Metamorphosis Spelling Contest Wins Nan Hascall
In Welchville a village spelling contest offers a year of Douglass Seminary tuition. Nan Hascall, once underestimated, wins after spelling metamorphosis and vows to prove herself, helped by Mildred and judged by Dr. Randall.
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Randall
Douglass Seminary
Ethel Maynard
Ralph Holman
George Lewis
Nan
Dr. Randall
Nan Hascall
Mildred
Mr. Holman
Ralph
Census comparison shows regional growth shifts across decades
The report notes that the Southern and Eastern states match the 1890 census better than intermountain and Midwestern states, indicating growth declines in those western regions. The snippet lists Groner L. Kite as the source or author.
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Intermountain
Middle Western
Groner L. Kite
Sand Drift Protection Along Suez Canal Progress
Trees and shrubs are being planted along about nine miles of the Suez canal to guard water lines from drifting sand. Reeds line the canal proper as part of the protection effort.
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Suez Canal
Canal
France
Bidon
Austria-Hungary
Not Guilty Remarks and Social Snapshots
A string of aphorisms on power, judgment, marriage, beauty, and honesty. The fragments touch on politics, dignity, perception, and social roles with wry observations and incomplete phrases.
autumnal country road echoes quiet grief
A poetic fragment describes a lone country road after rain. The scene shifts through green walls, hanging winter hush, and a robin’s brief song. Helen Hay’s line evokes summer fading, air hushed, leaves stirring, and life’s calm denial amid rain.
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Aji
Helen Hay
Harper's Magazine
Hen fish in China a curious hatchery tale
A German science column reports that Chinese hens are repurposed to hatch fish eggs. Spawn is collected at water edges, sealed in eggshells with wax, warmed under hens, then transferred to a pool to grow into fingerlings for later release.
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China
Not Adventurous Enough Dicky Iain't Calls Messenger
Fragmentary text describes a child named Dicky perhaps speaking of growing up to be an express messenger. The src appears garbled with stray punctuation and misread words, offering little coherent narrative or identifiable facts.
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Dicky
Johnnie
Missionaries Attacked on Tanna Island Cannibal Siege
Alexander Gillies recalls a Fiji mission on Tanna Island in the New Hebrides where two Presbyterian missionaries were attacked during a gospel meeting. A native fired, killing one and wounding another. cannibal feasts followed as savages roasted bodies, until natives freed the remaining survivors. Admiral Pearson later sent HMS Wallaroo to Tana to respond as villages burned.
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New Orleans
Tanna Island
New Hebrides
Mr. Gillies
Wielding
Visions of Heaven Reported by Mrs Gause in Indiana
Mrs Mahlon Gause wife of Rev Mahlon Gause of the Friends chapel Stillwell Indiana describes a deathlike trance she recently endured. She recalls darkness then bright light visions heavenly forms music perfume and a view of her parents approaching a distant tower of light.
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Mahlon Gause
Friends’ Chapel
Stillwell
Ind
Dynamic Tasunus Cures Colds Overnight, Reports Say
Advertised cures claim to abort worst colds in 12 hours and stop coughs in a night. Endorsements from Barclay Henry and Mrs Emma B G praise Minott or Menort Dynamo Tasones with dates in 1900. Product marketed by Inland Drug Co of San Francisco with local agents listed.
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Munat
Barclay Henry
Congress
Sansome Street
San Francisco
Minonn
Emma BG
Honor
Moss St
Menort
Self
Nome
L. van Wrxne
Washington Street
Post
Inland Drug
L. J. Williams
Miners' Code now available for Montana and Idaho
Howell's Miners' Code provides full guidance on locating and recording quartz and placer claims, mill sites and tunnels in Montana and Idaho, plus forms, filing methods, co owner duties, liens, patents, and mining laws. Price fifty cents. For sale by Tarsunz Punrisine Co Dillon Mont.
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Montana
Idaho
Howell
United States
Tarsunz- Punrisuine Co
Dillon, Mont
Salt Lake City advertised as transcontinental lure
A promotional piece extols Salt Lake City and its region including Temple Square and natural wonders, touting the Rio Grande Western Railway route as the only transcontinental line through the city. It invites readers to request a pamphlet offering cures for various nervous and digestive ailments carried by a city drug store.
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Salt Lake City
Great Salt Lake
Dead Sea
Holy Land
Rio Grampa Westen Railway
Denvere & Rio Grande
Colorado Midland
Weat
Southern Pacific
Oregon
Utah and
Colora
F. W. Thompson
San Franccisco
J. D. Mansfield
Washington
Pentland
W. C. McBride
East Broadway
Butte
E. Copland
Dearborn
J. Chicago
Geo. W. Heintz
Salt Lakeity
City of the Saints
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