A Vacation That Paid How One New Yorker Visited the Country
A Circle correspondent describes a frugal month long journey from New York City through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Chicago, Kansas, New Orleans, Savannah, Washington, Gettysburg, and Pennsylvania coal regions. He earned money on a steamer voyage and returned with $78, noting how the trip changed his view of Americans and work.
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New York City
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Masachusetts
Boston
Chicago
Canada
Kansas
Prairies
Middle West
Mississippi
New Orleans
Savannah
Washington
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
New York
Equine Dentists and Their Odd Instruments
In large cities dentists devote themselves to horses year round using special tools for extraction and filling. One device, a speculum with an ivory handle and nickel bars, forms a hollow square adjustable by a screw to fit a horse’s mouth during dental work.
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Benat
Harper's Weekly
Inspiration From Wives Sparks Indiana Novelist
An Indiana literary club hosts a visit by a well known novelist who says his wife provides inspiration. When muse fails or he relaxes, her requests for a new dress or extra household funds push him to renewed effort, and his pegasus rises to the task.
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Indiana
Boy's Severe Cholera Morbus From Green Apples
Lester Wolroth suffered a severe attack after eating green apples. His mother Mrs. Pearl Wolroth of Herkimer New York followed advice and used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After three doses he recovered. Available from all dealers.
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Lester Wolroth
Pearl Wolroth
Herkimer
N. Y
Chamberlain
Chafing Dish Supper Menu and Spanish Chicken Recipe
A Circle Magazine feature describes a chafing dish supper menu with Spanish chicken as the main dish and six servings costing 2.59. Menu items include two kinds of sandwiches, olives, peanuts, fruit, and coffee with most components prepared in advance. The article provides a step by step method to prepare tender Spanish chicken, peppers, tomato, onion, and cream sauce served over buttered toast.
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Circle Magazine
New England
Evolution of Clothes in Civilized Manners Through Time
A brisk historical note on how clothing forms evolved from cylindrical robes to modern coats and jackets. The piece links garment details like morning coat tails and sleeve buttons to practical riding and work needs, and notes gendered differences in button placement.
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Wells
Hard Working French Schoolboys
French children head to school after seven in the morning and study late into the evening. Young men preparing for higher professions start at five in summer to manage heavy workloads. Across arts, the tireless labor is immense, with Conservatoire students’ disciplined routine even shocking German peers.
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Tyre
Overwork and the Farmer's Wife Advice
The Newark News quotes that overwork seldom causes death and that breakdowns stem from overworry and excesses rather than pure labor. It argues that the energy for daily tasks is small compared with attention to secondary pursuits, noting farmers' wives as an example.
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Newark
N. J
Urgent Need in Western Mining Town Hotel
In a Western mining town hotel a New England guest reports loud yells about a murder upstairs. The clerk asserts it is a troublesome spring bed in Number Five. The tenderfoot guest is repeatedly injured by the bed’s spiral springs as the clerk heads toward the stairs.
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New England
Farm Machinery Purchases Soar in National Market
Farmers nationwide acquire over ten million dollars worth of farm machinery annually, illustrating strong demand for tractors, implements, and equipment driving agricultural productivity and sector growth.
Money in Mules Average 3 Year Olds Bring $200
The article describes raising mules on small Missouri farms as a profitable income source. It notes three year olds can fetch about $200, larger animals more, and outlines a sustainable feeding regimen using corn stalks and fodder rather than hay. It cites Country Life in America quoting a Missouri farmer and emphasizes humane handling and steady demand for mules.
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Middle States
Missouri
America
Health of the Farmer and the Farm Household
The Baltimore Sun notes rural women are capable managers yet farm life risks poor health. Factors include polluted air from pigpens and contaminated water from drainage and wells. The harsh outdoors and habit of wearing wet clothes worsen health while poor food handling by the household adds to the risk.
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Baltimore Sun
Teacher's Bible Lesson Sparks Child's Flea Question
Professor Carl C. Peterson recalls a dinner remark about a Bible lesson in Dubuque. He described a colored illustration of Arise and take the young child and his mother to Egypt. A little girl asked where is the flea.
