Mulligan Family Fireside Tale Of Blackthorn Stick
A New Year gathering at the Mulligan home becomes a lively village tale as the old man recalls crafting a blackthorn stick, courting the Widow Sullivan, and a barn fight with Terence McCarthy that ends with a wedding after the clever ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike
Childer
Mulligans
Millie
Manny
Sullivan
McCarthy
Yaz
Pat Mulligan
Duny
Murphy's
Mac
Blageard
McCnarthy
Placing the Blame and a Call for Change
A poetic exhortation to abandon old temptations and reform, addressing Father Time and urging personal resolve to break cycles. The text blends moral reflection with early 20th century advertising lines from Moogh and Burrell cures, noting other commercial claims and remedies amid the prose.
Sunshine Route to California Tourist Cars
The Sunshine Route to California offers Pullman tourist cars to Los Angeles and San Francisco leaving Chicago every Saturday at 2 p.m. via the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway to Kansas City and then the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to California. For information contact the station ticket agent of theChicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
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California
Pullman
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y
Kansas City
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R’y
Buriington
Denver
Denver & Rio Grande
Secnla Iing
Salt Lake
Ovden
A New Year's Chase on the St Lawrence Coast
A Canadian revenue cutter pursues a black tug with a red funnel suspected of French brandy smuggling from Anticosti to Ste Anne des Montes. Amid bitter cold and fog, the Rosalie L. flees shore, the French pilot Delorme assists, a chase ends with a confiscated cask and a final farce as the smugglers escape into darkness aboard codfish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion
Anticosti
Cape Gaspe
Quebec
Ottawa
Gaspe
Armstrong
St. Lawrence
Inland Revenue Department
Rosalia L
Gulf
Ste. Anne Des Montes
Amugglera
M'Sieurs
Pierre Baptiste Delorma
Ste Anne du Mutaes
Cpenskin
Pierre
Baptiste
Lower St. Lawrence
Rosalie L
Darkriese
M. Pierra Baptiste
Delorme
M. Pierre
Dory
Avifio
Arthur J. Stringer
Seasonable Proverbs About Weather and Crop Hopes
A collection of seasonable proverbs linking Christmas weather to next year’s crops and seasonal expectations. Includes notes on December and January patterns, Christmas snow, and the belief that good weather at Christmas predicts harvest outcomes. Contains several regional sayings with references to German sayings about the shepherd and stable.
Cough Cure Ad Touts Quick Relief and Carpet Output
The notice promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a fast, pleasant remedy for hacking coughs and colds, claiming it cures related illnesses and is well received by children. It also notes a New York paper reporting Smith mills Yonkers produce 7,000 yards of carpet daily, with annual output valued at six million six hundred thousand dollars. The ad lists H J Moogh and partners as suppliers.
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BR. J. Moogk
Emmert & Burrell
Win
BF. Jungkunz & Co
H. J. Moogh
Wm. F. Jungkunz & Co
New York
Smith Mills
Yonkers
Smith Aille
New Year customs in Scotland through the ages
The article traces New Year as Scotland’s main yearly festival from Druids to Christian era, noting fire rites, hogmanay celebrations, and street gift exchanges. It explains bonfires, family fortunes tied to flames, and the shift to secular observance during the Reformation, with a focus on hogmanay night gifts and songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Wales
France
Dean's Kidney Pills Promised Cure Cited by Local Users
A local testimonial column touts Dean's Kidney Pills as effective for kidney complaints. Painter Mr. Winn Trotter from 12 Tutty Street reports relief and preventive benefit, noting improved health and a healthier system after regular use. Sold for 60 cents per box by Foster-Milk Co. Buffalo, N.C., sole U.S. agents, with a reminder to demand the genuine product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Freeport
Winn
Trotter
Tutty Street
Emmett& Burrell
Foster-Milk Co
Buffalo
N. C
U.S
Good Winter Reading For Farmers in the Eastern States
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway offers free distribution of reading material to farmers who request it. Send your address to H. F. Hunter, immigration agent for South Dakota, Room 565 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois. The Sunshine State pamphlet and other informative publications aim to aid home seekers and highlight fertile western settlements.
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Chica
Milwaukee & St. Paul
H. F. Hunter
South Dakota
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Ill
Sunshine State
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Mike Mulligan
Grandad
Black Thorn
Pat
Terence McCarthy
Gossoons
Terence
Widdy
Diana
McCarthys
Eaith
P. Marthur
DeWitt
Emmer & Burrell
Wm. F. Jungkunz
Wnearly
Spain
Pramstt & Burrell
Dungkunz
Great Britain
M'Sieur
M’sieur
M. de Jormet
Va Fn Ab
THE
Blast
Calif
T A. Grady
Clark Street
Alabama
Arkansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Upper
Mississippi
Missouri
Minnesota
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Yran
EBC
MoCorxtros
REN J. Leng
Gen
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