Emperor's Fish Curse and The Count's Bold Bride
A Louisville Courier Journal tale recounts an ancient law where strangers were served fried fish. if they turned the fish before eating both sides, they faced death. A count’s son sacrifices himself to save his father, negotiates three requests, and upon marriage to the emperor's daughter, justice is deemed served. The tale ends with the princess declaring her husband innocent and the emperor relenting on punishment.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Crant
Yong
Storocco
Jie
Oomon
Oddities and odd wills noted in city papers and abroad
A New York legal case features a mother aged 38 and a son aged 25 testifying. A duchess of Paris drafts a funeral will preferring music to flowers, asks her body to lie beside her husband and her heart to be buried with her mother. Other items report Russians dining six times daily with salted meats and vodka, German Swiss lantern customs for rank, and a tale of a theatre outrage over dancers in short skirts observed by a mayor’s party. The fragment ends with a punchy aside about a friend willing to risk a last dollar.
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New York
Paris
Germany
Switzerland
Royal Opera ‘House
Snakes and a Grim Farmyard Tale From Pike County
A longtime folk tale recalls a farmer family near Pike County and a black snake attack on a city-bred wife by a spring. The serpent strangled her as she moved toward the house, leaving her dead with the coil about her neck. A Pennsylvania man’s tale of a copper colored snake swallowing false teeth ends with a joke offer.
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Pike County
Blacksnake
Pennsylvania
Rotary
Fashionable Novelty Materials Find Niche in Jersey
A quirky trend in Hite New Jersey features a yellow brick with a rough front surface as a new builders material. Buyers of an $750 bath top can clad walls and floors with glazed tiles and install a seven foot cheval lass to stay stylish. Meanwhile Paris buzzes over Sarah Earnhardt's Cleopatra costumes described as draperies held by sashes and stones, six yard drapes revealing elegance.
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Hite
New Jersey
Sarah Earnhardt
Paris
Tiny Household Tips and Humorous Quips Collected
Achat of domestic hints from Washington Star and Harper’s Young People offers tips for poultices, plaster coverings, furniture cleaning with salt and water, and tin shine with newspapers. Humorous exchanges from Harper’s Bazar and Texas Sittings show childlike quips about roosters, wives, and brothers in playful dialogue.
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Washington Star
Promoters Back Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Trial
The ad promotes Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy at 50 cents per bottle with a $500 promise if it fails to cure cold in the head or chronic catarrh. Makers claim confidence and invite trials as a safer option than harsh cures, praising Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as mild, sugar coated, and easy to take.
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Toco
Dr. Sage
Doctor Pierce
Uncertain History Snippets and Oddities From Old Times
A collage of antiquated notes mentions Baltimore’s bank failures dating back to 1887, library totals at Louis IX and Oxford, a Bangor child’s swallowed dish fragment found in surgery, demand for old newspapers, orange growers using them for budded trees, a diphtheria remedy by a peasant linked to Koch, and cautions about the remedy’s harsh effects and restricted drinking after throat painting.
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Baltimore
Louis IX
Oxford
Savannah
Macon
Orlando
Oviello
Rieest
Prof
Koch
Indianapolis Sealed bids for city lighting contracts
Indianapolis invites sealed proposals for electric lighting of the city with 2000 to 4000 lamps on pole mounts, all-night operation, and 5 to 10 year rental plans. Bids must meet General Ordinance 44 1883 with strict wiring, pole, insulation standards and a 5000 dollar bond.
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Orricz
Chem
Enainuma
Indianapolis
Ind
Cotaman Connell
Indiana
Wich
Anyetty
United States
Common Council
Board of Aldermen
United
National Board of Wire Underwriters
Ahe
Eta
Cid
Bia
LO Ds
Pie City
A. BP
Shawyer
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Saleles
Citiz
Deaih
Pera
Kalley
Kel
EO the Young Housewise
Tommy
Weill
Willie
Harper
Vezzir
Harper’s Bazar
Washington
Texas
Hofeman
Endianapolis
ATH
ANL
Wednessy
Massachusetts
Avenue
M. Abbett
Virginia-ave
Runkenness
Tauer
BP Haines Golder
Goifea
Wright
New York-st
Frea
Addreay Grieg Medical CO
Buffalo, Ma Ye
Taraa
London
Orchestra
Orchestra Cirela
Balcony
Brady
Brad Nation
Grand Opera House
Opera House
May Howards
Citela
Gales
Delsarte
Nav McBowell
Traveler's Register
Veesvlv
Antalines
Wast
Horth
Izalae
Pillsburg
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Ant. Phia
Arriva
Columbus
Richmond
Chicago
Louisville
Bouleville
Colambua
Vincannis
Cairo
Varrqese Srroee
St, Louis
WHS
Traina
St. Lows
Bregncastle
Terre Bause Accom
Sen
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Lorre Haute
Raoncastls Accord
Tickasmenti
W.2
Brunner
Cleveland
Chucags & SF
LOTUS
Sue
Tile Cab
Sleveland Divinior
Ami
Bra
Ghicaeo & Ciholanati
Rasz
Vepart
Shicaqu
Ark
Peoria
Wa57
Louis
Cincinnati
Puiliman’s. Vestibate Service
Onion
Ewes
Ata Foit
Gingeinnati Vesti! Cl
Poteda & Piadin Vie
Goa
Geo. A. Baker
Bennet & Moulton Opera Co
Frank Deshorn
Bennet & Moulton
Park Orchestra
Turaday
Billee Taylor -Oliveits
Saturda
Normandy
Rator
L. Siersporfer
Washington Street
Wheata
T. Condemplemant Co
Wand
W. Wrenlingtorst
Kmigrt & Conly
Noble & Co
Urs
Galloway
Stedman
S. Carlton
Vance Block
Shalf Square
Roske
I. Elder
Indianapolis Brewing CO
Schmidt Brewery
Lieber Brewing Co
C. Mans Brewery
Furnish Tavernns
Branclinn
Cone Corner Circle
Market Ket Streets
Ins
Bayces Sweet Home
Nat Poe
Evary
THACO
West Washingtons
East Washington-st
Freie
Gor
Chander & Parlor Co
Indiananatis
Portieres, Etc
Albert. Gall
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