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Carl C. Peterson
Dubuque
Egypt
Loyal Soldier Follows Irish Colonel Despite Battle Peril
A Philadelphia Inquirer writer recounts a battle tale where a devoted Irish regiment private trails the colonel everywhere. The officer remarks on loyalty, and the soldier attributes his steadfastness to his mother’s advice to “stick to the colonel.”
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Sorr
Pat
A Bid for Fame In Nevada Legislators’ Quick Reading
For years Nevada lacked sound as mining booms faded. The public grumbled that no one took them seriously and chose to be seen as a joke. Meanwhile legislators moved quickly to read a lesson to the Mikado, rushing without proper grammar study.
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Nevada
Ambition and Love in Life's Worthwhile Balance
A reflective line argues life holds two worthy aims ambition and love. It states that when the drive for eminence coincides with a blessed loving partner, greed has little room to prevail.
The Mariner's Compass and Magnetic Pole Allegiance
The Windsor Magazine notes the compass often fails to point true north on ships due to Earth's varied magnetic conditions, steel hulls and on board dynamos. It describes the compass as a fragile guide amid electric currents and magnetic interferences on modern steamships.
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Mariner
Windsor Magazine
Curious facts from science and nature hit parade
A miscellany of notes covers measurements of pearls by grain per carat, fingernail growth, rain patterns, shorthand history, edible nest weight and price, birth months, animal drinking habits, life spans, and a vast sunlit hall in St. Petersburg used for daylight military displays and evening illumination with wax tapers under a single iron arch roof.
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Pitman
St. Petersburg
Early Chinese history and imperial foundation overview
The article traces Chinese history from 2637 B C with clan rule to feudal systems, notes seven states in 403 B C, and cites Ying Zing’s unification in 221 B C. It mentions the imperial system founded by the first emperor and the Great Wall’s 214 B C construction, detailing its dimensions and scope.
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Europe
China
Hwang Ti
Gymnastics of the Eye in Eternal Art
Emerson extols painting and sculpture as gymnastics of the eye praising living sculpture over classical forms. He hails a single artist as dynamic, continually reimagining figures and expressions from his own block, dismissing oils and chisels as mere tools.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Traveler claims effort to visit every door in tall Skyby building
A dialogue from the Skyby hotel reaches the skyscraper’s height limit. A ninety sixth floor resident notes a traveler on the one eighty sixth floor has already visited every door in the building despite being under forty. The Kansas City Times presents this anecdote.
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Skyby
Kansas City Times
Force of Habit Drives Man to Court Drama
An Atchison man explains that for three years after marrying a school teacher she would act up each time the school bells rang, likening it to horses reacting to the fire whistle as reported by the Atehlaon Globe.
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Atchison
Atehlaon Globe
Curfew Edict Targets Harrisville Youths in West Virginia
Harrisville seeks to enforce an 8 pm curfew for under 20 residents amid arrests of three youths for violations. Mayor defends the measure as essential to peace and order in a town notable for its taxless status and municipal gas plant operation.
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Harrisville
W. Va
Chicago Visit Costs Iowa Farmer Two Thousand Five Hundred
John J. Williams of Winthrop Iowa was duped by two confidence men after being lured with promised race winnings. He followed a man posing as a Winnipeg farmer named Shaw to Walker Iowa then cashed his $2500 and handed it over. Both suspects fled with the money and Williams filed a police complaint.
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Chicago
John J. Williams
Winthrop
Williams
William Shaw
Winnipeg
Shaw
Walker
Nutty Novelette at the Naval Ball
Midshipman Lollypop claims the dance and escorts the young woman to the balcony. She schemes to deflect him and, as he looks over the edge, she gently pushes him but remains afraid to wound his feelings. Capt. Spondoozer looms as a preferred partner in her thoughts.
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Capt. Spondoozer
One Question for the American Novelist in Exile
A curious piece questions American novelists home from Europe and mocks low European views of the American character. It wittily notes financial prudence of keeping large sums secret and jokes about bachelors and marriage markets. It ends with a milk safety quip urging inspection if milk exceeds 200,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter.
