The Tike Street House and its Indian Night Pranks
An account of the Tike Street House in Chicago near the river, once a popular hotel run by Mark Bennbien. Guests awoke to cries of Indians at dawn, leading to rumors of a practical joke, while staff offered inconsistent explanations and the mystery of who woke them persisted amid tales of the hotel’s colorful past.
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Tike Street
Chicago
Mark Bennbien
Lakeshrest
Indiana
Aklaat
Tussia
Gervaen
Wei Irving Dodge
Poston
Woithie
Marsader
Winkea
Brittany
Antoine
Dunltot
Yosyia
Burin
Pruning and pest tips for orchard pruning and salt remedy
Agricultural notes advise prune with care to shape apples at the right height and caution against heavy pruning large trees. Warns striped bug threats to cucumbers, suggests soot ashes and netting top coverings. early morning hoeing helps soil moisture. salt under trees cited to reduce codling moth damage with minimal cost.
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le Han
Rica
Home remedies and crafts from a past issue
A fragmented domestic page covers sneeze relief by nose plugs, making lounge covers from cretonne, linen, and borders, plus a cement for iron repairs. It also offers home tips on plant care, hair restoration tonics, crochet napkins, and small crafts for daily living.
Agricultural notes on pests and farm practices reported
A Farmer's Review excerpt discusses strategies for dry land preparation, thistle control using mowing before blooming, mulching and straw cleanliness, moles in strawberry patches controlled by straw and grain, summer pig feeding with greens and limited grain, selling pigs in October, and using sand around vines as a pest deterrent. These practical tips reflect 19th century farming cautions.
Fragmented 19th Century Humors and Remedies in One Page
A collage of humorous quips and medical notices describes lightning jokes, consular complaints, malaria remedies, and various patent medicines. It touts Hoffmann like tonics, Bee's praise for a Chinese oil, and cautions about German bans on pork imports. The page also advertises cures for rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, and nerve diseases, with testimonials and sensational health claims.
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San Francisco
Conaul A. F. Bee
Ing
Jacob
Golden Medical Discovery Aimed at Consumption
To Consumptives Reader, can you believe that the creator afthiens one Uuint of mankind with s distase, for whic there is no remedy Dr RV. Piete's "Goluen Medical Discovery" has veréd hundreds of tas of consumption, wnd turn are living to-day healthy robust ton-whom physicians pronounced incurable, lineause one Inng was almost gone. Send two staanps for Dr. Pierre's paraphlet tc Consimplion and, Kindred AMections, Address Wonbo's DisPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Duivin NY
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RV. Piete
Wonbo
Dispensary Medical Association
Duivin
N.Y
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Fanite Orban Rental
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Nandy
Lillian
Lilli
Wisconsin
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Moorean
New England
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Rance
Corp
Phere
Vompeter
Velon Iuegregalans
Lys
Aistles
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Phink
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Jooky
Jrarmer
Appisayu
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Germany
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Jong
Hoxtetter
Luida
Orzana
Ernie
Genta
J. B. Kelsey
Broad Arrest
New York City
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Kacape
Data Can
Lafayette, Inc
Tenry
Ysel Brown
Moatcai
Patti
London
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St. Bernard
Tuman
Tonga
Rass
Lefougs
Enkalers
Torney
Voltaic Bell Co
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Graves’ Hout
Crarter
Regie
Onice
Irs
Amy Toyce
Anil
Dawiey
Hunt
Worth
Buffalo
Spain
Pierne
Goswell, Howard & Co
Casswell, Tagard & Co
Chantanque County
Bob
Stites
Brooklyn
N. C
Elmorve
Gary
Kidusy
Munich
Academy of Art
Graves
Uruggist
J . P. Neustaedter & CO
Mercer &J
Bernard Vegectable
Garanan Es
HE. Gelston & GO
Ansuat
Washington
Juall Ur
Uhilada
Syereer
Romont
Loxton
ASURE
Sagan
Perna Rene
YALE
Gugeleta
Charles A. VU
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Bealth
Bat
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Spee Sa
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Siamaer
Amd
Proystaa Whtimees Agress
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Teleboron
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North
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Mayer
St Clair
College OF
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Keats
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Mass
Valentin Pacts
Prios
Leenix Peetoral
DR. Radway
Radway
Topar
Sosrcaire Poblub
Dames
R. R. Radway
Acta
Dever
Raiway
Radway’s Regulating Pills
Parigetty
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Tigane
Hayward Prats
Frice
Rapway
Hallett & Co
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