Telephone clearing house proposed by Chicago banks in Inter Ocean
A Chicago Inter Ocean report details a proposed telephone clearing system for checks. Banks would call a central clearing bank daily at noon, read each check and drawer, and forward drafts to cover balances, expediting business and saving days. The scheme targets regional banking groups and could spread wherever telephones are common.
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Kiree
Tilinela
Chicago
New York
Instanon
Uss
Chicago Inter Ocean
Gen Booth a Vegetarian Leader of Salvation Army
The Salvation Army founder Gen Booth, recently visiting Cincinnati, is a strict vegetarian. He eats no meat fish or dairy fat, relying on cereals and boiled rice. He abstains from strong drink and smoking to protect his nervous system and youthfulness, believing vegetables reflect primitive mankind.
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Salvation Army
Booth
Salveon Army
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Army Snd
Hoath
Ike John Brown
ExRepresentative P. J. McDonald Tours United States
Former representative P. J. McDonald and M. C. Keefe toured the nation six weeks covering about 13 000 miles through every state. McDonald praises the country as wonderful and urges a leisurely pace to truly understand the people and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. McDonald
M. C. Keefe
Mr. McDonald
Royal
Fes
Afr
Boston Journal
Dear Harpers Magazine Poem Fragment by Knowles
A fragmentary poem from Frederick Lawrence Knowles appears in Harpers Magazine. The lines evoke ancient empires and broken peace, mixing mythic imagery with personal address to a beloved. The text emphasizes ruins, language, and the sea, ending with a reflective note on distant knowing and shared memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Podre
Charon
Frederick Lawrence Knowles
Harpers Magazin
Dean's Kidney Pills Cited In Sterling Testimony
An aged advertisement-style testimonial from A W Luts of 100 17th Avenue Sterling I Haye claims Dean's Kidney Pills cured backache and kidney troubles. The note touts a free trial and urges readers to request by mail, with drugstore sales at 50 cents per box.
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Bright
Doan
A. W. Luts
Carriages Wood Warner
17Th Avenue
Sterling
Haye
Dean
Mr. Luts
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Nome's Church and Lighthouse Blazing with Electric Cross
A Nome church, among the city’s leading Roman Catholic houses, features a towering cross lit by electricity and doubles as a coastal lighthouse. The passage includes an indeterminate ad for an infallible cough medicine and a nonsensical line about Poly, Doonan Grove, with numerical strings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nome
Beattle City Council Considers $500 Body Delivery Reward
At Beattle Washington the city council introduced an ordinance offering a $500 reward for delivering the body of any highwayman or burglar to city hall. The measure highlights local crime response and headlining municipal action.
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Beattle
Wash
Schwab Early Showed Ability and a Mountain Crossing
Andrew Carnegie told a story about offering a Pennsylvania mountain guide 25 cents to cross a peak. After a long haggling, the boy won and Carnegie paid 50 cents to get across. He predicted the lad would someday prosper, a prophecy fulfilled by Charles M. Schwab.
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Andrew Carnegie
Pennsylvania
Carnegie
Charien M. Schwab
Washington Correspondence
New York Sun
Worship of the Bear in Northern Japan
A curious northern Japan practice uses a live bear raised on milk by a nurse until it is strong enough for sacrifice. On the day of rites, the village gathers with bows and arrows, opens the bear’s cage, and each tries to strike the fatal blow. The chief begs pardon and seeks rewards from the deitylike carcass as offerings are made. Then the bear is beheaded and skinned, followed by days of festivity.
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Japan
Layman credits Postum with improving health over coffee
A Decatur Ohio doctor recounts how coffee caused stomach trouble and headaches but reports dramatic relief after switching to Postum Food Coffee. He notes his own test showing caffeine as poison yet finds digestion and nerves steadier, praising Postum as a pure food drink.
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Decaturville
Ohio
Medical College
Cofee
Postum Co
Hattla Creek
Mich
End of a Campaign and Thirty Year Anniversary
A domestic couple with strong wills resolve differences on their thirtieth wedding anniversary by inviting friends and relatives to celebrate. The scene includes a couple of irrepresible brothers in law who comment on the couple’s reconciliation and reference a historical war. A teachers question on plurals follows, noting inconsistencies in dictionary plurals for words ending in o. The piece cites a New York Press quote about spelling and consistency.
