Untitled Textile Sale Items From A Bargain Offer
Historical sale notes show bed blankets in white wool and cotton with regular close prices and stock reducing prices. Items include 14 white wool blankets at $500 regular, $125 stock reducing. 10-4 white wool at $3.50 regular, $275 stock reducing. 20-3 white mixed at $2.05 regular, $1.75 stock reducing. 10-4 white cotton at 15c regular, 59c stock reducing. Also Croton plants noted with weight, and lace items named Tarchon Lace. details are fragmentary and imply a broad clearance listing.
Fine Line of Laces and Stock Reducing Prices
An ad listing various lace lines from Vine Swiss Hamburg with multiple regular close prices and stock reducing prices. The entries feature diverse prices such as 48¢ to 6.50, with quantities like 200, 150, and 1000, and note various colors including tan, brown, blue, and green.
The Threshold T4uraaranner Sugars Story Ends in Real World
A man obsessed with a purely imagined life learns through a series of encounters with Femininity Frou Frou and a pure maiden that his world is real only when shared with another. An elder, guiding voice reveals the man’s phases are his own. A final, intimate union offers resolution.
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heaven
A. J. Dawson
St. Louis Republic
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His Expense Account and S. P. G Explained
A Harvard freshman lists expenses at sea with a note Ss. P. G. Sundries principally crab. Crew merriment erupts into a brawl near the forecastle until the first officer calms the scene and the captain praises smoother conditions aboard.
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Harvard
Ss. P. G
Breath and carbonicide in a schoolboy saying
A schoolboy voice argues that breath is air and life depends on it. He warns against staying indoors all day stressing that carbon monoxide like carbonicide from confined rooms can kill, more dangerous in his view than mad dogs, though not in the same way.
Modest Salary Talk Sparks Pay Day Adjustment
An employer teases the employee about excessive modesty and asserts the salary will be adjusted at once so there is no reason to blush on pay days. The exchange ends with the employer promising action and the matter resolved.
The Cure For Worry
Worry wastes energy and blights life. The author cites three principal forms of worry and urges living one day at a time. He quotes Sydney Smith on short views and John Wesley on resisting worry, noting it is wasteful and wicked.
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Sydney Smith
John Wesley
W. J. Dawson
New York World
The Pole and the Paradox of Time and Direction
At the north pole all directions point south and every meridian meets there. The hour at the pole is any hour, so unpunctuality is impossible, though the practical solution remains complex and of limited concern to most.
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north pole
Bright Colored Boy Frightened Mother Dialogue
A Baltimore American quoted joke where a frightened mother asks why her child has bright red paint on face and hands. The boy explains he saw a newspaper ad reading Wanted A Bright Colored Boy and painted himself the brightest color to see the advertiser.
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Baltimore American
Homeliest remark sparks heated exchange among peers
In Philadelphia Ledger dialogue, Miss Hoamley recalls Miss Knox labeling her the homeliest girl in their set. Miss Goodley confirms the insult and says she defended Miss Hoamley by admonishing Knox, while Miss Heamley questions the severity of the rebuttal.
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Miss Hoamley
Explosion at Afro-American bank depositor confrontation
An angry depositor confronts the bank’s president after a failure. The man shouts for his money, insisting he does not care about the bank but wants his funds while the president responds with contempt about the bank’s collapse and the depositor’s knowledge of business.
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New York Tribune
Alternate Sidewalk Slant Noted By Worried Walker
A Brooklyn man observes sidewalks slant toward the curbstone and walks on different street sides on alternate days to wear out his shoes evenly, noting the persistent bias in paving as a small daily grievance.
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Brooklyn
New York Press
A Four Legged Fakir and the Market Trick
A Metropolitan Magazine piece recounts a wily Indus sacred bull and a clever shopkeeper. The bull brazenly feeds in the bazaar while a fakir’s ritual boasts meet a poor man’s plea for mercy. The shopkeeper strikes the beast, prompting a dramatic departure amid the crowd.
Oddities of the Human Body and Symmetry
The article notes facial symmetry varies widely with two sides of a face never alike in most people. It details eye differences in four or five cases, ear height differences, uneven nail growth with middle finger fastest, left leg often shorter, and skeleton weights differing by gender.
Rain Tree Of Moyobamba Attracts Attention In Peru
A native tree from the United States of Colombia named rain tree grows near Moyobamba. It reaches fifty feet tall and three feet diameter, absorbing humidity to shower leaves and branches, turning surrounding ground into a bog, especially in dry summer. Some suggest planting it in arid Peru to aid farmers.
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United States
Colombia
Moyobamba
Peru
It Happened to Be a Boomerang and Railcar Ride
Reassuring scenes unfold aboard a southern railway car where Mrs Potts frets at the speed and motion while Algernon Potts explains the bridge ahead. A Cambridge exchange contrasts New England pride with a breezy West observer, as two women discuss Harvard lineage and distant ancestral honors.
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Cambridge
Boston
Fond du Lac
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J. L. EVERNGAM
Lancaster Gingham
Larsdale Caulre
Windsor Pereales
Flannelette
Clark
Susquehanna Brand
Croton
Vary Healy
Tarchon Lace
archon Lace
Tarchon
Vine Swiss
Hamburg
fine Swiss
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Teese
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Winle Dot
Sic
Soc
JOHN L. EVERNGAM DENTON, MARY
Ife
Frou Frou
Moor alley
Feminnitus
Fron Frou
India
Haje Ka
Indus
Ratonga
Metropolitan Magazine
RTS
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