Virginia Homebound Darkey Visits Airport Gift Shop
A Virginia enslaved manservant on leave from Wash that is visiting relatives goes into a shop to buy a valise. The salesman pushes an alligator bag but the man insists he is not going to Florida and will return to Virginny. A girl in the piece is praised for smart singing by her parents.
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Linwood Land Company offers water rights near Rock Springs
Land irrigation offer from Linwood Land Company Rock Springs Wyoming promising water rights for wheat crops with free timber and easy terms. Details unclear due to damaged text but prompts sale and cultivation potential.
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Castor oil and laxative sensations warn readers
A health note touts Cascarrets to relieve stomach distress after taking castor oil or calomel. It describes the sick, creeping feeling and urges readers to try the product to move the bowels and tone up the body.
Pointed Paragraphs from the Chicago News
A collection of wry vignettes on politics morality love and social quirks. The voice skewers orators misanthropy marriage single life and cultural pretenses with brisk humor and aphoristic observations about everyday behavior and appetite.
Allan's Foot-Ease Ad Across Readers Ties
An old advertisement urges readers to ask their druggist for Allan's Foot-Ease. It includes a testimonial from Mia of Camden New Jersey about relief from burning itching and discomfort in the feet after using the product. Sold by all druggists for 26 cents.
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W. J. Walker
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Rise in the Morning Cheer Despite Life’s Troubles
A reflective poem urges a cheerful morning attitude. It asks if a sour mood helps loved ones or if a smile and whistle can deflect daily cares. The speaker advises reserving grumbles for real pressures and starting the day with a brighter tone.
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Eaalle
Indian War Dance Draws Crowds at White Earth Reservation
Keith Clark reports a Sioux led Indian War Dance on a high hill near a White Earth trading post. The event runs from 4 PM to sundown with drummers, singers, and a circle of dancers in buckskin and patches, featuring gifts exchanged in a ritual gift-giving circle.
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Paul Dispatch
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Ojibway Dance Ring on the Reservation Captivates Observer
The account vividly describes Ojibway ceremonial dress and the grand dance, led by chiefs Muh-ge-ke-geshieg and Joseph Charette, with tom toms and beadwork. The scene contrasts old tribal memory with present restraint as dancers shed gifts and preserve cultural pride. A closing note mentions Siam rice cultivation and cars crossing German borders.
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Munyons Eminent Doctors Free Medical Evaluation Offer
Munyons offers free medical examination to diagnose illnesses. Send a postal request for a diagnosis blank to Munyons at 524 and Jefferson streets Philadelphia Pa for a no obligation analysis by eminent doctors. The service promises to say if cure is possible or not and advises returning the filled form.
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Philadelphia
Absent-minded professor returns home and hears maid
A forgetful professor rings his bell without effect and learns from the maid in the second story that the professor is not in. He replies that he will call again, then hobbles down the stone steps.
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Mies Wiesten Beoruire and civic club notes in fiction
A collage of items from the Baltimore American includes a quirky claim about Mies Wiesten Beoruire and gum care, a Civic club address question about women’s duties, gossip on attire from Paris, a Chicago News quip on flirting, a plug for Hamlin's Wizard Oil as household reassurance, and a vignette on Lord Wemyss and his Wimbledon club era golf set tied with twine reflecting old customs and rebellion.
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Mme Melba plans tour and book on places visited
Mme Melba intends during this year's professional tour in Australia and New Zealand to write a book about the places she will visit. The book is expected to reveal the wonderful possibilities of her native coin.
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Australia
New Zealand
Shooting for Cigars in Officer Mess
In a Chattanooga Times account set in a military mess, Lieutenant A bets Major B he can fire 20 shots at 200 yards and name each result instantly. He fires, calls out Miss or Mise, and the officers realize he is not aiming at a target but at earning cigars as the prize.
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Reflections of a Bachelor in The New York Press
An old man with a young wife appears to dance on crutches. The piece ponders ease of rising with idle tasks and the vanity of flattery, noting people enjoy flattering words even when they know they are fools. It also observes women paying extra rent for country homes with pleasant sounding names.
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New York
Preas
Physicians Advise Castoria To Help Children In Spring
Doctors endorse Castoria as a safe vegetable remedy to regulate stomachs and bowels, aid sleep, and ease feverishness in children. Parents are urged to use Castoria to improve health during the spring season, with claims of wide physician support and historical trust in the product.
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Charles H. Fletcher
McCrain
Castoria
Jall
Journal of Health
Astoria
Talk of possum politics in a Cotton State tale
Former Governor Glenn recalls a Taft boast about a possum to illustrate shifting times. Three colored men meet and debate the nation’s decline, cotton prices, and religious labels as one proclaims himself a possumiat while another claims lineist or polititian.
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Taft
Glenn
Run Crossroads
Deacon Jackson
Hightower
Deacon Powell
Brudderin
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