Verses and Vignettes From Urban Life Columns
A mosaic of wits and quips from Brooklyn Life Detroit Tree Press and Chicago Tribune pages. Snippets include social jabs at couples unions and stage humor about health foods and absinthe. A Cincinnati Enquirer anecdote frames a salary misperception in marriage and work hours.
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Lord Lennox
Vauxhall Bridge
Hook
John
Nobbs
Bubbs
Detroit Tree Press
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Whitty
Charlie Osgood
Jane
Boston Transcript
Tess
Jess
Philadelphia
Griselda
Chicago Tribune
Mickey
Mister Doolan
Moike
Selby
Winters
Union
New York Weekly
Chicago Record-Herald
A Wonderful Cure in Symes Case at Wright City
Medical men in Wright City Missouri discuss the Symes case where Joseph G Symes suffered from inflammatory rheumatism. After trying various remedies he used Dodd's Kidney Pills and improved rapidly until six boxes eliminated pain, enabling him to work daily and sleep through the night.
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Wright City
Symes
Joseph G. Symes
Dodd
Limslzablonas Savage Tale From Detroit Journal
The passage recalls a group calling themselves savages cast down after Anglo-Saxons attacked their land. They lament their supposed civility and failed attempts to say the word vastly in polite society. The Detroit Journal presents a satirical, self-mocking vignette.
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Detroit Journal
Chronic Constipation Cure Promoted in Candy Ads
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a guaranteed cure for chronic constipation. It claims genuine tablets stamped C.C.C. and warns they are not sold in bulk, urging readers to consult druggists.
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C.C.C
Roc
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cheesebrough Manufacturing Co
State Street
New York City
A Hot Retort in Baltimore Political Exchange
In a vivid exchange, a deacon rebukes a parson over granting a vacation, while the parson argues the devil never rests, highlighting clerical and civic tensions in a Baltimore American page snippet.
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Deacon Scrooge
Parson
Deacon
Baltimore American
Larger Schoolhouses Needed Across Western Canada
Due to a population surge in Manitoba Assiniboia Saskatchewan and Alberta many districts require bigger school facilities. Some new buildings stand half occupied reflecting growth immigration and optimism about future expansion. Canadian government agents promote homestead lands and railway opportunities with broad advertising in newspapers.
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Canada
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Government of Canada
None of my patients were ever buried alive
A doctor reassures a fearful patient that burial will not happen, promising medicine and calm thoughts. The exchange emphasizes the doctor's confidence in his care to dispel the fear of being buried alive.
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Mrs. Massy
Mrs. Austins Pan Cake Flour by Russ Company
Mrs Austin s Famous Pan Cake Flour advertises a product from the Russ Company at Pour Bend Indiana promising a pleasant experience for bakers.
Fort Wayne Toilet Paper Offer in Prepaid Express e Rolls
A judge notes a playful exchange about staying at home and a humorous prepaid offer. The item promises rolls of toilet paper with a fixture, prepaid by express delivery for 50 cents, addressed to Lock Box 219 in Fort Wayne Indiana, amid garbled text and nonsensical phrases.
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Fort Wayne
Indiana
Lock Box
Beet Sugar Industry Promoted by Oxnard and Cutting Views
The editorial summarizes Oxnard and Cutting on the beet sugar industry, arguing it stands on a firm, self supporting basis and can beat European production. It notes profits per acre, tariff questions, and contrasts beet sugar with cane sugar from the West Indies. It cites historical context under McKinley tariff and future U.S. factory capacity. It ends with a call to expose tariff myths and defend domestic production.
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Indus
Messrs. Oxnard
Cutting
New York Evening Post
Oxnard
Rocky Mountains
Congress
Mississippi Valley
West India Islands
Seaboard
United States
Nebraska
Méssie
Citing
Europe
Washington
Highest Waterfalls Claim Record Height in Remote Canyon
The article notes the world’s tallest fall at 8,000 feet in the San Charg atan Canyon in Duratillo Mexico. It contrasts this with 2,400 feet for Cerosola Cascade in the Alps and Yosemite falls 7 to 1,000 feet, from Land of Sunshine.
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Alps
Arvey
Savoy
Yosemite Valley
San Chargatan Canyon
Duratillo
Mexico
Great Barranes
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Advertised Cure and Endorsed by Firms
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh with Hall’s Catarrh Cure. It features endorsements from West & Truax and Kinman & Marvin wholesalers in Toledo and asserts the remedy works by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials promised, price per bottle.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Hall
Blindfolded Verse Sparks Editor Praise in Boston Post
In a playful exchange the editor praises dialect verse as a contributor explains his method. He says he blindfolded himself and used a stub pen to craft the lines. The Boston Post highlights the quirky writing technique.
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Boston Post
Putnam Faceless Dyes and U S homicide deaths in five years
A fragment notes Putnam faceless dyes resist sunlight washing and rubbing. It cites that 30 872 persons perished at hands of homicides in the United States during the five years ending 1900 and remarks that punishment figures are surprisingly small.
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Putnam
United States
Had a Litter Old Gentleman Pup Sale Prompted
A fragment from the Ohin State Journal notes a buyer asking the price of a puppy. Sigall Rog quotes five cents each or three for a dime as the asking rate.
Stenography Skills and General Information valued
The text notes requirements for a stenographer including reading writing spelling quick perception memory and general knowledge. It comments that intelligence improves work and that brains are needed. It cites a 1901 testimonial from St Louis and mentions various assorted product notices and advertisements.
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Janeuary Ladies’ Home Journal
Paper made in Japan from mulberry bark described
A note explains a beautiful paper produced in Japan from the fibrous bark of the mulberry tree. It mentions a 6 Rolle toilet paper fixture available upon receipt of 50 Center address.
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Japan
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