Cozy Modern Cottage Seeks Moderate Means Buyer
A detailed 1900s style description outlines an 82,600 Mourne home with improvements priced around 2500 dollars. Features include electric bells, full cellar with furnace, brick walls, spruce and hem lock frame, two coats white lead finish, pea green body, ivory trim, terra cotta blinds, and bronze hardware. First and second floor plans show oak mantels, tiled facings, and sanitary kitchen plumbing.
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Mourne
Stanley A. Dennis
Broadway
New York
Herewich
Walker, i
Ges
Ono
North Carolina
Bethlehem Steel to Produce Rivetless Structural Beams
Bethlehem Steel plans about 10 million dollars in additions to manufacture rivetless structural steel girders and beams. The new process eliminates rivets on certain column sizes, promising stronger, longer lasting material at lower production costs. The invention, credited to an American, marks a first in the United States.
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Armerican
Seliwab
Lowen
New
Animals Winter Preparations and Odd Wisdom Across Tales
A collage of natural history notes and folk anecdotes describes animals making winter bedding from reeds, down, and grass, with water rats and field mice highlighted for their nests. Interwoven are cultural vignettes about a Chinese boy and a merchant, plus odd trivia on deep water life, depth estimates, and simple finger tricks.
History of letters and ice strength in winter
The text traces the evolution of the letter nine and the letter o from ancient scripts to modern form, noting eye symbolism and the removal of the dot. It then shifts to ice bearing strength, offering conservative load estimates for various thicknesses and configurations such as a man, horse, artillery, and multiple units.
Nurse's Quick Cure Impresses Vic in Rhyme Verse
A playful fragment from Youth's Companion shows a nurse in a white apron and kerchief cap hailed by Vic for curing the family swiftly. The verse ends with the boy worrying if someone else may be ill.
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Vic
Abalone the Giant Sea Shell Delights and Dangers
Chicago News describes abalone as a large sea snail with a bright interior, found from Cape Mendocino to Cape St Lucas. It notes Chinese and Japanese value and U.S. ignorance, discusses diving for whites off California rocks, drying and shipping to the Orient, and claims abalones offer sound, wholesome meat superior to oysters and clams while detailing how viscera separate from edible flesh.
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Inaba Jones
Japan
California
Orient
Chicago News
Flowers and plants in Tutesting Persia and surroundings
In Tutesting Persia a sorrowful myconthus droops then revives at evening. Tulips shut on cloudy days. Lily of the valley is called girghy’s tears with many said to spring from Calvary to Jyrasaion at night. Night blooming serous falters before day, and the four padded lotus protects its blossom by leaf shade to endure heat.
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Persia
Torrance
Calvary
Jyrasaion
Wagner and Schumann Clash Over Conversation
Wagner in 184u called Schumann a highly gifted musician yet an impossible man after a Paris visit. He said Schumann sat dumb for nearly an hour while Wagner spoke of Paris, music, literature, and politics. Schumann, in his account, praised Wagner as educated and spirited but noted his incessant talking.
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Wagner
Schumann
Paris
France
Germany
The prime minister term in 18th century Britain
The piece notes slang use of prime minister as a reproachful label for Sir Robert Walpole after twenty years in office. It cites a 1742 remark about being styled prime minister and mocked sovereign-like power. It also states the office was not in the official precedence table nor in the written constitution in Britain.
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Stobert Wilpole
Robert
Great Britain
The Live Sponge Discovery
A live sponge in the sea shows interior pores filled with a soft white substance likely the animal’s flesh. Water currents move through small pores and exit via larger openings, suggesting the sponge extracts nourishment as water passes through.
Button trouble at the bureau provokes wit
In a Pittsburg Post fragment a young Mr. Nurtteh jokes about collar button mishaps. He is asked who attends to such matters and replies The buttons or the swearing. The exchange reflects light humor in a social scene.
