Rescue at Sea Wins Gold Medals for Five Shore Heroes
John Hourigan and Edward Igoe survive a wreck off Glen Arbor after a November 19, 1879 gale. Five rescuers on shore brave a brutal surf in a leaky boat, repeatedly risking swamping to reach the two mariners. Their perseverance earns gold medals from the Government.
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Lake Michigan
John Hourigan
Edward J. Igoe
W. B. Phelps
Glen Arbor
Michigan
Hourigan
Igoe
John
Ned
William A. Clark
Charles A. Rosman
Welby C. Ray
John Tobin
John Blanchfield
New York Tribune
Mutual Service in Indian War Survival Tale
Captain Robert Benham's escape from Indian forces in Ohio 1778 ends with him and a wounded comrade surviving by ingenuity. After a severed line, Benham hides under a fallen tree, shoots a raccoon, and, aided by a fellow borderer, feeds, waters, and staffs their fire and gun until a flatboat rescues them near the Licking River and Louisville.
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Robert Benham
Ohio
Ohio River
Benham
Licking River
Louisville
Cars Sink in Morass in Pekin-Paris Race
A Telegraph report from London Cablegram and the New York Sun recounts the Pekin Paris automobile race from Urga to Kiakhta. Itala cars repeatedly sank in morasses and braced by Mongolian aid with manpower from men and beasts. A sandstorm cyclone nearly overturned a vehicle while a steep descent and brake failure nearly ended in disaster until rocks halted the tumble. The journey reached Verkhneudinsk on railway lines where civilization seemed near.
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Gobi Desert
Urga
Kiakhta
Telegraph
Morasses
Verkhneudinsk
London Cablegram
The
New York Sun
Ibsen’s View of Women Revealed in Button Tale
The tale recounts Henrik Ibsen’s belief women could not write cookbooks and could not sew a button. He would sew buttons himself, bragging of his skill, while his wife secretly resewed them, noting he often forgot to tie threads. Her quiet intervention kept his garments intact.
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Henrik Ibsen
John Paulsen
London Times
Ibsen
Paulsen
Prosperity and Birth Rate in Human Fertility
In a 19th Century reflection the author argues that prosperity reduces birth rate. Citing breeders who keep stock well fed to avoid sterility, the piece suggests fertility laws apply to animals and plants and questions whether human will greatly affects national birth rates, proposing fertility inversely tracks well being.
A Born Diplomat in a Dramatic Parlor Exchange
A humorous dialogue from Chicago Journal features He proposing to She after boasting about four prior proposals in a month. She retorts with skepticism, while He defends his habit as practice to avoid blunders in love.
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de Jones
Clara
Chicago Journal
Bobbie’s sad future and wartime education
A visitor asks why Bobbie cries and the boy answers that Russians and Japanese are at war. He then says someday he will have to study the topic in school, as a judge listens to the child’s reflection on distant conflict.
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Bobbie
A Critic And His Friend
A briefExchange from the Boston Transcript notes a critic and Bardell discussing taste in music. Whimple admits modest knowledge while Bardell questions whether liking equals knowing.
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Bardell
Boston Transcript
Leonardi Golden Eye Lotion Promises Quick Relief
An advertorial claim touts Leonardi's Golden Eye Lotion to stop eye twitching, inflammation, and soreness in one day with a money back guarantee. Sold by Druggists for 25 cents or prepaid by mail from B. Leonardi & Co. in Tampa, Florida, following a brief quote from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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B. Leonardi & Co
Tampa
Fla
Margaret Emmerich
Clinton St
Napoleon, C
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Wilkinson
Quin-Sharpe Drug Company
Vicksburg
Mississipp
Baby Tortured By Itching Rash Recovered With Cuticura
Mrs Hattie Cuxvier of Homaston Maine reports her nine month old child suffered a nighttime rash on face and feet causing crying and sleep loss. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the rash improved within hours and fully cleared after one box. She also treated cradle cap, noting scalp cleansing and healing. June 9 1906.
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Cutiura
Hattie Cuxvier
Argo Red Salmon Wins Grand Prize at World Fairs
The Alaska Packers Association touts top honors at World Fairs with their salmon. Red Salmon earned the grand prize at the St Louis World’s Fair, claimed as the sole grand prize ever awarded to salmon. The Argo Red Salmon is presented as the best packed product.
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Alaska Packers Association
St. Louis
Model Husband and Easter Hat Gift
A Columbus Dispatch brief recalls a meek husband praised by a dime museum lecturer. The man let his wife cut his hair for six months to save enough to buy her an Easter hat, illustrating a comic example of domestic sacrifice.
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Dime Museum
Guriosity Hall
Columbus Dispatch
Perilous Topic and Jokes at a Wedding Prelude
Fragmentary newspaper page item notes racy remarks at a newly married couple’s wedding and a comment by Jim Smithers about his car. It includes a joke exchange from Chicago Tribune style items, a 1949 navy quip, various patent remedies and ads, and a nod to Argo Red Salmon in a recipe context.
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Dora Hope
Percy Vere
Chicago Tribune
Virtue Its Own Reward in a Simple Lesson
A mother lets Robert beat a small carpet while she asks him what he will gain. He answers I will get done. The vignette, from Helen Breese in Little Chronicle, contrasts childlike practicality with a moral.
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Robert
Helen Breese
Little Chronicle
Steam as servant and sometimes danger, Chicago Journal quote
A Chicago Journal anecdote notes steam as a strong servant to humans while acknowledging its occasional rebellion against its masters, reflecting a balanced view of the industrial force. The dialogue contrasts the inventor’s reverence with the common citizen’s caution about hazards and blasts.
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Chicago Journal
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