Young Texan Girl Travels Alone From Denison to Chicago
Lula Dudley a 14 year old from San Antonio Texas traveled over 4000 miles alone after a love affair drove her from home. She visited Clarksville West Virginia and registered at Denison Ohio and plans to go to Chicago and St Louis then abroad for musical study near Paris exposition. Her parents own a Texas ranch.
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Denison
Cincinnati
Lula Dudley
Dudley
Texas
Johnstone
Chicago
St. Louis
San Antonio
The Pink Pajamas Guard Prank at No. 8 Post
Private Higgs, dubbed Higgs the Hobo, serves guard duty under the adjutant. The colonel, in pink striped pajamas, confronts No. 8 post and is knocked down by a Krag bolt during a comic miscue, leaving Schwartzer shocked and fainted.
Indignant Prisoner Sparks Jocular Guardroom Debate
In a Philadelphia Call excerpt a prisoner upset at being jailed demands to know why he is locked up. The officer labels him held by order of the commanding officer, prompting a stern conference among the colonel, adjutant, and Higgs. Higgs is kept as an orderly on guard, ending with him reclaiming 89 cents from the colonel’s orderly.
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Hirgs
Worthy
Uncle Sam
Higgs
Grand Chapter
Knights of the Road
Hobo Piggs
Adjt
Kershaw
Thompson
Grier
Walt
Higes
Schwartzer
Relief Association
Debonair
Corporal Schwartzer
Doughty Higgs
Philadelphia
Washington old timers and cabinet etiquette described
The piece notes Mrs Blaine remains treated like a Cabinet wife in Washington, while she enjoys Bar Harbor and writes. It contrasts Mrs Logan's move to Chicago and Europe plans, and highlights Mrs Julia Dent Grant as the oldest official widow socializing between Saratoga Newport and New York with her granddaughter.
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Washington
Julia Dent Grant
Saratosa
Newport
New York
Wedding ties link Draper and Voorhies in Kentucky saga
The ceremony will unite Lieut. Arthur Jay Draper son of Ambassador William F. Draper and Miss Lillie Duncan Voorhies of Lexington. The tale recalls Gen. Draper’s Kentucky marriage to Susie Preston and a family pattern of marriages among the Drapers and Prestons, with a love match ending as Arthur Joy Draper’s romance with Miss Voorhies blossomed during a Porto Rico campaign and a future union planned after a historic, cross-family courtship.
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Lillie Duncan Voorhies
Arthur Jay Draper
William F. Draper
Lexington
Gen. Draper
Kentucky
Susie Preston
George Draper
Jessie Preston
Preston
William Preston
Duncan
Banker Voorhies
Capt
Gordon Voorhies
Porto Rico
Miss Voorhies
A Novel Wedding Trip From Columbus to New York
Mr and Mrs Campbell Chittenden of Columbus undertake a 595 mile wedding journey by auto to New York. They married at 8 and left at 4 after the ceremony. They reached Cleveland 130 miles away at 4 on Thursday amid heavy rain and flooded creeks. They expect to reach New York in about two weeks.
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Columbus
New York
Campbell Chittenden
Reflections Of A Bachelor And A Travel Elixir Ad
A humor piece on male excuses for sins citing heredity and love, with quips about apologizing and engagement etiquette. The note from New York Press adds a jab about a traveler aid, followed by an advertisement for Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry claiming cures for dysentery seasickness and nausea.
Wealth Rules from Hetty Green Tell Fortunes
Mrs Hetty Green releases ten wealth commandments emphasizing frugality and disciplined living. The article cites Russell Sage Levi P Morten John D Rockefeller and others who built fortunes through strict saving and self control, noting even foreign and historical examples.
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Hetty Green
New York City
Jay Gould
Mrs. Green
Russell Sage
Syndicate
New York
John D. Rockefeller
John W. Mackay
Henry Clews
Havemeyers
Wiliam C. Whitney
California
The True Growth. A Ben Jonson Verse Parable
A compact meditation on human growth and measure contrasts a sturdy oak with a lily of a day. The poem argues that bulk does not equal virtue and that beauty lives in brief, bright moments rather than lasting spans.
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Ben Jonson
Frill Edging and Cotton Fringe Sold By Yard
Description of a decorative flounce that circles a surface with a ground clearance of two inches and a separate lighter spread reaching only to two of the flounce finished with white cotton ball fringe. Price noted as four cents per yard.
Bedroom Daintiness with Paint and Chintz
A reader advocates simple, affordable bedroom decor using white paint varnish and 12 cent chintz to refresh a furnished house. The French fashion of daytime bed dressing with colored covers gives a refined look, with coverings stored away at night to keep freshness.
Witty quips and medicine myths jolting old jokes
A collage of humor quotes and ad lines verbatim from periodicals. The items include a doctor patient exchange about a fatal dose and a wrinkle remedy pitch plus a war memory joke and a Burdock Blood Bitters promotion.
Linens and Domestics Clearance Sale Highlights
40 inch lawn in dark colors marked down from 12 14 a yard to clearance price per yard. Printed piques in polka dot and stripe reduce from 10c to clearance. Plain color piques and ducks all colors cut to clearance price per yard. India linens and long fold whites priced to clear. Basement glass jars and household basics offered with reduced rates. Millinery specials include trimmed hats from 4 to 6.50 down to 1.48 and untrimmed hats now 25c.
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VATA
Cece Cease
Ball Bros
Pillow filled with geese feather and horse hair
An advertisement for a Century pillow features a mixture of live geese feathers and horse hair carded by special machinery. It claims superior comfort and ventilation, balancing the stiffness of hair and warmth of feathers, with year round use and low cost at 249 Massachusetts Ave.
Crotchety and Crabbled Sail Across Sulky Bay
Three sailors Crotchety Crabbed and Cros set out on Sulky bay in a leaky boat. Disputes over direction lead to a becalmed drift and the wind mocks their quarrel. The wind guides them toward Smiles and Fun harbor where pleasure wins.
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Crotchety
Cross
Crabbed
Eleanor A. Sterling
Why We Begin With Soup The Rationale Behind Soup Starters
The essay argues against the view that starting with clear soup weakens digestion. It asserts soup is absorbed quickly, does not hinder gastric juice, and helps restore energy, reducing exhaustion and irritability while easing digestion for the main meal. It notes soup provides ready digested nourishment and supports the stomach in its forthcoming duties.
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Heim
New York Press
Hettie Green
Chicago News
Henpekt
Emily
Ilinois
Eee Wade Rv
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