Publicity Boost for Pierce Medicines Sparks Debate
An era of openness in labeling ingredients for Dr H P Pierce medicines prompts national interest. A Buffalo physician offers a pamphlet listing components of the Golden Medical Discovery and other tonics, claiming strong endorsements and public trust. The pamphlet, supported by medical authorities, aims to educate buyers and counter critics while marketing the remedies widely.
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Clean Yard Thoroughly in Spring Housekeeping Advice
A spring house cleaning article urges women to tidy both inside and outside the home. It describes clearing the yard, burning or burying trash, and maintaining a neat outdoor space to prevent a buildup of dirt that spring rains reveal. It emphasizes practical steps and the satisfaction of a tidy environment.
Four Good Desserts From Modern Women Recipt
A fragmented 20th century recipe piece outlines several desserts and steps. It mentions an Apple Cobbler and a variety of topping methods and ingredients like sugar butter milk and chocolate bread crumbs, with references to warming and beating eggs and whites. The passage cites Modern Women as the source and reads as a collage of dessert instructions.
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Mike
Traibor Carter
Potatoes and Cheese Recipe Steps
Prepared by slicing potatoes and making a sauce with thickened milk and cane sugar. Add grated cheese, mustard, and pepper to the sauce. Layer potato slices with the sauce, repeating, then brown in the oven for about 26 minutes.
Evening Toilete Adaptation Era Dress Trend Notes
A description of an elegant evening toilette combining French monarchy style with a petticoat and coat using fabrics like mousselin, satin, and brocade. Mentions possible silhouettes, skirt options, and the fashion tone of early 20th century society in a dated publication. Also includes legal and notice fragments about liquor permits and estate appointments in Lawrence Kansas.
Red Ants as Pepper at Sunday Bull Fight in Toro
A Sunday bull fight outside the town used worn out cows as the bulls provoking audience fury. An irritated matador awarded a symbolic flower to a woman, who felt affronted by the attention. The travelogue then recounts camping on boulders with a monkey disturbing the narrator and a landlady serving poached eggs sprinkled with red ants.
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Place de Toro
Guatemala
Hiim
mackIntosh
Aventa
John Obeyed Aunt Mary in Twain Tale
A Mark Twain story about Mrs Fiske and Aunt Martha shows Aunt Martha’s strict discipline. John, told to shut a roof trap, delays then obeys after his mother’s insistence. Hours later the family learns Aunt Mary is missing, with John revealing she had climbed to the roof.
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Mark Twain
John Fiske
Martha
John
Mamma
Mary Bhatt
Strange Icelandic plan to stop horses from straying
The text describes a bizarre method used in Iceland to prevent horses from wandering: tying the head of one horse to the tail of another and vice versa, forcing movement to occur only in circles if at all, requiring mutual agreement to turn. It also includes unrelated fragments about life, humor, and old notices from a 1905 era source.
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Kickers
Legendary San Francisco gambling tale told by Baltimore attorney
A Baltimore lawyer recounted a sunlit tale from the gold rush era about a San Francisco gambling house. Two men burst in with a powder horn and black powder, causing panic, then revealed it was harmless black powder as they cleanly robbed the room and escaped on horses, leaving gamblers stunned and the truth questioned.
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Baltimore
Sun
San Francisco
Wireless on Railway Experiments Near Derby Test Telegraphic Train Link
The Milland Railway company conducts wireless telegraphy experiments near Derby to assess use for a fast London to north line. Conceived by Striver Lodge and Dr. Alexander Muirhead, the setup uses aerial wires on towers from ten to metres above ground. A receiving drum prints data as words, with a Lodge Muirhead recorder, while the Derby hut houses the sending station and equipment.
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Milland Railway Company
Derby
Ivindon
North
Striver Lodge
Alexander Muirhead
Leweed
House Not Likely to Burn in Central New York
The Sun reports Auburn builder Drubo H. Osborn recently completed a reinforced concrete residence praised as the most remarkable and destructible safe dwelling in central New York. The design uses four inch exterior brick, eight inch concrete blocks, a four inch air space heated by steam pipes, and interior brick walls on steel reinforced concrete columns with concrete floors. Only noncombustible elements are steel and brick in structure. wood fits remain only in doors, window frames, and dining-room wainscoting.
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New York
Drubo H. Osborn
Auburn
Walla
Disease strikes cattle in deadly Buda Pesth trade report
Fragmentary OCR note cites the phrase Shagey-Haired Pup!l-Buda-Feath as a disease that attacks cattle and is invariably fatal. Other tidbits include a night school teacher query on Buda-Pesth and a quiz about a wife detecting drinking, with references to Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Record.
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Ture
Chicago Tribune
A Paying Resolution. City clerk notice April 6 1906
A regular meeting of the city council on April 2 1906 adopted a resolution stating it is necessary for the public good and convenience to improve the intersecting streets and alleys between specified areas. The resolution ordered publication in the official paper for ten consecutive days.
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Lawrence
Eaneas
Somneleld
oMoial
Henry
Porth and Ecoth Limes Improvement on Henry Street
Henry street begraded curbed and paved from Misaimipp to Main street with two courses of vitrified brick on wood foundation mead cushion and sand filler. Curb to be limestone or cement. Street stress thirty feet curb to curb. Council to pay cost in ten annual installments. Frank D. Brooks city clerk.
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Misaimipparest
Main Street
Frank D. Brooks
A Few Hints on Baking From A Historic Card
A historical note offers baking tips to shape crusts for pies and cookies. It suggests inverting pans to bake cookies to keep bottoms from burning, using water in the steam process for custards, and churning fruit pies with grated bread to improve texture. The advice reflects period kitchen practice and texture aims.
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Theo
Wien
Real Flowers In Hats And Parasol Trimings
A Broadway florist notes trimmed hats with real flowers delight customers and suggests trends for weddings and favors. Parasols are decorated with green orchids and maidenhair fern, turning gifts into removable, water-ready works of floral art.
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Broadway
N. Y. Sun
Culinary Note on Seasoning and Color Adjustment
A home kitchen tip explains correcting overly salty soups by adding sugar. It also advises darkening light brown sauces or soups with a touch of kitchen bouquet.
Dark Continent Magic and a Durban purse tale
The piece narrates a 20th century urban tale of flirtation and risk on a street corner then shifts to a Durban report from Manneston about a purse found by a so called magic center. A native owner seeks the purse claiming supernatural powers to locate it. The search follows the instructed method but yields the purse.
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Sheriff’s Notice of Sale in Douglas County Kan
By virtue of a fee order for execution issued by a district court in Douglas county Kansas the case of Jono N Haker et al versus Jasper Baker Elisha Thomasier and others is set for sale. On May 2 at two o clock p m the west front door of the court house in Avirepte Douglas County Kansas the property described as the west half of the northeast quarter and other parcels in section 33 township 1 south range 18 will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. The described land lies in Douglas County Kansas and will be offered separately with no sale below two thousand dollars. Bishop and Michell attorneys for the plaintiffs.
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