gathered vest 1b still in vogue, though it has lost the Fedora fullness or bagging of last season.

Pockets are again added an the fronts of basques, and ways are found once more for pockets in the skirts of dresses doubtless bofore the season is over square or diagonal pockets will be added to the sides of skirts.

Polonaises are severely plain the front! are usually open from the basque line. The bade has added fullness that farms in plaits, undraped, and sometimes abroad —with very long loope and short ends is added.— {New York Fashion Baar.

ION LETS.

Color plays an important part in fancy dross bonnets. The new evening gloves are as long at longer than ever.

Soft surah sashes are worn around the waist under aouave and Eton jackets. Pinched waists, high shoulders and big bustles are ultra fashionnhle now, and they are frightful.

Braid trimmings ta lace patterns or very open designs are shown for trimming various parts of dresses, farming plastrons, revers, side robes, entire tabliers or front breadths, pockets of jackets, caffs and collars, bretelles and waistcoats.

The general style for spring costumes wfil be short basques, plain skirt, and drapery long behind. The bayadere style will be very popular with the brood stripes at prevent is vogue for skirts. "Bayadere style" means simply that the stripes run around the skirt. Bat it will not be very pretty for the short and fist

The bends and ponf-badt draperies art ocupicaoas features tat all kinds of

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The side robes appear on some, aad the genaral effect is not bouffant, save in the V*, although the box-plaited breadths all around ara the feature that is most ehaerrabte. Soma at the models art burned with teoa

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HAGFR—At seven o'clock this morning. Lather G. Bager.

BUG FIRM DISSOLVED.

FOB

Fnmral from his late residence on sonth Seventh Street at 2 p. m. Monday, April 6tb.

The firm of Bun tin & Armstrong isthis day dissolved by mutual consent W. C. Buttin will continue business as the successor of the firm at their present nlace of business, corner Main and Sixth streets. He wil pay the liablities and collect the claims of the firm.

W. H. Armstrong will continue the business of the Depot Drug Store and collect the accounts dne that store. W. H. Armstrong succeeds to the business of the firm in surgical instruments and appliances.

Terre Haute, March 20,1885. W. H. ARMSTRONG. W. C. BtnrriN.

BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT. The undersigned respectfu ly announces that the drug and prescription business heretofore conducted by Buntin A Armstrong at No. 939 Chestnut street, near the Union Depot, will be continued under the name of "Armstrong's Union Depot Pharmacy," under the charge of Mr. Jasper Dennison, who needs no introduction to this community as a competent pharmacist. The surgical instrument business of the late firm, including dental and optical Instruments, galvanic batteries, appliances for de formitiesand rubber specialt es of all kinds, will be enlarged and continued under the personal supervision of the proprietor, who hopes to merit a continuance of *the kind patronage formerly given.

WM. H. ARMSTRONG.

Wanted.

WANTED—One

span of horses or mules,

number 1 in every refpect, also one horse not to cost overset in irade either for a piano, organ, phseton, or scholarship at St. Mary's. Call at L. Kussner's Music Store 213 Ohio Street.

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W $400 $1,000 $1,300 $5,000 All on good first mortgage Real Estate worth from 3 to 10 times amount of loan.

T. H. RIDDLE.

For Sale.

SALK A SODA FOUNTAIN, with the latest improvements. Cost $400. Will sell for $150 cash. Apply, L. D. SMITH, 861 Main street. 4tf

FOB

SALE—House and lot convenient to Main street. House contains seven rooms hall and pantry. Good out buildings on lot. Call at or address 828 Walnut st. 28-tf.

FOB

SALE-THREE CITY LOTS-Cor-ner of Hlxthteenth and Chestnut. Price $475, $500 and $650. Terms eas. Streets graded Chestnut street front. One square from street car line. Call on CHAS. O. EBEL No. 10 5tb street. /OK SALE-SECOND HAND SCHOOL

BOOKS ofallkinds, for City and High Schools, for sule cheap, at W. F. SIBLEY'S, 1109 Main Street.

For Rent.

FOB

BENT—On Mulberry street between Filth and sixth streets, two story brick lesldence—8 r-oms, gas, water and all necessary conveniences. W. W. OLIVER, 6"1 Main St.

FOBhouse

BENT.—TWO HOUPF-S—One small house with garden patch at $8. per month »ind a of six rooms, in good oration at $16. ptr month, possession given about the 1st of April on the la-t named.

RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.

OE BENT—Store Room and Dwelling combined. South 7th street. Call on W. T. LEGUETT.

Fdwellingon

OB BENT—A small store room and combined, one square north of Main street 4tb street. Inquire of

p^AYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.

Monday, April 6th.

RECOND ANNUAL

CONCERT :ri'

Davis Family

ASSISTED BY THE

Ringgold Orchestra.

Admission 50,35 and 25cents. Seats can be secured three days in advance at Central Book Store, Reserved seats in Family Circle and Lower Floor, 50 cents.

QPERA HOUSE.

Wilson Naylor Manager.

Wednesday and Thurday

TWO NIGHTS.

