Ten Little Firecrackers Story Turns Tragic
A fractured verse traces ten firecrackers shrinking through mishaps until one remains. The narrator notes misfortune, with a goat, water, and accidental explosions altering the count as the final line reveals a fatal accident harming a baby.
Rival Towns Plan Fourth of July Goddess Parade
North and South Mayville brace for a bitter rival parade as Harry Morse and Led Norton organize a goddess of liberty in a flag dress and crown. Dorine Vandele and Corine weigh their chances while Mae prepares to play the lead in the masked procession.
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Dorine
North Mayville
South Mayville
Harry
Led
Corine
Norton
Fourth of July Town Rivalry Ends in Marriage Bond
On Independence Day Mayville hosts rival parades led by Harry and Led Norton. A staged riot disrupts the processions, a Goddess of Liberty wagon is dashed, Dorine chooses Led, and Miss Vandele prompts a marriage that mends town rifts. Norton senior sees a goddess won and peace sealed.
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Harry
Led
Mayville
South
North End
Colonel Norton
Liberty
Dorine
Charles Carroll of Carrollton Names Himself at Signing
While William Carroll of Maryland prepared to sign the Declaration of Independence he faced a warning about his vast property and a jest about King George not identifying him. Carroll replied by adding of Carrollton to his name, stamping his identity.
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Charles Carroll
Carrollton
Maryland
George
Carroll
Book Critics Survey Recent Editions And Authors
A survey of new editions and authors notes Goldwin Smith's new work No Refuge But In Truth, William Allen White's A Certain Rich Man set in Kansas, and Irving Bacheller's The Hand Made Gentleman with roots in real life. It discusses Shaw's Blanco Posnet censor issues and explains how publishers use edition versus impression terms.
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David Harum
Goldwin Smith
Wiliam Allen White
Atlantic Seaboard
Kansas
Middle West
White
Irving Bachellor
Rushwater
Pearl
Bacheller
Davenport
New York
Bernard Shaw
Blanco Posnet
God
Shaw
Anatole
Emile Zola
Zola
America
Winter Highways in the Yukon Valley
Prof Albert Bushnell Hart notes in the Boston Transcript that Yukon winter roads are only dog sled trails. Bishop Rowe meets a miner and learns the trail he trod was much the same, ending with a blunt comparison about their journeys.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
Boston Transcript
Yukon Valley
Bishop Rowe
Alaska
Expression and cars in daily life hit by writers
A Boston Transcript writer notes an elocution teacher urging pupils to express more during recitations. The piece contrasts expressive delivery with flat readings and notes the growing prevalence of automobiles and slot machines shaping daily life.
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Boston Transcript
Woman recounts tumor removal by Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
Lindley Indiana resident Mars May Fry credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with removing a four year tumor and restoring her health after three doctors urged surgery. The piece promotes the remedy as a safe alternative and offers free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It also notes costly historic pens and artifacts once belonging to Dickens Lincoln and Washington.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lindley
Ind
Mars
May Fry
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Charles Dickens
Boz
Lincoln
Isaac Reed
New York
George Washington
Eugenie
Paris
Kidney health warning and home remedies advert from era
A late 19th or early 20th century advertisement item warns back pain signals kidney illness and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from John M. Burwick. It also lists assorted ads for Mother's remedies, dental quips, and household products with price details and promotional lines.
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Mae
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Roth
John M. Burwick
Rk. F. DD
Dayton
Venn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Tommy
Mother Gray
Mall
Mother Gray Co
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Baltimore American
Allen
Harvard Lampoon