Prairie wheat boom across Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba
A narrator recalls a four week Saskatchewan journey through vast wheat fields and growing prosperity. He notes rising land values from $12 to $60 an acre, thriving Swedish and Iowa settlements, and abundant crops in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Rail lines and elevators strain under expected huge harvests.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Board of Trade
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Duluth
Alberta
Manitoba
Nebraska
Iowa
Audi A
Calgary
Camrose
Sedgewick
Castor
Red Deer
Wetaskiwin
Edmonton
Lacombe
Vegreville
Tofield
Vermillion
Fort William
Port Arthur
First Visit Across the Atlantic Through European Habits
American travelers on first European tours encounter odd hotel customs from dress hooks in Naples corridors to royal bedchambers and elevator rules. The piece notes currency, tobacco and salt monopolies, tobacco shops as hubs for stamps and postcards, and fast mail via pneumatic tubes in Paris. It also recalls amusing misperceptions of garcons and passes keys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Europe
Land of the Brave
Home of the
Free
Col Brotherton
Kentucky
San Carlo
Naples
America
Switzerland
Germany
Sorrento
Holland
Saxony
Boston
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Italy
France
Paris
Unlucky Opening Draws Hard Luck Critique
A theater team reflects on a failed play and how luck influenced reception. The leading critic in the town wore new shoes at the opening, shaping the review and believed unfair coverage was possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Douglas
Cataine
Direstrom
Spark St
Willie’s step ladder joke falls flat at home
Seven year old Willie believes women lack humor and plans a trick to say he is up to date. He climbs a stepladder to a picture as his mother prompts the setup but his joke backfires as his father watches and Willie exits in silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Papa
Mamma
Cuticura Remedies Said To Cure Child Eczema
A Utah mother recounts using Cuticura Resolvent Ointment Soap and Ointment to treat a young child’s severe scalp eczema. She reports the head clearing and hair growth after following the product directions. A free sample offer to Boston Dept 12 L is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Lund
Plain City
Utah
Cuthura
Boston
James Glencairn Thomson Dies in Glasgow at 84
James Glencairn Thomson, grandson of Robert Burns, died in Glasgow in his eighty fourth year. He was the son of Betty Burns and a bachelor who lived most of his life in Glasgow suburbs. A familiar social figure, his singing of Burns songs was noted at gatherings. He held a small civil service pension. Pall Mall Gazette.
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James Glencairn Thomson
Robert Burns
Glasgow
Betty Burns
Pobt
Mr. Thomson
Burns
Pall Mall Gazette
Prize for smallest waist in 1866 London contest
A London paper reprints a ladies treasury item from 1866 offering a prize to the woman with the smallest waist relative to her size. First prize is a silk dress, second prize a gold watch, awarded in a school where pupils slept in forests unless allowed to retire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ladies’ Treasury
Notions of leadership in a modest lieutenant
A brief dialogue questions greatness, labeling a man as not a captain of industry but a mere second lieutenant. The exchange highlights restraint and modest ambition, contrasting public perception with personal rank.
My Daughter Was Cured and Health Restored
A Baltimore letter from Mrs L A Correran describes her 15 year old daughter Alice cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after doctors called it Green Sickness. The ad claims hundreds of letters praising the medicine and urges girls with menstrual and related troubles to use the product and write for advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Alice
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
L. A. Correran
Rutland Street
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
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Western
Curoope
Clarissa Blythe
Vermont
Poston
J. H. Rindlaub
Forge
N. D
Pete
Gil Edge
Whittemore Bros. & CO
Albany St
Cambridge
Carter
Idaho
Piatses H. Coleman
Wai
W.N. U
Fargo
W.l.douglas
B.A. Aarer
Aaker
Grand Forks
H. H. Anker
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