Giant polished rock relic found near Skagit river mouth
George and Willian Starbird discovered an oblong marble bowlder on their father’s farm two and a half miles below Fir, showing signs of man-made grooves and a smooth edge. The rock, aged to over a century, lies on an old beach formation far from the present river bank, suggesting ancient habitation before local Indians.
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George
Willian Starbird
Skagit River
Puget Sound
Skagit
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Hall's Catarrh Cure An Internal Blood Remedy
Catarrh is described as a constitutional disease needing internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to act on the blood and mucous surfaces and is presented as a nonquack prescription from a reputable physician. Testimonials are offered and the product is sold by druggists with family pills also advertised.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Price
Th. Mall
Hen and Chicks Clean Yards and Ranges Say Editors
An exchange notes that hens and chicks in yards or small plots quickly destroy all grass and weeds, leaving the area bare after a few days. On range land they also eradicate many young weeds, though less noticeably.
End of Centar Starmers Trnsband
A fragmentary caption presents dialogue between a husband and wife about a night out. The wife explains she has made twenty calls and found everyone absent, while the husband remarks on her happy expression.
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Trnsband
de Sobremesa
Digestive Disorders and a Bitters Remedy
A historical ad style paragraph touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for digestive energy failure and related organs. It claims restoration of stomach liver and bowels, malaria and kidney troubles, paired with a Prof.Proctor aside and a note on Nova Scotia apples exported to England and the U.S.
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Hostetter
Nova Scotia
England
United States
Van Geldt Christmas in Fifth Avenue Riches and Joy
In a New York Christmas scene, Mr Stuyvesant Van Geldt awakens with dyspepsia to bells and a soda cocktail, joins a bustling family gathering of relatives, and reminisces that Christmas brings rare cheer amid fashionable but routine society life. The piece contrasts old holiday warmth with society’s orchidacy and ends with festive images of gifts, cookies, and a roaring log in the library.
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Stuyvesant van Geldt
Brown
Mr. van Geldt
Fifth Avenue
Baccarat
van Geldt
Old Father
Blind Man's Buff Ends Christmas Night in a Laughing Toll
A Chicago Inter-Ocean piece recalls a Christmas eve scene where Van Gelt chases children in blind man's buff, mistaking Barbara Calarant for another, while a postman delivers kisses. Barbara uses cleverness to lead him out. The tale ends with Christmas Day fading and a cheeky note on mischief.
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Barbara
Chicago Inter-Ocean
London's Water Supply A Vast System Filters All Water
London relies on three main water bodies supplying 630 square miles with 120 million gallons daily from Thames companies plus 33 million from East London and 22.5 million from New River. Supplementary gravel-bed sources aid during floods or droughts.
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Greater London
Thames
East London
Lea
London
Southwark Company
Nunhead
Chelsea
Chambers Journal
Buffalo Bill Endorses Kickapoo Sagwa Remedy
The article presents Buffalo Bill Cody praising Kickapoo Indian Sagwa as a natural remedy. It notes his authority on Indian matters and recounts his claim of using medicines made from nature’s own roots barks and herbs. He asserts long known virtue and favorable results from Sagwa.
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America
Wm. F. Cody
The Duties of an Expert Barber Describes Craft
A Washington Star opinion laments poor barbering and advocates skilled practice. The piece stresses patient analysis of the head for bumps and scars, careful cutting to avoid disfigurement, restrained neck shaving, and gradual graduation of hair from crown to neck.
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Johnny
Earber
Washington Star
How Do You Do Grover A White House Encounter
A visiting woman recalls a Washington trip during Grover Cleveland’s first term. At a tri weekly reception she forgot her speech and said How do you do Grover while shaking hands. Cleveland laughed and replied I am very well indeed.
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Washington
Cleveland
White House
Grover
Washington Star
Mme Camilla Urso’s Remarkable Recovery on the Violin
The Philadelphia Telegraph notes the violinist Camilla Urso plays with her left hand after a wheel accident three years prior crippled her right for all tasks except bow handling. Despite the impairment it seems a providential dispensation that she can perform so well.
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Mme, Camilla Urso
Academy
Grand Opera Orchestra
Philadelphia Telegraph
Vices By Ever Tools In The Holler For Bil
In the holler on the old road below the mill the narrator recalls friends and family asking who would help Bil. He gathers the group to chip in a willing gift, enough to cover costs, even as a hat weighs a ton in the effort to help Bil.
