Humility Lessons From a Watermelon Incident
A personal anecdote recalls a boy caught stealing a watermelon who is led home and rebuked by his mother. The story contrasts harsh discipline with older norms and frames humility as more vital than pride, then shifts to advice on salesmanship and keeping focus on orders over charm.
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Doce Hoover
John
Sausage Business Letter Sparks Warned Tone
A playful but cautionary note about sausage sales critiques. The writer warned Dear Pierrepont that joking too much may scare off customers and emphasized the need for more orders in the packing business.
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Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son excerpt
A humorous contrast between unreliable pups and hopeful youths. The narrator notes that boys may not become poets or professors, urging merit over pretension while advising to market cottonseed oil honestly and let a son follow his own path into markets like the wheat pit.
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George Horace Lorimer
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Board of Trade
Advice to Boys on Work Habits and Character
A mentor advises boys to value steady business virtues over flashy energy. He warns against erratic workers who act like “sick setter pups” and fear they would misuse authority. He cites timing and respect for timekeepers as signs of reliable conduct.
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Marquess of Queensberry
Tom Lipton
Joshua
George Horace Lorimer
The Relief and Aid Committeeman Christmas Story
Edward Tucker, relief and aid committee member, helps Mrs. Plumber after a banker's death era. He funds a luxury home and wardrobe for the Plumbers, then discovers the money came from his own youth. He asks for a marriage, but reveals the repayment financed his fortune and ends with Margaret Plumber embracing him.
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Chicago
Edward Tucker
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Vegetarian doubts and a cure from Dr. Pierce
The discussion at Table Talk centers on vegetarianism, with Miss Schuyler declaring herself vegetarian and naming foods she consumes. Dr. Smith cautions that animal products can be necessary and warns against universal dietary advice. The tale credits Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and the Common Sense Medical Adviser for improving health and advising self care.
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Esquime
Arctic
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Shade
Overland Service via Union Pacific and Milw St Paul
Aboard at San Francisco off at Chicago. The new overland service operates via the Union Pacific and the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
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Chicago
Union Pacific
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Williams
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Mining Books and Blanks for Sale in Tribune Ad
A local Tribune ad lists quartz location notices and placer location notices priced at 50 cents per dozen. Also offered are affidavit of annual certification forms, Montana mining code references, Morrison’s mining, and 300 page full sheep binding with postpaid shipping.
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Montana
Morrison's
Bighia
Tribune
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promoted
The text promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery from the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York. It claims to aid digestion and assimilation, enrich blood, stimulate liver action, and relieve nervous distress caused by indigestion. It asserts improved strength and happiness when digestion is healthy.
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Pierce
E¢ World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery Testimonial Claims Full Recovery
A legal notice style statement warns of a $3000 penalty for not obtaining original signatures from volunteers and writers of testimonials. It quotes Jas E Hawkins praising the Golden Medical Discovery and Alice Everly stating relief from liver and digestion issues after using multiple Pierce products.
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Jas. E. Hawkins
Dr. Pierce
Free Cloth Bound Medical Adviser Offer
Send to Dr. R V Pierce Buffalo NY for a paper covered copy of the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. Enclose 21 one cent stamps to cover mailing only. Cloth bound option or stamps accepted.
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R. Vv. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
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