Rem, Cornelia, and the Lord Hyde Letter Conflict
In this serialized tale a love triangle unravels as Rem Van Arent betrays trust over a letter belonging to Lord Hyde. Cornelia Moran, facing social peril and family pressure, must navigate romance, shame, and looming marriage plans while Arenta seethes and a stern father demands accountability.
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Cornelia
Arenta
Rem
Miss Damer
Lord Hyde
Willie Nicholls
George Hyde
Cornelia Moran
Tariff and Trusts Shape Wages and Cost of Living
The piece argues that tariff protected trusts raise prices and wages outpace living costs, harming fixed income earners and farmers. It urges ending tariff protection to force price cuts, boost domestic competition, and ease burdens on workers and producers.
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United States
Trusts
Europe
Cure Kidney Backache with Dean's Pills Testimony
A farmer from near Trenton Missouri describes severe kidney pain and backache that left him unable to work. After his wife saw Dean's Kidney Pills advertised, a box from a local drugstore eased the pain until it stopped. A free trial offer and 50 cent price follow, with sales through Foster Milburn Co.
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Walker Cris
A. A. Boyce
Trenton
Boyce
United States
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Barrymore Refuses to Perform for Clubmen at Bohemian Spot
Famous actor Maurice Barrymore rebukes a group of businessmen at New York's Bohemian Club. After they urged him to perform, he replied he would do a handspring but could not speak a piece. He then left the club, never to return.
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Spesch
Fee
Congress
Roosevelt
Maurice Barrymore
New York
Barry
Southern Strawberry Picking in Norfolk V A Shifts North
Norfolk Virginia reports 12 200 crates of strawberries shipped north in one day. The season peaked last week with 300 to 400 Negro pickers at some gardens earning 1 to 1 25 daily. Yield averages 2 500 quarts per acre, crop about 20 percent short, berries said better than usual. Workers grab handfuls rather than pick individually. A planter compared workers to a flock of black birds from afar.
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Norfolk
What Is the First Step Toward Knowledge
A youth asks what begins learning and the sage replies with a pivotal insight about self discovery. The exchange frames curiosity and growth as the path to understanding, highlighting a guidance that starts with recognizing one’s own blank slate.
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Ott
The New Republican Way and the Old
A rhetorical critique contrasts American ideals with rule in the Philippines and Puerto Rico. It argues lack of jury trials, secret readings of the Declaration, press suppression, and sedition risks for critics, invoking Lincoln and Webster to question imperial governance and justice.
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Philippines
Lincoln Republican
Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Curious Weather Phenomena Overwhelm Wall Street
Unprecedented drought and heavy precipitation flood Walk Street area amid numerous cloudbursts. The text claims wealth loss and property damage reaching perhaps one billion dollars, with muddy water affecting prosperity and the Republican high tariff era.
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New York State
Walk Street
Wall Street
Far-Seeing Protectionists
The Chicago Evening Post derides Chamberlain's corn law proposal as a silly ploy to honor protectionism. It argues protectionists reject such notions and note the UK’s conditions make a general protective system economically impossible.
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Chicago Evening Post
United States
United Kingdom
Roosevelt trip brings menagerie to White House tour
Report notes a variety of gifts from the presidential campaign journey filling the special train cars. The collection includes bears and other animals and highlights a chinch favored by Western Republican delegates.
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White House
Roosevelt
Quay Endorses Roosevelt Amid Patronage Benefits
The passage notes Quay’s support for President Roosevelt in exchange for state patronage. It claims Quay has enjoyed unusually favorable conditions under the current administration, with every federal office in the state impacted by the arrangement.
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Quay
Roosevelt
Cnap
Defiance Starch Promises Best Results with Quick Service
An advertisement claims Defiance Starch yields top results and stresses savings of 4 or more for a money less cooking option, highlighting convenience and value.
Temperance lecturer and preacher tour Southern Missouri
A temperance lecturer who proclaims he is a reformed drunkard and lawyer, along with a Methodist preacher, travels Southern Missouri. The speaker’s varied experience is touted as qualification to yank brands from burning or identify a burning one. Dr Pepper is praised in an Artesian Bottling Co. ad from St. Louis Dallas and Waco.
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Missouri
Kansas City Journal
Artesian Bottling Co
St. Louis
Dallas
Waco
Woman's Cruelty to Woman Revealed in Parlor Tale
An elderly spinster shows a visitor a hand-made lace collar claimed to be over fifty years old. The young woman’s praise turns to cruelty as she questions the maker, exposing harsh social judgments in a quiet domestic scene.
Not a Dangerous Malady
A fragment describes two friends discussing Jenkins illness. One says he hopes Jenkins will pull through a siege of sickness while the other notes he is in good condition yet volatile. A maid reportedly told the wife Jenkins was suffering from ammonia.
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Jenkins
German scientists eye Amundsen voyage to magnetic pole
German scientific circles discuss Prof Amundsen’s planned expedition to the magnetic north pole aboard the Green a forty six ton vessel whose small size is seen as advantageous for icebergs and currents near the pole.
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Amundsen
Magnetic North Pole
Prof. Amundsen
Grape-Nuts Cited as Brain Food in Nervous Cases Testimony
A former court stenographer describes recovery from collapse after eight years in a state hospital and credits Grape-Nuts for rebuilding brain and nerve strength. She asserts regular use and higher intake aided her return to work and health, and endorses the product while noting no stomach is too weak to digest it.
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State Hospital For
Lincoln
Neb
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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Boston
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Boster
Mary Damer
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Philadelphia
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