Bicycle Notes In Brief In Chicago Detectors Rebound Bikes
In a single day two Chicago detectives recovered nineteen bicycles stolen earlier. Blotting paper handles capture attention amid the fad of rapid wheels. Italian amateurs race under assumed names while San Francisco enacts an ordinance against riding with children under six. Australians report a cure for scorching and the judges levy a $50 fine. a second dose is not needed. Olive oil and vaseline aid sunburned skin. Cloths dipped in baking soda water provide relief on cheeks and foreheads.
Grand Excursion to Buffalo and Educational Meeting
The National Educational Association will hold its next annual meeting in Buffalo. Michigan Central offers a one fare round trip plus a $2.00 association membership fee. Send a stamp for Notes for Teachers and a summer notebook describing northern and eastern resorts. City ticket office 119 Adams Street.
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National Educational Association
Buffalo
Michigan Central
Niagara Falls
City
Adams Street
O. W. Ruggles
Mrs Henry L Foote Wins Gaylord Police Justice Race
Mrs Henry L Foote was elected police justice of Gaylord Kansas in a race against her husband, winning by a large majority.
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Henry L. Foote
Gaylord
Kanran
Bas
Des Moines Ticket Sale At 220 Fourth Street
Tickets go on sale July 3 through July 7 via Wabash lines. Apply in person at 220 Fourth Street Des Moines Iowa. Grace Seeley serves as Commercial Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Grace Seeley
Baron Bockum Dies as Oldest Reichstag Leader
Baron Bockum long led the German Liberal faction and is now %5 years of age, noted as the oldest Reichstag member. An open-hearted man may be trusted to manage his own affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Bockum
Reichstag
Remarkable Recovery at Seventy Two with Pink Pills
A Union interview with Mrs. Jane Hotalen of Hainesville New Jersey, seventy two, claims rheumatic sciatic pain nearly crippled her for two years. After skeptical trial she used Dr Williams Pink Pills and within one week walked without a cane, noting no ill effects and ongoing good health. The article promotes the pills as a blood and nerve restorative sold by dealers or by mail from Schenectady New York.
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Port Jarvis
N. Y
Jane Hotalen
Hainesville
N. J
Sussex County
Union
Household Hints from Everyday Life
Practical advice on cleaning and storage for home and family. It covers stove cleaning with vinegar sugar and turpentine, cheese storage and mold prevention, baby shoe shaping, meat feeding for invalids, brass bed storage with vase line, furniture treatment with turpentine, and gas leak detection using soap and water.
Three posters offered free of postage by Chicago line
Three charmingly executed posters in colors drawn by W. W. Denslow Reed and Ray Brown will be mailed free to any address on receipt of one dollar. A limited number will be issued making them scarce and valuable. Address Geo. H. Heafford General Passenger Agent Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway ld Colony Building Chicago Illinois.
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W. W. Denslow
g@ithel Reed
Ray Brown
Geo. H. Heafford
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Ld Colony Building
Chicago
Egg swallowing contest shocks crowd in Dallas Oregon
A road side ice event in Dallas Oregon featured a contestant who swallowed twenty five raw eggs in just under two minutes creating a stunned crowd and a memorable moment.
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Dallas
Oregon
Up-to-Date Hints on Asparagus Cultivation and Forest Management
The article discusses improving asparagus beds with well-drained soils and trenching techniques for heavy soils, plus salt dressings to fight weeds and top-dressing manure. It then profiles Biltmore Forest as the first practical U S forest management, detailing improvements, selective cutting, cattle exclusion, and initial profits at Vanderbilt's estate near Asheville North Carolina.
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T. D. Hatfield
Hatfield
Subdrainage for Wet Country Roads By Gen Roy Stone
General Roy Stone outlines road drainage methods for wet soils. He advocates two lines of longitudinal subdrains on clay and low lands with about one in one hundred fall, cross drains every 36 to 100 feet, and use of unglazed three inch tiles with gravel bedding. Drainage must reach side ditches and discharge rapidly to preserve the road.
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Roy Stone
Chicago as a Wool Market
Chicago lies one thousand miles from seaports and the freight on foreign wools to Chicago is a certain rate per pound. If not for this cost Western manufacturers would use foreign wool, so wool sent from central states and western territories to this market remains more profitable for the shipper than sending it to the Far East where world wool competes at low prices. Returns may take one year or even two to be realized.
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Chicago
Central States
Far East
Woman seeks birthday memory not age forgetfulness
A humorous reflection notes that many women wish their husbands to remember their birthday while ignoring or downplaying their age. It highlights social expectations about aging and romance.
Enemies of the Strawberry Insects and Remedies
A. M. Ten Eyck notes that May beetles and their white grub larvae damage strawberries, worse than diseases. Ground cultivation, burning vines after harvest, and crop rotation reduce infestations while birds and fowl help control beetles. leaf rollers cause leaf curling with two broods yearly.
