Road Map of Texas Promotes a Pioneer Lifestyle
The feature extols the road as a vital median of isolation and mobility in Texas. It highlights a roving road man figure and a traveling wagon team, noting practical needs of frontier families, with marketing lines for Pretzinger’s Catarrh Balen promising cure and urging readers to sample via two cent stamps from Pretvinger Bros. Chemists.
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Lone Star State
J. Cl. Lincoln
Texas
Pretvinger Bros. Chemists
Dayton, Oli
The Great Discovery and Bible Light on Science
A fragment discusses an electric ray revealing internal details of objects and its imagined impact on medicine and photography. It quotes biblical verses linking revelation to scientific advance, praises theology as the mother of science, and mentions medical ads and products amid the jumble of text.
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New York
Rontgin
Theoleay
Merkig
Christ
Simeon
Paul
God
Kontzen
Fashions and Frills for the Well Dressed Woman
An illustrated survey of late 19th century women’s fashion notes. Discusses hairstyles such as the Langtry knot and various braids, jeweled frames for photographs, and the use of gold bands and orchids. Describes sleeve shapes, capes, wraps, coats, and fabric choices from bold to muted palettes, with emphasis on accessories and embroidery details.
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Phether
Olor
Melios
How to tint calcimine for house interiors
A home care guide from Chicago paper offers mixing tips for calcimine paints. It suggests one pound white glue overnight, then 20 pounds water, plus Prussian blue, vermilion, chrome yellow and earth tones to create delicate tints. It warns walls should be darker than ceilings and that the finished ceiling shade be two to three lighter steps.
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Chicago
Ocean
A Grocer Confesses in Humorous Bad-Eggs Tale
A Philadelphia reader recounts a boastful grocer admitting adulteration and false labeling in a repentant moonlit confession. He jokes he would be in the penitentiary for selling adulterated goods and spoofs common products by exaggerating their misrepresented contents.
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Philadelphia
Door Prank Ends In Museum Tale Of Push And Pull
A Detroit Free Press humor piece recounts Dolby's storm door at a shop and a mix up over Push and Pull. An eminent citizen, misled by the sign, leads to a string of gaffes and a final door theft by a desperate man who drags the hinged frame away.
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Dolby
Kingmarian Angel
Sam Wroth
Dolby Gor
Theanan
Colby
Detroit Free Press
Novel Phase of the New Woman Observed on Train
Passengers in Goldsboro observe a woman ignore a man and baby on a southbound train. A mountain man father paces with a ill infant while women nearby speculate the child’s condition and the man’s loss. The scene prompts discussions of gender roles and care aboard the car.
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Washington
South
Goldsboro
North Carolina
Galdshore
Tonching Tre ‘Bey
Venevelenti
Orter
Woman Endures Pain Receives Life-Changing Remedy
A May letter from Mrs Cras of Parkin describes severe female ailments and fever. Five months later Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is said to have ended her suffering, with many druggists reporting high demand for the remedy and urging others to seek Pinkham’s relief.
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Mra. Pinkham
Lydia
Mississippi elects Sernando De Sote Money to Senate
The Mississippi Democrat Sernando De Sote Money wins the U S Senate seat succeeding J George. Born August 26 1834 in Holmes County he attended the University of Mississippi and served multiple terms in Congress. His election is praised as a popular triumph in Mississippi.
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Sernando de Sote Money
United States
George Hernaido de Sete Money
Jackean
Miss
J. 2. George
Iloimes County
Law
University of Mississippi
Congress
Frank Markett
Money
Mississippi
Tate
Molland
Flnshing
Hmartial
No Mileage Ticket Buyout Offer from The Buckeye Firiet
A vintage railroad promotion touts a mileage heavy ticket covering multiple systems including West of Pittsburgh and the Big Four. It claims broad coverage, low price, and bank validity on the entire B&O system with Toledo options. Available through central agents or local addresses in Columbus and Pittsburgh.
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W. HH. Fisher
G. TP. A.J
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Ohio
Pntire B
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Pittsburg
Obia Central
Addres Movizos Rork
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Toledo
Obia
Sir Charles Tupper and the Canadian cabinet reshuffle
The article profiles Sir Charles Tupper in early Canadian politics, noting his rise to influence during Sir Mackenzie Bowell's era and hints at a future premiership. It mentions a cabinet overhaul, Tupper's age near 75 with robust health, and his role shaping party strategy ahead of a campaign. It also references potential shifts with Sir Mackenzie Bowell and a note on fashion trends like the bicycling corset.
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Mackenzie Flowell
Peemier
Cutmde
Canada
Charles Tupper
Burt
England
Maror Kenzie Bowell
Sir Charles
Dominion
Inet
Charles
Igor
Tie
John Macdonald
John Trompson
Nora Scotie
Montis &Inferiilles
Ty Alisaya
Chares Tupper Bart
Kel
Tanite
Mackenzie Lowel
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