Deluge of Schemes and a Wedding in Ball Family House
A chaotic Brooklyn to New York wedding unfolds as Joe Ball arranges a hasty ceremony with a Methodist minister. Anita Ellersly, under pressure to wed, endures social scrutiny from Ball and Mrs Ball while confronting class tensions and a wary, male narrator who observes the upheaval in a grand but decaying setting along the Hudson.
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Hudson
Palisades
Joe
Ball
Tyo
New York
Mr. Blackjack
Mrs. B
Mister Ball
Sherry’s
Brooklyn
Alva
Leon
Anil T
Allie
Iidy
Saul
Arik
Joe Usei Loelyir Tmitu- Gang
Touder
Sa Praty
Mrs. Brull
Anita
Jon
Ineland
Antina
Salé I
Milas Ellersly
McGabe
Sie
MaCibe
Mrs. Blacklock
Ihfe
McCabe
Why He Didn't Drink
A Nurdla Star tale from Kansas City about a man in a bar who refuses alcohol. The bartender offers water and whiskey in a ploy. the patron drinks, then uses a whisk broom to sweep and lie down, declaring the Nurdin man did not take a drink.
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Kansasy City Journal
Kansas
Wilco
A Selfish World in a Chain of Selfish Acts
A dialogue portrays a grim view of society where the wealthy railway owners plow over the poor, each rung of the social ladder harming the next. A cyclist and a pedestrian both suffer as a cycle of indifference continues, leaving the cripple to bear the brunt of others’ carelessness.
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George
Jack
Erurenes
Erutehes
Timely Caution and a Dynching Story On the River
A fragmentary Montana tale recounts a committee capturing a fishman and a Swede and preparing to throw them from a railroad bridge by rope. The first man saved himself, swimming ashore, while a cautious Irishman warned the crew to handle the rope carefully, ending with a murky moral.
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Montana
Sivtek
Swan
Angora goats and farm tips for better harvests and stock
The article notes Angora goats thrive across the United States with about a million animals, concentrated in Texas and the northwest, valued for mohair and hardiness. It also gives barn safety, seed, soil, and crop strategies, urging early sowing, disease and pest management, rotation, moisture conservation, and planning for meat production and storage, emphasizing efficient tools, brooders, and quality seed.
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Texas
Northwest
New England
Michigaan
Wisconsin
Dairy Notes on Stable Cleanliness and Milk Quality
A nineteenth century dairy column urges keeping stables clean to prevent manure buildup and advises daily manure handling. It discusses cream bitterness from storage, ensilage benefits for dairy cows, safe milk handling, formalin use for scours, calf dehorning, milking hygiene, dairy bull selection, butter production, and cow care including feeding, water, and avoiding a dog around dairy cattle. It emphasizes practical farm labor and cost reasoning.
Fragmented street scene with a worried mother and child
A man climbs rickety stairs to a sixth floor where a mother holds a weeping child and accuses him, pleading don t take little boys away in your big bag as the scene unfolds with tense dialogue and suspicion.
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Mike
The Touchstone Tale on a Nome Beach Night
A fragmentary silent vignette shows Paddy watching a woman on the Idry sands. He admires her delicate beauty and wistful gaze toward summer. He teases with a penny for thoughts as she glances back and sighs, muttering about heat and wishing she had stayed at Nome.
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Louise
Pawernahty
Nome
the Touchstone
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Ad
A fragment advertises Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children used by a nurse at a New York Children's Home to cure constipation feverishness stomach troubles and destroy worms claiming 30000 testimonials. Product sold by druggists 25 cents with address for Samie Itney Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY. Also a clipped quotation from a mother and daughter dialogue.
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Moiberz
Mother
Cuticura Cures Eczema for Sisters in Morrison Ill
Miss Edith Hammer reports that two sisters suffered six months with eczema before using Cuticura remedies. She praises Cuticura Soap and Ointment for curing scalp and facial eczema, notes a sister’s bend eczema improved with Cuticura Resolvent and Pills, and mentions ongoing use of the soap at home.
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Edith Hammer
Morrison, Ill
Little Bess and Mamma discuss wishes for a piano
In a playful exchange, Little Bess asks for a piano but Mamma explains they cannot afford one. The girl suggests a goose with golden eyes or a hen that could say a piano, turning the wish into a fanciful exchange about imagination.
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Bess
Cure a Cold in One Day Advertisement
Bold claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets offers a one day cure for colds with a money back guarantee if it fails. Each box bears Druggist signature E W Grove. Returns policy stated.
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E.W. Grove
Not a Fair Deal from the Ladies' Home Journal
Two unruly schoolboys are kept after hours to write their names a thousand times. After fifteen minutes one watches the other erase. He blurted in despair that it isn’t fair, noting Bush and Schiuttermoyer as the names involved.
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Rom
Ladies' Home Journal
Dis Eraca
Bush
Schiuttermoyer
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