Fen in a Snowbank and a Dwarf Fortune Tale
A Chicago Her excerpt describes children playing in a snowbank on Archer Avenue with a cave built from a snow drift and a stove found nearby. They roast apples and potatoes, share stories, then a snow riot clears the drift. The Youth's Companion piece narrates a dwarf fortune telling prank and a child’s memory of a lost mother at Wanamaker's store with playful details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Demorest
Armour Avenue
Santa Fe
Connors
Tim Westervelt
Cohoes
Chicago City Railway
Chicago
Dwarf Fortune Tellier
Edna
Mamma
Bessies Composition on Sawmills
A short school piece extols sawmills as very useful and notes their link to manufacturing candast for staffing dolls. The writer expresses a dolllike fear of being stuffed with straw, blaming straw for its fickle nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie
Odds and ends across the era record
A collage of brief items: Lucan’s death amid a poem passage, public handwriting reforms, Berlin’s libraries and vast royal and university stacks, a Chicago exhibit ship, a bishop’s rose gesture, Japan’s upcoming religion parliament in Kyoto, varied London crowd occupations, a smoker’s legal note, Nervine remedies, a Portersville marriage ad, a Yuma name oddity, Belgium’s Catholic majority and church numbers, a girl’s death from rope skipping, Goodland bones as peccary remains, Burne-Jones baronetcy preparations, and a testimonial for Chamberlain’s remedy from Mrs. Dunagan with local pharmacy listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucan
Berlin
Royal Library
University
Chicago
Boston
Japan
Kyoto
House of Commons
London
Yuma
Charlie Allen
Belgium
Goodland
Kan
Kansas State University
Edward Burne-Jones
Osborne
Surrounded by Mystery Restorative Nervine Promoted by Dr Miles
An advertisement touts Restorative Nervine by Dr Miles as a universal cure for nervous disorders. It claims nerve-centre derangement causes headaches dizziness indigestion and more and asserts the remedy contains no opiates. Sold by druggists or direct from the Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind at $1 a bottle six for 35 with guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Miles
Miles
St. Vitus
Dr.iles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Unusual Circular Revolver In East Chicago Bust
James Cox, found with a scalp gash near Clinois street, claimed Max Schmidt shot him. Cox later recanted, doctors saying the wound was minor, and Schmidt faced assault charges after possession of a seven‑chamber circular revolver that can fire via a squeeze and doubles as brass knuckles. Police described the weapon as a novel, small caliber 22 with oblong bullets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Cox
Clinois Street
Max Schmidt
Cox
Schmidt
Chicago Avenue
Becker
Chicago Herald
Olive Blossom Ad Claims Easy Divorce in Midwest Cities
A vintage advice blurb tells women divorces are easy to obtain in Pittsburg and Cincinnati as in Chicago. It suggests wives keep husbands from tiring of them by using Olive Blossom to cure frequently sick and whining behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Cincinnatti
Chicago
Asong
Mas
J. W. Snoox
Spring Mills
Centre Co
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Fen
Archer Avenue
Belden
Arthur
Patsy Gilligan
Tim Willigan
New York World
Odds and
Herrick Bros
Indiana
Porter County
Nebraska
Chamberlain
W.L. Dunagan
Bonaqua
Hickman Co
Tenn
Daugherty Bros
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
Wm. L Moore
Homer City
BR. N. Parks
Marion Center
Keystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
Circularefes Harrison
Columba
Gilbert Bro’s
Insurances
Indiana, PA
Gro. W. Gilbert
Star Meat Market
Frank Garman
Propr
Philadelphia St
Prof. Little
N. B
Cherrytree
Clark House
So i. Little
Jas. A. White
The
Atlantic Refining Company
Pitts Purch Department
Pittsburgh, Pa
Standard Oil Company
Indiana and
Vicinity
J. F. Barnes
White
China
Bovard, Rose & Co
Fifth Ave
Pittsburg, Pa
Rochester,ny
Ateyene
Ian
Vitalis Sox
Nate
Moritz Saks
Fuly
Kittanning
Salma
Agnes
Salm
Bellefonte, Pa
Freusven
Jnet
Saha
Galitzin, Pa
Sahm
Jomaraas Leen
Tannersville, Centre Co
Ted Satore
Satin Hetever
Two Lick
Shorma Hexey
de. Suten
Clyde
Alt
Bae
Cohmadun
Swan & Simpson
Insurance Agency
John L. PA VE
PhiladelphIa Street
Indiara, PA
Near Public School
S Smalls
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