Windmill Hands and Water Table Robbery Caper on Fifth Avenue
A midnight crowd trails a fat man in evening dress as he moves with windmill like hands toward a water source. Police pursue through New York streets until a hidden rubber door mat yields the crime reveal. The thief confesses to a string trap, displaying a black thread tying the mat to a long rope.
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Fifth Avenue
Thirty-second
Twenty-eighth Street
Forty-eighth Street
Guardians of the Peace
Fiftythird Street
Third Avenue
Second Avenue
Motor Boats on Dead Sea Explore Salt Water Risks
The Dead Sea, a government monopoly leased to a small native firm, hosts a wooden sailing boat retrofitted with a motor. If successful, more motor boats may follow. Hulls must withstand high salinity, and permits from the sultan are required for any launch in the Jordan valley, the Fiyer, and the Dead Sea, with past permit difficulties noted.
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Dead Sea
Jaffa
Jordan Valley
Fiyer
Appointment causes commotion amid empire rise
Report notes Edward Ritter von Stuweitzer receives field marshal appointment in Austro Hungarian empire. Anti Semites express themselves bitterly while liberal minded praise Emperor Francis Joseph for the development. Freedom from religious biases is cited as a factor in the reaction.
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Edward Ritter von Stuweitzer
Ranik
Francis
Joseph
Two Newspapers in Garlson City Duel Ends with Bradley Victory
Bradley, new city editor of the Daily Press, uses a pigeon drop to beat The Herald in a deadly race for breaking news. A staged death story, coroner jury, and a basket delivery spur the Press to publish an extra first, undoing Herald dominance.
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Herald
Garlson City
Abner Hudson
Bradley
Daily Press
Briggs
The
the Herald
Invincible
Pennsylvania
Home cough cure recipe from a local druggist
Reader advised to mix concentrated pine compound with glycerine whiskey and take teaspoon to tablespoon doses every four hours. The pine product is sold in half ounce airtight bottles labeled Concentrated and available from druggists.
The Use of a Fat Man
A woman debates marrying a man she dislikes for his utility as a burglar deterrent. A boy argues a fat man could scare burglars, while she questions marrying for convenience. The dialogue centers on appearances, fear, and prudent choice in relationships.
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Jack
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for All Stages
An 19th century herbal claim, Hall's Catarrh Cure is presented as the sole positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. The ad pledges a $100 reward for any case not cured and directs readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with the product sold by druggists at 75 cents.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Luther Burbank
California
John Lewis Childs
Floral Park
N. Y
Divorce Colony Gossip Sparks New Papa Remark
In the Divorce Colony a girl confides to her playmate Lucy van Smith that they have a new papa Mr Jones. The exchange reveals playful scandal and the era’s social tone as quoted from Lippincott's. Spohn's Distemper Cure is advertised for horses and other animals with claims of broad efficacy and agent recruitment in Goshen Indiana.
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de Jones
Lucy van Smith
Lucy
Mr. Jones
Jack's Faux Pas at Church Outing
Maud notes Jack Clubberly attended church Sunday with Maud I. The heathen, unused to churchgoing, asked the usher to check his hat and coat.
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Jack
Maud
Bell
Murine Eye Remedy Promises Relief and Compliance
Red weary watery eyes relieved by Murine eye remedy. Compounded by experienced physicians and conforms to pure food and drug laws. Murine does not smart and soothes eye pain. Also ad lines for Prich Miller Holmes St Paul and N W Hide & Fur Co Minneapolis with brief quotes.
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Childeln
Reciow
Samuel Pitcher
the Centaur Company
New York
Titania
Guilareat
Bears
oka x + i gas centaur company
New Yons Erry
Spohn
Spahn Medical Co
Goshen
Ind
Withal
Carlyle
Prich Miller & Holmes
Crescent Creamery CO
ST. Paul
Caesar
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Shakespeare
Crescent Mfg. Co
Seattle
Rae Prc
Nala, & CO
ST. Paul,minn
Salzer
Frea
Salzer Seed CO
Box W
la Crosse
Wis
Merced
Yosemite
San Joaquin Valley
Merced Chamber of Commerce
P. A. Chamberlain
Secy
Cal
JONG
Chicago Jewelry Engraving CO
Boyce Building
Chicago
Virginia Farms and Homes
RB. B. Chahnfin & CO
iInc
Richmond, Va
Defiance
Alec
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