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Alto
Altos
New York
The Maid Meant Well At Wisconsin Reception
Dr John Hiscom ex president of the University of Wisconsin spoke sharply about John D Rockefeller methods. A humorous anecdote recalls his absent mindedness at a freshman class reception with a tray of lemonade misinterpreted by the Irish maid who offered the largest glass, causing playful confusion.
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John Hiscom
University of Wisconsin
John D. Rockefeller
Bescom
Ireland
Dr. Hastom
Crown Lands Rise in London Ground Rents
The crown owns extensive London estates yielding £460000 per year in ground rents. Fifteen years ago income stood at £250000 as leases fell in and renewals increased rents. The Carlton hotel site shows the shift from £763 to £4200 yearly ground rent.
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London
Crown
Carlton Hotel
Soldier explains lack of soap in kit
In a London Tit-Bits tale a sergeant-major discovers Private Flinn has no soap, quizzing him on excuses. Flinn claims his soap cake lasted three years because he washes daily, causing the company to grin as the inspection moves on.
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Flinn
London
What in the world veered says the chauffeur
A Baltimore American fragment depicts a chaotic scene aboard a car where a chauffeur questions a strange movement as a passenger fears collision. The dialogue mockingly references Imertin and Pierpont Morgan, suggesting a satirical or surreal interlude.
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Imertin
Pierpont Morgan
Baltimore
Peruna touted by Ottawa woman for lung relief
A Ottawa Ontario woman Miss Florence E Kenah recounts severe cold settled on lungs, digestive upset, and head and back pain. After using Peruna she recovers in three weeks and urges others to try it for colds and catarrh. A Crown Point Indiana socialite Miss Rose Gerbing also credits Peruna with speedy relief after a long country drive and cold. Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio offers free advice.
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Florence E. Kenah
Mariaste Street
Ottawa
Ont
Rose Gerbing
Crown Point
Ind
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Recorder Goff and the deaf juryman gag
A recorder quizzed a juror who asked to be excused for deafness. The juror replied that he heard the charge but could not make sense of it. The anecdote appears in a New York Times item about court proceedings.
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Goff
New York Times
Cure Deafness by Constitutional Remedies Advised
The article claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications but by constitutional treatment. It describes deafness from an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube, causing drum-like sounds or hearing loss, and states nine in ten cases arise from such inflammation. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure and promotes circulars and related products.
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Hall
Dr Parker’s Study Was Found In Many Places
Dr Parker believed his library was not confined to walls but lived in transit hubs and public spaces. He studied in underground trains omnibuses tea shops churches stations receptions meetings jubilees and sick beds, wherever his work called him.
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Parker
Full-blooded cow for sale in Copake New York notice
A farmer in Copake Columbia County New York advertises a full-blooded milking cow for sale. The listing notes the animal yields milk, a three ton hay supply, a lot of chickens and several stoves included. The ad adds a stray slogan about economy paths and dye in the road to wealth.
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Copake
Columbia County
N. Y
Putnam
Moore Honored In England By Royal Meteor Society
Wille L. Moore of the United States Weather Bureau, formerly in charge here, has been elected a member of the Royal Meteorological Society of Great Britain in recognition of his scientific contributions to meteorology.
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Babylon
Bertary
Spain
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Piso
N. W. SaMon
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N. J. Poly
Schwab
Coffe
Pe-Au-Na
Peruna
F. B. Kenah
Florence Kenah
Western Planters
Barteldes
Fifteenth St. Dolvat
Cotorkde
Yourtown
Fiids
Leasdey Maskisery
Paradox Fachinery Co
Division St
Frederick Douglass
J. J. Adama
Rochester
Uole
Frederick Douginsa
Ulster
Martine Tollet
Tha
B. Paxton CO
Boston
Mase
Columbus Ave
la Crome
Wis
Ogden Assay Co
ITCS
Anapanos
Denver, Co
Pension Bickfoel
Washington, D. C
Ia Wid Corp Promedting
DRO Ponies
Toatt
York
Greer Bond
Bex
Atasta
Via
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