Permanent camps and the new era of fashionable camping life
The article notes a surge in camp life beyond rugged nomad tents, with wealthy and middle class adopting permanent camp setups. It details tent houses, bark houses, log cabins, and luxury camp lodges, plus practical tips on bedding, gear, cooking, and site selection across major U S regions from Adirondacks to the Lake Regions of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Vanderbilt
J. Pierpont Morgan
Adironduck
Newportville
Aise
Yellowstone Park
Trapa
Adirondacks
Calakil Mountains
St Lawrence River
Lake District
New Hampshire
Blue Ridge Mountains
Tates
Great Lakes
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Colorado
Pacific Coast
Coronado Beach
San Diego
Cal
Army adopts Wakefield inventor Dana Dudley telescope
The U S War Department adopts Dudley of Wakefield Massachusetts based pan angle telescope. The device uses reflecting lenses at angles to view above below and around a position from concealment. It enables locating enemies or targets without exposing the operator even from hidden guns or trench positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dana Dudley
Wakefield
Mass
War Department
United States
Almple
Ward
In a Fix Over Clerk’s Pay Says Louisville Courier
A bedridden or struggling clerk worries about marriage as his employer hints at a salary raise. The Louisville Courier notes the tension over wages and life plans.
Burned by Itch Cured Fast by Cuticura Remedies
A reader from New York City reports severe body itching beginning March 30 and ending April 1 after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The testimonial, dated Apr 27, 1909, credits relief to Cuticura products from Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Also includes a crude exchange from the New York Press describing street incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Gridley
East 4Ird Street
New York City
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
A Witty Bishop and a Philadelphia Doctor Exchange Quips
A Philadelphia physician recalls a quip from the late Bishop Foss during a distant medical exam. The bishop reportedly asks if the doctor talks in his sleep, to which the doctor replies he talks in others sleep, invoking a divine law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foss
Philadelphia
Improvement shows a politician's evolving stance
A cartoonish exchange hints at a man changing with politics. The joke suggests his early vigor faded as he entered public life, leaving him ambivalent and on the fence.
Napoleon in Bad Mood Over Golf Game
Bonaparte storms into the clubhouse scolding over badges on the links. He mutters a curse about playing golf with Baron Munchan gen again and jokes about ending his days on St. Helena. Caesar reads the Congresaloos Record as the scene unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonaparte
Napoleon
Milleonnerres
Baron Munchangen
St. Helena
Munch
Bony
Caesar
Congresaloos
Emperor
Lipplincott
Hie Laat Poet’s Wife Public Reading Ends Tragedy
A fragmentary notice notes a poet’s public reading before a large crowd and records that poem was his last. It references a publisher and asks if he was lynched or shot, with other garbled phrases about pamphlets and advice on imagination control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hie Laat
Sealle's Weekly
Turlock Irrigation District Land Prospects and Crops
The notice promotes abundant water supply at low rates for farm lots in Turlock. It highlights crops such as onions, olives, figs, potatoes, alfalfa and rye, listing estimated yields and rates per acre. The item appears under the Department F pamphlet from the Turlock Board of Trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turlock
Turlock Board OF Trade
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ROY Hunters
Adriondack Wilderness
ARMY
Ouisville Coutier Journal
Jeremy
Upper Broadway
New York Press
Galt
Dodds
Guari
Caetae
Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Shore Star
Atyle
Tomine Hare
Fua Phe
Howe
Vient
Senna
Alifornia Fig Syrup
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