Katie and the Tenor and the Autograph Incident
A young woman Katie becomes opera mad after admiring a tenor last winter. She and a friend scheme to obtain his autograph, meeting him at a hotel dining room where he grants four signed photos. He gently rebukes her for idol worship, noting his age and worldliness, and leaves her humbled yet amused by the encounter.
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Katie
Ong
Dxuatie
Laura
Guusic
Lauri Iurtt
Og Lady
Ponce
Polly Pry
New York Recorder
York and Hull: contrasting medieval charm and modern ruin
A Philadelphia Telegraph piece praises York England for its preserved medieval streets and vast art heritage, recounting how Americans flocked there. It contrasts York with Hull, noting York’s religious preservation, aristocratic yet frugal character, and Hull’s commercial wealth and destruction of historical sites.
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England
York
Ameica
Lewarre
York Minster
Europe
London
Paris
Frankfort
Nuremberg
Hull
York Bever
Charles
Philadelphia Telegraph
Why We Stand Upright Explain Complex Body Mechanics
An excerpt explains that upright posture requires a balance of many muscles and tendons. It notes the Achilles tendon, thigh and back muscles, neck ligaments, and neural control all actively maintain an erect stance. It also observes how the body relaxes during sleep and snaps back when awareness returns.
Country ministers and parish support in decline
A critique on church support contrasts city and country ministers. The piece notes country pastors often go unpaid or underpaid, while urban clergy are overvalued. It cites a New York area incident where a parish raised only 1.79 dollars for a dying pastor, illustrating stingy parish generosity.
Fate of Oriental Steamer Strathnevis Still Unknown
Port Townsend Wash Dec 24 The Strathnevis with 190 aboard is overdue 34 days after last sighting about 800 miles west of Cape Flat tery. Severe North Pacific storms hindered searches by Royal Arthur and Danube of Victoria, with little sign of the lost steamer. Mariners fear she went ashore on Alaska's southeast coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Townsend
Wash
Cape Flattery
North Pacific
Royal Arthur
Victoria
Alaska
George B. White
Wood Island
Four Dunn brothers blown from wagon by powder blast
Perry on December 24 reports the four Dunn brothers chased by law breakers in Osage country when a large powder can exploded. All four were hurled into the air. one died soon after and the others reportedly sustained fatal injuries.
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Perry
Dunn Brothers
Osage
Nansemond Sinks After Collision Near Aruba
A Curacao dispatch reports the steamship Nansemond under Captain Laksy, en route from Curaçao to Maracaibo, collided with the Spanish steamer Mexico near Aruba. The Nansemond sank, total loss. Captain Laksy and 14 others drowned.
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New York
Curacoa
Laksy
Maracaibo
Mexico
Aruba
Train collision in Cardiff ends in five fatalities
CaatTtraxnooaa December 24 report: an extra double head freight train southbound and a northbound freight on the Cincinnati Southern railway collided at Cardiff Tennessee. All three locomotives were destroyed. Five men are reported dead.
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CaatTtraxnooaa
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Cardiff
Tenn
Gould Hall Co Suspends Amid Market Slump
Boston December 24 Gould Hall Co suspends today after Friday and Saturdays stock market decline. The small firm’s suspension caused no effect on Change.
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Boston
Gould, Hall & Co
Dr King New Life Pills Sample Offer Ad and Misc Comedy
Send your address to H E Bucklen Co Chicago for a free sample box of Dr King s New Life Pills. Pills ease constipation and sick headache and aid malaria and liver troubles. They are 100 percent vegetable and do not weaken, but tone stomach and bowels. Regular 25c per box. Sold by T E Hildebrand Indiana I a Moore Homer City M G Miller Blairsville. A joke about a doctor and a patient follows with a quip about time and decrees attributed to Shakespeare.
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H. E. Bucklen & Co
Chicago
Dr. King
T. E. Hildebrand
Indiana
Moore
Homer City
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
Blue painted oil barrels praised for oil retention
A Baltimore Sun note cites a barrel maker claiming blue paint helps seal oil better than other colors. The claim rests on practical experience in cooperage and pigment effects.
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Baltimore Sun
Keeley Cure Offer for Alcoholic Men at Fifth Avenue
A four week treatment at 1246 Fifth Avenue is claimed to restore powers and restore mental and moral control, eliminating abnormal appetite for stimulants. Proponents cite success in over 1490 cases, urging neighbors to seek and refer for this therapeutic approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Keeley
Panphiet
If Women Only Knew Doan's Kidney Pills Cure Woman
Mrs Leonard credits Doan's Kidney Pills with ending years of urinary trouble and back pain. She describes severe episodes, bed rest, and failing doctors before using the pills bought at H J Greer's drug store. She urges other women to use the medicine, noting her renewed health and happiness since the cure. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole U.S. agents.
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Geo. W. Leonard
More Avenue
H. J. Greer
Dean
Doan
Pennsylvania Railroad Butler Branch Schedule and Stations
Train times for Butler Branch and Blairsville Intersection listed for weekdays and Sundays. Departures from Blairsville Intersection to Pittsburgh at 3:50, 5:30, 7:45, 10:11 a.m., 1:27, 4:28, 6:10 p.m.. to Altoona 7:30, 9:40 a.m., 3:18, 6:28 p.m. Weekdays also include 3:50 a.m. and other morning services. For Indiana via Blairsville Intersection 5:25, 8:00 a.m., 4:30 p.m. Details at Western District office, 110 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. General managers PREVOST and WOOP.
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Butler
Blairsville
Pittsburg
Altoona
PiTrigvRe
Indiana
E. Wait
Western
Fifth Avenue
Lve
Gracetor
Rugh
Black Lick
Smith
Blairsville Ly
Cokeville
Blairsville Lye
Blacklick
Graceton
Homeree
Two Lick
Reed
Cam India
Saltsburg
Paulton
Allegheny Junction
Freeport
Allegheny City
Niagara Express
West Penn Junction
Kittanning
City
Titusville Express
Engle
Oil City
Buffalo Express
Emlenton Accom
Emlenton
Kittanning Accom
Junction
East
Nes Eavaven
Emilenton
West Penn Ju
Higanning
Pieteeres Ease Ecanesevsen
Buffalo Expres
Pittsbuens Nesesansaarenee
Emienton
Pittaburg
Kittanning Market
Oil City Accom
Sapesatecee
Penn Junction
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Maiden
Tinea Onymrias
Old York
New York Herald
Edgar Allan Poe
Euclid
Westminster Gazette
Roy
Scuenectady
N. Y
Twomey
Berlin
Brrr
Fritz Friedmann
Manitoba
Winmore
Fenelon
Theekeeley
Keeley Institute
Greensburg
More Ave
Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny Valley
R. R
Orphans’ Court
Indiana County
Raper
Benjeed Hegh Light
Raynetow
Ceccgner
In Pa
R. W. Wehrle
B. I. Wehrie
F. J. Johnson
Philadelphia Street
Indiana, PA
J.T. Boucher
John S. Hastings
Indiana Ladder Company
Lockard
Penn’a
Uelp Ata
Daugherty Bros
Bescawi
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