A Love Song Across Distances
Poem recalls a lover’s steadfast devotion amid travel and hardship. The speaker laments separation by sea and land yet finds solace in memories of home, children, and the hearth where loved ones dream. The refrain affirms love as a guiding beacon back to home and family.
The Charity Ball Sparks a Quiet Romance in St Louis
In a St Louis Star excerpt set at a charity ball Mildred Erickson and Paul Browning exchange playful barbs about marriage. Browning reveals loneliness and desire for companionship while Mildred hints at mutual interest before she declines a quick kiss, arranging a meeting for tomorrow.
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Mildred
Browning
Mr. Bixby
Paul
Mr. Browning
George Bixby
St. Louis Star
Difficulty of Spelling From Amanuenses Expert Says
A Pittsburg News remark warns that using amanuenses makes busy men forget spelling. A street wholesaler claims dictation to stenographers damages orthography and that practice with written words keeps spelling sharp. He likens the habit to cocaine and notes even elites relied on scribes in medieval times.
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Pittsburg
Vegetable Shoes patent for vegetarian boot design in London
A London bootmaker patents a shoe made expressly for vegetarians crafted from vegetable production. The article notes six pairs likely connected to the design while a stray line mentions flannel cakes possibly named by Inver van clerks.
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London
Inver
Tact and Grooming: Insights From a Past Era
A midsection discusses tact as a social power, praising courtesy, restraint, and privacy in management of family and servants. It outlines ideal feminine tact in home life, then shifts to hairdressing tips for different ages and styles, and ends by noting a magazine competition about what girls admire in a man.
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Mr. Browning
Misa Erickson
Mildred Erickson
Schottische
Mildred
Browning
Maud Jones
Jack Marshall
Miss Erickson
Marshall
Misa Jones
Miles Erickson
Europe
Mamma
Papa
Joe
Naga
Darrow
Ideal hero virtues and fashion notes from early 1900s column
The piece lists a model ideal hero focusing on manners honesty kindness and temperance, contrasting with a dashing fictional guardsman. It also surveys summer fashions, wash fabrics pleated muslin gowns with battlements and lacy trims, and new waist styles and corset covers. It ends with social notes on women union labor and reflections on women’s thoughts.
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Hamper
Malines
Vogue
Germs and Purities Cure Blood with Vitalizing Tonic
The text extols a purifying remedy claiming to remove disease by purifying impurities. It promises to enrich the blood and energize red globules to nourish organs and muscles through digestion.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Sales And Local Quotes
Hood s Sarsaparilla touted as the best medicine with buyers urged to purchase. Sellers Silas Saunders and Josh Markby are named as frequent dealers, while Rube Rahway is criticized for usually getting something for nothing. Includes a plug for cheap binder twine from T M Roberts Supply House Minneapolis Minnesota and notes the firm is highly rated by commercial agencies.
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Silas Saunders
Josh Markby
Rube Rahway
Puck
T. M Roberts
Minneapoli Minn
Caspian Sea Noted as World’s Largest Endorflowing Body
The Caspian Sea is described as the world’s largest body of water with no outlet to the ocean, spanning about 180,000 square miles in extent.
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Caspian Sea
Nickel Plate Will Sell Philadelphia Excursion Tickets
The Nickel Plate Road offers round trip excursion tickets to Philadelphia from June 7 to 18 for one fare. Returning is valid through June 2, 1900. Tickets may be obtained by wire phone or in person from A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne nda.
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Nickel Plate Road
Philadelphia
Dear Madam Pinkham Advice Appeal From Crama Kopp
Crama Kopp of Rockport Indiana writes that four years of doctoring and patent medicines have failed to ease chronic back ache nervousness and irregular menstruation with bearing down cramps and stomach soreness and asks Lydia E Pinkham for guidance.
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Dean Mags
Pinca
Lydia E. Pinkham
Crama Kopp
Rockport, Ind
Letter Praises Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Clara Kopp of Rockport Indiana writes April 18 1899 praising the remedy for female ailments. She credits Mrs Pinkham with giving trustworthy advice from long experience and urges other women to follow her guidance.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Clara Kopp
Rockport, Ind
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