Low Rates on Canadian Roads Offer Farm Life Tours
Low rates will be given on all Canadian roads with daily excursions. Full particulars available through authorized Canadian Government Agent. Applicants may inspect grain fields of eastern Canada and explore farm life opportunities. Apply to E T Holmes 318 Jackson St St Paul Minn 1M MacLachlan Oravert97 Watertown 8 0 W V Bennett Bee Bidg Omaha Neb.
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Estern Canada
E. T. Holmes
Jackson St
St. Paul
Minn
MacLachlan
Firing Likely After Office Report Clue
In the office a grim talk hints at dismissals tied to a reported release. The question Why 80 triggers speculation that many staff may be fired as part of a broader shakeup. The brief exchange captures tension and concern during the upheaval.
Farm Folk Joke Turns House Into Henhouse
A short skit features Knicker-Was Subbubs puzzled by a bungalow misread as a henhouse. A farmer offers a job and meals, but the tramp questions the work, until the farmer reveals the task is chopping potatoes and the tramp suggests the planter knows where they are.
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Bocker
Castoria ad and a curious tale of a horse thief
A fragment mentions Castoria with its safety claim and a line about a bottle. The story then shifts to Mrs. Peckem accusing her husband William of potential theft as he jokes about a horse thief prowling the district who reportedly carried off wages.
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William
Mrs. Peckem
ITS STRONG POINT
De Auber says the painting is finished and Orville Blunt praises its perspective. Blunt notes the view improves the further one stands from the work.
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de Auber
Orville Blunt
Poison in the System Sparks Regulation Debate
A doctor warns a patient with malaria like symptoms that he may have poison in his system. The patient jokes he only eats foods guaranteed under the pure food law, prompting a judge to weigh government regulation and consumer protection.
FALSE HUNGER Cured by Grape-Nuts Diet Says Carthage Teacher
A Carthage Missouri teacher describes years of weakness and restless hunger resolved by a diet of Grape-Nuts. She credits Postum and the book The Road to Wellville for guidance, noting relief from nervousness constipation piles headaches and stomach trouble after adopting the food.
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Carthage
Inet & Good
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Sei
Be Happy in Boston and Dream Science Findings
Cambridge readers are shown happiness can exist in Boston life with quirky lines from the Christian Register urging traits such as Harvard graduates, Emerson reading, modest dress, and social polish. A separate piece discusses Fred W Eastman's July Atlantic essay on dreams, linking dream activity to brain blood flow, sleep, and nocturnal fatigue.
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Cambridge
Mass
Boston
Christian Register
Harvard
Emerson
Mayflower Society
Europe
Fred W. Eastman
Atlantic
Yucca Land and the Moonlit Desert Visions
Poetic piece by Madge Morris in Tippincott's describes Yucca land as a stark desert stage where moonlight reveals ancient temples, druidic shadows, and godlike beings. It paints a dreamlike landscape of yucca trees, pale priestesses, and a world untouched by plow, where the heart of the universe beats beneath the night sky.
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Yucca Land
Milla
Athe Rite Mirage
Rawr Krom
Oral Remy
Yucca
Oration ends in steam fueled reverie at school program
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer style piece a valedictorian’s muddled speech prompts a theatrical digression on Hannibal and Patrick Henry. The boy’s misread lines, sudden pivot to Italy, and the steam engine analogy spark awe and laughter as the audience applauds the improvised performance.
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Cleveland
Hannibal
Italy
James Hannibal
Patrick Watt
Liberty Henry
Fragmented Love Dispute In Plain Dealer Item
Two lovers quarrel over a husband and a layabout. One woman claims the other allows the husband to carry a latchkey to show independence, while the other admits to humor him. The explanation is accepted as the era’s social easing and broad-mindedness is noted.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Home Nursing And Help In Accidents From Woman's World
Practical early 20th century home care guide on handling accidents and ailments. Instructions cover unconscious victims, breathing, cooling, laying on side, removing water, and delaying stimulants. Step by step tips include artificial respiration, chest compressions, warming, and safe recovery after injury. Also discusses Colic choking fish bone poison ivy and minor wound care with cautions and remedies.
Tales of Riley and Ade from the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The tale recounts George Ade hosting Riley at his northern Indiana farm. Riley’s chauffeur speeds away in a motor car, prompting a mistaken doctor concern and later returning with a dollar’s worth of chewing tobacco.
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Riley and
Ade
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jones Whitcomb
Maozelden Farm
George Ade
Indiana
Mr. Riley
Noth
Riley
Rock
Miley
Bucky
Fort Worth Record Mentions Notable Figures and Places
A fragmented note references Alu-Jack with a strong face and Shert’s, plus a wife, Sumatra famed for cigar wrappers. It all mentions a pianist, sons, and spread to neighboring areas, though details are unclear.
