Carton Family Antique Desk Sparks Family Rift
In Chicago tale Marcia Carton inherits an old mahogany desk via a surprising auction. Matilda Carton Dobbs gifts the piece to mark an anniversary, prompting a clash when Marcia reveals it was sold at auction. The gesture exposes family pride and tensions within the Carton clan.
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Longfellow
Cartons
Earth
Marcia Wright
Matilda
Tilda
Marcia
Joe
Mrs. Dobbs
Joe Carton
Wabash Avenue
Tenderfoot
Marcia Carton
paFekager
Marci Carton
Matilda Carton Dobbs
Matilda Dobbs
Fate
Matilda Carton
Marcie
Carton
Jerusalem
Robbie
Chicago Tribune
Oh, the Belle of the Town in Dimity Gown
A nostalgic verse from the Chicago Times-Herald extols a beloved dimity gown. The speaker recalls twenty years of admiration and the gown's charm from sunshine to cloud, praising the dainty attire and its blue sash and small shoe as a regal image.
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Sunshine
Cloud
Dimity
Creony
Chicago Times-Herald
Wash Fruits Properly Before Use
The article urges thorough washing of all uncooked foods and dried fruits. It notes cold water may fail to remove minute insects and recommends washing greens in warm water first, then cold water, and drying and flouring dried fruits before use. It also advises adding prepared fruit to cake batter last to prevent sinking.
The Ladysmith Hat Becomes a Common Bargain
The Ladysmith hat, a clever straw design priced at five dollars, sparked early season popularity among stylish women. By summer it became common, with outfits featuring a scarf of printed material selling for about 49 cents.
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Ladysmith
Bargain Season Lures Women to Expensive Regrets
The piece warns that bargain season tempts women with cheap laces and trimmings marked down to cost. It notes the need for a strong character to resist counters that offer items “some time” prove valuable, highlighting impulse buying risks.
Salt Boosts Mustard Color in Mixtures
A reader suggests adding a pinch of salt to mixed mustard to improve its color. The tip appears in a home remedies column advocating simple kitchen adjustments for better results.
Finest-prepared Meal in City Dinner at Low Price
Regular dinner offered at 23 cents with a business lunch option at 18 cents. Located at the Charles Hotel Cras Muel Jerachoen proprietor on McCrear Street opposite Union Station.
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Charles Hotel
Cras
Muel- Jerachoen
McCrear St
Union Station
Love as a paradoxical force in New York Press poetry
A verse from the New York Press contrasts love as a blessing and burden. It notes love can bless and caress yet compel cheating and harm, describing love as the ghastliest, sinful, and worst thing known.
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New York Press
Oddities and Feats From Around the World
A Paris laundry uses balloons with bamboo frames to dry linen, lifting clothes up to about 100 feet, with six daily ascents. Windsor Castle houses a 40 foot wide carpet with 58,840,000 stitches woven by 28 men in 14 months. A Napoleon hair lock sold for 1250 dollars. Copenhagen schools enforce cleanliness with thrice weekly baths and steam ovens for clothes. Aumone, France, is called healthiest with 40 residents, many over 80 and three centenarians, while its cemetery lacks graves.
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Paris
Windsor Castle
St. Helena
Copenhagen
Aumone
Linen Neckwear Fashion From Harper's Bazaar Note
Harper's Bazar highlights narrow linen collars with edge embroidery and open scal lop designs. Designers favor fine embroidered linen handkerchiefs for collars, though costly, as fashion prizes dainty pocket squares and coordinated outfits with shirt waists dresses and gowns.
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Harper's Bazar
Bargain Dress Sack Dress Kimono Fashion Hint
A Philadelphia Record item notes a woman crafts a dress from a sectioned sack into a kimono style, created with two extra pieces. The garment uses pale lawn fabric with a white lawn border. the turned-back band collar is praised as graceful and stylish for summer wear.
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Philadelphia
Local testimony supports Doan's Kidney Pills claim
An Indianapolis citizen Mr. John Scherger testifies of back pain kidney secretions and nocturnal urgency. He notes relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills purchased at Henry J. Huder's drug store and urges readers to remember the product name and price. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is cited as sole US agents.
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Indianapolis
John Scherger
Prospect Street
Dean
Henry J. Huder
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Farcical Excerpts and Travel Ads From Early Newspapers
A collage of skewed dialogue about savagery and civilization, plus bursts of ad copy and train notices. Includes satirical lines from Detroit Journal and Puck, fashion and sale pitches, and Pennsylvania Lines travel details advertising summer excursions from Indianapolis to Niagara Falls Thousand Islands and Toronto.
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Niagara Falls
Vic C
Mich
Thousand Islands
City Markets Prices on Provisions in Indianapolis
A July 31 listing of meat, produce, seafood, and grocery prices in Indianapolis. Hams bacon sausage dried meats and pickled goods show varied per pound and per case rates. Vegetables fruits berries and apples with prices per basket, case, or bushel. Fish game canned goods seeds oats flour and oils priced, with notes on dairy and eggs.
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Indianapolis
California
Indiana
Therces
Georgia
Johnson
New York
Timothy
Brazil
Ridgewood
Phoenix A
Empire A
Ideal
Windsor
Lion
Jersey
Singapore
Young Hyson
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Dimity Gown
the Ladysmith
Odds and
Iinet
Ines Bee
Detroit Journal
Hood
Progress Great Pants
Louisville
Pennsylvania Lines
Star Store
Nhsois
Swiss Singing Society
Progress Laundry
Stersdorfer’s
E. Washington-st
City Markets
Kentucky
Canada
G. S
Coramen Lake
W. S
New York State
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Pittsburg
Kanawha
Winstrede
Raymond City
Jackson
Island City
Slack
Blossburg
BUGS
S _ USINESS COLLEG “IL
Vonnegut
Vonnegut Hardware
Washington St
D. _ ALLISON & CO
E. South St
H. L. Sanders
Julian & Dick Ohberg
Union Tailors and Importers
Lombard Building
D. P. Stirk & CO
East St
Indiana Dental College Department
University of S. W. Cor
Delaware and Ohio
Indianapolis Gas
Idienapel Tent & Phase Co
J. A. Sutcliffe
M. Ciice
M. Telewoe
Morton Place
Central-ave
Anna R. Meyer
Old Telephone
Ind
Cuffa
Majors Cement
Majors Rubber
Major’s
Arait
Major Cement CO
New York City
Ellsworth Glenn
Delaware St
E. R. Dreithaler
Larimer
Mediana Screen Factory
Conta Ave
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