Endurance Auto Trip Maps Route From Denver to Mexico City
A four man Denver team drove a 30 horsepower car from Denver to Mexico City May 1 to June 3, aiming to chart a route for an endurance race next October. They faced deserts, sand, and near disaster, surviving on improvised cold pea soup and water from the car radiator.
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Denver
Shafroth
Colorado
Mexico
United States
Mexico City
George A. Wahlgreen
Old
Billy Koipper
F. Ed
Spooner
W. E. McCarton
James H. Howard
el Paso
Des Eorts
Billy Knipper
F. Ed. Spooner
McCarton
Howard
Tierra Blanca
Wau
Tula
Ding
Hotel Geneve
Harper Lee
Dias
Addison Spriggs Advocate of Peace
A dialogue between Addison Spriggs and Francis Xavier McGavick at a table in which they debate England Germany and Ireland, ending in a scuffle. Spriggs is knocked and then reaffirms his belief in universal peace. Copyright 1909 W G Chapman.
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Addison Spriggs
England
Francis Xavier McGavick
Ireland
Germany
Mr. McGavick
McGavick
Mr. Spriggs
W. G. Chapman
Matching Up a Necktie in a Color Clash Comic Tale
Tom Gittem receives a purple necktie and, urged by his wife, buys four purple striped shirts and a gray suit. He flaunts the outfit with purple trim only to face disapproval at home and a $61 40 total bill. The episode ends with him bitterly vowing to avoid future Christmas gifts.
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Tom Gittem
Gittem
Veterinary
Mra. Gittem
Anson Purdy Began Power Via Coal Mule Tale
The village banker known as Anson Purdy once started from nothing, using a back yard mule named Maud and a $5 coal-reward sign to spark a coal business that fed wagons and contracts all summer. The anecdote frames his rise from hardship to power through a wild, rural hustle.
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Anson Purdy
Anse
Ezra Harkins
Rockefeller
Getrich
Maud
Deacon Purdy
Hee-Hawke
Clive
Mountains of Gold in a Vermont Woman's Revival
Mrs Cras Lay of Graniteville Vermont writes she recovered from nervousness and other female ailments after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter promotes the medicine as a safe, effective remedy for inflammation ulcers weak parts fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and credits it with carrying women safely through menopause.
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Graniteville
Mns
Cras
Lay
R.F
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lyila E. Pinkham
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Gonally
James Howard
Guadaloupe
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Juanacatlan
City & Siexico
E. Kiser
Wellington
John Bull
Roy K. Me
Europe
Fred C. Kelly
Chas. Barclay
Paris
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