Juvenile Ambitions and Prefaces of a Boyhood Fancy
A humorous reminiscence recalls a boy’s wish for basket sleeve protectors and other era memories. The narrator contrasts childhood yearnings with adult tastes, recalling copper toe boots, peaked caps, pencil attachments, and the allure of a brakeman’s red lantern job as he laughs at the old poultry market sight. The piece ends with a note from Charleston News and Courier.
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Bho
Ufo
Amy
Charleston News and Courier
Fine Crop of Fence Posts From Sand Hills
J W Bird of Pond Creek promotes planting black locust trees on sand hills along Salt Fork river. He planted about 390000 seeds, now 80000 to 100000 healthy trees averaging three feet growth. Next spring 80 acres will host transplants, with five years to first cutting and ten years to posts valued above 100 dollars per acre.
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Salt Fork
J. W. Bird
Pond Creek
Ponca City
Okla
Bird
Weather kiosks to place improved instruments in cities
A Washington dispatch reports plans by Willis L Moore head of the Weather Bureau to install compact kiosks in major cities. The boxes will house accurate thermometers and barometers, display weather maps, and be kept up to date by cyclists. Public-friendly stations aim to provide reliable street level readings.
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Weather Bureau
Largar
Ieverera
City Hall Park
New York
United States
Anys
Washington
New York Tribune
Willis L. Moore
United States Weather Bureau
Kloska
Jevela
Manila
Golden Rule Judge in Toledo Court Adorns Walls and Mottoes
A Toledo police court chief adopts the Golden Rule justice style installing mottoes, a large American flag, palms, and other plants to guide prisoners and staff. Mottoes include Do unto others and Honor and shame from no condition rise. Minor and loafer ban to be enforced. Arizona gets a new seal by Warren H. Rollins featuring life like San Francisco mountains pine tree cactus and deer likenesses refined from earlier design.
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Toledo
Austin
New York
Arizona
Territory of
Phenix
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco
Warren HE. Rollins
Grand Canyon
Dual purpose Shorthorn progress and Hereford trade notes
Gehumne Shorthorn cow Red Rose III won first in class at the London show by producing 63.4 pounds of milk on day one, while Daisy led milking trials with 61.1 pounds and notable butter yield. The American Hereford Breeders move to expand export demand cites Secretary Thomas and Stannard, with sales to Buenos Ayres and Mexico. The Rite of the Lamb comments on lighter, tender lamb gains favor over heavy mutton chops in markets.
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Chicago
Bandera Spencer
London
Lord Rothschild
Coates
Red Rose III
William Beteman
Mr. Nelson
Daisy
American Hereford Breeders’ Association
C. R. Thomas
South America
Buenos Ayres
How He Lived and the Operated Patient
A doctor's astonishment at a patient surviving a severe affliction ends with a widow’s wry joke about persuasion to undergo surgery. The Canadian Camp club seeks congressional action to protect forests from paper production and preserve hunting ground. Schumann-Heink naturalizes, praising America for luck fame fortune and eight children.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Schimann-Heink
America
Smuggler J H, Defaulter Adams, Ward Bass Lincolns Era
A fragment from a droll column notes mock labels for historical figures and jokes about arbitration with Switzerland to curb naval actions. It mentions a new gun claims of 2,000,000 bullets per minute and a police incident in Chicago with an anarchist.
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John Hancock
Samuel Adams
Abraham Lincoln
New Year's In Ancient Rome
The article notes Romans valued New Year celebrations but celebrated on varied dates across communities. It argues they packed many holidays into twelve months, caring little for strict almanac adherence. It quotes a remark on greed for gold reflecting public attitudes.
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Rome
Sirius Barker
Washington Star
Phenomenon Explained by a Married Man with Daughters
A young man with a jet black mustache and white hair explains the phenomenon as his lips enjoying life while his head bears the troubles. The tale is cited in a New York Run and Louisville Courier Journal excerpt about orders and a teetering production line.
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New York
Jinks
Louisville Courer Journal
The Feminine The Wife Fancy and a Woman's Dictionary
London Opinion notes a playful joke about gendered dictionaries with a quip on the wife’s dictionary perhaps richer than the husband’s, reflecting light social commentary of the era. It frames words as a mirror of domestic roles and humor.
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John
London
Finest line of calendars shown in coastal Iowa
The Workup presents a premier calendar line featuring many imported pieces of rare beauty. Both the GER Meath and imported lines are varied and highly sought after, with customers urged to view the collection before ordering.
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Coastral
Lowa
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Maine
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Chicago Tribune
Livestock Progress
Congress
Bravel
Switzerland
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Jena
Diemer&Co
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Frudden Lumber Co
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Ackley
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SonaLyz & Rorh
Herman Gos
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