Salzer Seed Offer Delivers 10 Packets for 14 Cents
John A Salzer Seed Co advertises a mail order plant and seed catalogue with 10 seed packets including Bismarck Cucumber Round Globe Beet Earliest Carrot Kaiser Wilhelm Lettuce Earliest Melon Giant Yellow Onion and 14 Day Radish plus 25 packets of Earliest Vegetable Seed and 21 Brilliant Blooming Plants mailed free for 14 cents postage. Mail order form lists La Crosse Wisconsin as the company location.
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Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Electric Heated Sadfrons at Indianapolis Hospital
At the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis the laundry uses electrically heated sad frons reducing ironing staff by about half. Uniform heat and constant supply let each rub be efficient with little heat wasted, enabling far more work in a temperature-controlled room without combustion byproducts.
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Central Indiana Hospital
Indianapolis
Popular Calendar Supplies From Aren and Sox for 1907
A 1907 calendar from N W Aren & Sox, the Keeping Everlastingly At It News Advertising Agents of Philadelphia, is praised for large readable figures and a businesslike design suited to offices and libraries. Demand exceeds supply and the calendar is offered postpaid at a nominal price.
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N. W. Aren & Sox
Boxing match proposed to decide referee by dice
A Washington Star piece suggests ending brutal pugilism by shaking dice to choose the referee, arguing it would be more cultured and humane than endless pounding. The quote frames critics of fighting with a call for a lighter, more regulated fight standard.
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Washington Star
Calendars and Coupons Offer Hood Sarsaparilla Calendar
A promotional notice for Hood's Sarsaparilla calendar featuring a seasonal calendar and coupons. It highlights a lithographer’s design and an accompanying booklet titled The Weather. Readers are urged to request the coupon calendar from their druggist or send stamps to C. L Hood & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Hood
C. L Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Word of Praise Shown After Dinner Tale
A Washington Star fragment notes Miss Cayenne praising a man for his loyalty after he told a story at the dinner table. She calls the tale a sign of admirable character, showing he never goes back on an old friend.
Deafness Cure Claim Backed by Hall's Catarrh Cure
An advertisement asserts deafness stemming from inflamed Eustachian tubes can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills. The text ends with a joke about perfect dress and payment.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney &O
Toledo
B. Graces
Untitled Ad Promises Gentle Cathartic Benefits
An antique style advertisement proclaims Cascarets provide gentle stimulation for nerves stomach bowels. It asserts no sickness weakness or griping and claims affordability at 10 cents. The text references old fashioned chivalry and the notion men fell in love with women in earlier times.
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Untis
Penelpe
Chinese Boys Happy in Metuchen Dining on Western Education
A New Jersey village greeted thirty Chinese boys brought by Rev. Huie Kin to study Western ideas. Jeng Seung, 14, and Chin Sune Wing, 16, are highlighted as exemplary scholars. The journey included seasickness, sightseeing in San Francisco, and experiences aboard steam trains and at public parks. The boys now wear native garments but study English daily in three classes with aims to start real studies by September.
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New Jersey
Metuchen
New York Herald
Huie Kin
Jeng Seung
China
America
Chin Sune Wing
Canton
Boston
San Francisco
Hong Kong
Nagasaki
Yokohama
Honolulu
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Washington
New Industry Emerges As Lamp Lighting Pays Off
In Central Park night lamps become a new livelihood for street urchins. Boys earn many nickels by lighting lamps for passing vehicles, with occasional larger coins. A cabman episode shows thrift and mischief as one boy learns a hard lesson about matches and lamps.
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Central Park
New York Times
Bronte's Villette Model Dies After Bitter Reflections
The Brussels school principal M Heger, age 86, died amid lingering bitterness toward Charlotte Bronte, whom she inspired in Villette and Paul Emanuel. He believed Bronte sought revenge over her stay in Brussels, a view his family and friends rejected as malice.
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M. Heger
Brussels
Charlotte Bronte
Funeral Costs for a Workingman in Japan
The document lists funeral costs in Japan: basic funeral 83 cents, finer arrangements up to 1.25 dollars. Coffin costs 20 cents. Cremation rates range 40 to 75 cents. Refreshments add 11 to 36 cents.
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Japan
Pink Pills for Pale People Aid Debilitated Woman
A Hutchinson Gazette excerpt recounts Mrs. Ann Devenish of Castleton Kansas praising Pink Pills for Pale People from Dr Williams Medicine Co. She suffered rheumatism nerve debility and sleepless nights. After three months use her health improved and she recommended them to friends and doctors. The ad notes pills sold 20 cents to a dollar and available at druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York.
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the Gazette
Hutchinses
T. Devenish
Castleton
Kansas
Wig
Hutchins
Weing de. Williams
Castletss
L. Suroth
Jenscowl
Maher
Willame
Dr. Com Medicine O
A Mohammedan Deputy Draws Crowd In City Street
A recently elected deputy from the Radicals appears in public wearing a turban and full beard amid jeers and curiosity. He proclaims intent to wear tan and the Prophet God in the chamber, speaks as a skilled debater and healer, and is described as liberal on marriage and polygamy while denouncing bad actors in politics.
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Barnes
God
Cleveland’s Frisky President Delights Cabinet and Crowd
Washington correspondent notes President Cleveland acts boyish as his near-term agenda looms. Cabinet members joke at his serious bearing while Chevalier performs on stage and Olney’s wives attend. A press event unfolds with the presiding journalist’s wand gesture and a request to the platform.
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Washington
Cleveland
Chevalier
Eossinger
Avises
API Poltary Olney
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