Tragic tale of Cheeming and Mary Martin in Michigan
John Evington a poet and lover marries Mary Martin from wealthy parents. They move to a Michigan city where John works in a stove factory and writes verses on Sundays. Mary becomes pregnant, John's job ends, and the Martins fail to separate. Mary dies after hospital trouble, Cornelius Levington enters, John abandons town with the child, and years later claims him.
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John Evington
Mary Martin
Michigan
John
Mary
Con Levington and the Dory Street Orphan Tale
In Frisco a young boy named Con grows up amid his father John Levington’s erratic work and drink. After John’s death the city directs care for the waif, placing him with the squalid neighbor who already has children, shaping Con’s grim, unsettled childhood.
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Frisco
John
Dory Street
Con
Bill
John Levington
John Leving
Father
Don
Douvagiac
Downa@Bylance
City
Stattern
Destiny Unfolds At Dinner In Wedger House
Don Levington’s life edges toward a fateful turning point at a quiet dinner with Cecil Wedger. Con ends up entangled in a perilous plan with Chee Ming, a wary Chinese servant, as a leather pouch with unknown contents changes hands and fate.
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Destiny
Don Levington
Wedger
Cecil
Levington
Con
Websters
John Levington
Garden of Nusion
Cech
Chee Ming
Dts
Guest
Can
Leyington
Dan Levington
Beginning Found Again in Andrew’s Tale
A fragment suggests a continuing narrative with the line Andrew, you have found another beginning. It mentions a cow hide weighing 35 pounds and a horse hide of about half that weight, indicating a narrative focus on animal hides.
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Andrew
Freezone Corn Remedy Promises Quick Relief and Easy Removal
Advertisement claims Freezone costs only a few cents and stops corn pain instantly when dropped on the corn. It supposedly lifts the corn out with the fingers and removes hard and soft corns and calluses without soreness. Sells in a small bottle at druggists, touted as a Cincinnati genius discovery.
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Cincinnati
Shrewd Advice: He Loved Me Says Woman
A Boston Transcript quip advises extracting explicit declarations of love. The observer relays a social maxim that if a confession has not yet been voiced, prompt the beloved to speak the word aloud. The piece uses sharp wit to reflect on romantic clarity.
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Boston Transcript
Allen's Foot Ease ad promises longer lasting shoes and stockings
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot Ease powder to shake into shoes and foot bath for comfort. It claims the product loosens tight or new shoes and lets ladies wear one size smaller by using it each morning. Sold everywhere.
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Allen
Could She Carry Them
A brief exchange recalls a mother preparing her child for a circus trip. The boy asks if she can carry the seats, highlighting a child’s practical wonder and a parent’s task of securing seats for an outing.
Fletcher's Castoria Promoted by 30 Years Use Signature
Advocates urging mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature of In Use for Over 30 Years. The familiar remedy for infants and children is endorsed with the line Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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Fletcher
Khaki through youth eyes in school essays
Public schools across the nation collected student writings praising army life as a path to freedom from bill collectors and a country of liberty. A Montana boy links constitutional rights to military service, while an Indiana pupil imagines enlistment as a cure for ailments and a change from worn feet to calloused hands.
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Army and Recruiting Service
Ohio
Montana
Armerica
Illinois
Applicants Aplenty Birthday Gift Prank
An Indianapolis high school teacher celebrated a birthday with students giving gifts. A freshman boy presented a large box of candy and prompted a playful kiss from the popular teacher. A talking junior boy followed with his own gift remark.
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Indianapolis
Bob
Miss T
Bayer Aspirin Ad Warns of Genuine Packages
An old advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as safe and proven by millions. It warns to accept only an unbroken Bayer package with directions for uses like headache toothache and fever and notes cheap 12 tablet tins and larger packages sold by druggists. The Ad also includes a joke about a footpad and a church clock from London Tit-Bits.
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Bayer
London
Kidney trouble advertisement urges Swamp Root remedy
An old advertisement warns thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble and may not know it. It links kidney health to other organ issues and urges immediate treatment with Dr Kilmer is Swamp Root, offering sample bottles by mail and requesting readers mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Weary Rhodes-Dat ghy Take on Pullman Car Names
Weary Rhodes jokes about pronouncing names on all Pullman cars in a Houston Post item. The crude ad copy promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for constipation and stomach issues, claiming it restores regularity without eroding.
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Weary Rhodes
Houston Post
Wright
Surrendering German Captain Taught a Harsh Lesson
In letters printed by the Atlantic Monthly an American sergeant recalls a German captain captured in a recent raid. The officer boasted that a German officer never surrenders but refuses to face reality. The sergeant proposed a quick shot to save honor, listing the captain’s gear as possible targets. The German showed no interest.
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France
Atlantic Monthly
Doughnut Factory Helps Kansas State College Students
Eight Kansas State Agricultural College students at Manhattan formed a corporation named The Perfect Bakery. Their operation bakes bread cookies and other treats with doughnuts as the specialty to cover their expenses.
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Kansas
Kansas State Agricultural College
Manhattan
Calle ‘Ed
The
Perfect Bakery
Direct nominations prompt mixed opinions in status
A social media post asks what readers think of direct nominations and characterizes the debate as centered on fundamental, primary facts. The comment implies a contrast between viewpoint clarity and procedural complexity.
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Howe
Chee “Ming
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