The Tribune Offers A Republican Standard Newspaper Value
The New York Tribune promotes itself as a representative Republican paper on national issues offering daily weekly semi weekly and quarterly subscriptions. It features war stories weather reviews market reports science and women’s pages, with illustrated supplements and a regular moral article.
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New York Tribune
Republican Party
Daily Tribune
Tribune
Lve
Spain
London
Paris
Tribune Sunshine Society
Seri
Woolly Tribune
Ann
El-Attache
Out in the Fields with God in Verse
Fragmentary poetic lines describe fields above the Ava with wind, birds, bees, and hay. The speaker finds peace and thoughts of God among clover, hay, corn, and poppies, contrasting fear with faith in nature.
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Ava
Ah Lon and the Hidden World of Chinatown
Ah Lon, a 16 year old girl living with her poor mother in Chinatown, grows up amid opulent restaurants and harsh realities. She learns that her father is dead or missing after joining a secret society, while her mother’s warnings about marriage and danger loom over their fragile life.
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Ah Lon
China Town
Josshouse
Eyrie
Chinatown
San Francisco
Home Seekers Prices Set for Northwestern Line Excursions
The North Western Line offers home seeker excursion tickets February 21 March seventh and twenty first to many Western and Southern points at low rates with favorable time limits. For tickets and full information apply at all Chicago North Western locations.
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North-Western Line
Chicago North- Western
Vicksburg
Interstate Farmers’ Institute
Icksburg
Miss
Pointa Imminols
Ferry
Dubuque
Iowa
Daughter Faces Truth Of Forbidden Father In Chinatown Tale
In a tense scene Ah Lon confronts a brutal family secret as her mother Wo Ling plans to shelter her aging, opium-ruined father Wong Tee. The drama unfolds with a looming visit and a harsh caution about a life of hardship and vengeance in the London–like Chinatown setting.
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Ah Lon
Josshouse
Wo Ling
Wong Tee
China
Heten
Gertrude Atherton
Modern novelists accused of ignoring births in favor of deaths
The Medical Press and Circular slams contemporary writers for omitting births and overemphasizing deaths in fiction. It cites Anthony Hope and his Prisoner of Zenda for five deaths per chapter and no births, contrasting with Dickens who depicted ample births in David Copperfield and other works.
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Nature
Anthony Hope
Dickens
David Copperfield
Mrs. Gamp
Betsy Prng
Ancient Rome’s Skyward Struggles and Limiting Towers
Lanciani notes that Cesars era Rome faced building height limits of 60 feet for fronts while builders raised rear sections to excess. Laws fluctuated, ceilings grew low, and structures possibly reached 180 feet, with people unable to stand upright in some rooms according to Green Bag.
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Lanciani
Rome
Nighttime in Prondlebed Town as Dream Sleep Enters
A poetic reminiscence to Norman C. Schilchter in Youth Companion describes Prondlebed Town with towers and streets lit by white blue glow. It portrays a cityscape at night where innocence rests, mothers pray for sleeping husbands, and the town becomes a quiet, dreamlike haven after dark.
Childs Winter Cloak and Oddments Then and Now
A reader offers a small sewing guide for a light blue elderdown flannel winter cloak for a child with a yoke cape and lace edging, plus a mob cap for cold climates. It also notes a sailor blouse with a bow at the collar and advises on avoiding la grippe with One Minute Cough Cure. The piece blends fashion tips, a medicinal ad, and a travel anecdote about a Buddhist priest in Bangkok.
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la Grippe
A. J. Sheperd
Agricultural _ Journal and Advertiser
Elden, Mo
A J. Moogh
Wm. Jungkunz
Grain-O touted as coffee substitute and wholesome grain drink
The ad promotes Grain-O as a healthful, appetizing grain drink costing about one quarter of coffee. It emphasizes it as a genuine food beverage for nourishment and notes it is recommended by doctors. Also mentions utility crews addressing frost-related gas service issues and urges customers to report unsatisfactory gas supply for prompt repair.
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Tue Freeport Lient & Fue Co
Pants prices from suits of this season sale
Men’s pants priced at 1.95 and 2.95 amid season’s suit sales. Ding a wanton Nernews offering bargain attire notes.
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Wanton Nernews
Southern Railway and Queen & Crescent Route Travel Ad
The Southern Railway with the Queen & Crescent Route markets fast rail service from Louisville and Cincinnati to Tennessee Alabama Georgia Florida Louisiana North and South Carolina with connections to Havana Nassau and Key West Double daily trains with through sleepers 24 hours to Jacksonville 64 hours to Havana Tickets sold via Southern Railway agents and listed contacts for travel assistance and rates.