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Bil
Power and Strength of Pianists Beyond the Keys
A discussion on the muscular effort in rapid piano passages. Estimates claim a note’s force can exceed lifting a kettle lid, with six pounds on a key for a single note. Paderewski’s famed hand strength and Chopin’s studies are linked to years of daily practice.
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Padrewiski
Chopin
Paderwski
Paderewski
Padrewski
A Christmas Sermon on Joy and Compassion
Eliza Stuart Phelps speaks of two sweet things in life happiness and helping others. When personal joy fades, caring for others remains. Do not retreat in sorrow, but cast off mourning, cheer children with music, and wear a dignified smile.
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Elizaveth Stuart Phelps
Bishop Checks Boy’s Attention With Knee-Breeches Question
A bishop at a friend's dinner notes a boy staring intently. After asking if he is all right, the boy replies with a cheeky remark about whether the bishop will be allowed to wear trousers, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding.
Christmas Morning in Harper's Young People
A playful verse captures a traveler’s greeting on Christmas morn while recalling a 27 mile journey, with light humor and nautical imagery. The fragment evokes period juvenile literature tone and a seasonal mood.
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Seal Harper's
Too Near the First of the Month
A humorous exchange about Christmas timing and cluttered finances. A man notes gifts arrive after the month has started, causing billing pressure for husbands who must prepare for expenses. The dialogue playfully examines budgeting before and after holiday spending.
Doctor and Nurse Exchange Urgent Pulse Remark
Doctor asks for the patient’s pulse. Nurse replies twenty five. Doctor exclaims the man may not live an hour. Nurse notes the patient is from Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Looking Ahead on Christmas Gift for Charley
A dialogue notes planned gift of a silver mounted pocket flask for Charley as a post Christmas joke. The speakers mention he does not drink now but may after New Year and plan to break the engagement then.
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Charley
Indianapolis Journal
Teastrike elopement sparks long estrangement in New York World report
A note from the New York World recounts Teastrike eloping and says his wife’s family has not visited since the marriage. The snippet singles out Van Pelt as unknown and hints at unhappy outcomes of elopement.
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van Pelt
Teastrike
New York World
Last Hope in Court Battles
A brief exchange shows the first lawyer declaring the law and facts against them while the second lawyer concedes. The dialogue hints at cautious strategy and careful selection of the puck.
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Ye-es
Boston pupil defends slate drawing as poster design
In a Boston school, a teacher scolds Bobby for drawing idle horrid pictures on his slate. The student replies with hauteur that it is not a horrid image but a magazine poster design, asserting the teacher misunderstands the purpose.
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Bobby
Boston
Washington Star
Christmas Sift Asked For Husband by Lady and Clerk
A shopper asks for a gift suitable for her husband during Christmas. The clerk clarifies size options with a question about large or small.
Ghost Editors and Jail Substitutes in Parisian Press
A Parisic practice uses a ghost editor to bear jail time for the paper’s misdeeds. The Rue Drouot bureau supplies doubles for editors and wealthy clients, offering a thriving service beyond journalism.
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Rue Drouot
Pantomime Night in Library Ends With Fairy Knight Triumph
In a library pantomime led by Miss Barbara the Princess Goldilocks faces peril with a fairy knight at her side. The tale ends with right outcomes as the children drift to sleep, while Barbara reflects on a hopeful future and a charming, good-natured companion.
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van Geldts
Barbara
Princess Goldilocks
Princess Goldilock
Gruffanuff
Miss Barbara
Cannibal plants yield more fruit and seed when fed meat
Francis Darwin tested Venus flytraps and other plants by feeding one group meat juice through the roots and water to another. The meat-fed plants produced 160 fruits versus 74 in unfed plants and set 240 seeds per 100 from fed plants, sparking calls for further study.
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Francis Darwin
Scranton
Christmas Rhymes and reflections on gifts and Santa
A humorous meditation on Christmas customs and gift giving. It contrasts generosity with practicality and notes playful ideas about Santa, chimneys, stockings, and the holiday feast. It wryly observes that readers may crave abundance yet must balance modesty with merriment.
Christmas Gifts Described by Girls in New York and Boston
A ten year old New York girl boasts facelets a big doll and a necklace as gifts while a nine year old Boston girl lists books including sermons volumes on space and poetry. The friendly exchange highlights holiday cheer and varied tastes.
