Two Johns Store’s Grand Peninsula Bargains Reach Far
The Two Johns Store proclaims itself the largest best stocked country store on the peninsula with 3600 square feet of space and plans to expand further. It touts cash buying from agents in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Boston Charleston and other cities to offer retail prices below wholesale. The ad highlights wide ranges from groceries to dry goods shoes millinery tinware paints cigars and more while contrasting city and country pricing.
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New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
Charleston
D. C
Wilmington
N. C
New Orleans
St. Louis
Cincinnatti
Chicago
Buffalo
Maryland
Ladies' Department Bargains on Aprons and Dresses
In this sale page the Ladies' Furnishings Department offers white aprons at very low prices and children s dresses from 80 cents to 50 cents. Corsets from 35 cents to 75 cents, handkerchiefs, lace at three cents a yard, with pieces valued at ten to twelve cents.
Great Slaughter in Household Goods At Below-Cost Sale
A long historical advertisement touts deep discounts across goods department items. It claims first class chamber suits priced 17.00 to 55.00 at half off, plus bargains on cotton fabrics, bedding, shirts, canvass cloth, nets, harnesses, cutlery, and more, urging shoppers to visit even without buying and promising “1000 other things.”
Daisies and Ferns In A Summer Meadow Poem
A fragmented verse reflection on daisies and ferns, dreams of happy days and distant places, pondering why they come and roam. The text resembles a poetic fragment with oblique references to Iona and dreams, attributed to Willis Mereher Johnson in The Open Corre.
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Iona
nord
Willis Mlereher Johnson
Corre
Masks of Human Flesh The Effects of Over Activity
Dr Sawyer argues brain work fosters health when done without hurry and anxiety. Over activity harms the nervous system for workers like engineers and tellers, and even bookkeepers show fatigue from constant figures. Vacations test underused brain regions, aiding recovery. Domestic woes and overstudying mar nerves. excessive night life and stimulants worsen impairment. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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Sawyer
Pierbert Spencer
Huxley
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Paraguy Dancing Traditions Through Centuries
A mosaic of notes on beliefs about the earth from Bede’s era to modern science and a vivid sketch of Paraguayan women’s dances. White robes, bare shoulders, and a massive gold comb frame celebrations that last nights and even twenty four hour picnics, all aimed at happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bede
Paraguay
Philadelphia Times
Eye care advice warns against rubbing or bathing eyes in cold winds
A prominent optician cites winter eye trouble from rubbing or bathing eyes and dust. He advises following the tear line from outer corner toward the nose, noting many rub from inside out which may affect sight and cause crow’s feet. The New York Times commentary notes ladies may dispute the claim.
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New York Times
Ingenious Chinese Egg Clock From San Francisco Display
A specimen from E. Claudel & Bro shows a delicate two shell egg housing a miniature clockwork tulip that unfolds hourly to reveal a tiny church and dial. The mechanism uses microscopic springs and wheels, with the outer egg rejoining to resemble a common egg. Also noted is a folk tale about “crap” of stones on Meridian hill and belief by local blacks they grow from the ground, from Lippincott's Magazine.
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Messrs. E. Claudel & Bro
San Francisco
Celestial empire
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Meridian hill
Lippincott’s Magazine
Oakum Tightening in Slow Boat Caulking
Old timbers replaced by new as oakum is packed into cracks with heavy mallets to seal seams. The process begins by opening planks, driving in oakum until fully hidden, then coating the exterior with white lead. The hold interior resembles plastered wood after sealing.
Artificial ivory from bones and hides described
The article explains a process to make white tough plates resembling ivory. Bones are macerated and bleached, heated with hides to form a fluid mass, alum is added, then filtered and air dried before hardening in an alum bath. The result is a durable imitation ivory.
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Caroline county
TWO JOHN'S
PENINSULA
wdi
Middlesex
athe
LADIES’ FURNISHINGS DEPARTMENT
SHOE DEPARTMENT
Men’s Congress
seeseseeey
Congress
Cali
Dancin
Wight
GOODS DEPARTMENT
South Seas
South
Central America
New
British museum
APHIVT
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