Wandering Workers Seek Global Trades and Travel
The Washington Post reports on skilled mechanics who roam globally, including woodcarvers, stone cutters, electricians, and garment cutters. They travel from New York to Chicago and San Francisco then to Australia or Europe, finding work with careful savings and sober living, while maintaining sharp appearance to gain entry in new towns.
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New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Australia
Europe
Cairo
Paris
Mediterranean
Anywlry
Washington Post
Odd funeral requests show haste and motives
A New York undertaker recalls urgent funeral orders driven by travel plans, marital trouble, wills, or family events. Examples include a quick burial to avoid newspapers, a wife seeking swift burial of her husband, and a niece worried about her share, revealing how death arrangements intersect with life drama.
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New York
Hotope
One Dry Spot Angler-Yiang Bout Dialogue
A fragmentary exchange features a disappointed Boatman seeking a dry spot and a match while London Punch criticizes repeated stumbles at a 16 site stone, framed by a Greek proverb.
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Yiang
Boatman
London
Town and state notices on breeding certificates and town books
Historical notices discuss a state agricultural certificate for stallion pedigrees costing one dollar and required posting at exhibition sites. Another item covers new town laws mandating uniform books and annual financial reports to the mayor, with publication options. The Odebolt Chronicle comments on interstate advertising exchanges by Harriman lines, arguing illegal restraints on contracts and newspapers’ long practiced ad space trades.
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State Secretary of Agriculture
the State Department of Agriculture
Manson Democrat
Leskages
Odebolt Chronicle
Harriman Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Omnonicae
Special Interests to Women in The Chicago Record-Herald
The Chicago Record-Herald offers extensive content for women including daily home and dressmaking patterns, menus, beauty Q&A, Martha's Management, family readings, Sunday school notes, book reviews, and a Sunday women’s section with Mme Qui Vive Dame Cartsey society news and The Sunday Magazine with stories, articles, verse and timely topics.
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United
Chicago Record-Herald
Dr. Withrow
Mme. Qui Vive
Jeannette Hope
Marion Harland
Dame Cartsey
The
Record-Herald
Humor and miscellany with illustrated magazine flavor
A lively humor and miscellany feature showcases abundant illustrations and a real magazine vibe. Readers encounter witty sketches, short pieces, and varied visual humor that captures a classic periodical taste.
Sears drops grocery dept due to pure food law
The piece cites Sears Roebuck announcing the discontinuation of its grocery department after the passage of a pure food law. It questions the integrity of mail order stores and suggests such laws would threaten cheap, adulterated goods and undermine mail order businesses. It notes farmer and local merchant perspectives on competition and value.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co
Catching Butterflies and the Home Newspaper Net
A didactic piece argues the local newspaper is the best tool to attract and retain customers. It warns of competing mail order catalogs and periodicals with a national reach described as an octopus. The author urges merchants to use the home net to preserve trade.
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Bye
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Corgti
G. H. Wooton
Olive
Clark-Cilley Building
Akron
Iowa
W. T. Kidd
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Alexander
Lowra
Old Opera House
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E. Douglass
Vichar
Weldenfelisz & Schafer
Chaucer
British Museum
Glasgow
Garden of Eden
Slarper’s Weekly
Wheeginter
Tribune
A Ee Round & Smith. Publishers
Becker Burril
Fein Clothiers
N. J. Brown
B. A. Gar
Whdekers Wong
Ivery Man
NEMO
Akron Lumber CO
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