Paris to Naples Pursuit of Hayle Continues
Fairfax rows with danger as Leglosse joins the chase. Miss Kitwater begs to accompany them to Naples to safeguard her uncle and prevent Hayle’s escape. They learn Hayle has fled to Naples and plan the 8:50 morning departure to pursue him.
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Mr. Fairfax
Mr. Codd
Paris
Hayle
Kitwater
Leglosse
England
Miss Kitwater
M. Kitwater
Surrey
Cochin China
Naples
David Coppersfield
Mr. Dick
Fairfax
Codd
France
Hen Adopts Kittens In Port Arthur Farm Tale
A Port Arthur hen raises and defends five kittens after finding a cat nursing them in a barrel. The unusual brood, photographed by photographers visiting Dr. Fred S. Selby in Chicago, now roams with the hen guarding them at the Park home.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Fred S. Selby
West Adams Street
Chicago
W. P
Iowa Hotel Clerk Recalled as Thoughtful Fire Savior
A Chicago drummer recounts waking by a bellboy in an Iowa town hotel to meet a mystery visitor. He alerts the clerk and learns the hotel is on fire. the night clerk calmly arranges valuables for safekeeping and frees guests, telling the man to leave with no charge and to step outside before the ceiling collapses.
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Iowa
Chicago
Knowledge Lane and Greenfield Way
A poem recalls learning paths in winter and summer. It contrasts straight, formal routes like Knowledge Lane and Study Lane with nature driven paths such as Greenfield Way and Woodsy Path. Reading open books left by Dame Nature guides readers to the same knowledge land.
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Sunset Hill
Elizabeth Lincoln Gould
Good Reason. Wife Well You Faulted Treatment Between Spouses
A brief domestic exchange cited by the New York Sun shows a wife accusing her husband of poor treatment and the husband retorting it was his fault for not treating her better than he treated another person.
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N. Y. Sun
Wise Willie and the Lemonade Stand Tale
A fragment from the Chicago American presents Wise Willie asking for a nickel for a lame man. Willie’s father figure is unclear as Willie runs a corner lemonade stand in this brief vignette.
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Willie
Chicago American
Automobile for Boys How to Make One That Will Go Ahead
Instructions from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune describe building a simple toy auto from a box wood strips spools and a weighted cord. A rear winch weight drives the axle causing forward motion until the weight descends then the process is repeated for continued runs.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Coast Defenses to Be Ready for Immediate Action
General Randolph urges War Department orders to require forts to keep gun mechanisms in good order and crew training ongoing. Target practice would be announced with only 24 hours notice to ensure readiness and deter neglect, making coast fortifications efficient and always prepared for urgent duty.
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W. E. Randolph
Army
War Department
Randolph
Gen
Tey
Dorothy the Smokestack Crowned by a 265 Foot Feat
Miss Mary D. Bassett 20 of Kansas City employed at Armour packing plant was hoisted in a bucket to the 265 foot brick smokestack top as a dare by J C Fen nell purchasing agent. She planted an American flag and sang the Star Spangled Banner then named the stack Dorothy and was lowered safely. Five thousand spectators watched the ceremony.
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J. C. Fennell
Armour Packing Plant
Kansas City
Mary D. Bassett
New York
Why She Wept Old Gentleman Weathered Crying Child
A short Tit-Bits vignette centers on a little girl weeping and an old man asking why. The girl replies she cries because she is a woman, capturing a disdainful social quick take in a compact exchange.
Trick for Amateurs Magicians Using Electricity
The Detroit Free Press describes a simple illusion using a glass sheet, small paper figures, and a wool or silk cloth. Rub the glass to generate static electricity, causing the figures to stand, dance, and leap toward the glass ceiling, then resume when touched.
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Detroit Free Press
Heavy Rains Said To Cut Hay Fever Across Illinois
Physicians in the Galesburg Evening Mail report prolonged wet weather may prevent hay fever outbreaks this summer. The damp season drives pollen into moist soil, reducing pollen spread and easing symptoms for lake resort visitors and travelers from Chicago. Local nasal issues and asthma may still occur, but most victims could escape if rains continue.
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Illinois
Galesburg
Ill
Evening Mail
Upper Michigan
Chicago
Recovery of Joseph Tiernan's son from lockjaw at Harlem Hospital
Physicians say Jo seph Tiernan, son of the former New York baseball star "Silent Mike" Tiernan, recovered from lockjaw after antitoxin injections into the spinal cord at Harlem Hospital. He had shot himself on July 4 and developed toxin-induced jaw spasm, now relieved after treatments between the first and second lumbar vertebrae.
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Harlem
New York
Joseph
Mike” Tiernan
A Question for Women's Clubs
The narrative of a local tragedy describes a young woman who threw her arms up and fell in a crowded street as shoppers fled in terror. The Chicago Inter Ocean questions why women shoppers would flee a distressed woman and leave a man to assist, suggesting clubs discuss the issue.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
What Carnegie Calls Work Was Noted In London
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Carnegie says giving money away is hard work. It adds other professions may be tougher. A Kansas man named his baby daughter E Pluribus Unum, claiming not to be crazy, and this child is his eleventh with ten others living.
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Carnegie
London
Chicago Record-Herald
Kansas
Markets Across Cities Show Mixed Grain and Livestock Prices
In New York on August 25 prices ranged for flour and grains with wheat at 76 1/4 cents and corn at 66 1/2 cents while hogs held firm and sheep sold from 2.75 to 7.00 dollars per head. Cleveland and Chicago record regional variations with steers around 6.25 to 8.75 dollars and hogs from 6.75 to 7.60 dollars, plus dairy and potato quotes and regional cattle and lamb values.
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New York
Cleveland
York State
Chicago
East Liberty
East Buffalo
Italian Captain Endorses Peruna Cure for Catarrh
Captain Bertoletto of the Italian barque Lincelles cites Peruna as curing years of chronic stomach catarrh. Congressman J D Botkin reports relief from catarrh and constipation after using Peruna, praising its curative virtues and inviting others to seek Dr Hartman’s advice for free.
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Bertoletto
Botkin
Horass
Washington
D. C
B. Hartman
Columbus
Peruna
Manalin
J. D. Botkin
United States
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Salzer to Europe for seed research and new ties
Henry A. Salzer of La Crosse Wisconsin, famed for Salters Seeds, sails for Europe with his wife to explore seed developments in Russia and Hungary. Observe his plan to seek fresh connections in seed networks.
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Henry A. Salzer
la Crosse
Wis
Europe
Russia
Hungary
To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Drugstore sellers offer a refund if the remedy fails to cure. Price listed as 25 cents.
Wise sayings on purpose and pull in old quotes
A collection of brief quotations from diverse sources dating circa 1900. Includes lines from the Toledo Blade and J W O'Brien praising Piso's Cure and a Miner’s proverb about falling to work after a rope breaks, reflecting early 20th century sentiment.
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Toledo
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