Mayer Shoe Company Delivers Strong Year End Showing
Mayer Root and Shoe Company Milwaukee the largest shoe establishment in the northwest reports year end growth. The firm attributes the rise to product merit and high standards behind Mayer shoes known as shoes of quality. Popular lines include Honorbill Leading per Yerma Martha Washington and Special Merit School shoes.
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Depres| Hill Sakes
Mayer Root & Shoe Company
Milwaukee
Mayer Shoes
Mayer
Mayer Boot & Shoe Company
Family asks winter destination choice in story
Dialogue shows Maria and the girls debating winter plans with options to visit the Bermudas or stay at a Fox River farm. The father notes finances will not cover a Bermudas trip, guiding their decision.
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Maria
Bermudas
John
Fox River
Chicago Tribune
The Porlet at Large
A reader asserts it takes five minutes to mark a ballot as desired and vows to split tickets rather than vote straight. The exchange ends with a quip about splitting infinitives.
Bromine Quinine Laxative Ad Claims Quick Cure
Slogan touts the product as a world trial remedy to cure a cold in one day. The advertisement features the name K. W. Grove and markets the item as a laxative priced at 25 cents.
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K. W. Grove
Crushing the Curate and the Widow Woman Fraud
A timid curate, hired to verify a widow’s authenticity, questions Selina Jackson on every life detail. She mocks him with sharp retorts about her name and circumstances, exposing his inexperience before a Liverpool Mercury audience.
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Marriet Smith
Selina Jackson
Liverpool Mercury
The Influence of Environment Cartoon Exchange
In a Harvard Lampoon cartoon a physician runs an automobile and tells a club member the carburetor is running too rich. The gag centers on environment influencing health and mechanical humor.
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Harvard Lampoon
Woman recovers health by replacing coffee with Postum
A Te Elm woman shares her experience leaving coffee, suffering headaches, then using Postum after advice. She notes weight gain from 117 to 170 pounds and attributes her recovery to Postum, saying her husband calls her a living advertisement for the product.
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Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
The Chauffeur and the Jewels Contained Pursuit Night Scene
In a tense chase through darkness and lights, Mrs. Waring and her chauffeur evade pursuers led by Count Souravieff. A daring motor race near Washington tests skill, with Gussie torn between a chivalrous driver and the aristocratic Del Pino.
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Count Souravieff
del Pino
Mia
Waring
Chevy Chase Cub House
Souravier
Seurvieff
Armateur
Cleveland Park
Sarto
Adama Mills Road
Gusale
Dupont Clele
Guaste
Souvarieff
Grafton
Gussie
Shoe
Barto
Guasie
Guesle
Guasle
Gossie Waring
Mynself
Prince del Pina
Silent motor Zahlung? Night drive ends in love confession
The scene unfolds along a dim avenue where a silent car glides unseen as wind moves the trees. A woman finally declares love, delivering a clarifying line about preferring one person over a prince, settling a long standing debt in a metaphorical purge.
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Sarto
Guasie
Daughters of a Domine and Local Courtship Drama
The tale from A Book of Joya follows Mrs. John and her daughters in a New England village. A minister’s daughter weds a mere deacon’s son amid social expectations. The elder moves to Boston to buy household goods. the younger wins her beau John through playful manipulation. Mrs. John remains fearless, wearing a twenty year old bonnet as church ladies debate fashion. When a bonnet dispute erupts, a village doctor and sister conspire to prank the ladies, and a son delivers the new bonnet to his mother riding proudly in it.
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Daugh
New England
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Boston
John
Sewing Society
The Life of Great Men Height Mystery
The piece notes conflicting claims on the heights of historic figures from Julius Caesar to George Washington. It cites historians’ guesses and pop beliefs about Napoleon Alexander the Great Jay Gould and others, and playfully questions stature across eras. The tone mimics a New York Press quip on fame and form.
