Beard Rivalry Turns to Pause in Chicago
Chemorley battles a growing beard to impress a San Francisco connection, faces wife’s mockery, and contemplates shaving then postpones as the stubble ups and downs. A guest visit from Ella Rogers accelerates the beard dilemma and ends with a reluctant compromise.
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Premmerley
Honig
Shay Siever
Siever
Chemoriey
Chemorley
Chemortey
Chemovley
Chemmoviey
San Fran- Siece
Chea@ecrey
Chicago
Melba
Chemarley
Ella Rogers
Ella
New York
Bertha
Bertha Shovebt
Chicago Daily News
Wine as cure for alcohol in Norway shocks readers
The piece notes Norway’s persistent anti drink stance by private groups and authorities. It claims wine soaked food cures dipsomania, with patients first liking then hating the taste. It touts the method as superior to gold cures and mentions apples as another proposed remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Seta
Progressive Japan Students Learn to Embrace Sports
Progressive Japan twenty years ago had no interest in athletics and focused on studies under strict English teachers. Now students show keen interest in rowing, lawn tennis and baseball, while cricket fails to appeal due to long inactive stretches in games.
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Japan
Flying Experiment at Billancourt Soars Then Lands on Water
In Billancourt France M Valsin conducted a flying experiment with an auto boat assist. At signal the boat sped off and Voisin detached to rise about 80 feet for roughly 300 yards before smoothly returning to the water.
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Billancourt
France
M. Valsin
M. Voisin
New Food Preservative Cuts Transit Costs
Charles Blagburn of Antioch California invents a vacuum based method to preserve foods in transit. Fruits kept in vacuum do not decay for three months and do not ripen further. Vacuum transport could cost 200 dollars versus 750 for a trans continental refrigerator car. A strange market note follows about a Chicagoan offering to sell his heart for cash.
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Charles Blagburn
Antioch
Caln
Rochells
Carpenter
N, Y
In the Dentist Chair from Chicago Journal
A baldheaded dentist boasted his work makes patients pale with sleep during operations while his rival boasted patients demand photos to capture delighted expressions, highlighting humorous chestnuts from the Chicago Journal.
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Chicago Journal
Handy Heat Sees Rise in Electric Heating Use
Electric heating grows in popularity as power stations across the country begin selling more power for the newer technology. It proves convenient for running small tools and, under certain conditions, for cooking.
Visitor Mme Dieulatoy Wears Masculine Attire in London
An interesting visitor to London is Mme. Dieulatoy, a famed French traveler and archaeologist, who, alone with the late Rosa Bonheur, the animal painter, shares that by special permission of the French government she wears masculine attire.
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Dady
London
Mme. Diewlatoy
Rosa Bonheur
Mme. Dieulatoy
Nasty Insinuations Referenced In Mixed Newspaper Snippets
A collage of flippant quotes from Philadelphia Press and Detroit Tribune style items describes harsh jabs at individuals, a Confucius quotation, and a boastful cattle import claim. It notes a young man named Mr Cissey judging Jack Kandor as horrid after a smoker encounter and includes a remark about Alderney cows and a dealer importing over a thousand from the island.
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Mr. Cissey
Jack Kandor
Dead Boy
Gussie
Philadelphia Press
Dustless streets ban dress sweepers in Nordhausen
Nordhausen Saxony authorities ban street sweeping attire and fine offenders 30 marks quoting public safety and propriety concerns. The item mocks and quotes quotes from various papers commenting on folly and social manners while noting a separate note on Irish revival funding and a joke about cash purchases.
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Nordhausen
Saxony
Trials of a Clerk and the six year Christmas perfume tale
A Chicago store scene features a clerk and a pharmacist recalling a quirky customer who bought half an ounce of perfume with a card marked Merry Christmas six years earlier. The tale contrasts the clash with a "400" style patron and ends with the two clerks dismissing the disruption as they return to work. A furnace anecdote and a desert fact close the page.
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Jess
Chicago Record-Herald
Carnegie Highland Home Sports and Hybrid Buffalo Claim
The Skibo estate spans about 30 000 acres with 10 000 moor 6 000 arable and 4 000 wood and hosts 600 to 800 brace of grouse 22 stags four fallow bucks 42 roe deer plus various game. Salmon and sea trout fishing exist on 15 miles of the Eve lix with trout in several lochs. American experiments claim a new hybrid buffalo meat cross between blue and beef praised for palatability but costly to market. it reportedly improves with age and is hard to transport to markets.
