Thorns to Sit Upon and Kidney Pills Promoted
An ad-like fragment touts cures for kidney and bladder trouble using LURNERS OF VAELADELPHIAA and Utah Kidney Beans. Testimony from Hickman County Clerk Wm. D. Samuels claims back and kidney pains were cured after medical failure. Includes promotional mentions of Columbian Agents and other remedies.
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Utah
Vins “Lurners
Vaeladelphiaa
Wm. DD. Samuels
Hickman County
Clinton
Kentucky
Smartest Parrot Alive Impresses Visitors at Home
A New York World item describes Cicero the Mexican yellow head parrot, age about three, famed for poetry singing and elocution. The bird introduces himself as a boastful orator and performs a variety of songs and quips for curious visitors.
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Cicero
Street paving bids discussed by local committee
A town paving committee met with property owners on Washington Street to review bids for street improvements. Citizens favored a cooperative approach and urged prompt action amid tentative costs and potential contractor concerns.
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Usviiers
Washington Set
Abe
Akers Otive
Peuatt
Wheat Market Notes and Local Notices
Grain prices for corn and Timothy hay shown alongside assorted local items. Notices cover assignments, funerals, ticketing, doctor reports, and a brief humorous exchange from the New York World.
Terrible White Ants Destroy Sydney Museum Roof
The Youth's Companion reports termites or white ants ravaging the Australian Museum in Sydney. They toppled the roof causing a steel and copper covering to replace it and damaged the interior timbers and underpinnings of a key floor.
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Sydney
Timinr
Why gas light wins over electric light in a joke
In a witty exchange the speaker argues that gas lighting offers direct control via wall buttons or springs, unlike electric light. He notes a scene where a young woman struggles to teach a chandelier to light, underscoring his point with a humorous analogy.
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Chicago Post
Actor Cazabon Recites Buridan In Two Hours
Cazabon of the Marseilles theater recounts learning the role in two hours then performing Buridan in La Tour de Messe the same evening. A bystander calls it prodigious and the actor explains he memorized by reading carefully and tying a knot in his handkerchief.
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Cazabon
Marseilles
Buridan
Brook Lyn Life Excerpt Sparks Quick Witty Exchange
A playful exchange mocks a golf caddie calling him a tea caddie with a quick pun about pounds and tees. The remark appears in a Brook lyn Life feature, reflecting light, humorous tone.
Woman's Sigh for a Pocket in Old Fashioned Gowns
Carolyn Wells laments the loss of spacious pockets in modern dresses in a Jamestown Journal feature. The speaker longs for the roomy pockets of past fashions that could hold small purchases and a kerchief, noting modiste trends banish such practicality.
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Carolyn Wells
Jamestown
Women who ran early American newspapers amid Revolution
E Cora Depuy notes in The Household Realm that 87 newspapers existed in the Aneri can colonies during the Revolution era with several owned and managed by women. The Rhode Island paper founded in 1732 was run by Mrs Anna Franklin and her daughters. later Franklin was named colony printer. Clementine Reid produced the Virginia Gazette in 1772 to aid the colonial cause, while in 1774 H Boyle published a royalist rival in Williamsburg. In 1775 Beth Timothy began a Charleston paper with Anna Timothy as editor and state printer for 17 years. Mary Crouch started a Charleston paper opposing the Stamp Act, later moving to Salem, Mass., and continuing publication for years.
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E. Cora Depuy
Rhode Island
Anna Frantlin
Virginia
Virginia Gazette
Tirs. H. Boyle
Williamsburg
Vabeth Timothy
Charleston
Anna Timothy
Samme
Mary Crouch
Salem
Mass
Miss Jessie Allen Gains Parisian Spotlight
Friends of Miss Jessie Allen announce her success in Paris after study abroad. She trained at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute and the Art Students League, spent two years abroad studying in Paris, then Holland and Italy. Her Venice views earned notice from Le Matin, praising her sincere, Canalettian light.
