Working Girls Notice Testimonial From St Louis Lady
Mrs. Luny Lucas of St Louis describes years of back pains weakness and nervous fatigue finally relieved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she can work at home and for Swift's Packing Company and urges other working women to try the remedy.
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St. Louis
Pinkam
Swift's Packing Company
Luny Lucas
Vandeventer
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Lucas
Chicago Plan of 25 Story Garage for Cars
Chicago imagines a 25 story auto garage costing 1 200 000 dollars. An elevator moves cars to storage spaces after a worker operates a keyboard on the first stage. The text also notes quirky human interest items and stray phrases from daily life and jokes.
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Chicago
Scar Face Charley of the Modocs Death in Oklahoma Native Chief
Elmo Scott Watson recounts Scar Face Charley known as Leonidan of the Lava Beds, a Modoc leader who fought in Northern California in 1873. He fired the opening shot, taunted General Canby’s peace efforts, and after the war served as a scout before dying in 1896 in Oklahoma after deportation with his people.
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Evan Thomas
California
Scar Face Charley
Chikehikam Lupokuelatko
Wayzon Sear
Leonidan
Jack
Charney
General Canby
Doctor Thomas
Black Jim
Curly
Doctor
Charley
Captain Jack
Modoc
Oklahoma
What is politeness in a pig pen tale
The pigs debate the meaning of politeness until Miss Ham reveals the answer. She states politeness is having good manners and warns that greedy manners are the true fault among the pigs. The group agrees with Miss Ham and acknowledges their need to remember courtesy.
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Sammy Sausage
Grunt
Brother Bacon
Mra
Pink Pig
Pinky Pig
Porky
Miss Ham
Grant
Grandmother
Pork
Ham
Mrs. Pink Pig
Pinky
Peralyel Park
Benjamin Bacon
Western
Canada
United States
Anada
Manitoba
Saskatchews
Alberta
British Columbia
Quanah Parker Last Comanche Chief Reunites Mother Son
Quanah Parker, last war chief of the Comanches, died February 23, 1911 at his home near Cuche Oklahoma. He was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker and Nokon Wanderer and had lived much of his life among whites before returning to his people. His death followed a long effort to honor his mother with a monument. Congress funded the memorial and Quanah buried near his mother’s grave, reuniting white and Native families in death.
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Quanah Parker
White House
Cuche
Okla
Nie
Quasei
Quanah
Quinn
Cynthia Ann Parker
Nokon
Kwali
Parker
Texas Rangers
Gov. L. S. Ross
Gynthia Ann Parker
Kiwaina
Texas
Vinary Congress
Conyanches
When Aunt Jane Remembers Courting Days
A humorous reminiscence about Aunt Jane and Uncle Joe from courting nights to present, highlighting a shift in manners and values. The piece contrasts tender pasts with current fussiness over house neatness and small domestic moments.
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Jane
EXAMPLES OF REAL OPTIMISM
A fragmented dialogue piece presents scattered lines about optimism and everyday concerns. Characters discuss hotels, refunds, central reception, relationships, and upcoming plans in a breezy, lighthearted exchange that hints at social satire and humorous misdirection.
What Figures Are For In Rail Time Tables
A playful exchange from Boys Life contrasts a passenger’s complaint about railway time tables with a ration master’s defense of figures. The child asks why figures matter and the father explains they reveal train lateness, and a pun about market wheat being nervous.
Sure of It. Margaret Asks If Jesus Washed Her Sins
A brief exchange shows Margaret asking if Jesus washed her sins, asking her mother to confirm. The mother gently answers, explaining that Jesus has indeed washed sins away, illustrating a moment of faith and reassurance amid concern.
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Margaret
Jesus
One Reason for Haste at Easrmount Kids
Two six year old boys ran with dropping breaths while passing bills in Easrmount. They halted at a relative’s home for a brief rest. When asked why they hurried, they replied they must hurry to keep up with each other. The Indianapolis News notes the lesson on haste.
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Uncle Joe
Aunt Jane
Joe
Los Angeles Times
Poe
Easrmount
Indianapolis News
Tin Can and the Tail Finish Joke
A short old Indy anecdote recalls a woman nearly run over after a dog collided with her. She quips that she was merely the fin tied to the dog, underscoring a playful, stubborn vanity.
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Indy
Wille's Reply in a Village Sunday School Query
A village doctor, superintendent of the Sunday school, asks a boy Wille how to reach heaven. Wille replies by outlining steps: first die, then get sick to receive God’s call. The exchange appears in the Kennobee Journal.
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Willie
Wille
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Cherin
Chey
Bali Iil
Buffalo
Elmo Scott Watson
Scar
Charley, Leon
Idas
Modocs
Grandmother Pork
Sir Percival Tork
Arad
Niagara Falls
Duluth
Jerroit & Graveland
Georgian Bay
Pst
Heporta
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Company
W. Adams St
Income Tax Bureau
Central
Mary
Gloria
Hett
George
Fen
Sing Sing
A. E. Pilkey
Des Moines, la
Army
Alr
Q-Bert
Faa
T. S. Neal
Bedell Bldg
San Antonio
W. F. Young, Inc
Temple $T
Springheld
Masa
N. Y
Des Moines, NO
Nature
Grape-Nuts
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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