The Mail Order Martyr
A narrator recalls buying goods from Glasgow to New York and Paris then back home to Chicago. He laments faulty items a stove with three legs and a cracked oven dome, vowing to buy locally from Levestier and Hoy and to stop roaming for extra copies at drug stores.
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Glasgow
Belfast
Coris
London
Liverpool
New York
Paris
Rome
Chicago
Old Mike
Levestier
Cnan
Kidney Pills Ad Claims Cure for Kidney Ailments
An old Dean's Kidney Pills advertisement touts a remedy for kidney troubles. It credits Mrs. Thomas with relief and urges buyers to request the product from dealers, mentioning Foster-Mllburn Co of Buffalo as the manufacturers.
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Lake
Lake Ave
Tay
Dean
Iqus
Letter From 1824 Tolbirs Boy Describes Austin Colony
A fragment from W B Dewees to his mother dated January 1 1824 recounts landing in 1822 with few settlers in the Mexican territory now Texas. He notes dangers from natives and animals and explains why he cannot return home yet praising brave honest settlers and asking prayers. The item closes with a local real estate note for 124 acre Nada Texas farm near the Colorado River and a home for sale.
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Tolbirs
W.B. Dewees
Austin
Colorado River
Mexico
E Grant
Kentucky
Italy
W. B. Dewees
F. J. Mikulencak
Nada
Mark Twain on Babies at Chicago Banquet 1870s
An excerpted pastiche of Mark Twain's imagined after dinner speech The Babies delivered in Chicago remarks on babies commanding family life rewards and burlesques military discipline and infant antics. The piece blends humor about generals soldiers and the sleepless hours of parenthood with Twain's characteristic irony and homely anecdotes.
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Mark’ “Twain
Chicago
Army of ‘de Tennessee
Hh Grant
Twain
Wsck
Tie
Donelson
Vicksburg
Tennessee
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Natlea
Railroad Station
Hood
Church
P. J
Mikulencak
Columbias
Columbia
Columbia Dry
Gnitore
Rel Og
Eagle Lake State Bank
Rae
Mark Twain
Deere
Bessie Bearden
GARDA
Hawes Sanitary Dairy
Ham’s Sanitary Dairy
Eagle Lake Canoy Kitchen
CAN Canaries
Colorado County
DR. Campbell
Frank Arnold
Garwood
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