Sherlock Holmes Style Solve Deep Missing Marvin Boy Mystery
Dover writer applies Holmes deduction to the Horace Marvin disappearance. He chronicles moving the Marvin family to Ray Meadows farm, notes four men at the scene, and pins the time of Horace's last sighting on a straw stack. The piece promises further deductions in a continuation tomorrow.
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Marvin Boy
Holmes
Horace Marvin
Dover
Oae
Sherlock Holmes
Horace N. Marvin
West
New York
Marvin
Dr. Marvin
Little Horace
Dovers
Sioux Citys
Horace
Harvey Marvin
Ray Meadows
Delaware Bay
Bay Meadows
Harry Woodall
Swift
Myles Standish
Howard Marvin
Rosie Standish
John Marvin
Johnnie
Rosie
John
Woodall
Virdin
Howard
W. H. Briggs
May a Girl Flirt Defining a Gentle Love Act
A column explores flirtation through a debate by Cynthia Grey and others. It argues that sincere affection negates flirting, tracing a girl’s evolving expressions from childhood crushes to adult flirtation. Indirect signs of insincerity mark flirting when affection is feigned or shared with others.
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Cynthia Grey
Smallest County and Population Paradox Noted
Bristol County Rhode Island is the smallest U S county at 25 square miles while Bailey County Texas claims the largest population anomaly with just four inhabitants living there.
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Bristol County
Rhode Island
United States
New York
Bailey County
Texas
Blackburn's Cash or Oil-Pills for Constipation
A vintage advertisement promotes Blackburn's Cash or Oil-Pills as a reliable constipation remedy. The pill form contains castor oil, sulphur, cascarin, wild lemon, black cherry root, nux and ginger and is sold for ten or twenty-five cents. Each package bears Mr. Blackburn's portrait and signature.
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Blackburn
That Boy Next Door Sticks To Clay Lesson
A pupil at school mixed powdered glue into clay during a class art session. The resulting sticky mud clung to 40 children's hands, halting the clay modeling hour as students washed up at hydrants. The prank caused a memorable disruption in the classroom.
Keep the Heart Young and Avoid the Old Maid Trap
A 1900s style essay urged women not to fear spinsterhood at twenty six, arguing true youth is mental and physical vitality. It counsels staying active, cheerful, and socially engaged, aiming for a loving marriage if found, but otherwise thriving as a wholesome, attractive woman. The piece promotes health, temper, humor, friends, and sensible living, ending with a plug for Head's Sarsaparilla.
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St. Louis Republic
Peace Pilgrimage Plan Draws $100000 Support
London editor W T Stead outlined a universal peace pilgrimage to The Hague with 36 to 100 pilgrims from the United States and Europe, aiming to persuade Roosevelt and world leaders to back a United States of the World. A fund drive raised coins from audience members to seed the effort.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Institute
W. T. Stead
London
Hague
Stead
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
N. Y
Roosevelt
United States
Paris
Republic
Chamber of Commerce
France
Geneva
Rome
Fiome
Russia
Berlin
Brussels
Europe
Mr. Stead
Pittzburg
National Peace Society
Grand Army
D O C Scholarship Support for a Chicago University
The Daughters of the Confederacy plan to fund a scholarship at the University of Chicago for the south. Miss Roberta Lee Terry, secretary of the Chicago chapter, notes the group has contributed to charity and education beyond social aims. The first scholar enters next fall as 700 to 800 Southern students already study at Chicago.
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Daughters of the Confederacy
University of Chicago
Roberta Lee Terry
Chicago
Crusade to end horses tail docking stirs women’s aid
Authorities differ over tail docking of horses with one New York paper urging women to help. Opinions clash on whether the practice harms the animals or not, with some arguing relief for the horse if the tail is removed.
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New York
Laxative Brom Ointment Ad Promises Cure
An old newspaper ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as removing the cause of illness. It instructs readers to request the full name and look for the signature of E. W. Grove at 765c to verify genuine product.
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E. W. Grove
Haywood Trial at Boise Hangs on Prosecution Strategy
Special to The Saw Boise April 15 The prospect of an early trial lifts the prosecution’s hopes in the Haywood case. Haywood Moyer and Pettibone are jailed on charges of conspiring to murder ex Gov Steunenberg. Only Haywood faces trial but prosecutors say the others’ fates hinge on his.
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Haywood
Boise
Idaho
Moyer
Pettibone
Steunenberg
Pinkertons
Inée
Pettihnone
Orchard
Federation
Drums For A Doctor In A Bay Ridge House Call Scheme
A young woman in Bay Ridgeway Brooklyn runs a house call solicitation service under the guise of a solicitor for an oculist. She visits homes, asks a few questions, identifies eye ailments, and presents the oculist’s card to secure a house call appointment.
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Bay Ridgeway
Brookivt
Oculist
Aittle
Women Quit Smoking Claims In Pictorial Note
The London Ladies Pictorial reports that cigarette smoking has declined among women who adopt fashionable tricks. PURO DISTILLED WATER CO advertises half-gallon bottles at five cents and five-gallon demijohns at forty cents. New phone 217i. old main 778.
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London Ladies’ Pictorial
Puro Distilled Water Company
Widow Gorham Publishes Two Volume French English Dictionary
Mrs George H Gorham of Washington has completed a French English dictionary with translations of phrases and words. The two volume work is said to enable a learner to converse in either language.
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George H. Gorham
Wash
Ington
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