Man's risky Hoopen coff cure ends in fight fright
A family narrates Little Albert's illness and a foolish cure idea involving hares in a basket. They test the cure with a black dog, provoking a confrontation with a man who accuses them of poisoning the animal. The father defends the prank and condemns the foolishness, resolving to avoid such ideas in the future.
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Albert
Paw
Daw
Little Albert
Maw
Man Ansered
Chicago
Times-Herald
Peace Measures In A Child’s Simple Arbitration
A brief cartoonish exchange in the Indianapolis Journal frames arbitration as a practical aid between parent and child. The dialogue uses humor to suggest arbitration helps avoid punishment, with a mother and child trio and a light tone.
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Tommy
Indianapolis Journal
Loaning Sisters and Money The Fractured Modern Courtship
A wry reflection notes that many young men would welcome a sisterly bond if a girl would occasionally lend money. The remark hints at social expectations and cash as a measure of affection within courting norms.
Costly Enterprising Cable Plans Face Pacific Hurdles
A Scribner's Magazine summary outlines the immense challenges and costs in laying a transpacific telegraph system. It notes depths, long landing gaps, scarce intermediate trade points, and estimates a total capital outlay near 26 million dollars for a durable network with duplicate routes, repairing ships, spare cable, and station equipment across multiple landing points.
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Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
Vancouver
Australia
New Zealand
New York
Japan
Philippines
Hawaii
Scribner’s Magazine
Corner Stone Cash Conspiracy at Church Laying
A barber vents about church corner stone fund raising noting a hypothetical $25 stash in each of 177,481 stones. He claims such funds idle in structures yield $4,437,025 trapped and $266,221.50 yearly interest, urging dividends for congregations as the answer. Kansas City Star.
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Church Statistica
Kansas City Star
Wireless telegraphy aids lightship danger signaling
A lightship captain demonstrated wireless telegraphy to notify shore authorities after standard signals failed. The note compares this to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, praised as a remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia that acts when other medicines fail, regulating the bowels and improving appetite.
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Hostetter
No Missing Link Claim Persists From Professor
An eminent professor dismisses the idea that cliff dwellers were a prehistoric extinct race. He asserts thousands of their descendants are alive today and live in flats, a statement echoed by an enthusiastic student, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune
Curious Arabian Wedding Note From Old Saying
An old saying describes a widow who wishes to remarry visiting her late husband’s tomb the night before a new wedding and praying he will not be offended by her remarriage.
Salzer Seed Co catalog offer to farmers in La Crosse
Five remarkable seed items Speltz Bromus Reape Corn Oats promise profit for farmers. Salzer's catalog invites readers to send postage and request the catalog from John A. Salzer Seed Co at La Crosse.
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Farmer
Salser
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Misu
Get Together at Family Dinner Riddle In Sydney Journal
A playful exchange between a father and his four year old daughter Margie highlights family warmth. Margie teases how nice people seem to belong together in the same family while the father smiles at her remark.
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Margie
Sydney Town and Country Journal
Coughing Leads to Consumption
Coughing leads readers to consumption concerns and promotes Kemp's Balsam as an immediate remedy. The ad urges visiting a druggist for a free sample bottle and notes availability in 25 and 50 cent sizes. Urgency is stressed with a call to act now to avoid delays.
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Kemp
Female doctors join Russian army ranks in Europe
Russian military authorities have recently appointed three women as junior medical officers in the Russian army. The czarist forces thus become the only European army with female medical officers. Also promoted is Piso's Cure for Consumption touted as a remedy for coughs asthma and bronchitis.
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Europe
Demoralizing Women in Tax Talk at Home
A brief remark from the Indianapolis Journal voices a wife’s complaint that buying a house would bring taxes while a husband dismisses tax payments, saying his father always avoided them. The item reflects common taxation anxieties in a domestic, humorless tone.
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Indianapolis Journal
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