In History from Elkhart Review December 30 1908
Highlights include Titus born 39 and died 81. Queen Isabella of Spain born 1451 died 1504. Otto von Kotzebue born 1787 died 1846. Banks in New York Philadelphia and Boston suspend specie payments. Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago. Jupiter appears stationary as Sun set at 4:38 and rises at 7:20 with the Moon at 1.04 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titus
Isabella of Spain
Columbus
Otto von Kotzebue
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Piles Cured in Sixteen Days by PAZO Gintment
A fragmentary ad-like notice touts PAZO GINTMENT claiming quick relief for piles within six to fourteen days. The text is incomplete but presents a strong cure promise and references a remedy name without concrete details.
Debates in Congress give way to rigid rules in capital plan
A Charles W. Arthur report notes rough and tumble debates have faded due to stricter rules since the Reed era. It covers exposition news from Rio de Janeiro highlighting U S machine goods, and discusses Washington improvements including purchasing squares south of Pennsylvania Avenue for new government buildings, plus gifts for the vice president and the Grant statue ceremonies.
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Charles W. Arthur
Washington
Congress
House
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
Bureau of Manufactures
Rito de Janeiro
Brazil
United States
Rio
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury Building
Wade Sam
Heyburn
Idaho
Memento
U. S. Grant
Congressional Botanical Gardens
Capitol i
Grant Monument
Inward Silence and Love: A Collected Quotation Exchange
A terse dialogue contrasts bone goblet and flesh and blood tumbler spoken at a circus. The fragment references Norse inward sense of silence and MacDonald on inward knowledge of true love and faith.
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Norge
MacDonald
Home Preserves and Browning Tips From A Household Guide
A household guide offers practical steps for tomato preserves including washing boiling mashing straining and salting with sugar and mustard vinegar, plus instructions to prepare browned flour for gravies and a rice and corn bread batter with eggs milk butter and baking powder for a moderate oven bake. It emphasizes sterilization sealing and a week of standing before use.
Attachment For Carpet Sweepers Improves Cleaning Per Test
An improved attachment for household carpet sweepers to wipe and collect dust after brushing. After sweeping, the brush is removed and a wiper substituted, designed for easy insertion and use on carpet surfaces to lift remaining dust.
Wipes the Carpet With Damp Wiper System
A description explains a damp cloth roller wiper that travels over carpet to collect remaining dust after sweeping. The method is easy for sweepers and would be hard by hand, while also brightening colors and improving appearance.
Hair washing tip to prevent tangles for children
Separate the hair from the forehead to the back of the head and split it into two parts. Make four small braids by dividing each part again. Wash as usual, then comb each braid individually. This method reduces tangles and works well for children.
Filling For Cream Puffs And Pie Crust Tips
A compact set of kitchen notes covers cream puff filling and pie crust finishing. It describes cornstarch thickened milk with eggs sugar butter and vanilla, and binding pie edges with dough trimmings for a neat, browned crust.
Hand Care and Nut Cracking Instructions
To avoid chapped hands use a salt bag filled with a cup of oatmeal kept near the soap dish. After washing and drying hands, children dust the backs with puff. For removing pecan and hickory meats pour boiling water over the nuts, cool, then crack with a hammer at the small end and edge.
Combustion rumination on spending and coal costs
A Washington Star letter questions burning money as a wasting act while lamenting rising coal bills. The author links financial waste to energy expenses, reflecting daily concerns about heating costs during cold periods.
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Washington Star
I give away solitaire rings within love letters
Quote exchange from Bohemian Magazine about a young man and a counterpart promising to write no foolish love letters while admitting a heartless gesture of giving away solitaire rings. The fragment reflects flirtatious wit.
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Bohemian Magazine
The Thieves Of Japan And Their Clever Tricks
A Chicago News reprint recounts how Japanese thieves pilfer shoes from women in crowds and how a miser's hidden hoard was stolen by sliding a bed away from a chest. It includes anecdotes of watch ring swaps, alias use, and clever disguises, ending with a poem and literary quotation.
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Trey
Tokyo
Yokohama
Chicago News
Willie Jones Denies Whispering in Classroom
Mary Brown reports Willie Jones whispered, prompting the teacher to question him. Willie denies the whispering and vows not to do it again, as the teacher admonishes.
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Willie Jones
Mary Brown
Willie
FOR THE CHILDREN A Clever Performance
A vintage children’s page offers simple magic and party games. Tricks use wax on a fingernail to make a dime vanish and reappear then move to the palm. Fun guessing games involve object thoughts and hat slips. Short verses and riddles follow with light humor about peafowls and Salic law.
Marquis in Disguise Outsmarts Free Care Scam
A famous surgeon Velneau tells a feigned footman case that a 4000 franc operation was urgent. A fortnight later Velpeau recognizes the patient as a nobleman footman and demands 10000 francs for charity. The marquis is exposed and pays to avoid scandal.
