Open Letter to Female Book Agents in Pursuit of Work
A satirical piece portrays a male broker advising a young female solicitor to target husbands in households for book sales. It depicts manipulative tactics, gender dynamics, and the social costs of selling durable sets like Greenroad’s History, emphasizing avoidance of wives and direct engagement with husbands.
Fathers and their faults in a light, moralizing piece
A satirical meditation on fathers highlighting hypocrisy and flaws. It contrasts public bravado with private failures, noting drinking, riotous living, and reliance on regalia while neglecting work and home duties. The piece argues for weighing evidence and recognizing time and tradition outgrown by modern reality.
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Himsel
Fathers Learn Courage as They Face Old Age
The excerpt reflects on fathers gaining lucidity about the future and stepping beyond superiority to lead in prayer. It praises turning away from past habits, finding courage over coddling, and embracing aging with steadiness and resolve.
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W. @. Chapman
The Jarring of Jinx by Judd Morti
Jinx attends a club election and loses his candidate for president. He returns home late after roodies and finds his wife frightened by noises and the couple worry about a burglary as they try to sleep.
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Jinx
Judd Morti
Cattle prices and grain markets with a Chinese offer reward
The page lists beef steers and cows with hay and grain feeding quality, prices per head and per hundredweight, plus grain prices for wheat rye oats corn and hay types. It ends noting a $500 reward offered by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association for Leon Ling, wanted in New York for a murder.
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Colorado
Idaho
Ebraska
San Francisco
Leon Ling
New York
Elsie Bigel
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
Chinese Sia Companies
Rain of Frogs and News From Wyoming and Fort Russell
A Gouverneur report notes thousands of small frogs rain down on sidewalks during a heavy wind and rainstorm. Montana cattle round up injures A M Chaney, shot through the lungs. Buffalo to Sheridan road work slows travel due to bad bridges but repairs should restore service. Frank Hahn visits Dry Farming districts to study German emigration. Eight hundred horses arrive for Ninth Cavalry at Fort Russell, moved from Fort Oglethorpe. Cheyenne Civic League plans playgrounds at Central School and nearby sites. The Fourth of July cowboy tourney is mentioned in J. Sieed Inervet context.
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A. M. Chaney
Casper
Montana
Buffalo
Sheridan
Frank Hahn
Wyoming
Colorado
Ninth Cavalry
Fort Russell
Fort Oglethorpe
Twelfth Cavalry
Philippines
Cheyenne Civic League
Cen Feel Avenue
Sie Eed Inervet
Colorado Packing Industry Details Rise in Denver
The Denver packing industry shows growth from 1908 with 895164 cattle receipts and 676236 total livestock. Denver tannery employs 15 now, potential 150, and local plants total about 1700 workers average $3 daily.
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Denver
Colorado
Hoffer Brothers
Walters, Archer and Walters
Standard Meat and Live Stock Company
Smith Brothers of
Denver Packing and Provision Company
Burkhardt Brothers
Colorado Packing and Provision Company
Henry Gebhardt
Charles
Smith and Brothers
Orn
Las
Wetter Packing Company
Denver ‘Capital and Men
Claude Boettcher
Coffin Packing & Provision Company
W.N. W. Blayney
Lady of the
Heron
Doan's Kidney Pills Helped a Woman in Iowa
Alonso Adamis of Ceeceola Iowa describes persistent tiredness listlessness and back pain from kidney issues. She credits Doan's Kidney Pills with lasting relief after doctors and medicines failed, noting she was finally cured and urges others to remember the Doan's name. Sold by dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Lamguor
Alonso Adamis
Ceceola
Iowa
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Puck Cartoon Rebuffs Painter With Bold Portrait Demand
A historic moment from a Cromwell era scene shows a bold female figure demanding truth over flattery as the painter pleads for a flattering portrait. The exchange illustrates early calls for gender equality in opportunity within a satirical frame.
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Bex
Cromwell
Oliver
Puck
Hospitals a Benefit to Property Says Tuberculosis Study
A National Association investigation finds 67.5 percent of U S tuberculosis sanatoria and hospitals benefit local property and community health. More than 63 percent of sanatoria have raised surrounding property values.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
United States
Architect Told to Add Step at Head of Stairs
I like my house all right said Luschman except for one thing you’ll have to fix that. Several times lately I nearly broken my neck reaching for another step at the head of the atalra when I got home late so I guess you’d better put another step there.
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Luschman
Catholic Standard and Times
What Made Her Suspect
A Cleveland Leader brief notes a dramatic exchange from a domestic scene where a wife accuses her husband of drunkenness while describing several causes for suspicion. The item portrays a cautionary domestic crisis and hints at social perceptions of intoxication.
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Cleveland
Poets Question Reality Starvation Idea
A witty exchange on poets and hunger, noting reality starve ideas rarely arise yet overindulgence is uncommon. The dialogue contrasts poetic restraint with fame fueled appetite.
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