Thrifty Alabama Youth Chooses Between Two Matches
A Rochester Herald item chronicles a frugal Alabama youth named James and his dual courtships with Sally and Mary. The piece notes Sally as industrious and domestic, Mary as pretty, and details the preacher’s wry reaction when James wed Sally, explaining the comic dilemma about whom he might marry and whom Sally would wed.
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Rochester Herald
Alabama
Sally
Mary
James
Jones
Tares
Pat
Walt
Running Sores on Limbs and Home Remedies
A mother recounts using Cuticura remedies for her daughter's obstinate eczema. She notes near complete recovery in six weeks and no recurrence, praising Cuticura as a reliable household standby despite remote location and high doctor costs. The testimonial is dated October 13, 1895 from Walden's Ridge.
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Ligzie Vince
Artist Refuses Commission Over Monument Design
Designer MacMonnies returns contract for a soldiers and sailors memorial after a commission inquiry. He cites potential liability for damages if bronzed features are ever toppled, declining to sign.
Centennial of Pike’s Peak Discovery Plans Unfold
Colorado Springs prepares Western style festivities for the centennial of Zebulon Pike’s first sighting of Pike’s Peak. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway and other lines back events in early September with ten thousand Regulars and visiting Indians joining drills, dances, parades, and tournaments.
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Pike's Peak
Colorado Springs
Zebulon M. Pike
Hardy Pioneer
Plains
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Denver
United States
Briugland's Oldest Peer and Nelson Lineage Revealed
The only living peer from Queen Victoria’s accession is Lord Nelson who inherited the earldom and has a pension of £5000. He descends collaterally from Horatio Nelson’s sister Mrs. Bolton and holds an ample estate. Also advertised: Allen’s Foot-Kase A powder to ease foot ailments with a free sample offer.
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House of Lords
Vietorii
Lord Nelson
Horatio Nelson
Bolton
Allen
Allen S. Ohnsted
Te Roy
N. Y
First Excursion Sunday April 29 100 Miles Round Trip
On Sunday April 29 and every Sunday after, parties of five or more may buy round trip tickets for $1.00 each to points within 109 miles of the selling station where the Nickel Plate Road train stops. Tickets valid both ways same day. Contact agent Melin PLP AL Ft Wayne Ind for details.
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Nickel Plate Road
Melin
Plp
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Sk6
Imperial kitchen secrets from the Russian czar
A Russian chef in New York recounts imperial cuisine details from the winter palace kitchen. The czar’s head chef commands an army of 300 cooks with a $50,000 yearly pay and guards the dining room in a bomb proof cast iron room. Every dish is sampled by a military officer before service.
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New York
Winter Palace
St. Petersburg
Chet
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments Promoted
Warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments urging prescriptions from reputable physicians. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Care by F L Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective when taken internally. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation with testimonials offered.
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Physichius Jas
Halls
FL J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Ohio
Fr. Cheney & Co
Drugetsts
Irate Matron Demands Husband’s Bank Withdrawal
The irate matron confronts a bank teller about her husband’s last week withdrawal. The teller refuses, citing privacy, while the matron insists the teller is responsible. The exchange unfolds with tension and miscommunication.
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Tia
Miram
Mystic Shrine Convention and Mothers Congress in Los Angeles
Mystic Shrine Convention and National Congress of Mothers scheduled in Los Angeles from May 7 to May 11. Few round trip tickets on Nickel Phite road to Los Angeles and San Francisco available April 24 to May 4 with return by July 3. Stop-over and side-trip privileges. For full information contact agent C A Mellin T P A Pt Wayne Ind.
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Mystic Shrine
National Congress of Mothers
Los Angeles
Cal
San Francisco
C. A. Mellin
Pt. Wayne
Ind
Belated husband hears overheard row in entrance hall
In a city apartment entry, a husband is confronted by a wife who accuses him of gambling after overheard talk. He denies the charge claiming he won twenty dollars at poker. A bystander police officer remarks that women may be too severe about a man’s recreation.
Painful heart attacks and pink pills cure claim
A Pleasanthill Louisiana man recounts severe heart pain and swelling from neuralgia stress in May 1905. After doctors failed, he used Dr Williams Pink Pills and says he was cured after a few boxes. The ad notes pills cure the cause, contain no narcotics, and are sold nationwide at 40 cents per box or two dollars sixty for six.
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F. L. Graves
Pleasanthill
Thad
Dr. Williams
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