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The
Southern Railway
Queen & Crescent
Louisville
Cincinnati
Tennssee
Alaama
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
North
South Carolina
Havana
Cuba
Nassau
N. P
Key West
Jacksonville
Southern
C. A. Bairp
J.C. Beas, Jr
N. W
Adams St
Chicago
H. Tavyrog
Freeport Tax Notice From Town Collector
The taxes for 1898 are due and payable at the collector's office in the rear of the First National Bank. Prompt payment is appreciated. T. D. Hrasz, Collector for the town of Freeport.
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Lrst National Bank
T. D. Hrasz
Freeport
Aunt Ria Trig and the Village’s Quiet Compassion
An elderly paralytic Aunt Ria Trig spends years in a bed but remains integral to a close village family. Neighbors, nieces, and a growing circle of Black youths learn, laugh, and read from her primer, while two young men from another city build her a rolling chair desk. A missionary praises her influence, and a message ends that work comes in many forms and wages come at day’s end.
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Ria
Aunt 'Rin
Tom
Ben
Bens
Toms
Afen
There Is No Question About Foley's Kidney Cure
An advertisement extols Foley's Kidney Cure as universally reliable for kidney and bladder diseases. It claims the product is endorsed by H. J. Moogh, Swarts & Fleck, and notes an unrelated Italy bird-hunting scene where hundreds of migratory swallows are trapped for food along the Adriatic coast, implying illicit nets hide from officials.
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Foley
H. J. Moogh
Swarts & Fleck
Adriatic Sea
Foley remedy praised for coughs and early cures
An advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar as an honest remedy for consumptives, offering comfort and relief in worst cases and a cure in early stages. Another notice reports Hamburg gaining automobile cabs over horse cabs, claiming faster service and crowd handling, charging 20 cents per 1200 yards and 25 cents per extra 400 with daily cab costs of 6 to 9 dollars.
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Foley
H. J. Moogh
Swarts & Fleck
Hamburg
The Most Fatal Disease Kidney Trouble Warning
The article warns that kidney disease is the leading killer among adults and urges immediate use of Foley's Kidney Cure with a guarantee or money back. It is endorsed by H. J. Moogk Swarts & Fleck.
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Foley
H. J. Moogk, Swarts, & Fleck
Grand Excursion to Old Mexico From Chicago
Grand excursion to Old Mexico departs Chicago on Thursday February 9 1899 under personal direction of Mr J J Grafton. Entire trip on a special train with dining car includes Mardi Gras in New Orleans and key points of old New Mexico. All express included in ticket. Limited spaces, call or write Chicago and North Western Railway agents for pamphlets and information.
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Old Mexico
Chicago
J. J. Grafton
New Orleans
Old New Mexico
Chicago & North-Western Ra Y
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed For Kidney Trouble
A Freeport janitor, L Underwood of 61 Brick Street, says Doan's Kidney Pills cured his persistent backache and dizziness. He praises the remedy after trying others, noting relief from kidney and urinary symptoms and recommending the product as the best kidney treatment. Sold by Emmett & Burrell's drug store, 60 cent box. FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Doan
Freeport
L. ‘Underwood
Brick Street
Dean
Emmett & Burrell
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
U. S
Doan’s
Dressmaking for children at 89 Douglas Avenue
A local dressmaker advertises children’s apparel as a specialty, inviting inquiries at the address 89 Douglas Avenue.
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Douglas Ave
Mardi Gras Excursion Rates From Chicago and North Western
Excursion tickets to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Mobile offered February 6 to 12 at reduced rates with return until February 28. Tickets also available daily at reduced rates to major winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Inquiries via Chicago and North Western Railway ticket agents.
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New Orleans
Mobile
United States
Mexico
Chicago & North
Western Re
Hair Work in All Its Branches at Mrs A C Thomas
The War is Over Cuba becomes a major tourist draw this winter with American visitors expected. The Chicago Great Western Railway offers low round trip Havana tickets via Galveston New Orleans Mobile or Tampa with optional return through Vera Cruz and Mexico City for Tampa travelers. Contact Maple Leaf agents or F H Lord general passenger and tickets agent 118 Adams St Chicago for details.
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Chicago, Great Western Ry
Havana
Galveston
Texas
New Orleans
Mobile
Ala
Tampa
Fla
Vera Cruz
City
Mexico
Maple Leaf
F. FH. Lord
Adams St
Chicago
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