New Ambition. Experienced Manager
A dialogue from the Chicago Tribune notes Fair Caller wishes to pursue the stage. She explains the motive is to someday marry Nat Goodwin, sharing a personal reason kept private. The exchange contrasts luxury upbringing with the tough life on stage and the manager warns it is a hard path for many.
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Nat Goodwin
Chicago Tribune
One Laxative Bromine Quinine Ad Plugs in One Day Cure
An old advertisement notes Brom o Quinine laxative with signature of W. Grove claiming it cures a cold in one day. It sells for 25e and is promoted alongside a tale about Newfoundland fog and a remark by an old salt. Also mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with reduced inflammation and wind colic relief.
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2. W. Grove
You Can Secure An Estate By Assisting In Calamity
An appeal from the Sacramento Valley Improvement Co claims a reader can secure an estate valued at 150000 dollars by helping avert a great commercial disaster. It invites immediate writing to St Louis Mo for a plan with convincing evidence.
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Sucramento Valley Improvement Co
St. Lonis, Alo
Indiana News Roundup Reflects Accidents Trials And Trials
Earl Lemmon a noted stockman in Bike County was kicked by a mule and fell critically ill with a broken rib and kidney damage. Dr Marion Goss a long time Parka County physician died at 62. Charles Johnson alias Charles Smith of Indianapolis faces parole violation for theft. Martinsville revival added ninety five members under Evangelist John W Marshall. Firemen Will Kelley and Albert McNeely escaped a live wire while fighting a Crawfordsville meat shop blaze. James T Stipp survived a coughing blood incident revealing a swallowed pin from a decade ago. Burglars hit Shelbyville depots and homes stealing small sums. Grandma Phillips explains egg freshness test with salt water. Emma Branson sues a Muncie saloon keeper for damages and husband’s drunkenness. A boy faced a gun in Columbus. Burns on a colored boy’s face. Hudson County turkeys head to Christmas markets. first congregational women raise nearly $200. Brazil streets buzz over rabid horse. Delphi mad steer shot. Eleven year old Herbert Reynolds endures multiple surgeries and home fire rescue en route to recovery. A Brazil Mission Home fund supports Reynolds in Indianapolis hospital.
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Parka County
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Charles Johnson
Charles Smith
Indianapolis
Evan Thomas
Jeffersonville Reformatory
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Evangelist John W. Marshall
Chicago
Evangelist Marshall
Crawfordsville
Will Kelley
Albert McNeely
James T. Stipp
Bedford
Shelbyville
Big Four
Leo Morgan
W. J. Clark
Emma Branson
Jacob Clark
Muncie
Clark
Branson
Central Indiana Railway
Holiday Health Hint From a Balm for Holiday Bilge
Holiday overindulgence risks sickness and headaches. Cascarets Candy Cathartic offers quick relief for sour stomach, belching, and lazy liver with a tablet after meals or before bed. Sold by druggists at 25 cents. genuine CCC tablet guaranteed to cure or your money back. Sample and booklet free from Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York.
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Afl Druggists
Roc
Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
New York
Paxton
Boston
Mass
Scotsman Mismatches Rules in North England Train Car
A Scotsman in a third class smoking carriage clashes with a fishwife at an unnamed station. He argues this is a smoking car while she lights a cigarette, blocks with a creel, and emits smoke that he finds intolerable. The exchange ends with his complaint about others not choosing him to draw a cigarette.
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England
Hin
Mother Gray’s Tonic Promises Relief for Women
Vague ad copy touts a tonic advertised as a certain cure for female pains back and urinary issues. It urges mothers to write for a sample and lists “Mother Gray’s” as the address in New York to obtain the remedy.
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Gray
Perici
Leavy
N.Y
Personal Purchritude Sparks Quick Paper Demand
Mrs Epsome notes the society editor calls her peculiarity personal purchritude. Mrs Saddyn-Whlymer recalls plans to confront the editor but decides to check the dictionary first. They then send a man to the paper office and order 200 extra copies.
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Epsome
Ew Society
Saddyn-Whlymer
Special Holiday Rates via Nickel Plate Road
Tickets on sale December 24 for travel December 24 returning December 28. Also on sale December 31 and January 1, with return January 4. Call on agent.
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Nickel Plate Road
All Wanted. Wart on hand prompts medical opinion exchange
In a playful exchange, a father mocks his son George about the wart on his hand and contemplates trimming it with a razor. The line ends with a jab about paying for his medical education and a playful sign off from Parner Scrapple in the Chicago Tribune.
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George
Scrapple
Parner Scrapple
Chicago ‘Tribune
Piles Cured in days with PAZO Ointment claim
The advertisement proclaims PAZO Ointment cures itching bleeding protruding or blind piles in six to fourteen days with a money back guarantee. It lists a fifty cent price and promises full refund if not cured.
Traveling duo trade lines at the fair
The little traveling man questions a big vendor about Corliss mines and a nemo factory. The big man replies he is a Nemo factory agent and asks for the traveling man’s line. The man says he builds suspension bridges.
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Xtromen
Oman
Nemo
Red Cross Hall Blue Cigar Ad Then a Musical Quotation
An old OCR fragment presents an advertisement for Red Cross Hall Blue cigarettes and a short dialogue about a music piece. The piece is identified as the overture to William Tell, with a suggestive exchange between Will and a woman.
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