Diverse World Facts From A Century Ago
A survey of global trivia covers wheat maturity in Canada, early balloon history, a 7000 foot pier at Minster on Sea, Australia’s gender balance, rubber in India, and China’s celibacy view. Notes on Saxony factories, Athos monasteries, Mexico’s refining rise, and London water supply. Also mentions Preudinberg’s wireless explosive device, a lightning incident in Stoke on Trent, patent medicines, coal mine rockfall prevention, Cleveland’s 1814 incorporation, and Paris surpassing Berlin in university size. It lists sorcery suits, a phonograph clock timing idea, British naval gun tests, giraffe neck growth, Winona interurban Sundayism, and Lineal Center’s self-sufficient inventor. Swiss fish cadaver issue, cross-Atlantic voyage progress, tall buildings in New York, Copenhagen rodent prizes, Burns statue by Stevenson for Milwaukee parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Minster-on-the-Sea
England
Australia
British India
Old Maida
China
Saxony
Athos
Holy Mountain
Mexico
London
Thames
Tierro-Technical Institute of
St. Petersburg
Preudinberg
Stoke-on-Trent
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Berlin
University of
Paris
Raymond
Menard
London Zoulerienl Society
Loveth
Winona
Ind
Indianapolis
McChinery
Samme
Meent
Switzerland
Aart
Neufchautel
Constance
Atlantic
Chicago
Masonic Temple
New York
Copenhagen
Taoa
Grant Stevenson
Robert Barns
Milwaukee
Father John’s Medicine claims boost in cough remedy ad
An engineer from Marblehead Massachusetts credits Father John’s Medicine with curing his cough and restoring weight after a decline. He reports weight changes from 208 to 187 pounds, then to 210 percent, praising the remedy and urging others with coughs or colds to try it.
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Father John
W. F. Rogers
Marblehead
Mass
Coming Events December dance and social schedule list
Dec 1 Berks dance and card party Dec 1 Prof Dawsons Social Dance Dec 5 Dance and banquet United Commercial Travelers Dec 8 Joe Fifers dancing school Dec 9 Annual party Plumbers Gas Fitters and Steam Fitters Union at Masonic temple Dec 1 Prof Dawsons Social Dance Dec 7 Annual dance and card party Prittedeutsche Guild Dec 18 Prof Dawsons Prize Masquerade Dec 25 Prof Dawsons Christmas Ball Dec 28 Second annual dance College club at Masonic temple Dec 200 Alumni Ball Masonic temple
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Berks
Dawson
United Commercial Travelers
Joe Fifer
Plumbers
Gas Fitters
Steam Fitters’ Union
Masonic Temple
Prittedeutsche Guild
District Leader and Bioscope at Grand Opera House
The Grand Opera House schedules period shows including The District Leader on Dec 5 matinee and night Bioscope Moving Pictures on Dec 6 matinee and night Morris Thurston Vo from Dec 7 to 12 with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday Bioscope Moving Pictures Dec 18 and Daniel Sully Boston Bells Dec 16 Bioscope Moving Pictures Dec 20 and 27 The County Sheriff Dec 80.
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Grand Opera House
Bioscope Moving Pictures
Morris-Thurston Vo
Bioscope Movin Pictures
Daniel Sully
Boston Bells
I Love the Merry Social Whirl in New York Life
A playful verse from New York Life mocks high society’s flirtations dinners and dates. The narrator revels in fashionable vanity while noting a skeleton watching from behind the boards. The tone blends wit with lingering mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Poets Face Poverty Says Father and Son Quip
In a brief Kansas City Times exchange, a father notes poets often die poor while a witty reply from a stubborn optimist counters that most people share the same fate. The backhanded remark captures the era's humor about wealth and art.
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Kansas City Times
Frown On Line As Love Wears Parisian Gown
A brief note from New York Press expresses worry that a line will be topped by a frown as the speaker’s beloved wears a new Parisian gown.
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Eoon
New York Press
Moving pictures and gossip on stage and street
A collage of clipped quips from era papers. Jokes about football, broken noses, and moving pictures dominate a street scene. The item blends cartoonish banter from Yonkers and Chicago papers with playful verse notes from Philadelphia and Puck, hinting at social chatter and gossip columns.
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Chicago News
Cakes for the farmer hoecakes and more
An excerpt from the Boston Transcript cites humorous pairings of cake names with professions and people. The St Louis Post-Dispatch and Boston Transcript lines reference themed desserts such as farmer hoecakes passip spice and layered angel cake for a geologist, humorously linking food to roles.
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Yong
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
My Lady's Hair Charade at the Store Counter
A humorous exchange shows a customer asking for a specific item the shop assistant directs to the wie department as Miss De Style suggests. The fragment hints at a fashion or beauty retail scene with playful dialogue.
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Hamelin
Uhelassie
New York
Bonds for sale at 6 percent interest
For sale bonds bearing 6 percent interest in amounts from $100 to $1000. Get full information from Witte Land & Loan Co. at 147 Stephenson St. Freeport Illinois. We Wanted position as stenographer with large manufacturing concern. Best references. Address Margaret Hart 115 So. Winnebago St. Rockford Illinois.
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Sea Witte Land & Loan Co
Stephenson St
Freeport
Margaret Hart
Winnebago St
Rockford, Ill
Witte Land & Loan Go
Ill
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Ladies’ Union
Children’s Union
F. A. Read
Win Walton Neph
Clothing Department
the Daily Journal
Brown & Dollmeyer
Allington, Jr
Otto Wagner
Galena Street
J.robson & Co
Brewster House
Third Ward
Hose House
Stukenberg & Borchers
Galena
Stre
Fatherdohn
Alor Lea Tay
Bengston’s
Bengstons
Emerick, Barrett & CO
Yonkers Statesman
Harriet
Ilurry
Puck
Jupiter
Venus
Philadelphia Ledger
Galena St
Galena Avenue
Mackay Bldg
F. H. Thoren
W.H. Brandt & Co
Galena St Blust Building
the Cable Co
Geo. A. Stemm
Galena St Opp. NY
W.j.young & Go
Opp
Layer
Johnny
Pugilist
Boston ‘Transcript
Maxine Wells
Ventriloquist
Sfield
Mann's Sausage Facary
Sue
Peoples! Cvolumn
Absolutely Brand Kew
Wm. Walton
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