Public demands lumber relief in rising building costs
The article notes lumber drains value, rising over half of remaining supply, and raises the impact on sashes doors blinds floors roofs stair railings and fixtures. It cites shingles and laths totaling about thirty million yearly, with raw materials up twenty to fifty percent, raising rent and building costs beyond a decade. It also mentions a patent sample offer for a woman’s health remedy by The Mother Gray Co.
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Success Magazine
Henry's Deficiency Then and Now
A merchant dies leaving his son to run a large business. Friends debate Henry's fitness. one praises his brightness, another doubts his head for his father's shoes. Harper's Weekly quotation illustrates concerns about inherited leadership.
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Henry
Harper's Weekly
Wizard Ol Heals Joints And Muscles Fast
An advertisement promises rapid relief for sore joints and muscles with Hamlins Wizard Ol rubbed in. It claims immediate limbering effects to ease stiffness.
No Reverence for Antiquity in Rome Dinner Tale
Ambassador Lloyd Griscom praised American reverence for antiquity during a Rome dinner with Philadelphians. He recalled guiding a southern guest through ancient sights, noting one man’s remark about the Ara Coeli and a claim the church is 1800 years old, followed by a humorous retort about its smell.
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Lloyd Griscom
Calhoun
One Sided Obligation Conductor Finds Courtesy Surprises Passenger
In a Chicago Tribune anecdote a fat passenger steps on a street car conductor’s foot. The conductor’s polite apology prompts a humorous exchange as the passenger jokes about fare etiquette, and the conductor ends up collecting two fares.
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Chicago Tribune
Malthoid Roofing Sample Offer From Los Angeles Factory Rep
An advertisement touts easy furnished roofing using Malthoid, claiming no repair bills with rolls made by the world's largest smooth asphalt roofers. It promises a free booklet and samples, urging readers to write to factory representative 5 G Judah at 516-519 Security Building in Los Angeles.
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G. Judah
Los Angeles
Boat Dwellers Of Canton City On The River
The article surveys the Tankia or boat dwellers near Canton, describing their floating homes along the Pearl River reach toward Hongkong. It notes their caste status, social separation from shore residents, and their livelihood moving goods and people, while highlighting their lack of rent and taxes. Pettit's Eye Salve advertisement follows.
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Imperial Custom House
Canton
Hongkong
London Lady
Muskrats for Meat and Misunderstanding
The Baltimore Star argues that muskrats are unjustly maligned as meat, insisting they are clean, epicurean feeders who dine on pristine morsels. It praises musk rat flesh as satisfying as terrapin, urging education of the prejudiced to reveal the animal’s culinary value.
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Baltimore Star
Chesapeake
Cascarets Cure Constipation and Child Education Thought
An unnamed reader extols Cascarets for curing constipation after a week and six weeks, praising its palatability and effectiveness. The piece then shifts to a reflection on parenting, citing Woods Hutchinson about treating children as equals to gain influence and learn from them, arguing that children teach as much as adults.
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Prin A
George Kryder
Napoleon
Woods Hutchinson
Success Magazine
Making It Pleasant for Him at the Banquet
The toasmaster introduces the final speaker Mr Ketchum A Cummin at a Chicago Tribune banquet praising the evening’s eloquence and promising a memorable address before attendees depart.
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Toasmaster
Ketchum A. Cummin
Chicago Tribune
Cheese Cakes Recipe and Local Vignettes
A recipe for cheese cakes uses cottage cheese milk eggs sugar salt butter and flavoring baked in an open crust until gold brown. The article notes a Louisiana woman supports herself by raising mint and a Jersey City woman earns a living painting signs.
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Louisiana
Jersey City
Harold Somers Located At 150 DeKalt Ave Brooklyn
A brief item notes Harold Somers address at 150 DeKalt Avenue in Brooklyn New York. No other details or context are provided in the readable text.
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Harold Somers
DeKalt Ave
Brooklyn
Multiple Trades and Services Advertisements in Los Angeles
A garbled advertisement page lists patent attorneys like G E Harpham and Brooks & Lidders, patent experts, home goods including trunks and awnings, wallpaper sales, piano players, nerve restorer trial offers, car and manufacturing references to Durocar, used book buyers Holmes Book Co and Knox & Richards, medical claims for cures, a real estate broker Fern Company, and a notice for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It reads as a miscellany of 1900s commercial notices from Los Angeles with scattered addresses and business names.
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S.G. Wells
Los Angeles
F. J. Bauer
The
Burton Music Co
Hamburgers
Broadway
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le Angeles
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Huse
W. O. Huse
Ostimeon Bldg
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Woodbury
A.R. Bowers & Sons
Pus
Chicago Varnish Company
Main St
W. A. Saunders
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Gol Terras Bam Sra
Mother Gray
Fife & Sale
Mother Gray Co
le Roy
N. Y
Ava
C. M. Wooster CO
West 2Nd Street
California
Exchange Department
Prices R. D. Bronson Cop. Desk CO
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N.Y
Daisy Fly Killer
Hass
Orn
Castor
Bears
Castoria
Axa Shop
G. E. Harpham
Union Trust
U. Sand
Brooks & Lidders
L. A. Trust
G. U. Whitney
Swanfeldt
South Main St
L. A
Durocar
Durocar Mfg. Co
Holmes Book Co
St. Phones
Main
Knox & Richards
Er Ticinno
Dr. Nichols
West 5Th
the Fern Company
Germain
Yuma
Imperial Valley
America
Colorado River Delta
Central Building
E. P. Teasdale
Mrs. Winslow
Sana Cooet
Ware Arnott & CO
Los Angel
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