Napoleon's Eye and Western Dinner Diplomacy
An 1887 London curacy tale recounts Admiral Eden’s account of Napoleon's commanding presence seen through his eye. A later Washington anecdote features a western senator's wife bypassing precedence by declaring guests sit anywhere, shooing them to dinner.
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Canon Fleming
Eaton Square
Eden
Lean
Napoleon the Great
West Indies
St. Helena
Longwood
Napoleon
Admiral Eden
John Rooker
London Spectator
Washington
Litther
Gas meter entry plans amid a gas office misdirection
In a comical exchange, a caller seeks race entry details at a gas company office while staff deflect, revealing the caller merely wants to register a gas meter. The scene shifts to a separate local quip about an old man who saved burned matches for months to light a kitchen fire, told by a Grindner coachman and a cook.
New Life Pills Claim Quick Cure for Digestive Woes
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a remedy for constipation biliousness stomach trouble and offensive breath. It claims the pills clean the system sweeten the breath banish headache and benefit the liver kidneys and bowels. Available for 25 cents at Elam s drug store.
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Dr. King
Elam
Magnificent Union Pacific Train Service Advertised
In Contemplating a trip to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, California or Oregon, do not fail to ask your agent about the magnifi cent train service offered by the Union Pacific. There are Pullman Palace Sleepers, Buffet Smoking and Library Cars, Dining Cars, with meals served a la carte, and Pullman Tourist Sleepers, &c., for time tables or any information apply to your local agent or J. F. Aglar, General Agent, St. Louis.
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Wyoming
Utah
California
Oregon
Union Pacific
J. F. Aglar
St. Louis
Southern Railway inaugurates Birmingham to Jacksonville through sleeping car service
Effective train No. 36 leaves Birmingham at 4 40 p m on November 27 inaugurating through sleeping car service from Birmingham to Jacksonville via Atlanta. The shuttle offers first class accommodations in every respect. For details contact your ticket agent or CG EB Jackson T P A Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Southern Railway
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlanta
EB. Jackson
T. P.A
Als
One-Gay Cold Cure Prompts Medical Controversy
Fragmentary text hints at a so called cure or treatment named for its claimed effect on throat ailments. Mentions a medical product or regimen labeled as innovative, though details are unclear and authenticity is uncertain.
Indian plain signals a long distance telephony of danger
The article explains how plains tribes used smoke rings and fire arrows to signal enemies and military actions across vast distances. Three smoke puffs warned of danger, two indicated camp, and a single puff meant attention. Arrows carried similar meanings, with diagonal shots guiding direction and alerting to attack.
Bernhardt Performs in Sullivan Indian Center Tale
In Sullivan a blocked railroad forced Sarah Bernhardt to perform at Masonie hall. A 35 cent admission drew families from green wagons as she appeared behind a curtain and cried Mon Dieu looking at the Indians while playing Fedora until 11 o'clock.
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Pedorn
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Chee
Sullivan
Louisville
Indianapolis
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Preneh
Divine Bernhardt
Masonie
Sarah
Great Bernhardt
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Salt Test Of Ancient Apache Chiefs Stuns Railroad Saga
A Chicago Inter Ocean column recounts how three Apache chiefs Victoria Nana and Geronimo with 100 warriors halted a UP train at Green River Wyoming using a rawhide rope la ssos to test pulses and decide dangerous trips. The tale blends myth and railway lore with questioning reach of indigenous knowledge.
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Union Pacific
Victoria
Nana
Geronimo
Green River
Wasatch Divide
Sagebrush Plains
Chicago
Foreigner seeks second hand watch at city jewelers
A foreign man entered a main jewelry house on PF street asking for a second hand watch. After a tense exchange the clerk clarified all watches have second bands and the man paid $50 for a watch. The piece opens with a humorous misunderstanding about secondhand goods. The column then cites a statistician noting public sector employees are linked to higher rates of embezzlement and speculative crime.
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Hbouses
PF Street
Washington Star
Unclear Dialogue at Kenhurst Club Party Sparks Embarrassment
Fragmentary overheard exchange reveals a man uneasy in company about his hands while leaving a party at the Kenhurst club. The garbled text also mentions inventors, odd devices, and fabric dyes, with disrupted lines about bicycles and vehicles.
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Kenhurst Club
Onnne Oieith
Chicago Trine
Camellia contrasts and a tale of two clerks in old magazines
A reflective vignette on two camellias on a window sill as a metaphor for two personalities, one pink and refined while the other dark and neglected, followed by scattered excerpts about a dead-branched plant, two clerks Thomas and Clarence in a merchant’s employ and eventual partnership, and brief, clipped newspaper snippets from various papers.
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Man of Iron
Thomas
Clarence
Wis
New, York
O Commercial Advvertiser
Grofula and Its Awful Horrors in Johnston's Sarsaparilla
A compact notice discusses the quart bottles of Johnston's Sarsaparilla labeled grotesque and dangerous, warning readers about the dangers associated with the product and urging caution.
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Johnston’s
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