The Senate Costs and Its Many Queer Expenses
A Chicago Times-Herald summary reveals lavish senate spending on medicines, baths, tobacco, and paper goods, noting salaries, perquisites, and staff costs. It contrasts the $5,000 senate salary with British Lords and highlights free barbering and ample support for members. The piece also advertises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a standard tonic.
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United States Senate
Focal
Uncle Sam
Congress
House
Capitol
Senate
House of Lords
Chicago Times-Herald
If You Want to Be in the Swim Come to Our Church
In a Congregationalist notice a cleric proclaims on Sunday attractions and ends with the line If you want to be in the swim come to our church. A neighbor jokes about a Baptist service. Also quoted is a child’s letter praising grain coffee substitute and a Second-Hand Store listing including a safe and a refrigerator for sale.
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E. W. Gaterire
Sixth Street
Opp
Jail
S. M. Co
Work & Son
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan
Madison
Chicago
Fortune Hidden by Spooks On Patch Farm Maine
A Maine tale recalls professional gambler Patch hiding a large fortune near Patch Mountain on his farm. His will transfers treasures to his son George then Frank Patch, but the money eludes searchers for generations. Acres have been dug, a seven son of seven son claims soon to reveal, and locals report a fearsome animal guardian guarding the ground.
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Maine
Patch
Pateh
George
Tegal
Frank
Frank Patch
Solon Ryerson
Shaye
Patch Mountain
Patch Farm
Bedeau
Norway
Lewiston
Fragmented local fragment and ancient library find
A garbled note mentions Sally and Mrs Harfield with a town trip and a punishing puncture, then shifts to a medical ad about deafness and Hall's Catarrh Cure. It closes with a Library of Babylon excerpt by Professor Herman Hilprecht describing the Nippur temple library, 16,000 volumes, and 23,000 stone writings from excavations in Assyria and Babylon.
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Hall
F. J. Coenry & Co
Toledo
Babylon
Herman V. Hilprecht
Assyria
University of Pennsylvania
Nippur
Kidney Health Claims From Starline Remedy Ad
An OCR fragment touts Starline RemedyCa pills as a universal cure for kidney ailments. The brief text mentions Chicazoor W and questions the efficacy of Hidneyst De Hobbs' sporarus pills, presenting an unclear advertisement tone.
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Bam Defrae Adc
Starline
Chicazoor W
Cathedral Tapestries in Crypt Spotlight Rare US Exhibition
A Harper's Weekly report notes two of twelve tapestries from the Life of Christ series hanging in the crypt of St John the Divine on Morningside Heights. Bought for 75000 dollars as a memorial by the late Mrs Elizabeth A Coles, the works remain in crypt storage with others awaiting cathedral completion.
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New York
United States
St. John the Divine
Morningside Heights
Christ
Urban VIII
Rome
Urban
Harper's Weekly
At Cost Handy Package Paints and Jars Spotlight
A sale catalog lists household paints at 10 cents per can and Mason's self sealing fruit jars in all sizes. Also offered are standard wax sealing jars in quart and half gallon, sealing wax, paraline, extra lids, and high quality rubber jar rings.
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Mason
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Farina
Thomas Sutton
Indiana, Pa
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Ayer L. Hunt
Russell St. Catrolt
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Plymouth Rock
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Creekside
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James Speedy
Chambersville
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Marion Center
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Home, Pa
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B. I. Wehrle
Watchmaker
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Philadelphia Street
New York Life Insurance Co
Henry J. Altssian
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Toronto
Equitable Life Assurance Society
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