The Hand That Levels
Elisabeth Dudley and Julian Wainwright clash over a past affair with Calvin Dudley looming as a dangerous rival. Elisabeth seeks to endure her marriage while Julian risks all to protect her from a volatile husband and a deadly confrontation on a train platform ends in Dudley’s collapse.
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Elisabeth
Julian
Wainwright
Campania
Elisabeth Dudley
Europe
Wes
Julian Wainwright
Calvin Dudley
Scorpion
Dudley
Cincinnati
South Sea Islands
The Sailor and the Bheel Thief Tale
A sailor recounts theft lessons from his Ram Dass in India including stealing a sheet from a sleeper named Ivor Spencer Lee and passing it to the narrator. He mentions his Bheel wife and laments not hearing temple bells calling him back.
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Jake
India
Ram Dass
Ivor Spencer-Lee
Ivor
Ram
Bheel
Musician Seeks New Space After Landlord Refusal
A musician and her husband search for new quarters after the landlord refused to renew the lease on October 1. They find a place with affordable rent and adequate space, aided by a confident broker who claims to be musical himself and ready for their planned small musical gatherings.
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Hubby
Personal crisis reports dominate Vienna records
Vienna reports show 356 men and 108 women died by own action last year, up from 315 men and 110 women in 1906, plus 739 attempts by 441 men and 298 women. Illness mental disorders accounted for over a fourth, unhappy love affairs for 25, poverty 32, and dissatisfaction 35. April had 61 reports, while May and September each had 31.
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Vienna
Too Late Sandy Seeks Paint From Neighbor
In a humorous Scots scene from Harpers Weekly, Sandy visits neighbor Wullie to borrow paint but is told Ike is not available. A delaying pause follows as the exchange turns to a joke about a pot of green paint and a faded plan.
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Sandy
Wullie
Harper's Weekly
Towne and Browne Debate Over Painting Speeds
Quotations from Philadelphia Presa hint at a sharp exchange. The dialogue centers on a woman’s pencil sharpening and a man’s delayed progress toward the paint, creating a tense conversational mood.
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Towne
Spring fashions show nile green velvet coats and mulberry hues
A detailed survey of spring wardrobe trends includes nile green panne velvet coats with matching collar cuffs and vest, gray velvet jackets with checked skirts, and light voile skirts. It notes new linen collars in blue pink gray and leaf green, mulberry as a fresh color, mirage silk dresses, and decorative hat ribbons and enamel jewelry.
Fashion Notes on Spring And Paris Styles
The piece surveys current trends with long flowing tunics slim waistlines and velvet tops. It notes Paris experimenting with skin tight sleeves black ermine trim and a shift toward white lace gowns in rose and green tones. It highlights elbow length puff sleeves and linen lawns as enduring morning dress fabrics.
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Paris
Lucky Stones on Shoe Buckles
Jewelers offer dainty buckles featuring bloodstones agate or sardonyx set in oxidized gold. Birthstones are used in umbrella handles garter buckles and other items making the emblem a must for labeled girls.
Ruffles on hats add lace inside crown and brim
Spring hats feature lace ruffles sewn near the join of crown and brim. The ruffle falls over the hair, creating a very attractive and becoming adornment.
Adjustable washable bolster pillow design described
A back chair bolster with a removable pale green lateen and white lawn cover features open-work embroidery two patterns, lace ends, and close runners that pull the lawn taut with a sewn bow. The cover, five inches longer than the bolster, buttons at the back and is washable. Soft galloon stitch embroidery fills open holes and stalks with embroidery cotton.
Canada promises plenty and profit in homestead tale
W A Spice writes from Paynton Saskatchewan after moving from Montgomery Iowa in 1907 praising Western Canada. He describes early spring, bountiful grain, oats up to 100 bushels per acre, wheat 25 to 60, large root crops, abundant game, timber at $6 per thousand, and thriving farming life including fishing at Turtle Lake. He asserts Canada offers strong opportunity for capable workers.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada
W. H. Ellwanger
Green Mountain
Iowa
Turtle Lake
Yankee
Des Moines
United States
W. A. Spice
Absence of Mind at Fire Scene
Exhausted by hauling furniture from the burning building a man, after rolling a cigarpot, asked a fireman for a match. The fireman gruffly replied that if he wanted to light it he should touch it to his own house.
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Garret
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Adverts a Cure All Dreaded Disease
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment that cures catarrh in all stages. It claims the medicine works through the blood and mucous surfaces and offers 100 dollars to prove failure. Also promotes Hall’s Family Pills. The page includes a playful cribbage quip about a girl.
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Tvery
Scianca
Hail
Propria
Addrew F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
All Druggiata
Hali
Allen's Foot-Ease remedy advert in Pinch period piece
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for painful feet and ingrown nails with claims of comfort, shoe ease, and sweating relief. Also features an Emerson quote and a Lewis' Single Binder cigar plug.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Deputy sheriff and bartender cited in courtroom quip
A Wichita court stenographer recalls a witness who refuses a simple question about liquor sales. The witness lists many roles including deputy sheriff city marshal and janitor. The judge insists on an answer as the witness parties with a humorous self description.
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T. Jocelyn
Wichita
Judge Pancoast
Oklahoma
Guiner
el Paso Galoon
Kansas City Times
Seed offer and quip from the Styx remark
An Illinois inquiry promotes a seed catalog with 12c payment and 37.76 in sales, boasting a 314 percent gain. The notice lists various seed packs and postpaid mailing, offering BerlinER Earliest Cauliflower for 16c. A joke about pig iron in life preservers and rotten fire hose follows from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Illinois
la Crosse
John A. Balzer Seed Co
Styx
Satan
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pettit's Eye Salve offers quick relief for tired eyes
Pettit's Eye Salve claims to relieve eye aches and inflammation in minutes and is sold by Howard Bros in Buffalo New York. The ad also notes grapes yield champagne of varying quality and includes garbled lines about a signature and a Danish proverb.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
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Nellie Cravey Gillmore
Daily Story Pub. Co
Champions OF All Thieves
Browne
Philadelphia
Presa
Dauy
Byntise T
Papa
Subbubs
Popley
Emerson
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
E. Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
Carters
Iars
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