Nellies Competition Ends in Love and Courage
Jefford guards Bobby on the farm and uses a firm hand with mischief. Nellie tests suitors by a child’s discipline, then chooses Jefford as the true partner. Bobby’s antics reveal character, while Nellie’s decision affirms a man who acts, not merely words.
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Nellie Carter
Bobby
Bobby Germaine
Nellie
Piazza
Jefford Reed
Turner and
Bascom
Jim
Sr. Bascom
Mr. Turner
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Weak Stomach Key to Whole Body Strength
The article explains that digestion converts food to nutrition and the stomach’s strength determines overall health. A weak stomach weakens all organs, causing biliousness, loss of appetite, dizziness, headaches, and heart effects. It cites Louis Pate of Quebec praising Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and urges readers to obtain the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser by mail order.
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Louis Pate
Quebec
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
R. V. Pierce
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
High Mountain Peaks and the Breath of Giants
A historical piece discusses Everest and other Himalaya summits as nearly unreachable for ordinary lungs. It cites explorer Edmund Candies on breakneck climbs, Gurkhas at 18,500 feet, and pilots reaching 30,000 feet, noting respiration limits as air thins. It notes Dr. Workman’s party at 19,350 feet struggled for sleep as oxygen drops hinder movement.
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Fidmund Candies
trav @ler
Mount Everest
Himalayas
Altay
Horth Pole
Elius
Fitzgerald
Aconcagua
Tibet
Candler
Edison Patent Obviousness Question Sparks Court Idea
The article notes federal courts have invalidated Edison patents as obvious solutions. Edison, while seeking a new mechanism, admits progress is tough but insists the solution seems obvious. He jokes asking for federal judges to visit to explain how to build it.
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Kimball
Chicago
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Edison
Mr. Edison
Paper Hats to Take Fashion by Storm This Winter
The London Tailor and Cutter predicts a coming craze for paper hats as a low cost fashion. Paper plaiting is easy and a fourpenny hat uses colored crape paper, yielding several hats per roll. When placed on framed shapes they resemble straw hats and offer quick style changes without expensive garments.
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London
Lunch car idea spreads to railway dining service
About a year ago a railroad company began regular lunch service with a long counter feeding fifty or sixty. Moderate rates made the lunch counter popular, replacing old table d hôte meals on dining cars and even on an ocean steamer, a system seen as pleasing to travelers prone to car or sea sickness. New York Post.
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New York
If I had a son who would play the races
A San Francisco Call quotation contemplates personal hopes and regrets about a son who might chase racing, a daughter who plays piano, and the speaker’s desire for self-improvement when facing flaws, including voting for a scoundrel and a wife’s temper, in a reflective moral frame.
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Gabriel
San Francisco
Guardians Plan Bench Replacement in Board Room
The Skibbereen board of guardians decided to replace the ebaira in the board room with substantial benches and vetoed fastening them to the floor after the clerk noted such a setup would be of no use in a fight.
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Skibbereen
Ireland
Highland Regiments Height Comparison
A terse note asserts that Scots stand tall with twelve men per thousand over six feet, while English reach six feet and Irish reach three feet, presenting a humorous or exaggerated regional joke about height distinctions.
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