New Homer in the West pamphlet offer amid ads
A scanned 1905 style page promotes free pamphlets on U S homestead laws and how to secure land along the Chicago and Northwestern Railway with contact to W B Kulskern, Passenger Traffic Manager. The snippet also includes assorted ads: Allen’s Foot-Ease free sample offer, White Vest Senator Piles, Red Cross Ball Blue, Bourgas Stave for Children, Transvaal mines value, and rubber stamps catalog request.
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Homer
West
United States
Chicago & Northwestern Ry
South
Darolny
Wyoming
W. B. Kulskern
Chicago
Allen
le Roy
N. Y
Senator Piles
Washington
Senate
A Son Describes His Ideal Bride to Father
In a Chicago Daily News excerpt a young man eagerly describes his fiancée to his cautious father. He praises her beauty, intelligence, musical talent, painting, and superb domestic skills while reassuring not to worry about austerity or extravagance as September wedding plans unfold.
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Namby-Pamby
Smith
Johnny
Chicago Daily News
Frisky Front Page Bits of Funny War Time Tales
A curious mix of anecdotes from newspapers and a wartime hospital tale. A traffic manager jokes about blue cars then a passerby saves a boy who swallowed a quarter. A juror question session shifts to the father’s laziness, and nurses in a Spanish American War hospital flirt with wounded soldiers with a note reading Too ill to be nursed today John Smith.
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Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Ine
Spain
John Smith
Strange Tribe of Indians Craratona of North Carolina
Senator Overman recounts a romantic North Carolina tale of the Craratons a light skinned tribe in Robertson County living as white citizens for generations owning homes and farms. The legend ties them to Roanoke Island colonists and a vanished settlement with a carved tree bearing Craraton as the clue to a mixed aboriginal lineage.
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Craratona
North Carolina
Senator Overman
Robertson County
Craraton
Craratons
Sir Walter Rileigh
Ile
Roanoke Island
England
New World
Washington Herald
Head size myths and myths about intelligence in 19th century text
The article asserts that average adult head circumference is 22 inches and hat sizes vary from 6% to 8 sizes, linking head measurements to strength and intellect. It claims women should avoid marrying men with heads under 20 inches, and that under 19 inches indicates mental deficiency, while under 18 inches implies idiocy, citing a young woman’s authority.
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Aberdeen
Expensive Luxury Cigar Debate in New York Prema
In a brief exchange, Hewitt notes the cigars are quite costly while Jewett adds one recently given caused a doctor's bill, underscoring the high price of a luxury item in New York.
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Hewitt
Jewett
New York
Cure for Eczema by Cuticura Remedies Proclaimed
A Chicago woman reports three years of severe eczema cured by Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills after physicians failed. She praises the remedies and cites her recovery on October 2 1905 with witnesses. The ad also notes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry tones and a Denver Post joke about altitude and bound feet.
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Chicago
Sorence E. Atwood
Crilly Place
TL. S. Berger
Denver
Capitol Eill
Denver Post
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Columbus, Ohio
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Nan
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Winslow
Bourgas
Childre
Transvaal
Bip
Pert Wayne
Ina
Eno
DESI
FacSinsle Signature of
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W. L
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Brockton
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Douglas Shock
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Chinese Board of Education
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Warne Teal
Cascarate
Sela
Cascarets
James NcGuno
Mercer St
Jerasy City
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Sterling Remedy Co
N.Y
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Boston
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EAGLE
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