Health and Beauty Tips from Lily Langtry Advocate
The article quotes Lily Langtry stressing health as the foundation of beauty and vitality. It endorses Dr. Pierce’s medical books and Favorite Prescription, citing a testimonial from Mrs Nielsen and a $500 reward offer for cures, encouraging readers to seek professional guidance and trial of remedies.
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Lily Langtry
People’s Common Sense
R. V. Pierce
M. D
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Simple Shirt Waist Styles For The Season
Simple blouses or shirt waists remain in demand. The described model features box plaits along the length, royal blue taffeta with matching figures, wide season sleeves, deep cuffs, and pairs well with a jacket suit. Material quantities for medium size are listed for three widths.
Swiss cider fabrics headline comfort garments for lounging
Swiss cider leads the list of comfort garments designed for cold season lounging. They feature stitched silk bindings and a silk cord at the waist with tassel ends. The Swiss eider is available in plain colors as well as striped dotted and new mottled designs in contrasting colors.
Children Wear Cashmeres and Other Fabrics
Children’s wear features cashmeres favored by elders. soft and colorful but less durable than flannels. Also present are wool delaines with quaint flowers, a smooth hard twisted serge, albatross, mohair, and light weight worsteds for varied fabrics.
Panama volle Veiling Debuts in Street and Semi Formals
A new weave called Panama volle is used for street and semidress gowns. It appears in plain and embroidered effects and in fashionable colors, highlighting its versatility for both everyday and dressy wear.
Leather trimmed outdoor schoolgirl suit in cheviot
A teen fashion feature shows a brown and tan cheviot outdoor costume with leather trimmings. Leather detailing on walking suits is highlighted as this season's fashionable closing.
Garments Described with Narrow Gores and Box Pleats
The text explains skirt shaping with narrow gores and box pleats and lists materials such as velveteen corduroy ladies' cloth zibe line melton chamois velvet and heavy silk for trimming. It gives fabric requirements of three yards for medium size a half yard for trimming and five yards for another medium size with forty four inch width.
Good Indoor Game Buff and the Silent Staff
A playful children’s game describes a sober visitor returning from Buff with a staff. Players in a line ask where he came from and what he heard, repeating Buff’s command to stay solemn. If a participant smiles or laughs, they forfeit a turn and must surrender the staff.
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Buff
Bult
Party Game Ideas From a Progressive Gathering
A feature describes party games for girls including pin and needle threading, a spooning potatoes contest, and egg blowing over a chalk line. It also mentions a word puzzle using flower letters for forming twenty flowers, offering options for simpler or more intellectual activities.
The Elephant's Trunk Marvels of Nature
Naturalists praise the elephant trunk as the most marvelous feature of nature. It contains over 4,000 muscles and can uproot trees or gather grass, lift cans or peanuts, kill a man, or brush off a fly. The trunk acts as a versatile hand and hollow suction pump, with length aiding the heavy head and defense through tusks. No other animal has a single organ so perfect and useful.
Her Opinion of Boys Essay Early Feminist Note
A Philadelphia Inquirer item quotes a young girl’s humorous essay on boys and girls. She portrays boys as restless and troublesome while praising girls and dolls, and notes her father’s kind nature. The piece lampoons gender roles with playful satire.
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Adam
Eve
Philadelphia Inquirer
New Year Rakes In Japan
On New Year’s day in Japan homes display kumade rakes featuring the goddess of good fortune or a money safe. Rakes vary from plain to ornate depending on means, with the wealthy sometimes paying as much as 25 dollars for an elaborate emblem believed to attract luck in the coming year.
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Japan
Sparrow Pheasant Joke About Games and Bells
A punny quip on sparrows and pheasants asks why a sparrow would be offended by a mislabel. It then contrasts church bells and an organ, noting the bells toll as the organ proclaims defiance with a jokey line.
Addition Puzzle
Add one letter to the opposite of first to form the word second and then make the opposite of greatest into smallest. Add one letter to a part of the face to yield nose plus a letter making noises. Add one letter to a sweetheart to get a valentine and then a fragrant plant becoming lavender.
