Persistent Pickerel Returns For Another Catch At Local River
Elkhart Daily Review details Fred Harden reeling in an eight pound pickerel at Feraldh’s landing on the St Josph river. The fish previously escaped after tying to the boat and Harden notes the recovered hook and line as evidence the same fish was caught again. The tale ends with a river-side dinner recounting the catch.
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Fred Hardin
Feraldh
St. Josph
Hardin
Elkhart Daily Review
John Peters
Covington
Fred Harden
A Policeman's Testimony on Foley's Honey and Tar
A Nashua Iowa night policeman recalls a winter chest cold and failed treatments from several cough medicines and two doctors. He credits Foley's Honey and Tar, two thirds of a bottle cured him, calling it the greatest cough and remedy in the world. Sold by M U VanDoro.
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A. N. Paterson
Nashua
Iowa
Foley
M.U. VanDoro
A Sponge Garden Craft Idea From Country Life in America
A sponge garden uses a damp coarse sponge cut into a shape and seeded with red clover millet barley grass rice oats or other seeds. Soak the sponge until damp squeeze half dry and hang it in a sunny window to grow seeds thrive.
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America
Where Nature Falls Short in Portraits
A witty critique notes that whiskers can hide a receding chin yet fail to fix a flat brow, lampooning society’s obsession with appearances and the limits of grooming as a remedy for natural flaws.
Marriage Licenses Listing for Several Couples
The notice lists multiple marriage licenses issued to couples including Homer F E Krauta and Edith Z Allen, James Watts and Elizabeth Stein, Burton Henderson and Oliie Voelen, Ray Mitchell and Rhoda Cecil, Deal Helms and Estle Lindley, Alvah DeHaven and May Ruth Hettieth, George W Williams and Myrtle Ward, and William G Wilt and Clara M Gray.
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Deal Helms
Estle Lindley
Alvah DeHaven
May Ruth Hettieth
Clash of Stars Over Carmen Spat Ends With Change of Plans
In a Greenroom quarrel between Minnie Hauck and Marie Roze over Carmen, Roze is reported to have secured the Susanna role in The Marriage of Figaro while Hauck was locked out of the dressing room. The commotion led to Hauck’s refusal to sing that evening.
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Minnie Hauck
Marie Roze
Carmen
Roze
Susapna
Hauck
Cherubino
Mr. Upton
Henry Mapleson
Dewis
Chevalier
Ioze
Pearson’s Weekly
The Borobodoer Unearthed by Sir Stamford Raffles
The Boroboedoe r unearthed by Sir Stamford Raffles is described as a vast eighth century Hindu temple in Java built by the Hindus on a hill. It rises over one hundred feet, covers nearly ten acres, and features tiered stone terraces with galleries and a crowning cupola. Buddha images fill niches along carved walls and long bas-reliefs detail its history, surpassing pyramid work in scope.
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Stamford Raffles
Java
Pyramids
Egypt
Shanghai Mercury
Wedding Horses Ready for Procession Says Liveryman
A cautious man seeks a carriage horse for the afternoon but learns from a liveryman that some horses are “wedding horses” that tolerate old shoes and rice. The Bays are described as calm about wedding emblems and slated to head tonight’s wedding procession, resting before the job.
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New York Sun
Bed Good Enough For Him
A farmer calls his son to wake up for eggs and ham. The college student resists rising early, joking about the old saying the early bird catches the worm. Local humor reflects on the futility of waking early.
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Chicago News
Dear Percy The Daunceys Provide Field for Bertie
A letter from Bertie to Percy notes The Daunceys are very decent hosts. They let Bertie have the whole shooting field for his visits.
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Bertie
Percy
London
Difference Between Cute and Sneaky Question
A dialogue contrasts a child’s request about synonyms with a mother’s remark about Mrs. Jones' son. The exchange implies a humorous distinction between endearing behavior and stealthy action, framed as a school lesson.
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George
Clever Young Man Tries to Stop Train on English Platform
A witty youth at a busy English railway station shouted that a carriage wasn’t going. Passengers moved aside quickly, while the station master revealed the trick and the porter uncoupled the car, thinking the boy a rector.
