The Bowser War Record Bluff Collapse
Mr Bowser boasts of Civil War heroics and a colonel’s rank, prompting his wife to challenge his stories with historical facts. She exposes inconsistencies about Antietam and Gettysburg, and he storms out in anger while she calmly weighs legal options. The exchange ends with strained breakfast courtesy.
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George
Mr. Bowser
Mrs. Bowser
Bowsers
Bowser
Col
Gettysburg
Lossing
Headley
Ohio
Lee
Pickett
Potomac
Lawser
Mr. Towser
Eighteenth Ohio
Tye
Antietam
Virginia
Wisconsin
Maryland
Sharpsburg
Jeadley
Greely
Possum Sketches: Zeb White Relives Trials of Rural Justice
Old Zeb White recalls a month as a Tennessee justice of the peace, facing a flood of petty cases, quarreling neighbors, and divorce claims. He recounts how the job burned him out, prompting a return to hunting coons and living simply among locals.
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Zeb White
Tennessee Mountains
Possum Hunter
Tennessee
Dobbs
Jim Sawtell
Jim
Sumbody
Bristol
Sombody
Zeb
Cy Green
Sugar Cove
Watkins
Tom Inierse
Bill Patterson
Tom
Prayers Aid Drunken Husband to Sobriety in Domestic Tale
Mrs. Dick endures a stormy marriage as drunken fits spark harsh quarrels. She prays for help, and in a pivotal moment Jesus is invoked to calm temper and guide her husband toward sobriety, transforming a once violent home into peace. The story credits faith and forgiveness through shared prayer.
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John Dick
Mrs. Dick
John
Jesus
Sam
Annie
Autumn Dreams in Lincoln Park Bench Scene
A bench scene in Lincoln Park unfolds under a crimson autumn canopy. An owl watches from a cedar as two figures exchange a dreamy, flirtatious dialogue filled with poetic descriptions and a playful innuendo about lobster and mince pie.
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Lincoln Park
Minerva
Lake Shore Drive
Yaas
Bear in Washington Barn Slays Calf. Suspect Captured
A 400 pound bear invaded a Proebster barnyard in Washington State and carried off a live calf. Citizens formed a posse, pursued the animal, and after a long chase captured Kruit, who had hugged the calf to death.
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Proebster
Wash
Kruit
Night Day Paradox in China and Here
A humorous exchange notes the time difference between China and the observer’s location. Papa explains that night in China equals day here while Mamma adds that day in China means a night here, reflecting a playful translation of time zones in a newspaper item.
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Papa
Johnny
China
N. Y
Remedy From Nature's Lab Oratory Celery Nerve Compound
Dreier and Bro sell Lichty s Celery Nerve Compound at Calhoun and Columbia streets. The tonic claims to restore health for sickly children weary women and worn men using a blend of celery cocoa cas cara sagrada hops dandelion buchu mandrake sarsaparilla and cha momile.
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Lichty
Dreier & Bro
Calhoun
Columbia
Streets
Editor taunts intruder with gun in hand spoof
The Kicker Ras a Caller recounts a man arrived at the office with a gun in each hand and tears in his eyes, expressing a wish to remove the paper. The editors announce they will be home this week and invite the visitor to drop by at his convenience.
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The
Kicker
Lichts Celery Nerve Compound Sold by Dreier & Bro
Advertisement lists Lichts Celery Nerve Compound for nervous diseases neuralgia rheumatism and other ailments promising thorough fast cures. Sold by Dreier and Bro at the corner Calhoun and Columbia streets. A Paris cabman rule bans smoking while driving.
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Dreier & Bro
Calhoun and
Columbia Streets
White Fruit House Market Adilicious Bargains Across Goods
A dense advertisement lists numerous goods with prices including sugars teas coffees spices dried fruits canned fish salts carpets rugs linoleum and window shades. It promotes loose Roasted Rio coffee freshness and reduced prices on several sugar and tea varieties and items from oils to tobaccos and wines with a large display at the corner offering 20 percent savings.
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California
Brussels
The Drug Fiend
An essay warns of the rising morphine and drug habit, citing urban estimates of 60 000 morphine addicts and a 10 percent rate of addiction among physicians. It blames high modern stress, pain intolerance, and easy self administration for fueling self destructive use and a living death for addicts. The piece cites Dr. David Poulson of Union Signal.
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David Poulson
Union Signal
Mount Vernon Fines For Sunday Liquor Sales
A Mount Vernon Illinois crusade against liquor joints leads to three local dealers fined 200 dollars plus costs for selling liquor on Sunday. Chief O Neill of Chicago renews a no smoking on public streets order for uniformed officers with suspension and fine for violators. A New York saloon case rules that a sandwich with a drink is not a meal, affecting a liquor tax certificate revocation.
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Mount Vernon
Ill
O'Neill
Chicago
New York
First Appellate Court
A Pocket Cold Cure Capsule Sold Here
Krause's Cold Cure comes in capsule form and claims to cure cold in the head throat chest or any part of the body in 24 hours. No need to stop work. Price 5 cents. Sold by Dreier and Bro at Calhoun and Columbia streets corner.
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Krause
Dreier & Bro
Calhoun and
Columbia Streets
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Haynes
Allus
Skassly
Jonas White
Mary Stebbins
A. E. C. Maskell
National Advocate
Nature
Lichty’s
Paris
White Fruit House
Hyson
Ceylon
New Orleans
Ilong
Japan
Rio
Java
Boston Fish
Georgia Bank
TED Goods
Califor
We . Co
Kelley Island
Sweet Cuba
Hiawatha
Flor de Anna
S&c
J. T
Wort Way
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