Major Crofoot's Ground Floor Millionaire Scheme
Printer visits Major Crofoot to collect a $4.50 bill and is drawn into a fraudulent pitch for a vast chicken and infant-raising empire. The Major promises huge profits, stock options, and quick riches, then seals the scam by offering delayed payment and stock participation, leaving the printer duped on the ground floor.
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Major Crofoot
Major Crofcot
Providence
Crofcot
Wide World Chicken and Infant Raising Company
Company
Cripple Creek
Mastering Chinese and the pitfall of accents
An anecdote from Leslie's Weekly about the challenge of speaking Chinese after schooling. A clergyman preaching to a Chinese audience mispronounced a phrase, unintentionally calling the pigs. The tale contrasts foreign language effort with the astonishment at nonnative mastery.
A Phillips Brooks Story of Love and Self Awareness
A Youth's Companion account recalls Phillips Brooks famed for kindness yet able to critique others. A friend teases about Brown writing his autobiography then Brooks repents, admitting he spoke too hastily and in his guard.
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Phillips Brooks
Brown
Setting the River on Fire and Wit Across Time
A collection of aphorisms and anecdotes from various papers. The note links English flour sieves, the Thames river name, and a popular saying about foolish acts. It also includes lines about families and aging with brief quips from different sources.
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Thames
Ladies’ Home Journal
Land of Fruit and Flowers Tour via Iowa Central Short Line
Southern California praised as the Land of Fruits and Flowers with a winter paradise claim. A new sixteen section Pullman Tourist car departs Minneapolis Saint Paul Mason City Marshalltown Grinnell Oskaloosa Albia each Wednesday, via Santa Fe Route to Los Angeles by Sunday morning and San Francisco by Sunday night, four days total. Rates competitive. advertising info from George S. Barry G P Marshalltown Iowa.
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California
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Mason City
Marshalltown
Grinnell
Oskaloosa
Albia
Kansas City
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Barry
G. P
Iowa
Kidney care headline on Foley’s claim in New York ad
An advertisement warns that neglecting kidney issues can lead to Bright’s disease or diabetes and promotes Foley's Kidney Care as a guaranteed remedy. It also notes New York state has 9 821 officials on its regular pay rolls.
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Bright
Foley
TupeNn & Loughran
New York State
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Tay Coves
Alwayes
J. W. Adams
Judge’s Feed Store
Kellogg St
Ames
John E. Judge
Story County Infirmary of Osteopathy
C. M. Proctor
Clara L. Proctor
N.s
Die
Soa
Minnesota
T. J. Miller & Son
C. B. Lewis
Golconda
de Beers
Crofoot
M. Quad
Mastering
Atchison Globe
Canier Bros. & An
Canier Bros. & Herman
Tilden & Loughran
United States
People's Standard History
People's
VVOL
Lil
Iblisher
Russia
Morocco
Nee Boswor Fh
L. M. Bosworth
Manuel McCarthy
C. G. Lee
McCarthy & Lee
College Park
Rkooms
Stvens
WEO
A. Underwood
Vv.h.v
W. WY
Owa
Minneapolis St. Paul
Peoria
St. Louis
Union Depot
Indianopels
Cincinnati
Washington
New York
Palace
L. M
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