South America Colonization Company Promises Arkansas City Plan
The South America Colonization Company plans to colonize over 2,000,000 acres in Colombia with Rev. I. N. Merrifield as president. It requires $100 stock and eight hours of daily labor from each commune member, aims to transport 800 colonists in March or April, and will hold property in common while paying the Colombian government for the land. Agents are seeking colonists in the southwestern states.
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South America Colonization Company
Arkansas City
Kan
Republic of Colombia
South America
Rev. I. N. Merrifield
Modern Pandora of fashion and folly opens the box
A collage of 19th century ads and anecdotes on health cures, fashion, and oddities. It cites Dr. Pierce products for female complaints, a Alabama letter praising Favorite Prescription, an Amsterdam exhibition with an electric restaurant, home beauty tips, Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and varied notes from small towns. It mentions a cast iron dog taxed in Warren, Ohio, a skating accident in Girard, and hair thirteen feet long in Mississippi.
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Pandora
Dr. Pierce
KR. V. Prence
Mattie Terry
Sherrer Hill
Dallas Co
Ala
Unclear Historic Factoids Amid Bright Claims
Fragmented OCR style items list inconsistent figures and names. Notable mentions include industry employment figures, doubled gold production, a planned Detroit electric railway, large cotton mill investments in the South, and various place names with unclear context.
Cleaning Lace Curtains The Old Fashion Wash Method
Lace curtains require gentle handling. Soak two pairs overnight in warm water soap and ammonia, rinse in fresh water, then bluing, then dry on grass or a line. Starch, press, and shade by coffee rinses for light or dark tones.
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N. Y
Simple Mouse Traps For Free Household Mice Control
Simple methods to keep a dwelling free of mice using reusable traps. A figure four trap baited with cheese or a pumpkin seed is cheap and effective. A plate and inverted bowl trap uses a bent wooden strip and cheese, trapping the mouse until disposal.
Bedroom Slippers Knitted with Looped Padding for Night Wear
A Farm Field and Fireside instruction offers a complete knitted slipper pattern for night use. It details looping technique, stitch counts, and assembly from instep to sole, with six ounces of Germantown yarn, bone needles, and cork soles. Includes color options and finishing touches like a satin bow.
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Germantown
Rattlers and Sugar News From Scottsburg
A family near Scottsburg Indiana keeps two pet rattlesnakes, She and Jumbo, in a cage and safely recaptures them after they escape. In science news a German French trial makes synthetic sugar from gas using platinum catalysts. A new silver hair receiver is described as a tidier ornamental dressing-table accessory.
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France
Wanderers of the country road and a plea for simpler living
A grandmotherly vignette recalls two worn veterans as they roam nights for a flower and calf, then rest by the kitchen fire. A column by Good Housekeeping urges simplification to avoid premature aging, arguing against puff pastry diets and endorsing cereals fruits and vegetables with practical kitchen tips.
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Mother
Francis T
Nature
Out of the Ordinary Snails and Curious Claims
A quirky collection notes a snail that takes fourteen days and five hours to travel a mile, a banquet ritual in Japan, Swiss spirits profits of about one million dollars, and Paris post offices with pneumatic tubes. It mentions extreme cold at 424 degrees below zero in a lab, Amos Markham of Memphis who has moved fifteen times since 1860 and fathered twelve children in different states, a French publishing house issuing an eighty page volume smaller than a two-cent stamp, and a surgeon aboard an Atlantic liner noting women are cooler in disasters at sea.
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Paris
AdtvAl
Amos Markham
Memphis
Tenn
Pennault
In Small Doses of Facts and Figures from History
A compact collection of historical measurements and trivia. It lists ocean depths, city areas, early maps by Franklin, a tomato record in Abbott Nebraska, 14th century census figures, and population rankings of major cities.
Notable figures and quotes from wartime era society
Countess Nere heads 250 nurses in Japan hospitals while Kansas Senator-Elect Pager becomes sixth postwar senator from the state not in uniform. France’s President Faure name is spoken as a single syllable. Bisuor Paret comments on vesting women singers. Mrs. D Henry Cram noted as a notable Boston contractor. Anton Rubinstein’s final composition prepared for publication in Leipsic and to be conducted in St. Petersburg on December 10.
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Japan
Countess Nere
Admiral Nere
Pager
Kansas
Faure
France
Cork
Bisuor Paret
Maryland
Boston
D. Henry Cram
E. W. Barry
Turk
Anton Rubinstein
Senff
Leipsic
St. Petersburg
Foreign Notables and Quirks Across Nations
The piece notes Grip as Sweden's minister to the country and mocks Russian influence in the United States. It calls Ratniate Kwone Madagascar's absolute ruler, with his wife ruling him. It mentions Feix Faun as France’s smoker president and Casimir Perier as a smoker by habit. Joux Water of the London Times left substantial personal property and shares split between his sons.
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Grip
Ratniate Kwone
Madagascar
Feix Faun
France
Casimir Perier
Joux Water
The
London Times
Times
A. F. Walker
Relics of Lincoln to be Exhibited Across Ford's Theater Precinct
A Washington society the Memorial Association of the District of Columbia preserves Lincoln relics in the former Ford's Theater building opposite the site of his assassination. The Oldroyd collection of 2500 items includes a genuine Lincoln rail, a table from New Salem with Whittier verse, chairs, a stove, a cradle, and Lincoln's hat from the night of the assassination under glass. The chair he sat in at the theater stands at the death site. The collection spans Lincoln's life with over a thousand volumes and his complete speeches. The museum will be open daily and attract many visitors.
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Washington, D. C
Memorial Association
District of Columbia
Harriette Palmer Crabbe
Ford
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Potomac River
Washington
Tenth Street
Hardin County
United States
C. Nl. Oldroyd
Springfield
Oldroyd
New Salem
Caleb Carmen
Whittier
Willie
White House
Darwin Overlooks Selfishness in Evolution Debate
Objections arise to the view that evolution hinges on selfish struggle. The text notes plants and animals show self sacrificing or cooperative traits, cites turpentine production in southern pines as an example of apparent exploitation, and contrasts human behavior with natural selection theories. It also includes anecdotes about sailors and shifting marriage age patterns.
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Mechan
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