A Fair Impostor at Mme Mickle’s Summer Soirée
A June evening in an upper room at a city school leads Margaret Liftwood to pose as a debutante at a party. She encounters Reginald Glade and a clever ruse unfolds as she hides her real identity. The next day she meets Mrs Callister and learns her fate as she confesses her imposture. Reginald proves keen, and Beechwood offers a new slope of social entanglements for Margaret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Mckle
Mme. Mickle
Margaret Liftwood
Daisy
Regg
Reginald
Clara
Margaret
Agai
Papa
Young Adventuress
Mr. Glade
Miss Charters
Beechwood
Reginald Glade
Mrs. Callister
Mr. Callister
Sylvia
Clara Glade
Mickles
Only a Moment Leads to Tragic Downfall
A mother laments a reckless son whose heedless choices begin with a thoughtless idea and a drink. A bar-room quarrel ends in a fatal blow, leaving a heartbroken mother, a homeless wanderer, and a freshly dug grave as a stark, sobering image. Roland A. Nichols notes the Toledo Blade.
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Roland A. Nichols
Toledo Blade
Monster Snake Fish Spotted on Wolf Pond in New York
Charles Lace and Algernon R. Thomas described a giant green headed reptile like a snake fish, with a mottled head and black body with yellow rings. It stretched from Wolf Pond to Yankee Pond near Mamakating, estimated at thirty feet long after being pulled into the boat before vanishing underwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lace
Algernon R. Thomas
Wolf Pond
Lace
Yankee Pond
Mamakating
Canal Company
Monticelio Watchman
Jacob Sharp's Farm near Rome Described as Night Village
A Utica dispatch to The New York World portrays Jacob Sharp's 1500 acre farm three miles from Rome. The property is iron-fenced and lit by a gas engine with lampposts, staffed by four men and two women. Calves number twenty five, oats yielded eighty bushels, and a stone pile hints at future construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica
New York
Jacob Sharp
Rome
Mr. Sharp
Sharp
French syndicate shifts from tin to lead mining
The French syndicate that cornered tin turns to lead mining hoping to gain weight to sink deep into the silt on the bottom of the sea of despair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Farm Talks December Farm Ilints and Winter Prep
Mild weather in December let farmers finish November tasks and start Spring work. Plan plowing, manure use, stone removal, pond drainage, and winter shelter for cattle. For feeding, grains supplement coarse fodder, with rules on regular meals, correct portions, observing animal response, and maintaining clean troughs.
How to Torture by Japanese Prisoners Revealed
A historical article from The Manchester Courier outlines various tortures used in old Japan. It describes stone and box torture, water deprivation, sleep deprivation, and brutal interrogation methods with the judge, secretary, torturer, and accusers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Manchester
England
Fashion and farming notes from a bygone era
A collage of agricultural tips and fashion observations notes that simplicity, long gloves, and vertical trims shape style while advising on crops like peanuts and ducks, compost as savings, and quirky sayings about pigs, ships, and a poet's line about sawing in a humorous, dated voice.
Catarrh cures and medical notices from 1887 era
A clergyman cured of Catarrh and a free prescription offer from Prof J A Lawrence. Testimonials praise Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co. plus medical ads hawk Kline nerve restorer and Brown's bronchial sachets. Includes local notes on Miss Mary Coleman and Mrs Edwin Stevens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Lawrence
New York
Toledo
Messrs
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
L. L. Gorsuch
M. D
Summit St
Props
O. Seld
Dra¢gists
P. O
de Kline
Arch St
Philadelphia
Moral alarmism and home remedies in a single column
The item offers warnings about alcohol temptation urging youth to use Moxie Nerve Food to appear sober, plus assorted household tips. It advises salt and vinegar effects, mentions pepper weed as a cabbage pest remedy, and notes livestock slaughter weights and a grapevine pest treatment with saltpetre solution.
Quack cures and home remedies advertised in print
Early 20th century adverts promote Dr Bull's Cough Syrup Piso's Cure for Consumption and Swayne's Ointment for itching and skin diseases. Includes a pestilent mix of health claims, free merchandise offers, and testimonials like Wm Hanscom of Oshkosh cured by Cole's Carbon salve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Bull
Adam
Swayne
Br Suayes & Son
Philadelphia
Wm. Hanscom
Oshkosh
Wis
Cole
Horne
Union
Waele
W.j.meane
Teventor
Wasasu Av
Chicaco
Epward Newton
Harrowsmith Ont
Wheer
Isaac FE. Downs
Spring Valley, Rockland Co
P.O
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Pennsylvania
Alf-And
Alf
Panama Canal
Clay County
Mary B. Coleman
Edwin Stevens
Oconto County
C. C. Cook
Pioneer Nursery
Oosto
Cole & Mitchell
Hibbard
O. C. Cook
Antoni Schmach
G. $. Dusch
Tell City
Ind
Antoin Schmach
Piso
Isaac Thompson
RE. W. Tansill & Co
State Street
Chicago
Hood's
Hood
Hood & CO
Lowell
Mass
Mark Twais
Richard Proc. Stern JR
Olumbia Lawdwich
Yale
Wellesley
Ateuqua Uni
J. Oisett
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Avenue
Joseph Gillitts
M. C
Pearl St
Hazard, Mayard & Co
N. Y
Hazard, Hazard & Co
T. A. Slocum
M.C
America
South
Jackson
Tennessee
Alerden
Misissippi
Hammond
Crowley
Jennings
Welsh
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Cairo
Illnois
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad
St. Louis
Southern
Iowa
J. F. Merry
West
Castoria
Dakota
Minnesota
C. H. Warren
Gen. Pass. Agt
St. Paul
Minn
Cijacors OF
Balgia
EPW
Calcutta
Cincinnati
Louisville
Exposition
Dareaiuts Ayy DaLens
Cmape F. A. Voreler CO
Baltimore
The
Yowan Publishing Co
Nassau St
Browater Safety Rein Holder Co
Holly, Miche
Jay Bronson
Detroit, Mich
Moody's New
Moody & CO
Kilber’s Pastilles
Peice
Stowell & Co
Charlestown
Atty’s
Washington,d.c
Marv
Evans
G. H
Ghanesons
Gemm
Juan P. Lovell
Manuf'rs
Rkoston
Mase
W.N.U. D.M. V. Xvn No
Mineota
North Dakota
Mont Idaho
Washington
Emi Ogee
Svestov
Pesters Skok
Aaron Chas
Uee
Meleleieleiel
Arlen
Torfonge
Mc Wi
Slick Cowboy
Boston
Peark
HA Andre,d
Oxford &T
Brooklyn
Casteri2
Tex Cay Race Company
Fulton Street, N
Mary A. McCire
Columbus
Kans
Dr. Pierce
Gidlden
J. V. Wepner
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus Co
D. Lazarre
Decatur Street
Benegal
Demach
Irates
Parmpilia Brundage
Lock Street
Lockport, N
James L. CoLsy, Esq
Fuecian
Houston Co
Theresa A. Cass
Springfield
H. E. Mosier
Montmorret
S.C
the Bloc
F. Asbury Howe
M. EB
Silverton
N. J
Pierce
Ipa M. Strong
Ainsworth
Democrat and News
Cambridge
Maryland
Eliza Arn Poole
Leonard Poole
Williamsbury
Dorchester Co
Poole
T. A. Ayers
East New Market
Dorchester County
Golden Medical Discovery
Dianas
Mr. Downs
Walter TO
Downs
Josefon F. McFarland
Athens
World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors
Main Street
Buffalo
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