Artist in Paris Solves a Hidden Inheritance Mystery
American artist Mark Hammond in Paris reads an ad about Marcelline Cutter. He discovers a street-name clue, locates Marcelline’s daughter Mabel Cutter, learns of a rich English brother Hugh Cutter, and unravels a family inheritance race. Hammond then marries Mabel Cutter after resolving the lineage. Grace Ada Howe.
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Hammond
Marcelline
Paria
America
Paris
Marcelline Cutter
Rue du Geindre
Church of St. Sulpice
Marcellina Cutter
Mabel Cutter
Marecelline Seymour
Edgar Cutter
Cutter
Seymours
Cutters
New York
Hugh
England
Colorado
Marcelline Seymour
Hugh Cutter
Utter
DeWitt Salve Recommended for Piles by Local Druggist
DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is especially recommended for piles. Sold by Wm. F. Jungkunz, druggist, 85 Stephenson St.
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DeWitt
Wm. F. Jungkunz
Stephenson St
The Bushido Doctrine in Japanese Civilization
Hydesabure Ohashi discusses in Leslie's Weekly how bushido shapes Japanese values. He notes it dictates harsh self sacrifice through hara kiri for offenses, venerates the Mikado's gifts as duties, and frames battlefield death as the path to Shinto heaven, while Buddhists and educated classes may be atheistic or agnostic.
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Japan
London in 1700 a nation of grim streets and public punishment
A Saturday Review excerpt recalls London around 1700 as a small city of about 600000 with rough roads and decaying sights. Punishments like hangings and the pillory persisted, while drains and churchyards were foul and crowded. Public entertainments included bear and bull baiting and boxing, and even royal watchers attended executions at Tyburn.
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London
Southwark
London Bridge
Temple ‘Bar
Tyburn
Saturday Review
Lions Favor Lavender Scent In Zoo Experiments
The Spectator notes a tester offered animals at a zoological garden lavender water on cotton wool. Lions and leopards reacted with evident pleasure as the scent was introduced to their cages, suggesting perfume appeals beyond scent-based hunting instincts.
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Zoological Garden
Gilles of Binche Carnival Parade Dance With Oranges
Among Europe’s picturesque festivities the Binche Gilles, 200 men in feathered headdresses and lace costumes with bells, march from the appointed spot to the town hall and shower spectators with oranges. At the town hall the public joins in, and about 5 000 people gather to dance around the Grande place in a festive scene.
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Europe
Gilles
Binche
Hainault
Adniser Defined at Supper Table in Witty Exchange
In a dining room scene, Dolly asks what adniser is. The mother explains, in a playful tone, that it is a man who believes his wife’s hat should not cost more than his own, while her husband glances across the table.
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Dolly
Ad Iniser
Pure blooded terrier costs and Wall street pointer chat
A brief exchange notes Miss Fancier a pure bred terrier and Buttons. Jacek remarks the Wall street pointer given by a friend is much more expensive according to a Puck comment.
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Buttons
Jacek
Wall Street
Puck
Cause For Alarm Pennibus Poor Scribbles
In the Atlanta Constitution, ink and wit collide as Pennibus fears losing his clever edge. Editors note that rivals in Inkerton imitate his humor, signaling a drift in originality and looming creative pressure on the humorist.
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Pennibus
Inkerton
Chagran- Wnes
Atlanta Constitution
Family Objections Respectful in Old Friend Conversation
Dialog excerpt shows an old friend questioning a marriage to Mr Nicefello. Sweet Girl recalls her fiancé’s father’s objection and a potential shilling cut. The exchange ends with a reassessment of prior feelings and a hint of hopeful sentiment.
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Mr. Nicefello
Ciood News
Anger begins in fully and ends in re pentance Pythagoras
A compact aphorism attributed to Pythagoras noting that anger starts intense and fades into repentance, reflecting on human emotion and moral consequence.
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Pythagoras
Daily Journal delivery offer in city wide service
The Daily Journal announces home delivery across the city for 10e per week offering convenient access to local news for all residents.
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Daily Journal
Seed selection and seeders aid Kentucky tobacco crop
Tobacco expert W. Scherffius urges Kentucky farmers to use high vitality seed and practical air separator devices to remove light chaffy tobacco seeds. He describes a simple foot bellows powered apparatus, its construction, and operation for efficient seed cleaning and plant vigor.
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Scherffius
Tobacco Exper
Kentucky
Bureau of Plant Industry
Apple bitter rot fungus infection spread by cankers
An article describes bitter rot of apples caused by a specific fungus that infects developing fruit in summer and autumn. The fungus overwinters in bark cankers on limbs and can spread to fruit via rainwater splashed spores, with infection concentrated beneath limb cankers and forming cone shaped areas. It also notes ruminant feed experiments comparing corn and ensilage effects on weight gain in two year old steers.
