Old Maids Convention Delights City Audiences
A large crowd attended the Old Maids of the City convocation at the Opera House last evening with lively audience reaction to the play's satire on bachelors. The cast featured Miss McFall as Josephine Jane Green and Miss Doyle as Rebecca Rachel Sharp, praised for their performances.
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Opera House
Miss McFall
Josephine Jane Green
Annie Wisanski
Miss Gray
Belinda Bluegrass
Lizzie Doyle
Rebecca Rachel Sharp
Vendue
The Tax on Bachelors Poem From Berkeley
A humorous verse depicts a fictitious tax on bachelors, where old maids bid at auction to buy bachelors as husbands. The poem imagines a town sale with bidders from thirty to sixty, as forty bachelors are sold and carried home by the winning maids.
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Berkeley
Protect the Trees Insect Control by Soap and Kerosene Mix
A reader recommends spraying hedges with a soap and kerosene solution to stop an insect that is harming street plants. The mix involves four pounds of soap dissolved in water, combined with two gallons of kerosene, then added to thirty gallons of water for spraying. Two to three applications in dry weather are advised.
Painter Elihao Vedder Reminisces on Art Education Then and Now
Elihao Vedder, American painter and modeler living in Rome, writes reminiscences titled Art Education Fifty Years Ago. The piece appears in World's Work and notes Vedder's dual roles with the American Society of Mural Decorators and the Society of American Artists, and his long tenure as academician of the National Academy of Design since 1865.
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Elihao Vedder
Rome
American Society of Mural Decorators
Society of American Artists
National Academy of Design
Quick Cure Claim Promises Chills and Fever Relief
Advertisement asserts 5 or 6 doses of a mystery remedy will cure chills and fever, priced at 25 cents. The text provides no active ingredients or product name.
Ambitious author crafts grand introduction for baseball game report
A young writer toils over a pretentious opening for The Daily Howler's baseball game story. His dramatic prose, aided by a dictionary and cyclopedia, yields ornate phrases about sunlit scenes, marching heroes, and a goddess of liberty, before the office boy receives the manuscript for publication.
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Georgia
Kansas
Illinois
Liberty
Daily Howler
Chicago Tribune
Hal's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure For All Stages
An advertisement touts Hal's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces builds strength and offers 100 dollar reward if it fails to cure requests testimonials and lists the endorsers F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hal
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
NPE
Bryan acquires small South American zoo for his menagerie
Rival animal collector Col. William Jennings Bryan receives four live animals from Buenos Ayres on the Hamburg America liner Blucher including two llamas a Siamese cat and a monkey. The specimens head to Lincoln Nebraska with further gifts rumored from South America as Bryan tours Porto Rico and New York aboard the Red D Caracas.
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Col
William Jennings Bryan
Roosevelt
Bryan
Bryan Menagerie
Straits of Magellan
Col. Bryan
South America
Porto Rico
N.Y
Caracas
Buenos Ayres
Gould C. Dietz
Pryan
Lincoln
Neb
Tropics
Colonel Bryan
Struck Jailer Killed by Black Man in Meridian Fire Death
In Meridian Mississippi Tom O Neill a Black man fatally struck Jailer Temple during an incident at the jail. Officers then killed O Neill in a basement contest as a mob carried his body to a telephone pole and burned it. George Williams is charged with assisting O Neill and faces potential lynching threats.
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Meridian
Miss
Tom O’neill
Temple
Amob
George Williams
O’ Neill
Hen Found After Thirty Six Days in House Wall
The Newberry Observer reports a Maine style tale of Major Jones family moving from Mollobon mill village six weeks ago. A missing hen reappears after being heard scratching in a wall while Miss Harrett Woodward lived there. The hen laid six eggs during confinement and, after rescue, regains strength with proper care.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Observer
Major Jones
Mollobon Mill
Newberry Observer
Cardui Praised as Worth Its Weight in Gold in Mount Pleasant
Mrs. M. E. Rail of Mount Pleasant Tennessee credits Cardui with restoring her health after two years of weakness and reports its benefits for her daughter during puberty. The letter extols Cardui as a mild vegetable remedy that supports natural cure without harsh drugs.
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Mount Pleasant
Tenn
M. E. Rail
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Miss Hank
Charity Longface
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Miss Jones
Jurusha Matilda Sprigging
Miss Workman
Miss Doyle
Mary Ann Taddler
Butler
Betsy Bob-up
Miss Edrich
Juliet Long
Miss Walker
Sophie Stuckup
A. Visanski
Violet Ruggles
Lila Visanski
Tiny Short
Josey
Patience Desire &-Man
Miss Wat
Hannah Biggerstaff
Miss White
Francis Touch-me-vot
Miss Hankel
Rose Ebrich
Helen Joyce
Helen Doyle
Sallie Pyatt
Janet Boone
Sam Richardson
Sare
Byran
Buenos Aires
Liamas
Theodore Roosevelt
Mississippi
Cardus
Oman
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