From Ames to Pullman A Western Wanderer’s Long Report
W H Heileman recounts a cross country journey from Ames to Pullman via Spokane. He discusses wheat and oats prices, living costs, and urban contrasts, meets a half breed Indian youth, visits Palouse country, and describes Pullman College’s campus and departments including chemistry and horticulture.
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Washington
Iowa
Spokane
Des Moines
Butte
Mariner
Ames
Spokate
Palouse
Palouse County
Pullman
Seven Hills
Chemistry
Lovers of Books Value Content Over Cover Art
The article discusses Ruskin Renan and Darwin, arguing that true appreciation lies in the ideas within not in bindings. It notes Ruskin ignored book form, Renan valued study over appearance, and Darwin treated bindings as useless, sometimes removing them or borrowing books without concern for return.
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Ruskin
Ernest Renan
Darwin
Forbidden Love Across Class Lines End Scene at Fence
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt a Buffalo man pleads for forgiveness and vows to improve for a woman who rejects him due to class. She remains firm, cites a deathbed promise to her mother, and she walks away toward Boston while he laments beside an ant hill.
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Jane
Boston
Buffalo
Cleveland
Favre and Bismarck Trade sharp barbs in satire
In the Saturday Review a poster of wit recalls Favre replying to Bismarck about counting billions since Christ. The quip shifts to aluding to Jewish bankers Bleichroder and Erlanger. The imagined scene ends with a dogged physician joke.
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Jules Favre
Bismarck
Christ
Bleichroder and
Erlanger
Saturday Review
Dope Fiend Refuses Clean Shirts From Brodie
In a dim hallway a morphine addict accepts 50 cent shot and a lecture from Steve Brodie. The exchange ends with the vagrant offering a hotel card and a quip about stealing shirts to pawn for drugs. San Francisco Examiner reporting.
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Steve Brodie
Brodie
Quentin
Bowery
San Francisco Examiner
Old Man Wakes After Weeklong Sleep Near Tryon
An elderly African American man named Miles fell asleep while squirrel hunting near Tryon. After three days of searches, his wife and helpers gave up. He woke at dusk exactly seven days later and demanded supper, insisting the event was a setup.
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North Carolina
Miles
Tryon
Atlanta Constitution
Three Graces Story Retold by a Scene Painter
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote recalls an ancient version of the Three Graces attributed to John Stetson. The tale centers on a Boston theater scene painter asked to embellish the display with more Graces, expanding from three to a dozen.
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John Stetson
John
Boston
Joan
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Progressive Uncle Tom's Cabin company boasts six bays on road
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a theater promoter praising a touring production of Uncle Tom's Cabin as progressive, claiming the company uses six deep bays to portray the river crossing. The promoter jokes about Asiatic bloodhounds and offers to sell extra bags, illustrating the sensational, satirical tone.
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Eliza
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ham and eggs for a coon prompt Kansas City restaurant clash
A Kansas City eatery tries to deter Black patrons while staying within the law. A waiter yells ham and eggs for a coon at a Black customer, who exits, inferring danger in the phrase and avoiding service. The incident illustrates racial tension in a local restaurant scene.
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Kansas City
Kansas City World
Time Limit to Wife Beating
A bustling row in a New York uptown apartment led tenants to seek the janitor's explanation. The next door neighbor revealed a man had beaten his wife, prompting the janitor to vow no man will strike a wife after 10 o'clock in his building. A London Tit-Bits item adds a magistrate anecdote about paying fare with 2 pennies, then a boast about a prior three months hard labor on November 5.
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New York
London
Salvation Army girl weeps appealing for coin
The Salvation Army girl in a blue hat begs Uncle Bob to buy, but he refuses with a wink. She says she joined to make the world better, and he quips that they have stopped putting pictures in cigarette packages. They both cry.
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Uncle Bob
Salvation Army
Louisville
Canary colored statesman visit sparks reflection on names
A Nebraska miner names his week old infant Li Hung Chang Jones prompting questions about his Christian name. The quip suggests the visit of the Orient statesman has prompted local commentary.
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The
Orient
Nebraska
Li Hung Chang Jones
qBuffalo Express
Sick Headache Relief Promoted by Liver Regulator
Distressing illness from imperfect digestion causes severe head pain and nausea. The remedy promoted is Simmons Liver Regulator. J. H. Zeilin & Co. Philadelphia markets the product for relief.
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Simmons Liver Regulator
Advertisements and remedies from D D Bales in Omaha Nebraska
A collection of early 20th century medical and patent medicine claims promoting One Minute Cough Cure DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Hall s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer and Dr ay s Renovator. Includes testimonials and pricing with sale by D D Bales and associates in Omaha Nebraska.
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DeWitt’s
D. D. Bales
A. Sandstedt
6Th and
Martha Sts
Omaha
Neb
Early Cure Claims and Medical Fare in a 19th Century Ad
A patient testimonial from Decatur Illinois praising Family Care for relief from catarrh diabetes and shoulder pain. Mentions the first machine made watch in Roxbury Massachusetts 1850 and touts One Minute Cough Cure as a speedy safe remedy for asthma bronchitis coughs and colds sold by D.
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A. P- Sawyer
C. Sampson
Edwards St
Decatur
Illinois
D. D. Bales
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School of Mines
Squaw Creek Hollow
Mississippi
V. W. H. Heileman
Rip van Winkle
J. H. Zeilin & CO
Philadelphia, Pa
Barton County
Georgia
DeWitt
Hall
D. D. Bale
John, A. M'Call
Main St
McKinley Club
J. J. Cogle
Mr. Coull
Main
Ames, Iowa
D. D Bales
United States
Roxberry
Mass
George Lodge
Lorenzen
Omaha Neb
Western Office
B. J. Kay Medical Co
16Th St
Omaha, Neb
L.M. Bosworth
Sophif
American Business College
Omaha, Nebraska
N. J. Spencer
Jupisch Bros
Adam Schaat
J. S. Thompson
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