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Finels Experiment Station
Raising a herd best option over dispersal sale
Choice cows are rarely affordable except at dispersal sales. Owners value them and refuse to sell. Therefore the only way to secure a satisfactory herd is to raise it, which is both more satisfactory and more economical.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers Pills Sold Here
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are praised as the best pills known and offered by Wa F Jungkunz, a local druggist located at 85 Stephenson Street.
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DeWitt
F. Jungkunz
Stephenson St
Test of Reading: Has He Read the English Classics
The San Francisco Bulletin questions whether a self professed well read man has read major English authors and works from Milton and Dryden to Defoe and Sterne. It argues true culture requires firsthand knowledge of a broad canon including Spenser Browne Donne and Johnson among others.
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Milton
Dryden
Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser
Sir Thomas Browne
John Donne
Jeremy Traylor
Fuller
South
Barrow
Swift
Johnson
Burke
Bishop Berkeley
Daniel Defoe
Richardson
Fielding
Smollett
Sterne
Hume
Robertson
Gibbon
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Shelley
Jane Austen
Maria Edgeworth
Disraeli
San Francisco Bulletin
Jack Tar's Spree at Sailors Home Nets $700
A Brooklyn Sailors Home story recounts a petty cash caper as a drunken seaman retrieves his balance after a night out. He claims $48 was overpaid, insisting the second $2 is all he needs, noting he had as much fun with the two dollars as with $507. The superintendent disputes the accounting.
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Brooklyn
Navy Boys
Jack Tar
New York Press
NO MONOPOLY OF BRAINS IN THIS AGE OF OPPORTUNITY
Opinion notes the decline of so called great men and the old monopolies of brains. It argues many capable individuals now exist, making great work without fame, and claims past achievements depended on the ignorance of the masses. Ends with a quotation from the Saturday Evening Post.
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Saturday Evening Post
Elephants of Burma Used For Work And Bathing Rites
In Tada Burma elephants labor throughout the day hauling timber and other loads, a single elephant doing the work of about forty men. Their main pastime is bathing, with keepers riding atop the animals as they swim the lake or river, the keeper kept dry above the water.
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Burma
Tada
Autograph Request Turns to Cash in Public Exchange
A bustling public figure is asked for an autograph and responds with a sly demand for a 10 guinea check payable to his order. The humorous exchange hints at the era's money-driven culture, suggesting the autograph would be endorsed and returned via the bank.
Baby inherits whooping cough tale from mother
Detroit Free Press recounts a mother explaining her baby contracted whooping cough, noting she had the illness at the same age as the child. She suggests the infection may be inherited rather than caught from others.
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Detroit Free Press
Duke Bride Appeal and Patent Remedy Ad Copy
A humorous exchange about marrying a duke appears alongside an advertisement for Ely's Dream Balm promising relief from cold in the head hay fever and nasal catarrh. The ad claims direct action on inflamed membranes, cleansing soothing healing, with one trial convincing, price 50 cents and mail order from Ely Brothers New York.
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Ely
Price
Ely Bros
Warren St
New York
Watering the Stock and the Hot Water Sell
A burlesque tale shows a farmer confronting a fake broker in a bucket shop who boasts watered stocks are sold after a hot water process. The joke plays on pretended safety measures and stock-watered schemes amid a comic misunderstanding.
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Kansasity
Murder distinctions in Germany and duel penalties
The London Chronicle explains German homicide law distinguishing premeditated murder punished by death from intentional homicide with no deliberation punished by five to fifteen years penal servitude. Dueling deaths are treated as dueling, carrying fifteen years detention in a fortress.
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Germany
London Chronicle
Ruffled His Feathers, Artist and Friend Debate Artwork
In a humorous London Standard snippet, an artist praises a painting as a battlefield scene while a friend insists it is a basket of fruit. The exchange centers on misreading the scene and the pride in the artist’s work.
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Paul Rubens
London Standard
Reduction tale from the Chicago News
An old nag and a friendly goose share a humorous exchange on a hill journey. The nag notes the challenge of pulling elopers up to the parsonage age, but says it will be easier on the return. The goose asks why and the nag explains that after leaving the parsonage two will be made one.
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Elopers
Chicago News
Editor thanks but cannot use drawings
The editor expresses gratitude for previewing drawings but declines to publish them, noting softly that the editor said Take them away, Pimple, they make me sick. A separate note mentions American blooded milk cows being exported to Japan.
