Prominent Women and Social Snippets From a Bygone Era
A collage of quotes and vignettes on love, duty, and social life. Highlights include Mrs Elizabeth Fleming named chief of U S circuit and district courts at Portland, Brooklyn boasting a rare woman deputy collector of internal revenue, witty exchanges about marriage and money, a Australia society’s charity gifts system, and light passages on Wagner, bands, and public taste amid social fairs.
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Old Maida
Elizabeth Fleming
Crief
United States Circuit
Portland
Brooklyn
Internal Revenue
Lucy EB. Ball
Cupid
Wagner
Australia
Sucar Beet Culture in Nebraska Prospect
Sucar Beet Culture in Nebraska outlines where to find land for beet farming, production costs, and potential profits. The notice invites readers to write to P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent, C. B. & Q Railroad, Chicago, for full details and price ranges.
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Nebraska
P. S. Eustis
General Passenre
Chicago
Kathleen and the Pantry Cake Crime
A young girl Kathleen secretly raids the pantry for cake and jam treats during an autumn visit, hideously caught after a chase, punished by mother, and learns a harsh lesson about appetite and honesty. The anecdote sits among other light vignettes on childhood mischief and moral humor from Harper's Young People style.
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Kathleen
Mamma
Brownson
Kathisen
Kathie
Molly
Papa
St. Louis Star
No Substitutes For Royal Baking Powder
A promotional note asserts Royal Baking Powder outperforms all competitors in tests and practice. It claims other powders exist only for higher profit, being cheaper and inferior, offering less value to consumers. It urges consumers to distrust substitutes and note there is no substitute for Royal.
Curiosities and old time advices from a century ago
In a mix of observations and ads a 19th century column notes odd facts such as caverns in Edmondson County Kentucky and a hypothetical Mediterranean link if sea levels fell. It mentions streetcars in Germany using compressed guns, a Chicago police thrift club, and various patent medicines. Also included are jokes, child laxatives, creamery machinery in Chicago, and several light anecdotes.
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Edmondson County
Kentucky
Mediterranean
Italy
Africa
Waterloo
Linden
Germany
Chicago
Davis & Rankin Building and Manufacturing Company
Lake Street
Nature's Handiwork and Insects in India
A fragment from a historical piece discusses protecting books from insects in India, notes on jellyfish as the simplest animal life, and observations about moles as engineers. It also references alligator skin composition, serpent movement, and wind directions, ending with a dialogue about women’s sleeves and church-going habits.
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India
Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets AdPromotes Health
A vintage advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as an all purpose laxative to regulate bowel action and improve liver function. It claims prevention of headaches dyspepsia biliousness pimples and other ailments, urging readers to mail for a free sample via the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
WorLp’s
Disfensary Medical Association
Buffalo
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Ely
Newman
Grayling Mich
ELY Brothers
Warren St
New York
Lita E Ph
Sapuael
Angelo
Kubert
Tass
Sis Centa
T Fronsiin
Kilby St
Boston
J. H. McLean
Bright
Walter Baker & 0
California
Walter Baker
Dorchester, Mass
Jimmie—Frank
Harper's
Sammy
America
Fellere
Hen
Pop
Injuna
Harry
Jimmie
Dorothy Deane
Frank
Frankie
Slarper
Johnnie Boyblue
Johnnie
Yessum
Atlas
M. G, Blunt
Sprague, Waah
Wes
California Fig Syrup Co
Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Ea He &Truax
O Walding
Marvin
J. L
Neuraigta
Jacobs O
Bpreins
Lees
Bankcot Oumie
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