Reuben Bullwinkle Feeds Hungry Family in Blizzard Train Station
On a snowbound Christmas day at Starvation Junction a starving mother and her boy linger beside a stove while Reuben Bullwinkle purchases a Christmas feast for them. The exchange reveals his quiet generosity as the blizzard rages and the train crawls, leaving the family fed and the donor unrecognized.
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Imehow
Reuben Bullwinkle
New Jerusalem
Through
Starvation Junction
Christmas Long Ago as Told by Burdette in Home Journal
Robert J Burdette recalls a Christmas of old with toy Noahs ark figures and color coded animals. He notes oversized gifts went to birthdays while a red monkey and a drummer toy entertained babies and taught practical lessons in a humorous nostalgic tone.
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Robert J. Burdette
Ladies’ Home Journal
Noah’s Ark
Noah
Shem
Ham
Japhet
Tle
Christmas celebration instituted by Pope Telesphorus
Church historians note the formal institution of Christmas under Pope Telesphorus who died in a year cited as 138. The phrase appears in a historical outline of early church dates and papal actions.
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Telesphorus
A Cartoon Snippet on Bargain Christmas Gifting
The Chicago Tribune notes a comic exchange about Christmas gifts with Mia and Benham Hermary preferring frugality. The gag suggests evaluating a present by whether the price is worn off, reflecting thrift amid humorous banter.
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Mia
Benham
Henary
Chicago Tribune
Peddler Presses for Embroidered Suspenders
A Detroit Free Press item depicts a peddler engaging a woman at her door about embroidered suspenders for a Christmas gift. He asks if her husband will be home before supper, but she replies she has no husband, leaving the peddler perplexed by the miscommunication.
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Detroit
Free Reas
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages as a constitutional disease. It is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proprietors offer one hundred dollars for any failing case. Include testimonials and address to F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Hall's Family Pills are praised.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Te. Hall
The Difficulty Miss Billiondot-None but the brave de serve
Advertisement style line lists Percy Hardappe-True and others claiming only the wealthy secure the fair. The phrase Up-to-Date suggests a promotional tease about access or privilege.
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Percy Hardappe
Alaska Gold Rush Route Guide Promotes Great Northern Booklet
Describes a descriptive folder on Alaska routes to the gold fields, offered for four cents and a separate illustrated booklet at fifteen cents. Promotes the Great Northern railway as the shortest line from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Seattle and Portland with steamship connections to Alaska.
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Alaska
I. I. Whitney
Great Northern Railway
Broadway
St. Paul
Minn
Glacier
Great Northern
Minneapolis
Seattle
Portland
Jaska
Passport to Greatness in Medicine Theme
A Washington Post quote questions medical greatness as a physician who discovers a new germ and a transmission method. The remark frames ambition in science as tied to breakthrough ideas and the impact of infectious research.
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Washington Post
Grain-O: A Grain Beverage Replacing Coffee In 1930s Ads
Ask your grocer today to show you a package of Grain-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. Grain-O has rich seal brown color like Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains and suits delicate stomachs. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. It is pretty safe to bet that a boy whose environment doesn't include freckles will never amount to anything.
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Reuben
Tommy
Santa Claus
Muralo CO
New Brighton
S. I
New York
N.B
Church
Tourist Sleeping Cars and Travel Snippets Across Time
A compilation of rail excursion notes from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway introducing Tourist Sleepers on trips between St. Louis Kansas City and South Texas. The page also includes assorted vintage advertisements and quips about cures and lifestyle from 19th century publications.
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Missouri
Kansas
Texas
St. Louis
Kansas City
South Texas
H. F
Cincinnati
Ohio
N. Y
Is consumption curable says a Memphis testimony
A Memphis man claims his wife recovered from lung trouble diagnosed as consumption after using Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. He says one bottle cured her and notes the medicine also helps asthma bronchitis and other throat lung afflictions. The ad promotes half size bottles at 50 cents and offers a free Curebook from J C Ayer Co Lowell Mass.
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K. Morris
Memphis
Tenn
Dr. Ayer
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