Munyon Paw-Paw Pills and Homeopathic Cure Claims
An advertisement promotes Munyon s Paw Paw laxative pills as a superior stomach and liver remedy. It claims rapid relief from constipation indigestion jaundice biliousness sour stomach and headaches using Paw Paw fruit extract. The notice invites free samples by mail from Munyon s Homeopathic Home Remedy Co in Philadelphia and also touts Dr Pierce s Pleasant Pellets as a family laxative.
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Munyon
Reman DY Co
Jefferson Sta
Philadelphia
Bread as health cornerstone in humorous lecture
In a Harper's Weekly vignette, the lecturer proclaims bread as the cornerstone of health while on a walk home Jinks quips that Polly’s biscuits must have influenced his idea. The blur of social humor centers on food and wit without further detail.
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Polly
Jinks
Harper’s Weekly
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement by Fort Gay Doctor
A practicing physician Dr. R Frasher of Fort Gay West Virginia endorses Doan's Kidney Pills. He claims they are the finest remedy for kidney and bladder diseases and reports personal use and successful treatment of his patients. The ad notes the price and distributor Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. The piece shifts to a commentary on unfashionable cradles and rocking, contrasting sentiment with modern infant beds.
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R. Frasher
M. D
Fort Gay
W. Va
Doan
Doan’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Not Mad Dog Fear Sparks Public Action
The New York Press notes dogs bite can cause fear and prejudice, citing misidentifications of symptoms like mad dog scares from meat, heat, or foul food. It argues many homes lack water and cautions about strychnine poisoning in frogs. It urges owners to keep homeless dogs off streets to curb prejudice.
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New York Press
Queen Maryage Forty Three Admits It
UMININE notes recount diverse items from suffrage in Oklahoma to a New York burglar capture by Freda Dolinsky. Tale spans figures like Emma Knell taking charge in Muskogee fair, veiling myths disputed in Turkey, legal actions in New York, and a Hastings death of Dr Elizabeth Blackwell. Mentioned events include a bird park project funded by Mary Emery, a Yorkshire girl’s bravery with a pitch fork, and a jail stay tied to a $5000 note.
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Queen Mary
Oklahoma
Freda Dolinsky
East Side
New York City
Emma Knell
Carthage
Muskoges
Okla
Anna Strula
Mary Emery
Cincinnati
Marie Rodenbeck
Ells Island
S. T. Hanton
Elizabeth Blackwell
England
Rock House
Hastings
Justice Greenbaum
Paunie
Miller
Embroidered Ribbon Trends Revived In Fashion Notes
A Philadelphia Record excerpt surveys a revived embroidery style via ribbonwork adorning collars cuffs and petticoats with aims to create corset trims and rosebud forget-me-not star motifs. The piece notes Marie Antoinette and even silk stockings as potential canvases for this decorative embroidery.
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Marie Antoinette
Bethlehem
Philadelphia Record
WEDDING CUSTOMS IN HISTORIC CEREMONIES
The article traces ancient origins of wedding rites. It notes the ring’s shift to the left hand under Christianity and the triad of utterances during placement. It discusses the bridal veil’s origin, the Anglo-Saxon hiding gesture, and the betrothal period customs, including the friend of the bridegroom. Shoes, tied to Jewish tradition, close the overview.
Preserving Fish With Butter and Spices
Cut fish into three slices and season with half teaspoon each mace salt and cayenne. Bake covered with half pound butter for one hour, then pound bones from slices in a wooden mortar. Add garlic mace cagnene salt melted butter and pan liquor, mix, pack into jars, cover with paraffin and chill. Keeps up to a month.
Housework shift sparks hiring servant trend report
A nephew notes the growing practice of hiring domestic help, saying the custom is not yet universal but expanding. The Indianapolis News quotes a woman agreeing it saves time and trouble, reflecting evolving views on household labor.
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Boston
Indianapolis News
Novel as Evidence in Wife's Dower Suit
In Chicago testimony Mrs Susanne Ella Wood Dean seeks dower rights in her late husband John Dean's 1 4 million estate. Her lawyers argue a 25 000 settlement signed at marriage was made by a naive young wife unaware of rights. Defendants seek letters and a diary. they may add Dean's wife's love novel as evidence to show a love match and lack of financial motive.
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Susanne Ella Wood Dean
John HE. Déan
Chicago
Dean
Women Field Hands in Nassau County Fields
Groups of Nassau County women head to Long Island fields before 7 each morning. Skirted, barefoot, some with baby wagons, they hoe and weed under the sun while babies ride along, reflecting hardship in rural work.
