Love Binds Rivals in Salvation Army Street Tale
In a sweltering city, Mather a factory foreman, drawn to Sister Ruth at a Salvation Army street meeting, becomes entangled as she begs mercy for a drunken assailant. He confronts her with truth of his life, asking her to leave the corps, while she reveals she loves him and is ready to trust.
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Ken Matic
Ieatreet
Ike
Ravenue
Salvation Army
Gerel
Mather
Hin
AYOSC
Uth
Ruth
Ruth Consiue
Atathar
Ile
Ruth Standig
Corps
The Roman Die Speech On Wichita Knife Attack
A Wichita lawyer known for loud political speeches is fatally stabbed during a street harangue. He collapses on a billiard table as reporters arrive, delivering a dramatic last line as a doctor confirms the knife wound.
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Wichita
Saturday Evening Post
Marshall Field’s Advice to a Bond Salesman
In spring 1905 Marshall Field dismissed a young bond salesman from a New York house who offered Pennsylvania railroad guaranteed bonds yielding under four percent. Field said such bonds were too good for him and warned against investments in fully developed property, preferring growth with risk. He noted his estate would invest surplus with growth potential.
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Marshall Field
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Myfield
Field
The Dreaded Mongoose Sparks Government Action
The article describes agriculture officials warning against allowing mongooses, noting they kill snakes and pests but also threaten ground nesting birds, lizards, and frogs. It recounts a San Francisco incident where a mongoose was seized, killed, and criticized as a pest. Authorities warn Jamaica’s experience shows potential crop damage if the species enters the country.
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Department of Agriculture
Yyhis
Merriam
San Francisco
Nnl
Jamaica
Washington Star
French Authors Earn Wide incomes in Modern Era
Marcel Prevost, president of the Society of French Authors, notes in France four or five writers now earn $20,000 yearly, about ten more receive half that, and many succeed with $3,000 to $4,000. A century ago unbound novels sold for $1 to $1.50, but serial stories and cheap editions boosted profits. Hugo, Zola, Rostand saw large sales, with Sappho yielding Daudet $60,000 in book form and total earnings rising to $168,000 from newspapers and stage royalties.
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Marcel Prevost
Society of French Authors
Irance
Emile de Girardin
Balzac
Hugo
Zola
Rostrand
Sappho
Daudet
Feullicions
Sim
Organ Grinder's Trick In Drug Store Scare
Italian hurdy gurdy player curses clerk after asked about sick folks in block. Clerk says no and reveals feared plan by druggists to lure dying neighbors to the window for entertainment until silence is bought. Neighborly suspicion grows in New York Sun note.
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New York Sun
Remarkable four–set lock invention by Neuman Tobias
Kingston Jamaica inventor Neuman Tobias unveils a lock using four sets of twenty four alphabet letters or symbols to spell sentences in various languages. With a proposed combination number near 3 030 308 020 02 ag0, cracking it would require about 96 90 278 years 260 days 30 minutes six seconds at 60 attempts per minute, leaving no time for eating or sleeping.
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Neuman Tobias
Kingston
Jamaica
Chicago News
Ants defend nest against rattlesnake in bold colony attack
A hunter recounts how a colony of red ants defended their nest by attacking a rattlesnake drawn to their home. They waited as the snake moved across the mound and a large ant struck, followed by the entire colony joining in, driving the intruder away.
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Kansas City Journal
Ross
Minister Visits Parishioner With Quirky Speech
A Perthshire minister visits a much sicken parishioner in Dundee Advertiser style, the strong man scolding fate as he greets the clergyman with odd phrases. The dialogue shifts between humor and grim illness paralleling a grim wish for healing and relief.
Bride and Groom Begin Married Life Quietly
In a quiet house the wedding aftermath settles in the parlor as Mother and Aunt Mary discuss the couple’s future. The mother expresses brave tears and belief they are well matched, studious, and suited for happiness, noting the bride’s choice reads Stevenson’s Travels With a Donkey on their journey.
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Mother
Aunt Mary
Mary
Stevenson
Give Your Horse More Water, A Hydration Guide
The Outing Magazine urges prioritizing water for horses before meals, indoors, with no night lights until every animal has had ample water. It notes tricks to tempt shy drinkers with flavored waters and advises allowing water after feeding if not previously deprived, highlighting nervous horses that prefer night hours for nourishment.
