Florida Northward investors flock to Hilliard land sale
Ohio, Kentucky and several states sent forty two men to Hilliard Florida on November 24 to inspect truck farming prospects. They purchased 114 ten acre plots from Cornwall Farm Land Co at 21 an acre, toured Macclenny nurseries and trucking districts, and learned winter vegetables command strong prices with year round demand. The deal offered to reimburse rail fare on December farm purchases and emphasized climate and health benefits of North Florida.
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Florida
Hilliard
Atlantic Coast Line
Cornwall Farm Land Company
North Florida
Land Company
First National Bank Bldg
Chicago
Hillard
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
New York
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Bathroom boredom sparks desert tub tale
A New Yorker recalls a comical hardship of washing in a barrel tub in South Africa. An Englishman, visiting New York, laughs at domestic bathrooms while recounting a pulley bath setup used to reach his dignity. The anecdote contrasts modern plumbing with travel misadventure.
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New Yorker
South Africa
Ah My Lad and the Truant School
A kind woman offers ten cents to a boy on the street after a lighthearted exchange about schooling. The boy claims he is in school but notes he has been away from home a week, humorously admitting he has been kept in a truancy program.
Music Teacher's Advice From Liszt Era Scene
Wally Woncartner recalls Liszt pupil air buildup. A young lady played a Chopin ballade in amateur style. Liszt cried Heiliger Bimban and, gentling, blessed her with a head pat and said softly My dear child marry soon goodbye.
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Wally Woncartner
Liszt
Chopin
Scott
A Useful Institution in a witty exchange
The snippet features Miss Cayenne and Mrs NuBride debating luck and leftovers. Miss Cayenne attributes success to luck, while Love of Material counters with realistic outcomes. Mrs NuBride notes she has plenty to work with as her husband contributes half of meals.
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Miss Cayenne
Father-Son Exchange Turns on Sunday School Duty
A terse domestic scene features a boy named Jack urged to be strong by his father. The father notes he would not cry if he fell, and the boy counters about attending Sunday school, implying differing parental and religious expectations.
Tortured Six Months Eczema Relief After Cutiura Remedies
A San Antonio mother recounts a six month battle with eczema in her son. After two doctors failed, Cutiura Remedies provided one week of relief and two months to a clear face, with no recurrence by age two.
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Louis Beck
San Antonio
Tex
Remembering the 12 Sons of Jacob in a Tea Time Jest
A clergyman and a dog trainer share tea when the talk turns to the twelve sons of Jacob. The dog seller lists Reuben to Benjamin perfectly, while the cleric admits weak scripture knowledge, joking that those names belong to pups he will sell.
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Jacob
Reuben
Benjamin
Death of racing in New York and old-time ads mix in clippings
A fragmentary page recalls Harry Payne Whitney lamenting racing’s decline in New York after shipments from London on the Minnehaha. It also includes an honest testimonial for Hall’s Catarrh Cure, a fake land-promise joke, and a typified ad-like exchange about selling coast town land as the ocean erodes it.
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Harry Payne Whitney
London
New York
Joe
Feller
Louis Republic
Castoria and other era product mentions in odd clipping
A scrambled clippings page mentions Castoria with the signature claim from long standing use. It also includes stray quotations and references to Souders Cream of Tartar Baking Powder, flavoring extracts, and grocery notes. The text is fragmented and lacks a single cohesive news item or event.
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Mathera
Recipe for Real Trouble
This humorous piece distinguishes three kinds of trouble imaginary borrowed and real. It cites rail road accidents fires and deaths as imaginary trouble and relatives as borrowed trouble while urging endurance and following the How-to-Be-Happy Philosopher and related figures as a supposed path to happiness.
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Cain
Tubal Cain
Eve
Adam
Diet
Puck
Lame back remedy Toris compound drew medical debate
The piece praises Toris compound as an effective lame back and rheumatism cure when mixed with other ingredients. It recommends a half pint of whiskey with one ounce Toris compound and one ounce Sarsaparilla Syrup, taken in tablespoon doses before meals and at night, noting Globe Pharmaceutical Co. Chicago as the producer.
Fragmented Victorian Gazette snippet mixes street scam and gossip
A London street encounter ends with a refined stranger pickpocketing an elderly woman after feigning friendship. A family scene shows Mary crying over theater plans. Pettit’s Eye Salve claims 100 years of sales. a Buffalo drug firm advertises its temper as bright.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup advertisement note
An 250m bottle claim for children teething soothing syrup. Mentions soothing gums reducing inflammation easing pain and curing a wild colon with a coal seam yielding 6000 tons per acre.
The Obelisk Jokes That Go In One Ear And Out The Other
A humorous snippet contrasts a teacher’s misfired lecture about obelisks with a pupil’s sharp reply as a couple debates a pet dog during a breakup. A separate anecdote recalls a puzzled Atchison couple where a wife hurls a stool in frustration at a snubbing husband.
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Trixy
Sueccusa Magazine
Grown Up Children and the Spirit of Childishness
A London Spectator quote laments grownups who drift into childish silliness. It notes women especially adopt a roving banal shrewdness in serious talk. The piece warns that romancing distorts reality as people talk without thinking.
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London Spectator
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
Rm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
O. Hall
Teatimonia
Drunvista
Kansas City Journal
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Larry
Lachrymose
Jim
Detroit Free Press
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Neal
Putnam
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Dave
Atchison
Atchison Globe
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Ite
Defiance Starch
Iced
Hamidea
Ithe Thompson
Mok Nestute Mouse
Buster Brown Blue Ribbon
Ask
the Brown Shoe CO
California
Salt Lake
Overland Limited
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Electric
E. L. Lomax
Omaha
Neb
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