Eagles Tail mining scheme in Old Fortuna tale advances
Bud Hooker and Phil De Lancey voyage from Gadsden into Old Fortuna Mexico seeking to secure the Eagle Tail mine title through a Mexican partner. They probe Cruz Mendez and Don Juan for information while observing Fortuna Vieja and Aragon’s stronghold as they plot a legal transfer under Mexican law.
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Bud Hooker
Phil de Lancey
Mexico
United States
Gadsden
Bud
Henry Kruger
Kruger
Aragon
Nooker and
de Lancey
Fortuna
Plaza
Phil
Bien
Juan de Dios Brachamonte Y Escalon
Don Juan
Byron
Don Joo-an
Philip de Lancey
Mr. Hooker
Don Juan de Dios
Mr. Brachamonte
DelLancey
Eagle Tail
Arizona
Old Mexico
Republic
Hooker
Hagle Tall Mining Company
Republic of Mexico
Agua Negra
Cipriano Aragon Y Tres Palacios
Cruz Mendez
de Laney
Sonora
Senos
Tres Palacios
Sierras
Mendez
Jose Maria Mendez
Ricardo
Pancho
Cruz
Madrid
Senora Aragon
la Fortuna
Fortunas
Don Cipriano
Senor Aragon
Tropics
Old Eagle Tall
Old Fortuna
Carlyle on Wedding Fears and Witty Reply
Thomas Carlyle and his wife faced wedding nerves. Her letter mocking his terrors warned against benignant humor, saying it could make the incident both original and heart breaking.
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Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
eczema cured by Cuticura on Rochester child
A Rochester mother reports eczema starting in the left eye with swelling sores spreading to ears scalp and hair loss. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a complete cure in eighteen days and a restored hair growth.
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Bay St
Rochester
N. Y
Frederick C. Northurst
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Father’s quip over Cornell football stings town line
A Chicago man visiting his Cornell son quips about the team after a loss to Colgate. He asks how the football squad is faring while driving home from New York, eliciting the sharp retort that Cornell has been beaten by everything except the Colonial Dames.
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Chicago
Cornell
New York
Colgate
Colonial Dames
Suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gilman Catchphrase at Colony Club
In New York at a Colony Club luncheon, Honorary Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman responded to critics of the suffrage movement with a quip about a hen and the egg, asserting determined confidence in suffrage progress.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Colony Club
New York
Making a Distinction in Strange Truth and Career
In this brief exchange Miss Cayenne muses on truth versus fiction. The line suggests TJ’s uncertainty whether truth is merely stranger or simply a chosen path.
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Miss* Cayenne
Fanny and Jacks in a twist of betrothal talk
In a salon exchange the participants tease a romance involving Jacks and Fanny. One asks if Jacks is engaged and if Fanny is the bride to be, only to hear the reply that she is described as the tried to be.
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Fanny
Jacks
Postum Proves An Effective Coffee Replacement
An Indiana woman recounts how Postum relieved her family’s coffee ailments after trying the product on her coffee loving father and coffee prone mother. She notes the drink’s dark color, coffee like taste, and that it became a standing grocery order for over a decade. Her husband, initially skeptical, grew to prefer Postum as well. The note cites Postum by the Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and mentions two forms Regular and Instant with price points. There’s a slogan There’s a Reason.
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Mexico
Bud
Phil
Fortuna Hotel
Boniface
de Lancey
Board of Strategy
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Don J. Lavin
Frank A. Monsey
Old
Cavalier de Lancey
Zarape
Burgos
Castile
Chapter
Fortuna Vieja
Mitad
Villanueva
Bluecoate
One Hundred and Sixty-second Street
Emanuel Levy
Hamilton Place
Nicand
New York Times
Eczema
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