Pennywise Peter Clever Lunatic Tale
An anecdote from Dr. Britton D. Evans recounted in New York describes Pennywise Peter a cunning lunatic in Bridgetown. Farmers offered a penny or nickel and Peter always chose the cent prompting laughter. He explains the nickel would deny future chances to take another coin.
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Britton D. Evans
New York
Bridgetown
Peter
Washington Post
Neighbors Toast to Lunch Amid Domestic Quarrel
Mrs Finletter shouts for Hilary to join luncheon as champagne sits flat and terrapin cools. Neighbors gather on porches to witness the scene while Hilary, puzzled, hurries inside to amid the rump steak and potatoes.
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Winletter
Hilary
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Paris Dentist Den Serves Woe Beside Patient
A New Yorker in Paris notes the French politeness, citing a recent incident in a Paris dentist’s office. An attendant asks whom to announce to Mr Je Docteur as a woe bent patient presents in the anteroom.
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Paris
M'Sleu
Je Docteur
Women Suffrage Study Club Organizes in New York
An opinion notes the recent organization of The Women's Suffrage Study club in New York. It states one goal to induce men to attend church on Sundays and expresses doubt about the venture starting under favorable auspices.
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Women’s Suffrage Study Club
New York
Pierce
Golden Medical
R.V. Pierce
Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
First Journalism School at Missouri Faces Wreck Coverage Test
At the University of Missouri the first working school of journalism operates a daily paper with telegraph reporters. Dean Walter Williams recounts the challenges of turning laymen into reporters as a student races to cover a railroad wreck. a delay prompts a telegraph inquiry and a terse message about excitement and waiting for calm.
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University of Missouri
Walter Williams
Willamen
Phrenologist Head Reading Sparks Treasure of Heads
A Detroit Free Press fragment recalls a boy asking what to call someone who reads heads. A phrenologist is explained, and the child’s mother believes the boy has been swimming after a head examination.
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Utah
Detroit Free Press
The Naughty Girl of Nice and The Grasse Widow
Fragmented dialogue mocks theatrical titles with mispronunciations about Nice and Grasse. An advertisement bundle touts Allemen’s Lubatana cures for colds coughs and piles with money back guarantees and a children’s soothing syrup.
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Phyllss
Nice
Grasse
Nice and
Puneh
Fallon Faces Smallpox Fear And Nevada News Roundup
A series of Nevada and regional items report a feared smallpox outbreak in Fallon with quarantines, accidents in Tonopah and Sparks, a murder trial in Rhyolite, land and survey activity in Parumph, and weather and transport disruptions across Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana with several fatalities and legal actions.
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Fallon
Nevada
Joe Fergus
Mizpah
Tonopah
Camierno
Humboldt County
Falcon Country
Fred Skinner
Monat Moll
Rhyolite
Deady
Parumph Valley
R. D. Cushman
St. Clair
Southern Pacific
Sparks
Denver & Rio Grande
la Veta
Colo
F. B. Kern
Carson
San Pedro
Cal
Virginia City
United States
Everett
Wash
Wyoming
Casper
Lander
Colorado
Union Pacific
Express
United States Mall
Cheyenne
C. F. Olsen
L. H. Sample
Post Office
N. K. Franklin
Thanksgiving
Manhattan
Celeste Marie Lemoine
Charles C. Tucker
Seattle
Elvira Bunkleman
St. Louis
Tucker
Montana State Railroad Commission
Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railway
Great Falls
Montana
Board of Commerce
Ballinger
Jennie Rogen
Denver
Great Northern
Kalispell Division
Paola
Skyland
Highgate
Doctor's Best Formula For Quick Cold Cure
Advertisement claims a home remedy for colds and coughs using two ounces glycerine half ounce concentrated pine and half a pint whiskey. Dosing is teaspoonful to tablespoon every four hours with shaking routine. Promises rapid relief and availability from druggists with a special labeled Concentrated Pine.
When Coloring Rags for Carpets Uses Dyola Dyes
A Yonkers Statesman ad quotes a humorous exchange about a doctor and a wife, then promotes Dyola Dyes claiming one package colors any material. It advertises 10c per package with a free book of directions and color card from Dyola in Burlington Vermont.
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Burlington, Vt
Impolite Papa Snores Amid a Snappy Family Exchange
A humorous dialogue centers on a child asking why papa makes a funny noise. The mother explains he is snoring, while the child quips about politeness and noises. The vignette captures a playful domestic moment.
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Papa
Prominent Patent Medicine Ads Appear in Local Paper
Several medicinal pitches fill the page including PEPTITS EYE SALVE for eye troubles and Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children. Other notices tout Bromoquinine and cold remedies with testimonials, sample offers, and pharmacy locations in Howard and Le Roy, New York.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Minneapolis User
A Minneapolis woman shares a public testimonial claiming Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her female troubles and restored her health within months. The letter invites others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, noting decades of free help to sick women.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinksham
Jonsx G. Moldan
Second St
North
Lydia FE. Pinkham
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