Brainerd Boys Win Fast Season Opener Over St Cloud
Brainerd baseball beats St Cloud 13 to 10 in a spirited season opener at West Front Street grounds. Verge and Rutherford starred for Brainerd with solid pitching and catching, while St Cloud relied on Thielman and support players but fell short despite late rallies. Ed McClary umpired as Brainerd’s early lead held through nine innings.
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Brainerd
West Front Street
Bridge
St. Cloud
Minneapolis
Vorge
Rutherford
Verge
Henry Thielman
Lacher
Harry Vossberg
Dobby Thielman
Louis Vossberg
Mite Skanter
Peter Murray
John Dominick
George Thielman
St. Cloud Journal Press
Richest Woman in America Revealed by Sun Ladies' Home Journal
How Hetty Green, famed financier, built and kept her millions will be told for the first time in the Sun Ladies’ Home Journal. The article profiles her vast wealth, influence over railroads and towns, and her simple daily life focused on increasing wealth.
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Hetty Green
America
Sun Ladies’ Home Journal
Mrs. Green
Wade
Iill
Rocky Mountain Tea Promoted For Widows In Tiny Tangled Curse
An advertisement urges sweet young widows to buy Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for what it calls a golden curse. It touts great medicine and a price of 35 cents, offered for sale at McFadden Drug Co.
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Rocky Mountain
McFadden Prug Co's
Saving an Old Painting Transferred to New Canvas
A Belgian restorer copied a method to rescue a two century old Italian painting by gluing Manila paper to the front, removing decayed canvas from the back, applying fish glue, and adding a new canvas. The result was a strong, bright surface once more legible.
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Canwan
Belgium
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Anatomy in Rhyme Teaches Anatomy in Verse
An Australian newspaper feature presents a verse lesson on human bones. It counts bones in the head twenty four? The riddle asserts total body bones at two hundred eight and notes teeth totaling thirty two. It mentions a sesamoid wormian bone as a possible extra.
Choir Boys of England Voice Development and Training
Julian Ralph in The Ladies Home Journal argues small boys mature later, delaying voice breaking until adulthood. He notes boy choirs often train in church institutions, boarding and teaching them, and that voices typically break between ages 14 and 15, sometimes as late as 17 or 18.
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Julian Ralph
Choir Boys of
England
Ladies’ Home Journal
Geese Used to Harvest Gold in Chung-King Valley
Reports from Chung-King China in Yung-pei describe gold found by washing in a valley near the city. Local villagers employ heavy geese to work the fields. when geese become heavy, they are killed and their maws mined for gold. Geese dressed for eating cost 15 to 20 geuts.
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United States
Chung-King
China
Yung-pei
Old Popkin and the student nickname at Harvard
The article recalls Professor John Snelling Popkin, former Harvard Greek professor, who accepted a nickname from students. A man with a dapper jaunty look once called him Old Pop, triggering Popkin to insist that only Harvard students may use such a form of address.
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John Snelling Popkin
Harvard
Popkin
Old Pop
Harvard College
The Real Thing Daisy Takes First Country Meal
A humorous fragment notes Daisy’s first country meal with Mamma asking about currant jelly. The exchange turns on a playful mispronunciation as Daisy identifies the jelly as real, provoking a light domestic moment in a Chicago Tribune style snippet.
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Daisy
Chicago Tribune
Improving Each Shining Hour
A light humorous note from a Philadelphia Bulletin item describes a busy boy as a bee and jokes that he has hives, reflecting a playful daily-life moment.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Prove All Things on London Bridge Wager and Kidney Pills
The narrative notes a London bridge wager offering five shillings for five sovereigns and lists multiple local ads. It recounts Doan’s Kidney Pills via Phillip O’Neal’s testimonial about kidney pain, urged purchases, and McFadden Drug Co. and other outlets. Additional agency ads promote Doan’s, stove storage, Clincher tires, carpets, bikes, and bicycle repair in the Glass Block.
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London Bridge
Dean
Phillip O'Neal
Fifth Street South
Doan
McFadden Drug Co
H. P. Dunn & Co
Lester Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
U.S
Doan’s
Witness T. L. Martin Endures Suffering for Testimony
Dixie Kentucky witness T L Martin describes nightly coughing and throat pain before praising Dr King s New Discovery as a universal remedy for coughs colds and lung troubles This ad heavy item lists remedies and products from McFadden Drug Co H P Dunn Co D M Clark Co and others with prices and declarations of guarantees and sales pitches
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T. L. Martin
Dixie
Dr. King
McFadden Drug Co
H. P. Dunn & Co
The Penalty of Music and Deafness in Musicians
An old musician laments how many players are forced from the profession by deafness. Brass players especially suffer from ear damage due to constant vibrations, with long practice and daily performances hastening the loss of hearing. Some quit before illness ends their careers. Kansas City Star.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Dauphin Learns to Share From Sully's Pocket Money
The five year old dauphin in Saint Germain receives a parade of toy soldiers and 50 crowns from Sully. Mme de Monglat gathers the coins as attendants cheer, then the child questions why he did not receive money. Herouard links the lesson to Louis XIII's later thrift.
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Louis XIII
Duke of
Sully
St. Germain
Lucy Crump
Atlantic
Mme. de Monglat
Dauphin
M. de Sully
Herouard
Louis
A Warning to Borrowers
A comic tale from the Kansas City Journal in which a man, his son, and a series of mishaps unfold after the boy borrows a neighbor’s copy. A fence, a cow, churn, teeth, and ruined goods escalate the household disaster with wry humor.
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Kansas City Journal
Plumber Leaves Note For Burglars Before Holiday
A provident plumber, about to vacation with family, posted a hallway placard telling burglars that all valuables are in Safe Deposit vaults and describing storage and keys. The message notes only secondhand clothing in trunks and cupboards and mentions a bearer check for $5 to ease the burglars' time and disappointment.
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Safe Deposit Company
Bearer
Collier’s Weekly
Gentlemen at odds over knowledge in quip exchange
A humorous dialogue quoted from the Baltimore American features Mr Sourdropp and Mr Arguso trading taunts about knowing half as much as they think. The exchange twists the idea of knowledge with a playful paradox about twice and thrice as much to know.
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Mr. Sourdropp
Mr. Arguso
Baltimore American
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Ingersoll
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Ingersoll & Wieland
Official Paper
Crow Wing County
Minnesota
InerReou. & Wieland
Dispatch
A. J. Harcrep
Tribune
Minn
Brainerd Boys
Anatomy
Dody
Chotra
D. M. Clark & Co
Hoffman's
A. L. Horrman
R. FE. Walters
Big 9 Shoe Store
6Th Street
Uncle Sam
Hessel
D. M. Clark & Co's
Columbia Chain Wheels
Hoffman
Caus
Louis XII of
France
R. F. Walters
Big Q Shoe Store
D. W. Koop
Gbo
Uwman
General Pass
St. Paul
DR. T
West Superior St
J. Pierce
Duluth
P Chichester
Ladies Ark
Chichestere
Meme
Chichester Chemical Co
Madison Bauare
Philaba
C. B. White
Justin
I. U. White
Manacer
T. A Martin
6Th St. North
Cleveland, Monarch and
Crescent
Cleveland
Gruenhagen
Laurel Street
Walker
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