Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Women
A letter from Mrs. E Hanson of Columbus Ohio praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the Change of Life, noting improved health and ability to work. The ad touts the remedy as a long standing cure for female ills and invites sick women to write for advice to Lynn Massachusetts. Also included are brief cultural quips and jokes from various sources.
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E. Hanson
Ki Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
Getter
Lydin
Lyndin 5. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Billiards Decline and Tax Notes From 1894 to Now
The piece argues billiards shrink from 95,000 tables in 1894 to 89,000, taxed by the treasury as a heavy revenue source, while motoring and golf may face future taxes. It notes Paris and London commentary and mentions potential shifts in taxation to fund losses. A second item shows a school-parents exchange about missed attendance. A health letter praises Grape-Nuts as a cure benefiting an elderly invalid once deemed incurable.
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Paris
London/Telegraph
N.Y. Indy
Pastum Co
Baltla Creek
Mich
Wollville
Phys A
The Hen and the Muley Cow Song Parodying Work
A whimsical verse from The Musicians' Chronicle features a hen, a muley cow, a parrot, and a hired man debating labor, wages, and purpose. The hen laments meal and shelter while the parrot claims equal burden, and the hired man ends with a punch about being bourgeois and productive.
The Last Time Between Bennie and Miss Callonby
Bennie Purvis pleads and Miss Callonby resists a final engagement in a tense living room scene. She refuses a marriage proposal while he insists he would accept no option other than marriage. The pair debate fidelity, feelings, and future plans as a clock ticks toward departure to the Philippines.
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Miss Callonby
Bennie Purvis
Bennie
Milas Collonby
King
Aliis Callonby
Miss Call
China
Philippines
Miss Catlonby
Bluffed plan leaves Bennie uneasy after bluffing
The Philippiner and Bennie argue over a bluff that backfires. Bennie contemplates the mean trick and worries the woman may discover his deception, leaving him remorseful as he departs the house.
The meanest fisherman in Wayne County lore
Judge Tom, famed as the wisest fisher man in Wayne County Pa, recalls a sobering tale of a notoriously mean companion during a bass trip on Lake Ladoro. A string of mishaps—lame horse, damaged boat, burned tobacco, and a bassless three hours—ends with the eel devoured and the Minnow split, provoking a final curse as the rogue sinks.
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Tom
Wayne County
Buffalo Bill
Lake Ladoro
Pat Coggin
Joe Peters
Joe Peter
Pearls of Thought Reflections From a Chicago Tribune Series
A collection of aphorisms on self denial love duty and virtue drawn from Sentence Sermons in the Chicago Tribune by T B Sweet. The tale recounts Topeka capitalist Mr Sweet stopping in Abilene and ordering a dozen hard boiled eggs provoking the waitress joke about a cowboy breakfast in Kansas City Journal style.
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The
Chicago Tribune
T. B. Sweet
Abilene
Mr Sweet
Sweet
Kansas City Journal
Rubber territory found on Pleaju river near Belem
A report from Rio de Janeiro describes a major rubber bearing area on the Pleaju river with a belief that rubber could be inexhaustible even with 2000 workers for twenty years. The Pleaju mouth is a short steamer sail from Belem, the capital of Para, in the Amazon region.
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Re de Janeiro
Plenja
Ateamer
Belem
Para
Amazon
Scientists Reported Inventions And Explorations Worldwide
A Paris municipal bureau develops a lumber piling machine. Dr George L Adams joins the Philippine Bureau of Mines as geologist after service with USGS and US Army. A Western Nebraska Miocene three toed horse expedition led by Albert Thomson includes Dr W D Matthews. Dr Dinger of Amsterdam details radium treated trachoma using a crab stylus delivering radium bromide with staged radiation over months. Merrill of the Smithsonian studies a Meteor Arkansas crater likely from meteor impact, drilling 500 feet below to confirm. Wind power advances in England propose using wind for electric lighting with gasoline motors to cover calm spells, noting average wind speeds and seasonal variations.
