Baking Powder Tests Claim Dr Price’s Superior Leavening
A sequence of tests from Prof. Long Dr Haiti and Prof. Prescott compares baking powders for purity leavening strength and cost. Dr Price’s Cream of Tartar Powder reportedly shows superior leavening and overall performance in household use. A separate anecdote recounts a dramatic church scene with a tiger striped kitten and a dog interrupting prayers.
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Long
Haiti
Prescott
Price
Chicago
Ing, Senders
Havev
Northwestern University
Lone tightrope walk inspires childhood dream
A child and mother discuss a circus tightrope act high above the ground. The boy imagines how a brave feat could help his kite catch a telegraph wire, while the mother reacts with a mix of horror and wonder.
Expert Witness Dr Matt Mead in Case Questioned
The text references Dr Matt Mead as an expert witness in a case, noting uncertainty about his exact role or the specifics of the testimony. It centers on questions surrounding his involvement and the case context.
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Matt ‘Mead
California Fig Syrup Co laxative advertised cure
An old style advertisement extols KNOWLEDGE as a comfortable improvement and a perfect laxative. It claims cleansing the system relieves colds headaches fevers and constipation, aids kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them, and credits millions of satisfied users and medical approval. It stresses its free from objectionable substances and urges reliance on Syrup of Figs by California Fig Syrup Co.
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California
Miss Terry's Garter Stolen Then Found in Odd Way
The London theater night audience watched as Miss Terry lost her mascot garter. The crowd helped search, a property man found it, but it was a soiled band of elastic. The garter belonged to a woman later identified as a murder victim whose belongings were in a morgue awaiting ID.
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Dominie
Puss
Ellen Yerry
Wwaw
Outery Coum
London
Miss Terry
iIt
Msg ‘Ferry
Aiton
Ganahtevnut
Ttaly
la Salle
Thiebault
Trappa Ta Balle
Perigia
Spihe
Nando
The Amazing Cat on a Midland Express Car Wheel
Read of a London cat clinging to an express wheel on the Midland Railway. After a 72 mile ride to Kettering at high speed the cat remained on the axle though dizzy. An engineer calculated revolutions, center of gravity, wind and claw weight to explain the feat.
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Magland
New York
London
Midland Railway
Kettering
Manchester
St. Pancras
Poesy
The New Woman and Manhood in Modern Society
The article argues for harmonious gender relations based on mutual aid rather than rivalry. It urges men to adopt a higher ideal of manhood and for women to develop intuition and strength, warning against overemphasizing masculine intellect at the expense of innate feminine perceptive powers. It cites historic German views and stresses respect for distinct female gifts as essential to truth and life.
The Crimean War Tale of a Ballroom Cavalier
A French officer on leave rode into a Perigian ballroom during a raid, dined with the widow and guests, then rode off amid cheers after greeting the hostess. A related scene recalls a Sevastopol retreat where a Russian and French sergeant faced each other, exchanged disciplined actions, and ended with a handshake rather than killing.
Astonished the Natives African explorer recalls Maui rhinoceros encounter
An African explorer recounts guiding a caravan in Maui where two rhinoceroses blocked the path. He fired at the first then the second rhino dropped, stunning his crew and onlookers who praised the event with ritual gestures and exclamations of Ngall God.
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Nhen
Urey
Mensura
Walrus on Land Struggles and Herded Social Life
The passage describes walruses as land awkward beings, hind flippers limited on sand while front flippers struggle to hold. It notes these creatures are highly social, travel and rest in large herds, and that older males show more neck development and burden than females and juveniles. It recalls historic Pacific populations in the Bering Sea before slaughter limits.
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St. Nicholas
Oren
Bering Sea
Herda
Keening Poultry and the Model Wife in City Life
The essay argues poultry keeping fosters love for home and frugality, praising the poultry woman as a model wife. It contrasts rural contentment with urban dissatisfaction, citing a city woman longing for rural life where fowls provided money and stability, while city living is depicted as a metaphorical jail.
Unsound Teeth Across Ancient Races Debate
J Howard Mummery recounts his father’s decade long inquiry testing over two thousand skulls from Britain and abroad. Data show dental decay in ancient Egyptians Angl o Saxon Romano British and other groups with notable regional caries rates among Tasmanians Australians and Africans.
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J. Howard Mummery
Great Britain
East Africa
West Africa
Haverly burlesque rows spark glare cape caper and ads
Fragmentary comic chatter on burlesque seating and calicum glare sparks. An old advertisement touts Hall’s catarrh cure with testimonials from J Cheney Co Toledo West Traax Walding Einman Marvin druggists and a 75 cent price for Hall’s pills. A classroom joke notes Patrick Henry’s liberty quote with a child’s quip about his father.
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J. Cheney & Co
Toledo, Sr
J. Cheney
Iro
West & Traax
Jado
Walding
Einman & Marvin
Toledo
Obin
Hall
Army to admit women with bulletproof shields invented
Unnencensary Miss Nuwera notes rapid progress as a man invents a bulletproof shield and women may join the army. Planetork asks what need there is for shields if the army is all female. Miss Wanternenu questions poker limit and game length as Potts confirms limits often determine play duration.
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Nuwera
Planetork
Duck Potts
The Acconnip for it and French gender humor
A quirky collage of misspellings and comic snippets. It riffs on gender in French, “Neighbors Advice,” dress impressions, and odd advertisements. References include misheard lines about neuters, tips on remedies, and playful city life banter.
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Dr. Price
Detsit
The
ST. Jacobs
Sevastopol
Chen
Luni
Royal Baking PO
Vrere
Haverly
Austen
Patrick Henry
Kalical
Olaima
J.a.shea &Co
Mirana
Stinnerpolis
Buatanied
Mermansat
L.L. May & CO
Womfer Yen
Plominte
Beecenen
Ate Food
Mise
Taacher
France
Miss Freckles
Misa
Farranti Ie
Italy
Avery
Mr .Wisso
Pantata
Lone Guo
Oranva
Lion Ellen - Wernpporn
Ing
Knifh
Samo
Woolgon Gfice Co
Iuran St
ToLepo
Ome
Trest Ak
Camtaninge
Normandy
Kenwion
Syotem
Daniah
Jaca
Athyould
Piso
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