New Ice Cream Server Patented In New York
A New York inventor unveils a novel ice cream server shaped as a cylinder with a handle that dispenses without a spoon. The device represents a fresh serving method and contrasts with traditional dispensing practices. Also mentioned is a Democratic Ohio remark about political defeat after Parker's rout in 1904, reflecting pessimism of the era.
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New York
Ohio
Parker
Buckeye
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Ledger
Washington Star
Authority and the betrothal whispered in gossip columns
A snippet from society pages contrasts two lines about an impending marriage. The Houston Post quotes a man asking how he knew the chosen one, while the London Telegraph features a frightened young woman and a command to lie down, reflecting tabloid style intrigue.
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London Weekly Telegraph
Connecticut man patents safer method for handling live wires
Working around electric wires with an ordinary screwdriver has caused numerous injuries to operators. Contact with live wire results in a short circuit. A Connecticut man has invented and patented a safer technique, illustrating how accidents can be avoided.
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Aroun
Connecticut
Insulated Screwdriver Protects Operator From Shock
The device features a non conducting handle surrounding the metal shank up to near the tip. This provides a pure face for grasping and operating the screwdriver without risk of electrical shock when handling live wires.
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Washington Star
Style Versus Fashion in Tailor and Cutter Theory
The piece contrasts fashion and style, noting fashion as capricious and ephemeral while style endures. It cites a tailor and cutter's view that a garment may be fashionable without being stylish, or stylish without being fashionable, capturing fashion’s fleeting nature versus lasting design.
Miniature Boomerang Craft and Odd Newspaper Snippet
A brief note describes making a small model boomerang from cardboard, with tips on balance and throwing. It includes a humorous line about a deaf man hearing a train whistle and a separate snippet about Chinese ships selling stock for a South China steamer company bound for San Francisco or Seattle.
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Uifts
South China
Tuin
San Francisco
Seattle
Temptation and the Christ Like Rebuff of Satan
A sermon analyzes Jesus teaching lead us not into temptation. It contrasts Christ’s decisive refusal to parley with the tempter with common, wavering responses. The piece warns readers to reject temptation quickly, citing the dangers of hesitation and sharing the devil’s schemes. Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY.
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Jesus
Satan
Temptation
Christ
Greenwood
Niagara
Chriat
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn
New York
The Value of Selfless Work and Gratitude
A man studying and praying to help a friend risks himself to deliver good news. The friend offers no thanks, triggering resentment and pride. He overcomes the urge to boast and chooses to forget the incident, finding peace and joy in selflessness. The lesson: be grateful and work without needing thanks.
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Chaerin
Carrying Out Our Plans
A persuasive 19th or early 20th century essay urges unwavering commitment to decided plans, arguing only a true wrong would halt action. It emphasizes self-discipline, character building through costly effort, and relying on providence when unforeseen limits arise. It questions fairness in self-application to humans and animals.
Teaching Nuggets of Virtue and Courage in Youth
A quotation by Henry F. Cope contends virtue is victory and glory is earned through faith and defiance of wrong. It asserts fearless individuals gain guidance from God, value readiness for responsibility, and insist that youth can stand against wrong despite loneliness or danger.
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God
Heaven
Henry F. Cope
The Second Self Nlaver Reflection on Childhood in Adulthood
A brief meditation on having a second self, a child within, to feel youth amid maturity and to turn in prayer to God after life’s labors, recalling Stopford A. Brooke’s phrasing and imagery.
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Stopford A. Brooke
Sallow Passenger with eyeglasses weighs everyday talk
A sallow faced traveler with eyeglasses chatters about weather fruit and baseball while news of a man killed on an elevated train tops the morning talk. The exchange shifts through politics sports and daily concerns before ending without a clear point.
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Jake Schaefer
Taft
Hughes
Chicago
Peruna Promoted for Indigestion and Nervous Discomfort
A testimonial fragment urges readers to take Peruna for indigestion and nervous unease, claiming relief from long suffered symptoms. The report notes the author’s hope others afflicted with similar signs will try the remedy, presenting it as a cure-all from the era’s medical advertising.
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Ate
Putnam Faceless Dyes Goods Brig Nae Lors Then
A collage of clipped notices and anecdotes includes a entry praising Major Charles D. A. Loefflar as the longest serving doorkeeper at the White House. Other items advertise remedies for rheumatism and kidney trouble, a Civil War veteran’s small Treasury check, and snippets on Saxony iron foundries, a legal affidavit, a boys sacrifice tale, and railway curiosities.
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Putnam
Olor Amas
Tisaan
Pitty
Charles D. A. Loefflar
White House
Story of a Fall Fortesque Correspondence in Mound City
Answer to a Jeffersonian correspondent regarding Mrs Brid man falling in the lake. No scare on the south end of the lake. Fortesque girl fell in mouth open and surfaced with mouth shut, causing a thirteen inch fall. Throw all your big folks in at the north end, you can't scare the South end.
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Mound City
The
Jeffersonian
Bridman
Not Prepared At Stable Scene With Hostler And Son
A head of the house finds the hostler and his son in the stable with a broken kite tail. The father scolds Williams for not being at work, and the son admits it’s due to his rubber heels. The note ends with mention of a $500.50 payment for an Antimacus buttery specimen.
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Mra
Dobn G. Klumpp
Ulsters St
Newark
N. J
Williams
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