Feeding circus meals prove a colossal daily task
The commissary chief in charge of feeding a 1000-person circus crew describes the immense daily logistics. Twenty cars, seventy five staff, two dining cars, and a luncheon car coordinate breakfast to dinner within tight gaps. He details ticketed meal constraints, fast setup, and careful sourcing of meat, bread, coffee, milk, and produce for both humans and animals.
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Comminmissary
Ringlings
A. T. Webb
Chicago
State Street
Skidoo for Phone Number 23 Causes Perplexed Nuisance
Cleveland residents with telephone numbers ending in 23 report being harassed by callers saying Skidoo. Officials, businesspeople, and an operator share annoyance and confusion as the slang phrase repeats up and down exchanges.
Scioto Mills Local Notes June 12
From Our Own Correspondent Scioto Mills June 12 W 46 Meads and wife hosted Mr and Mrs Fred Hickstine of Lancaster last Wednesday J H Britt and family visited Cedarville Sunday Annie Lawyer of Freeport Nellie Rigney and brother Michael Lynn Bennett and George Schoenhart spent Sunday at Madison Wisconsin with Stephen Rigney Cullen C Warner returned from the West B F Meads and wife of Freeport with Alvin Meads and family Nora Steel is out again after illness Robert Wachlin and wife welcome a nine pound baby boy born Friday June 5 Chas Smith and family BE B Lund and family and Gordon Bennett attended Erin township Sunday school convention at Eleroy Mr and Mrs Charles Stanton rented Miss Carrie Wilcoxons house to begin housekeeping W G Meads and wife spent Sunday and Monday with relatives at Lancaster
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Scioto Mills
Meads
Fred Hickstine
Lancaster
J. H. Britt
Cedarville
Annie Lawyer
Freeport
Nellie Rigney
Michael
Lynn Bennett
George Schoenhart
Madison, Wis
Stephen Rigney
Cullen C. Warner
West
Charles Stanton
Carrie Wilcoxon
W. G. Meads
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Turcough Syrup Ad
An old time drug advertisement promotes Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Turcough Syrup as a non opiate remedy for constipation. It claims availability at all druggists and emphasizes that the product contains no opiates.
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Kennedy
Housekeeper Wanted for Small Family
Advertises a weekly wage of four dollars for a competent steady housekeeper to plan and perform all duties including washing and ironing for a small family. Good home and treatment promised. Apply at Anzieger office.
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Anzieger Office
Very Low Excursion Through Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo
Very Low Excursion dates to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo via the North Western Line in effect from July 10 to 15 inclusive with favorable return limits on account of Grand Lodge B. P. O. E. Two fast trains through to Colorado daily, only one night. For information apply to Chicago & North Western RY agents.
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North-Western Line
Grand Lodge B. P.O. E
Colorado
Chicago & North-Western RY
Statistician’s Curious Observations On Clashing Realities
A witty collection of absurd correlations contrasts scents from Chicago stockyards with global scales. The piece jokes about emigration dirt, wheat spanning Everest, Cuba fitting between Florida and Yucatan, and vast, impossible monetary and logistical hypotheticals.
This Date in History Highlights Selected Events
A chronology lists notable dates from 1530 to 1905 including the Diet of Augsburg Maryland charter 1688 Winfield Scott birth 1786 and 1867 repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law with other events such as battles births deaths assassinations and policy actions across centuries.
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Augsburg
Maryland
Winfield Scott
Ghent
Thomas Arnold
Hampton
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Gridley Bryant
First Railroad
America
United States Senate
James A. Bayard
United States
Delaware
Prendergast
Carter Harrison
Chicago
Uganda
Central Africa
Faure
France
McKinley
Nan Patterson
Caesar’’ Young
New York
Premier Delyannis
Greece
Damascus Sunday School Holds Children’s Day Program
From Our Own Correspondent Harlem Corners June 11 Damascus Sunday school observed children's day with a good program by the little folks. Mgr. and Mrs. Willard Harris of Lena visited their son Frank and family. Several locals attended the Woodmen picnic in Freeport. a correction notes George Brenon of Lena as misidentified as George Perrin in Freeport papers. Freddy and Edith Panska of Centennial were in town. Miss Maizie Farringer of Lena stayed with Misses Ella and Mamie Heaney. Peter McGurk of Kent visited J. C. Sullivan and family. John Metz of Centennial called on Sunday. Rev. McGilvary preached at Damascus Sunday morning.
