Free to Twenty Five Ladies Defiance Starch Promotion
Advertisement offers 26 women in Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri round trip to St Louis Exposition for sending the most Defiance cold water starch trade marks from 16 oz packages mailed to Omaha Nebraska before September 1 1904. Tickets mailed September 6 by registered mail. Also includes patent medicine claims and other product notices from the era.
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Defiance Starch Co
St. Louis Exposition
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraskan
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance Storch Co
Omaha
Nebr
Defiance
Jron
Incubator Salesman Fails To Impress Uncle Harvey
A breezy young man touting cubators approaches Uncle Flarvey, selling Green Bag incubators with low prices. He makes no impact as Uncle Harvey questions time saved, delivering a sharp response about women's time.
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Harvey
Uncle Flarvey
Uncle Harvey
New Rat Destruction Method Found for Ships
Prof Koch develops a method to destroy rats in ship holds. On the Bulgaria at Hamburg rats were placed in caves, then a caustic substance filled the hold. Cages on deck showed all rats killed. The system planned for future use by the German navy and large steamship lines.
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Koch
Bulgaria
Hamburg
Grape-Nuts Endures for Health and Vitality, Testimonial
A dated testimonial from a reader describes lifelong digestive trouble resolved by Grape-Nuts and cream. The speaker credits improved strength, appetite, and well being after adopting the cereal, noting continued daily use and satisfaction. The advertisement promotes Grape-Nuts as nourishing and easily digestible with a plug for Postum and the film “The Road to Wellville.”
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
A New Kind of Mistake In Church Collections
A Broadway church treasurer recalls a surprising collection mix up from a parishioner who meant to give a five dollar gold piece but dropped in a penny by error. The man returned Monday morning to correct the mistake, delivering the five dollar piece.
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New York Times
Autograph Seekers Show Menzel’s Candid Spirit
In an anecdote from the New York Times, Adolf Von Menzel, famed German scholar and artist, expresses frustration with chatty women. While at a cafe in Munich the aging maestro complains and offhandedly asks, “Would stop cackling!” when a woman requests a written note.
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Adolf von Menzel
Germany
Kinsingen
Tonch
Kar Garten
Menxel
Americans in Oxford Heard Lectures by Master Caird
A London Chronicle reminiscence recalls a day in Oxford crowded with American visitors. A dame from Balliol asked where the professor lectured, confusing the Master of Balliol with the lecturer. The narrator helps her find Caird, then says he wondered why he did not claim the post himself.
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Oxford
Balliol
United States
London Chronicle
Bright Side of Hard Luck Tale of a Fired Clerk
A clerk fired for incompetence leaves a warm office and a philosophic tone. He stands before the building pondering his next move as a friend asks his plans the man replies he is not at all sorry about the dismissal.
Under the Sun and Songs of Ancient Voices
A fragment from Charion Roswell Tucen in the Century memorializes how earlier singers and lyre chords echo through time. It laments fading novelty yet asserts the enduring value of old songs and spoken words, unchanged across remote years.
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Charion Roswell
Rhodes Scholarship Scheme At Oxford In 1920s Tone
Observers note Rhodes scholars at Oxford to date are colonials and Germans with Americans set to arrive next year. A college don praises Germans as the most capable and popular, suggesting England and Germany might understand each other better with more like him.
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Plao
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England
Germany
Wife Indignant Over Husbands Silence On Demise Tale
Mrs Letitia Tyler Semple, longtime White House minister, marks her 33rd Washington birthday. She recalls a Daniel Webster banquet tale of death and dying where a widow laments her husband did not bawl aloud, saying it would have helped if he had cried out while she was alive.
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Letitia Tyler Semple
White House
Tyler
Washington
States
Daniel Webster
Abe
Mandy
Grandson Draws Grandpa Rockefeller in Imaginary Picture
A New York Times fragment recounts a Rockefeller tale. A young grandson visiting Poranticn Hills New York sat on John D. Rockefeller Sr. knee and drew an imagined scene. He shows a gallon kerosene can in the elder’s hand as he “comes home from the village.”
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John ED. Rockefeller
John Dpd
Rockefeler
Rockefeller
Poranticn Hills
New York
Mr Rockefeller
Alore
New York Times
Garden Song Lost in Archaic Verse
Fragmentary poem fragment from an old page, blending floral imagery with perilous night and love themes. The speaker asks forgiveness for errant acts as autumn night and nature witness a waning passion, while orange towers and distant names hint at a literary past.
Sell Genuine for Imitation Plumes Debate
Prof Ray Lankester exposes a trick by London dealers in osprey plumes. After the princess of Wales led a movement against real plumes to save birds, sales fell. Now Lankester reports that some fashion merchants mix genuine plumes with imitations to deceive buyers.
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Ray Lankester
London
Princess of Wales
Lankester
Morgue Attendant Teases Drunk Wanderer On York Corner
An inebriated man at Twenty first Street and First Avenue asked for the morgue laughingly claiming he wished to be locked up. Fred the attendant replied he was the morgue and the man joked about being dead before departing with a quip.
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Twenty-first Street
First Avenue
Fred
New York Telegraph
True Love and Lasting Affection, a Max O'Rell Reflection
The piece asserts that sincere love grows beyond initial attraction and is not sparked by beauty alone. It argues lasting love develops slowly as inner feelings reveal themselves, and that absence can test devotion while beauty often follows heartfelt affection.
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Max O'Rell
Latest Factionable Extravagance Car in New York 450
Gouverneur Kortright imports a car with a new design and construction for New York 450. The maroon Victoria features copper trims, copper clock, copper bookcase, copper fittings on mirrors, and yellow penciled spokes. The styling favors burnished copper over plating and silver.
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Gouverneur Kortright
Buddhistic Shrine Prompts San Diego as Center of America
San Diego in southern California is described as rapidly becoming the Buddhist center of the United States. A shrine to Buddha was built in a residence in Los Angeles where a wealthy woman hosts a Buddhist priest who once attended the Chicago World's Fair, drawing weekly worshipers.
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America
Tile
San Diego
California
Los Angeles
Saved Child's Life in Bedewick Ark July 11
A father's claim that W S Taylors boy recovered after taking Dodd's Kidney Pills follows a dramatic medical testimony. The account details swelling, mobility return, and a total of thirty-five pills over eight days ending in full recovery.
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Bedewick
Ark
W. S. Taylor
Thease
Dodd
Defiance Starch Ad Claims Superior Quality and Quantity
Shorekeepers report that the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch make it next to impossible for any other brand to compare. The ad features dialogue about aging and wit, ending with the claim that Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere with nothing equal in quality or quantity.
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Tomer
Dealera Eny
Stark
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