Col Farrar Mystery A Missouri tale of crime and revenge
Judge Stoakes recounts a Civil War era case in Chester Missouri where Col Jim Farrar protects his daughter Lucile from Melvin Leasure. Leasure plots murder, a betrayal leads to a fatal trial, and Leasure confesses before execution as Farrar seeks forgiveness. Lucile dies and is later institutionalized.
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Rose
Judge Stoakes
Missouri
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Price
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Jim Farrar
Quartrell
Chester
Col. Farrar
Lucile
Lucile Farrar
Melvin Leasure
Leasure
Lesaure
Melvin Lessure
Madame Grundy
Co. Farrar
Lessure
Farrar
Sherif
Jim
Strength at the center freedom on the surface breathing
An article promoting breathing exercises to reduce tension and increase poise and self confidence. It cites Delsarte on balance and explains how deep inhalations oxygenate blood and stimulate lung nerves while warning against shallow collarbone breathing.
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Delsarte
Ase
I Think She’s Double Faced in Plain Talk
A terse argument erupts as one speaker accuses a woman of double faces while another cautions against harsh judgments, highlighting tension and social rumor in a domestic scene.
Dandruff Remedies Promoted by Missionary Wife
A frontier wife from Carthage Ohio recounts using Cuticura Soap and Ointment to cure severe dandruff and milk crust on her baby, claiming the remedies restored a clean scalp and hair. The note is part of a Courier-Journal item highlighting an outspoken Louisville woman known for blunt remarks.
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Gira
Missionary
Southwest
Mra. J
Courier-Journal
Louisville
Ane Irish Wit From John L Sullivan
The veteran boxer John L Sullivan, noted for his wit, apes a Baltimore theater scene where a wealthy youth is brought to meet him. Sullivan, after washing up, surveys the young man and asks the theater manager if the visitor is a boy or a girl with a twinkling remark.
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John L Ord
John L. Sullivan
Baltimore
John
Sullivan
Jack
Young Philadelphia minister loses sermon notes
A recently ordained Philadelphia minister, nervous and unsure, admitted he had misplaced his sermon notes. He apologized to his congregation and said he would read a few chapters from the Bible instead, delaying his planned message.
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Philadelphia
Bunday Magazine
Origin Of a Famous Human Food The GrapeNuts Story
An active brain worker sought a food to restore strength and mental vigor. After studying brain and nerve building elements from Albumen and Phosphate of Potash, he developed GrapeNuts, a food claimed to aid digestion and enhance brain and nervous system activity.
Currant Desevery Pursues Hybridization in Wyoming Farm
Prof B C Buffum once tied to Cotoreds Agricultural College and longtime Grevley associate now runs an experimental farm in Wyoming. He has died and seeks to hybridize a famed currant variety tied to Captain Bonneville's Westward journeys a half century ago.
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B. C. Buffum
Wyoming
Captain Bonneville
West
Homeseekers' Round Trip Rates To New Mexico And Texas
A Cleveland Leader quip leads into an ad for Colorado and Southern Railway. It promotes round trip Homeseekers' tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month with one fare plus $2 round trip, final limit twenty five days, and liberal stopovers. Details available from the railroad agent in Denver.
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Cleveland
New Mexico
Texas
Colorado & Southern Railway
Colorado & Southern
T. E., Fisher
Denver
Colorado
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