A Feeling of Security and Justice in Transit
An advertisement touts a tonic for kidney and liver troubles with dosage guidance and a sample offer from Kilmer & Co. Then a Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote notes Justice McReynolds boarding a street car, the motorman ordering him to the rear, a calm compliance, and the car continuing on.
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Goa
Court of Appeal
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Justice McReynolds
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Boschee's Syrup Soothes Throat and Lung Inflammation
Boschee's Syrup claims to ease throat irritation and lung inflammation by calming coughing and aiding sleep. The ad touts it as a long standing household remedy for colds, coughs, bronchitis, and lung troubles worldwide for forty four years, promising restful nights and easier morning expectoration.
Documentary Evidence From a Mother's View on a Daring Sailor Son
A Washington mother expresses mixed concern as her daughter plans excursions with a young man from another city. She doubts his knowledge of sailing, while the daughter defends him citing a letter of recommendation from a firm where he works praising his salesman chip.
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Washington
Marie
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Catarrh Cure Promoted in Local Ad Claim
The anonymous note touts a local cure labeled catarrh relief claiming it cleanses with eight caran measures and clears conditions. Cortlandt Bleecker is referenced as observing Merriweather at a dinner event, commenting on his wife’s attire and implying his income from his spouse.
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Cortlandt Bleecker
Merriweather
Mr. Bleecker
Cuticura Remedies Promoted for Rashes and Skin Irritations
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for soothing rashes and skin irritations. It suggests finishing with Cuticura Talcum Dusting for a purer, sweeter result, and notes the products are sold everywhere at 2s 6d each.
Backhand Compliment in a Tiny Tale
A proud parent asks what the baby resembles and the truthful friend jokes that the child faces a tough inheritance from the forebear, implying genetic humor about resemblance and lineage in a compact exchange.
Christmas Time Circus Crepe Paper Gifts
Christmas time paper pieces offer many opportunities for gifts for children. Wild and domestic animal pictures are cut from sheets, pasted on cardboard, cut to outline with a supporting strip, and packaged as ready to transfer to clothing. A heart shaped sachet with ribbon frills and three bags topped by a small doll completes the set.
Forbelows and ribbons rivaling Christmas color tones
Forbelows for maids and mund are described with new rib bon for belows pictured here. A collar vestee girdle and matching bag use whipped ribbon in Roman stripes. Girdle knots at left and hangs in two pointed ends. bag is drawn up by narrow satin ribbon like a silk ornament.
Gift Bag Elements For Elegant Holiday Accessories
Gift bags of satin and silk ribbons with picot edges and brocaded trims offered for holiday shopping and opera use. Mountings of metal or composition harmonize with patterns, plus ornaments including cord beads pendants and milk-coated accents to finish the gifts.
Pretty Breakfast Caps for Santa Gift Idea
A description of three easy to make breakfast caps for a girl named Vee Moy. The caps feature ribbons net laces and flowers and are shown in a magazine picture. The piece emphasizes a cheerful holiday expectation that Santa will bring a pretty new cap.
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Santa Claus
Sachets as Gifts Pleasing Dainty Women
A fragment describes sachets as small gifts for women, noting bright colored sachets with ribbons and tiny pins. The text hints at decorative fabric pouches and decorative features, suggesting a fashion or domestic item context. No clear event or person names are present.
Gifts Suited to Everybody in Handkerchief Case Article
A vintage note describes gifts for all ages including a handkerchief case and ribbon-covered shoe trees. Details mention a folded ribbon envelope fashion bound with gold braid and a handkerchief case with satin ribbon and fancy braid, with satin rib bon used on the shoe trees.
Christmas Candle and Lampshades Delight Homes
Corstens unveils a new candle and parchment silk lamp shades to brighten homes for the Christmas season. Crepe paper ribbons and crepe paper shades create festive gifts, with a pictured shade highlighted as a centerpiece.
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Lovery Corstens
Australian gunner court martialed in 1915 for cheese tethering
An Australian gunner faced a 1915 court martial in Egypt over a bizarre act described as tethering a piece of cheese to a stake at Serapeum. The report ties earlier queer crimes to war, while a separate humorous vignette recounts children Raymond, Billy, and Harry in a playful quarrel with mixed confessions.
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Serapeum
Egypt
New York Independent
Beauty chosen for czar in sixteenth century Russia
In sixteenth century Russia Ivan IV sought a wife from among the nation’s beauties. About 1,500 girls gathered in Moscow for a royal selection after provincial contests. Anastasia, from a poor family, was chosen empress of about sixty million people.
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Russia
Ivan
Moscow
Anssia
What They Mean By Life’s Best and Worst
A reflective note on perception showing how some critics equate life’s worst with the claimed best, suggesting people who complain misinterpret value. It hints that some seek the good in adversity while others demand superiority from hardship.
Quotation Fragments From Cincinnati Engolrez
A garbled collage of old time phrases features prices and promises such as seven dollar steaks, two months of paid vacation, and free samples. The text riffs on humor and social mores with references to gratuities and leisure, ending with a casual invitation about whisky.
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Walter
Spiffking
Jim
Cincinnati Engolrez
Girlie's Fine PhiloBoping Dress Confession
A Grand Rapids Press note recalls a girl fighting ridiculed fashion limits, describing her eleven inch gap between gown and shoe sole as a short skirt yet merry, told confidentially by the dressmaker about prevailing sartorial rules.
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Grand Rapids Press
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la Grippe
Raymond
Billy
Harry
Barry
A& Simple
Uless
Bayer
Iriatelve
Ofayer Manufacture
Moncareticact
Balleyiics
Czar
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