The Wonderful Barn Loft and Miss Selina Lue
In the Bluff neighborhood Miss Selina Lue runs a busy street shop and watches over Cynthia, Benie and the babies. Alan the artist adores Cynthia though jealousy and town gossip swirl around the couple as a new puppy named for Alan becomes a focal point of affection.
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Felina
Jeanna
Rian Kent
Miss
Cynthis
Alan
Cynthia Avon
Cynthia
The
Bennie
Blossom
Cynthie
Mr. Alan
Clemmie
Miss Kinney
Selina Lue
Selina
Alam
Selina Sue
Jim
Bheanto
Acale
Ethel Maud
Young Jim
Amy
Lanka
Juella
Blowsom
Belina Sue
Jito
Flossom
Bonnie
Luella
Seling Lee
Mr. Leeks
Soling Sue
Miss Cynthia
Lossom
Mise
Foreman Dismisses Reckless Worker After Nitro Barrel Incident
A works foreman recounts stopping an Irish laborer from filling a nitroglycerin barrel with hot nitrate of soda in a dynamite plant. The man ignored orders, the barrel exploded, and the superintendent quipped that the offender had already been discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tolkis
Patrick
Theo Pet
Hudeos Mast
A Strange Situation Reported in Odd Dialogue
A fragmentary and garbled exchange shows characters Moke, Ginke, and a professor discussing language and jokes. The text is inconsistent and difficult to parse, with stray phrases about speaking French and Bogileh implying confusion or humor.
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Moke
Ginke
Philee
Weather Balloons Gather Data on High Altitude Air
United States and several European governments conduct two week experiments using weather balloons to explore the atmosphere above ten miles. Balloons transmit humidity, temperature, pressure, and wind data with instruments that record changes as the balloon ascends and bursts above the clouds.
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Omaha
Sisuations
United States
England
Germany
Frages
Italy
Belgium
Earth
Oovaha
Poster Women Vote Feud Over Bill Posting Letter
Citizens committee members quarrel over a letter from a bill posting firm tied to posters decorating fences. The missive from FP L. Henn of Brooklyn suggested a time limit or return of the posters, stirring local debate.
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New York
Citheens
Wemcorel
FP. L. Henn
Brooklys
Doan's Kidney Pills Promoted for Healthy Kidneys
An old advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney trouble. It claims healthy kidneys remove impurities from blood and credits Dr Marshall of East Oakland California and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. The ad urges readers to remember the brand and purchase at 60 cents a box.
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Dean
BR. F. Marshall
Oakland
Cal
Mye
Marshall County
Iowa
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Experience Teacher Tommy’s Quette Explained
Tommy defines quette as a dish made from what remains of stewed chicken. He describes it as a practical, improvised food using leftovers. The term appears in a casual teaching exchange about frugal cooking.
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Tommy
Cure for Baby Eczema Promoted by Cuticura Remedies
A New York mother reports severe eczema on her two month old child improving after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. She credits four applications over two weeks with full skin recovery and endorses the products for sores and general care.
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Castile
Mr. Drew
18Th St
New York City
Bend
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Ton, Mass
Kipling Interrogative Answer on Women's Vote
The Detroit Free Press quotes Kipling raising a joke about women's suffrage inquiry in London. It recounts his line about why women should have the vote and whether marriage changes their status, framed as a provincial question among social privileges.
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Kipling
London
Detroit Free Press
Among Those Who Also Ran
The Evening Sacrificer sent the sporting man to report the wedding and printed a list of rejected lovers half a column long under the heading Among Those Who Also Ran. The Loved and Lost Hint notes Walker was a popular bride not who Watkinson claimed.
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Walker
Quilte
Watkinson
New York Journal
Peruvian Indians Claim Vast Range Among Humans
A derailed fragment notes a claim by the Yonkers Statowman decrying a Peruvian Indian as a tailor while referencing long distances and the famed Vinion range attributed to Peruvian Indians and Redd-Ince.
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Redd
Ince
Keone
Yonkers Statowman
Impudent Mr De Borrowe Provokes Hair Hue Question
Miss Wratby recalls an incident with Mr De Borrowe who asked how she achieved her auburn hair tint. Miss Summ retorts and Miss Wrathy recalls using a Buster hat to defend herself in a humorous exchange.
Circumstances After Casas
A lighthearted exchange from a Philadelphia Record item shows a Sunday school teacher asking Tommy to say prayers before bed. Tommy replies that he does not anymore, teasing about sleeping in a folding bed.
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Casas
Tommy
Philadelphia Record
Those Kind Predictions
A local note from Loulaville Courier Journal about wedding guests being asked to register predictions on how long the couple will stay married, presented in a casual, tongue in cheek manner.
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Atny
Loulaville Courier- Journal
Idle rich youths misused rights spark Washington dinner debate
At a Washington dinner SonaléF Rihiwa criticizes idle rich young men who claim rights to wrongdoing. The remark portrays aristocratic excess as a moral failing amid a discussion of lifestyle and privilege.
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Sonaléf Rihiwa
Washington
Foollahim
Indies
Detral
Impatient Youth Cited For Assault On Police Sergeant
A brash young man stood before a magistrate charged with an unprovoked assault on a police sergeant. He claimed he acted on his mother’s instruction but faced the court as the magistrate scathingly rejected the excuse and pressed for accountability.
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Sam
London
Chirem Tele
Telepathic Shock and Odd South Carolina Proverb
A garbled excerpt recounts Senator Tillman of South Carolina, a proverb about a mule and burden, and a strange scene of a girl about sixteen tied with a large roll of cloth, with dialogue about her hair and appearance. The text reads like a misread Popular Magazine piece.
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Senator Tillman
Bouth
Caroling
Peare
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Luella Kinney
Nrme
Jim Peters
Sho
Dobbs
Pat
Foreman
Irrahman
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Eczema
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Ike
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Legre
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