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Nebraska
Albert Thomson
W D. Matthews
American Museum of Natural Hisory
New York City
Dinger
Amsterdam
Tye
Nelina
Meteor
Arl
George P. Merrill
Department of Geology
Smithsonian Institution
Mars
England
Queer Telegraph Poles Made of Adobe in Bolivia
A historical note describes telegraph poles in Bolivia built from adobe due to scarce wood. The 156 mile line from La Paz to Oruro used 15 foot tall, six foot square adobe pillars on stone foundations to keep wires high above animals. Also mentions Uganda and Dutch East Indies growing pole schemes and a Kansas schoolboard mnemonic for colors and cabinet ranks.
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Bolivia
la Paz
Oruro
Uganda
Dutch East Indies
Chicago Tribune
Revolution in steelmaking and smart torpedoes
Harper's Weekly recounts how purification advances in steelmaking, led by Lt Cmdr Cleland Davis, enabled a torpedo to pierce armor and coal, enhancing naval weaponry. The piece also touches on the global spread of crops like the potato and tomato and cites ancient introductions across continents.
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Clelind Davis
United States Navy
Han
Howard Herrick
Harper's Weekly
Waslington
Davis
Fragmented Quotation From Philadelphia Inquirer
In a garbled excerpt, Jonen jokes about bad fills and a fall through a window. Thompson retorts that the fall must have been long, recalling a sensational line from the Philadelphia Inquirer amid unclear dialogue.
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Jonen
Ufe
Thompson
Philadelphia
Wholesale Dairy Prices in New York Excerpt
Wholesale Milk and dairy prices appear from The Milk Exchange listing per quart. Various grades and products such as butter creamery Western and state full cream cheese are shown with prices and quality notes, including kidneys and peas.
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New York
Milk Exchange
Western
Choice
Lima
Cale
Cotton hold movement eyed by Memphis growers
Leaders of the Growers' Association including Nervie Jordan announce plans for a general meeting of planters merchants bankers and others to discuss concerted action to hold cotton for higher prices. Jordan says farmers cannot hold alone and prices may fall without action. Attendance could reach several thousand amid mixed signals on the crop size and market mood.
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Memphis
Tenn
Growers’ Association
Nervie Jordan
Airing the Room and Home Craft Insights
A jumble of home care and craft notes discusses airing rooms to purge impure air, then details the Plate Heater for serving hot dishes, silk stocking care to prevent runs, and making simple rag rugs. It also covers recipes for fritters, pea puree, croquettes, pudding, buttered rice, and a humorous Slop Jar anecdote.
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New York Herald
Can a Woman Love Two 4% in Romantic War Prizes
A fragmented report discusses Ruth Dverett in a romance novel titled EET and questions whether a woman can love two at once. The text appears as garbled OCR with unclear context and multiple redundancies, offering little dependable detail about plot or author.
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Ruth Dverett
Two Beat One Two Third Beat One On Eit Fourth Best
The text presents garbled OCR of a 1909 era page with multiple coinage like bids and prices. It references penny auctions, price lists, and coal shipping issues. Notable mentions include Manhattan and New York City, price quotes, and a New York World note on coal boats and drought effects.
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Pittsburg
New York
New York World
Cure for Itching Sores Credited to Cuticura Trio
A mother from Attica Indiana credited Cuticura Soap and Ointment with curing her child’s persistent itching sores after months of failure. She reports the boy recovered after three uses and remains scar free. Also notes other health and consumer tidbits from 1907 including teething syrup and whiskey rheumatism cures.
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William Geeding
Washington St
Attica
Ind
Genuine California Fig Syrup Co. laxative advertisement
Truth and Quality appeal to the well informed and state Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is a valued laxative. It cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or needing larger doses, acting pleasantly and naturally. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Rista
Printing history in Philadelphia through 1900
The passage traces Philadelphia’s printing rise from Ramage’s press in 1795 to 1900, noting early presses and hydraulic engines, 1686 first Pennsylvania press, 1741 Franklin magazine efforts, 1784 first daily in U.S., 1810 press growth, 1817 Columbian hand press, and 1900 city firms numbering 122 with capital over 23 million and product value around 23.4 million.
