DIE STAMPED
FAMILIES.
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A complete and handsome line of Note Papers,
in all popular tints and colors. They are die
stamped “Newport, Arkansas,” but sell at regu
lar prices of Fancy Stationery. It is something
new and very popular.
We would be pleased to show you this line, be
fore the neatest tints and designs are exhausted.
We carry a Full Line of
I Wedding and Party Invitations,
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Program Cards and Folders,
Ladies ' and Gents' Visiting Cards.
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With New
Type Faces
OUR WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
Engraving Orders
Taken at Regglar Prices and FgflJLinej>f_Samgles_carried_to_geIect_from.
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We are agents for
Lambert-Deacon-Hull,
of St. Louis, Stationers and^Engravers, who
have made a reputation^by 'their neat and
artistic work.
NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
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R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
' on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the dailv Independent
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AN ODD OLD CHARACTER.
Kate, the Bumboat Woman, Who Ha*
Haunted Washington’s Navy
yard for Forty Years.
Kate, the bumboat woman, is
the title applied to an odd crea
%Fe who has been haunting the
W*?s*hington navy yard for the
1 past 40 years, says the Washing
| ton Post. Her name is Kate
i Royal, and as far back and further
than the oldest man connected
with the yard can remember, Kate !
has been making her daily trips
with her basket of candy, fruit
and notions to sell to the sailors
who visit Washington on Uncle
Sam’s boats. Kate has a speaking
acquaintance with all the great
men of the army and navy. She ;
has letters and presents from
most of them, including Amirals
Dewey, Sampson and Schley.
Kate made her first visit to the
yard during the civil war. She
was a young woman in those days,
and Ifer bright Irish ways made
her a great favorite. In later
! years, when age began to creep
Upon her, she began to form an
opinion that she was an active
and indispensable part of the
navy. She considered herself an
enlisted person and became as de- j
II voted to the cause as the most
loyal man. It is just 40years sinca
Kate began to consider herself a I
ooil An
She has had ten red enlistment
stripes, representing four years !
j each, placed upon a field of blue |
cloth, and this she wore t-o cele
brate the anniversary.
Kate is a picturesque charac
ter. Her form is bowed beneath
| the weight of 70 years, and her
face is seamed with the marks of j
time. Only her eyes still retain
the brilliancy of youth, and they |
sparkle with the same Irish liu- j
mor and good nature that |
gleamed from them 40 years ago. j
Kate has no regular hour; f i
business. She is on hand with the
rising sun, and the late hours of
the evening find her still on duty.
She gathers her little stock of
trade around her-under the fore
castle of one of the United States
boats lying up at the yard, and
with the sailor boys lying around
her on the floor she will tell them
tales of her' youth or crone-irish
melodies for them until the signal
for lights out is passed around,
and the sailors seek their swing
ing hammocks, and Kate shoul
ders her basket of goods and wan
| ders home.
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HERO AND THE TOOTHACHE
| Remarks Thereon by a Disillusioned
Girl—He Had Raced Death
at Santiago.
“I used to be given to hero
worship,” said the girl with
the Russian sable muff to
her companion of the long, dark
eyelashes, according to the New
York Sun. “But, dear, we change,
do we not? Do you recall how I
spent the last of my pin money to
attend a reception that the club
arranged for a certain hero?
j “Well, the week before last I
was coming up from Palm Beach.
| On the train was a hero who had
I withstood a dozen hostile fires at
Santiago. He had a toothache, a
simple little toothache, and he bel
; lowed like a calf. I thought of the
five teeth that I had pulled out in
one afternoon without gas and
| asked myself if the man was real-1
ly brave. I decided that a hero
must have a toothache such as
the ordinary mortal never
dreamed of.
“One of the train hands who
sympathized with the hero said:
i ‘The best thing for a toothache is
whisky. If I had one I’d fill up’— |
and he did. I mean my hero, that
j was, did. Don’t talk to me in fu- j
ture of hero worship. Facing
death may be one thing, but I’d
rather face death than be afraid
of a toothache. Have a bon bon ?”
“Radium Sirup.”
A practical joke, now common
i among Parisians, is to go into a
drug store and ask for three cents’
worth of radium. At first the
; chemists took it good-naturedly,
but latterly it has become quite a
II nuisance. One chemist in the
Rue de R?7oli has just hit upon a
! way of getting even with the
* would-be jokers. He has made a
5 concoction which he calls “radium
sirup,” and when the practical
- joker arrives gravely hands out a
„ email quantity, charging J ~ -'f'f
two cents for the bo exm
Now is the time to make Yoor Home Merry, and rWpL
do so if yoo will boy Jg|_
A VICTOR TALKING MAGHlUE^m
Don’t Forget They are the Best. M
Palace Jewelry |
Agent Victor, f||||
ANTOINE BOHLINGER. FARLEY P
A. BOHLINGER & CO.
NEWPORT, ARK.
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tion of its great musical worth, the cause of its popularity with artists and musicians. Perfect
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tense), but out of the few who have nearly reaJhed the goal, ^
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scale. The cost to produce a perfect Kimball scale has been no less th«, that of other of
recognized artistic pianos of the world, yet because of the advantages of the largest
from any factory, we are able to sell the Kimball at a very moderate price, quality
The Kimball Bystem and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms.
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Factory 317 Main Street, Little Rock.
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
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goes with each 100th 10c order
conditional.)
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