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Europe
Railway chances in other Americas
New report by F. Lavis to the American Society of Civil Engineers details railway prospects in South and Central America. He notes South and Central American rail facilities are inadequate to meet changing conditions, with nine different gauges across 45,000 miles of track complicating expansion and shifting trade roles for the United States.
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New York
South and
Central America
F. Lavis
American Society of Civil Engineers
Lavis
South
United States
Age of Trinity Church in New York
The current Trinity Church was built 1839 to 1846 on a site dating to 1696. New York then was a village by the Battery, with little hint of its future growth. The church spire rises 285 feet, a marvel in its era, now dwarfed by surrounding skyscrapers.
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Trinity Church
New York
Detroit Auto Industry Growth in 1909
The Detroit car sector shows rapid expansion with twelve firms pre 1909 and capital of 7.865 million, while 1909 saw twenty one new companies start manufacturing with capital totaling 4 million, underscoring Detroit's leading role in automobile production.
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Detroit
Fortune Hidden in Attic Shoe Box Found in Estate
Appraisers uncover a shoe box in the attic of Mrs. Margaret Ridenour’s Mt. Vernon home containing certificates of deposit mortgage notes and valuables totaling $50 000. The estate includes 700 acres of real estate and is now valued at about $125 000.
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Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Margaret Ridenour
Laughs at Hus Band's Joke Ends in Death in Davenport
Mrs Charles Mohr aged 43 laughed at a supper table joke told by her husband in Davenport Iowa. She began laughing at 5:15 and remained in hysterics for six hours before dying.
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Davenport
Iowa
Charles Mohr
Mouse Restores Her Speech in Gloucester Tale
In Gloucester Miss Susie Lockport long silenced by acute tonsillitis recalls that a mouse crossing the floor provoked a scream and restored her power of speech after years without words.
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Mouse
Gloucester
Mass
Susie Lockport
Trustees' Notices from Madison and adjoining townships
Trustees in Madison and nearby townships publish schedules for weekly office hours at designated residences or townships. Notices list trustees J W Knauer Ernest Rivet Benjamin Walls Oliver Stringer and D W Etcheson, detailing days and locales to transact official business during the week.
Marion Township Trustee Office Notice
Otto Rector, Trustee, states he will be at his residence in Marion township on Fridays each week and at his Fillmore location on Tuesdays to transact the business of his office.
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Madison Township
J. W. Knauer
Usinegg Rusten
Reek Township
Ernest Rivet
Jackson
Jackson Township
Benjamin Walls
Oliver Stringer
Bainbridge
Floyd Township
Floyd
Marion Township
Fillmore
Otto Rector
Stomach Trouble Relief From Cham berlain's Tablets
Mrs. Bernice Wyrant of Lima Ohio describes four years of stomach discomfort and headaches. After ineffective medicines she used Cham berlain's Tablets and two bottles relieved her symptoms. Sold by all dealers.
Don Kidney Pills Prove Value in Local Testimony
Greencastle farmer W Key reports fifteen years of kidney pain and backache eased after using one box of Don Kidney Pills. He says relief from frequent kidney secretions and improved energy followed. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sells Dean's Kidney Pills for 50 cents.
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W. Key
Farmer
Greencastle
Dean
Mr. Key
Foster-Mil Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Chaipain's Tablets Promoted for Relief
An aged advertorial promotes Chaipain's Tablets for stomach trouble urging readers to follow bottle directions and promising benefits from a trial. Says available from all dealers.
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Chaipain
Favorite Remedy for Summer Complaint
About three years ago I had a serious attack of summer complaint. The doctor's medicine failed to benefit me, so I sent for a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on a neighbor's recommendation. One dose did me more good than all other medicines. I improved rapidly and soon was well. Mrs May Higgins Peru ld. For sale by all dealers.
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May Higgins
Peru
Herald Wanted Wonders Shine Bright
A brief notice proclaims Herald Wanted as a beacon of merit, praising wonders and urging attention to the seeker's features and accomplishments with concise, evocative language.
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