Frederick Mayer founder of Mayer Boot & Shoe Company
A biographical sketch recounts Frederick Mayer who immigrated from Niernstein Hessen Darmstadt in 1851 to Milwaukee then founded the Mayer Boot and Shoe Company. It details his 1852 start, wholesale manufacture by 1880, growth through 1890, factory capacity of 9,000 pairs daily, $600,000 in wages, 65 traveling salesmen across 24 states, and his death in 1893 with sons George P. Mayer Fred J. Mayer and Adam J. Mayer continuing the policy.
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Frederick Mayer
Mayer Boot & Shoe Company
German American National Alliance
Mibwaukee
Seattle
Niernstein
Hessen Darmstadt
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
R. Suhm
New World
Mayer
Mayer Shoes
George P. Mayer
Fred J. Mayer
Adam J. Mayer
Coffin Gift Joke Joins Silent Exit
A young missionary jokes in China that the best gift for aging folks is a coffin while the father, taken aback, storms out of the room slamming the door in anger. The tale ends with the father departing amid the awkward exchange.
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China
Cyou
Havana
Cuticura Remedies Celebrated By Complainant Cure Claim
A Boston resident claims twenty five years of severe skin humor resolved after using Cuticura Remedies. A Philadelphia man reports pimples cleared in ten days with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Also notes on Alaskan jays as camp followers and scavengers attracted by oatmeal during a voyage, described by Mr. Osgood.
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Cutiura
Keyes
Congress St
Boston
Mass
Cuticura
Wm. J. . Badlier
Susquehanna Ave
Philadelphia
Mr. Osgood
Sleeper Wakes and Guards at Masonic Lodge
In a midnight moment at 2 17 a m a woman wakes John to check the kitchen door and he, as inner guard, replies in lodge fashion that the portals are guarded. The scene echoes a lighthearted Masonry tone from United Presbyterian reporting.
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John
LaGrippe Cure Promoted by Balmwort Tincture
A century advertising tone touts a halfpint whiskey mix with balmwort and glycerine to treat colds, claiming it checks and cures lagrippe. It notes druggists supply the remedy and urges readers to take tablespoons several times daily in hopes of quick relief.
Suitor Gillespie Causes Chase At Port Annandale
Miss Patricia Holbrook and her niece flee to Port Annandale with writer Laurence Donovan as guardian. A mysterious suitor, Reginald Gillespie, prowls St. Agathas while claiming to seek Miss Patricia's hand and defending his button factory fortune in a comical, perilous pursuit ending with guard and healer aid.
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Patricia Holbrook
Helen Holbrook
Laurence Donovan
Port Annandale
Patricia
Donovan
Henry
Miss Patricia
Helen
Dramatized Tales and Folklore Jokes
A collage of humorous vignettes and anecdotes from early 20th century sources. A dying man and St Peter, a note on child rearing by Mrs Belmont, and a Maine fisherman's quip about an ugly man illustrate folk humor and moral tones of the era. Names like Dr. Arthur Holbrook and John Evans appear in brief, framed jokes.
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Arthur
T. Holbrook
Athan
Evans
Heaven
Pearly Gates
St. Peter
John Evans
Peter
Guardian of the Gate
The Doctor's Fault
The defendant faces a charge of stealing a doctor's watch found missing after a prescription was written at a free dispensary. He pleads desperation, saying the prescription called for a spoonful every hour and he had no timepiece.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days and Other Notices
An old ad mixes quips on women and cigars with medical claims for PAZO OINTMENT promising cure of itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days. It also features a fishy boast about dentistry and a separate line noting high prices for hides and furs and cheap guns and traps from N. W. Hide & Fur Co. in Minneapolis. The closing line offers a social maxim about a woman accepting a man at his valuation.
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Ima
St. Agatha Girt
School Pier
Ijima
St. Agatha’s
Annandale
Andy
Lawsy
Aveenge
Gillespie
R. Gillespie
Reginald
Mr. Gillespie
Mduyder
N. W. Hide & Pur Co
Minneapolis
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Boot Ani
Shoe Company
Rose
Meredith Nicholson
Fay Walters
Rose Sherrill
Pat
Guitor
Irma
Glenarm Landing
Mr. Donovan
Justus Caesar
Fifth Avenue
Cromwell
St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York
Bea
Reginald Gillespie
Miss Pat
Piatt
Button
Kipling
Dodds Qn
Uae
Carter
Arterliver
Attys
ISO
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