Five Cats Named by a Clever Student
A teacher asks for five members of the cat family. After a pause a girl answers with Father Cat, Mother Cat, and three little kittens.
Lost Toy Upends Morning for Little Mary Geraldine
A short verse from Youth's Companion tells of Mary Geraldine losing a precious thing in her bed for half an hour. The wind and tears ripple her day as she hurries to school without breakfast, red cheeks and shaken Calm.
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Mary Geraldine
Ned
Amusing Press Club Ring Gag In Washington
English journalist Henry Norman attended the National Press Club in Washington where Mr Decker staged a joke. Decker presented a bell and claimed it was a ring, prompting Norman to quip that the gift was mistaken and that he had received a bell instead of a ring.
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Haman
Charles M. Pepper
Intercontinental Railway Commission
Henry Norman
Norman
Washington
National Press Club of Washington
Decker
National Press Club
Woman and Lion in Barn Court Case Follows Losses
In a winter fire scare a lion sought refuge in a barn. The lion menaced a cow and a woman struck it with a stick. The husband fired at the creature causing property damage. The trainer arrived as the woman fainted and sustained a head wound. The husband sought damages but was denied.
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Samuel Hopkins Adams
McClure’s
Helpless as a corpse a veteran actor recalls fall
H C Barnabee, exhausted from a fall, hears condolences from a dramatic critic who notes his long career. The comedian retorts with a parable of two drunken men who lean on each other and drown, ending with a police officer saving the friend while the speaker sinks into the gutter.
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H. C. Barnabee
Mr. Barnabee
San Antonio Express
Old Abe Williams story told in dialect lines
A character recounts a tale of a man named Onele who served a town figure and chose to be rewarded with whisky rather than coal, remarking in dialect that he burns weed. The exchange highlights regional speech and humorous local color.
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John Sharp Williams
Massa John
Senator Hoar Epigram On Davis of Minnesota
The late Senator Hoar remarked of his dead friend Senator Davis of Minnesota that not a spark from his train ever dimmed the eye of a common fellow. The remark recalls Davis with a sharp, humorous quip reflecting on his character.
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Senator Hoar
Senator Davis
Minnesota
Elkhart to Enforce Cigaret Law Strictly
Elkhart will enforce the new cigarette law with penalties from twenty five to one hundred dollars for first offenses and from one hundred to five hundred dollars for subsequent offenses plus costs. Deputy Prosecutor Baker says the target is dealers not smokers while South Bend tobacco dealers post notices declaring no sales hereafter.
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Silvers
Baker
South Bend
CHAMBERMAID AT 68 DIES AT COLUMBIA HOTEL
Mrs Eveline Nichols a chamber maid died suddenly at the Columbia hotel at 2 am The coroner said death from natural causes probably heart trouble She leaves a daughter Mrs H L Fanning of Bangor Mich a son in Traverse City and a granddaughter Mrs Andrew Cochran Funeral plans await arrival of relatives
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Eveline Nichols
Columbia
Nichols
Ollie Metters
Miss Metters
Dewey
Triple yolk egg from Plymouth Rock hen in Conn's addition
Anson Crofoot of Conn's addition brought a shell egg to the Truth office showing three yolks. The egg, laid by a yellow Plymouth Rock hen, was nearly twice the size of a normal egg and the bird reportedly lays about three double yolk eggs weekly.
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Anson Crofoot
Conn’s Addition
Truth Office
Death of Mrs Lydia Waterman in Nappanee
Mrs Lydia Waterman aged 63 wife of Daniel Waterman died Friday evening at her home in Nappanee after a period of illness described as drop sy. Surviving: her husband and four children Mrs Alvin Hazel of Goshen Mrs John Yoder of west of Goshen Mrs Ed Freese of Nappanee and Joseph Waterman of Nappanee.
