Major Crofoot’s Grand Pie Scheme Meets Shrewd Fraud
Promoter Major Crofoot pitches the Great American Interchangeable Pie Company to his old friend Ian Green, offering a $25 000 vice president post and 100 percent dividends. Green exposes the ruse with mockery and comic roughhousing, leaving Crofoot battered but morally intact in a dim office.
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Mr. Green
Persia
Chicago
Standard Oil
Beef Trust
Great American Interchangeable Pie Company
Green
Tata
M. Quad
The Girdle as Medieval Fashion and Heirloom
The passage explains how girdles carried a wide array of items for daily use from ink horns to knives and rosaries. It compares girdles to chantelaines, noting their practicality and inclusiveness across sexes. Girdles could be costly and were often gifted as lasting heirlooms to honor memory.
Cure for Rheumatism Highlighted by Dodd's Kidney Pills
Barwick Ontario reports William John Dixon credits three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing his rheumatism after a typhoid fever relapse. He walked, dressed, and worked again, recommending the remedy to others suffering rheumatic pain. In New York hydrophobia cases, Amanda Jones 27, bitten as a child, suffers recurring fits. doctors deem her case extraordinary and puzzling as she oscillates between restraint and wild outbursts with foam at the mouth.
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Barwick
Ont
William John Dixon
Dodd
Mr. Dixon
New York
Amanda Jones
Bellevue
Parson Bird of New Zealand Surprises With Varied Song
The tui or parson bird, native to New Zealand, is small with white throat tufts and glossy green plumage. It can mimic sounds, crow, speak, and whistle, and sings bell like at dusk. It nests repeatedly and shows little fear of humans, but birds are growing scarcer as old wilderness fades.
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New Zealand
Sunflower Feed May Sweeten Chicken Eggs
The passage notes that eggs from scavenger hens can be unfit to eat unless their diet is considered. A reader recalls a claim that sunflowers make eggs notably sweet, citing an old German household feeding chickens on sunflower seeds.
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London
William the Conqueror Lands in England Signaled by a Fall
Report of William the Conqueror landing in England includes a stumble as his foot touched the sand. Onlookers cried out a bad omen but he recovered quickly and asserted his grasp on the ground as his by right and by God. He spoke with calm and assurance.
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William the Conqueror
England
William
Cwanra
Portraits of Mozart During His Later Weakened Years
The text describes Mozart as small and slight with a very thin pale face. His prominent nose becomes even more noticeable due to extreme emaciation in his later years.
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Mozart
Scotch Deer Forests in Scotland Near Two Million Acres
There are over 100 deer forests in Scotland covering nearly 2,000,000 acres.
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Scotland
What May Be Found at Skibo
The Western Gazette describes Skibo, Mr. Carnegie’s Highland home, with about 20 000 acres including 10 000 acres moor 6 000 arable and 4 000 wood. It notes 600 to 800 brace grouse 22 stags 4 fallow bucks 42 roe deer plus black game partridges pheasants snipe woodcock hares rabbits and wild fowl. Fishing includes fair salmon and sea trout on Evelix and good trout in Lochs Migdvale Laggan Jurs and Buidle.
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Skibo
Carnegie
Highland
Westminster Gazette
Man and the Universe Says Ramsay on Knowledge
Sir William Ramsay, the renowned English scientist, quotes Isaac Newton about humanity being children gathering pebbles from the shore of knowledge while an vast ocean of discovery lies ahead. He emphasizes that progress has only begun to reveal the world we inhabit.
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Sir William Ramsay
Isaac Newton
Toed the Mark and the Toe the Mark Exchange
A dialogue fragment centers on a man pressuring Roxley into yielding and making him the mark. The exchange suggests coercion over a claim of authority or compliance as the focal point of the dispute.
Dr Williams Pink Pills advertised as neuralgia cure
An Edmonton style health claim touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for neuralgia and other ailments. It cites Mrs R C Johnson of Simpson’s Corner Nova Scotia praising a long relief after using the pills and notes the product is sold for 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 from Brockville Ontario.