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Harlem Corners
Damascus
Mgr
Willard Harris
Lena
Frank
Freeport
George Perrin
George Brenon
Freddy
Edith Panska
Centennial
Burg
Maizie Farringer
Ella
Mamie Heaney
Peter McGurk
Kent
J. C. Sullivan
John Metz
Rev. McGilvary
Electric Bitters touted as cure for multiple ailments
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a remedy for stomach and liver troubles and other ailments. S.A. Brown of Bennettsville, S. C., reports their wife recovered from long dyspepsia and a torpid liver. The product claims to cure chills, fever, malaria, biliousness, back pain, kidney and bladder issues. Sold by Jos. Emmert, druggist.
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India
S.A. Brown
Bennettsville
S. C
Jos
Emmert
Enterprising Botanists in the Sixteenth Century Revival
The Great Revival of the Sixteenth Century spurred a renewed botanical pursuit. European plants multiplied after the America discoveries spurred new study, aided by many traveling scholars like Bauhin, L Obel, Caesalpinus, L Ecluse, Mattioli, Gessner, Fuchs and Alpinus. They collected in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Bohemia, Egypt, and the Levant.
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America
Europe
Loincer
L’obel
Caesalpinus
L’ecluse
Mattioli
Caspar
John Baubin
Conrad Gesner
Lena
Leonard
Fuchs
Prosper Alpinus
Dodoers
Caspar Bauhin
Germany
France
Italy
Explaining the River on Fire Expression
The article explains how the saying set the river on fire originated from an old English sieve method. It traces how the mispronunciation of Thames as temse led to the familiar idiom about lazy boys and rivers.
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England
River Thames
Thames
Osceola and the Florida Indian War Narrative
A 1835 incident in Florida sparked a prolonged conflict after a woman was seized as a fugitive slave based on her mother's status. Osceola's eloquence and leadership united 1,500 white casualties in four years of struggle, while Indians sought revenge for white treachery.
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S’ort King
Florida
Osceola
Lippincott's
Begin Again Today and the Joy of Fresh Daily Life
Emerson declared life as endless experimentation with no past to anchor us. The text urges living each day as a new problem, free from yesterday’s limits and fears, to discover fresh paths and daily delight.
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Emerson
Ufe
Card Marka Four Card Symbols Reflect Social Classes
Some writers suggest the four suits on ecards were originally symbolic of society classes. Hearts may symbolize the clergy, spades the nobility, clubs the serfs, and diamonds the burghers or citizen classes, with some packs even showing a sword head instead of a spade.
Fair Rosamund’s Bower and the ancient labyrinths
The piece notes Woodstock housed Henry II s garden with a famed labyrinth linked to the Rosamond legend. It argues labyrinths existed long before, citing early forms cut in ground and surviving traces in England such as Saffron Walden with its encircling ditch and Dorsetshire’s Troy Town or Julian s Bower.
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England
Saffron Walden
Camden
Dorsetshire
Troy Town
Julian’s Bower
Early Morning Rosy Riddle Sparks Office Banter
Gatley the clerk recalls being up early this morning prompting the boss to ask why he looked tired. The bookkeeper mockingly retorts that Gatley never rises early, while Gatley clarifies he did not claim waking up just that he was up.
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Gatley
Tobacco smoking in nations compared
An excerpt notes caricaturists show a pipe in a ee, claims Germans are not the greatest smokers. It states Germans smoke less than French Nussigus Swedes or Hungarians and that Americans and Swiss men are the most veteran smokers, with per capita tobacco use about three times higher than Germany.
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America
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Sambo Explains the Difference in Speech Style
A brief excerpt from a New York piece shows Sambo describing a linguistic distinction. The interlocutor asks for the difference and Sambo replies with a joking contrast about speaking versus staying quiet.
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New York
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