George the boy who walked South to Malvern
A Times correspondent profiles a fourteen year old Black and tan boy named George. He travels from Houston to Hot Springs seeking work, living briefly with the writer, cooking, cleaning, and warming by a stove. Despite poverty he remains cheerful, singing, whistling, and dreaming of new miles and a future in New York.
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Times
Hot Springs
Panther Alch
George
Flae
Malvern
Here
Malvernp
Houston
Texas
Manitoba
Monke
Tom
New York
Madison Square
Boston Courier
Stand and Deliver Tales of Stage Robbers Told by Marshall
A San Francisco Chronicle Reno Letter recounts frontier stage robbery lore with bravado and humor. The speaker recalls dueling with mock threats, using disguises, and bluff to frighten passengers while claiming no real weapons. He jokes about robbing without guns and the ease of thievery as a life.
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Marshall
Herve
Pard
Wadsworth
My Pard
Sierra Valley
Winchester
California
Utah
Reno Letfer
San Francisco Chronicle
Application for a Dog Tail Prosthesis by Col Maurice Pinchover
A fictitious application to the US Patent Office claims a detachable tail for dogs, arguing that tailless dogs stumble in turns due to shifted center of gravity. The device would attach to the stump and, as the dog turns right, push the rear left to aid quick, balanced turning. The note cites the Washington Star as the source of the quote.
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Maurice Pinchover
United States Patent Office
Su Gors
Washington Star
Canada’s salle agh your FLT. 1 G07 sere
The readable text is too fragmentary to extract a coherent news item or identify identifiable persons organizations or places for a factual card.
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Canada
Salle
Spelling Reform Dialogue From The Posto Bullet
Margery and Ethelbert discuss why the letter Q exists in a Turkish divan setting. Dialogue hints at reform in spelling. Quips about kisses and letters reveal playful wordplay in a dated New England voice.
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Margery
Ethelbert
New England
Bill Arp on Women in the Atlanta Constitution
Bill Arp argues there is no happy married state with more than one wife, citing biblical examples from Adam to Solomon. He mocks plural marriages and portrays women as suffering yet strong, ending with a caution about Mormon practices and a lament for polygamy’s pain.
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Rameeh
Adam
Noah
Abraham
Sarah
Jacob
Moses
King David
Old Solomon
Solomon
James
Bilt Arp
Atlanta Constitution
How To Be Beautiful From Dr Henrietta Day
An 1880s style beauty guide argues against harmful compounds and offers a home cosmetic recipe. It prescribes lamb suet with ceresine melted and scented with attar of rose, plus a nightly bath, gentle friction, facial massage, and full body care. It also praises careful hair handling and a crude method to promote hair growth using sap from wild vines and ammonia rinse for scalp conditioning.
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Henrietta Day
Music Among the Aztecs
The Aztecs believed music came from Tezcatlipoc capable of bringing sacred chants to earth. Relics show Aztecs crafted musical objects including a black clay vase in Philadelphia collection that emitted sounds when blown through perforations. A ceremonial vase may have been used in the Great temple at the ancient Pueblo of Mexico Continent. The fragment ends with stray notes about women seeking enlarged figures in Paris.
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Earth
Tezcatlipocs
Barbarines
Mexico
Central America
City of
William &. Vaux
Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia
Fragmented Gleanings of Odd Facts From An Era
A long compilation notes diverse items: convicts in North Carolina with a large Black share. mummies with gold teeth at the British Museum. a San Francisco Mint jobbing bureau rejecting homely applicants. widows of War of 1812 residents in York County, South Carolina. Edward P. Whaites of Springvale marrying 19-year-old Saran Ann Treadwell. rare white rainbow seen at Courtenay. Elam brothers in Morgan County Kentucky covered with alligator-like scales. sharp asides about Vanderbilt and Sage mouths. Irish and Polish beauty claims. NYSE members’ financial woes. a Carlisle Indian pupil’s misanswer about the earth’s axis. a New Slavonian man’s check case. Boston bar critique by the Journal. Nubian acacia species that whistles. tobacco use in a Spanish government charter. factory work for women earning low wages. Viennese doctors operating at extreme ages. Cleveland carpentry classes aiding studies. Beecher on Chinese labor in California. English fondness for pets and dogs. and a Ridiculous note on Paris organ-grinders and shoe-smuggling opium.
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North Carolina
British Museum
San Francisco Mint
York County
South Carolina
Edward P. Whaites
Springvale
Conn
Saran Ann Treadwell
Courtenay
Eranne
George
William Elam
Morgan County
Kentucky
New York
Vanderbilt
Russell Sage
Poland
New York Stock Exchange
Carlisle
Adam Goodsell
Boston
Africa
Nubia
Spain
Vienna
Cleveland
Beecher
California
Lomign
Onden Corres
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William
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England
Mehdi
Tris
Ana
Oakley
Brussels
Cromwell
Dunkirk Aade
O. R. Oakley
Lyon Bros. Palace Drug Store
Dunkirk
Center Street
J. A Stapf
J. A. Stapf
Mch
Eek JA. Stapf
Rogalsky
Gidley
Bless
Ingrain
Heyl
Wirtner & Alling
Fardwarh
Monroe
St. James
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