Frank Gillett Wins One-Tenth of Lottery Ticket in $50,000 Draw
Frank Gillett of Norfolk Nebraska received 250 twenty dollar bills from Wells Fargo express after holding one-tenth of ticket 61503 for Louisiana State Lottery drawing $50,000 on the 18th inst. He has invested monthly for years, seldom more than one dollar, and plans to continue despite winning.
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Frank Gillett
Norfolk
Neb
Wells-Fargo Express
News Mx
Gillett
Montgomery Ward & Co Move to Michigan Ave Building
The Montgomery Ward & Co firm, once at 227 and 229 Wabash Ave Chicago, has grown and moved to a new seven floor building at 111 112 118 and 114 Michigan Ave. The space covers about 120000 square feet and will improve handling of their large direct to customer business while upholding their policy of honesty. The text also advertises Dr Pierce’s Pellets and Scott’s Emulsion, claiming health benefits. A vein discovery at Newman is noted.
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Messrs
Montgomery Ward &Co
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Michigan Ave
Montgomery, Ward &Co
Messrs. Montgomery Ward & Co
Castoria references and college ads appear in clipped text
The fragment includes an old Castoria ad line for babies and children, plus references to Omaha Commercial College Davenport Business College and Rohrbough Bros with a three months scholarship offer. Also notes car builders busy and a Chicago type foundry advertisement.
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Omaha Commercial College
Rohrbough Bros
Chicago
Century Growth of Centenarians in the Nation
An essay argues that centenarians are no longer rare as longevity rises with comfort, health knowledge, and morality. It cites early pioneers' hardships as diminishing and notes modern life offers better hours, varied amusements, and improved well‑being, making the current era a better age than any prior.
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Fnte
Tha
Whiter
Lincoln
Century Magazine
Roday
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Sympathy and the Widow Kad Do Pretzel’s Nationa
A child asks her mother about sympathy for the afflicted and the mother affirms, listing types of suffering from missing limbs to blindness. The exchange ends with the girl noting her mother’s lack of tears over the widow Kad Do and the Pretzel’s Nationa.
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Nationa
Traveler Paper Boy War Articles Cut Out
Fragmentary dialogue mentions a traveler and a paper boy asking about cuts to life and war articles. The noisy OCR yields unclear names and specifics. The readable parts hint at newspaper distribution and content cuts without clear events or dates.
Cure for Catarrh and Sudden Wealth Dreams in old ads
A clergyman cured of catarrh shares a free recipe offer via self addressed stamped envelope to Prof J A Lawrence of New York. The page then wanders through eclectic notices praising Frazer axle grease, a new coal shaft in Kansas, Kansas City land prices, and various promotional claims, including Moxie tonic benefits.
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Dr. Pierce
Scott
T. J. Finbury
Lone Star
Texas
Newman
Castoria
Davenport
Business College
Tor
J.G. Duncan
Iowa
Sheonda
Stare Nurseries
Louisans
Atty's
D.C
Fae Rtich
Acta
Per ‘Ames Jay Bro
ONSON
Detroit
Stevens &Co
Washington
Abs
Cleveland
Nebab
Mafiy
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Ilinois
Richter
Mary’ Hinson
Montrose
Kansas
Little Rock
Ark
Swayne
Philadelphia
Litchfield
Kas
Epee Lamar
Spring River
Wly
Kansas City
W. Suara, Jr
May Fletcher
Merrimack Street
Lowell
Mass
W.H. Sinclair
Galveston Railway Company
Moxie
Omahs Type Foundry
Justeuchalifesa
Bumitel &Co
Mous, Bdo
Bers Lous
Ash
Pacific
PRICE
E. Pacific Manufacturing CO
ST. Louis
Joan A“Davp
Milwaukee
Wis
R. W. Wansill & CO
Ely’s
Ac Nostri
Ely Bros
Greenwich St
N. Oe
Esterbrook
Tew
Vnece
Esterbrook Steel Pen CO
Camden
N. J
John St
New Yorks
Vanderbach
J. B. Udkebach & CO
Newark
Nes
Ernaemtenel
Kidder
Bae the Great
LIVER
Uluer
DR. Radway & CO
Warren Street
New Wales
Radway
Hadway
Badway
New Fork
Invendon Thispepex
Ia. H. Green & Sons
M. D's
Marietta Street
Atlanta
Omaha Type. Foundry
Omaha
Omaha Type Foundry
Allie Ronis
EOL Wabash AV
I Haioee
Ai Doea
Bo Eee Suteer
A. J. Tove
Meas
HL A. Anon
M.D
Oxford
Brooklyn
N.Y
Tos Currain Company
Fulton Street
Procter &Gamblera Lenox
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