Local Grocers Advertise meats coffee fish and tobacco
Burne Bros. offer flour at 90 cents per sack and advertise chipped dried heel ham breakfast bacon and sugar cured hams. Coffee varieties from Post & Co including Mocha Santos and Rica roasted. New catch white fish and trout in various container sizes. Burrell Bros. hawk perfumes Hackmetack price 25 and 10. Shilohs Vitalizer claims cures and a nasal injector gift with bottle. De Marchisi Milian Pile Ointment offered with no cure no pay. Swarte Bros druggists carry these items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post & Co
Santos
Rica
Serpent Skinned After Huge 20-Foot Encounter in South Africa
A South African correspondent recalls spotting a huge twenty foot python near baboons on a berg edge. The hunter describes stalking, firing, and the serpent’s dramatic death barely slowing him. the skinning effort yields a striking white hide. Local Kaftys avoid killing snakes, fearing the head’s poison, while whites take the prized skin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saya
San Francisco
Heemines
Mona
Mendocino County
Superstitions and Omens From Folk Beliefs About Luck
Dream lore and omens cover money, enemies, marriage, weather, and luck. Snakes foretell foes, horseshoes bring fortune, a rooster’s crow signals weather or company, mirrors break doom, and moonlit visions warn of sorrow or falls. Farther lines caution health, fidelity, and social outcomes.
Tommy Atkins and his Pipe in Public
The Anti-tobaccanist society voices concern over a new concession allowing smoking by Tommy Atkins in public places. The change surprises the public but is seen as a benefit to soldiers who may now smoke after hours, though it affects hat-wearing in courts and other traditional privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raney
Raney Casaimere
Boys’ and Children’s
Star Clothing House
Sneeesa
Saul
Marshal
Pion
Tommy Atkins
Ruysy
Guzette
T. Peterson
Divob
Freeport
Rituye
Drateal
WitustAnd Geer
Taproom Hours in Brewery Agreement Cause Outcry
A historic dispute reveals brewery workers barred from unlimited taproom access. The published pact limits visits to two hours daily, with penalties for exceedance. Reports describe heavy beer consumption among drivers and drinkers, raising health concerns while collectors must stay sober.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ava
Stormiong
Loimean
Erik
Overland Route Far East Dress Rehearsal Ends in Laughter
A San Francisco Chronicle note recalls an amateur performance of Tom Taylor's The Overland Route in port with sailors from a visiting warship in attendance. A violinist aboard played as the ship struck, provoking bursts of laughter when the curtain fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom ‘Taylor
Far East
Asia
Mdium
Nuissonce Vase
San Francisco Chronicle
German Mui-Vrank drink and woodfull tea idea emerge
A fragmentary 19th century notice discusses a German beverage Mui-Vrank made from Rhemish sueur and orange, with Waldmeister on top, praised for its cooling, exhilarating temperance vibe. It notes a botanic idea to dry plant leaves to create a brick brown aromatic decoction, then mentions cultivating woodfull for 50 louk purposes and lists Australasian towns with population notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Kughind
Bine
Rhine
Botunien
Termangling
Gewerbe Zeitung
Gugette
Londane Life
Winter Sleep and Hibernation Across Creatures Noted
A historical account describes animal responses to cold, including frogs resisting freezing and mammals showing torpor. Observations cover hibernation in bats, bears, and otters, noting room temperatures, body heat, and durations of wakefulness. Experiments reference human cases and caution against sensational claims while detailing physiological cooling and rewarming phenomena.
The Silent Woman and the Vow of Silence
A misread obituary notes Miss Frances Hirnelli who died at St. Luke's Hospital. Once vowed never to speak after a family feud over a sailor suitor, she remained mute for seven years until death, with only a perfume moment breaking the vow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Hirnelli
St. Luke's Hospital
Hiranuelli
Shhow
San Francisco
Trains Going West Night Freight Schedule Notes
Fragmented rail timetable lists trains going west and east with arrivals at Freeport and crewway times. Mentions 1:30 am arrival, 7:00 pm freight figures, and connections to Passaic and Blin lays with Freeport schedules embedded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lokh
Yin Os KK
Loh
LOK
G & NW
Vin M & SL
Kustern
Vin M & Src
Monroe
Wis
Cadarville
Orangeville
Oneco
Shuey’s Mills
Priebia
Genebnera Sens Wssepsnsene Hy . Eiza
Moe
Uuday
Amy Job
Freeport
Cero Wey Kiaenger
Traina
Privenger
Om AG
Ono
Finnis Central Time Card. De Lederer seeesieseens vam D MWe
Finnis in a time card record shows an entry related to De Lederer with initials and partial notes. The readable text points to a payroll or clocking item, mentioning names and a date fragment, suggesting a routine timekeeping or attendance notation in a local ledger entry.
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Reigards
Clothing House
Gi Stephenson
Reigard
Bentley
Mitchelis Corner
Meau Market
CITY
Stephenson Street
John Kercher
Mercher’s
John Ebercher
BTALE
HD Last & Co
Bornens Bros
Cameron
Burne. Bros
Buirkel Bros
Wilksbarre
Lackawanna
Schiltz
Milwaukee
Kaueeman
Gilbert
Java
Mocha Gulfeas
Paremel Bros
Floue
Guo
Born LL Bros
Burren
California
Ib Post & Co
Stephenson St
Kita
Pailé
Qwest
Burrell Bros
Sitilomn
Shiloh
Silion
Eamerr & Burren
Br Rosanke
Bosauko
de. Marchisi
Wy Swarte Bros
Jalya2dy
Larhat
South Africa
His Pipe
Intel OK
Australasia
Melbourne
Svilney
AL Ds Adeuidy
UH Runel Land
Bo, Ou
Newcrstle
Asain
Ouwakenia
Uemarth
South Amerigas
Aingly
Duneps
Suramoy
Sivlova
New York
Cuba
Kirby
Spence
George McClure
Jufiersonville
Margaret Botts
George
William
Margaret
Sunny
D. Adamson
Brewster House
Illinoia
Freeport Market
Oowior Door
Uecirceaster
Iy Os
Reed Mf
Ihiyo
Ark
Bibeln Cianl
Olout
Ingiais
Cannon Bowrds
UG Wld
Elan
Bulbibaa
Iin Ag
Ubl
Ene Heraraby
Pan
Nyt Ath
Orisa
Yne
Rook Island & Pacific Railway
Great Rock Island
Polit
Union
Tt Pomengor
Ips
Chicago
Peoria
Kunmas City
Laavenwinth
Tombon
Batwuur Chivaia
Kungaw City
Atgileun
Tatew
Canada
Adress R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
Ag’a
Freeport Postoffice
Matls
Wafullows
Ziegler
Mehusdn
Valena Atrick
Wm. Ascher
Hoebe & Movgk
Frreport, the
Japan
Andy
Hucrell Bros
Burrell Bains
Chicago & Northwestern
Holder
Finnis
Anidrast
Namie
Menduti
de Lederer Seeesieseens
Wiraight Peat
Haturday
Rina Bo
Tin
Otlengo
Tritt
Chough
Dubuqie
St. Paul
Poh
Murphy
TRE
St. Pau
Liltnals
Wisconsin
Tows
Minnesota
Dukota
Gnoane, Mwai & BT
Paro Atlway
United States
Jr Canada
Miller
V. H
Carpenter
Tt Agt
Alt
Tucker
H. Herfford
Owl
Aga’t Gon
Milwaukre
Sar Vor
Bpechil
Ohlongy
Mu- Walled & Ht
Paul Hallway
Plaase
Hig
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