Opening of the Great Uintah Indian Reservation
President Roosevelt signed a proclamation on July 15 opening 2,445,000 acres in Utah for homesteaders and townsite entry. About 1,069,000 acres remain available for entry after exclusions. Registration runs August 1 to 12 at Grand Junction Colorado and Utah towns. Applicants must prove qualifications, use a designated blank form, and may register only once in their true name.
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Roosevelt
Great Uintah Reservation
Utah
General Land Office
Grand Junction
Colo
Vernal
Price
Provo
Farming Anecdotes and Clipped News from the Palouse
A collage of short items includes rural humor about sulky plows and neighbors offering cigars, a banker relaying travel telegrams about a farmer, praise for John Hay with a photo in The Reader Magazine, and notes on new Swiss bricquettes as a petroleum fuel. It also includes light anecdotes about a cross examination and a city store punchline from Farmer Korntop.
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Palouse
John
Atlantic City
Newport
John Hay
Reader
Hay
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad Promotes Comfort and Cure
An old advertisement urges readers to ask their dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It promises rested feet and relief from swollen, sore, hot, calloused, aching, sweaty feet and ingrown nails. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free sample by mail from Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, New York.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Wasteful remarks and land opening in Uintah reservation
A dialogue about opinions leads to notice of over one million acres in the Uintah Indian reservation being opened for settlement on August 28. Registration runs Aug 1 to Aug 12 from Grand Junction Colorado, with routes via Denver Colorado Springs or Pueblo. Also mentions Defiance Starch ad claims and August Arena issue contents, including The Debutante's Letters by Reginald Wright Kaufmann.
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Uintah Indian Reservation
Grand Junction
Colorado
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colorado Midland
C. H. Speers
Seraon
Reginald Wright Kauffman
Utah
Homeseekers
W. H. Emmons
17Th St
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
Habits and the habit of shaking shoes for safety
In a domestic exchange, grandpa explains he shakes his shoes to remove sand and other nuisances, a habit formed in India to shake out scorpions. Ned reflects on habits, learning that forming good habits early strengthens them as one grows, while bad habits can grow faster.
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Ned
Grandpa
India
Lawson Paragraphs The Sole Crime Being Caught
Thomas W. Lawson argues that conscience fears legal consequences and falsehood mimics truth in Wall Street finance. He contends corporate lawyers dominate Wall Street culture, mercy can be criminal, and the penal code serves as Wall Street’s Bible. He laments thuggery and hidden deals in high finance.
Josh Billings Philosophy Spotlight
The piece presents Josh Billings on virtue praising charity and faith while critiquing pride in literary talent. It favors practical honesty over showy cleverness, noting the value of a single honest man over many flashy but impractical talents in New York Weekly.
A Get Rich Scheme Through the Mails Tale
A sequence of humorous exchanges described in clipped dialogue. A young man shows a poem to his mother who cries, an editor warns, a man proclaims love for nature, and a stranger reveals a mail order get rich scheme. A dream joke ends with a quip about proposing in sleep.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
No Horse for Him at Amosville Livery A Laughline
A Detroit Tribune Busy section item features a rough banter about a summer boarder seeking a horse and buggy. A Wigegy washer relays the ruse, with a Briggstown run teased. A Shakespearean actor quips that dreams come from idle brains while a balcony heckler curses a night’s toil.
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Amosville
Dave
Briggstown
Detroit Tribune
Recipes for Happiness and Witty Observations
A compact collection of moral maxims and social quips from Christian Endeavor World. It urges pity for others, prayer, happiness through simple living, present-minded faith, and warns about hypocrisy, worry, and vanity with pointed lines on marriage, widowhood, and temperance.
Mother and son quarrel over school and mischief
The mother warns Tommy about where bad boys go while he recalls promises to stay home. She contrasts her stricter school days with his, and he quips that she was kept in for being naughty. The Philadelphia Record notes the mother and child exchange.
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Tommy
Philadelphia
Mamma
Feminine Intuition and Witty Exchanges Across Papers
A Washington Star quip on judging a husband's happiness by return home, a joke about a swimsuit’s longevity and a youth’s dream to be a pirate. Puck muses on modern youth aspirations, while a Cleveland Plain Dealer cartoon caption twists a deer trap tale with family affection.
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Uncle Winthrop
Emersia
Amerson Lowell Backbergh
Puck
Dean's Kidney Pills Restore Hammonosport Cobbler After Years Of Illness
Henry Soule of Hammondport New York alleges kidney trouble twenty years ago left him unable to work. Backache gravel headaches and urinary disorders dropped his weight to 100 pounds. He says Dean's Kidney Pills cured him eight years ago and he has remained well since. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo sells them at 50 cents per box.
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Monticello
Minn
J. W. Moore
Bright
Dodd
Henry Soule
Hammondsport
N. Y
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Salt in Daily Life Across Cultures and Beliefs
The piece surveys salt usage worldwide and in daily life. It notes salt as essential like water, its varied value in Africa where a handful could buy slaves, the German view of salt as a divine gift, and sacred status in the East. It mentions oaths over salt and safety promised by guests bearing salt, plus ancient Roman beliefs linking spilled salt to disaster.
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Africa
Gold Coast
East
Mall
Mull
No Sleep for Mother Ends with Sores Healed
A Camden New Jersey mother recalls her four month old daughter plagued by severe sores and itching. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the sores vanished, the child slept through the night, and within a month no sores remained on her face or body.
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Mary Sanders
Spring St
Camden, N. J
Prominent Millionaire Backing Stable Interest in Steeplechase
Robert L. Gerry son of Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry plans to own a steeplechase horse named Joe joining a circle of wealthy young men led by Harry Payne Whitney and Clarence H. Mackay. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt rumored as partner as Gerry serves as best man at Vanderbilt's wedding. Miss Ethel Marte Bret Harte’s daughter in London faces ill health, drawing sympathy from literary figures including Meredith Newnes Parker Doyle and Conan Doyle, who form a committee to aid her.
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Robert L. Gerry
Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry
New York
Joe
Gerry
Harry Payne Whitney
Clarence H. Mackay
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Bret Harte
Ethel Marte
London
Angell
George Meredith
George Newnes
Gilbert Parker
Arthur Conan Doyle
Miss Harte
Komuras Choice of Society at Harvard Law School
Baron Komura, then a Harvard Law School student graduating in 1877, shunned social life despite urging from classmate Baron Kaneko. He sought to view American life beyond conventional society and studied English and American literature closely.
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Komura
Baron Komura
Harvard Law School
Baron Kaneko
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