A Liberal Offer for Farmers and Poultry Readers
A newspaper promotion offers four papers for one year at 1.75 dollars. The Town Homestead, its Farmers Institute editions, and The Poultry Partner are bundled with the home paper. The offer claims the trio is premier in agriculture and livestock reading, available for a short time only.
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Town Homestead
Farmers’ Institute
West
Homestead
Weal
Poultry Farmer
Special Farmers’ Institute
Three Quarters of a Century Companion Prospectus 1902
The Youths Companion asks readers to subscribe for 1902, noting seventy five years of weekly publication, wide coverage of stories, editorials, and articles. A 28 page 1902 volume prospectus and free copies offer details, with $1 subscription including remaining 1901 issues. Lithographed calendar in colors and gold. Youth's Companion, 193 Columbus Ave, Boston, Mass.
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Fouth
Formost
Columbus Ave
Toston
Mass
RAILROAD EXQUASIONS TO NEW YORK AND LAND SALES
Very low excursion rates to New York City and return via the North Western Sea daily until October 20 1901. Land prospecting in Northern Wisconsin offered with low prices and easy terms along the North Western Line. Information from Geo W Bell, Land Commissioner, and G Nugent, General Passenger Agent, St Paul Minnesota. Also cheap holiday excursion tickets within 80 miles of Omaha with return by January 2.
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New York City
North-Western
Chicago & North-Western Railroad
Wisconsin
Minneapally
St. Paul
Duluth
Superior
Milwaukee
Chicay
Agdeuss
Geo. W. Bell
Sou
Wis
GU. NugHne
Mion
Moanuupulig & St. Louis’ R. Be
Threshing Outfit Displayed at Newton Farm Exhibition
One of the most complete threshing outfits in the state is shown in fine condition at the Newton farm, located one mile north and one mile east of Arnold. Goseoit. J. F. Taylor, Humboldt Care Russell House. 1-w-pd.
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Sais
Bargain
Newton Farm
Arnold
Goseoit
J. F. Taylor
Humboldt Care Russell House
Envious Steward and the Audacious Grafter
A poorly dressed man enters a college club seeking gratis sustenance and a luncheon, pressing the steward for meals and drink. He admits intent to return later, muttering that the club’s comfort was “cosy,” while pondering how to obtain the lunch without paying. New York Tribune reports the incident.
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Athan
Herve
New York Tribune
Catherine Si's Rules from Hermitage Tablet
The rules inscribed on a tablet in the Hermitage St Petersburg Museum of Art urge visitors to leave rank and pride outside, be gay but discreet, sit or move freely, speak moderately, argue calmly, avoid sighing, join innocents in all acts, eat sweetly and drink in moderation, and tell no tales out of school, with rule X banning offenders from admission.
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Hermitage
St. Petersburg Museum of Art
The Terrapin Dineane and Terrapin Disease Beliefs
An old European text recounts terrapin related sickness beliefs. It notes terrapin diseases blamed on the creature’s unmoved ribless body and an Indian patient who sought shamanic cure after admitting to tying a terrapin’s tail. The medicine man claimed the terrapin pays old scores and prescribed a remedy.
Procrastination at the Post Office Told in Dialect
An Alabama town morning scene unfolds as a visitor explains arriving early at a post office. A colored janitor jokes about delay and social reciprocity, inviting conversation to pass the wait. The exchange highlights local speech and neighborhood warmth in a brief encounter.
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Alabama
A Civil Word A Fronely Ein Quote Note
A fragment quotes a saying on civility and kindness. The text compares gentle speech to a candle shared by others, suggesting harmony improves the world when words are used kindly and tempered.
Slow Frayer and Chinaman Complaint Document
A clipped excerpt shows a dispute or exchange involving a young man and a figure named Clitumnau, with archaic spellings and garbled terms. The text hints at a confrontation or complaint amid dialect or transliteration oddities, reflecting a fragmented historical newspaper fragment.
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Baltimore Jewiah
Pity on Beauty Pity on Beauty
The most beautiful thing in the world is the baby with dimples and joy yet the same baby becomes thin and in pain. The mother does not know a little fat makes the difference. The child has had no fat for weeks and is starving. Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is the fat she can take to save her.
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Scott
Forest and Stream subscription sales pitch
An advertisement invites readers to subscribe to Forest and Stream, promising weekly chapters on duck shooting, training dogs for field work, and practical tips on shooting, fishing, camping, and game news. It emphasizes large circulation and offers a yearly rate of four dollars and a deluxe artotype option for five fifty, with contact at 346 Broadway, New York.
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Usherman
All News
America
Forest and Stream Pub.co
Broadway
New York
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SHELL
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Kerenpa
cAlurshiall
Lowa
Catherine Si.’S Rules
Scott & Bowne
Emiats
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Reade
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