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Outing Magazine
Nelson In Wolsey's Tomb At St Pauls Cathedral
Lora Nelson's sarcophagus in St Pauls cathedral is described as a secondhand national tomb. It was carved for Cardinal Wolsey who hoped to be buried at Windsor but died in disgrace leaving the tomb empty until Nelson's death, when it housed the hero of Trafalgar.
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Nelson
Wolsey
Lora Nelson
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Cardinal Wolsey
Windsor Castle
Windsor
Old Time Traitor Sentence Drawn and Hanged
From Pike's History of Crimes volume 1 page 246 a historic court sentence orders drawn and hanged for treason, and the heart bowels and entrails torn out and burned to ashes scattered to the four winds, with the body butterward cut into four quarters.
Disintegrated Group Cartoon Quip From St Louis Post Dispatch
A fragment from a St Louis Post Dispatch column recounts a humorous exchange about a girl fleeing with her father discovering the elopement. The girl bursts into tears the young man falls apart and the old man explodes with rage, metaphorically to blame them both.
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Fee
Louis Post-Dispatch
Just the Thing for Fifty Years of Nuptial Life
A humorous exchange in a bookstore about a suitable gift for an elderly couple. The clerk quickly suggests A Half Century of Contact from Life magazine, implying a light, nostalgic tone that keeps the heart young despite age.
Arrangement For Transferring Power From Wind Wheel
Description of a wind wheel power transfer using iron elbow joints to drive a pump. Downward wheel stroke yields equal pump stroke. joints align at right angles to arms. The arm AB length can vary. long arms require hinged braces to prevent bending. Original drawing over twenty five feet. American Agriculturist.
Growing Cucumbers Field Culture as Practiced
Lown Farmer-Land emphasizes rich soil and heavy manure at planting. Cucumbers are sown in six foot apart hills with ample seed and careful thinning. Keep weeds down until vines cover the ground. avoid disturbing young shoots. Insects and mildew are managed by wood ashes and Bordeaux mixture or potassium sulfide, applied promptly to protect foliage.
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Iowa
Tyre
Orange
Judd Parmer
Home garden boosts family food with timely harvests
A half acre devoted to varied crops can yield $100 worth of vegetables annually. Fresh produce loses flavor and value if not used within hours after gathering, so a home garden under careful management keeps family supplies clean and readily available, even in rainy spells.
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W. A. Beattie
Bulky Feed Benefits Hoyas and Pork Production
A report notes that bulk in animal feed aids digestion beyond nutrition. Pigs need less bulky feed than other livestock, yet hay feeding shows value for pork production. Experiments with herbivores on non-concentrated feed reveal digestive benefits, per G. M. Rommel.
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Hoyas
G. Mf. Rommel
Dry hydrate of lime as an insecticide
Dry hydrate of lime formed by shaking fresh lime with minimal water to a fine powder is used as an insecticide. It remains caustic and fatal to larvae of the asparagus beetle and slugs on currants, pears, plums, and other moist-surfaced larvae. Applications are best done in the morning when plants and insects are still damp.
Foresect Troubles Unscrambled Rural Almanac Note
An archival note describes preparing a pest remedy using unslaked lime, cabbase wort, sulphur flour, tea berries, and cucumber bugs as ingredients in a rural garden context.
Kennedy Laxative Honey and Tar cough syrup claim
Sworn statement by manufacturers states Kennedy Laxative Honey and Tar protects users from opiates in the cough syrup that claims to drive the cold out of the system. Sold by all druggists.
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Kennedy
Hecuralan Rates Apply on Several Rail Lines
Rates now in effect on the Milwaukee Road routes including Burlington Aikborn Delavan Faytane Kangasville Kilbourne Madison McFarland Stoughton Walworth and Waukesha. Good returning up to September. J B Sweatt, Agent.
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Aikborn
Delavan
Fay Tane Kangasville
Kilbourne
Madison
McFarland
Stoughton
Walworth
Waukesha
J. B. Sweatt
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