The Ocean King Pursues A Chilean Warship On Atlantic Run
The Black Anchor crew watches a gold-decked Chilean warship flee a pursuing steamer amid heavy fighting. U.S. and American ships intervene as a cruiser is crippled, and a convoy forms to New York. The captain, Roderick, and Paolo reveal the ship’s startling American identity and the Pacific tension behind the chase.
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Mary
Roder- Wek
Namisles
Elsen
Eiim
Paris
Piabant
Captain Black
Hall
Atlantic
Mark
Anid Roderick
Ocean King
Iry
Roderick
Tam
John
King
Paolo
Jay
Moss
Sly
Europe
Sone
New York
Pa and Bobby Board a Smokered Sister Ship
A humor sketch shows Bobby asking what boat is on the lake. Pa replies it is a sister ship to the one they see. Bobby then suggests it is a brother ship because it smokes a lot, in a light home scene.
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Paolo
Dan
Rofberick
Belle
Thore
Mark
Pat'ral
Yankee-land
Ike
Roderick
Onlnton
New York
Luinds
Dabbyta
Bobby
Fixing the Dinme and Daughter’s Marriage Standstill
A dialogic snippet shows a father resisting consent to his daughter's marriage until the suitor can support her. The young man retorts that if denied, she will die an old man, with stage directions and garbled lines from a Penny Puck-like column reflecting chaotic theater chatter.
Nothing in the World Like Good Old Fashioned Cebtage
A fragmented excerpt mocks pretentious talk as a character jokes about simple pleasures. It notes a contrast between refined airs and plain tastes, mentioning cigars and a dismissive comment on indulgent habits. The line ends with a playful, lingering absurdity.
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Houston
Surprising exchange in Detroit Free Press description
A humorous dialogue excerpt features a bachelor teasing Benedict about his wife and cigars, noting Brehelor brand snaked into the banter and prompting a witty reply from Benedict.
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Brehelor
Benedict
Detroit Free, Press
Apples and butter quality in market practices
The article warns fruit growers about packing and picking faults that lower market value. It stresses loose pack, poor sorting, rough handling, and pulling rather than picking. It urges careful picking, proper packing, honest dealing, and learning from Western practices to improve prices.
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Patta
Far West
Commission Marchant
H. M. Dunlap
Right feeding for poultry to start strong and stay lean
G B Pollard argues for thorough, liberal feeding and proper conditions to start chicks on a strong growth path. He warns that sporadic, halfhearted feeding leads to lean pullets and cockerels, lost time, and poorer prices, urging continuous, well-regulated feed with fresh air and clean surroundings.
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Pollard
Dairy Jottings on Cream, Butter Melter and Salt Method
Advice on dairy processing discusses skim milk timing to capture cream, regular stirring for ripe cream, and achieving a smooth velvety texture before churning. It notes cream ripening as key to butter quality, and outlines salting out of churn by removing granular butter, weighing, and spreading on the worker.
Cough in Hogs and Worm Control Remedies
A folk remedy piece advises hog owners that coughing in hogs indicates worms and recommends turpentine fed in slop to non pregnant hogs, with a tablespoon per bucket and a standing time. It also stresses cleanliness, ashes or cinders, charred corn cobs with salt and copperas, and lice and mange prevention as key to herd health.
Orchard cultivation and market notes from rural press
The article advocates timely orchard care and weed control, advises pruning diseased limbs, soil plowing, and crop rotation with clover and manure, and promotes clean cultivation for peach trees. It also highlights rising pork prices due to home use and exports, and notes profitable spraying for potatoes with observed average net gains per acre.
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Ilka
Philadelphia
Cure of Miss Goode Boosted by Lydia Pinkham’s Compound
Miss Cora Goode, president of the Bryn Mawr Lawn Tennis Club of Chicago, credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after months of fatigue and unrest. She praises the remedy and urges other women to seek Mrs. Pinkham’s advice, noting the product’s long record of female-health cures. The piece also mentions Mrs. Pinkham’s offer of free guidance to sick women.
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Miss Goode
Bryn Mawr
Chicago
Pinkham
Lydia KE
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia
Lydia E. Plukham
Lynn
Manay
Allcock's Plasters Enduring Pain Remedy Record
A world renowned porous paste relieves pains from cold or strain, praised after sixty years of use. Sold by druggists worldwide, it remains a trusted remedy. The ad ends with a light family dialogue about sharing time and funds.
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Allcock's
Allcook
Wonderful discovery promises antiseptic relief by oil mix
Chemist M. R. Zaegel of Sheboygan Wisconsin claims a new blend of vegetable and mineral oils creates an amber liquid with antiseptic, pain relief and healing properties that penetrate skin to bones. He offers free sample bottles by mail for catarrh rheumatism piles or back pain upon request.
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Max K. Zoezel
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Sheboygan
Wis
M. R. Zaegel
Main St
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Rome
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Mrs. Spat
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