Pickle Curing Method and Short Dilemma for Graduates
Instructions describe brining cucumbers in six hours of steaming and vinegar jars ready in three months. The piece contrasts the college graduate with the boy who starts in business early, noting limited opportunities for the educated man lacking capital. It closes with an advertisement for the Ideal Storm Curtain and a garden birds tale about a robin returning a missed collar to a nest.
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Geneseo
N. Y
Atea
Wytheville Woman Praises Blood Purifier In Ad
Mrs M P Smythers of Wytheville Virginia reports severe boils until she used your medicine and claims 8 8 8. is the best blood purifier in the world.
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M. P. Smythers
Wytheville
Boston
Mrs. Hayes
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Vanilla Wafers and Household Tips From a bygone Column
A cluttered excerpt lists a vanilla wafers recipe with butter sugar milk and vanilla and a note on rolling thin to avoid burning. It offers a tip to revive rough flat irons with salt and hints at Piso’s Cure for Consumption as a cough medicine. The page includes a reward notice for catarrh and a brief testimonial about F J Cheney & Co. plus a humorous aside about French politeness.
Sheriff Confronted By Boy In Swamps Jail Escape Scene
In a Alabama town, the sheriff speaks with a negro youth about a stabbing. The boy delays, then reports seven prisoners have broken from jail and escaped through a window before the sheriff can intervene. The scene unfolds under a shade tree near the post office.
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Alabama
Joe
Mars Green
Maj James Burton Pond Dead at Jersey City
Maj James Burton Pond died at his Jersey City home from blood poisoning. A noted lecture manager, he led Company C, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, in the Civil War and later guided tours for Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan B. Anthony, and others. He wrote Eccentricities of Genius and remembered a life rich in adventure from Allegany County to Utah and beyond.
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James Burton Pond
Jersey City
Maj. Pond
Allegany Counry
Wisconsin
Kansas
Third
Wisconsin Cavalry
Txter Springs
Isus
Quantrell
Pond
Salt Lake Tribune
Robert G. Ingersoll
Sir Edwin Arnold
Unclear quotes spark debate on Ile as critic
A man with a cold eye recalls Ile praising his own poems as unsurpassed while another dismisses his judgment, calling Ile unfit to be a critic. The exchange echoes a Washington Star line about self regard in literary critique.
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Ile
Washington Star
Panama purchase referenced in domestic chatter
A fragment notes a contrast between the husband who freely spreads the cost of his Panama to all he meets and his wife who does not. The sentence implies social judgment on spending and thrift without naming individuals or events.
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Hood
Columbia University
Portland,oregon
Congregation OF the Holy Cross
University OF Notre Dame
M. A. Quinlan
C. S.C. University Park
Oregon
Tonip
Jos. Krehling
Congress St
St. Louis
CANDY
Eteking Remedy Company
Chicago
Montreal
New York
Ideal Storm Curtain Co
McPherson
Kan
S. S.S
S. S
S.S. S
Sherman
Tex
J. G. Scott
Railroad Street
Rome
Atlanta
Moat
Ayer
Chas. E. Hartman
Gibbstown, N. Y
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell, Mass
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver CO
First and Taylor
Portland
Hall
F. J. Cheney &Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Trax
Walding SktIman & Marvin
Ball
Alphonse
Gaston
Carter
Zapsovee
Carters
Sheriff
Prisners
J. K. Pond
Tye
J. B. Pound
Panama
KF. Hayes
Dudley St
Roxbury
Mrs. Pinkham
Sam
E. F. Hayes
Hayes
Meir
Lydia
Ovo
Lyon
Maan
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher Ee
Nein Seat Rochelle Hanigg Cao
N.U
Bears
Centaur
Mpany
New York City
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