Taos Pueblo Houses Build Skyward In Adobe Towers
A Denver correspondent describes Taos Pueblo as a compact village of two adjoining adobe houses housing about seven hundred Indians. Homes rise in stacked stories with ladders between floors, central apartments granting larger rooms to honored residents, and animals freely sharing living space. Deaths from smallpox have occurred, and origins trace to Spanish colonial times.
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Denver
Col
Corresponden
Mexico
Taos
Ople
Fourteenth Street
London Watchmaker Heist Ends With Fifty Pound Dumbbell
A London watchmaker sells a gold hunter for 48 pounds to a gentleman who leaves a 50 pound note at home. After a convoluted chase the man is sent to collect cash but returns with a brown package containing a fifty pound dumbbell, not money. The clerk and watchmaker recall the incident.
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London
So-and-so
Ironmonger
Spander
Pytchly
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad
An old and well tried remedy advertised for teething in children. It claims to relieve pain cure wind colic regulate the stomach and give rest to mothers by promoting health in the child.
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Hoatetter
Nose Trouble Haunts a Suitor in Odd Conversation
A comic dialogue features Why Lie W lamenting cannot marry Kitty over her nose. Another insists she is charming despite deformities, while the onlookers debate each feature. The scene pivots to a mock advertisement praising Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for cleansing breath and curing catarrh, sold by druggists.
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Imarry
George
Kitty
Dr. Sage
Druggista
Celebrated MaTCHLEss Wood Tag Plug Ad Claim
An advertising notice touts MaTCHLEss wood tag plugs from The Pioneer Tonacco Company with offices in New York Boston and Chicago. It promotes Johnson's Analyne Liniment as safe and versatile for humans and animals and urges avoiding inferior horse and cattle powders. Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders are claimed pure and valuable in amalji packs. Dooley's Yeast Powder is criticized as inferior and altered.
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OHEW
Pioneer
Tonacco Company
New York
Boston
Chicago
Sheridan
Quirk's Irish Tea and Tobias Venetian Ointment Ad
A vintage drug advertisement promotes Quirk's Irish Tea at 25 cents and Tobias Venetian Ointment at 40 cents internal use. It claims cures for diarrhea dysentery colic and cramps and external ailments like rheumatism sore throats and bruises, offering a one dollar pint version with pay later if unsatisfied. Depot listed as 10 Park Place New York.
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Tobias
Park Place
New York
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Maine
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Camden
Jersey
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