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Velneau
Velpeau
Hopital de la Charite
Faubourg St. Ger Inalo
Public Charity Bureau
Paris
Marquis de D
Argenaut
The Storm Nose at Sea Phenomenon Described
The article explains the storm nose or Gewitternase as a wave of high barometric pressure signaling an approaching storm. The barometer rises quickly then falls gradually, potentially causing sea level changes. Danish observations report level changes up to three feet before storms.
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Germany
Denmark
Black Tom af Soothill Bell Toll At Midnight
The London Standard notes the “Black Tom af Soothill” bell in Dews bury Yorkshire was given to the church to atone for a murder. It is rung on Christmas Eve with its midnight tolling known as the devil's knell, signaling the devil’s death at Christ’s birth.
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Dewsbury
Yorkshire
England
Christ
London Standard
Quotable Victorian Banter in a London Scene
Laughing exchanges from a London Tit-Bits snippet show a pompous gentleman at a hotel being annoyed by slow boot polishing. A shouted insult and a quick retort reveal the era’s brisk humor and social edge in a compact, characterful exchange.
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London
Christmas Stocking Solution At The Regular Barn
An old woman in a shoed home hears a joke about Christmas stockings and adopts the idea. A dental ad notes pyorrhoea or looseness of the teeth successfully treated by Dr. C. L. George.
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C. L. George
The Life of a Tree Immortality Claim Examined
A French botanist argues trees live indefinitely barring accident and pests, while Gray contends trees are virtually immortal. Trees continually renew their youth as new layers form at the trunk edge, so decay of the center is not fatal.
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Gray
Iits
Riddle and Answer on Horseback Pair
A riddle describes a man and a woman riding a horse. Five legs on one side and three on the other. Two eyes in the forehead and four on the cheek. One tongue that is silent and two that can clack.
Marked For Death Then Health Restored By King’s Discovery
Mrs A C Williams of Backy credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing a graveyard cough and lung illness after doctors failed. She gained 58 pounds and regained health, claiming the medicine holds a world healing record for coughs colds and lung throat diseases and prevents pneumonia. Sold at Houseworth Bros. drug store with guarantee 50c and 1.00 trial bottle free.
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Houseworth Bros. Drug Store
A Dangerous Operation and A Clean Bill of Health
An alarming headline notes the removal of the appendix by a surgeon while promoting Dr King’s New Life Pills. The tonic promises quiet, painless relief from constipation headache biliousness and malaria offered for 25 cents at Hongeworth Bros. drug store.
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Dr. King
Hongeworth Bros. Drug Store
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Elkhart Review
Jupiter
Elkhart
Labor Organizations
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
F. BE. Smith
J. H.calkins
Division Street
B. of L. H. Hall
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
W. Hi. Roose
Harry Meredith
Mulberry Street
Brotherhood of Railway
L. EH
Blickenstaff
South Eleventh Street
G. E. Gardner
Fremont Street
B. N. Delee
South Main Street
R. T. Hall
A. C. Brown
Marion Street
William H. Darling
Vistula
H. Brown
LaPorte Avenue
South Bend
McKean Hall
J. F. Roser
H. D. Albers
C. L. U. Hall
Carpenters Union
Frank Lape
Eugene May
Avondale Avenue
Typographical Union
F.W. Crisman
Cigarmakers Union
J. F. Kantz
James Street
Painters Hall
Barbers Union
Fred Waters
A. EB. Loudenslager
East Middlebury Street
Bartenders Union
David Cole
Adolphus Meise
Canton Street
Metal Polishers Union
EH. L. Burns
Hugo Winterhoff
Jefferson Street
Red Men’s Hall
Musicians Union
Nelson Kenlberling
North Sixth Street
C. Li. U. Hall
Painters Union
Cc. H. Hackman
J. G. Shrock
Aspenwold Avenue
Boilermakers Union
F. B. Seibert
Middlebury Street
Iron Moulders Union
C. Francis
Hudson Street
G. Jenkins
West Franklin Street
Co. L. A. Hall
Electricians Union
Robert Sanford
Asa Kintsler
Care Home Telephone Co
Bricklayere and Masons No. 4
G. W. Clark
C. ‘W. Amidon
Union Street
Senate
Fairbanks
Hobart
New Jersey
Adlai Stevenson
Illnois
the Thieves OF
Japan
Louis Republic
India
Napoleon
the Daily Review
van Aken Bros
Florist
May
Bess
Belle
Julia
Sudge
Monger Building
Dr. C. KH. Runyon
Bell Phone
Lexington Avenue
J. Richman
Main St
Burrell & Morgan
City of Elkhart
East Franklin Street
E. A. Campbell
Jackson Hill
West Virginia
Hocking Valley
Piney Fork
S. Main
Brusman
Holdeman
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