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Mr. Nurtteh
Pittsburg Post
Good News and Bankrupt John Jones Exposed
In a terse exchange, a cashier reports John Jones’s bankruptcy as good news to a banker named Wes. The dialogue hints at seizure of debts owed, contrasting with potential future gains if Jones had continued in business.
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John Jones
Wes
Newlyweds Learn Browns Had Better Taste Than Silver Tray
In a humorous tale, Mr and Mrs Newlywed debate a pricey ugly silver tray from the Browns and plot to bury or donate it. After a trip to a silversmith, they discover the tray’s monogram has already been erased, revealing the Browns’ superior taste.
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Mr. Newlywed
Mrs. Newlywed
Lehmidt
Mra
New York Press
Had to Crawl. Rich man crawls under car for repairs
A judge notes a tale where a vindictive foe foretold the rich man would crawl. Weeks later the rich man buys a pricey automobile and finds he must crawl under it every few miles to make repairs, illustrating the warned fate.
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Cras
Not a Policy Halder on borrowing trouble
Not a policy note but a witty line about worrying over potential trouble. The quote references Halder and a character named Soo, with a remark about insurance magnates losing jobs and future uncertainty in industry. The Detroit Tree Press and Leslie's Weekly are cited with humorous exchanges about aging, love, and fragile hopes.
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Cinders
Detroit Tree Press
Fragmented Dialogs Across Papers Show Snippet Humor
A collage of brief humorous exchanges from several papers includes Mrs Knox, Mrs Gabbleton, and a wedding related tease about relatives. The snippets showcase light banter on marriage, cooks, and apologies. The sources cited include Chicago News, Baltimore News, and Detroit Tribune.
Illinois Central Promotes Luxury Winter Tours to Mexico and California
The Illinois Central markets double daily service with dining, buffet, sleeping and observation cars from Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville to New Orleans and beyond. Tours include 28 Mexico and California trips, exclusive Pullman vestibule trains, and Gras Mardi celebrations, priced all-inclusive through agents or the railway offices in Chicago.
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Minois Central
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Louisville
New Orleans
Gulfport
Mexico
Central America
Panama
West Indies
Europe
Hot Springs
Arx
Florina
Chang
Unica Jr
Mempla
Cincianiati
Dixie Myer
St Jonis
Jacksonville
Nasuville
Cnatcay Noga
Atlanta
California
Ilnois Gentral Tat Road
Excort
Beau Campbell
Associaton
Wincy Building
Adams St
Clentele
ChiUilltl
Dilindia Central
Los Angles
San Francisco
Louninville
Omaha
Ark
Vicksburg
Miss
Hammond
Lia
Hawana
Cuba
Colon
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Porto Rico
Texas
Arizona
Enn
Foreign Missions
Chicago-Nashville
J. A.M
Sale
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia
Idaho
Utah
Montana
Yates
H. J. Phelps
Dubuyie
Lows
What is your idea of success surveys answered cynic
A cynic quotes a Washington Star line claiming success is making stir about achievements so that failures are overlooked. The fragment references surveys and a critical view of ambition.
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Surceys
Washington Star
Teo Baa and Clara-I in a Confused Exchange
A fragmentary exchange features Teo Baa and Clara-I amid confusion over affection and a misheard scene. Maud interrupts with a sharp remark as a chauffeur and Bil appear in a chaotic, stage-like dialogue.
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Clara
Maud
New York
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al Chew Chew
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Sandow
Mr. Slowcoach
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Arkansas
Kanear
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
J. G. Lovrien
Ass't Gen
Kansas City
A, Hilton
Gen
Illinois Central Railroad
Gulfport, Mi3s
Hammond, LA
Havana
Tilnois Central
S. 3
Prince Arthus
Avai
Gamas
Fulg
Ilinois
A. H. Hanson
J. S
Illinois Central
Iitneis Central
Happy
Cardus
A.jfevers
Hook, &O
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
William
John Btreety
Dewitt &Co
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Ely
Donister Deve Company
Madison, Wis
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