Slick Pete and the Bunco Watches at Auction
A Philadelphia anecdote recalls detective tales of bunco in Centennial times. Slick Pete buys fake gold watches at $2.15 each, then promotes a found watch ad to swindle crooks out of $10 costs, flipping the goods to buyers. Also notes on temper's effect on digestion andCosmo Buttermilk ad, plus England buying American slate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia
Slick Pete
Blick Pete
Pete
Elgin
Crook
You Bet Ned He Married the Girl I Was Engaged To
A quarrel turns to light gossip as two men argue over a love triangle. One man jokes that Ned marrying the girl angers the other, who mutters he will recover before Ned does.
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Ned
Fred
Dr. Ayer
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Beauty Ad Claim
An old advertisement claims clean blood improves beauty and skin. It touts Cascarets candy cathartic as purging impurities by stimulating the liver to cure pimples boils blotches blackheads and bilious complexions. Available from druggists for ten cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
Wheels in parliament: Austria formalizes bicycle use
The article notes bicycles becoming a parliamentary fixture in Austria. In days, under presidential arrangement, a room will be provided inside the Reichsrat to accommodate deputies’ machines. Already about 425 members know the wheel and numbers rise daily, with half the house soon expected to ride to session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Preeimets
Reichsrath
Notable War News Reflections In Local Paper Voice
A fragmented column rails at newspaper perspectives on war reporting and military conduct. It contrasts editors with older managers now shaping wartime guidance, while an odd line about science and disease offers product of a Viennese professor. A cultural note mentions Tartars guiding guests to meals in their customs.
Liquid Air and Its Fascinating Frosty Demonstrations
Charles E. Tripler recounts a discovery of liquid air in the June Cosmopolitan. The article explains liquid air as cooled air with a temperature of about 312 degrees below zero, capable of freezing alcohol and other substances, and describes experiments freezing mercury, butter, beef, and spirits, while noting the heat of combustion and practical power potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Tripler
Arctic
Experiments With Liquid Oxygen Show Explosive Power
A scientist describes pouring liquid oxygen from a treacherous apparatus, noting its blue tint as nitrogen boils away. He details freezing ice cups, sparks from metal, melted iron in ice, and dramatic explosive tests with copper tubes and cotton waste, demonstrating intense oxygen activity and potential gunpowder-like explosions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ian
Mrs Sartoris American Citizenship Story From Nell Grant Sartoris
Nellie Grant Sartoris, daughter of General Grant, explains why she sought U S citizenship. She married an Englishman and became British by marriage but desires to be American again for herself and her children. She praises her father and homeland while noting family ties and a home on Massachusetts Avenue.
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New York Sun
Irs
Nellie Grant Sertaeis
Congress
Sartoris
Great Britain
England
Husband
United States
America
Lee
Zork
Grant
Thunder and Lightning Distances and Phenomena
Lightning can be seen from up to 200 miles when clouds are high, while thunder is typically audible up to about 10 miles. Thunder sounds are affected by atmospheric refraction and sound shadows from hills, leading to phenomena like sheet or summer lightning without thunder.
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Keith
Keith Enamel Starch CO
Chicago, Ill
A Glorious Dien Excerpt On Strawberries And Colors
The star bordery remarks to a landlady about patriotism as she serves strawberries. He notes the fruit is red, the sugar white, and the milk blue, turning a simple meal into a playful nation themed moment.
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Bourdery
Reduction in Bicycle Prices Signals New Market Push
A report notes western capitalists may form a company to produce first class bicycles at prices as low as ten dollars, while highlighting Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for stomach, liver, and kidney issues. The piece also marks opinions on enlistment and national service.
Oddities in advertisements and facts from old newspapers
A garbled page lists assorted ads and odd tidbits including credit schemes, mail order guarantees, a Princeton LL D for Admiral Dewey, patent remedies No-To-Bac and Sterling remedy claims, a Cosmo Buttermilk SOAP pitch, and various statistical oddities about Texas Spain Fiji and Germans versus Frenchmen.
Remarkable Cure Mentioned For Lydia E Pinkham Product
A Philadelphia letter to Mrs. Ham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound describes long illness and misery ending after starting the remedy. The writer credits improved health to the medicine and thanks God for it. The note invites other suffering women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
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M. Raya
East Susquehanna Ave
Philadelphia
Re‘lief
Lydia E. Pinkham
Gould
Lydia
Pinkham
Lynn, Maas
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Plain Citizen
Tad Dragnsts
Hajak
Vienna
Keiths Enamiel
David H. Mukppay
Newark
Sterker Remedy Company
Chicago
Montreal
New York
Nny
A. L. Warren & CO
Dept
Washington St
Ainiusa
Evans Cheutcaloo
Polsanona
Dragutats
Green's Sons
Atlanta, Ga
Bensions
John W. Morris
Washington, D.C
Syrein
Kay
Tamidted
Thompson
Pope Mfg, Co
Vibeonh
Ch and
Mrs. Sartoris
Gen. Grant
Wallace
Perry Patettie
Brenard Mig. Co
Iowa City
Iowa
Admiral Dewey
Princeton University
Dewey
Sterling Remedy Co
Boston
COSMO
Texas
Spain
Fiji Islands
Ruck
Aike
Maria Christina
C. Simmons
W. N. U. Des Moines
Ber Uta Eee
Stamon
Muville
Standard Dictionary Agency
Fourth Street
Des Moines
Gen
Tasn
TiMace
Cleveland
C.K, Wilber
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
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