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United States
Adam Ramage
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Franklin
American Company of Booksellers
New York
Daly
New York State
George Clymer
England
Deliberate act labeled willful and menacing in court
A lawyer brands the act as deliberate and malicious while a teamster, briefly jailed for blocking traffic, pleas to be cleared of the charges. The exchange shows tension as officials pursue accountability. The dialogue reflects harsh legal language and stubborn defiance from the involved party.
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Golly
Trafic
Boas
Kansas City Journal
Reward for catarrh cure and poison pill ads
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Toledo Ohio. It touts internal action and lists testimonials, price 75 cents per bottle, with Hall’s Pills for constipation and a poetry quip from the Atlanta Constitution.
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Hall
All Druggiata
Peruna Endorsements Highlight Its Usefulness as a Tonic
A Pennsylvania Avenue attorney comments on Peruna for catarrhal disorders and calls it an exemplary tonic with strong endorsement. A Canadian resident praises recovery from pneumonia after Peruna, noting it helped a tailor regain her ability to work. The ad mentions Peruna Tablets as a solid form equivalent to a dose of Peruna.
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West Aylmer
Ontario
Deacon Quips and Humorous Tales From a City Church
A pompous deacon tests boys on living a Christian life, only to be met with a sharp retort from a bright boy. The column also recalls a grim joke about marriage’s happiness and a prankish farmer who laughs at his own misfortune when a hog tramples potato plants.
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Lippincott’s
Mushrooms in Edinburgh Tunnel Venture Success
A three quarters of a mile long former Edinburgh tunnel emptied after the Perth and Dundee line shifted to an avoiding route has been leased by an ingenious entrepreneur. He grows mushrooms inside the tunnel, turning a defunct railway into a thriving cultivation site. The venture has proven highly successful.
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Edinburgh
Perth and
Dundee
Waverley
Lost Her Chance Matrimonial Troubles Narrated
An aristocratic parentage sets the stage for a domestic dispute as the eldest son of a wealthy manufacturer contends that a husband should reveal his intent from the start. A spirited reply from the leading beauty challenges his premise in a brisk exchange. The Chicago News reports from New York.
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Chicago News
N.Y
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Bill Nye
Manhattan Island
Greater
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Milwaukee Journal
Willie
Daniel
Willis
Sol‘cron
Weill
Solomon
New England Grocer
Billy Wallop
Puck
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Odie
New York Sun
Uncle Eben
Washington’ Star
Municipal Woodpaving Bureau of
George L. Adams
United States Geological Survey
Corps of Engineers of Mines of
Peru
Bureau of Mines of
Philippine Islands
Africa
Kansas
St. Wapnia
Treasury
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Navy
Interior
Agriculture
Atchisop Globe
America
Europe
Virginia
Armerica
India
Jermey
lea—King
En Davis
Areeninga
eara--Seckel
Ahn Sheldon
Concord
Niagara
Baske
Cranberriea
C. Cotno
Jersey
Patateca
Mona
T. F
Orange Co
Qiu
Reeves
Southern Cotton Association
Southern Pacific Railroad
San Francisco
Livingston Parish
Louisiana
National Grain Dealers’ Association
St. Louis
Tess
Canada
Lake Navigation
Michigan
Michigan Department of State
New York Evening Post
Bam Campbell
Londonderry
Hosteas
O'Flannigan
Eet
Iwards
Mall
Frice
Cutiura
Escolta
Globo Pharmaceutical Co
Gulboltard
Baby
U. 8
Suros
Atlaonta Constitution
Red Cross
REA CO. Dent
Batlinneapolis
Minn
Hon, R
Tharin
Deaggists
Hale
Pike
New York Press
Helppy
Mihi
Itelletter Et Trench Drug CO
Induntirial Law League, Inc
Bronaway, New Yori
Ut Shoe
Fred. F. Field CO
Brockton, Mass
Putnam
Mionilue Dlug
Quincy
Tinaien
Enpeck
Singleton
O. C. Fellows
Mesa
Col
Matt
J. Hamilton Avers
Book Publishing House
Leonard St. N. Y. E
Powtry
Stam Book Publishing House
Leona
St. N. Y. City
Piso
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