Beef trust magnate aboard steamship with three rich mothers
On the steamship Bramble a famed beef trust figure Julius Smithers, valued between ten and fifty million, attracts three marriage-minded American mothers and their daughters. He courts them with merger talk and a joking stage pitch, aiming to win a bet on a future alliance. The daughters fear a payout and the passengers threaten violence. the purser hides him as the ship nears Sandy Hook.
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Mendon
Bramble
Europe
Julius Smithers
Chicago Beef Trust
Smithers
Packer
Smithrs
Beef Trust
Tombstone Trust
Mr. Smithers
United States
Neways
Buller
Sandy Hook
April Shower Brings Change in Romance for Townsman
A brisk drive with Miss Ruth Ellis ends in a rain shower and rapid shelter at a hotel. Townsend and Ellis exchange a kiss and a rushed confession after mistaken routes and a city dash, revealing a new bond as a sister’s misdirection clears the path for an evening together.
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Eilis
Mr. Townsend
Washington
Jenniie
Townsend
Miss Hills
Miss Hillis
Edith
Mexico
Harry
Harry Townsend
Baptism in Morocco Tradition for Infant Christening
Describes Moroccan custom for a newborn baptism on the seventh day. Family presents a basket with infant items, henna, eggs, and pigeons. A Shereef sacrifices a sheep, recites blessing words, then the child is washed, henna applied, khol used, and dressed in fine robes before bed.
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Morocco
Setting Mother Right and the Bashful Kiss
A Detroit Free Press excerpt presents a mother accusing her daughter of being kissed by a bashful suitor last evening. The daughter denies, insisting the kiss was only witnessed by the mother, who claims certainty based on what she saw.
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Detroit Free Press
Nutmeg origins and processing details from nut tree to oil
The nutmeg tree yields fruit the size of a pear with a mace pocket. The nutmegs are dried for two months, shells broken, inferior nuts set aside for oil, and dishonest growers may steep them to extract oil, producing worthless wooden nutmegs if no oil appears.
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Asia
Africa
America
Hat Advice Sparks $8 Saving at Millinery
A Kenwood man accompanying his wife to a millinery shop faced a hat choice between a $24 and a $16 design. After trying both on and viewing from all angles, he advised the first style seemed more stylish while the second made her look younger, saving $8 in the process.
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Kenwood
George
Chicago Record-Herald
Short Lived Insecta: The brief life of a mushroom pest
The article notes how certain insects prey on mushrooms whose life spans only hours. Eggs are laid on the fungi while juvenile, and grubs hatch and mature quickly, sometimes laying eggs before the mushroom dies, with a total life of about forty eight hours from emergence.
Newbro's Herpicide touted as cure for dandruff
In a promotional note Joseph Emmert, special agent for The Ger. Co. of Detroit, claims Newbro's Herpicide kills the dandruff germ at the root of the hair and stops itching and hair loss. Send 1 cent stamps for a sample to Detroit.
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Adam Uved
Newbro
de Co
Detroit
Mich
Joseph Emmert
Excursion Tickets to Chautauqua Assembly Sold At Reduced Rates
Excursion tickets to the Chautauqua Assembly at Janesville Wisconsin via the North Western Line will be offered at reduced rates on two dates July 27 and August 1. Return validity extends to August 6 inclusive. Agents Volcaso and North Western Rp- T-lsdw8-l
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Chautauqua Assembly
Janesville
Wis
North-Western
Pale Ad Hunte
Seichente Qn
Valcaso
North-Western Rp
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Dandruff
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J. F. Fair
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S.S.S
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Minneapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
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