Palmistry and a misread love match in a twist of fate
A narrator recounts using palmistry to read two friends Langton and Eva and predicting marriage but doubting the match. After a trail of letters and wedding notices, Eva Barrington elopes with another man, while Vera Gray later becomes Vera Gore, suggesting the narrator influenced a happier alliance.
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Langton
Vera Gray
Ted
Andi
Sears
Eva
Scotland
Newton's
Newtons
Vera
Trousseau
France
the Times
Morning Post
Standard
Eva Barrington
Gore
Normandy
Last Resort Excuses for a Late School Arrival
Dialogue centers on a boy asking for an excuse for yesterday’s tardiness. A jeweler questions the boy’s relation, while the boy argues his mother trusted the clock she bought, implying it falsified the time.
Teacher recreates digestion lesson with humor
In a physiology class a teacher reviews the next digestion step hymnification and how food churns in the stomach. A student named Tommy Traddles asks if that is the danse du ventre, adding a moment of humor to the life lesson.
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Chicago
Tommy Traddles
Very Like. A marriage like a house on fire
A humorous dialogue compares marriage to a house fire, noting both begin from a spark and can become dangerous, as told by a judge.
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Jack
Bunco Steerer's Victim in Texas Siftings
Paying Teller states the draft has no funds in the bank. The storyteller mentions an old gentleman as the brother in law of George Gould, relating the Bunco scheme in a Texas Siftings item.
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Hayseed
George Gould
Texas Siftings
The Place He Preferred.
A courtroom scene portrays a judge declaring the defendant guilty of murdering his parents for their wealth. Billy the Kid replies with a flippant remark about being sent to an orphan asylum, reflecting a grim, era-tinged tone.
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Billy the Kid
New Application
Maude criticizes Charlie as overly candid and unfiltered while Katie questions his truthfulness. Maude concedes he is honest yet notably frank.
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Maude
Charlie
Katie
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as Standard Bearer in Medical Reform
A historical notice praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for overcoming old school medicine's harsh remedies. It credits the remedy with alleviating biliousness constipation chills fever and digestive and kidney complaints once treated by bloodletting purgatives and emetics, framing it as a humane scientific approach.
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Hostetter
Ple dealer described as wide awake sparks trouble
An exchange notes a wide awake ple dealer and cites that as the trouble with most ple. The remark hints at vigilance and concern over dealer behavior without detailing specific actions.
A Mother's Opinion On Calderwood Rheumatism Cure
Mrs L A Lyford of San Francisco reports her daughter Fannie was crippled by inflammatory rheumatism and used crutches. After sending $5 to Calderwood's Rheumatism Cure on Market and Fourth, three bottles arrived and the girl soon discarded crutches and recovered. The remark about the groom compares a stable character to his master.
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L. A. Lyford
Hollywood
Turk Street
San Francisco
Calderwood
Fannie
Market and
Fourth Streets
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with 100 dollar reward
An old advertisement promises a $100 reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites testimonials from Toledo druggists West Treax Waxpine Kixman Marvin and endorses F. J. Cheney & Co. The ad notes 75 cents per bottle and claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Also a brief aside about potatoes and upcoming summer prices.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. Cheney
West & Treax
Waxpine
Kixman & Marvin
O. Hall
Trustee's Sale Notice in Prowers County Colorado
Public notice states that on April 25, 1894, at 2 P.M., C O Atkins as successor trustee will auction the described property in Prowers County to satisfy the unpaid promissory note plus costs. Alfred Butters as assignee, Colorado Savings Bank, is the legal holder. The sale is at the county courthouse and covers the described tract in Section 19, Township 22, Range 44, west of the 6th Principal Meridian.
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James E. Long
Prowers County
Colorado
John A. Clough
C. O. Atkin
6Th Principal Meridian
James B. Ongee
Kave
C. O. Atkins
County of Prowers
Army
Alfred Butters
Colorado Savings Bank
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Ira Harrington
Mra Gordon
Bunco
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