Orphans Face Lengthy Consent Trail for Marriage
A French case shows Suzanne B and Heart needing extensive consents from dead and living relatives for marriage. Certificates include both parents and grandparents death records and a conseil de famille. Delays, costs, and legal hurdles delayed the wedding in Paris.
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Suzanne B
Suzanne
Mairie
Conseil de Familie
Family Council
France
Paris
Henri
Chicago News
Peaceful mediator James B Dill reshapes Carnegie Frick ties
Leslie's Weekly profiles James B Dill as a prime peace-maker in the Carnegie Frick settlement. He allegedly earned a substantial fee, remains discreet about the amount, and is famed for his corporate law acumen and vast network of millionaire friends. Dill’s past shows a relentless hustler’s rise from student to lawyer. He enjoys riding saddle horses with daughter Emma and spending fishing months at Rangeley Lakes, with tales sharp enough to impress Izaak Walton.
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James B. Dill
Mr. Carnegie
Mr. Frick
Carnegie Corporation
Dill
Mr. Dill
United States
Rangeley Lakes
Izaak Walton
Leslie’s Weekly
War changes little for a soldier's core
A Civil War veteran in a New Hampshire hospital fills a convalescent form. When asked his profession before the war he says he was a Methodist. He adds that losing an arm in another war would not change his identity. The surgeon accepts this with a restrained smile and learns he was also a carpenter in peacetime.
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New Hampshire
Kerosene recommended for dishwashing in shortages
A wartime style tip advises using kerosene to remove grease when hot water and soap are scarce. It claims kerosene cuts grease, leaves dishes clean, and eliminates unpleasant oil odors.
A Mexican Mummy in Guadalajara Cathedral Chapel
A slab in the first chapel near the left entrance of Guadalajara cathedral marks the resting place of Don Juan Santiago Carrabita born in Palma Andalusia Spain July 9 164 a canon of Badajoz and first bishop of Porto Rico. The mummy, with two front teeth logs intact, wears a red bishop robe and cap with a gold band and shows brown wrinkled skin. Vanitas vanitarum.
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Guadalajara
Juan Santiago Carrabita
Palma
Annalusia
Spain
Church of
Badajoz
Porto Rico
Vanitas Vanitarum
Friends Oats Promotion and Humorous Picnic Quip
A vintage call to housekeepers and oat lovers to try Friends' Oats and Muscatinela with a note to save trademarks for premiums including silverware and books. A humorous line about Mrs Waddleton’s harried picnic prep mentions snakes and lemonade, with a playful jab at her concern.
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Bes
Muscatinela
Medical book free Know Thyself for Mex Osiy
An advertisement offers a free medical book titled Know Thyself for Mexican readers or otherwise. It mentions a prize treatise with engravings and a library rite at The Peabody Medical address No 4 Belfast Street.
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Peabody Med
Belfiort St
Unidentified crash startles Marie and Isabel scene
A fragmentary scene shows a crash alarms Marie as Isabel enters and a young woman mistaken for Isabel asks for pardon, clarifying her name and unfamiliarity with the others.
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Marie
Isabel
Leabel
Allen's Foot-Ease Promotes Comfort for Swollen Feet
Ad copy touts Allen S. Olmsted powder to ease smarting burning and sweating feet. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free sample. Also notes Empress Dowager of China faces potential downfall with possible deposition of Kuang-Hsu and restoration with European advisers.
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Allen
Gress Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
China
Kuang-Hsu
Poultry Killer Ad with Small Rig Work
Job ad offers $18 per week plus expenses to operate a one or two-horse rig for introducing a Poultry Sesant Lice Killer. Includes address in Des Moines Iowa and requests stamped responses. Also notes Union Pacific excursion fares to Chicago and other Midwest cities with a final limit October 7.
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Des Moines
Shoes Feel Better with Allen's Foot Ease
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to fit tight or new shoes and cure swelling heat sweat aching feet ingrown nails corns and bunions. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 25 cents with free trial by mail from Le Roy New York. A side note quips about Rodney Mc Nibbs.
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Allen
Allen S
le Roy
N.Y
Faultless Starch and Election Year Talk
Fragmented OCR reads as a jumble of ads and quotes about Faultless Starch and a looming election year. It mentions a baseball expert and a presidential election, plus drug and financing notes. The passage is garbled with stray names and prices.
Hairs Catarrh Cure Sold with Price Claim
A letter from Mrs. THs Ross of Maple Street Norwich dated February 17 1908 asserts that Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally and praises Piso's Cure for Consumption claiming it saved a life three years ago.
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Ross Maple Street
Norwich
Fragmented Readable Snippet Features Odd Phrasing and Advertisements
The passage presents a garbled mix of phrases including teething cures, financial chatter, a Welsh Rabbit joke, faded handwriting and a note about a money market. It also references a receipt for hair loss remedies and a quip about women in politics, all hinting at a miscellaneous, ad laden newspaper fragment.
Are You Going Fast The Santa Fe Route Excursion Rates
The Santa Fe Route advertises cheap excursion rates with Chicago and return 21.5 dollars and St Louis and return. It lists June and July travel windows with multiple city pairings including Cincinnati and Kansas City and urges asking agents for Santa Fe Route details. J P Hall, agent in Denver, Colorado is named.
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Santa Fe
Chicago
St. Louie
Irth
Fox
Cincinnati
J.P Hall
Denver
Colo
Choice Recipes and Family Matters Mix in Limited Excerpt
The fragment references Primiey’s California Fruit Gem product and Carter’s Ink as well as a light domestic scene about asking a young man’s intentions. It mentions travel from Denver to Kansas City by train with a Pullman car, offering a single fare for July, listed at Seventeenth Street.
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Onis
Denver
Kansas City
Pullman
Lng Sing Ty Se
Arrivansas
Cheap Excursions Offer Sale Tickets to Chicago and Missouri River Points
Burlington offers round trip tickets from Denver to Chicago St Louis Peoria and Missouri river points at a reduced fare. Tickets valid for return until October first and open to all. G W Vallery General Agent. A note on insomnia depicts irritated man causing cats to suffer as a humorous aside.
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McE
Union Pacific
Chicago
Uis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Kansas City
Omaha
Seventeenth Street
Burlington
Denver
St. Louis
Peoria
Missouri River
Vallery
East
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Chautauqua Lake
Niagara Falls
St. Lawrence River
White Mountains
Atlantic Coast
Book of Trains
F. M. Byron
G. W.A
Va Street
Boston
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed
A long-time experience expert, Mrs. Pinkham, handles over a hundred thousand cases annually, offering free advice to women. She claims twenty years of constant success and invites ill readers to obtain her Vegetable Compound and write to Lynn Massachusetts.
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Bisse
Lydia E. Pinkham
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