Hotels in Canton Lure Guests with Grand Names and Tight Rooms
A columnist critiques Canton hotels that use grand labels like The Fortunate Star The Golden Profits and The Happiness to attract travelers. Rooms are small and walls thin making sleep difficult while tea salons employ singers and ventriloquists. A grim specialty is dog and cat meat stews marketed as nutritious and pricey especially when the animals are black.
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Lippincott
Canton
China
Irish Yeast Cresting Through Centuries in New England
Mrs. Barbara Curran of East Orrington Maine keeps a two quart earthen crock of yeast that traveled from Ireland in 1846. The yeast was renewed with potatoes during the voyage and kept alive through years of work and migration. Curran recalls a Cromwell era tale of her ancestor hanged for bread for Charles I’s troops.
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Ireland
Barbara Curran
East
Orrington
New York Sun
America
Boston
Medford
East Orrington
India Shawls and the Real Cashmere Distinction
The Chautanquan notes that Tibetan goats influence France made cashmere shawls, but genuine India shawls differ by being less evenly woven and brighter in color. Real borders are sewn from multiple pieces, then attached to centers. many so called India shawls are made in France. The genuine shawl is softer due to thread handling and Tibet goats.
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Tibet
France
India
Chinese Preventive of Rabies Liver Remedy for Bite
A French missionary in China observed Chinese patients who had been bitten by mad dogs eating raw liver as a preventative against hydrophobia. Five Chinese men bitten last March were presented, and reports suggest the liver may offer protection, though efficacy is not proven. The article notes historical mentions and hints at early isopathic ideas linked to Pasteur and Ruch. A separate note cites a woman who kept a garden spider as a pet and observed its behavior under a glass.
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China
Plinius
Pasteur
Classified Rates Card For Ads By Time And Local Units
The notice lists ad rates by inch and duration for weekly daily and local listings. It includes one year five dollars for first column blocks and mentions discounts for multiple insertions and local black letter runs with per word charges.
Kinney & Kinney Windstorm Policy Ad
Notice urges Columbus residents to obtain a tornado and windstorm policy from Kinney & Kinney. It notes policies are affordable and protective amid looming severe weather after a recent storm.
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Columbus
Kinney & Kinney
Carter's Cuscara Pills advertised by druggist
An advertisement promotes Carter's Cuscara Pills as a remedy for sick headaches. M. C. Dunnington refunds the purchase price if the remedy fails to cure. The copy urges refusal of inferior articles and asserts consumer knowledge over clerks.
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Carter
M. C. Dunnington
Star Press Announces Fixed-Price Printing Services
The Star offers fixed pricing for printing work using quality materials and guaranteed satisfaction. All work is solicited and promises top quality and reliable service.
Special clubbing offer for two weeklies in Columbus
The Columbus Morning Star offers a one year subscription deal pairing the Twice a Week Courier Journal and the Columbus Morning Star for 1.25 dollars. New or renewing subscribers paying in advance receive both papers, with sample copies available on request. all orders go to Columbus Indiana.
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Courier-Journal
Weekly
Star
curier—Journal
Columbus Morning Star
Columbus
Ind
Great Southern Exposition boosts routes to Nashville and Cincinnati
Nashville ad notes through train service from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland Columbus to Cincinnati via the Bia Four line with connections to Q and C routes and L N Ry. It claims full information on request. Also advertising wooden handles and a new oat product at $1 with claims of unmatched value.
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Nashville Tenn
Max
Bia
Cincinnati
New York
Boston
Buffalo
Cleveland
Columbus
Detroit
Toledo
Sandusky
Chicago Benton Harbor
Louisville
Big Four R. R. Schedules West and East
Train times list stations Greensburg Ewington Hartsville Crossing Hope Miller's Lambert's and Caliebi Ly with morning and evening departures. Mixed pm am ampm times show route options and connections on the Big Four line.
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Greensburg
Ewington
Burney's
A Man of Prudence. Why He Did Not Hit the Barkeep
A Detroit Free Press tale features Dick, a cowboy in a saloon chair, who delays retaliating after hearing a barkeep call him a liar. Dick explains the barkeep arranged a life policy for his widow, and the risk prompts him to defer confrontation until discussions conclude.
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Detroit Free Press
Wieder
Widder
Dramatist Colman Defends Oath Elimination
Colman told a Commons committee he always expunges oaths from revised plays. He said he never counted oaths in Heir at Law or John Bull but acknowledges many exist. He believes removing them would improve scenes and humor, and he praises his work despite some bad lines.
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Colman
House of Commons
New York Advertiser
John Bull
London Signs and Letters Draw Americans’ Funny Notice
An American observer reports quirky London signs from last summer. A bell plate advises not to ring unless needed, post boxes are for letters that do not require an oral reply, and a blue window sign reads Yankie Cy der Is Sold Here. A hairdresser near Sharing Cross proclaims Hair Neatly Trimmed While You Wait, all reflecting London’s odd signage.
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London
New York Mail and Express
Strand
Bank of England
Ancient Advertisements Carved as Wall Albums
Early merchants scratched trade symbols on house walls to advertise. Lippincott's notes these rudimentary marks foreshadow vast pictorial ads that grew with commerce, attracting attention from aesthetes and collectors as public advertising evolved from necessity.
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Lippincott
Crushed Conductor Provokes Crowded Cable Car Laughs
Passengers on a crowded cable car mocked a rude conductor who refused quick payment. He finally gave change after a well dressed woman insisted a nickel instead of pennies, sparking amusement as the scene unfolded according to the New York Commercial Advertiser.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Nicke
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