The Dance Destroys Virtue Says Sunday Preacher
A 1905 sermon rails against dancing in public life, linking it to moral decay. He alleges dancing schools fuel prostitution, cites clergy and police witnesses, and urges women to avoid ballrooms to protect virtue and family. He recalls Chicago campaigns and contrasts strict moral stances with bustling social life.
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Faulkner
Pacific Coast Dancing Masters’ Association
Tis Own
Oabkdand
Chicago
Tninois
City Council of
Triois
America
Police
New York City
Boya
United States
Mr. Sunday
Hell
Jesus Christ
Charity
Seeley
New York
Captain Chapman
Roosevelt
White House
Wall Street
Ryan
Chapman
Police Department
Paris
Prudence
Saya
Ilike
Rome
Gibbon
St. Peter’s
Raphael
Angelo
St. Peter
Over Fifty Health Warnings and Ecological Notes
A block of aged health advice promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy for middle aged readers and vitality restoration. The text shifts to a New Zealand note describing Polynesian decline under European settlement, with invasive species and rapid forest planting altering streams and native flora and fauna.
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New Zealand
Foley's Honey and Tar Promises Cough and Lung Relief
When lungs are sore and inflamed the cough germs of pneumonia and consumption may lodge. Foley's Honey and Tar kills the cough germs, cures stubborn coughing, heals the lungs, and prevents serious results. The medicine comes in a yellow package.
By Natural Means Dusty Trail Pro Shows Fast Car
A country friend asks a professional chauffeur if he always speeds when showing a car to a potential buyer. The chauffeur replies he aims for the dust, proving he drives fast to impress impressed onlookers.
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Baltimore American
The Lifespan of Genius and Growth Cycles
The piece asserts that intellect is a prime asset and outlines a lifecycle where planting occurs before twenty, crops mature by forty, and a harvest extends from forty to sixty or seventy. It shifts to a medical ad promising Foley remedies for constipation and liver trouble, emphasizing natural digestion and non-gripe laxatives. Dreier & Bro.
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Foley
Pilla
Dreier & Bro
Calcutta constable uses umbrella device amid winter blasts
A Calcutta constable with an apparatus strapped to his shoulders holds an umbrella over his head to shield against winter blasts. The scene describes a machine for making matches turning out 40,000 splints in a minute, with stray garbled text about diseases and coughs.
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Calcutta
Pare Wallah
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T. C. McClure
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Mrs. Bowser
Atek
Hari
Hounds of Justice
Mr. Bowser
Bowser
Dreler & Bro
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Ely Brothers
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