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Office
Office Boy
Pimple
London
Tatler
Japan
Maintaining His Dignity in a Tall Building
A New York Evening writer notes the elevator boy’s strict policy of silence and the maid’s frustration as a guest waits at the door. The exchange highlights class tension in a city apartment house, with the elevator boy insisting he never answers unless he hears clearly, then responding with a simple What.
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New York Evening Post
Percy
Relief for Stomach Trouble Promised by Kodol Ad
An old advertisement urges prompt stomach relief and recommends taking Kodol for Dyspepsia and Indigestion after meals. It endorses Wm. F. Jungkunz, a druggist at 85 Stephenson St, as the seller.
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Wm. F. Jungkunz
Stephenson
Maple Leaf Route Timetable East and West Bound Services
East bound trains from Freeport and Rock Island divisions list arrivals and departures with connections to Beloit Janesville Milwaukee Madison and points north. West bound services include Chicago Milwaukee Des Moines Omaha and Kansas City routes with hotel parlor and buffet car notes. Stage connections from Interurban station operate for both directions with through baggage handling.
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Omaha Tim
Dodge
Dubuque
Omaha Lim
Paul Lim
Decatur
CAL
Madison District
Enger
Dodgevili
E District
East Bound
Lyv
Freep't
Chiic'ge
West Bound
Ly.Chic'ge
Freep
Rockford
Beloit
Janesville
Milwaukee
Madison
Belvidere
Sycamore
DeKalb
Harvard
Spring Valley
Pachoc Coasu
Davenport
Chicago
Rock Island
Milwauke
Kansas City
Omaha
Cedar Rapida
North
South Dakota
J. B. Sweeatt
St Paul
Minneapolis
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Kansas City Express
Ally
St Joseph
Ft. Dodge
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Want
Earth
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Samos
Galilei
Copernicus
New York American
People's Column
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al Securities
Enquire
LL. M. Journal
WaAxrey
U.S. Army
Cube
Philippines
First St
Dixon
West State St
A& New York
Aurora
State St
Fox Sale
Inquire
B. Kling
Stearns & Zipf, Inners
Ulnatf Oraale
Lena
H. A. Breed
Stockton
Aere Farina
Lincaster Township
Aquire FL Kortemeter
Fanpire Street
Ohotee
J. I. Yovom
Springville
Towa
Galena Ave
A. L. Babcock
Spring St
Paules
Union Nt
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Bik St
Win
Walton Nephews
Rachie Street
Urist and Board
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Washington Street
M. K Bradshaw
Galen Avenue
Galena Street
Taquire Ba S. Brown
St. Diauire
Lemon Street
Williatis St. Gen
Lichterteryger
Bath and Gas
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Hardin Street
Faquire New Pho
Led
Chic Vago St
Pelek
Clark Avenue
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Gay
Deliv
Business Directory
Illinois
BANKS
D.C. Stover
H.H. Antrim
R. G. Shumway
Henry Baler
Dorman
Ass't
State Bank
A. & Held
J. Fred Smith
Fred W. Hoefer
H. H Antrim
J. H. Arealy
D. C. Stover
Fred Dorman
W. H.ner
Henry Baier
Homer F. Aspinwall
Savings Department
German Bank
O. Collmann
J. S. Collman
L. R. Jungkunz
A. Fef Schulte
D. B. Schulte
Wm. Trembor
August Bergman
W. T. Radleigh
W. N. Cronkrite
John & Collman
First National Bank
O. B. Sawer
Erestianem
Jefin Burrell
Jose A Peesmert
C. H. Putttee
M. V. B. Elson
L. Z. Farwell
V. Pres
D. F. Graham
Second National Bank
J. F. Fair
Reuben Siegfried
J. L. Meyers
J. H. Graham
J. N. Galloway
F. E. Schaeffer
H. S. Webster
E. Mayer
Union Loan & Building Association
First Motora Ece
FF. F. Schaeffer
C. J. Wells
John J. Trunck
J. F. Kramer
W. J. Schwarz
H. 8.Ebster
Attorneys AT Law
Freeport, N
R. P. Eckert
Ayp Law
Stephenson Street
Freeport, Illinois
Wagner
Anzelger
Chicago and
Spring Streets
C. A. Ruthe
Carpenter and Contractor
Douglas Ave
Omive
R.R
Illinois Central
R. R
John F. Daly
R. Island
Freeport Ee Ai
Caruo Carro Ee
Depar
Chicago Great Western
South Export
Chicago Express
Oeres
Forreston
Ee Forreston
Rockford & Interurban Rwwy
Elgin
Neesh
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