Unhonored Texas Ranger Captured Santa Ana Still Alive
San Saba, Texas resident Sion R. Bostwick, born 1819 in Alabama, recalls joining Texas Rangers in 1835 and helping capture Mexican General Santa Ana. He later signed a peace treaty with Sam Houston and remains vigorous at eighty one after decades of frontier combat.
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Santa Ana
San Saba
Texas
Sion R. Bostwick
Alabama
Sion
Young Bostwick
Texas Rangers
Alamo
Sam Houston
Mexas
Bostwick
Righteous Indignation Quip Feathers a Chicago Post Quip
A mother questions a girl about kissing in a brisk exchange. The girl vociferously denies it then frets the situation may look wrong. She sighs relieved as she mutters she is glad the question about kissing did not arise.
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Chicago Post
Australian turf paper claim sparks manufacturing boom
United States consul at Reichenberg reports an Australian manufacturer has experimented with turf for paper making. He claims cleaned turf fibers yield strong durable paper and that the method is widely patented. Paper products including pasteboard and boxes are allegedly produced commercially.
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United States
Reichenberg
Germany
What He Would Get
A tale recounted by the Prince of Wales recalls a factory visit where he asked a worker about wages. The man, ignorant of the visitor’s identity, answered that pay “depends on what they is,” noting a chap like him would earn about eight shillings and twopence weekly, a story the prince often shares with a smile.
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Prince of Wales
Diesel motor trial at Ogden sparks western interest
In Ogden Utah a 36 horsepower Diesel engine was installed in the Southern Pacific shops to power a machine shop with California crude oil. The trial draws attention as western use of the motor is novel and aims to leverage California oil fields. The Diesel operates on a four stroke cycle but injects fuel into red hot air for controlled steady combustion without explosions.
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Southern Pacific Railway
Ogden
Utah
California
West
A Rag Man Predicts Farm Mortgage From Tattered Pants
A rag-man buying discarded trousers from a farmer remarks that the farmer is likely to lose land on a mortgage. The farmer asks how the rag man deduced this, and the rag man explains that only the seat is worn, implying the farmer sits while others do the work.
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Sam Hill
Bullalo News
How It Happened Mr Holdover Sent to Congress
A Washington Star quote recalls how Mr Holdover earned a reputation as an intellectual. Farmer Corntesel notes people judged his understanding by his speeches and actions and concluded he must be very smart, so they sent him to congress.
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Farmer Corntessel
Congress
Washington Star
Balliol
Fry
Old Father Thames
Man Hints at Violence Over Perceived Slur
Detroit Free Press reports a man complains of a woman trampling his feet in a car incident and asserts he would have struck her if she were a man, illustrating bias in a quoted exchange.
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Detroit Free Press
Stax
Storm Fear Quips Dubbed by Sweet Young Thing and Savage Bachelor
A humorous exchange from the Indianapolis Press features a Sweet Young Thing confessing fear of storms and a Savage Bachelor joking that he is not married, highlighting a playful contrast in perspectives.
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Indianapolis Press
Woman's kidney troubles and Lydia E Pinkham remedy
Letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female kidney and related troubles. Women from Troy Ohio and Chester Pa recount severe symptoms improving after use, urging others to try the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
Prxcham
Mise Epona
Repeerica
Troy
Ohio
Mrs. Pinxnam
Mars
Mary A. Hirtz
Manchester
Ind
The Lament of the Golfer
A poem lamenting autumn's approach with vivid seasonal imagery. The speaker notes fading grapes in the press, yellowed grass, blue hazes over hills, and the cider mill burning as autumn ends. The piece closes with a robin bidding farewell to the lark and the short duration from 3 o'clock to dark.
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S. E. Kiser
Hat buyers demand holes for ears in pricey headwear
A humorous exchange shows a customer challenging a dealer over a $12 hat. The customer insists a buyer deserves holes for ears, prompting a punchline about donkey-like willingness to pay. The banter captures streetwise market chatter and consumer wit.
Ambitious politician shortsightedly flirts with a constituent's wife
A middle aged congressman seeking another term basks in political payback. He compliments a constituent couple and their two year old son, joking the child may grow to be a congressman. The mother answers with quiet resolve and pride.
Settling the Land Question
A collier wanders onto land claimed by Earl D and debates land ownership. The Earl traces title to ancestors who fought for it, while the collier retorts he will fight for it too. The exchange highlights a protracted inheritance of land and the resolve to contest possession.
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London
Association of Ideas Cartoon Dialogue
A bantam exchange between The Black One asking how readers like the new clothes and The White One replying they are decent yet worry about being mistaken for a comic-paper alderman.
Humorous Engagement Locket Mixup in Comic Snippet
A sequence of cartoonish vignettes shows a lawyer joking about mistaken identity in a court room, a child correcting a book line about cats and rats, and a playful exchange about a composite engagement portrait. The clippings showcase light, punny storytelling from multiple papers.
Verses on Truth and Duty by Washington Gladden
Poem extols steadfast faith and moral duty amid hardship. It asserts right over wrong, love over spite, and the guiding force of peace and truth. The speaker finds strength in virtue, awaiting a hoped-for encounter beyond hardship.
Eden by the Apple Tree river romance ends in marriage
A river voyage turns into a garden encounter as a writer meets Eve under an old apple tree. He declares love, she hints a future, Fry’s interruption reveals a wedding three months later as they depart the church in a galley. A playful ball trick closes the piece.
