Missionary Preacher Inspires Cannibal Chief
Linguistic exchange from the Baltimore Sun captures a missionary asking about tears in preaching. The Cannibal Chief replies the talk did not move him with tears but notes the message aroused appetite, illustrating cultural confrontation in the period.
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Baltimore Sun
Millions for Baseball Not Health Seekers Turn to Bitters
A collector of health rhetoric notes that while millions are spent on baseball yearly many spend less on health. The piece urges readers to try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to strengthen the stomach aid digestion curb dyspepsia constipation biliousness and weak kidneys.
BLUEBEARD IN PETTICOATS AND THE INNKEEPER MYSTERY
A Paris innkeeper, Jeanne Volante by other names, allegedly married eight men in as many towns and saw their disappearances. Police pursued the couple after a groom’s vanishing and a late marriage to a boarder, but the pair escaped. Authorities suspect a vast crime sequence awaiting revelation. Also a Kansas blacksmith reports relief from rheumatism after using Dodd's Kidney Pills.
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Jeanne Volante
Clichy
Paris Cable
New York Sun
Goodland
Kan
N. E. Albertson
Dodd
Bright
Love and life insured in Harper's Bazaar style
A brief dialogue shows Miss Fracks and Clarence Bainbridge amid romantic fixation with vows and doubts. An insurance ploy surfaces as a plot point, while a humorous footnote from Allen's Foot-Ease promotes a foot care powder.
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Miss Fracks
Clarence T. Bainbridge
Harper
Western Canada sport lure plus a romance note
A Winston era miscellany piece extols Western Canada as ideal for farming and big game riding, citing deer wapiti and snipe while praising settlers and fresh eggs. It also includes a tale of a man plotting a phonograph marriage proposal, a poetic chorus, and short ads about shoes and oils.
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Canada
Praire
Fred
Silent Oath of a Suitor at the Altar
A lover offers heartfelt devotion and begs acceptance of his pledged heart. The speaker declines bold claims yet presents a sincere homage and a dream of bliss to the beloved.
Cows Fail to Breed in Rahway Dairy Herd
The Brown Swiss Dairy Company of Rahway New Jersey reports three cows that fail to breed. Two calved early but did not clean, a third calved normally yet none conceive nine months later. A germ from an abortion-causing cow is blamed. breeding the sire to aborted cows is discouraged. Do not attempt to open the womb. Reduce cows to poor condition by spring and retrain on pasture.
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Brown Swiss Dairy Company
Rahway N. J
Fencing Wire Scarcity Reported by Oakes Republican
The Oakes Republican notes fencing wire is a scarce article as dealers rely on traveling salesmen with shipments uncertain. A large amount of fence has been built this spring and more would follow if wire supplies were available.
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Oakes Republican
Steele Braddock Mail Stage Line Notice
The undersigned announces a daily mail stage service between the named points with passenger and freight capacity. Travelers to Emmons County are advised to use the Northern Pacific Railway to Steele while the Soo Line offers limited weekly trains to Braddock, and slow mixed trains. The stages are covered for comfort in bad weather. A hotel at Steele provides meals and clean rooms at liberal rates with an adjacent feed stable.
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Emmons County
Northern Pacific Railway
Steele
Soo Line
Braddock
Linton
Williamsport
Soo Railway
David Hinds
N. D
J C Brown Furniture Ad Reeled Inventory
J C Brown Furniture of Braddock Nor da K keeps on hand a full stock including side boards chamber suits tables chairs bedsteads extra mattresses and springs. Fully invites customers to call and examine stock when in town.
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Braddock
Norda K
Hall's Catarrh Cure and other quack ads in 1900 issue
A collage of old advert lines and quack remedies cites Hall's Catarrh Cure with price hints, Piso's Cure, and a mock dialogue about a scalp microbe. The text includes a dated testimonial, fashion chat, and literary quips reflecting period concerns and humor.
Canadian tidal survey maps St Lawrence tides and future coast tables
The Canadian Marine department completed a tide and current survey of the St Lawrence River from Quebec to Point de Monts covering 300 miles. Instruments at eight sites recorded tide height and timing, showing rises from five feet at the estuary mouth to eighteen feet at Quebec. The project expands to the Pacific coast with tide tables planned for Victoria and the Gulf of Georgia.
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Quebec
Pacific Coast
Victoria
B. C
Gulf of Georgia
Astoria
Port Townsend
Washington
Sitka
Alaska
Portraits of Evarts and Sears Presented at Nashville
Portraits of William M. Evarts and Dr. Barnas Sears were presented to the University of Nashville. The Sears portrait came from former Tennessee Governor Porter, while the Evarts portrait was donated by Dr. J. M. Curry, the Peabody fund’s current agent. Dark silk waists are noted as useful for early spring.
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William M. Evarts
Peabody Board
George Peabody
Barnas Sears
Peabody Fund
University of Nashville
Porter
Tennessee
Sears
J. M. Curry
The
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Eminent Pugilist Questions Duel Details
The famous fighter dismisses the forthcoming French duel as lacking athletic club sponsorship and gate receipts, saying the event will not have gate money to divide. The remark comes as debate over the duel's organization and financing circulates.
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Pittsburg
Sewed Up for the Winter Child Story
A Rivington Street mother brings her dirty child to a settlement kindergarten. The teacher accepts him after a bath, but the mother says she has sewed him up for the winter, revealing a grim, darkly humorous tale from an East Side settlement.
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East Side
Rivington Street
Kinderegarten
Northwestern Inventors Patents Listed in Northwes
A list of Northwestern inventors includes Andrew M. Carlson of St. Paul Minnesota with an animal trap, August Haraldson of Center City Minnesota with a windmill, Richard Magnuson of St. Paul with a track gauge, William F. Mullaney of Marshall with a valve, William J D Olney of Stillwater with a bed, John F. Sanderson of Minneapolis with an elevator, Nels Levenson of Minneapolis with a mop head, and patent attorneys Iothrop & Johnson of St. Paul Minnesota, dated December 11.
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Andrew M. Carlson
St. Paul
Minn
August Haraldson
Center City
Richard Magnuson
William F. Mullaney
Marshall
William JD. Olney
Stillwater
John F. Sanderson
Minneapolis
Nels Levenson
Iothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press Midg
Athens Barbering Pioneering Woman Draws Crowds
A stylish Athens girl discovers her parents lack wealth and opens a luxury barber shop on Stadion street. She advertises to Athens men, and the first day draws a crowded queue of customers who pledge to return. She is praised as one of the prettiest in the city and promises steady business.
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Greece
Stadion Street
Athens
New York Journal
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