Matilda's Last Day of Youth and its Wake
Matilda, once the village’s scandalous beauty, seeks one last day of youth with Jim in a private wood. She buries her youth on a mound, contemplates marriage and freedom, and to the river she goes for a final, dreamlike voyage before returning to the dreary village and its gossip.
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Tolly Fox
Mr. Fox
Matilda
Lipa
Enim
Matida
Enid
Sta
Deepal
Jim
Jong
Matilia
Maida
Warrington town seeks public schools for untaxed residents
The article describes Warrington Mississippi or Florida era town near a Navy yard. It notes a population over 1000 with 300 houses, six churches and several stores. It highlights untaxed residents living off naval land, many fishing or farming, and Senator Mallory proposing public schools for white and colored children.
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Mae
Navy Yar
Mallory
Worida
Warrington
Mia
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Yard
Pensacola
Naval Reservation
Department
Navy
Postoffice Department
Pensacola Navy Yard
Absinthe and Its Origin in European History
European temperance movements were startled by the discovery that absinthe was once a potent remedy and led by a French physician named Ordinaire in exile near Convent. His elixir, kept secret, passed from a housekeeper to heirs, then to cultivators who sold it to peddlers, and finally to a wealthy diviller who marketed the modern absinthe distinct from the old non alcoholic remedy.
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Europe
Ordinaire
Convet
Tn Sutzerland
British Navy praised by US attaché Provokes Skepticism
In Washington Commander Richardson Clover US naval attaché is quoted praising Britain’s navy as stronger at sea than two top continental powers. The Hamp shire Telegraph cautions the claim may be inflated, urging the public to temper belief in Clover’s assertions.
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Englund
Richardson Clover
United States
Washington
Clover
Hampshire Telegraph
Capt Clover
Jon
Wood carved prosthetic by Whittied Ma tae near Arvola Mi
Whittied Ma tae Cal Burnes living seven miles east of Arvola Michigan wears a wooden leg and foot he carved with a pocket knife without tools. He lost his foot in the Klondike two years ago and his brother Dr Omer Barnes of Ayoola helped. In 1861 Australia had 1,193,000 acres under cultivation and in 1899 there were over 20,000,000 Bor ns.
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Cal Burnes
Arvola
Barnes
Australia
Peruna testimonial letter from Mattie Douglass
Beautiful women from Memphis and Cavalla report relief from headaches and improved health after using Peruna. Mattie Douglass says the medicine restored buoyancy of body and mind and that pain vanished after taking it for a year. Readers are invited to request a testimonials book.
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Misa Mattie Dougines
Memphis
Tena
Krom Wy
Mattie Douglass
United States
Cavalla
Peruna Promises Cure For Catarrhal Diseases In Women
An advertisement-style claim promotes Peruna as a remedy to prevent and cure catarrhal and mucous membrane disorders. It stresses winter and spring vulnerability for women, urges early use at first cold symptoms, and offers personalized advice from Dr Harton and Dr Flattman of The Tartarian Saularian in Columbus, Ohio.
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Lenore Allen
Dowell Street
San Francisco
Cal
Harton
Flattman
Tartan Saulariuan
Colwabug
Ohio
Alton Train Service Adverts To St Louis via Kansas City Gateway
Passengers heading to St Louis and eastern points should route through Kansas City to catch the last night train of the Chicago & Alton line, with sleeping cars and free compartment service. Write J D Cooper in Chicago for lowest rates. Kansas City 1 Ma date. Also a note on Rev Jno M Crowe praising Dr Caldwell’s Laxative Syrup Pepsin with a free mail sample offer.
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Jno. M. Crowe
Kentucky
Tennessee
High
Lexington
Drigelal
Pepsin Syrup Co
Mon- Heello
Three Young Women Ride Home After Theater Mixup
Three young women from Revolk New Jersey went to New Brunswick to tend a theater event. They planned to return by trolley but missed the changed timetable. Millionaire manager Ede with Hy Rachel arranged a special trolley to take them home and returned afterward.
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Millenaire
Fragmentary Ad Claims Soothing Syrup Benefit
Fragment reads an ad for Winnlow’s soothing syrup with garbled text about a hundred price and various terms. It mentions money and implied mixed transactions. No clear event or person details emerge from the readable lines.
Automobiles and Noise Spur Move From Fifth Avenue Building
Couldate Htand sues John Bushin Walker over rent alleged and claims noise from automatic planes in the building attracted attention. Walker, president of a company displaying automopiles, says the noise prevented his sales staff from doing business. He moves out with his group to the new site.
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John Bushin Walker
New York
Walker
Fifth Avenue
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Toledo
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Defiance
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