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Eve
Paradise
Canada
Eden
Fry
Chicago Tribune
Oleomargarine debated for profit by butter dealers
A Washington Star quip notes a butter dealer arguing oleomargarine matches and even exceeds butter in quality and profit. It contrasts with a remark about Queen Victoria's whist skill, highlighting royal pastime.
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Washington Star
Queen Victoria
England
Hopeless Case Says Patient Needs City Hall Job
A humorous Chicago News quip contrasts a patient seeking absolute relaxation with a doctor’s advice against exertion. The exchange ends with the patient remarking his lack of influence to land a city hall position, paired with a wry reflection on friendship as love without ceremony.
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Chicago News
Parlor Clock Alarm Gas Doors Inventions Quip
A Chicago News quote jokes about a genius father who invents a parlor clock that rings at 10, cuts the gas, and opens the front door via a wire spring. The exchange questions whether taking the hint is necessary in love.
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Tom
Chicago News
Two Canals Linking Atlantic to Pacific Foreseen
The article predicts two interoceanic canals binding the Atlantic and Pacific, asserting immense national prosperity from the project. It likens the future impact to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestive ailments, urging readers to try it for indigestion constipation and biliousness.
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Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
First American Visitor Mentioned at Oxford Dinner
The toast at an Oriel College dinner recalls Prof. Chas. Eliot North and a legendary cocoanut washed ashore on the Irish coast before American discovery. The nut was silver-mounted and has stood on the table at the annual dinner before the provost for centuries.
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Oriel College
Oxford
Chas. Eliot North
America
England
Irish
Oriel
Baltimore Herald
Cascarats Candy Cathartic Health Advertisement
Best for the Bowels promises relief from aches to cancer by improving bowel movements. Cascarets Candy Cathartic is advertised as a genuine, metal box tablet with C. C. C. stamped on each piece, costing 10 cents to start, warning to beware of imitations.
Innovation Introduces Baths in Paris Telephone Office
In Paris a large telephone office adds hot and cold baths as a sedative measure after a minister and physician investigated complaints that coast telephoning harmed women operators. A commission backed shorter hours and baths. the baths cost only a few centimes.
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France
Paris
De Laval Cream Separators Win Grand Prize at Paris Exposition
The De Laval Cream Separators received the Grand Prize from the International Jury of Awards at the Paris Exposition. They stood out amid numerous international competitors, with other makers earning lesser medals.
Belief in Women's Rights and Foot Care Ad Offer
A Detroit Free Press note questions belief in women's rights after a personal confrontation. The page also promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for swollen feet corns and bunions with 25 cent price and free sample request to Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy NY.
Back Buttoned Shirts Prompt Droll Marrage Cure
A humorous exchange notes back button shirts forcing men to hire a valet or marry. Adverts claim free dropsy treatment by Dr H H Green in Atlanta and a boast on PUTNAM FACELESS DYES resisting sweat and fruit acids. Also a quip about riding a fareless tram from Cobble It.
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Buffalo Morning News
H. H. Green
Atlanta
Patents Issued Last Week To Northwestern Inventors
A list of patent recipients includes John C. Barber of St Paul Minnesota for a passenger car truck Dwight R Dix of St Paul Minnesota for a wardrobe Charles W Gordon of St Paul Minnesota for an apparel cap Henry C Roth of Minneapolis Minnesota for a cutting scale for cheese and a cheese cutter William Shaw of Rapid City South Dakota for a sewing machine Adolph A Williams of Duluth Minnesota and G W Johnson of Superior Wisconsin for a reversible propeller Merwin Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys located at 011 and 012 Pioneer Press Bidg St Paul
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Northwestern
John C. Barber
St. Paul
Minn
Dwight R. Dix
Charles W. Gordon
Henry C. Roth
Minneapolis
William Shaw
Rapid City
Adolph A. Williams
Duluth
G. W. Johnson
A Matter of Capacity
Van Gilbilt boasts about yacht remodeling to double liquor storage capacity. Billyboy replies surprised by the need for extra space.
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised for easier wear
An eighteenth century style advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease tight shoes and swollen feet. It claims relief for ingrowing nails corns bunions and hot sweating with trial mail offer and a 25 cent price. The notice lists Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy New York and urges purchase at druggists and shoe stores.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Allen 8
Brabant's Horse Captures More HKoer Troops
A Baltimore American item notes Brabant's Horse has once again captured additional HKoer troops. The piece reads like a casual cartoonish exchange between Mrs and Mr Gooph discussing the educated horse.
East Woman Comment Sparks Stir At Private Meeting
A lecturer labeled women in the East as domesticated animals provoking glares from many ladies at a formal gathering. Oklahoma’s population surpasses 200000 while Indian Territory tops 400000. An advertisement touts a nerve restorer with a free trial bottle and treatise offered by Kiang, Philadelphia. A cynical quip notes men favoring new laws to curb housecleaning.
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Indianapolis Press
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Offered As Constitutional Remedy
A historical testimonial ad notes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. The snippet also cites weather records for May 10, 1900 as the coldest date on record and includes a testimonial for Piso's Cure for coughs with an address in Minneapolis.
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New York Weather Bureau
Piso
J. W. O'Brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
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