Trimmer Band plan to aid boys with savings pledge
A philanthropist outlines a program for Iowa boys to join a "trimmer band" by depositing one dollar and pledging abstinence from tobacco and drink. Each member saves nickels and dimes for three years, earning daily pennies and a final bonus, while monthly meetings teach economy and industry. The aim is to start boys toward college or a solid life.
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Weltier Tobacco
Rancer
Saucerman
Dex Moines
Iowa
A Navy Box Misled by a Lighthearted Trick
Aboard a vessel off a large city a group of WCTU ladies visited. A vaunting officer joked that a locked box near the engine room was for foreign missions. The box yielded $12.00 when opened at month’s end, prompting a check sent to the secretary of the Navy to forward the funds to the intended cause.
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Gine Ross
Eil
Army
Navy
Phrasebook of Civil War era symbols in Philadelphia Ledger
The Philadelphia Ledger explains a decorative device with feathers and birds to convey social themes. It discusses mottoes like The Hi Pluribus Tous and The thirteen stars as lucky symbols, implying hidden meanings about unity and effort.
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Claman
Ateny
Philadephia Ledger
Vain Pride in a Wifes Boudoir Turns To Secret Toupee
In a comic domestic scene Mr Binderby enters his wife’s room and jokes about his bald spot. She mocks vanity, but he reveals a toupee and combs hair to maintain appearances as she finishes her coiffure. The Chicago Post reports the playful domestic moment.
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Shaw Mr. Binderby
Wust
Jobo James Hinderby
Betty
Mr. Binderby
Chiengo Post
Romans Invented Horsapower and Labor-Saving Machines
Fragmentary text claims Romans invented horses power and labor-saving devices using animals like mules and oxen. It notes agr iculture favored, drudgery of hand labor, and that Romans introduced powered tools to conquered lands. The passage is incomplete and presents unclear names and details.
Shiftees Borrow-Oer Neightor Conversation
Fragmentary dialogue notes describe Borrow- Mow asking about shifting possessions and whether they can borrow. The text reflects hesitation and uncertainty in the interaction, with mentions of taking or lending items and a plan to discuss further.
Private Insane Asylum Exposes Alleged Doctor's Cruel Treatment
A detailed account describes a ten year old private insane asylum where a patient named Green faced brutal discipline. The plot involved staff and editors, with Green repeatedly challenged by a doctor and kept in harsh cells, starved, and subjected to suffocating ritual punishments before an eventual escape attempt and the asylum’s closure. The Argus reported on the case but the full tale remained unpublished.
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Deprun
Cineinathan
Tor
Argus
Green
Troat
Pew
Tn Doctor
Gree
Hlm
Mpatu
Peruvian beliefs of afterlife and burial rites described
The article discusses ancient Peruvian views on the future state as the soul travels to eternity. It describes pathways, moral choices, and the ritual fate of the deceased, including the journey across the rocks and the purgatorial belt. It notes the long, continual cycle of rebirth and testing over more than ten thousand years.
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Apirit Wan
First Theatre in Australia Born From Historic Plays
The fragment recalls early Australian theater, noting a 1762 production of Im Austesita titled The Recruiting Often and a 1760 opening of a rough theater charging a shilling per entry. Proceeds from the first pay night reportedly benefited a grieving family, with era currency and payment details mentioned.
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Australia
Tkwan
Louton Standart
Robt W Collins Estate Insurance and Loans Ad
An, estate ad listing multiple properties near the city including a five room residence on two fine lots close to a school, various two and four room houses, and several large farm land offers. It promotes bargains, quick sales, corner lots, fenced properties, and proximity to streets and city high school. It also advertises cheap land near Coeur d Alene street and a 49 acre tract six miles from the city with good roads.
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Leval Tor
Han
Badder's Park Addi
Coeur d’Alene
Seventh Street
City High Behsal
Advertising Turns Impossibilities Into Daily Remedies
All through your list of impossibilities persistent advertising will remedy dis organization and household annoyances. Advertising will weave through your affairs, becoming so vital and helpful that you forget you once had a list of impossibilities.
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Lve
Wilfred Whitten
Miree
Revea le
Congress
Oregon
Hie Mart
Lam- Chronicle
Peprn
Agin
France
Bengal
Scott
Fim Tan
Ant Pree Do
James
Denver
Vox
Geri
Peter Tun
Kav Bauge
Rob’t W. Collins
Insurance and Loans
Wiggett
Egg
U. P
Coeur d’Alene Lumber Co
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