Colorado Midland offers low fares to western resorts
A travel notice promotes a round trip from unspecified origins to Colorado interior state points Utah California and the Northwest via the Colorado Midland Railway. It highlights world class standard gauge tracks and invites inquiries to Mr. C H Speers General Passenger Agent Denver Colorado for information.
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Colorado
Utah
California
Colorado Midland Railway
Northwest
C. H. Speers
Denver
Colo
Bavarian Trade Museum Uses Lecturing Toy Models
The Bavarian Trade Museum adopts traveling lecturers to interest and instruct the public and toy buyers. Demonstrations feature a complete railroad train model capable of running backward and forward, at slow or fast speeds, and stopping at will.
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Bavarian Trade Museum
English Women Dull and American Women Superior Say Authority
An unnamed authority asserts American women are more thorough intelligent better formed and agreeable than English women who are described as dull idle and incompetent. The piece notes Americans as busy energetic and capable and mentions a tobacco brand shift to Lewis single Binder from Sedgar with a brief factory reference to Peoria.
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Lewis
Peoria
Earnings of British Males Estimated at 350 Dollars a Year
The president of the British Board of Trade told the house of commons that average annual earnings of adult males in principal industrial and agricultural jobs in a year of average employment are about 350 dollars. Storekeepers note that Defiance Starch’s extra quantity and higher quality push other brands from shelves.
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British Board of Trade
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Shirt Stud Watch Replaces Shirt Stud Idea
An English watchmaker has crafted a Uny watch shaped as a shirt stud. Diameter is two sixteenths of an inch and it is worn with two companion studs. Winding occurs by the upper stud and hands are adjusted by the lower stud. Clairvoyance deemed illegal by Paris courts. Cattle bones used for fuel in South American meat regions. A plague of adders hits Silesian villages with 452 snakes killed in Freudenthal.
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Addere
Freudenthal
Insure Registered Letters in Canada to $25 limit
An extra fee of from 8 to 6 cents allows insured registered letters in Canada up to a $25 limit. The note also states Koreans do not sew their clothes but use fish glue instead.
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Canada
Salvation Army Arrives in Panama for Labor Aid
Staff Captain el Senor Leib, social superintendent of the Salvation Army in Jam, commissioned by London, has arrived in Panama to organize cheap food and shelter depots for canal laborers and the poor. He will also pursue efforts to raise the spiritual and moral tone of the men.
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Salvation Army
Panama
el Senor Leib
Salvation Army of Jam
London
Labor Colonies in Belgium Prove Useful for Employment
The institution of labor colonies has been tried in Belgium for ten years and is found a useful means of coping with the idle and the inefficient, as well as the professional beggar and the bad character. About 8,000 persons are employed in the government colonies.
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Institution of Labor
Belgium
No 13 Forbidden in Harlem Theater Panic Plan
The Harlem theater marks seats with red lights and numbers, yet no 13 appears on the plan or above doors. Managers fear panic could make Number 13 a choke point for crowds.
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Harlem
Saved Child's Life in Sedgwick Arkansas July 11
A Melbourne- era style clipping tells of W. B Taylor's son who suffered severe dropsy last autumn. After doctors failed, Dodd's Kidney Pills were given and the boy recovered after thirty five pills. The account claims the medicine saved his life and restored his ability to walk and play. A second item notes rising grain and gin prices in London and a Mothers’ aid pitch for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, with usage for teething and worm elimination.
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Sedgwick
Ark
Taylor
Dodd
Russian Wit Letter From Port Arthur Soldier
A Moscow journal prints a reader’s letter quoting a Russian soldier at Port Arthur about naming artillery as Togo for noise but no hits. Mrs Tros Ronny from Maple Street Norwich mentions Piso’s Cure for Consumption saving her life three years ago in a February 17 1900 note.
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Moscow
Port Arthur
Togo
Piso
Nap for Italian Soldiers in Midday Break
Italian soldiers are granted a two hour midday pause for a nap. The allowance applies to troops during the day to rest and regroup amid ongoing duties.
Untitled Verse Fragment on Nature and Memory
Fragmentary verse recalling westward skies and summer fields. Vague images of trees, flowers, birds, and youth evoke nostalgia for a past place of freedom and play. The text wanders through nature, time, and a distant beacon, ending with a cue to turn toward youth.
Merit and misfortune in success and doubt
A string of wry observations on merit, parental influence, and luck shaping success. A Kansas man seeks a New York police sleuth post after a long letter from his girlfriend, while varied quips about smoking, aging, and small town follies appear. The piece notes editors’ Boosters columns and ends with a playful nod to optimistic journalism.
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Kansas
New York
Gate of Japan described as a curious cat land feature
The text claims Japan is the land of the rising sun and the Land of the Rising Sun is linked to a curious cat. It mentions the gate of Japan lacking a brush yet sometimes showing a tailbone and a small tuft of balr in various depictions.
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Japan
Shells as Amulets Across Seas and Eras
Shells and coral beads serve as protective amulets in Africa and Mediterranean regions. The practice traces to Strabo's era with shells worn to ward off the evil eye. Ancient customs link Hed coral to charms, while powdering rust from grain is noted as another folk remedy.
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Africa
Strabo
Unit 18
Mediterranean
Vestments of Pius V Discovered in Rome Church
The pontifical vestments of Pius V were found in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore Rome and presented to the pope by Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli. An Erie Railroad Company ad promotes low fares and eastbound routes from Chicago and St Louis with three daily fast trains to New York Boston Buffalo Pittsburgh and more with free stopovers at Niagara Falls Cambridge Springs and Chautauqua Lake.
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Pius V
Sante Maria Maggiore
Rome
Vincenzo Vannutelli
Chicago
South Dakota
Chicago & North Western Mallway
Konostool
A Dinner of Souls Dinner Party in Paris
The latest fad in Paris is dinners of the souls where guests impersonate celebrities in costume and speech, mimicking accents and quotations. The entertainment rewards intellectual pretensions and broad knowledge, requiring study and cultural awareness to succeed.
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Paris
Motor Buses for Passengers in Britain
Edinburgh manufactured motor omnibuses have been introduced in several English and Scottish towns on an experimental basis for street passenger traffic.
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Edinburgh
Defiance Starch promotes five trips to St Louis Exposition
Five ladies from Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri can win round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition by sending in the most Defiance cold water starch trade marks from a ten cent sixteen ounce package. Mail proofs to Defiance Starch Co Omaha Neb before September 1 1904. Registered mail tickets dispatched September 5. Defiance starch claims 16 once per package and non sticking to irons.
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Defiance Starch Co
St. Louis Exposition
Ill Jole
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Omaha
Nebr
Prominent Lawyer Opposes Plain Clothes Police Lawsuit
A noted lawyer argues that plain clothes officers may lawfully seize a motor car if they intrude without clear notice. He contends the motorist cannot know whether the intruder will commit an assault on property or person.
No such thing as a superfue ous woman claim questioned
The Boston Globe remark about a superfue ous woman appears suspect after a journalist seeks to appease his mother in law Milwaw, according to Sentinel reporting on the incident.
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Boston Globe
Milwaw
Sentinel
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