Sad Experiences of a Farmer Boy
A farm boy runaway tells of city hunger and hard labor, fleeing a poor home life for supposed freedom. After a year in Kanene City hospitals, he plans to return home, vowing to work hard on the farm and prove his worth, despite the lure of city streets and low wages. His mother and a girl named Janie send encouragement, while the interview reveals the dream versus the reality of urban work. The tale highlights a boy’s longing for home and the harsh economics of early city labor.
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Kanene City
Fellowes
Jim
Hope for the Undepated Field Heads
Report from Massachusetts General Hospital describes a facially bald patient undergoing scalp stimulating treatment with Turkish towels. Dr Bruce says baldness signals disease and that cure of the underlying issue precedes any hair regrowth, while noting humor and mockery around baldness.
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Jacob B. Utruce Jr
Torneo
Doctor Bruce
Electric scrubbing cart enters field of charwomen
Machinery now invades cleaning work as an electric scrubbing machine, mounted on a small pushcart, touches off a lamp socket power cable. Operators use levers to guide brushes on marble floors, while water and soap mix from a tank. Dirty water is drawn up by a pump through a pipe as the cart advances.
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Charwoman
Saya
Landon Daily Mirror
Ure Tt
Well, He Made Them Laugh
Henry returns from a dinner to his wife and boasts his speech mocked the guests with humor. He recalls the room erupting in laughter and the approval being tremendous, while his wife teases him about the public speaking. A quip about a splatoon under his dress shirt emerges in the exchange.
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Stenry
Henry
Dickey
Eruption over Child in Bow 67 Little Falls Minn
An 1914 letter describes a sick child with fever and a severe eruptive rash. The family credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with relief and healing after daily bandages and soaking. The note promotes Cuticura products and prints a world-wide sales claim. A second anecdote recalls a Sunday school convention where a Texas claim prompts a humorous reply about sending a woman to Idaho.
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Bow
Little Falls
Minn
George Wolters
Cuticura
Dept
Heston
Adv
Tate
Texas
Idaho
Grove's General Tonic Recalled In Regional Ad Copy
An old advertisement-style fragment touts Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine benefits. It claims to act on the liver, drive out malaria, enrich the blood, and build the whole system, with stray garbled lines appended about a watermelons and a local figure.
Quinine and a Knotty Warning in a Curious Ad
A fragment discusses a marked Quinine product named FPENRILING and a warning about giving it to children. It mentions FEBRILINE as a related note and hints at an extractive, uneasy dialogue about a “Pleasure party” and a knouting. The text is garbled but centers on care and dosing of a medicine.
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Walter Wardwell
Cambrides
Indiana
Chas. H. Fletcher
Union Might Be Postponed
The maid Serelda, a practical young woman about twenty seven, contemplates her future while her mistress asks about marriage. Serelda admits she is considering leaving for a better place or staying for good pay.
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Blanks
Gerelda
Kiewleg
Serelda
Mur
Sereldat
Metchnikoff to Mark Seventieth Birthday in Paris
Paris correspondent reports Metchnikoff on furlough in New York preparing to celebrate his seventieth birthday in Paris with plans for a feast. He reviews his sour milk regimen begun at age thirty and urges frugal eating, little alcohol, minimal meat, and plentiful well cooked vegetables. He ends with a paradoxical homily on wisdom and luck.
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Metchnikoff
Bour Nik
Paris
New York
Kedward Le Trudeau and the Adirondack sanatorium tale
Fragmentary reminiscence recounts Kedward Le Trudeau who built the first U S tuberculosis sanatorium in 1585 and notes land purchases near Adirondack Cottage Sanctuary. The speaker recalls paying $26 for land and mentions a five sheep purchase at $5,000, asserting no nearby patient care facility improved neighborhoods.
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Kedward le Trudeau
United States
Eound
Eound Heals Who Developed Tuberculosis While Gere. and & Kénatorium Cab Ne
Ube
Wiech Moountain
Difficult School Subjects Debate in Meeting
A teachers meeting discussed scheduling tough subjects for later in the day. History and subjects requiring complex reasoning were debated. Wheeler the Viuitie teacher protested, while the principal deleted some topics. a young teacher argued no subject is more difficult and confusing.
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Mins Wheeler
Lippincott’s
Untitled wartime garbled fragment about women and soldiers
Fragmentary note questions female wartime roles and origins of golf terms, referencing a Burne Collection and a Philadelphia Public Ledger like source. The text is garbled and lacks coherent events or names.
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Burne
Sandy
Sirota
Philadelphia
Untitled fragment claims cure with Dr Vater's Anticeptic Healing Oil
A garbled, promotional text touts a cure named Dr Vater's Anticeptic Healing Oil and hints at related remedies. The piece references a singer and a jilted young man, with incoherent, nonsensical phrasing throughout.
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Vater
Unclear job hopes amid scribbled notes
Fragmentary text shows a young man seeking political employment and a college graduate facing a rejection over salary. The page also mentions a fire disaster with casualties and injuries in the United States.
Train Schedule Confusion at Cape Nrewthiess Station
Ledger of garbled captions and stray phrases describes confusion as passengers seek a five train timetable. Local voices cite a station master and clerks amid unclear instructions and mismatched notes, with travel details failing to align.
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Cape
Brarieu
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