Visionary remarks on selling odd goods at extreme poles
In a lively exchange, Jiggnon muses about selling items like ice or heat at extreme poles while Wiggson and Juggson debate the prices and feasibility, envisioning high potential profits. The dialogue captures speculative market ideas and humorous banter.
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Casey at the Bat in Coca Cola Baseball Record Book
A historic 1910 Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book includes Casey at the Bat and lists schedules for both leagues along with other baseball data compiled by authorities. The publisher offers the booklet on receipt of a postage stamp and includes promotional material for Coca-Cola and its truth about the beverage.
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Casey
Coca-Cola
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Back to the Tall Timber Seashore Vacation Plans
Alfred and Gilbert discuss summer plans with Gilbert choosing the woods over the shore due to risks from past experiences with summer proposals. The dialogue includes a joke about frightened dates and a humorous aside about Dr Pleasant Pelletta’s cure and ambitions of a coming man.
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Alfred
Gilbert
Victory and Resilience Poem Excerpt From Houston Post
A fragment from the Houston Post includes lines praising persistence and courage with imagery of ladders and trials. It celebrates a steadfast spirit and ends with a prayer for love and strength to aid a brother, Philip Jacnts Bailey, in shared burdens and help.
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Hilip Jacntsi Bailey
The Banker's Decoy
Mr. Philip Marsden, senior partner of Marsden and Rylotty Bankers, hosts a late-night visit by police and two plainclothes men who claim a planned robbery, only to reveal that the supposed officers are the very thieves planning an inside job. Marsden is kept in the dark as the con men set a trap under a forged warrant.
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Marsden & Rylotty
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Decoy Safe Foils Bank Burglars In Early Morning Heist
A bogus decoy safe, placed by banker Mr Marsden, fooled three burglars as they drilled and pried at a real strongroom. They were captured outside the bank by officers after dawn, while the empty decoy stayed in plain sight to mislead thieves.
San Franciscan Praises Funston and Military Cleanliness
A San Franciscan extols General Funston as a dynamic leader with energy and zeal. He recalls Funston’s speech on military cleanliness and a tale from an Afghan prisoner in India where two privates scrubbed him for hours only to realize they had washed off his clothes.
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Funston
New Chair Device Aims To Prevent Seasickness
Dr Alfred Graden notes many methods fail to curb seasickness and reports a tested device on the Patricia and Peregrine steamers. A vibrating chair, driven by an electromotor, simulates automobile motion to counteract ship rolling and pitching. Invented by Merre, R. & W. Ott of Berlin, Germany.
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Technical World Magazine
Patricia
Merre, R. & W. Ott
Berlin
Germany
On Love as a Mae Rock Philosopher Says
A fragmentary quote portrays a Mae Rock philosopher remarking that when a man loves a woman he believes others rival for her affection. He notes that realizing this isn t true ends the love, as a bemused voice comments on the folly.
Confident friend of Loula B B sparks poker tale
A Columbus state convention adjourned and Cuyahoga delegates returned home when a night poker game drew a nearby call at 3 am. A servant claimed a long distance line and a voice said that Shields may be in the apartment house next door. The voice whispered that it was good, revealing Shields by sound.
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Columbus
Cuyahoga County
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Cleveland Leader
Cuticura Soap and Ointment for Hand Care
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for preserving hands and preventing redness roughness and chapping. It recommends a nightly routine of bathing hands in hot creamy lather drying and applying ointment and using linen cloths or old gloves at night to avoid staining. The copy notes the remedies are sold worldwide by Potter Drug and Chem Corp of Boston Mass.
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Boston
Mass
Autoing and Optics in Historic Road Test
An unnamed chauffeur boasts that driving improves eyesight. He compares pre-drive vision to spotting a church collection box, then claims after two days he can see a policeman’s fingers from four miles away and read a copper’s gaze from three miles, calling it the best medicine for weak eyes.
The Stomach Hold Banquet Story
At the Old Guard banquet in Delmonico's Colonel H N Renouf stressed the army’s need for a strong commissariat. He recounted a Memorial Day dinner where a maid-servant offered dessert and a sergeant misheard dessert as desert, quipping about not getting “eatsike” for nothing.
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H. N. Renouf
Old Guard
Delmonico's
Commissariat
Wordplay in Libretto Shows Soft G Pronunciation
A manager confronts a poet over an original libretto. The poet explains the line Should be read as happy and jay to reflect a soft G sound, revealing a debate over pronunciation and meaning in the opening scene.
Brown Learns to Stick to What He Likes Says Puck
In a witty exchange, Puck riffs on Brown’s stubborn habits. The dialog contrasts a readiness to embrace chosen things with a refusal to adhere to obligatory ones, highlighting comic mischief and selective loyalty.
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Brown
Puck
Winslow's Boothing tocn ag eaten Baston Mortgage
A fragment notes a ship tied to Winslow and Baston Mortgage, with a focus on selling or leveraging the vessel before surrender. The readable words describe a dramatic financial action and a maritime asset being maneuvered for payoff.
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Winslow
Boothing Tocn Ag
Manager Cues and Peas Save a Scene in Baltimore
A Baltimore American recounts a backstage quarrel where the manager scolds the actress for botched lines and forgotten cues caused by the unscripted focus on sweet peas. The exchange emphasizes discipline, timing, and attentiveness in theater.
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Sweet Peas
Baltimore American
Their Object Banks The Women Form Secret Society
The women of the town form a secret society and discuss its purpose. Rivers questions the secrecy, joking that women can keep secrets yet reveal them. Banks notes members know how to tell secrets, hinting at the society’s activities.
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Banks
Rivers
Dr Martel's Female Pills Seventeen Years Standard
A promotional notice for Dr Martel's Female Pills claims a seventeen year standard and a scientifically prepared remedy for women's ailments. It proclaims quick, permanent results and availability at all drug stores. The ad closes with a moral quote from Weatcott about service and living in fullness through others.
Oronogo and St Louis Women Endorse Pinkham's Compound
A Missouri reader reports relief from nerve and bearing-down symptoms after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. Other letters praise cure of female ailments including inflammation ulceration and backache. The piece urges readers to try the remedy despite difficult cases where doctors have not helped.
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Oronogo
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mra Mar McKnnout
St. Louis
Ydin E. Pinkham
Renee Ween
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