Nearer Home of God Delivers a Faithful Verse
Poem reflecting on heaven as an unseen land just beyond sight and time. The speaker contrasts distant stars with the immediate longing for home, noting loved ones pass to eternal rest while urging quiet contentment and faith that death opens the gates of the holy city. attributed to Mrs. Emily Bugbee Johnson in Christian Advocate.
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City of God
Jesus
Emily Bugbee Johnson
Christian Advocate
Destruction of Atlantis Seventh Gate Fight Foretold
A king of Atlantis plans a doomed defense at the Sacred Mountain as Phorenice’s forces clash with the island priests. The king, bound by oaths to the Three, bids a last farewell to his allies while awaiting a judgment at the temple boundary.
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Atlantis
Nais
Zaemoe
Phorenice
Zaemon
Cere
Destruction of Atlantis Foretold in Ark of the Mysteries
Zaemon and another elder complete a sacred rite in a doomed Atlantean city as flood and fire engulf the coast. The narrator is chosen with Nais to carry ancient learning from the Ark of Mysteries, while Atlantis vanishes beneath rising seas and ash.
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Zaemon
Atlantis
Sun
Fne
Nais
Phorenice
Seven liars in class raise hands say the truth
A child asserts seven classmates never lied, but the teacher reveals seven did tell lies. The exchange ends with a humorous twist recorded by the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Crying at the Train Station Joke Echoes Courtroom
In a humorous courtroom exchange Judge jokes about a baby named Younghusband not crying on the trip to the station. He quips the infant is saving tears for the train, prompting light laughter in the proceeding.
Milk pail design prevents spills and dirt intake
John Heustis King of Garrity Alabama claims a new milking pail design saves milk during spills. A screw threaded flange supports a receiving bowl with a central strainer and a loose cone that seals the outlet when tipped, preventing contamination until upright again.
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John Heustis King
Garrity
Ala
Chicago Daily News
Beans as cow feed balance protein and carbs
The Midland Farmer notes steamed beans provide about 23 percent digestible protein, 50 percent digestible carbohydrates, and 1.4 percent digestible fat. Start with small amounts and increase toward four pounds daily, mix in wheat bran, avoid sole silage, and include dry forage for cows.
The Cow and Her Milk by Prof Clinton D Smith
After five years of study the author concludes that a cow yields rich milk equal to a mature cow when lactating. Milk quality is highest early in lactation and then steadies, with slight drop only as drying off begins. Season and pasture do not greatly affect average richness, and a well run dairy herd shows little day to day variation in composition.
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Clinton D. Smith
Low Rates to California Colonist Excursions Offer
March and April special round trip rates to the Pacific Coast and intermedate points. Later summer round trips at under one cent per mile. Write to W H Connor Union Pacific Southern Pacific Bus Cincinnati Ohio for details. Send name and address and your friends for information of value.
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Great West
W. H. Connor
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
East 4Th St. Cincinati
Ohio
California
Angry wife hurls dishes in domestic scene
Methodically the angry wife hurled a cup and saucer at her husband and then struck at him with a meat platter salt cellar pepper holder and a volley of dining implements. The bruised husband recalls her odd focus on ping pong as motive.
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Baltimore
Travel rates to Pacific Coast and western points
Rates listed include 52.00 to Pacific Coast Chicago and Northwestern Railway during March and April, 30.00 from Chicago to Helena Butte Anaconda Ogden Salt Lake City, 30.50 Spokane, 33.00 Los Angeles San Francisco Portland Seattle Tacoma Vancouver Victoria and many others. Tourist Sleeping Cars daily to the Pacific Coast. For maps and details contact the nearest ticket agent or W. B. Kniskern 22 Fifth avenue Chicago Ill.
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Pacific Coast
Chicago
Northwestern
B’y
Helena
Butte
Anaconda
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Spokane
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Vancouver
Victoria
W. B. Kniskern
Fifth Avenue
Ill
Freedom and schedules on a tourist car excursion
A Chicago travel offer highlights a personally conducted excur sions service from Chicago with biweekly and midweek departures to New England. The illustrated pamphlet, available for two cents, lists fares from California and Washington routes and aims to lure travelers with low berth prices and guided tours.
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California
Overoon
Washington
Chicago & Northwestern Ry
Chicago
New England
S. A. Hutchison
Clark Street
Another Pipe Story Museum Manager on Living Skeleton
A museum manager is asked where the living skeleton is as it becomes his turn to go on. Mile Fatema explains someone lost balance while washing hands and slipped into the waste pipe near the sink.
