Hog Runs Rampage After Cherry Whisky Prank
A St Louis visitor fed cherries in liquor to a hog causing a frenzy through town. The drunken animal knocked over a widow, crashed two carriages, and upset a deeds office register before being corralled. The man left a parting motto for a bystander: give everything a fair show.
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Taylor
St. Louis
Tifg
Esquire Smith
Snyder's
Watkins
Gaylord
Iwubin
Elm Street
Porker
St Louis
New York Sun
Boy Mathematician Blaise Pascal and Sound
A tale from Yankee Blade recounts young Blaise Pascal at ten years old noting how striking a plate makes a pitch sound that vanishes when the plate is grasped. He questions why the sound changes and pursues inquiry into the nature of sound, leading to his future scientific work.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise
A Sweet Scented Tobacco Plant in Garden Displays
Prairie Farmer notes Nicotiana affinis as a sweet scented tobacco variety with pure white flowers three inches across. It features large bold leaves making an imposing focal plant in borders or beds and can bloom year round in a greenhouse with August sowing and staged transplanting from small pots to larger pots for flowering.
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South America
Sny &Six Inch
Witness to ducks and legal quips in court
A court session features a farmer recalling unique duck traits to claim ownership, while the defense questions the rarity of the breed. The report notes impertinent questioning by lawyers and mentions ongoing German labor unrest with miners joining Berlin masons in a strike.
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Court of Sessions
Joan
Germany
Perlin Masons
Boston women form committee to take city schools out of politics
A fifty member committee is appointed in Boston to implement plans aimed at removing city schools from political control. The move is presented in a context of reform and political tension surrounding education.
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Boston
Guild of the King’s Daughters Formed in England
A guild of the King’s Daughters has been formed in England. The new organization aims to promote charitable works and education among noblewomen, reflecting medieval guild practices and royal endorsement.
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Guild of the
King's Daughters
England
New York State
Aftr
Advertising Aids Health Through Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
A female reader defends medical advertising after suffering years of headaches backache and pain. She credits Pierce’s Favorite Prescription with restoring her health and praises doctors who endorse advertising when curable. The letter urges readers to read the bottle guarantee for claims about female ailments.
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Pierce
A. F. Britton
Jackson
Tenn
Louisiana
Richmond
Atlanta
Gillam
K. P. B. Jones
Atlanta, Ga
Rockaway Beach Hotel Sold After Massive Build Cost
A historic Rockaway Beach hotel built at a cost surpassing 81 million dollars has been sold for 27.4 million. The purchase closes a long chapter for a landmark once valued for its scale and seaside appeal. The buyer is unspecified, while renovations or future plans remain under negotiation.
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Big Rockaway Beach
Mercury dangers and quack cures forewarn readers
Advertisements warn against mercurial treatments for malaria and blood poisons while promoting Botanic Blood Balm as mercury free. Letters claim dramatic recoveries from malaria, syphilis symptoms, and dermatitis after using B B B with calls to request proof of cure, amid note of severe storms in France.
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Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Handsome Picture Free Offered by Wallas News
A limited offer proclaims a free engraving of The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur with purchase arrangements through the Wallas News. The Metropolis Museum of Art work is described as lifelike, with a dramatic horse market scene and dramatic realism praised by critics. Subscriptions to Galveston Weekly News or Dallas Weekly News for one year before July 1 offer this engraving at no charge.
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Wallas
Paris
Beme
Galveston Weekly News
Dallas Weekly News
Issa
A. H. Belo & Co
Dallas
Galveston
Panamanian project fails beyond retrieval
The canal enterprise has failed beyond retrieval while the Samoan treaty is completed but not released to the public. A note calls Miss Alice B. Sanger the first female clerk in the White House, and mentions Castoria as a byword from infancy to adulthood.
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Panama Canal
Alice B. Sanger
White House
Mild climate and abundant crops praised in ad copy
The notice extols a mild, equable climate with abundant crops and invites readers to address the Oregon Immigration Board in Portland for full information. It also notes fundraising for the Washington Memorial Arch, and lists various advertisements and claims about medicines, ships, and services.
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Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Oregon
Our Country toy and a London publisher sentenced
A pieces of text contrasts rural youth with city life and notes a London publisher, Jr. Vivetello, sentenced to three months imprisonment for publishing novels. The Connecticut Senate passes a Secret Ballot bill by a 15 to 0 vote.
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A Loddon’ Puinisher, Jr. Vivetello
Senate
Wits
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Berlin
Hetherington & Nason
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Shallenberger
Naval Department
Isaac Thompson
Chicago
J.C. Simpson
Marquess
W. Va
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Nuleiver Plus
Caster Medicine CO
New York
Our Country
Oaks Voi
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Tansill
Joy To
Peary Davis Pain-Kille
Colton
Texas
H. W. Hubbard
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Commerce
Chile
Mothers
Maieo Fale Bradfield
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Thers Riend
Ane
Obama
BOF
Johnson & C O
Main St
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Millersburg Female College
Blue Grass Region
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Millersburg
Hlingrabam
Amsterdam
N.Y
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Towi
C. I. Hood & Co
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Sean
Galt
Piret Qaualit
W. Fargo & CO
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Wheelock Pianos
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Daduas, Texas
Amente
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Nashville, Tenn
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Itawn
Reveru
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Frances E. Willard
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Temory
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Bernea
Holder Co
Mica
Anvassers Coin
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Caators
W.N.U
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