Free trips to Tacoma offered by Stone-Fisher Store
The Stone-Fisher Store promotes free one way fares to Tacoma for customers spending $20 or more, claiming personal shopping offers better value than mail order. They advertise low prices on food, clothing and goods with daily sales and free fare to all who spend $10 or more, valid on any business day.
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Stone-Fisher’s Department Store
Stone-Fisher
Philamore
City of Destiny
Northwest
Naturalization Day Next Monday at Judge Rice Court
Judge Rice presides at South Rond on naturalization day next Monday with about a dozen petitions expected. Also includes a brief rhythm about stomach health and a local advertisement for Kodol digestion remedy offered by Cross Pharmacy and McNitt's Economy Fruitware.
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Rice
South Rond
Chebulls
Baby Carriage Etiquette Sparks Train Parley
Kensay City Star reports a lively scene at a station where passengers debate etiquette as a mother struggles with a buggy. A man asserts the father should bear the weight and hand the carriage to his wife, while others joke about proper handling and responsibility during boarding.
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Hain
Maio
plMel
Kensay City
Pointing the Bone Native Superstition in Australia
A London Standard summary on Aboriginal beliefs describes how bones of the dead are ritually distributed among kin, with a bone pointed at a rival seen as a curse. The article notes that pointing the bone can lead to the target's death within months or a year, reflecting deep taboo and animist practices among tribes.
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Australia
London
France
Paris
Mr. Smith
Cross
Mr. Cruga
London Mall
Tennyson’s Shyness Cure and Terrific Tumble Tales
In a fragment from Tennyson’s Life a suggestion that starry wonder can curb shyness is noted alongside a striking account of Charles Woollot’s para chute fall in Venezuela. The report foreshadows Mercury spills and life’s hurdles, ending with a reflection from Manchester Satan on enduring obstacles in the race of life.
Unclear text on neighbor love and social critique
Fragmentary remarks discuss loving neighbors and enemies with a reference to New Orleans style rudeness and class, mentioning Lola and a democratic figure. The handwriting includes scattered phrases about equality and inherent ability without a clear narrative or identifiable events.
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Lola
New Orteana Tintea-Democrat
The Breach Farmer and His Superior Top Soil
A New York Press excerpt discusses the Norman Breach farmer who thrives on an extraordinary top soil. It claims a farmer can sustain a family on a quarter acre and even become a millionaire by cultivating rich soil with fertilizing and watering. The piece likens top soil to a prima donna and notes how rental agreements let him take topsoil at term.
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Norman
New York Press
Modern Hats and Worldly Quips Across Unrelated Vignettes
A fragmented miscellany discusses the modern hat’s hygienic flaws, Persian bath customs, a Kitchener dynamite anecdote, two Englishmen in France with language jests, and a Houston Post quip on suffering humanity. The style mirrors late era newspaper humor and short cultural blurbs.
Pursuit of Pleasure Described as a Shared Blunder
The passage notes that people who rush toward pleasure and cut down the tree to reach its fruit blunder. It argues the error is common to those who are overeager and impatient in seeking gratification.
Man's Call Art Peltinhers ane constantly becoming Mutter an I
The fragment reflects a Victorian era critique of appearance and dress, noting habitual carelessness and its impact on social perception. It hints at moralizing views on fashion and status, with references to individuals like Chambers and Tadennt shaping opinion.
Eastern S iar Convention at Tacoma thumbnail notes
Fragmented OCR notes describe a gathering at Tacoma with references to W R Ward of Dyeraburg Tena and O A Young, plus mentions of Royal Club Red Cross canned goods and individuals such as Amelia Markham. The text includes stray phrases about remedies, conventions, and limits within a local event context.
Proseeston of Man in Eve Among the moat by artists
A fragmentary description notes humorous art commentary from circles about a French artist and a portrait of Queen Victoria with a ribbon, plus scenes of Adam and Eve, a warden in Lisbon, monks, and famous galleries. It mentions Dutch soldiers, costumed children, and altered uniforms in a gallery context.
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Queen Victoria
Order of the Gertet
Adam
Lisboo
Certein
Holland
Somnambulism Tales and a Worcester Mixup
A colonial era note describes archbishop as noting somnambulists writing sermons by lamplight, a sleepwalking wine fetcher, and a boy mistaking spearmint tea for milk in Worcester. The anecdotes illustrate curious nocturnal behaviors and a humorous home misread.
A Musical Pidar and the Extraordinary Sensitive Nose
A fragmentary tale recalls Pal Usson’s epider Consoler of the unfortunate prisoner perishing due to proximity to the captive. Jailer brutality noted. Gretry and Rubinstein stories involve a spider reacting to piano music and influencing audiences at Brussels recitals.
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Epiders
Pal. Usson
Epider
Gretry
Brussels
Rubinstein
Tarls Sterne
Sailing clubs and early yacht associations evolve
The Cork Harbor Water club, now the Royal Cork Yacht Club, traces its roots to 1720. Yachting grew slowly from the 16th to 17th centuries, with Cowes Yacht Club appearing around 1512 and later associations expanding across Europe and America, including New York.
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Cork Harbor Water
Royal
Squelched Prooperang Yoon Actor Retort Toward Termiinies
Fragmentary OCR text mentions an actor and retort, with confusing names and phrases. The readable portion implies a discussion of actors, timing, and a play, but concrete facts like names, dates, or events are unclear. Cannot determine a coherent real-world event from the fragment.
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Macnee
Ued
Fragmented early 20th century quip from Philadelphia Record
A garbled dialogue shows a mother consoling a crying Uttly daughter with misheard lines and a joke about managing a doll and bloomers. The text includes stray words like Why Clori and a line about growing old, reflecting noisy OCR corruption from the Philadelphia Record.
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Clori
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