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Miller
Nassau County
Long Island
From Old Customs to Modern Names in Marriage Traditions
The text explains historical rituals such as the bride’s father giving a shoe or throwing it to signify surrender of authority, and rice tossing symbolizing abundance. It notes the origin of taking the husband’s name in Roman times, with Julia and Pompey as an example, and observes that modern practice often drops the “of” in surnames.
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Julia
Pompey
Herame
Julia of
Dreams as psychoses insights from Morton Prince
A New York World summary notes Morton Prince of Boston argues dreams mirror delirium rather than wish fulfillment. He cites a hypnotic case of a woman haunted by cats, linking buried childhood fear to dream content and explaining rushed speech in delirium as rapid mental activity outpacing speech.
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Academy of Sciences
Morton Prince
Boston
Prince
Freud
New York World
England Pauper Claim Debunked in Ledger Quip
A Philadelphia Ledger item quotes a London exchange debunking a claim that one in thirty seven people in England are paupers. The unnamed speaker counters with a personal experience claiming no paupers among people she met in London last summer.
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England
London
Philadelphia Ledger
German Merchant Fined Over Bible Quote Ad
In Germany a merchant was recently heavily fined for using a quotation from the Bible at the head of an advertisement. The case highlights strict advertising rules and religious text usage in commercial notices.
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Germany
Commons Census Shows Diverse British MPs Pattern
The census by Lewis Appleton compares UK Commons with US Congress, noting Commons houses many trades and professionals not common in Washington. It finds Lords dominated by leisure class, while MPs include storekeepers, farmers, teachers, doctors, clergy, and engineers alongside lawyers and financiers.
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House of Commons
House of Representatives
New Commons
Lewis Appleton
Old Queen, Street
Westminster
Eas Ands Wand
Ran
American Congress
Washington
Congress
Senate
House of Lords
Sista
Pye
Wise Words on Money and Mirth from a Telegraphic Tone
A New York telegraph column surveys money, manners, and merit with pithy maxims. It contrasts wealth with happiness, fame with silence, and vanity with virtue, noting how opportunity and wit shape social standing while money alters perception of life and friendship.
Tin Corsets Draw Bolt Fatal Near Petersburg Ind
A nine year old girl Mary Taylor was injured when lightning struck her family home near Petersburg Indiana during a storm. She was found under the rear porch wearing improvised tin corsets made from flattened can tins. She survived the incident after being rescued unconscious but unharmed apart from the ordeal.
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Mary Taylor
John P. Taylor
Petersburg
Ind
Gire
Education and Efficiency in London Schools Debate
London Saturday Review questions whether London's education system truly serves the capital. It notes two thirds of skilled labor comes from the provinces, most dock workers are London born, and a high proportion of night shelter seekers are native to London, asking if talent migration or school weakness explains the friction.
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London
London Saturday Review
Fish business gossip touches local figures
Fragmentary note mentions a fish business and a person named Wie Qe in a local exchange with Redd and Youker. It hints at a teaching or saying about how to swink a slate, referenced by a Slatesman. Content is terse and unclear.
Good Housekeeping and the Vermersn
A column lists various periodicals and their associations with political parties. It mentions Good Housekeeping American Magazine Democrat and several other titles including National Monthly New York Daily World Sunday World Thrice-Weekly World and Democrat with scattered OCR errors across publications. The page item appears to be a catalog-like reference to periodical combinations and subscription notes.
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Good Housekeeping
the Vermersn
American Magazine
Democrat
Cosmopolitan
National Monthly
New York Daily ‘World
New York Sunday World
Emocrat
World
Demorat
Pittsburg Daily Post and Denierat
Cold Tune Day chills New York as records fall
A century of brief items reports New York shivering on the coldest Tune day, 200 Jewish families expelled from Kiev, Walter A. Fitch shot himself at a ball game, and a Carnegie Foundation critique of medical schools. Taft visit stirs intra party strife, five and ten cent stores reach England, London Horse Show starts with American entries, five aeronauts race Angers to Saumur, NY Museum buys a Whistler portrait, an airship recon over London, a New York hotel planned for 3 million, and U.S. railroad distances raised between stations. Aldermen in Asheville raise near beer licenses to 1000 dollars, amid unsettled times.