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Jessie Allen
Miss Allen
Mark Hopkins Art Institute
Art Students’ League
Julan Academiv
Paris
M. Collins
Holland
Ligny
London
Rome
Venice
United
Jess
Lagunes
Ducal
Canaletto
Guard
San Francisco Examiner
Imported gowns tease skirts and spring fashion trends
A New York fusion writer notes a wide imported skirt variety as fashion designers test spring gowns on this side of the water. Revival of old styles includes a doiitrained evening dress with long pep-tan points and silk braid on wine trellis cloth skirts creating a double bodice and full blouse waist effects.
Inside a Great Iron Furnace The Process Unveiled
A New York Ledger look at a furnace eating 2000 tons daily of ore coke and limestone. Burden moves in from trestles. temperatures range from 460 to 1500 to 3150 degrees as ore reduces, iron forms, and slag escapes. Furnace yields about 700 tons daily.
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New York Ledger
Ordination of Marcia M Selman at Mechanic Falls Universalist Church
Miss Marcia Martin Selman was ordained to the Universalist ministry in Mechanic Falls Maine on June 7. She has filled the pulpit for six months and is a Marblehead Mass native who attended Tufts College and graduated with honors. She taught successfully in Marblehead for years and preached briefly in the west before her first charge in Mechanic Falls.
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Marcia Martin Selman
Mechanic Walls
Russian Blouses Inspire Next Season Silk Fashions
The New York Post describes Russian blouses in black, green, brown, blue or gray silks with varied weaves. Front or yoke details, jeweled belts, and braid patterns create dressy oxford-inspired pieces to pair with faille and wool skirts. Some styles open left side, others down the front with reversed cuffs.
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Oold
New York Post
Four Brave Woman at North Dumpling Lighthouse
Mrs J T Fowler wife of the light keeper at North Dumpling light took charge during her husbands absence when fog damaged the bell mechanism. She climbed the tower lowered a rope to ring the bell until fog lifted, earning a letter of thanks from the lighthouse board praising her courage and readiness to act in danger.
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J. T. Fowler
North Dumpling
Fisher’s Island Sound
Rhode Island
Lighthouse Board
Boston Clubwomen Seek Public Clubhouse for City
The Woman's Clubhouse corporation of Boston aims to build a central meeting place for club interests across the state. The project requires about 200000 dollars for land and building, with stock at 50 dollars per share and nonassessable. The Massachusetts Loan and Trust company holds the nucleus of the fund.
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Woman’s Clubhouse Corporation of
Boston
Massachusetts Loan and Trust Company
Boston Letter
Striking a Light Game Described for French Schoolboys
The piece explains a game once common among French schoolboys in which two players kneel facing each other with fingertips barely touching. One holds a matchbox and the other a match, then each grips their right foot with the opposite hand and attempts to strike the match. The activity is noted as difficult and not well known in the country.
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Chicago
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Southport
Dad Greenwood
Whiteland
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Seinoansville
Vernon
Macdison
Crathersville
Scottsburg
Henryville
Memphis
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Jeffersouvie
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Queensville
Scipio
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Toinimbas
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Loree
Ral Kansger
Pittsburgh
PESNA
Mike
Utah Kidney Beans
Inday
Columbins
Hatskk & Varrer
Purners
Livek
Lurners
Parrot
John Gale
Demosthenes
Chauncey de
Suwanee
Tommy Tucker
New York World
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Harry
Ethel
Toronto Clothe
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Joe
EEA
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Shooh
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Bation
Sage
Gertrude Jeie
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Wineon
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Burnsville
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Gia Lo Winaas
Misr Pertha Wesner
Druning
Catey Leweili
Poin Very Sigs
Cowden
Expressman
Conrad
Father Oster
Dr. Reynolds
Friendhauser
Marie
Mertie
Wightman & Sip
Columbus, Ind
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Washington, D.C
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Brooklyn
Wowen
California
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