Rocking the Sonora Mine Pact Between Pardners
Bud Hooker and Phil De Lancey, border miners, form a sworn pact while pursuing a rich Sonora claim. They plan to keep their alliance secret from Mexican rivals and stake their future on equal shares, danger, and the fortune ahead as they travel toward Agua Negra and the Eagle Tail mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooker
Phil
Bioy
Sonora
Dagle’ Tail
Aragon
Agente Mineral
Francisco Madero
Bud
Cipriano Arafon
Old Fortuna
Morales
Lye
Fortuna
Old Aragon
Ike
Moctezuma
Elormoaillo
City of
Mexico
de Lancey
Blages
Croesus
David
Asid
Jonathan
West
Cowpoya
Jacks
Bud Hooker
Phillp de Lancey
Dl Paso
de. Lancey
Chihuahua
Sierra Mudros
Juarez
Agua Negra
Porfirio
Madero
Orozco
de Lancay
de Lanecey
Fefa
Muy Caballaro
Zacatecas
Hooter
San’ Juan Mountain
Texas
Arizona
Mhey
Beancey
Sierras
Pardnen
de Laney
Budj
Empress Elizabeth’s onion soup faux pas recalled
A historical anecdote notes Empress Elizabeth of Austria demanded onion soup from a Central Market eatery and exact crockery. Paula Paoli admits the hotel served the meal on a common plate, claiming the crockery’s chipped charm added local color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Gribble
Francis Joseph
Elizabeth of
Austria
M. Paul
M. Paoli
Front Room Deal In Mexican Gold Mine Plot
In a speakeasy style scene Kruger pushes a backroom deal to Hooker and partners to secure a title to a rich Sonora mine. De Lancey Bud and Hooker press for terms as Kruger offers three hundred a month with a high risk prospect amid revolution and loyalty tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Lancey
Hooker
Henry Kruger
Kruger
Mr. Hooker
Ant
Sonora
Mexico
Bud
Lancey
Souvenir Craze Among Americans at London Hotels
A London hotel manager notes American visitors prize small items from big hotels as souvenirs totaling about 100000 dollars a year. Spoons trays towels and other niceties bearing hotel names are routinely taken, often with innocent intent, while one man even paid a plate price to steal a plate with a hotel crest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New York
Oie
America
Fram Misses First Passage Through Panama Canal
The Fram, famed polar ship, will not be the first through the Panama Canal. After waiting at Color since October 3, she begins a southward voyage to the Pacific via the Straits of Magellan. Delays at Colon threatened missing San Francisco timing for Captain Amundsen’s Arctic plan next summer.
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Fram
Pola Exploring
Pandinar Canal
Color
Pacific
Straits of Magellan
Colon
San Francisco
Amundaen
Arctic
Precautions for Tuberculosis Patients and Contacts
Guidance urges strict sanitary measures to prevent TB spread. It covers containment of sputum in lysol or carbolic acid solutions, use of disposable or boiled-dished sets, handling of soiled linens, and personal hygiene. Emphasizes that tuberculosis is preventable and requires stringent observance of precautions.
The Irresponsible Adjective Exchange
A world renowned speaker is introduced as important by a chairman who admits no one knows him. The dialogue exposes the shallow ploy to inflate status and the crowd’s muted reaction. The exchange centers on reputation versus actual recognition.
Mother-in-Law Proved a Wise Friend in Iowa Tale
A Iowa woman credits her mother-in-law with teaching her to make Postum coffee instead of regular coffee. After switching, her digestive trouble and blotchy complexion improved, and her grandmother also found health benefits from Postum. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum sold by grocers with enticing health claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Postum
Postum Co
Wellville
Okga
The Sweet Thing Promises in Brooklyn Life
The exchange features Miss Supheridge longing to see the man she will love honor and obey and Miss Pertly agreeing she would encourage that sentiment in the Brooklyn Life society page style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Supheridge
Miss Pertly
Brooklyn
Cure of scalp ailment with Cuticura soap and ointment
A Circleville, Ohio woman recounts her daughter's severe scalp itching and sores from head to body. After months of failed remedies, two applications of Cuticura Soap and Ointment provided relief and eventual cure. Signed Mrs. Allee Kirlin, November 4, 1912, with offer of free samples through Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Scioto St
Circleville
Ohio
Allee Kirlin
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Dove on Gun of Death Ship Aboard Montana
A white dove perched on a ten inch gun aboard the Montana as it moved north through fog. More than 100 crew members with expired terms cheer to be home. A yellow swallow, blown from near Cuba, rode a ship to Vera Cruz and stayed aboard the warship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Virginia
Cuba
Vera Cruz
New York
Philadelphia Times
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Pring A. Munzey
Bud Vecker
Pil de Lancay
Gadsden
Henry Singers
Digguat
Sara
Hooaker
the Waldorf
Bud- Hooker
Satcin
Firat
Hetil
Hig
Byob
Baeeg
Soutcah
Andy
Henry
Honast
Magle
Mape
Condon Hotel
Mississippi
Wrigley
Allen
Leltoy
Ralph W. Emerson
J. Mulhall
Soo City
Lucky Ja
Willow River
Milan
Tas
Grand Prank Pacire
Pacific Gront Kantern
Industriad Center
Forminca
Alaska
Columbia
United States
Edmonton
Calgary
Baskatoon
Pacific Land&townsites Company, Ltd
Richards Street
Vancouver
E. Gregory
At. Louis, Mo
Canada
Eomp
J. Keys
Denmark
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ottawa
Geo. A. Hall
Second St
Milwaukee
Wha
Chicago
Lombard Fish Ave
Quincy St
Jackson Boulevard
Lombard
Banking
Beasons
Union
Northwesto Lasalle
Grand Central Depors
Calline
Daisy Fly Killer
DeKalb Ava
M. Y
Wailton
Tro Birt
Whe
Ceisler
Lydia BE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Paxton Toilet Co
W. NY
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