Chicago's Apostolic Newsboy and His Remarkable Charms
The feature profiles Willie the newsboy a long haired Catholic youth famed for piety honesty and peacemaking in Chicago beside Madison and State streets. He endures harassment from rival boys yet stands firm selling papers daily and living on a fixed amount each day while quoting scripture and upholding strict rules. The narrative contrasts his street fame with political reflections on Napoleon and military prowess from a Century excerpt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geddes
Kentucky
Chicago
Willie
Willis
State
Madison Streets
Chicago Tribune
Milanese
Transpadane Republic
Bonaparte
Earth
Lodi
Professor Sloane
Napoleon
Century
Bizarre Bedsteads from Gold to Glass and Moving Mattresses
The article discusses unusual beds from a gold bedstead made in Paris to a glass bedstead insulators and electric devices. It notes a quack selling electric bedsteads, harmless but costly bras, and a mechanical bed that simulated sea motion to treat a retired captain with insomnia, praised as a grey success by doctors and engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Grahame
Temple of Hygiene
New York Advertiser
Illiteracy, empire language, and cultural clashes across continents
A blended survey contrasts Cre language influence with British India literacy gains and widespread illiteracy. It notes historical vows on education, cites ancient Greece and Rome, and laments American and Indian social faults amid a 19th century print era. Ads mention local remedies, price updates, and a snack sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Man
God
India
Pericles
Greece
Augustus
Rome
Hindoo
Ganges
Mars
America
Boston
Lucknow
Bombay
Fertilizer Car Lourd For Veggies And Grains Reported
A fertilizer car load was described for vegetables potatoes oats and corn with quantities noted. The fragmented OCR text references six months and various crop uses, suggesting agricultural supply movements.
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Apostolic Newsboy
Cargus Beisteads
North Carolina
Pettigrew
Heth
Gettysburg
W. F. Fox
St. Louis Republic
Detroit
J. H. Lopez
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Daugherty Bros
Indiana
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
W. I. Moore
Homer City
R. N. Parks
Marion Center
T. F. Anthony
Promise City
Herrick Bro’s
Pitcher’s Castoria
West
Frank Douglass
S J. Telford
Swan & Simpson
Jf Oues H. Pierce
J. M. Cunningham
Philadelphia Street
L. Getty
J. M. Cunningham Building
Langs
Indiana, Pa
M. C. Watson
Frank Keener
Watson
L. Stewart
Attorneyatlaw
Stewart & Clark
Philadelphia
D H. Tomb
Feamers” Bank
Yangs
Eorge W. Hood
Hetrick
M. Jack
D. BR. Taylor
ACK & Taylor
Ajandd
John N. Banks
Jjandid
Samuel Cunningham
John 8 Fisher
Cussingham & Fisher
J Wood Clark
Nixon Building
Sixth Street
Lyan
Hotels
Jour P. Elkin
Elkin
Kintfr
Isaac Guiirfith
Philadelphia and
Fifth Streets
Indiana House
J. W. Clements
Sands
Clawson House
W. H. Clawson
West Indiana House
J. T. Loxe, Proprietor
Central Hotel
J. M. Brows
Maes
D. H
Durrett
Farmers’ Bank
Church Street
U. P. Church
R. Churchill
Tiana
Apenas
T. Miller
Waterstreet
M. McMaster
Justice OF the Peace, Conveyancer & Scribner
Seventh ‘Sts
W. Shields
Livermore, Pe
H. K. Apple
Allen
Allen Medical Co
Washington & Water Sts
Mass
Mai
Eve Air
M. F. Sharretts
iINDIANA,_PA
Syracuse
Work & Young
Vogel Brothers
Fine Merchant Tailors
The
Indiana Tailors
J.T. Boucher
Empfield
F. T. Empfield
Court House
Philadelphia ST
Penna
Savannah
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Liebrou
Vermont
J. S. Nesbit's
Y. M. Cunningham
Washington
Blairsville, Penna
EAL Medicine CO
Daugherty Bro’s
Inprana
Dr. Peal
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