Mosquito Exterminator Rescued After Bog Ordeal
Verona New Jersey marshal Charles F. Staedler and assistant Thomas Brennan were trapped in a bog while pursuing breeding grounds. Local boy Hughie Ervine and Slayback used a rope and car to haul Staedler to safety after nearly two hours of struggle. Staedler vows to let the mosquitoes go to blazes.
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Charles F. Staedler
Verona
N. J
New Jersey
Jersey
Thomas Brennan
Verona Lake
Brennan
Bunyan
Hughie Ervine
Hughie
David Blayback
David
Slayback
Braedler
Wise magnates ponder first rails not meals
J C Stubbs of Southern Pacific recounted a tale from 1893 Valley railroad stockholders where a director questioned fish plate weight while another insisted on skipping dining car ideas to focus on building the road first.
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J. C. Stubbs
Southern Pacific
Valley Railroad
Not Ashamed of Cowardice in Bedouin Leadership
The piece contrasts Bedouin views on courage with Western ideas, noting leaders yield power in war to courageous fighting sheiks. An Arab chief tells a Eng lishman he lacks courage, yet willingly faces death as a martyr and meets the hangman without shame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gheik
Bengal
Saya
St. Apcies
Nartyr
Splendid Outlook For Crops In Western Canada
Agricultural reports from Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta predict a banner harvest with large acreages sown and favorable rains. All regions report crops well advanced and in excellent condition with prospects of abundant yields and a potential 250 million bushels of wheat. Weather remains pivotal to realizing the high expectations across the western grain belt.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
West
Secretaries and a Back Bay Child Tale of Devil Meetings
William Shaw in Boston shares a witty episode from a Back Bay girl who writes to Yale about auntie’s Christian Endeavor. The child asks how to spell devil and reasons it must be used to describe the auntie’s meetings, prompting a gentle correction.
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William Shaw
Christian Endeavor Society
Boston
Back Bay
Yale
Brother
Have you got Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea
A small boy waits for a chance to ask the librarian for a book. He asks for Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea, but the librarian says she only has two copies and is tired. The exchange reveals the boy's earnestness and the library's limited holdings.
Fragmentary Ola note hints at personal thoughts
A garbled excerpt mentions Ola and a woman with canes and odd phrases. no clear event, date, or names emerge. appears to be incomplete notes or transcription errors lacking a coherent news item.
Wicked Soul’s Punishment Tale From Dante Satire
A Wicked Soul sits on a hot stove and drinks molten lava while fanning with red hot iron. Dante asks who the wretch is and Satan answers it is the first man to ask if it is hot enough. Milwaukee Sentinel caption style.
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Dante
Satan
Milwaukee Sentinel
Why They Went Story Fragment in Sunday School
A Sunday school teacher encountered a hurried departure of two children, Mary and Mitch Anne. The smaller boy Jimmy appears to have swallowed something from a collection plate, prompting their abrupt exit and distress.
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Mary
Mitch Anne
Jimmy
Believes and Rests Teething Babies With Kopp's
Mrs. Burton Gary of Toledo Ohio says Kopp's Baby's Friend soothes teething babies without causing sleepiness and gives rest. Available in three sizes 10c 25c and 50c at druggists or via Kopp's Baby's Friend Co York Pa. Mail sample on request.
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Burton Gary
Toledo
Ohio
Kopp
York
The Paxton Toilet Co Promises Free Antiseptic Trial
Boston based Paxton Toilet Co offers a large free trial box of Paxtine Antiseptic to any woman upon request. The ad touts its germicidal toilet cleansing action aimed at improving hygiene.
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Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Pathos in Child's Bravery Told by Lady Henry Somerset
The tale recalls Lady Henry Somerset's charity for London slum children. A visit to a hospital reveals a crippled boy enduring pain by imagining a buzzing bee. He explains his method kept him steady, insisting bees sting little and he buzzes to remember the illusion.
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Henry Somerset
London
Excellent Plan
A fragment from Harper's Weekly quotes Mrs. De Jones and Mrs. Van Tyle during a conversation about a Chinese chauffeur. The exchange highlights racial stereotypes and a method used to signal the chauffeur with a pig-tail bell rope through a plate glass window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Weekly
Worth While
A boy's taunt turns into a fatherly threat as he warns his son to behave. The boy claims mischief will win him candy once the troubles end, prompting a terse exchange about consequences and reward.
Lydia E Pinkham's Compound Aids Women Before Surgery
Testimonials from Christina Keep of Peoria and Joseph A Lynch of Jessup praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from tumors and inflammation avoiding operation. A nurse ad for Philadelphia nursing school is also noted in the page.
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Peoria
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EL. Pinkham
Christina Keep
Mound St
Peoria, Ill
Lydia EK. Pinkham
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Co. C. Colton
Mia
Winslow
Job
EARN
Philadelphia
Ta NU
Chestnut Street
FT. Wayne
Chas. H. Fletcher
New. York
Ave
A. F. Peeler
St. Louis
Frederick D. Rogers
Chicago
Ill
Fletcher
William C. Bloomer
Cleveland
B. Down
Edward Parrish
Brooklyn
N. Y
J. B. Eliott
New York City
C. G. Sprague
Omaha
Neb
J. A. Parker
Kansas City
H. F. Morrill
Augusta
Astoria
Alway
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