Printing office wakeup and jailhouse nail legend story
A Boston Record quote contrasts modern pink dismissal letters with Uncle Jimmy Gilbert’s harsh printing office method using a nailed wall hangers. The note mentions the dramatic wage-culprit sign for a finish. The Connecticut Game Commission reports sixty five thousand Hungarian partridges have been imported and released in the last two years.
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Jimmy Gilbert
Jerry
Boston Record
Connecticut Game Commuisaion
Cuticura Cures Severe Eczema After Three Months
Walter I. H. Cox of 16 Somerset Street Boston describes extreme itching and burning on hands with scaly patches and deep cracks. After three months of misery his doctor’s medicine failed to help, but Cuticura Remedies cured him in one month.
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Walter I H. Cox
Somerset St
Boston
Masa
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuticura Remedies
Mass
Caraway Seeds Fetch Them In Bread Tales
An East Side resident jokes that residents return to rye bread for its distinct caraway seeds. A Kansas fair elk exhibit leads a man to joke he cannot afford to bring his family to see the elk. German author Hoffmann gained permission to hyphenate his name with Kutschka in a famed 1870 poem.
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East Side
New York
Kansans
Argonaut
Dr. Hoffmann
Old Timer Hag Hod Experiences Postum Benefits
A longtime Postum user testifies that switching from tea or coffee cured nervous dyspepsia and nerves. She notes her husband also improved after switching, and the family maintained health with Postum easing brain and nerve power. The letter claims Postum strengthens rather than excites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheenya
Wellville
Scattered Verse Fragments from a New York Times Exchange
A fragmentary poem describes a frightened face and tilted head, imagining a scene where a girl cannot sit or stand in Blea. It recalls a comedy of errors with a matchbook mood and imagery of teapots, cups, and guns. The piece is attributed to Lorana W. Sheldon in the New York Times.
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e-Lorana W. Sheldon
The
New You Times
The Undying Past at the Old Gate
A man revisits a childhood summer by a gate and recalls a first love named Mabel. He learns the gate’s owner is now his sister, awaiting tea with her sister who may be his former beloved, who returns tomorrow.
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Mabel
Agai
I Thought You Were Telling A Story
A tense dialogue unfolds as a man reassures a woman who mistakes his account for fiction. She reveals she has no sister, questions a painful past, and faces her accuser with quiet resolve, while he speaks of mercy and honesty in a charged, intimate moment.
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F. Harris Deans
Driving a Nail Techniques for better holding and aim
The article discusses skilled nail driving, noting that proper technique matters more than brute force. It explains angling nails for better draw, starting nails, oiling hard wood, and finishing taps to ensure tight contact, with examples of how misdirected blows can loosen grip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Pearls Of Thought And Quips From Eve Epigrams
A collage of humorous witticisms and aphorisms from Eve's Epigrams in the New York Telegram. The item playfully muses on love, youth, marriage, femininity, and social pretenses, with a closing note on American rubber boots selling in southern China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chyna
President Vivian Small to lead Lake Erie College
Miss Vivian Small, Latin professor and head of Meade Hall at Mount Holyoke College, has been elected president of Lake Erie College Buffalo to succeed Miss Mary A. Evans who resigns after forty years of service. The report also notes fashion trends and social topics from contemporary sources.
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Vivian AB. Small
Meade Hall
Mount Holyoke College
Lake Erie College
Buffalo
Mary A. Evans
Cleaning Tips For Carpets Feathers And Simple Cookery
Practical household notes cover carpet cleaning with soap and earth, nail whitening with lemon juice, making inexpensive slippers, a wooden kitchen cabinet on wheels, feather care and washing, and assorted recipes for puddings muffins cakes and sauces with clear stepwise hints. Provided by New Haven Register Boston Post Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Foot Health Remedies Promoted Amid Theatrical Debate
An assortment of old time consumer ads promotes Allen’s Foot Ease and other remedies for corns, bunions, and foot pain. The text also references Paradise Lost and Milton, teething remedies for children, and a long discussion on the critic’s role in theater reviews.
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Allen
Cta
Paradise Lost
Milton
Memoirs of Dan Rice Clown of Our Daddies
Book review notes a demand for humor and previews the 600 page Memorias of Dan Rice by Marin Ward Brown. It promises jokes, anecdotes, songs and satire from the Civil War era and claims a wide sale for 1.50 dollars from Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard Street New York. Also cites Argentina foot and mouth disease halting live cattle imports to England since 1903, while frozen beef imports reach 402047632 pounds valued at 29696323 dollars.
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Dan Rice
Marin Ward Brown
Publc
Artemus Ward
Addres Book Publishing House
Leonard Street
New York City
England
Argentina
Book Publishing House
N.Y
Rigid Truth on Kidney Pills and Fly Extermination
A Mrs. Cobb of Nicholasville Kentucky touts Dean's Kidney Pills claiming a full recovery with weight gain after backache headaches and kidney symptoms. The piece also discusses fly control methods including formaldehyde solutions and notes on Whitefish fry migration and attempts to modernize diplomatic literary history and falcon messenger trials in war.
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W. H. Cobb
Nicholasville
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Hair Color Change Doubtful From Grief or Fear
Medical authority rejects popular belief that extreme grief or terror rapidly colors hair. Dr. Fowler notes only growing hair turns gray or white at the root, while exterior hair remains its color. no authenticated cases of sudden hair color change exist in medical literature.
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A. Fowler
Chicago
The
Royal Society
Marie Antoinette
Washington Herald
Wanted Her Money Back in Ohio and Kentucky Tour
A theater tour led by George Cohan faced poor business in Ohio and Kentucky. In Marietta, Buckeye State, a matinee audience was small and a distraught manager ran errands as a child demanded a refund saying she was afraid to sit alone in the gallery.
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George Cohan
Ohio
Kentucky
Marietta
Buckeye
Hetlo
Lippincott’s
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United Ladies Tailors’ Association of America
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India
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Everybody
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Heela
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