The Conjuror and the Eggs and Other Tales
A juvenile column recounts a Bristol market trick where Bosco the conjurer tricks an egg seller into finding sovereigns, then returns a consolation half crown. It also variegates fortune telling with a clover daisy, notes on the pitcher plant’s growth, King Alexander of Servia’s youth and learning, plus a poem about the Sand Man.
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Bosco
Bristol
High Street
Nicholas Steps
King
Servia
King Alexander of
Alexander
Verses and Prairie Belle tragedy in old verse
A collage of poem stanzas and staccato prose recounts romantic verse, riverboat lore, and a dramatic tale of Jim Bludso and the Prairie Belle tragedy on the Mississippi. It blends sentimental poems with a narrative of duty and courage amid peril, plus assorted ads and medical cures.
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Jim
Jim Bludso
Cakes Without Eggs With Price's Cream Baking Powder
Housewives quickly learn Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder outperforms rivals by avoiding eggs and reducing butter. It enables light tasty cakes from griddle to Bride Cake and is praised for purity and absence of ammonia or alum.
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Home
Golden Gate
Ballard
Canta
N. M. Wurrr
Ayer
Bucklen
N. M. White
City Drug Store
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Green
John H. Foster
Brown Street
Philadelphia
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Ont
Fen
Themis
Wiste
Corson Gins
Mary
Fatime
Kate
Flo
Sarah de Wolf Gamwell
United States
Harper'’s Young People
GEMS
Anna R. Gazzam
Jimmy Bludso
Natchez-under-the-Hill
Pike
John Hay
Earth
Wrong
Kain
Emima C
Dowd
Cormer
Res
Tony
Chambers
James Whitcomb Riley
Elizabeth Bogart
James Russell Lowell
S. H. Clifford
New Cassel
Wis
Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg
John Speaker
Catawba
N.M. White
Polar Sea
Sell
London
Montana
Butte
Leigh Lynch
Davis
South Sea Islands
Buckingham
W. A. Alexander
Louis Gelder
Insurance Associations of
Chicago
Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners
Australia
Sydney
New South Wales
Montana Medicine Co
Bartel
Vom
H. F. Jackson
Prop
Tye Doha
Hendler
Corvaleteley Hive
Thleaks
Seinson
COK
Portland
Maine
Dillon
Argenta
Bannack
Pacific Express
F. L. Graves
Anderson Bros
Chas. H. Padley
Scocessor
Ridwi & Pebbiy
Union Besame
McGarvin & Lovell
Ed. Marlow
Enera
Helena National Bank
Helena
Helena and
Idaho
Capital
Joan T. Murray
Prestpent
Surrey
Asany
Frank Barno
Casaren
Fred Gamer
Lacer Congress
S. Main
N. Main
Dr. Price
Matleese & Co
Anni Page
Austin
Wel Dive
Pelis
Obie
Tina Wall
John W. Morton
the Tribune
Welsom
Bailey Block
Mont
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