April 8th and 9th.

GRAU'8

Famous New York Opera Co.

"Wednesday, April 8 th.

The Best of all Opera's

QTrEEUT'S

Lace Handkerchief

Frdm the Casino', New York.

Thursday, April 9th.

Tbe New York Casino's latest and greatest ffiircriw

I LITTLE DUKE.

Grand Cbonw and oar Saperb Orchestra. Prioes 75, SO, 25 cent*. No extra charge for reserved seats.

James M. lMa&on and no/rtber Ooes forth in haste With bills and paste, And proclaim* to all creation.

Men are wise who adverUae, In the present generation. OOMSUFtmtirtmnM. Patent White Paste for sale.

A PrmnpC, Safe Ssn Cas*

Par lttt la S mlnntes, with O Cqorative tor Itcfe. For sale by all DnnM.

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PARASOLS

and

PARSERS

J. H. BRIGGS.

Amusements.

No. 2J north 4th

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KEEP THE BALL ROLLING No Dull Times With Us.

We Lead and Intend to Keep Leadings SJ

GRAND SPECIAL SALE

-OF-

HOUSE JERSEYS,

-ON-

Thursday/ Frida^ and Saturday

.A/pri! 9th, lOth. and 11th.

We have an elegant stock for this sale and prices £.v are arranged to make it very interesting. We will ,, at the same time close out the balance of our heavy Imd medium weight Jersey Jackets at special reduced

HERZ' BAZAE.

NEXT-WEEK.

MORE HANDKERCHIEFS:

10 pieces of NEW TORCHON. MEDICIS and EGYPTIAN LACES. "GLOVES! GLOVES! GLOVES! •,

Silk, Lisle Thread and Cotton Gloves, in endless variety at bottom F* figures. "X* vV"

NEW ELEGANT EMBROIDERIES. RIBBONS! RIBBONS! RIBBONS! CORSETS! CORSETS! CORSETS!

SUN UMBRELLAS

and designs.

All at our well known and popular low prices,

AND—

GARDENERS.

PEOPLE OP v*

CITY AND COUNTRY

WILL FIND ATm/^4 /I

C. H. Goldsmith's

st:

ALL KINDS OF''w„^f^

SEEDS

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Of the Best Variety at the Low--A" est Prices.

Seeds! Seeds!

Get the Best!

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Vick's Reliable Gardeii atid Flower Seeds,

From Rochester, N. Y.

For Sale at tbe 4th street Market Honac Haney plants Vick's seeds for profit. Special Prices to Gardeners. .»

ROBT. HANKY, Agent.'

35,OO0

We call especial attention to tbe above figures and that there 1 no Question in oar mind that oat of 35/WO Rolls of Choicest

Wall Papers

In designs, patterns and colorings tbe most fastidious can be folly and satisfactorily salted. The stock embraces some verycbolce patterns from French, German and English factories and from aU tbe leading American manufacturers. We would respectfully offer tbe following

INDUCEMENTS:

.**•'v The largest and choicest stock to select from. Our thorough knowledge of tbe business thereby enables us to assist you in making wise selections. Our very low prices. Fair and honest dealing wltb courteous treatment.

We have also secured tbe service of SKILLED WORKMEN

From utber cities whose reputation for artistic labor Is unexcelled and wlll garantee satisfaction in every instance to all who have their work entrusted to ourcare.

Having purchased at assignee's sale last fall thestockof C.H.Traqoalr, win offer all that is left of the same at exceeding low prices.

Thankful tor tbe large natrcnMae extended to as In tbe past, would solicit and hope to merit tbe continuance of tbe same in o«r new quartos,

.673 Main Street,

6 doon west of 7tb street, south side.

THE J. W. ROBERTS CO.

., Our ^Specialty, I

Have more patterns, larger experience and capacity, and employ more mechanics than any other similar establishment within sev-enty-five mile of Terre Haute.

Repair and Jobbing Work Given special attention. Write or call on 1 and see for yourselves. SOI to 235 North Ninth street, near Union Depot. Terre Haute, lad.

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in all the latest novelties .**

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HERZ'.. BAZAR.*'*4

Established 1865. Incorporated 1898..

PHffiNIX FOUNDRY

AND

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MACHINE WORKS,'

Manufacture andfdeal In all kinds of

Machinery and Machinery Users Supplies.

FLOUR MILL WORK:

FRANK PRATT

Italian Marble and ail kind* of Amertcan and Foreign Granite

MONUMENTS

CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT & STREETS TERRE HAUTE,IND.

JAMBS T. MOORE

THE OLD KIILIAULE

IT.

IS SELLING

IBIBttr »rvr.sT

Gasoline Stove

IS THE WOBLD

vim

The "Lyman",

Get It at once and while avoiding tbe eongr ing summer heat, save your fuel.

JAMES T. MOORE, 657 Main Street

GAGG,

JOULMM ZH

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,

PICTURES, FRAMjUS, MOULDtNGfl.

McKmb* Block, No. 646 Mdnlatrw* bttwMottb and 7th.

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