A Delightful Travel Book Offer by Wisconsin Central Lines
A historical ad promotes mailing order books for summer entertainment. It lists ten titles including The Last Days of Pompeii, The Scarlet Letter, Tom Brown's School Days, and A Mad Love, with prices and postage details. Readers are urged to send two cents per book or $1.20 for the full set, with a sample line asking if unsolicited book sales are hypnotism.
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Wisconsin Central
Scyphe Halifax
Miss Majock
Pompeii
Bulwer Lytton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tom Brown
Thomas Hughes
Dora Thorne
Bertha M. Clay
Charles Reade
Jules Verne
Emile Zola
Jas. C. Porn
Gen's Pass
Tkt
Wis
Linas
Chicago
Doctor Bage Catarri Remedy Promises Curative Cash Offer
An advertisement touts Doctor Bage Catarri Remedy as a hopeless case cure with a $560 cash guarantee. It claims Syrup of Figs as a superior laxative from California Fig Syrup Co, sold by druggists in bottles, emphasizing purification, safety, and kidney liver and bowel benefits.
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Bage
California Fig Syrup Co
Onus on the Parson at a Louisville Station
A pastor and a Louisville and Nashville railroad engineer shared a humorous exchange at a small station. The minister claimed to understand his business after explaining engine operation, but failed to recite the Lord’s Prayer backward when challenged, prompting the engineer to depart.
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Louisville and Nashville
Louisville
Noiseless Cog-Wheels From Austria For Silent Machinery
Austrian innovation introduces cog wheels made of pressed raw hide to run with cast iron and steel wheels. Claimed features include high strength, no lubrication, and reduced vibration. Available ready-made or as raw-hide disks to be shaped by buyers. Wood support and shellac coating used after shaping. Main drawback is high cost.
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Austria
Measuring the Infinitesimal Bubble Thickness
Scientists report measuring the envelope thickness of soapy water in a bubble as it forms rainbow tints. Violet shade corresponds to a thickness of about 1-240,000 inch, shrinking to a black patch roughly 1/110,000,000 inch as the bubble expands.
A Trifling: Subject
A brief quip from the Washington Star notes a young woman in the city losing friends after a witty exchange. A young man admits self study is bad, she retorts that thinking of herself would make her narrow minded, and he jokes she would need to grasp the subject.
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Washington Star
Why People Lose Strength and Appetite Decline
The article discusses general illness symptoms like diarrhea and weakness, noting careless confidence in nature’s recovery. It highlights waning strength as a danger signal and promotes Kitarr or similar tonics for digestion and nerve balance, claiming restoration of vigor and relief of stomach and kidney troubles.
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Vieux Lona
Mori
Newark Daily Paper Surpasses in-Train Sales
In Newark New Jersey passengers on the railway lines obtain a copy of a daily paper vanished from the city. Publishers report nearly 5 000 papers are sold this way each day.
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Newark
New Jersey
Distressed Postage Stamps and Cure Advertisement
Disturbing scene of Miss Ilylle and Miss Backbay discuss S-cent postage stamps. Boston reader complains shade clashes with stationery colors. Brook lyn firm Cheney Co Toledo offers 100 dollar reward for remedy of callech via Hall Cal lerh Cura with testimonials free via druggists.
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Miss Ilylle
Backbay
Boston
Brooklyn
FJ. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Callech
Wears Gray for Her Sake in a Harpers Bazaar Passage
A clipped excerpt mentions a gray dress suit and a swan's-down dress worn by Mrs. Dawson, followed by a quip about a soap brand. The text parodies fashion and consumer product chatter, reflecting period salon discussion.
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Hullol
Dawson
Mrs. Dawson
Harpers'’s Bazar
Fair Widow and Slade Dialogue from Brooklyn Life
A quip asks what a widower would do after a wife’s death and the reply is to call in the undertaker. The page also advertises Beecham's Pills and a remark about a teenage girl choosing fashionable hats. Product claims include constipation relief by Small Bile Beans.
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Mr. Slade
Brooklyn Life
The Safe Burglary Case in Covington Ky
An enterprising burglar was arraigned on grand larceny charges in Covington Kentucky. The thief allegedly stole the parts of a burglar-proof safe from a Cincinnati factory, assembled it at home, and faced the judge who reacted with astonishment at the crime.
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Covington
Cincinnati
Allerton Praises Hot Springs Waters As Superior Remedy
Chicago capitalist Samuel W. Allerton arrives by Burlington Route and tells Star reporters that Hot Springs South Dakota offers waters superior to any in the nation for rheumatic and skin ailments. He recounts a French woman’s cure of pain and says Mrs. Allerton improved after treatment, predicts Hot Springs’ bright future, and praises climate and scenery as healthful factors. He notes skins benefits from his visit and foresees repeated visits and growth for the resort.
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Samuel W. Allerton
Chicago
Burlington
Star
United States
Spencer
There
Hot Springs
Arkansas Hot Springs
Aol Springs
Compressed Air System to be Tested in Washington
The Mekarski compressed air railway method will be tried in Washington for study. A Berne, Switzerland line operating since Oct 1, 1890, spans about two miles with a 50 hp turbine plant. Reservoir pressure reaches 450 psi, charging takes ten minutes, speeds range from 7.5 mph in the city to 30 mph outside. The Washington setup will use a superior plant.
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Washington
Berne
Switzerland
Capitalists in Humble Employment in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Press notes a nun with income around 150 000, and a police force member earning about 15 100 yearly plus 20 a week pay. A Tenth Ward car driver nets 2 000 from real estate. A Postmaster Huidekoper appointee earns 220 000 while a newspaper carrier has 430 000 in interests. A Market Street head waiter holds 3 000, a hotel cook owns 60 000 in bank stock and 25 000 real estate, and a poor church sexton collects 7 500 yearly from government bonds.
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Philadelphia
Tenth Ward
Huidekoper
Philadeulphia Press
Are You Happy In Your Work Profitably Employed
A short exhortation states that happiness comes from profitable employment and urges readers not yet happy to write to PF Johnson & Co. of Richmond Virginia for assistance in finding suitable work.
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Bb. PF. Johnson & Co
Richmond
When a man gets hurt it keeps him busy telling how it happened
Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup costs no more than others and benefits more.
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Hatch
The Pope's Visitors and a Royal Salute
King Oscar of Sweden visits the Pope and kisses him on both cheeks breaking a long standing custom of kissing only the Pope's hand. The scene recalls President Grant's handshake upon greeting the Pope. A New York sub treasury count notes many bags unopened since leaving the mint, silver dollars dusted from years in vaults.
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Oscar
Sweden
United States
Gen
Grant
New York
Sub-Treasury
Mint
Cub-Treasury
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