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A. M. Ten Eyck
Field notes on feeding calves and crop lime effects
The piece discusses calf rearing with trough feeding and gradual weaning, noting milk flow declines as calves grow. It cites Maryland experiments: twenty bushels lime yields corn gains of 51 3 bushels and 34.7 to 37 percent crop increases with wheat and hay. It also observes a shift toward beef and mutton breeds over dairy and wool, with balanced approaches rare.
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Maryland
Information They Should Furnish at the Proper Time
Advice to mothers on guiding daughters through puberty with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised as preparing the system for the change. The notice invites letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts and claims wide female health benefit. An exclusive joke about flies and screens closes the piece.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Victim of Friendship
Dialogue shows Maid and Mistress discussing a vanished regiment and hair from a hair token exchange as a symbol of farewell and social ties. The scene hints at a local town departure affecting personal connections and propriety.
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Anna
Doing the Best He Could Hat Trial in Town
A man reflects on limited options and tries on every hat in town, signaling defeat and acceptance. The scene centers on a pondering, resigned figure and a small town setting with a focus on mundane attempts and personal struggle.
What became of the Jones boys in the tale
The returned native asks about the Jones brothers. One stays on the farm while Ed goes to Sioux Falls to open a law office. The exchange hints at futures for the brothers with a pointed remark about life choices.
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Jones
Bill
Dent
Sioux Falls
Maxes
Pompeii Visit Sees Disappointment in Repairs
She recalls visiting Pompeii with high expectations but finds the site badly maintained despite a fine location. The exchange notes dissatisfaction with the preservation and upkeep of the ruins.
Widow in Half Mourning Reveals Chicago Husband Secret
A widow in half mourning discloses that her late husband had a second wife in Chicago last week. The revelation follows inquiries into the family plight and societal expectations.
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Chicago
Patent Medicine Ad Promises Cure for Chronic Illness
Mr F E Cosgrove of the C B and Q R R Buda LiL writes on May 21 1806 that eight years of kidney liver malaria illness and various medicines failed until Dr Kay’s Renovator cured him He reports improved appetite digestion skin tone and energy and offers samples and booklets from Dr B J Kay Medical Co Omaha Nebraska for 26 cents or a dollar by mail
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F. E. Cosgrove
Buda
Lil
Bread consumption shifts with seasons and transit deals noted
A compilation of varied 1890s items mentions summer bread consumption dropping twenty percent, a Buffalo round trip fare for a National Education Association event via Wabash lines, a commercial agent horace seeley in des moines, church property valued at 800 million, a testimonial about Piso s Cure for Consumption, tobacco cost in New York rising five percent, a Dr Kline nerve restorer claim, a note on chlorides of silver experiments, pure California wines offered by L Apfel, and a fashion trend of matching bicycle wheel color to attire in England.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National Educational Association
Wabash Lines
Fourth Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Horace Seeley
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Other Remedies Advertised
A collage of patent medicine pitches lists Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents and Hiegeman's Camphor Tea with Glycerine for chapped hands cold sores and more. Sunflower seed bait for rodents appears alongside advice about teething and soothing syrup. English dairy trade and tobacco factory note conclude the clippings.
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Hiegeman
C. C. G. Clark Co
N. Haven
You ask if your horse is fast can be trained
The excerpt plays with language in a joke about speed and training. It contrasts speed with clever manipulation as a humorous quip.
Stomach Bitters Promotes Vital Energy and Health
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised as an invigorant that replenishes energy and strengthens enfeebled bodies. It is claimed to prevent malaria and ease ailments including biliousness dyspepsia rheumatic pains and kidney issues while benefiting the nervous system. A Michigan pastor provides notebook journals for youths to record his sermons.
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San Francisco
Yonkers Statesman
Woonsocket
Philadelphia Press
Indianapolis Journal
Ington
California Fig Syrup Co
Sicians
McKinley
Ohio
Niagara Falls Souvenir CO
N.Y
Biltmore Forest
United States
Biltmore Estate
Asheville
North Carolina
Vanderbilt
Biltmore
The
Strawberry
Pacific Rural Press
Sein
Pompeii
John A. Miler
Au Sable, Michigan
New York City
California
L. Apfel
Los Angeles
Cal
England
Hall
Price
Smith County
Kansas
Winslow
Michigan
Ayer
Yellowstone Park
J. Francis
Booker Ping
W'N.u. D.M
Columbia
Columbias
Atford Bicycles
Pope Mfg. CO
Hartford
Conn
Will W. BR. Roberts
Omaha
Neb
B J. Kay Medical Co
Western
Uth Street
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