Aristocratic Prague Canonesses Highlight Priors and Privileges
The secular canonesses of Prague, founded by Empress Maria Theresa, require noble quarterings and allow marriage. Residents at the Hradschin enjoy private apartments, carriages, theater boxes, and medical care, with abbesses including Marie Antoinette and a Spanish queen regent. The complex houses royal portraits, a silver Saint John Nepomucen mausoleum, and access to the Bohemian crown and Saint Wenceslas relics.
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Prague
Europe
Maria Theresa
Hradschin
Marie Theresa
Count Taaffe
Waldburga
Clementina’ Taaffe
Marie Antoinette
Spain
Stifts Damen
Moldau
Weissberg
Saint Vitus
John Nepomucen
Bohemia
Ruoolph II
Saint George
Saint Wenceslas
Ferdinand
Austria
Louisville Courier-Journal
Theater Style First Baptist Church of Columbus Impresses
The First Baptist Church on Broad street Columbus showcases theater informed comforts for members with a lobby boxes and a dining room including a kitchen and bicycle parlor. The design features a sloped auditorium floor a 40 voice choir and a proscenium arch with retiring rooms and plush curtains.
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First Baptist Church
Broad Street
State Capitol
Chicago Democrat
Household Glove Care From Simple Home Steps
Cleaning smooth kid and chamois gloves is easy at home. Use ammonia in water for chamois, soft soap, rinse, and dry on a dummy hand or sun dried. Wash with gasoline carefully, air well, dust with sachet powder to remove odor.
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Chicago Daily News
Misunderstood Sock Man Seeks Fame With Bold Colors
A young businessman on a Phicasita layover spends ten dollars on outrageous 50 cent socks. He wears vivid designs for hours in a hotel corridor seeking attention, hoping to pitch a new idea after a clerk suggests patenting his cold feet invention.
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Phicasita
Pittsburgh Daily News
Fragmented humor and ads from a late 19th century paper
A collage of anecdotes and jokes from various sources, including a parlor scene with a preacher and Elsie, witticisms about marriage, a courtroom moment, a catarrh cure testimonial, and old time ads for health products and beverages. The tone is brisk, fragmentary, and period gossip.
Me All Face
A governor general of Canada on a frosty drive asks an Indian how he withstood the cold. The Indian replies in simple terms that his face is always exposed to weather, so it has hardened. He remarkes with a blank expression that “Me all face” and continues on his way.
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Cass Avenue
Elsie
Papa
Mamma
Detroit Free Press
Ene Ceara Ae
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
J. Cheney
A. W. Gleason
Hoall
Canada
Cincinnati Enquirer
March and April Excursions to the South and West
The notice advertises rail excursions to Tennessee Alabama Georgia and West Florida by the Louisville Nashville and Missouri Pacific routes with half rates on select dates. It lists contact points for tickets and provides promotional blurbs about travel and related ads.
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
West
Florida
P.sid Jones
D.P.A
Birmingham
Ala
Jackson Smith
Cincinnati
Missouri Pacific Railway
Iron Mountain
H. C. Townsend
St. Louis
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Japan
Texas
Union
AS Woman's Church
First Baptist Sanctuary
Columbus
New Columbus Baptist Church
Mainatchin
Russia
Great Wall of
Kalkan
Mongolia
Philadelphia Record
Avyrell
the Savage Bachelor
Browns
Revere
Indianapolis Press
Ouro
Muggins
Solomon
Chicago
Chicago Dispatch
Lane
Yale Record
New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
York St.ce
Ad Buffalo
Samoa
Perna
Chambers
United States
Perona Medicine Co
W. L. Chambers
Polly
N. Y
Seaton
Otter O
Washington (Ia
Democrat
Allen
Olmsted
Leroy
Detroit Journal
Castle
Michigan State
Boad Health
Alabastine Company
Grand Rapids
Michigan
FAY Manilla
Camden
W. J
Drurziste
U.S
C. B. Goldthwaite
Troy
Palmer
W. L. Douglas
Shoes Union
W. L. Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton
Masa
Ieee
Joan M. Smyth Company
West Madison’'S
H. Chicago, Lli
Western
Land of Plenty
Department of Interior
Ottawa
Pedley
Orto M
Pian Carsarects
Willams
Olio
N.Y
America
Salter
Novantes
Johrta Saizer Seed Co
LA Crosse
Wis
DORIA
Surenss
Cervics
T & BA
Renee Ubt
Orudar
Cai Ra
W. Madison
Olnidags, Ee
Getit
Goodall Company
Antrim
HN. H
Ouclmans
Owlman
Jackson Ave
Matis van Boren
Iteais
California Ave
H H Green
Doz
Atlanta
Sovertisaes
Gabo Papor
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