Hazel Weir Meets Roaring Bill Wagstaff in the Woods
Hazel Weir, a Granville stenographer engaged to real estate agent Jack Barrow, wanders lost in British Columbia woods. She encounters Roaring Bill Wagstaff, a frontier character, who helps her reach Cariboo Meadows after a tense night bivouac. Bill guides her on horseback, shelters her at a camp, and insists she rest as dawn breaks.
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Hazel Weir
Harrington & Bush
Granville
Ontario
Jack Barrow
Bush
Hazel
Cariboo Meadows
British Columbia
Roaring Bill
Wagstaff
Country
Jim Briggs
Miss Weir
Bill
Briggs
Bill Wagstaff
West
Andrew Bush
Soda Creek
Feller
Mike
Gariboo Meadows
Andazel
Miles
Silk
Brill
Cariboo
Fee
Hastel
Sleeping Beauty
Roaring Bill Takes Hazel to Mountain Cabin in New Serial
Hazel resists but is forced to go with Roaring Bill to his mountain cabin as the plot advances. The upcoming installment will reveal how she responds to this startling development. Climbers Imprisoned Atop Fuji describes a severe storm that traps hikers, tests refuges, and delays relief efforts amid snow and communication failures.
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Bill
Hazel
Fuji
Gotemba
Tarobo
Freezone touted as painless corn remedy from Cincinnati inventor
An advertisement claims Freezone cures corns instantly with a tiny bottle costing only a few cents. It promises removal of hard and soft corns and toe calluses without soreness, irritation, or harm, calling it a sensational Cincinnati discovery.
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Cincinnati
Sunday School Joke on Suffering for Righteousness
Cartoonish quip attributed to New Haven Register features a Sunday school teacher asking a question about suffering for righteousness and a little girl replying that it means having to come to Sunday school.
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New Haven Register
Old Prescription for Weak Kidneys
An advertisement argues Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root cures kidney, liver and bladder ailments and rheumatism. It cites sworn statements and testimonials, claims wide sale, and offers a sample bottle by mail from Dr Kilmer & Co in Binghamton New York with ten cents. Large and medium bottles sold at drug stores.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Engagement Ring and Charity Society Reveal
Quote framed as a witty exchange about engagements and gifts. One speaker claims no ring existed and jokes about joining a society for preventing useless giving just before proposing. The dialogue highlights humor over relationship formalities.
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Society For the Prevention of
Red Cross Bag Blue advert promotes clear white clothes
An advertisement urges readers to use Red Cross Bag Blue for pristine white laundry. It notes the product is available at all good grocers.
More barns hit by lightning due to numbers, not storms
The Portland Oregonian notes that more barns are struck because there are more barns to be struck, not because there is more lightning than usual. The quote emphasizes increased exposure rather than increased storm activity.
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Portland Oregonian
Cuticura Beauty Treatments Advertised For Skin and Hair
Cleansing and beautifying the skin hands and hair offered by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Free samples available by sending address to Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Sold at druggists and by mail. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.
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Cuticura
Dept. X
Boston
Patch guidance for wearers on war service schedule
The Houston Post advises men wearing pants on a win-the-war schedule to distribute attritive pressure so both rear patches may become necessary at once. It notes a new patch with a worn companion patch is unsightly and indicates uneven war service.
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Houston Post
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine Ad Offers Cure Guarantee
An old advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as boosting the system and cleansing the blood to prevent frequent nasal catarrh. It claims internal action, 75 cent price, free testimonials, and a $100 cure guarantee from F. J. Cheney & Co. The note also adds a wartime line about learning to get by on less and a jest about taxes on mules and donkeys.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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