Ted's Ghost Party at the Works Contract Rally
Ted Raymond, newly installed supervisor, uses a staged ghost scene to quell a strike at the plant. He reveals the haunting was a lantern trick coordinated with the police to expose conspirators and reassure workers. The crowd accepts the ruse and returns to work, with Raymond and Nettie planning a private celebration.
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John Alison
Raymond
Lee
Stellie
Fiere
Smemey
Ted Raymond
Pattern Room
Mae Nettie
Ephit
Ted
Nettie
Madison
Jones’ Hall
Water butterflies in the blue Mediterranean scene
The article describes pteropoda or wing footed sea butterflies enjoying clear Mediterranean wavelets. It notes their translucent, glassy wings, soft shells, flesh-eating habits, and egg-laying behavior, highlighting their delicate, water-filled appearance and movement.
Treating Open Wounds Using Simple Bandaging Method
The text describes treating surface open wounds by washing with warm water, drying, applying boric acid powder, covering with linen, securing with adhesive plaster strips across the wound, adding cotton wool, and bandaging to exclude air. Dressings are removed after seven to ten days for rewash and repeat.
When Lois and Jim Furness On the Railroad
A station agent narrator recalls Lois who despises bravado and a railroad man Jim Furness who wins her not by bold feats but by steady work. Jim endures mockery from coworkers, yet remains gentle and generous while Lois remains wary of displays of courage and honesty.
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Jim Furness
Lois
Jim
Lois and Jim Eases Into High Society Ties
The narrator recalls Lois and Jim's marriage and Lois's rise in society. Sint quietly befriends railroad men and locals, while Lois attracts city society queens. Lois enjoys attention, though she dislikes bragging and personal talk. Jim, newly wealthy from the railroad, is proud of Lois and well connected.
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Sint
Lote
Thongh
Lois
Eis
Jim
How She Cured Him Story of a pawned watch and a mother’s note
An impecunious young lawyer tells how his mother’s gift, a gold watch, becomes a pawnable loan. The pawnbroker reads the engraving “If this watch is offered for sale or pawn notify Mrs. Street. Reward,” forcing the narrator to confess to his mother and resolve his habit.
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New York Sun
Universal Gesture Language Warns Against New Universals
An ethnologist argues a universal language exists in gesture. He demonstrates a forefinger shake meaning threat and warning, noting its global understanding from New Guinea to England. He warns against inventing new universal gesture languages as unnecessary and hard to learn.
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New Guinea
England
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Not All In the Air Remembrance of Gilman and Day Tale
A reflection on early American higher education contrasts the pioneer era with today’s funding. Gilman recalls a western state university president who boasted a strong charter and no faculty or endowment, highlighting the humble beginnings before libraries or buildings existed.
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Daniel Coit Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Gilman Days
Dr. Day
Yale
Nature Spare and The Stricken Rose Lore
A reflective piece on nature sparing grief in beauty and suffering from a canker. It notes hair loss among young women due to a hair- destroying parasite and credits Newbro's Herpicide with killing the germ, sold by Joseph Emmert, Special Agent.
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Newbro
Jes
Make a Success of Your Talents on the Great Western
A classified notice urges readers to seize life changing open positions along the Chicago Great Western Railway. It promises opportunities in nearly all lines of business and directs readers to write BK. B. Magill in Omaha for full information and a copy of Town Talk.
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BK. B. Magill
Mer
Omaha
Republican Congressional Convention for Illinois Thirteenth District
Notice of a August 16 1906 convention at the Republican County Club Rooms in Freeport Stephenson Illinois to nominate a congressman and select a central committee. Delegates allocated by 1904 Roosevelt Fairbanks votes with eighty eight total. list of county delegates and signatories J W Clinton secretary and J F Fair chairman.
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Republican Congressional Convention
Congressiona
Illinois
Carroll
Jc Daviess
Lee, Ogle
Stephenson
Whiteside
Republican County Club
Tngerory
Congressional Central Committee
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
A. D
Thirteenth Congressional District
Follywas ' Ele
Gates Carroll
A. B. Woodruff
Jo Daviess
I. W. Parkinson
Warren
Badger
Ogie
W. Clinton
Stephenson J. F. Fair
D. L. Miller
Freeport
Republican Congressional Committee
Ilinoiis
Tickets on sale for southern routes with price details
Tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays in each month to points in Tennessee Alabama North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Mississippi Louisiana and Southern Virginia excluding certain commercial centers. Rate one first class fare plus two dollars for round trip with thirty day limit and stopovers both ways. For details write G B Allen St Louis MO S H Hardwick Washington DC J S McOmieren Chicago N W H Tayloe Washington DC.
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Tennessee
Alabama
North Carolna
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
Pointa
Virginia
Bate
G. B. Allen
St. Louis
S. H. Hardwick
Washington, D.C
J.S. McOmieren
Dearborn St
Chicago
N. W
H. Tayloe
Washington, D. C
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Ellison
Bilson
H Im
Ile
Avigitt
Chamberlain
Journal
Ushaw
Wny
Hig Lfe
Nature Spare
Joseph Emmert
National Biscuit Company
The
NEC Nene - NepesTomacir
Republican Congressiona Convention
13Th Congressional District
J. W. Clinton
J. F. Fair
Homeseekers
Southern Railwy
Queen & Crescent
Land of the Sky
North Carolina
Mounantain Stream
Sky
Switzerland
Hot Springs
Ashaville
Harvard
Lake Toxaway
Southern Railway
Geo. B. Allen
Pas
McCullough
H. Hardwick
W. H. Tayloe
Colorado
Milwauee
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller General Passenger
Minneapolis Kansas City
Council Bluffs
Chicags
Great Sue Team Western
Great Western
Elmer
St. Paul, Minn
Shoshone, Wyo
Reservation
J. B. Kniskern
Chicago & Northwestern Ry
Wind River Reservation
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