Defiance Starch and Odd Antique Fragments Highlight 19th Century Ad Copy
A collage of vintage text extols Defiance Starch detailing its claimed fabric benefits and home laundering advantages. The snippet also includes quirky stage dialogue about animals and a memorial tablet, plus a note on Mary Wood of Oregon aged 120 as the oldest living human on authentic record.
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Mia
Mary Wood
Hillsboro
Ore
Portland
Mra
Wood
Knoxville
Tenn
Sho
Tennessee
Oregon
Record Sausage Rivalry Breaks Length in Pennsylvania
Germans in Pennsylvania produce giant sausages with Jacob Ackerman of Limeport creating a new record at 64 feet eight inches long.
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Pennsylvania
Jacob Ackerman
Limeport
Care of Submarine Cables
Fifty fine vessels are constantly employed in laying and repairing the submarine cables of the world.
Nervous Collapse Warned by Nerves Impure Blood
An advertisement describes nervous collapse as a warning from impure blood and urges tonic treatment with Dr Williams Pink Pills. It cites Mrs E O Bradley of Rochester New York who suffered a nervous breakdown after a shock and found relief after using the pills, claiming improved strength and sleep.
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Williams
Pike
E. O. Bradley
Parsells Avenue
Rochester
N. Y
Condi
Énouths
William Free
Schenectady
Romance of Servant Becomes Wife of Wealthy Spokane Builder
Anna Larasen Peterson, born in Sweden, marries D. C. Corbin, railroad magnate and Spokane International Hallway official. The union follows years of self education and travel after starting as a housekeeper and companion to Corbin’s late wife.
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Bookane
Ward-Anna Laraen Peterson
Sweden
D. C. Corbin
Spokane International Hallway Company
Nelling
Spokane Falla & Northern Railway
Great Northern Baihroad Company
Pines
Mt. Vernon
Spokane
Min
Corbin
Mr. Corbin
Hans Christlin Anderson
Han
Northwest
America
New England
Middle Western States
D.C. Corbin
Mra. Corbin
Anna
Antone Peterson
Tacoma
Chicago
Lowton
New York
Hjalmer Larson
Spokane International System
Earl of Oxford
Boy Has Plan To Feed Horses At Exhibition
Middleboro Massachusetts a 14 year old high school student Arthur Ripley built an automatic horse feeder for a school exhibit. The device uses a hinged grain box two grain compartments and a clock activated lever to drop grain into the manger at feeding time. An electric light marks the box to prevent barn fires and each day the grain is replenished and the lever reset.
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Middleboro
Mass
Arthur Ripley
Treatment Induced A Chill Story From Camp
An Army tale recalls a captain learning a Private 11- weighs 200 pounds with a chilling blue look. The first Sergeant sends him to the surgeon in charge, and the corporal reports the man was taken to the hospital tent where the doctor treated him and another officer also caught a chill.
Cuticleura Remedies Said to Save Child’s Life
A mother from Union City Indiana recounts how she treated her infant with Cuban Itch using Cuticleura Soap Ointment and Remedies. She claims after three applications the sores dried, the child slept, and within two weeks the boy recovered completely. She notes the cost as minimal and credits the remedies with saving his life.
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Hola
Mia
Zana Miller
Union City
Branch Co
Mich
Mules Response and Humorous Tales From Aboard An Irishman
A collage of sketches recalls Senator Knute Nelson and mule driving tales from a jogging camp showing how varied language fails to move mules, and how a punchline from an Irishman proves a universal mechanism. A joke about a loafer dining with a policeman ends with a quip about a stomach pump. A classroom anecdote questions returning good for evil with a student’s reply about apples.
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Knute Nelson
Iriahman
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National Magazine
Eyes of New York Public School Children to Be Examined
The New York City Board of Education orders the health department to run expert eye exams on all public school children to determine how many need glasses. Commissioner Stern estimates at least 100 000 pupils would require spectacles and warns current conditions waste money and education. The city must provide glasses for the affected pupils promptly to avoid long term regret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Board of Education
Health Department
Stern
Historic island Gale Raasay seeks buyer at upset price
The historic island of Gale Raasay in the Inner Hebrides failed to attract a purchaser at an upset price of 226,000. The article notes its Norse name meaning place of the roe deer, its mansion and grounds at the southern end, and ruins of Hroche castle near the north.
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Gale
Raasay Island
Hebrides
Scotland
Iale
Skye
Han
Hroche
Jtw
Salida
Fingland
Hamuel Johnson
Bootland
CARTORTA Remedy for Infants and Children Notice
Important advisory directs mothers to inspect CARTORTA bottles for infants and kids. Claims a seta remedy and Defiance Starch avoids sticking to iron plus no blotches or blisters, easing ironing and protecting goods.
Knotty Point to Decide If Goat Is Sheep
County commissioners are urged to rule on a zoological question regarding goats and sheep under a state law that reimburses farmers for sheep killed by dogs. A R Harvard of Mifin township claims $60 for Angora goat destroyed, per Columbus dispatch.
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Knotty
A. R. Harvard
Mifin Township
Columbus
Pittsburg
Temperature and Water at High Altitude Observations
A report notes water boiling at 212 F at sea level and 193 F at 10 000 feet. It references Darwin in 1835 boiling potatoes for three hours without them boiling.
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Darwin
Hot Bhot for the Men Speaking at Cardiff
Minn Gawthorpe, described as a Hurragetta, told a Cardiff audience that a wife's blushes come from knowing the kind of man she will marry. The remark reflects social views on marriage and female propriety.
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Cardiff
Wales
Minn Gawthorpe
Wride
Doctor promotes Grape-Nuts as key to health and happiness
A Massachusetts doctor extols Grape-Nuts as highly digestible and Nutritious, suitable for all ages and instantly prepared. He claims four heaping teaspoons suffice for a meal, notes it can be served with cream or hot milk, and urges readers to read The Road to Wellville.
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Wellville
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