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Iron Duke
Julius Caesar
Hannibal
Alexander the Great
Solomon
George Washington
Napoleon
Jay Gould
Charlemagne
Briing the Bold
Frederick the Great
Robert Bruce
Sir William Wallace
Winfield Scott
Richard Coeur de Lion
New York Press
Belgian Baroness Invites Servais To Banquet And Ball
A German newspaper reports a Belgian baroness inviting the famed cellist Servais to a banquet reception and ball next Thursday. Servais replies declining due to urgent business in Brussels and promises to send his violoncello in accord with the baroness’s wish.
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Servais
M. de
Baroness de
Brussels
Reggy’s Humorous Request For In-Law Bonding
A conversation reveals Reggy sharing jokes as Mal and Geraldine discuss his playful plea to become Papa’s son in law. The tone hints at humor and family dynamics as plans for a humorous future unfold.
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Mal Hal Geraldine
Papa
Reggy
How much did that capital cost inquiry at Harrisburg
A terse exchange unfolds as an eightseer questions Harrisburg about capital costs. The guide counters, stressing the aim to improve minds rather than discuss scandal.
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Harrisburg
Honest living guides lasting success and warns against deceit
A collection of essays argues that honesty and integrity sustain true success beyond material wealth. It opposes the idea that slick or dishonest conduct leads to fortune and stresses the value of moral effort, with quotes from Leslie's Weekly on character and ambition.
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Ilan
Leslie's Weekly
Veteran Engineer Tells Of Railroading’s Rise In Toledo
Moses R. Nason recalls watching railroads grow from the 1830s Erie and Kalamazoo line to today. He began in 1888 and describes early skepticism toward steam power, the shift from horse to steam locomotion, and Toledo’s rail development near Bancroft Street.
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Toledo
Middle West
Moses R. Nason
Hale and Hearty
Bancroft Street
Ottawa Park
Mr. Nason
Remembering Early Rail Travel on the Erie and Kalama Line
Tolalo Binde recalls starting at age 17 on the Erie Kalama line, running Toledo to Adrian 33 miles. He describes night travel dangers, using two engines named the Adrian and another, saltatory work with green wood fuel, ditch water, and horse assist when engines stalled. He notes wooden rails with iron bands and prone snake heads requiring hammer blows, strap rails, and the leap from wagon to early locomotive comfort. The piece contrasts primitive travel with modern Pullman cars as a Twentieth Century Limited speeds past a farmhouse.
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Ohat
Toledo
Erie & Kalamazoo
Adrian
Managera
Moe
Erie
Kalamazo
Lake Shore
Here
Uke
Nason
Tolalo Binde
Unclear Verse Fragment from Newport Season
A damaged OCR fragment notes a university background with Vassar and Princeton references in a Newport season poem. It mentions a tan coat provoking ridicule and observes a split on the face, ending with a proverb about halves of the world and life.
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Vassar
Princeton
Newport
Rail line catalpa ties experiment fails in Utah
The Rio Grande and Western Railroad tested catalpa trees as a substitute for white oak in railroad ties. Planting along the track in Utah, the project failed after cattle and rodents damaged the saplings, leaving the avenue looking ragged and the experiment unsuccessful. Senator Reed Smoot discussed the lesson after reporting from Europe.
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Catalpa
Rio Grande and Western Railroad
New York Times
Reed Smeet
Utah
Forestry Dvision
Committee On National Resources
Roosevelt
Germany
France
Switzerland
Rio Grande
Senator Smoot
United States
The
Rio Grande and Western
Catalpas
Fad of the Hotel Clerk at Coates House
A Kansas City Star item recounts a young man at the Coates House attempting to close the hotel register. The clerk warns that closing the register is bad luck and mentions a clamp device to prevent it, while noting the hotel’s fortunes ride on the book. A closing quip about a man's ideal husband ends the piece.
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Souraviel
Lettus
Egotleta
Monte Carlo
Bouravier
Coates House
Kansas City Star
Helere
Ao Hotel
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National Bureau of Labor
Chicago Journal
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