Remarkable Snippets From a Past Era
Financial note states paper money stock at 900 million dollars equal to gold coin. Language note cites 3000 words used identically in French and English. White House visitors average 900 daily, peaking to 2000. Penobscot Indian island governance elects Mitchell Attean prohibitionist chief by 25 to 23. New York club buys 1700 acres in Massachusetts for a game preserve with lake, stables, cottages. Carriage teams for brides to be pairing white and black horses. Largest redwood plank 17 feet by 6 feet by 2 inches, famed for size and perfect condition.
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White House
Penobscot
Oldtown
Mitchell Attean
New York
Massachusetts
Notable Figures Attend Cincinnati Police Court Session
The duke and duchess of Manchester observed petty cases in Cincinnati as the 32 year old Marquis of Queensberry, recently heir to his father, noted his worldly experience. Lord Alverstone and Sir Richard Webster are identified with the English judiciary. The piece also touches on Princess Louise and Earl Roberts, linking them to Manchester and Fort Mackinac events in early American history.
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Duke and Duchess of Manchester
Cincinnati
Marquis of Queensberry
Lord Alverstone
Richard Webster
Manchester
Earl Roberts
Bobs
Queen Victoria
Charles Roberts
Fort. Mackinac
Capt. Roberts
Industrial Items From Historical Notes
Tinware origins traced to 1770 in this country. Coral forms on Florida coast in white and red varieties. Russian gold mines yield about 86 668 pounds annually.
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Florida
Geographical Exhibit Honors Omaha Schools at Paris Fair
The Union Pacific Passenger Department aided the Paris exhibit that earned Omaha public schools a gold medal for teaching geography. Superintendent C G Pearse credits UP publications and maps for the success and notes the department's significant contribution to the display.
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Paris
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railway
C. G. Pearse
Omaha
Pearse
Union Pacific Passenger Department
Omaha “Bee
Hall's Catarrh Cure Reward Ad and Testimonials
An 1890s style advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh and praises Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo and wholesale druggists West & Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin as supporters and notes 25 cents per bottle with testimonials. The clumsy insert mentions telegraphy and quarreling phrases from the Philadelphia Times.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Walding
Kinnan & Marvin
Grain-O and Other Quips in One Page Ad Slice
A jumble of early 20th century ad lines promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute, priced 15c and 25c, plus assorted quips about gossip, tonics, dyes, and cures. References include Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, Hale's Honey of Horehound, Pike's Toothache Drops, Beeman's Pepsin, Carter's Ink, and assorted aphorisms from newspapers.
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Hale
Pike
Chicago and Florida Limited Inaugurated by L and N Rail
The Louisville and Nashville R R with its connections launches the Chicago and Florida Limited a daily solid train from Chicago to Thom asville Jacksonville and St Augustine. It departs Chicago 11 05 a m via Evansville Nashville Birmingham Montgomery Plant System to Jacksonville and Florida East Coast to St Augustine arriving 7 30 p m next day. An annex sleeper leaves St Louis 2 15 p m and runs through. C L Stone will answer inquiries and provide printed matter.
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Louisville & Nashville R. R
Chicago & Florida Limited
Chicago
Thomasville
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Fla
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Evansville
Nashville
Birmingham
Montgomery
Florida
St. Louis
C. L. Stone
Louisville & Nashville R R
Louisville
Palm’s costly vanity shocks Atchison Globe
A frail two-dollar palm in a local home drives a seven-dollar jardiniere and a three-dollar taburette demand. The tale notes the palm’s need keeps the fire blazing at night and earns the husband’s ire with each passing gesture.
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Atchison Globe
Grain-O: A Coffee Substitute Sold in Groceries
A health notice promotes Grain-O a coffee substitute made from grain. It claims gentle digestion suitable for sensitive stomachs and even children may drink it. Pack prices are 15 and 25 cents and it costs less than real coffee.
Force of Habit, Husband Returns From Balloon Ascent
A husband boasts of reaching 25 000 feet in a balloon while his wife retorts that he returned without her. The exchange appears in Fliegende Blaetter reflecting on a daredevil ascent and its domestic fallout.
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Alice
Fliegende Blaetter
Hoxsie's Croup Cure Advertised for Children
An advertisement touts Hoxsie's Croup Cure as a life saver for croup coughs colds and diphtheria with no opium or ipecac and offers mail order at 50 cents from A P Hoxsie Buffalo New York. Various quotes follow from newspapers and residents praising cures and tastes in ballrooms and products dated 1909.
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A. P. Hoxsie
Buffalo
N. Y
Epidemic of Grip Strikes Nationwide
A severe grip epidemic drives vast demand for Peruna as hundreds of bottles flood roads nationwide. Manufacturers push full capacity to meet urgent need while nearly everyone stocks the remedy to combat the terrible enemy.
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Peruna
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Orleans
Salzer
Salter
John A. Salzer
John
The
Senate
Philadelphia Press
Hiladelphia Times
N. Y. Herald
Grove
Price
Jack
Ethel
Beeman
Putnam
Chicago Daily News
Carter
Pope
Hoxsie’s Croup
Somerville Journal
Thos. Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich, N. Y
Grips
Howard
Alabama
White
North Carolina
Frances M. Anderson
Washington, D. C
Sterling Remedy CO
Alby
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