New Year’s Eve in a Colorado City Goes Carnivalesque
A sleepy man in 1903 Colorado travels from Michigan to Colorado and wakes to a raucous New Year celebration. Fireworks, bells, and clattering machinery erupt in his room as the clock tolls midnight, turning his quiet night into a wild carnival of sounds and sights.
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Michigan
Colorado
Wolverine
Greeley
Catheral
Sugar Factory
Fle
North Star
North Pole
Doan's Ointment Promises Relief for Piles and Eczema
A Greeley resident testifies Doan's Ointment cured itching hemorrhoids and eczema. He says the first application gave relief, a steady treatment nearly cured him, with slight recurrences from overstraining. Doan's is sold by druggists. Fors-ter-Milburn Co. is sole U.S. agent. price 50 cents.
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Doan
Greeley
A. Schick, Carpenter
Fifth Street
Colo
Dean
H. Reynolds & Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
English Boxing Champion Declared in 1904 Dustup
A match ends with no motion to rise, three extra counts given, and the referee proclaims 1904 the champion. A watcher by the window shows his disgust as the old English expression appears.
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Ballard's Snow Linament Endorsed by Chicago Man
A. B. Canman of Chicago writes with March 4 1903 about lumbago relief from Ballard's Snow Linament after trying doctors and other remedies. He reports almost instant relief and urges others to use it. Available in 25c 50c and 1.00 prices. sold by all druggists.
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Union Station
Canal and
Adams Streets
Chicago
Eastern Line
J. E. Preston
17Th St
Denver
Colo
A. B. Canman
Ballard
Denver's Mineral and Agricultural Output Totals
A state ledger lists values for mineral products, livestock, crops, and industrial goods. It records gold and silver gains, copper and lead outputs, milk, fruit and vegetable yields, honey, butter, and sugar beet figures, plus cattle and sheep marketed in Denver and infrastructure spending like the Moffatt road at 3.5 million and bank clearings at 237 million.
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Denver
Garland editor praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
John H. Cullom of Garland Texas commends Chamberlains Cough Remedy for croup and colds noting it has been a reliable family remedy since 1887. He cites his five children all benefiting and praises its ease of administration and safety with no overdose risk.
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John H. Cullom
Garland
Texas
The Smelt Railroad Joke From 1859
In a Feb 6 1859 New York paper the Portsmouth railroad is mocked for taming expenses. A conductor allegedly peddled fish and used a trick to deliver six smelts to a customer at Suncook after miscounting. The story ends with the train returning to Concord.
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New York
Portsmouth
Concord
Suncook
Manchester
N. H.) Union
Sentinel and Hussar Word Origins
The article explains how the terms sentinel and hussar illustrate linguistic shifts. It traces sentinel to the Latin sentina meaning ship hold and the sentinator who pumped bilge water, while hussar derives from Hungarian for twentieth, linked to Matthias Corvinus raising an army by drafting every twentieth person.
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Casar
Matthias Corvinus
Hungary
Language and mistake in common usage Notes and Queries
A concise meditation on language where the speaker questions how terms implying error or being mistaken are used. The text examines self correction, responsibility in interpretation, and the paradox of truth and error in everyday speech.
Eye strain linked to headaches and hysteria cure urged
Over 5,000 patients treated in Colorado with a large stack of glasses and artificial eyes on hand. Eye strain blamed for headaches hysteria insomnia chorea and nervous prostration. removing the cause offers a permanent cure. If you need treatment of the eye ear nose or throat call early for scientifically fitted glasses.
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Colorado
Morocco’s harsh climate for Christians and Jewish economic grip
The article describes Morocco as highly fanatical toward Christians, with danger outside Tangier. It notes Moorish Jewish control of coastal trade, urging Christians to stay in the Jewish quarter. It also reports hostile acts in Morocco City and Fez where foreigners face stones and threats unless guarded by soldiers.
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Morocco
Europe
Tangier
Fez
Local eye service lists notable patients fitted for glasses
A neighborhood practitioner presents a partial client list including Antone Monson Raymond Lutis RK J Carter G E Lundy W C Randall Clayton Ennis Richard Gill J A Alexander E L Brownlee and John Knutson to illustrate recent eyewear fittings.
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Antone Monson
Raymond Lutis
RK. J. Carter
G. E. Lundy
W. C. Randall
Clayton Ennis
Richard Gill
J. A. Alexander
E. L. Brownlee
John Knutson
Good red grouse a uniquely British game bird
The London Globe notes the good red grouse as the sole vertebrate native to the British Isles. All other fauna are found elsewhere, including the black cock, but the true grouse exists only in the United Kingdom and is a noble, hardy, and magnificent flier.
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British Isles
United Kingdom
London Globe
Endurance of Chinese Coolies Noted in Feats of Strength
A writer recalls coolies who travel over forty miles with heavy loads and, after twenty seven hours without food, still offer to carry a man fifteen miles farther. This showcases remarkable stamina and resilience among laborers.
Signed Against Signing Petition Ties Names for a Year
In a brief exchange Ruggles presses to have a name on a petition while Rackshaw recalls a pledge from a prior visitor binding him not to sign any petition for one year. The men discuss a formal constraint on signatures.
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Ruggles
Rackshaw
Perfectly Terrible Rage Drives Girl To Intervene
Dialogue centers on a father’s sudden anger and a daughter’s plea for calm. The anxious elegiac tone frames a family scene where the child seeks to soothe a furious parent, hoping to prevent further conflict. The terse exchange hints at underlying tensions without further action.
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Adorer
The Wicked Parrots and Miss Nancy Dialogue Potshot
A brief humor item cites a joke exchange about sailors and parrots. The Boston Transcript quips that profanity comes from parrots taught by sailors, with a wry exchange between characters Cousin Tom and Miss Nancy.
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Nancy
Tom
Boston Transcript
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