Wolf Menace Prompts Texas Ranchers to Guard Homes
Encinal Texas correspondent reports increasing numbers of mad wolves in southwest Texas. Coyotes inflict hydrophobia, prompting raids on camps and attacks on livestock. A 100000 dollar bounty law passed but faced veto. ranchers employ hunters while Bonte vant's belled coyote experiment failed.
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Austin
Campbell
Clement Bontevant
Here
Mr. Bonterant
Nueces River
Tom Hubbard
State Hydrophobia Institute
Hencinal
Texas
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Rastus Slewfoot and Rufus Moments From Blue Ridge Folklore
In a sly dialect vignette a child questions birthplace while an old man named Rufus Slewfoot recalls origins. The dialogue evokes rustic memory and humor in regionally flavored speech.
When He Stammered at the Job Interview
An employer questions a clerk applicant who stammers during the interview. The man replies that he only stammers when he talks, indicating a tense exchange in a candid workplace scene.
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Sourire
Business Signs Taxed in Rio de Janeiro
A local ordinance in Rio de Janeiro imposes taxes on business signs. Officials outline assessment rules and payment timelines for merchants.
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Rio de Janeiro
Commissioner Smith replies to Standard Oil attack on shipping rates
Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith challenges President Moffett of Standard Oil over six cent and eighteen cent oil rates. He argues the filing and concealment claims misstate tariff practice and charges a political drive to ruin Standard Oil. The piece contends the defense remains valid and predicts court vindication.
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Herbert Knox Smith
Moffett
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
East St. Louis
Alton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Illinois
Smith
Eastern Illinois
Dalton
Commissioner of Corporations
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Western Illinois
Interstate Ferce Commission
St. Louis
Dolton
Chappell
Harvey
Illinois Central
Blue Island
Rock Island
Grand Jury
Standard Oil
Tory
President Moffett
Landis
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Commonwealth
Tarbell
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Kenesaw Landis
They Say Prefaced Truth Becomes Common Gossip
A wry reflection notes that many dismiss statements as true if preceded by they say and implies the phrase shields unverified claims. The line probes how rumor substitutes for evidence in public discourse.
Cuticura Cures Multiple Skin Troubles Claims
Southern woman credits Cuticura for curing severe itching burning rash on herself and three babies. She reports facial tetter, neck sores and hand rash cleared by two bars of Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, with one set also curing her uncle’s baby and another infant. Mrs. Lillie Wildher of Chattanooga Tennessee signs the testimonial dated February 16 1907.
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Cuticura
Lillie Wildher
Eleventh St
Chattanooga
Tenn
Early Croziers: Earliest Crozier Mentions
The earliest known crozier is shown by Ataldus Archbishop of Reims who died in 933. An ancient Saxon or Norman font in Winchester Cathedral depicts a bishop with a crozier, likely England’s earliest representation. A crude crozier shape is carved on the tomb of Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter (1161–1184).
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Ataldus
Reims
Winchester
England
Bartholomew
Exeter
New Postal Ruling Drops Subscribers in Arrears
The Postmaster General issued an order effective January 1 1908 requiring weekly papers to remove from subscription lists any subscribers in arrears for twelve months or more. Noncompliance risks cancellation of the paper's second class mail privilege.
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Postmaster-General
Stop That Cough and Cures Advertised Products
A collage of old advertising lines touts Brown's Bronchial Troches for coughs, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, Woolford's Sanitary Lotion, and Bromo Quinine as a cold cure. It also notes the first iron steamship built in 1830 and a claim about H B Green's Sons as Dropay specialists.
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Brown
H. B. Green’s Sons
Atlanta
E. W. Grove
Graffi bees of India build eighteen foot combs
Advertisement style copy touts Indian graffi bees and their eighteen foot tall combs, followed by medical claims for Dr. H R Kline offering nerve cure treatments with a trial bottle and treatise free from 931 Arch St Philadelphia PA.
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India
St. Vitus
Kline
H.R. Kline
Arch St
Phila
Zero Origin Story: Fahrenheit Thermometer History
The piece explains the origin of the word zero meaning empty and Fahrenheit's creation of a thermometer. He used snow and salt to reach the coldest observed day and defined zero as the lowest temperature, with a scale rising to boiling at 212 and freezing at 32.
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New York American
Nine Grades Of National Costumes Codified
The Shanghai Mercury notes regulations for the national costume of officials and common people, detailing nine distinct grades of dress.
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Shanghai Mercury
Piles Cured Promise in 6 to 14 Days
Cure claim for hemorrhoids offers relief in six to fourteen days with a money back guarantee. Advertisement promises itching bleeding and protruding piles are cured or refund offered. Product priced at 50 cents with a stated trial period.
Fragmentary Indian brides sold as widows scheme
Brief cryptic note references a practice of marrying daughters to flowers and selling widows after the flowers die. The fragment implies exploitation and sale of widows, with a harsh social comment on the capitalistic abuse in a historical context. E.g. New York file marker N.Y-5.
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N.Y
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Rufus
Rastus
Puck
W.l.douglas
W.L
Ue povaLas Breckteu
Mass
Commissioner Smith
The
Standard Oil Co
Railway World
Woolford
Jacobs Oil
Zero
Fic Syrup Co
Drugoists
Sy J. Hamilton Ayers A. M
Book Publ
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Eeeonen St
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