French railways urged to repaint cars light blue
Chairman Knapp cited a French story about a traffic manager complaining the old dark blue cars bump badly next to the new light blue ones. The president ordered repainting of all old cars to light blue to fix the issue. A Houston Post caption about children who will rule men is noted.
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Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
The Last Three Seats for Smokers
A Detroit Free Press excerpt mocks open street car seating for smokers. Mr Biggs urges strict ash rules, laments eye injuries, and jokes that rear seats were reserved by the company for cigar, pipe, and cigarette users. He notes possible reform via mass smoker meetings.
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Biggs
United Railway Weekly
Audubon Society a Business Proposition
Dialogue notes Madge and Marjorie debating the Audubon Society dues. Marjorie says five dollar dues compare unfavorably to a feathered hat costing twenty dollars, implying joining is a shrewd business choice.
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Molly
The
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Marjorie
Harper's Weekly
Cure for misery by Cuticura prescribed for child
A testimonial states a twelve year old boy with eczema rough scales itching and burning was cured after using Cuticura remedies. The writer, Steinman of Bryn Mawr, reports great improvement after the first box and complete relief after the second. Also promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for foot ailments with a free sample offer.
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el Steinman
Summer Avenue
Bryn, N
Allen
Olmsted
la Roy
N. Y
Lizards Prey on Fish in Juniata River
Jerry Thompson of Howe township Perry county reports scarce fish in the Juniata due to black lizards feeding on spawn. River allegedly swarmed with these reptiles living on fish, with many caught in nets containing fish from one inch to six finches long.
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Perry County
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Philadelphia
Local jests and moral musings in a St Louis address
The text records a St Louis address by Bishop James Newbury Fitzgerald praising sympathy over eloquence and learning, a quip about a jailhouse conversation, and later a casual domestic bit with Aunt Matilda and Jason Hardapple. It closes with an ad line promoting Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product.
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James Newbury Fitzgerald
St. Louis
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Effective Says Mrs Moore
A Wa lterville Missouri restaurant owner, Mrs SS A Moore, testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved her year and a half of kidney pain backache head discomfort and fatigue after a few doses and months of use she was cured. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Walterville, Mo
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Wounds of the heart and fatal outcomes in historical cases
The article discusses how heart wounds cause death mainly by suffocation from blood pooling in the pericardial sac. It cites the Empress of Austria case, notes the precision needed to sever heart chambers, and mentions Admiral Villeneuve and modern surgical possibilities as illustrative examples.
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Actor Irving Scolds Supers On Faust Hell Scene
While rehearsing Faust Henry Irving struggled to keep the onstage extras in character. The notorious long-suffering actor finally snapped and told the troupe to remember they were in hell not picnicking at Hampstead Heath.
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Hades
Sir Henry
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Hamstead Heath
Roosevelt Critics Spark Shipboard Animal Tale Feud
On the British freighter Indrapura docked in New York, Chow the chow dog, Tyser the wire haired terrier, and Pickles the gamecock star in tales of bravery and mischief aboard a 30 000 mile voyage. Officers recount dramatic antics as Roosevelt and others are cited, while Vivian Tuthill recounts a snake and monkey battle from Singapore.
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Kelway
New York
Tyser
Mr. Wainwright
Dr. Long
Mr. Roberts
Chauncey M. Depew
Mr. Roosevelt
Pickles
Vivian Tuthill
Singapore
Tuthill
Red Sea
New York Telegraph
The Miatoric chophouse in Herald Square closes
A Denver correspondent laments the closing of a New York chophouse likening it to an historic light's obliteration. Engel comments that the departure should not be as bad as feared, recalling a tale of a lamp never extinguished for seven centuries.
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Denver
New York
Engel
Japan
Suffragette’s Furniture Sold at Edinburg Protest
A crowd over five thousand watched the sale at Market Cross Edinburg of Lady Steel’s furniture wife of the late Sir James Steel former lord provost. She refused to pay house and property tax of £18 9s to protest women’s voting rights.
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Market Cross
Edinburg
Lady Steel
James Steel
London Graphic
It Is Wrong to Let a Man Kiss a Girl Says Preacher
A Southern preacher declares it wrong for a girl to permit a man to kiss her. The remark triggers a June sentiment about early romance and morality, noting personal experience that a first kiss can feel both wrong and pleasant at once.
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Sue
Chicago Record-Herald
Fairy tale honesty in sickness from Cobwigger family
The exchange shows Freddie asking for stories and Mrs Cobwigger replying that she knows all but those his father tells, quoting Pliny that in illness the soul gathers anew.
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Freddie
Mrs. Cobwigger
Harper’s Weekly
Pliny
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