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Teo
Three Gates for Speech in a Moral Prose Poem
A compact moral verse urges silence unless a tale about another passes three gates. First test truth, then need, then kindness before speaking. If all gates approve, one may tell the tale. otherwise keep the secret.
Saint confronts newcomer over misquotes and fame
In a tense exchange, St Peter questions a stranger once famous for controversial remarks. The visitor defends himself claiming misquotation, but the saint rebukes the excuse and directs him toward the furnace cellar.
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St. Peter
Eneth
Dpewcomer
Prank Ends in Stir at London Restaurant
Veteran actor Sothern feigned greeting to comedian Toole at a London eatery. He slapped a stranger, apologized, then Toole joined the ruse. The pair provoked an angry reaction, prompting a playful backslap that caused a comic scene and left the room in a comic uproar.
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Sothern
Toole
London
Jim
Sothera
Secret of Happiness Revealed in Adam Clark Adage
A quotation attributed to Adam Clark proclaims the great happiness secret: keep energies in motion and avoid stagnation. He argues against the saying too many irons in the fire, insisting you cannot have too many pursuits like poker and other tasks to stay engaged.
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Adam Clark
The Doctors' Orders Viable in Morning Magazine
A wife explains her husband’s stomach troubles perplexing two doctors. One advised ripe apples hourly while the other urged a rest hour after eating. The husband, split between remedies, tries both. A sympathetic neighbor seeks the cause, and a Today's Magazine writer frames the tale.
Kerosene’s 1855 US patent and origin
The passage notes the first US patent No 12 612 dated March 27 1855 to Abraham Gesner of Williamsburg New York and assigned to the North American Kerosene Gas Light Company. It cites Gesner describing kerosene as a new liquid hydrocarbon and contrasts it with the prior term coal oil.
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United States
Abraham Gesner
Williamsburg
N. Y
North American
Kerosene Gas Light Company
Gesher
Blue Hen's Chickens Nickname for Delawareans
Capt. Caldwell led a Delaware regiment in the revolution and earned the nickname Caldwell's game cocks for his cockfighting passion. He believed only a cock from a blue hen was ready, giving rise to the Blue Hen's Chickens label later applied to Delawareans.
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Caldwell
Foley’s Kidney Remedy and Preventives Ad Copy
An old newspaper fragment promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy with hexamethylenetetramine as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic, sold by M C Van Dorn. It also touts Preventives candy cold care tablets with fast relief and child uses, pricing a quarter for a large box.
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M.C. van Dorn
AQ Deat
Partial Theft and a Stolen Bible in a Witty Exchange
A short exchange centers on a thief boasting of stealing a book with a fine leather cover and gilt edges. The thief admits swiping it when the clerk wasn’t looking and wonders why the entire Bible wasn’t taken, quipping about the Acts of the Apostles.
Judged by Their Trousers in a Funny Ad Brief
An odd item laments trouser fashions with caricatured outfits, citing concertina folds and various legwear. It promotes a pamphlet from Northern Ohio Publishing Company offering medical hints and home remedies priced at 50 cents, plus postage.
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London
Northern Ohio Publishing Company
Bucyrus
Ohio
Police Girl at Philadelphia Theater Entrance
A young woman replaces the usual guard, serving a theater entrance beat in Philadelphia. She wears the coat portion of a uniform and a white cap, carries a rattan cane, and appears capable of maintaining order on the beat.
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Philadelphia
Animals Do Not Reason Says E T Brewster
The quote argues that animals lack true reasoning, noting that only humans cross into genuine reasoning. It cites Brewster from McClure's as asserting even the wisest animals approach but never achieve unequivocal reasoning.
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E. T. Brewster
McClure’s
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Krauta
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James Watts and
Elizabeth Stein
Burton Henderson and
Oliie Voelen
Ray Mitchell and
Rhoda Cecil
George W. Williams and
Myrtle Ward
William G. Wilt and
Clara M. Gray
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Mion
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