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Mile
Fatema
Chicago Daily News
Prodigiously Prolific Millet Promises Rich Hay Yields
Earliese Russian Millet advertises 5 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre. Prices listed as 50 lbs for $1.90 and 100 lbs for $3.00 with low freights. Sold by John A. Salter Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Salter
Mrs Crord-Hay's Lent Preparations Mention Codfish Dispensation
In a brief exchange the judge notes Mrs Crord-Hay asks about Lent and reveals her husband bought boneless codfish for her and obtained a dispensation for himself.
One Drawback in Yonkers Statesman Quip
A humorous Yonkers Statesman quip notes spring may be sweet but early actions dampen the season. The exchange focuses on weather and timing with light tone.
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Yonkers Statesman
Cure-alls and cures crowd early 1900s papers
A collage of quack remedies and pious adages from early 1900s newspapers. Claims promise rapid cures for colds and nerves with Dr. Kline and Piso’s Cure, while readers are invited to trial bottles and refunds. Various quotes reflect era attitudes toward work and friendship.
Market Prices Cleveland Wheat to Hog Values
Cleveland notices wheat futures and cash prices for flour winter and No 2 red wheat corn oats butter eggs potatoes and cattle sheep hogs with May futures and March cloverseed included. Prices range from 28-29 cents for butter to 6.40 for Yorker hogs and calves up to 7.50.
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New York
Cleveland
Chicago
East Buffalo
Justice Former Bartender Sentences Drunk Mary
A local judge, once a bartender, presides over his first case. Mary McMannis appears for drunkenness and insists she does not drink. The judge, trying to ease tension, offers a cigar as a lighthearted gesture.
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Mary McMannis
Mary
Grand Trunk Plans Picture Exhibit Tour This Spring
Grand Trunk Railway launches a ten week exhibition tour featuring over 100 photographic views and a notable fish collection. The show opens March 10 in Saginaw Michigan and travels to Grand Rapids and other Michigan and Ohio cities before continuing to Kentucky Pennsylvania and Indiana. A Grand Trunk representative will accompany the exhibit and literature will be distributed in each city.
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Grand Trunk Railway
Canada
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Buffalo
Highlands
Ontario
St. Lawrence
Grand Trunk
Saginaw
Mich
Grand Rapids
Warship Debate on Bombardment and Kodak Plans
A Latin American naval scene has the first lieutenant asking to bombard the city this afternoon. The captain refuses, citing an American warship commander with a headache who says the noise would annoy him, but allows bombardment tomorrow if the day is sunny for Kodak pictures.
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Kodak
Brooklyn Eagle
Wheels of a Burlington railroad system
The Burlington railroad operates about 8 000 miles of track with over 385 000 wheels in service across passenger freight and way cars locomotives and other rolling stock. About 40 000 wheels are purchased yearly with a six year or seventy five thousand mile guarantee. Each wheel is numbered and records kept. failed wheels are returned to the manufacturer who must replace them.
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Burlington
Prince Henry jokes about funerals at industry luncheon
The New York Sun reports Prince Henry quipping at a captains of industry luncheon that Americans only use him to send to funerals, remarking he is having the time of his life but counts little in the U.S.
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Captains of Industry
Prince Henry
America
N. Y. Sun
Tourist sleeping car berth offer Chicago to Twin Cities in March April 1902
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway announces double berths in Tourist sleeping cars from Chicago to Chicago to St Paul or Minneapolis every Tuesday and Friday in March and April 1902. Train No. 1 departs Chicago at 6 30 p m. For details contact a coupon ticket agent or F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
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Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
Investment Myer Seeks 52 Million in Matrimonial Bonds
A dialogue notes a count seeking about 52,000,000 in matrimonial bonds. The text also promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen feet and PUTNAM FAMELESS DYES for home dyeing, with brief product mentions and adlike lines from Chicago and New York Sun.
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Myer
Chicago Daily News
Peruna praised by congressman for catarrh remedy
Hon H W Ogden a Louisiana congressman writes from Washington that Peruna is a fine tonic and effective in treating catarrh and stomach issues. He advises spring as best time for treatment and offers Dr Hartman’s gratis medical advice if results are not prompt. Columbus Ohio address provided.
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Dan. A. Grosvenor
War Department
Washington, D. C
H. W. Ogden
Louisiana
Hartman
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le Roy
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Jtower
Boston
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Murray Street
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Alabastine Co
Department D
Grand Rapids, Mich
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la Salle ST
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Morton County
Ydouglas Sium
Ieatie Semerenas Manera Sales
Kno Et Ee
Tho James
W. L. Douglas
Corona Colt
Brockton
Salzer
Beardiese Darley Fe
Mr. Wells, Orienns Co
U. S. Ag. Dept
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Speitz
Homeseekers
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Phoenix
Arizona
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Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
R’y System
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Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
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Ottawa
Joseph Young
East Columbus
H.M. Williams
J. P. Allen
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Walnut Street
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