Pure White Lead Test Promised by National Lead Co
An article advertises a blow pipe test to distinguish genuine white lead from adulterated paint. The National Lead Company offers a free blow pipe kit and pamphlet to prove purity under the test, urging painters to verify paint before use. Includes unrelated snippets and ads about various remedies and products of the era.
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Snowinden
Naturé
Vani Laing
National Tead
Woodbridge Building
New York City
China Apologized Canton Viceroy Resigns Over Vessel
A Canton meeting expressed indignation at the incident as the viceroy resigned rather than surrender the Japanese vessel. China negotiates with Portugal over delimitation waters near Macao while noting a strong, organized army trained to meet Western encroachment.
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Canton
Soho
Chita
Yatsu
Hongkong
Mare
de Yireray
China
Portugal
Aberae
Orient
Eureaps
America
Japan
Philippines
Race War in Kentucky Draws Travel Guards
The incident near Dixon and Providence involves Deputy Marshal Smith Childers shot by unknown assailants, provoking violence as two traveling men, Garter of Chattanooga and J. J. Barry, were wounded by rifle fire from alleged Black sharpshooters. Rumors of mob formation spread as a crowd searched for suspects, with McDowell and others fleeing toward Dixon jail amid a tense, evolving pursuit.
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Dixby
Smith Childers
M. McDowell
Pendigenee
Sky
PB. Garter
Chattanooga
J. J. Barry
Dixon and
Providence i
McDowell
Marshal Childers
Dixon
Providence
Mixon
Trenderson
Purse
Ait
Tixon
Obelusk
Omb
Ronnley
Nesroes
Fred
Grafters Await New Trial After Guilty Verdict
Harrisburg conspirators Marel If Sanderson and four others were found guilty of a state fraud conspiracy but may not be sentenced for months. Judge Midge Munkel granted 30 days to file reasons for motions for new trials, with further hearings likely as Kunkel schedules arguments.
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Harrisburg
Stairlsburg
Marel
Sanderson
Capitol
William 2 Snyder
William J. Matthaes
James M. Shumaker
Cain
Midge Munkel
Jidge Kunkel
Argumen
Eight killed in Natchez gas explosion at drug company building
Eight persons are dead and another badly injured after a gas explosion in the basement of a five story Natchez Drug company building. The blast tore away the rear wall, collapsed a neighboring tenement, and wreckage caught fire. Seven residences were destroyed and property losses run into thousands.
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Natchez, Miss
Natchez Drug Company
Weekend seed catalog and oddities amid town chatter
A garbled mix of seed listings from a La CrosseWisconsin catalog mentions carrot cabbage lettuce and onion seeds with odd spellings and numbers and a stray note promising free seed packets. It is followed by a fragmentary dialogue about reforms and a quip about bulldog shoes in fashion and a joke about a bulldog carrying its shoes.
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Mr. Stubb
Mrs. Stubb
Maria
Jon
Mater Cure Promises Positive Relief for Constitutional Disease
A historic advertisement proclaims Wall's Gatard Cure as the single positive remedy for a constitutional disease, claiming it targets blood and tissue to destroy the foundation of illness. It urges readers to send testimonials and order details to a Boston company for trial instructions and a sample.
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Hall
Artful Scheme and Recipes Posed in Curio Fragments
A garbled collage of household tips and quips references a 12 year old girl as a cook, mentions a chocolate custard powder sold at 10 cents, notes Irrigation Department land applications, and jumbles names and phrases. The piece blends adlike lines, proverbs, and medicine ads with scattered observations about society and manners.
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D 4Erta Co
Rochester
Canadian Homestead Praise From Prairie Settler
W A Spice from Payton Saskatchewan writes a letter praising Western Canada for grain and stock, noting warm spring, high yields of oats and wheat, abundant hay, water, and timber. He recalls moving from Iowa to homestead near Taydon and describes abundant wildlife, fishing at Turtle Lake, and the appeal of Canada over the United States.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada
W. T Tillwahger
Green Menidala
Iowa
Stanmer
Ong
Singhina
Central Town
Elbwang
Western Canada
Weston Canada
Paynton
Sask
Montgomery
Taydon
States
Ingio Cuniferente
Turtle Lake
Brother Yankee
Des Moines
United States
W. A. Spice
Where They Would Meet in the Plumbers’ Big Hell
A Cleveland Citizen painters column item provokes wide comment. The note says we will meet in the big hell usually occupied by the plumbers. Irish Provecb. A neighbor’s testimony tests everybody.
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Cleveland Citizen
Uwe Allen’s Foot-Ease Powder Promises Quick Relief
In a pinch, Uwe Allen’s Foot-Ease is advertised as a powder curing painful smoking? ingrown nails and sweating feet. Marketed as the greatest comfort and discovery of the age, it claims to make new shores easy. Sold at all druggists for 260 with a trial package offer by A. S. Olmsted of Le Roy, New York.
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Uwe Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
A New Bluff
A fragmentary dialogue portrays a fashionable exchange about hair styling and balloon ballast. The exchange hints at nautical fashion and acrobatics as social cues within a seaside setting.
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California Eye
Saskatchewai
Alberta
Bess
E. T. Holmes
Jackson St. St. Paul
Miso
WW. Bennett
New York Life Bridg
Omaha
Ned
BORAX
Pacific Coast Borax CO
Chicago
Ballafa
Yealy Diseases & Hie
Druggista
Coleus
Patort Attornes
Washington, DC
Adsies
Lutow
Treet Thompson's Eye
Empire
Kentucky
la Crosse
Berliner Rarliveh Caultlewar
Leben A. Halger Food Cin
Wis
Ipa
Papa
Subbubs
Popley
Detty
Plymouth Rack Gelatine Co
Boston
Mass
Sanedunte
The
Sud
the Irrigation Department
Tome Insurance Bldg
Chiewa
Pettit
Cassidy
Casey
Philadephia Gress
MLL Maritime
Motta
Bunetsw
Runseo I Enitriye
Cf Wy
Guaratt
Putnam
Monroe Drug Company
Quincy
Hinois
Srame
Samuel Pither
Ayers
Te CertTaur Company
New, York
Tee —Zice
Infante
Bears
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
U.S
Jaques Mfg. Co
WL. Douglas
NY Ater
Peeaine
Manila
W.L. Douglas
Baek Ie
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