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Dr. Williams
Simpson's Corner
N. S
Dr Williams
Islands Between Madagascar and India Count Reaches 10900
The report notes an estimated ten thousand nine hundred uninhabited islets scattered in the sea between Madagascar and the Indian coast. Experts caution that many are tiny reefs and sandbanks with no permanent settlement.
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Madagascar
India
Complete Home Cure Book on Rheumatism and Paralysis
Free illustrated treatise offered to readers with instructions for curing rheumatism and paralysis. Written by W. H. Veno with a University of Würzburg graduate’s preface, endorsed by medical men and ministry. Request by mail to The Veno Drug Co., 24 King St West, Toronto.
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W. H. Veno
University of Wurtzburg
Lightest European Crown Among Royal Treasures
The State crown of Great Britain made for Queen Victoria weighs two pounds seven ounces with an estimated value of £300,000. A large sapphire from Edward the Confessor’s signet is noted. In the Pope’s treasure, two crowns valued at £400,000 lie, one a Napoleon gift to Pius VII containing the largest emerald, the other Isabella of Spain’s gift to Pius IX weighing three pounds and valued at £300,000.
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Great Britain
Queen Victoria
Edward the Confessor
Napoleon
Pius VII
Isabella
Spain
Pius 16
Thos Woodcock Dies After Stag Attack in Hamilton
Thos Woodcock of Hamilton died after being gored by a stag. The incident occurred during the hunt when the animal charged, causing fatal injuries.
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Thos. Woodcock
Hamilton
Attentive Boy Harrison Walks 2000 Miles to School
An eleven year old named Harrison at Waverbridge School near Wigton Cumberland England has never missed a day in seven years. Living a mile away he walks daily through all weathers since age four and has traversed over two thousand miles to and from school.
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Harrison
Waverbridge School
Wigton
Cumberland
England
Mrs James Srigley Credits Dr Agnew’s Cure for Heart
Pelee Island Ontario resident Mrs James Srigley reports five years of dyspepsia constipation heart disease and nervous prostration. She claims quick relief from heart trouble after taking Dr Agnew's Cure for the Heart with other ailments vanishing soon after the first dose.
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James Srigley
Pelee Island
Ont
Agnew
The Dog Days Traditional Beliefs
The article describes dog days as a summer period tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius. It notes beliefs about heat, swimming danger, and dog madness, with historical references from Hippocrates and ancient Egypt. It explains the shifting calendar and the origin of terms like dies canicularis and canicular year.
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United States
Sirius
Hippocrates
Canis Major
Whose Silence Rules Heart’s Choice in Social Scene
A fragment shows a dialogue about acceptance and encouragement. One says she will not accept him, the other questions why she encourages him when there is no one else to lift him up. The exchange hints at social pressure and personal hesitation.
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Beecham
When a man seeks your advice he geverally wants praise
A brief quip notes that people asking for counsel expect flattery rather than critical guidance. It attributes the sentiment to a Chester lead, reflecting a wartime or philosophical tone about advice and praise.
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Chester- Lead
Relic Found in Lake Village Old Courthouse Dig
In Lake Village Arkansas workers tearing down the old courthouse unearthed a ballot box from November 6 1861. The ticket names Jefferson Davis as president and Alexander H Stephens as vice president with electors including Edward Cross Hempstead David Walker Washington John Hamp ton Bradley W Bevins Independence W W Mansfield Franklin and A H Garland Pulaski. Judge Mansfield of Franklin is the lone survivor among those named.
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Lake Village
Ark
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Alexander H. Stephens
Georgia
Edward Cross
Hempstead
David Walker
Washington
John &. Hampton
Bradley
W. C. Bevins
Independence
W. W. Mansfield
Franklin
Congress
A. H. Garland
Pulaski
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Sahara
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Mexico
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W. J. Dixon
Wit
Roxley
Williams
Jusrcea
Dodds
Caeta
St. Louis
Thomas Beecham
St. Helens
Lancashire
Bog
Canada
U.S. America
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Ayer
Vandecar
Mechanicsville
N.Y
Ayer CO
Lowell
Daas
Northwest Wear
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Stantfield
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