Seven Years of Misery Relieved by Lydia Pinkham Remedy
Sikeston Missouri woman recounts seven years of illness with bed days and pain. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving nervous weakness backache and menstral troubles and invites others to try it.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sikeston
Dew
Bethune
Man steals heads of lettuce then reappears to nab more
A man steals a head of lettuce, returns for a second trip to steal another, and is arrested on the second stop, as reported in Mrs. Benham’s column. The remark suggests a joke that two heads are better than one.
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Benham
France
England
Germany
Sweden
Department of the Seine
Martel
Snakes Deployed To Clear Saloon Crowds In Maine
A non-resident sent snakes to Portland saloons to reduce crowds and rats. The large snake reportedly killed 15 rats in minutes and then cleared patrons from two saloons, as reported by the Kennebec Journal.
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Prohibition
Maine
Portland
Kennecbec Journal
Answering the Dean by a Goats Horns Joke
The Dean Swift of St. Patrick’s Dublin accepts a playful exchange with a boy and a goat. The boy tugs the goat and tells the dean to bow only if he can grasp the goat’s horns, a quip praised by the Youth’s Companion as witty.
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Thackeray
Dean Swift
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Dublin
Senator Seeks Truth as China Breaks
Senator Allen notes another piece of valuable china shattered and questions how it happened. His housekeeper blames a fall, while the senator quips it was merely an automatic brake in the crockery incident.
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Allen
Noted Romantic Quips From Curwen Chronicle
A clipped aphorism on romance and pride, noting even hardhearted bachelors keep a withered flower as a token of love and acknowledging pride as a basis for many mistakes.
Elusive Isabel by Jacques Futrelle
Synopsis of a Washington spy tale where Miss Isabel Thorne and her companion elude detectives at the embassy ball. Grimm, chief of the secret service, pursues a theft and a disappearance as new clues surface and a dramatic escape unfolds amid masked intrigues and a lights out chase.
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Count di Rosini
Isabel Thorne
Campbell
Secret Service
Grimm
Washington
Senor Alvarez
Legation
Miss Thorne
Pietra Petrozinni
Senor Rodriguez
Venezuela
Monsieur Boissegur
Mystery unfolds as Grimm tracks Isabel Thorne in embassy
Miss Isabel Thorne claims EU secret mission links from Rome to Madrid and London while Mr. Grimm, Secret Service, questions her purpose. A break in at the embassy and a sudden intruder lead to further clues as they pursue the missing letters and cigarettes.
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Mr. Grimm
Madame Boissegur
Monsieur’'Ambassadeur
Miss Thorne
Monsieur Boissegut
Monsieur Boissegur
Hastings
Blair
Johnson
Secret Service
Rome
Washington
Europe
Madrid
Paris
London
Spain
Senora Cassavant
Mademoiselle d’Aubinon
Jane Kellogg
Isabel Thorne
Italy
Madame Poissegur
Misa Thorne
Wind powered lighting at Cosely church near Birmingham
An old Cosely church uses a 60 foot steel wind tower and an 18 foot diameter windmill on tailings near a coal mine to generate electricity for 27 church lamps, two chapel lamps, two vestry lamps, organ pump motor, and 30 rectory lamps, with a storage battery included. Also notes a beach picnic story about three girls and their guests with lively party recollections.
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Cosely
Birmingham
England
Ada-Cholly Saphedde in a Brown Study
In a humorous exchange, Extravagant Ada chides Cholly Saphedde for not valuing money while he sits in a brown study, and the speaker offers a penny for his thoughts.
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Ada—Cholly Saphedde
Edith
Stop the Pain Carbolisaire and Teething Syrup Ad
An old advertisement promotes Cole's Carbolisaire to stop pain from burns and cuts with 25c and 50c bottles and offers a free sample from J W Cole Co Black River Falls Wis. It also advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with 25c per bottle and includes a proverb about knowing when not to talk and a note on a swift borrower who never strikes twice.
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Cole
Ruggists
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
The Girl's Handicap Observation on a Street Scene
A girl named Mabel sits on the front step as boys play. She shows off a new dress, pink sash, shiny shoes, and coral beads. A boy teases by admiring her waist and beads but claims he would not want to be a girl due to washing necks.
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Mabel
Feminine Reasoning in Staging Dresses
Dialogue shows Stella praising her gown matching another and Bella resisting duplicates. Puck comments frame the exchange as a light fashion debate about individuality and imitation. The snippet highlights social attitudes toward appearance and self-expression.
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Stella
Bella
Puck
What Ails You Discoveries on Liver and Digestion
If you have several of the symptoms described you may suffer biliousness and torpid liver with indigestion. Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claims to be a permanent cure using valuable medical principles. It is advertised as a liver invig orator stomach tonic bowel regulator and nerve strengthener.
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Pierce
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