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New York
Carrie
Boston
Sadie
Joseph Cook
Proctor
Emerson
Homes for sale in North Dakota homestead opportunities
Those seeking homes in North Dakota should write to T. J. Baird of Lakota for particulars. He is reliable and offers cash, on time, or crop payment plans. Benefits include good schools churches markets and social privileges.
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North Dakota
Union
T. J. Baird
Lakota
N. D
Feeding Potatoes For Stock In Mixed Feeds
Feeding potatoes yields about one quarter the value of corn for most stock. Cook for hogs and poultry. feed raw for other stock. Mix with other feeds to maximize results and avoid waste. surplus stock can be kept and sold later to recover value.
Parker's Ginger Tonic Promises Quick Reliefs For Ailments
The ad touts Parker's Ginger Tonic as a home remedy that exceeds expectations in abating colds and other ills. It notes modern England favors inclined planes over stairs and claims the tonic removes corns and Hildercorns, promising painless relief.
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Parker
England
No title provided in the fragment
A dialogue records a sad story of a man losing his husband during life saving apparatus testing. The other note mentions a vast Canadian area south of 60 north latitude as suitable for growing all English crops.
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Canada
England
Garfield's First Job Director Recalls Early Hire
Edward H. Vries recalls hiring a young James A. Garfield on the Pennsylvania Canal in Ravenna Ohio He says Garfield carried his belongings in a bundle and asked for money to buy a book titled A Self Made Man Vries paid the price from Garfield’s wages noting the canal horse Old Prince sparked their conversations
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Edward H. Vries
Garfield
Akron
Ohio
James R. Garfield
Vries
Ravenna
Pennsylvania Canal
Cleveland
Old Prince
Christmas trees early arrival in England in 1870
J Standish Haly notes in Notes and Queries that Christmas trees appeared in England in 1870 at a Princess Lieven fete in Pansanger with trees in pots and colored wax candle tiers. He challenges the belief that Prince Consort introduced the custom, citing German practice that welcomed trees for all ages.
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England
Charles Greville
Pansanger
Lieven
Germany
J. Standish Haly
Investors' Free Excursion to Lakeview California
Investors' Free Excursion to Southern California departs Chicago January 11 for Lakeview in Riverside County the core of the San Jacinto valley Paradise of America. 10 acres with water rights offered at $1 000 terms 250 down balance yearly. Thos F Mitchell & Co Room 525 108 LaSalle Street Chicago IL.
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Lakeview
Riverside County
Chicago
San Jacinto Valley
Paradise
America
Redland
California
Thos F. Mitchell & Co
LaSalle Street
Evergreens in Christmas Tradition and a Never-Left Yard Tale
A brief note traces holiday decorating from ancient Jewish and pagan use to Christian practice, noting early councils sought to curb it as pagan. It also recounts a Kalamazoo Gazette tale of a Lansing woman who never left her yard for fourteen years after a supper dispute and her husband’s death.
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Tabernacles
Christ
Jerusalem
Lansing
Kalamazoo Gazette
Reflected Glory Fluxes as Uncle Bill Breaks Out
Dialogue notes Red dy Smith's aloofness and a dramatic jailbreak as Uncle Bill escapes the penitentiary last night. Tommy explains the cause of the tension and the town reaction to the incident.
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Glory
Reddy Smith
Tommy
Bill
How He Knew Dream Voice and Society Snippets
A quirky dream exchange from Puck appears with a line about riding barefoot and a sedan seat in the dream. A note on divorce for talkativeness in China touches on social norms. Canadian merchant marine employs about 100000 hardy sailors.
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Puck
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Prof. Proctor
Bethlehem
Earth
Lst
Atlanta Constitution
Father Christmas
Ben Jonson
Ollow
John
Santa Claus
Holland
van Gelt
Barbara Calarant
Darii
London's Water Supply
Buffalo Bill
Arrert
Eerie Wate
Orion
God
Christ Child
Redeemer
Coelo
David
Hristmas
Garland
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Chris
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Galilee
Nazareth
Judea
Mary
City of
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Santa
Stuyvesant
Bureau
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China
The
Commercial Marine of Canada
T. Jacobs Oil
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & Co., Limited
Dorchester
Mass
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