Alpine Explorer Survives Night in Ice Cavern
Frederick Chamberlin recounts a perilous Alpine descent in Wide World Magazine. While negotiating a smooth serac on a snow slope, he slid into a funnel-like crevasse and faced a night amid ice walls, failing to climb out until he recovered a knife and dug his way to safety after three and a half hours. He describes frigid darkness, numb fingers, and a desperate bid to escape.
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Frederick Chamberlin
Alps
Wide World
Crevause
Reading Advertisements and Public Interest
A historical collage notes how ads attract readers across papers as a form of engaging content. It contrasts reader habits, quotes Portland Telegram on ads as reading matter, and mentions miscellaneous clipped items from London and Chicago readers.
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Portland Ore
Telegram
Greedy for Gold in India Wars To Vast Hidden Treasures
The article argues India imports vast gold while natives avoid banks, letting hoards stay in temples and palaces. It notes $300 million yearly gold inflows, mighty ancient treasures, and brutal cycles of famine and invasion that drain wealth into hidden storerooms and temple vaults.
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India
Try
Gachwar
Baroda
Ludia
Min
Hank
John Treland
Thar
Delhi
Beyet
Fribanse
Oddities and Odds from a Broadside Column
A cluttered collage of anecdotes and quips spans bold defiance, local boastfulness, and frontier wit. It chronicles a would‑be stars, a stubborn agent, and travelers, weaving through trains, elocutionary talent, and a famed Waterloo guide.
Chief Bacon Rind and Osage Chief Debate Riches
An Osage chief known as Bacon Rind addresses editors during a visit to Pawhuska. The Osage Nation, with about 2,000 members, sits on roughly 1.6 million acres, with substantial funds in Washington and no oil royalties. The exchange includes jokes about wealth, work, and intertribal relations, ending with Duffy suggesting a playful pitch about partnership.
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Oklahoma
Pawhuska
Indiana
Pete Duffy
Et Fteno
Okla
Bacon Rind
Mayor Duffy
Osages
Washington
Treasury
Ehlat
Duffy
Turkey
Burgard
Meester
Todian
Kansan
Fragmentary servant tale from a London tavern scene
A servant in livery is sharply rebuked by a guest who accuses him of dancing around the room. The guest commands the servant to sit and eat, noting there is enough on the table for three, as London tavern talk echoes from the era.
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Read
Opie
Aid
Tilnels
Tudge
James T. Meld
Londem Tater
Former postal official linked to missing package and crash
A former United States Mail service official supervised an agent removal after a missing five thousand dollar package. The package was later found and the agent reinstated. Days later a locomotive derailed near Acorn Field, injuring the suspended agent who survived seven weeks in hospital. The resignation note hangs in the official’s office. Also an advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs.
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Bob
United States Failway Mail Service
Chicago Recon-Herald
Electric Bitters Promise Recovery for Liver and Kidney Ailments
Low spirits and back pain prompt use of Kiestric Bitters advertised as a guaranteed liver and kidney remedy. Claims Robi Madsen of West Burlington Iowa was cured after eight months of virulent liver trouble despite four doctors. Electric Bitters is urged as a safe household remedy priced at $1 by H E Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia.
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Robi, Madsen
West Burlington
H. E Bucklen & Co
Philadelphia
St. Gui
Dr Hobson Eczema Salve touted by New Orleans man
A New Orleans resident, C. P. Caldwell, endorses Dr Hobson s Eczema Salve after three boxes and three Derma Zemas soup cakes cured his skin spot. The ad promotes the product as soothing healing and antiseptic, claims to banish skin humors pimples and red sores, with a 50 cent price and mail order option from Pfeiffer Chemical Company. Also promotes Dr King s New Life Pills praised by Paul Mathulka of Buffalo as the king of laxatives with a 25 cent price from Bucklin Co.
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Lr. Hobson
C. P. Caldwell
New Orleans
Dr. Hobson
Pfeiffer Chemical Co
Philadelphia & St. Louis
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Grant Manan
Bay of Fundy
London Mall
Eric
Watkins
Srie
Chicago News
Charles Warner
Sheridan
Waterloo
General Sheridan
Connie Mack
Philadelphia Athletics
Beut
Mack
Mr. Muck
Baturdey Evening Post
Archdeacon Hudson
Alaska
Skapwes
Jolm
Mangachusetts
New England
Harper’s Magazine
Duke of Hamilton
Ami A AT
United States
Towosen
Merri Lumet
Ackley and Faulkner
Dr. King
Henry D. Sanders
Cavendish
A. E. Buck- Hin & Co
St. Louis
Siness
The
B. F. Purcell
Owa Falls
Owa
Hari Gout
J. L Camenon
D. Davis
Court House
Eldoza
Iowa
R. L. Probasco
F. H. Rule
Ackley
Ss. O. Trey
Arp
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