Florida buyers from the North investigate North Florida farms
A group of 42 men from Ohio Kentucky West Virginia Pennsylvania and New York visited Hilliard Florida on November 24 to inspect 114 ten acre farms offered by Cornwall Farm Land Company. They toured the Griffing Brothers nursery at Macelenny and along North Florida trucking districts finding high land prices yet strong incomes from strawberries vegetables. The trip offered 21 railroad fare credit toward farm purchases and December buyers could have fare refunded on ten acre farms.
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Florida
Hilliard
Atlantic Coast Line
Cornwall Farm Land Company
North Florida Fruit and Truck Farma
Land Company
North Florida
Flrst National Bank Ridge
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Ohio
Kentucky
New York
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In Hilarious Bath Tales From Old New York Flat
A New Yorker and a six foot man swap grim bathroom jokes while a visiting Englishman recounts a South African bath tale. He describes a Kaffir boy rigging a makeshift bath rig with a half barrel and rope to water his anatomy, preferring that ordeal to washing with bottles of Apollinaris during a desert crossing.
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New Yorker
South Africa
Ah My Lad and the Truant School
A kind lady offers ten cents to a boy on the street after asking about school. The boy boasts he just left and has to hustle for ice cream as he reveals he has been “in school” at the truancy program. The exchange ends with the punchline that his school is the truant school.
Liszt Pupils Recall A Gentle Farewell In Class
Music teacher Waly Weincartner recalls Liszt reacting to a young lady playing Chopin with zeal. Liszt paced the room murmuring Holy Bimban then blessed her with a benediction and urged her to marry soon before leaving.
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Waly Weincartner
Liszt
Bowell
Chopin
Scott
A Woeful Institution Exchange Snippet
A dialogue about luck and success features Miss Cayenne quipping that belief in luck explains success of disliked people. The exchange shifts to a remark on material abundance with Mrs Nribride noting leftovers from her husband.
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Miss Cayenne
What Would He Have Said
A child's fraught moment is captured as the speaker recalls a father's urging not to cry. The line contrasts a father's stoic ideal with a boy's admission of fear, hinting at family guidance and the pull of Sunday school.
Tortured six months eczema cure story from San Antonio
Mrs Louis Leck recalls her son suffering six months with eczema on the face head and limbs. After unsuccess with two doctors a course of Cutiura Remedies brought sleep within a week sores vanished in two months and the child remained eczema free at age two. Apr 15 1907. RK F D 3 San Antonio Texas.
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Why He Remembered at Tea Time
A cleric and a dog trainer share tea when a playful talk turns to the twelve sons of Jacob. The dog trainer recites the list from Reuben to Benjamin, astonishing the cleric who admits unfamiliarity with scripture. The man then jokes that those names are also what someone gave to a litter of twelve puppies for sale.
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Jacob
Reuben
Benjamin
Fragmented Quotes and Ad Snippets in 19th Century Ledger
A collage of quotes and ads from diverse sources mentions racing, a reward for cured coughs, Hall's Catarrh Cure, land sales dodges, Castoria safety seals, and baking powder endorsements. The text mixes sports, medicine, real estate chatter, and consumer product blurbs with period voice and sparse context.
Allen's Foot Oss Aid Promises Quick Relief
An ad claims Allen's Foot Oss provides relief for aching or burning feet. It touts a 250 package size and a yearly sale of two million units. The copy uses repetitive phrasing and ends with a tired note about speeches being dull.
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Allen
Buick
Recipe for Real Trouble
A humorous essay contrasts imaginary borrowed and real trouble. It traces trouble from biblical figures to modern unions and lists common sources of fear and worry. The piece urges endurance and self-help paths as antidotes, citing happiness teaching figures and a diet advocate in a playful tone.
Lame Sack Prescription Promises Relief With Toris
A physician warns that Toris, used with certain ingredients, is touted as an almost infallible cure for lame back and rheumatism. The effective formula calls for half a pint of whiskey, one ounce Toris Compound, and one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound, taken in tablespoon doses before meals and at night. Toris is produced by Globe Pharmaceutical Co of Chicago and available from druggists.
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Globe Pharmaceutical Co
Chicago
Old Lady Outwitted by Fancy Stranger in London
A refined stranger befriended an elderly woman in a London street and gained her trust. After engaging in friendly chatter he claimed a changed name, then swiftly took the purse before departing.
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London
Mary worries over theater plans and attire
Detroit Free Press fragment shows a domestic scene with Mary crying upstairs while Pa and Ma debate whether Jim will invite her to the theater or if she has nothing suitable to wear. The item also notes Pettit's Eye Salve first sold in 1807 and a Buffalo druggist ad from Howard Bros.
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Lachrymose
Jim
Detroit Free Press
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Advertisement Claim
A vintage advertisement for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup touts relief for teething discomfort in children. It claims gums soften, inflammation reduces, pain lessens, and wind colic is cured. The price is listed as a 25 cent bottle.
The Tie That Binds and Bouts of Obvious Nerves
A collection of light vignettes from a torrid June day and a quarrel over a dog named Trixy ends with a dinner scene. A classroom joke about an obelisk prompts a student to define it as something that goes in one ear and out the other. An Atchison couple illustrates playful marital strains and the wife’s irritation at sniffles.
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Trixy
Success Magazine
Atchison
Atchison Globe
Grown Up Children
A London Spectator remark notes that grown women imitate childish vanity and sham seriousness in discourse. It warns that playful romancing erodes reality as people begin to think as they talk.
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London Spectator
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