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Carnegie
Highland
Skibo
Evelix
Jochs
Migdale
Laggan
Lars
Buldhe
Amterican
Pecoh Mies
Europe
Cleopatra's wish for a canoe with cushions and youth
Detroit Tribune reports historians link Cleopatra's small grievance to her later use of the asp after parting from Antony. The anecdote frames her preference for a modest voyage rather than grand triumphs, illustrated by her remark about fudge on a golden barge versus a canoe with a young paddler.
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Cleopatra
Tran
Antony
Detroit
Tribune
Watered Silk Process Described for Quality and Permanence
A historical note explains how watered silks are prepared for water ingestion by selecting good quality fabric. The wetting and careful folding align threads. Pieces are pressed under intense hydraulic pressure to expel water, creating permanent waved lines in the fabric.
Misprint sparks mock scandal in Louisville paper
A Detroit style misprint triggers a joking misread about Grace and Mabel. Maude recalls a dark hallway encounter where a man mistook one for his wife and left a kiss on ruby lips. The Courier Journal columnist shrugs, calling it only a typographical error.
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Mabel
Grace Ao
Maude
Nuwedd
Lousville
The Ideal Husband and Modern Household Energies
A Leisure Hour quotation from Lady St. Keller argues the real ideal husband is busy with ample work. She contends men need outlets for energy, and misdirected focus on home life often yields unhappy outcomes.
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Elie
Lady St. Keller
Alfonso Styles a New Hat Fashion in England
Alphonso introduces a stylish Hidalgo hat, a modified Spanish turban, inspiring young Englishmen. The winter-appropriate headpiece gains attention as a gallant fashion statement across society.
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Alphonso
Alfonso
England
Sky rocket mail delivery used in Tonga islands
A Pacific island mail service uses a sky rocket postman to bypass near shore danger. The report notes unusual and daring delivery method employed by the mail steamer amid coastal hazards.
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Tonga Group
Pacific
How It Looked Dear John Dear Jane inclose bill and check
A fragment from a periodical notes letters from Mrs Newlywed and John about inclosing bills and checks for hotel stays and admonitions against buying at high prices. An English judge sentences a cigar dealer to four months in jail for letting premises be used for betting and gambling.
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John
Gambiers
Steam Turbines Use Reaches 224 In U S
Latest reports place 224 steam turbines in use across the United States with a combined output around 350,600 horsepower. The item mentions unrelated notes including a Louisville Courier-Journal aside about Mrs. McMillan near Magnolia, Massachusetts, and trivia on cabbage farms near Chicago and the camellia origin.
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United States
Rainbow Hair and Black Mustache in a Tit for Tat Marriage
A Washington Star tale chronicles a wife who bronzes her multihued hair to match a blue dress, prompting her husband to dye his mustache black in retaliation. After a tense evening, he retreats to a barber to reverse his look, while she agrees to let the bronze fade. The piece notes the couple’s mutual standoff and its unequal outcomes.
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Amy
Hkedt
Joe
Jon
Joseph
Saa
New York
Jahe
Washington Star
De Wites Witch Hazel Salve Promoted for Skin Ailments
An old newspaper notice extols De Wite’s Witch Hazel Salve as a sure cure for sunburn, tetter, skin and scalp diseases, piles, burns, boils, and carbuncles. It warns against substitutes and notes availability through H. A. Dyke man.
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de Wite
DeWitt
H. A. Dykeman
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tonie Ad Featured
An advertisement for Hollister's Rocky Mountain T promotes it as a family tonic claiming year round benefits and money back if it fails. The 35 cent offer is attributed to H A Dykeman.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Kodol Digestive Cure Ad Claims Quick Indigestion Relief
An advertisement promotes Kodol as a thorough digestant and guaranteed cure for indigestion and related stomach symptoms. It claims relief for dyspepsia, gas, stomach weakness, heart distress, bad breath, and other stomach troubles after eating a hearty meal. Sold by H. A. Dykemay.
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H. A. Dykemay
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Confucius
Texa
Bess
Detroit Tribune
Alderney
Island
Jaspar
Chicago Sun
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William Stillings
N. Y. Herald
Deserts
Africa
Dreas
Mildred
Mary
Nordy
Louisville Courier- Journal
McMillan
Michigan
Magnolia
Masa
Kamel
Velvet
Dr. A. Reed
Elyria Block Shoe Store
Hodel Bros
Mill Street
R. J. Hill
Attention
Denver, Colo
Big Four
Cleveland
Crafton
Wellington
Western Tarmini
Peoria
St. Louis
B. OQ
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Trav. Pasa
Agost
Ohia
Denver
Cole
Grand Aerie Orde of
Eagles
Particimre Ag
J. Lynch
Cincinnati
Ohio
B.C
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