Dream Realized in the West Love Confronts Change
John Overton, now a successful mining engineer, returns home after years in the Western frontier to find Priscilla Grey, once his love, now a widow. His mother is gone, the town has changed, and the old comforts have vanished as he confronts lost dreams and altered lives.
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John Overton
Priscilla Grey
Priscilla
Overton
Robin
North‘west Country
Strathmore
The Priscilla of long ago and the queenly stranger
A man lingers in a corridor and recalls a former love. He notes her past choice of a rich husband and doubts his own judgment. A sudden encounter with a regal, queenly woman triggers memories of distant mountains and springtime, ending with a hopeful embrace.
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Priscilla
Quaint Curacao Fugitives and Exiles
Curacao, a Dutch colony of about 40 000, has a storied role in American history. The island’s fortresses guard a harbor used by pirates and exiles, Bolivar and Santa Anna among them. Most inhabitants are Negro, with a free port system and contraband trade fueling a yearly surplus of goods, raising questions for Venezuela and Colombia customs officers.
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Curacao
District of Columbia
America
England
Spain
Holland
Caribbean
Bolivar
Santa Anna
Shattegat
West Indian Islands
Venezuela
Colombia
The Tallest Landmark in the World
The Canary Island Teneriffe is described as the world’s loftiest landmark with a peak rising 12 182 feet above sea level. Navigators note its sugar loaf summit and the island’s nearly vertical rise from the sea, dwarfing peaks like Mont Blanc Cotopaxi K2 and Everest.
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St. Louis
Mont Blanc
Cotopaxi
Kinchinjunga
Mount Everest
Islands
Volcanic Activity on Teneriffe Sustains Ongoing Eruption
Article notes Teneriffe remains active while other volcanos show recent action. The summit forms a circular wall around a crater a mile wide and over 100 feet deep. From sea level the mountain appears carved, yet its vast scale dwarfs the crater. The main crater has slept since European discovery in the 1400s, though many hillside vents spew sulfurous steam and gases and occasionally eject small lava.\
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Teneriffe
New Rattlesnake Bite Cure Reported in Oil Remedy
A historical note claims coal oil can treat rattlesnake bites. It advises, when bitten on the hand, to submerge the hand in oil so the venom rises to the surface.
The Trade in Old Bottles and Conti Street Bottle Man
A New York firm processes nearly half a million old bottles daily dominated by wine and beer but includes condiments and minerals. Bottles are shipped nationwide and some to Europe for reuse. French bottles top quality, followed by English and American. In New Orleans the Conti Street Bottle Man shop attracts visitors and inspired Eugene Field to write a poem about Field bottles and a famed blue four sided bottle kept as a keepsake by Mrs. M. E. M. Davis.
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New York Sun
New York City
Europe
Ireland
England
France
New York
New Orleans
Conti Street
M. E. M. Davis
Field
Chicago
Feast of Roses Celebrated in Manheim Church Site
In Manheim Pennsylvania a June festival named the feast of roses marks Baron Stiegel’s gift of land for a church site. A yearly rental of one red rose was due, later collected by a descendant of the baron, drawing notable attention from readers of the Ladies' Home Journal.
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Manheim
Pennsylvania
Ladies’ Home Journal
Baron Stiegel
In Doubt A Chicago Woman Eyes Admiral Dewey Wheel
A Chicago young woman withholds her opinion of Admiral Dewey's victory until she learns what kind of wheel he rides.
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Chicago
Admiral Dewey
Too Fat Hens Warns Farmers About Egg Bound Disease
W A Clearwater in Farmers' Review warns against over fat hens as a cause of egg binding. He describes a hen with thickened egg-yolk growth and dropsy, noting fat hens seldom recover and advising midrange feeding. He urges selling fat hens and keeping pullets, stressing fatness reduces hatch quality and laying consistency.
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Farmers’ Review
Poultry
Poultry Department
W. A. Clearwaters
Feeding for Eggs Inquiries Answered by a Farmer
A farmer shares how feeding 8 hens with hot coarse corn meal and oats plus table scraps boosted egg yield. Over 15 days in May the flock laid 90 eggs, averaging 6 daily, with five Plymouth Rocks, one White Leghorn, and two Plymouth-Brown Leghorn crosses.
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Plymouth Rocks
Weight of Leghorns in the National Stockman opinion
Nellie Hawks states in the National Stockman that the ideal Leghorn hen weighs three to three and a half pounds when mature, with occasional four pounds. Five pounds is considered beyond the true Leghorn type and not profitable as an egg producer.
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Nellie Hawks
National Stockman
Disastrous Call Sparks Family Feud After Farm Death
A ranch heir recalls a fatal misunderstanding as a man who made a late call becomes central to the tragedy. Rubber Neck Bill explains the miscommunication led to the deadly outcome, implicating the caller in the dispute surrounding the cattle man’s death.
Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
Northwestern inventors and associates including Albert B. McMullen Lennox S D Jehiel T Moore Minneapo lis Minn Thomas J Martin Sleepy Eye Minn Carl Ronéell Minneap olis Minn bundle carrier for bicycles Charles J Smith Minneapolis Inn overalls Lewis Finse caser S D design instep stones Charles D Sprague Minneapolis Minn design badge Merwin Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys 010 Pioneer Press Building St Paul.
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Northwestern
Albert B. McMullen
Lennox
S. D
Jehiel T. Moore
Minneapois
Minn
Thomas J. Martin
Sleepy Eye
Carl Ronéell
Minneapolis
Charles J. Smith
Inn
Lewis Finse
Caser
Charles D. Sprague
Minneapolis, Minn
Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson
Patent Attorneys
Pioneer Press
St. Paul
Wealthy Cash Started From Office Boy Rise
A fragment notes that “old Cash, the millionaire,” began life as an office boy and rose to wealth by self-making his clothes and boots, reflecting a rags to riches motif. Ally Sloper dialogue adds casual humor to the claim.
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Cash
Ally Sloper
No To Bac Quit Tobacco Aid Ad
A Sterling Remedy Co. advertisement promotes No To Bac as a magnetism life improver with a guarantee of cure. It claims it makes weak men strong and offers a free booklet and sample from Chicago or New York druggists.
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Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Babies Refuse Kisses From Unpleasant Persons
A brief quirky note asserts that babies sense and avoid kissing people they find unpleasant, implying natural social discernment.
A Promising Standard Dictionary Priced For All Readers
A $2,000,000 dictionary is offered for $12, claimed as the best lexicographical work. It promises simple explanations, first definitions, historical usage, cited authorities, settled pronunciations, illustrations, simpler word formation, and inclusion of over 300,000 words. Advertised at $1 down and $1 per month with details in this issue.
Wife Calls Husband a Fool Riddles Identity
A woman calls her husband a fool and he questions whether she means he is the fool or that he is her husband. The remark prompts reflection on language and marital roles.
Cigarette Ad Echoes Spanish Invention and War Wish
A vintage cigarette ad extols a Spanish invention as stirring women to seek war like relief. It features Mrs C Beltz of Denver praising Piso’s Cure for Consumption as the sole remedy for coughs and colds. The quote closes with a moral about life’s hard places not improving by growling.
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Mrs. C. Beltz
8Th Ave
Denver
Col
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