Chrysanthemum Displays Transform Dango-zaka Gardens
The Globe Democrat reports Dango-zaka blossoms turn the street into a festive fair during chrysanthemum season. Florists stage life size wax figures clothed in chrysanthemum gowns, tableaux with living flowers, and dramatic pieces including a fifty foot chrysanthemum ship and a giant thirty foot tall chrysanthemum figure. Visitors admire landscape gardens, dwarf trees, and hundreds of blossoms arranged in epically staged displays.
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Dango-zaka
Dangozaka
Shintomiza
Druse
Edisu
Jingo
Takenouchi
Korea
Jingo Kogo
Alaska
Japan
Cor
Globe- Democrat
Creamy mishap spices town talk in Ascola Democrat
Local gossip notes a wife fell into a tub of cream but survived, chin churned by forty rounds of churn. The quip ends with a pun on happiness as an art while a streetwise voice adds a closing vulgar aside. Uncle sek referenced.
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Smith
Ascola Democrat
Uncle Sek
Queen Victoria's Pearls and a Burning Mystery
A Liverpool Mercury writer recounts how Queen Victoria funded daughters' pearl necklaces by yearly additions, including three gems bought for nearly £500. A court inquiry about whether pearls burn led to the revelation that tissue paper on the writing desk was burned, destroying the pearls unseen. The tale ends with a humorous note about an actor's flour nose mishap and a joke exchange from the Newport Post and Boston Transcript.
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Liverpool Mercury
London
Newport Post
Craze Among Chicago Boys Names Sleeping Cars
Boys in Hyde Park pursue collecting names of sleeping cars in a city contest. They sit by passing trains for observation, imagining a grand house built from the experience, while noting car names such as Octorara and Eutobicoke in a humorous local anecdote.
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Hyde Park
Dinois Penitentiary
Octorara
Oecheyedan
Kiskiminetas
Syosset
Apopka
Chicago Herald
Brace Up with Electric Bitters Offer
An advertisement declares low spirits and poor appetite can be cured by Electric Bitters. It promotes purity of blood, liver and kidney action, and renewed vitality. Available for 50 cents a bottle at J. F. Fezer's drug store with cautions on stimulants.
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J. F. Fezer
California Cat-a-Cure and Kidney Balm Ads
The ad promotes CALIFORNIA CAT-A-CURE as a guaranteed remedy for catarrh with W B Mason as agent at $1 per bottle, three for $2.50, and also markets Dr J H McLean Liver and Kidney Balm and Blood Purifier for kidney bladder troubles and general vitality. Includes a joke about Lot’s wife from a Washington Critic item.
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J. H. McLean
Free Dr King S New Discovery Promises Quick Cough Cure
Local merchants tout free trial bottles of Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and other throat and lung diseases as a draw for customers. Promotions claim rapid relief, with large bottles at $1 and a guarantee. Separate notes joke about marriage and a piano playing rooster in town satire.
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J. F. Fezer
Dr. King
California Cat-r-care Promoted For Lung Complaints
A San Francisco like remedy Santa Abie is touted as a cure for throat and lung diseases. The ad claims worthlessness of current medicines and urges investing $1 in California discovery for consumption. W B Mason sells it at $1 a bottle, three for $2 50 with six months by mail for $1 10. Also includes a short joke about Bobby and Featherly at dinner.
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California
Santa Alie
Santa Abie
Golden State
W. B. Mason
Remarkable Cure Report for Cough Remedy
I describe my seven year old daughter suffering a severe cough and cold with little sleep. After using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy she experienced immediate relief and a full recovery. I would not be without it and consider it superior to all other remedies tried. Des Moines Iowa reference. sold by J F Fezer. Also note Dr J H McLean's Chills and Fever Cure offered at 50 cents per bottle to eradicate malaria indicators.
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J. M. Menan
Capital City Commercial College
Des Moines
Iowa
J. F. Fezer
J. H. McLean
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Floribel
Venice
Boston Transcript
Dearerst
Washington
Eureka
Lot
de Sappy
Salem
Lil
Norristown Herald
Bobby
Young Featherly
Clara
Poch
Greeley, Colo
Greeley
First National Bank
Hunter & West's Bank
Union Bank
R. G. Dunn & Co
Portland and Louisvile Cement
Plaster OF Paris
RED Cross Paints
Marshall and Welch
Lyons & Brooks
Choice Farms
Mitt, Benedict & Co
Main Street
Eighth Avenue
Greeley, Col
Rochester Lamp
Ceet
A.ico
Walnut Street
Madison Avenue
H. A. French
J. K Thompson
East Greeley
Greenlee & CO
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
Lawrence
S.J. Gilmore
Larimer Street
Denver, Colo
Rocky Mountain News
Daily News
Colorado
St. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
DAILY
A.J. Eaton
Potato Planters
Beteer
Aspinwall Qifg.co
Three Rivers
Michigan
A.e.mead & CO
Greeley and
A. J. Eaton, Eaton, Cele
Cooper Bros
Arapahoe Streets
City National Bank
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