Confederate sympathizer presents home for aged soldiers
Louisvill e announces Capt D Y Parr a retired capital ist and Confederate sympathizer gives a Chestnut and Preston streets house and lot to Col Bennett H Youn and trustees to aid as a home for aged and infirm Confederate soldiers. They seek state appropriation to sustain the home. Parr born Alsace France Dec 23 1825. his father served Napoleon and survived Waterloo receiving the Legion d Honneur cross.
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D. Y. Parr
Bennett H. Youn
Chestnut
Preston Streets
Parr
Ohio River
Capt. Parr
Alsace
France
Napoleon Bonaparte
No Loss of Time Says Threshers Fueled by Remedy
A Plymouth Oklahoma farmer notes threshers kept working without loss of time after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. He urges households to keep a bottle. Graham Drug Co. lists it for sale. Also reports another New Orleans vessel clearing with mules amid Boer war trade notes.
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H. R. Phelps
Plymouth
Oklahoma
Graham Drug Co
New Orleans
Ballard's Horehound Syrup Promoted by Graham Drug Co
An ounce of prevention is valued, with Ballard's Horehound Syrup touted as timely remedy. A bottle costs 25 or 50 cents, advertised by Graham Drug Co for convenient relief.
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Ballard
Oaliby Graham Drug Co
Maine gum hunters life in lonely Maine forests
A Bangor Maine Letter in the New York Sun describes gum pickers who harvest spruce gum in October. seasoned hunters work alone with poles, knives, snowshoes and a small dog as they track gum wounds from prior seasons. they rely on secrecy and skill to locate rich trees and can earn up to 400 to 300 dollars in a season through patient, quiet work.
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Maine
Bangor
New York Sun
Dinner Club Wallet Trick Turns Bill Into Surprise
At a club dinner a leader theatrically cuts a new two dollar bill, tears it, and gives one half to a waiter with the line the rest after dinner. The waiter keeps half the bill as a tip while the party enjoys the scene and service.
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Darky
Remarkable Child Calculators From a Bygone Era
The text recalls eight year old George Bidder who could answer instantly how many farthings in sums under 868 424 121 pounds. It also mentions Zerah Colburn, a similar prodigy, who named the square of 999 999, multiplied and squared large numbers, raised 8 to the 16th power, named factors of 941 and 263, and computed the cube root of 413 993 348 677 in seconds.
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George Bidder
Zerah Colburn
The Play He Didn't Read
David Belasco recalls a manager who accepted a blank manuscript tied with red ribbon. He later revealed the trick by unrolling the blank paper to show the manager had, in effect, read nothing at all.
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David Belasco
The But Conjunction as a Nuisance and Tiny Beacon
A brief meditation on the word but describing its disruptive role in speech and thought. The author laments its ubiquity in daily language and ponders whether imagination might redeem its dull tyranny with flashes of insight.
Lowell boy Wesley Court buys pony and crosses continent trip
An 11 year old from Lowell Massachusetts, Wesley Court, turned summer soda stands into a money making venture. He borrowed to buy exclusive lunchroom privleges from factories for root beer and lemonade. In two weeks he repaid the loan, employed six boys, bought a suit, a pony and cart, and saved enough for a California trip for him and his father.
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Lowell
Mass
Wesley Court
Francis G. Court
Wesley
California
Woman's Curiosity Leads to Near Fall from Window
Miss Kump a bright athletic young woman employed by Dr Lichtenstein in New York City notices a locked room and suspects activity. She climbs out a fourth story window with a rope to peek inside, sees nothing, rope breaks, she falls thirty feet but survives. The wind had closed the door on the lock.
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Miss Kump
Chicago
Paper targets and Stockholm rat bounty offer child play and pest control
Readers are invited to use newspapers as safe paper targets for child play with pens and pins while Stockholm offers a bounty of 212 cents per rat killed to curb plague spread. The article notes the global reach of the Norway rat and its expansionist spread, alongside a brief origin of the common house mouse from Asia.
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Stockholm
Norway
Pacific
China
Asia
Epidemic Defined Prompting Class Lesson
A teacher prompts students to define an epidemic as something that spreads, and a child answers Jam, sir, illustrating the lesson noted in a San Francisco Examiner excerpt.
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San Francisco Examiner
Painted Horse and Dog Bid for Kinder Sleep
A toy rocking horse with a painted mane laments its broken state beside a fuzzy woolen dog. A child in white returns to kiss his toys good night, expressing love for the horse as he carries both into bed, ending a gentle nursery scene.
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Helen BE. Wright
Etiquette Book Bid Debated By John and Maria
A book agent sought to sell a six lesson guide on etiquette to the family. Maria debates the offer while John calls the premise a humbug and notes years of failed attempts to teach good behavior versus the claim.
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Maria
John
Chicago Tribune
Judge urges jurors and others to quit liquor this week
Opening the Superior Court in Charlotte New York the judge tells the jury to desist from alcohol this week. He warns a drunk juror is unfit for duty and notes liquor destroys trust in merchants lawyers physicians and witnesses. He says such persons cannot justify their conduct before God or avoid becoming a stumbling block.
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Charlotte
N.Y
Dr King’s New Discovery Cures Case of Consumption
Washed down a telegraph fine in Lisbon Ta, Chas. C. Kilis says a terrible cold and cough followed. Doctors from Oakland Neb, Sioux City and Omaha declared consumption was hopeless. After six bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery he claims a full cure. Handy & Matthews guarantee it. 50 cents and 1.00. Trial bottles free.
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Lisbon
Oakland
Neb
Sioux City
Omaha
Dr. King
Handy & Matthews
Attorney General Rules on Lit Prohibiting Johnson Grass Feeding on Rights
In Austin on April 18 Attorney General Bell issued an opinion upholding the validity of a bill banning Johnson grass from railroad right of way. The bill’s passage was in doubt due to the House chief clerk not signing, but Bell ruled the defect harmless and Governor Sayers approved the measure.
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Austin
Texas
Bell
Gov. Sayers
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