Eckley World and Era Advertisements and Ephemera
A long excerpt from The Eckley World includes subscription rates, advertising rates, and notices for reading matter. It mixes business notices, then-current editorials, and snippets on economics, politics, and social topics with several dated items and quotations from Abraham Lincoln and Henry Clews. The text mentions war revenue receipts, tariff debates, and various political opinions amidst a collage of notices.
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George F. Althouse
AGE Inc
Spunea
Abraham Linesin
Internal Revenue Bureau
Stage vs Home Life: French actresses on Fame and Love
The piece cites Mma Hading who divorced to pursue stage passions unshackled by a jealous husband, while Madame Calye envies home life and Dolly May Irwin retires to raise her two sons. It questions whether talent belongs more to the world or the home, noting home-keeping hearts are happiest per the New York Evening Post. The report also covers a Polish author on war, an Interior Department pension surplus, and U.S. immigration debates stressing cheap labor and Chinese exclusion.
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Mma
Hading
Madame Calye
Aingery
Dolly May Irwin
New York Evening Post
Blech
Tassia
Hague
M. Bloch
Irrigation as an Investment and Remembering Bogland
A compilation urges remembering past allies and foes while noting irrigation boosts in arid regions. It argues irrigation raises land value, increases rainfall benefits, and suggests potential constitutional revision to reclaim desert lands.
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Brooklyn Bagte
Ura Lus
The Boy Who Wins the Day
A Washington Times item notes a contrast between a clever winning mindset and dull certainty. It suggests the sharper approach often leads to victory, while a stubborn lack of imagination tends to fall behind.
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Washington Times
Ufe
Willing to Please and Applicant For Situation Exchange
A dialogue shows a job applicant claiming eagerness to work while the employer and applicant reveal mutual suspicion. The employer doubts young men, fearing their knowledge of the business. The applicant promises minimal time while asserting capability if engaged.
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Aly
Doomed Wither Way
Doomed Wither Way story fragment cites a wedding risk and doctor dialogue about a bride after guip. The clipping also notes Kansas population rise to 1,467,808 and a Philippine insurgent capture. Three torpedo boat destroyers Whipple Truxtun Worden launched at Maryland yards. Venezuelan Colombian clash yields 1,100 dead and wounded.
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Kansas
Nartin Cabrenza
Battingas
Luzon
Whipple
Truxtun
Worden
Maryland 2
Fur coats and musical lessons offered in local ads
An advertiser touts fur coats priced as low as the lowest and notes Prof. A Monroy will visit Ackley every Tuesday to teach violin mandolin and guitar. Readers are directed to Bouch's jewelry store for more information and saforation.
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Knock & Ktelke
A. Monroy
Ackley
Bouch’s Jewelry
Amusing Calef of Police Delusion Hoax Fraud Story
In a humorous College tale from The Ladies' Home Journal a professor, not much hired by pupils, plans to marry in Cleveland. Students, unseen guests to the wedding, send a telegram misinterpreted as a lunatic on train No 6. Detectives intercept the professor on arrival, escorting him to the bride’s Euclid Avenue home.
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Ladies' Howe Journal
Oved
Clevpland
Cleveland
Jim Townsend
Ove
Calef
Wil Eny Hame Fluaill
Euclid Avenue
Earth Bending and Odd Creatures From Black Canyon
The article describes continuous geological bending and nodding of hills and buildings in London and elsewhere, with mention of gravity effects. It then recounts an exploration of the Black Canyon of the Guanis where strange rodents are found, including the kangaroo mouse that stands on its hind feet and mimics a pugilist, the pack rat known for thievery, and the long jumping jumping mouse with a featherlike tail, as reported by the Los Angeles Ledger.
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Bothewise
London
Putt Coat Lane
Heine
Napoleon
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Guanis
Biack Canyon
Calaveris
Blick Canyon
Los Angeles
They Were Here in a Moment of Abstraction Says Thief
The Kansas City Independent notes a fragmented courtroom exchange where a pickpocket, an incendiary, a forger, and a burglar explain their actions as moments of abstraction and temptation in a large town mercantile setting.
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Tani
Kanesas City
Her Way and a storm tale noted in Galveston
A Washington Star excerpt mocks a husband and wife banter about who has the best spouse. The text shifts to a Galveston note on Mrs. J. C. League funding $3000 to repair Ball High School after last fall's storm, a daughter of George Ball who donated the school. The remaining lines present a dialect poem about a person captioned “Her Way” praising familiar traits in a light, humorous tone.
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J. C. League
Galveston
George Ball
Books of culture and a string of old jokes in a varied prose
A collage of quotations and anecdotes explores what constitutes culture through references to Robinson Crusoe Pilgrim's Progress and Boswell. It retells a parish joke about Luther and a street beggar in Atlanta and notes a Nevada law about whiskey using a humorous satire tone.
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Bushwell
Johnson
Gquleksote
Washington Post
Society of Men of Letters
Robinson Crusoe
Don Quicksore
Boswell
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