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Lydia Waterman
Daniel Waterman
Nappanee
Alvin Hazel
Goshen
John Yoder
West of Goshen
Ed. Freese
Joseph Waterman
Engineer reports no sink lowering on Valley line road bed aftermath
L E Swinehart writes Strafford Maxon that for five days there has been no lowering in the sink on the Valley line road bed and rails are expected to be laid today. A special car carried a theater party of 60 from Shipshewana to LaGrange for the opera house Saturday night.
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L. E. Swinehart
Strafford Maxon
Valley” Line
Shipshewana
LaGrange
LaGrange Opera House
Elkhart Population Listed as 17094 in 1905 Census
Census Bureau figures issued in Washington show Elkhart, Indiana, with an estimated population of 17,094 for 1905. The report details city counts across Indiana and confirms Elkhart's standing among its peers.
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Census Bureau
Washington
Indiana
Elkhart
53 Sundays in 1905 Captured by Mrs Fitch
Mrs Bertha Fitch of 105 North Second Street notes there are 53 Sundays in 1905. She cites a recent Eastern paper claiming this occurs only once in a hundred years.
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Bertha Fitch
North Second Street
William Meader to Sell Livery Stable Auction
William Meader will auction his livery stable on April 29 as he retires due to failing health from active business.
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William Meader
Meader
Auction sale of 90 Holstein cattle near South Bend Indiana
Auction sale on April 26 1905 at my farm two miles northwest of South Bend Indiana and one mile from Portage avenue car line. After my wife’s death I am selling 90 head of best bred Holstein Friesian cattle from a herd that brought me a fortune over 20 years. Mutual Friend Pauline Paul leads the herd with blood of Paul Dekol. many descendants hold large records. Over 60 cattle in the sale are sired by or bred to this bull. Send for catalogue.
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South Bend
Indiana
Portage Avenue
United States
Pauline Paul
Paul Dekol
Dyspepsia in Women Promoted by Pinkham Remedy
An article argues a distinct female dyspepsia treated by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites Maggie Wright of Brooklyn who recovered after trying other medicines, claiming rapid improvement and full recovery in five weeks, and notes broad endorsement of the tonic for female ailments.
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Tate
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Goshen Baseball Drops Ten Inning Duel At Winona
Winona defeats Goshen 5 to 4 in ten innings at Winona on Saturday. Riverside Nationals and Flats played at Weston. Flats fell 18 to 5.
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Riverside Nationals
Flats
Weston Diamond
Elkhart High Boys Defeat Niles 3 to 0 in Quiet Victory
In an almost errorless game Elkhart high school beat Niles high school 3 to 0 at Allendale grounds. Riblet scored in the first inning and Geyer and Wilson added runs in the third as Elkhart pitching by Pingner held Niles to four hits. Next Saturday Elkhart travels to South Bend for an away contest.
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Elkhart ‘High School
Niles High School
Allendale Grounds
Elkhart
Riblet
Geyer
Wilson
Ping
Wasner
Niles Sg
Felkhart
South Bend
Endorsement for Dean's Kidney Pills from Elkhart tester
O S Emerson of the Lake Shore machine shop praises Dean's Kidney Pills for his boy's back pains and frequent kidney secretions. He bought a box at Houseworth Bros. drug store and reports marked improvement and happiness in the home. For sale by all dealers. Price 54 cents. Foster Millburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United Remember the name Dean's and take no other.
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Elkhart
Dean
O. S. Emerson
Marion Steel
Lake Shore
Houseworth Bros
Foster-Millburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Foley's Honey and Tar Contains Me Onjates
Proprietary cough remedy sold by Howse worth Bres advertises non constipating formula claiming better relief than most medicines.
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Foley
Howseworth Bres
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Siang
Dr.chase Company
Philadelphia
Peffer
Pesfeer
Chicago
Fenton's Drugstore
David Rankin
Tarkio
Atchison County
Fremont County
Iowa
Rankin
DeWitt
K. BE. Rickefoose
Adolph
W. Va
Swiss Eider Garments
Panama
Volle
Conundrums
Police
Garfield Avenue
M. Wright
Sports
Goshen High
Winona
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