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New York
Kiev
Russia
Walter A. Fitch
Greenport
L. 1
Carnegie Foundation
Taft
Michigan
England
London
Angers
Saumur
France
Museum of Art
New York City
Whistler
Henry Irving
St. Paul’s
Aldershot
Broadway
Thirty-third
Thirty-fourth Streets
New Haven
Mellen
Madriz
State Department
William P. Pittman
Board of Aldermen
Asheville
N. C
Sporting Notes on 1920s Athletics and Contests
Jack Johnson dismisses manager George Little while Kansas students take to rowing and canoeing. Crescent A C lacrosse beats Johns Hopkins alumni 6 to 3. Caleb Bragg sets fast Mead Horse Wil climb time in Worcester. Delaney, Georgetown alum, coaches Exeter Worcester Poly Worcester High and Northwestern. The First Life Guards polo team wins Whitney Cup final against Quidnunes in London. San Francisco issues permit for Jim Jeffries Johnson fight. Win some yacht defeats Istalenn and Aurora for Vanderbilt cup. Columbia hopeful Yale rowing meet despite Harvard setback. Minnesota athletes to train publicly with university gym dances. Sweetland, ex Cornell and Syracuse coach, named athletic director at Kentucky State University. Gish of Washington wins 22-yard and 440-yard runs. places in 100-yard, broad jump, javelin in Pacific Coast intercollegiate.
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Jack” Johnson
George Little
Kansas University
Crescent A. C
Johns Hopkins
Caleb Bragg
Worcester
Delaney
Georgetown
Exeter
Worcester Poly
Worcester High
Northwestern
Wirst Life Guards
Quidnunes
London
Board of Supervisors of
San Francisco
Jim” Jeffries
J. NR. Sweetland
Cornell
Syracuse
Kentucky State University
Gish
University of Washington
Water Chest Receptacle Proposed By Mrs Lucy Gerry
Mrs Lucy Gerry of Boston Post describes a galvanized iron water chest receptacle designed to fit under the chest with a tin cover hinged at one end. A six inch protrusion and a tin box under the cover rise to signal water rise, indicating the box should be emptied to prevent overflow.
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Iran
Caver
Lucy Gerry
Boston Post
Unclear: Fragmentary Report From Historical Notice
The readable fragments indicate a partial name list and a named local group, but key details and events remain obscured in the OCR text.
Baseball notes from around the leagues and player moves
Umpire O Louglin praises Lajoie as an ideal batsman while Frank Isbell progresses with his Wichita Club. Oscar Stanage shows improvement with the Tigers. Brooklyn sells Hunter to Montreal in the Eastern League. Fraser pitches for Chicago semis, Pickett shifts to Louisville, Griffith moves Mike Mitchell to right field. Collins joins the Boston Club in a Giants trade. Turner remains strong, Wag ners keeps up against New York, Highlanders finish strong. Waddell’s elbow scare clears with an X-ray. Minneapolis buys Mullin from Chicago American. St Paul sells Lefty Davis to Lincoln in the Western League.
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O’louglin
Lajoie
Frank Isbell
White Sox
Wichita
Oscar Stanage
Tigers
Brooklyn
Hunter
Montreal
Chick” Fraser
Chicago
St. Louis
Pickett
Columbus
New York
Highlanders
Waddell
Boston
Minneapolis
Charles Mullin
Chicago American Club
St. Paul
Lefty Davis
Lincoln Club
Ambiguous Historic Canal Debate and Naval Strategy Echoes
The text traces shifting justifications for the Panama Canal from a military measure to strengthen the navy to defending the canal, establishing naval bases and marchers for warships, and mentions a cryptic item SLO NU0 00 that supposedly prevents the ouhel despite harbor defenses. The source is garbled with unclear phrases and mixed references to naval plans and political rhetoric.
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Panama Canal
New York World
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Uminine News Notes
Millat
Widdding Customs
Pilot
Dleus
Philadelphia Daily North American and Democrat
Pittsburg
the Democrat
Church St
Indiana
Sporting Notes
Francisce Basafter
Jy Wess
Mneershe Miles Olphia Hecleery Te
J Wood Clark
Maraball Building
David Blair
Philadaluila Street
Indiana, Pa
John N. Banks
Banks Building
John H. Pierce
Omica
Cunningham Building
Philadelphia Strait
John H. Hill
Farmer's Bank
Court Place
M. CG. Watson
Deposit Bank
Rooma Gandy
George J. Feit
Marshall Building
Harry W. Fee
Omoe
D. H. Tomb
Farmer's Bank Building
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