Ostrich farming and poetry misadventures headline a curious issue
The piece blends light humor about a hotel dinner with a feature on ostrich farming in the United States. It notes Arizona owning about 1,500 of 2,200 country ostriches, discusses disease absence, climate suitability, and warns farming is not a quick rich scheme while recalling a humorous faux telephone prank from Harper’s Magazine and a cautionary sign about baths in a Hudson estate. It also warns about poisonous caterpillars and their skin effects.
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Mexican Herald
United States
Salt River Valley
Arizona
South Africa
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Cory
Mertea
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Echoes from the Past and a Folkloric Scene
A fragmentary reminiscence describes Montezuma, Cortes, and a peace offering with a kingly dismissal. The text jumps to a moral about ambition, then veers into an old advertisement for Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup praising liver health and mild relief.
Buffalo Bone Age Aids Kansas Pioneers In Hard Times
Kansas pioneers endured hard early days as plains bones from buffalo were gathered and sold to rail towns. Horns fetched more value while skeletons followed, allowing settlers to buy flour coffee meat and lumber and sustain claims until crops yielded.
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Kansas
Kansas City Star
Plains
Sing Finds Cousins After Fire Rages Through Chinatown
A Chinese cook named Sing fears for relatives in a burning town. Landings barred, he returns to work with a mournful face, then reports finding his cousins in two rented rooms and brings 49 pounds of rice to feed them. The tale blends immigrant endurance with a travel diary aside and a cornucopia of era quips and ads.
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San Francisco
Sing
Chinatown
Doan's Kidney Pills and Swamp Root Featured Remedies
An assortment of medical advertisements tout Doan's Kidney Pills and Kilmer's Swamp Root as cures for kidney liver and bladder issues. The notices promise relief from back pain urinary trouble jaundice and fatigue, with testimonials and offers for sample bottles.
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Binghamton
Kilmer
Hinghamton, N. V
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Barbans
Carlisle Center
Foley
Sam
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FIRST SIGHS OF LOVE IN A RURAL SPEECHES AND TALES
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century reminiscence blends a young man’s awkward courtship with domestic scenes and a wandering essay on widows and hunting. It juxtaposes family supper, political talk, and a whispered reflection on affection, duty, and social norms of the era.
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Henry
Wble Roth
Bnsay
Mather
Fragmented Worldly Musings and Health Claims
A jumble of phrases reflects inner monologue on love and money, plus a testimonial about Dr King's New Discovery for cough and cold. The text mentions a druggist from Livonia Ma and a Graysville Mo source praising the medicine as wonderful. A shipboard setback and price talk appear among the scattered lines.
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Graysvills
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