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Fort Worth
Alu
Jack
Shert
Sumatra
That Affair at Elizabeth A Diary Mystery Scene
In New York a lawyer agrees to help a friend with a missing witness amid a wedding scandal. A woman’s sudden flight and a detective’s probing questions uncover hidden motives, uneasy loyalties, and a maid with a dangerous edge as the case narrows to one conspirator.
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Elizabeth
Cate E. Rareiongery
New York
Henry Holt & Co
Mystery in a Mansion The Handkerchief Clue
A narrator recalls finding a lace handkerchief believed to belong to Marcia Lawrence amid sorrow and mystery. He questions a decorator and notes the front hall bustle as two men remove décor while a watchful silence surrounds the missing daughter. The inquiry probes when Miss Lawrence was last seen.
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Mia
Lawrence
Mrs. Lawrence
Marcia
Miss Lawrence
Marcia Lawrence
New York
Ely
Parting Friends joins Howells famed farces aboard Harpers
William Dean Howells has written Parting Friends a new farce set on a trans Atlantic liner. A secretly engaged couple tries for a farewell kiss between departures but is thwarted by departing friends bearing gifts. The lover hurries ashore and sees his kiss flown to him by another man.
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Howells
William Dean Howells
Harpers
Daniel Boone’s Final Years and Lost Kentucky Land
The article recounts Daniel Boone’s troubled last days after a life of exploration and frontier defense. Faulty land titles deprived him of his chosen farm, he was robbed of money meant to purchase land for friends, and he grew discouraged before moving beyond the Mississippi. At a distant settlement near St. Louis his later life included surviving on pelts and a government grant of one tenth of land.
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Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Lfe
Mississippi
St. Louis
Impossible Marriage Causes Mischief In Edwardian House
Mr Lester pursues Miss Lawrence to learn why Marcia declares the marriage impossible. Aides reveal he suspects the maid knows the truth and that Miss Lawrence has disappeared from the house. The inquiry strains loyalties as truth surfaces and a last talk with Mr Curtiss is demanded.
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Marcia
Miss Lawrence
Return to Kentucky and Missouri marked by debts paid
The subject went back to his old home in Kentucky to settle debts, paying each man his due. Tradition says he then returned to Missouri with only 60 cents. He died September 26, 1820 at age 86. Five years after his death his ashes were moved to Frankfort, Kentucky and re interred with honors.
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Kentucky
Missouri
Frankfort
White Race and Flesh Eaters in Harper’s Magazine
A discussion of racial theories linking diet and dominance, arguing that oriental groups could undersell Westerners under law, but white communities may resist with vigor. The passage questions vegetarianism as a path to sustained racial superiority and suggests a defensive stance by Western societies.
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A. D. Hall
Harper's
Mind Made Up Over Baron and Baronet Difference
A garbled Chicago Record Herald item features a puzzled drawgster asking for help explaining the difference between a baron and a baronet. The response jokes that if the amount exceeds a certain sum, the speaker will accept whichever option arrives.
Western Canada wheat booms attract farmer migrants
Report cites Canada expecting around 200 million bushels of wheat in Western provinces with large farm labour demand. Promotion notes near free or cheap land in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, with yields of 20 to 25 bushels per acre and net returns of 3 to 10 dollars per acre, inviting Americans at low boundary rates to seek homesteads or purchases. Agencies list include McInnes Detroit and Lauder Marquette among others, promising first hand information on vast wheat fields and potential yields.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Canadian
M. V. McInnes
Jefferson Avenue
Detroit
Mich
C. A. Lauder
Marquette
Crawford
Syracuse
Thos
Hetherington
Tremont Street
Kosten
Mass
H. M. Williams
Gardner
Toledo
Ohio
Geo. Aird
Traction-Terminel
Indianapolis
Indiana
J. Broughton
Chicago
Geo. A. Hall
Second Street
Milwaukee
Wis
E. T. Holmes
Jackson Street
St Paul
Minn
Chas. Pilling
Clifford
Grand Forks
N. D
J. B. Carbonneau, Jr
Main Street
Biddeford
J. M. MacLachlan
Watertown
S. D
W. V. Bennett
Hee Ridg
Omaha
Neb
W. H. Rogers
Ray
The Quaker Scored
An old Quaker visits a bookseller who offers a book about rearing donkeys. The Quaker answers simply that the seller should give it to his mother, turning the joke on the shopman’s insult and country folk.
Fragmented Humorous Ad Juxtaposes Nonsense Health Claims
A garbled jumble of product pitches and odd musings appears with references to Shake Ints Tour Shoes and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. The text mixes brands, miswritten phrases, and odd ethics while mentioning foot pain teething and reincarnation themes with no clear cohesive story.
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Storkesena
Yuera Land
Madge Morris
Helen Reynolds Kellogg
Himeself
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Tve
Odo
Lester
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Curtiss
Mr. Royce
Mree Lawrence
Mina Lawrence
Air
Mr. Lester
Glen
Carter
Arterlittle
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