Illiteracy in the United States Declines in East as West Advances
The Minneapolis Times reports the national illiteracy rate is 13.0 percent with 6,924,702 people over ten unable to read or write. New England lags behind western states where Nebraska leads at 8.1 percent illiteracy, while eastern migration to the West expands educational facilities and higher learning opportunities. The article notes Southern states making gains despite the large illiterate share among the colored population.
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Minneapolis Times
Commissioner of Education
United States
New England
Nebraska
Mississippi River
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Iowa
Kanags
Dakotas
Universitrea
Curious Earache Cough Remedies and Odd Advert Pieces
A ragbag of late 19th century ads and quips. It touts Dr Polls Pino Tur Honey for throat relief, silly dialogue about hay fever, free information offers from Andrew Lock Box Chicago, and notes on Dr Bell pine tar remedies. It mentions railroads limiting employee buttons, babies born yearly, testimonial honesty, and ready made iron bridges for railroads.
Suffrage A Good Thing Tea Practice Worthy to Australia
Australian author Mrs Henry Hirst cites New Zealand as a case where women's vote benefits the colony. Premier Seddon, opposition leader, and colonial opinion praise female influence on elections, liquor policy, child welfare, and inspectors for women. Women are described as prudent, independent, and shaping education and degrees in Melbourne University.
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Australia
Henry Hirst
New York
New Zealand
Seddon
Potion Ad Claims Kidney and Bladder Dangers
An old ad warns readers that inactive or weak kidneys and bladder threaten health. It claims Brigit’s dissusa or diabetes fault the use of Hostelier's Stomach Bitter, urging immediate action to prevent damage to kidneys bowels liver stomach and the nervous system.
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Brigit
Personal regard story from war art scene in London
Maj Small told John Trumbull of a noted incident after the Revolutionary War. In the painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Small shields a grenadier’s bayonet near Gen. Warren as British troops press a redoubt. George Putnam cries not to fire at Small, saving him, and Small recalls the scene with gratitude.
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Vutnam
Maj. Small
John Trumbull
London
Bunker Hill
Warren
Small
Geo. Putnam
Smalls
Advertapemenia urges readers to study bargains
The column praises the Advertipemenia publication and urges readers to read the advertisement pages. It notes advertisers are reliable and send what they advertise, promising readers excellent bargains and beneficial habits from engaging with the ads.
Peppermint Potion In Break-In Case At Camber mell
A Camberwell doctor’s home was burglarized by Prank March who entered seeking money. The doctor hurled a bottle of peppermint at the intruder, which scented March and aided his arrest. March faces Lambeth magistrate as evidence links him to the break-in and peppermint’s scent reportedly led to the capture.
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Prank March
Cambermell
England
March
Lambeth
New York World
Quack Remedies and Odd Ventures Flood Early Advertisements
A jumble of patent medicines touts like Pr Bell's Pine Tar Honey and Mrs Windrow's Boothing Syrup, claiming cures for consumption and teething inflammation. Scrum of odd ads mentions a sponge-farm off Florida and a balloon rental from five to ten dollars per day with guides.
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Bell
Rightful Heir Sets Love Amid Alpine Splendor
In a Grenoble valley, Lady Violante Beauvais rides with Count Germain and a youthful suitor as a bee stings her riding shawl. A panic-behavior flee toward a cliffside lane unfolds, sparking a tense moment of danger and unspoken longing amid a springtime scene of chateaux and vineyards.
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Grenoble
Count Beauvais
Beauvais
Germain
Gaxer
Palr
Violante Beauvais
Meanwals Chateau
Violante
Jet
Drosa
Rescue at the cliff and a mysterious vow
A fearless youth saves Lady Violante from a fall at a cliff side collision with a horse. He suffers a fractured arm and ankle, while she recovers. The Count Germain and Violante tend the stranger in a lavish chamber as the injured man pleads for a fateful request, asking Violante to write a cryptic note.
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Violante
Jet
Count Graves
Count Germain
Alet Eald Abe
Hla Jove
Ife
First Slaves Drought to This Country Were White
Detroit Free Press notes at New Smyrna on the Hillsborough river in Volusia county Florida that the area hosts one of the oldest settlements and a tragic early episode in U.S. history. It recounts the Florida Minorcans as the first white slaves brought to this country, nine years of hardship, and the lingering caste mix reflected in Florida’s populace.
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Hillsborough River
Volusia County
Florida
United States
Detroit Free Press
New Smyrna
South
St. Augustine
New Orleans
Sydney Smith’s witty evening with the squire at Kershaw’s
Sydney Smith willingly aided neighbors with clerical tasks and shared a Saturday dinner with the Incumbent. A tale from the district tells of a sermon in which Smith bent jokes to amuse, while the squire Mr Kershaw openly reveled, and Burke praised Sheridan’s Westminstering oratory as unequaled in morality, imagination, and diction.
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Sydney Smith Storr
Sydney Smith
Namie Kershaw
Kershaw
Sonnda
Richard Brisley Sheridan
Westminstng Hall
Warren Hastings
Edmound Burke
Oratory
Aweful mix of letters and gossip in Squaw Creek tale
A fragmented historical page blends letters and social chatter from a small town. It recalls a mail-order romance, a forthcoming wedding rumor, a hesitant widow awaiting letters, and local idle talk alongside a joke about a butter substitute gone wrong.
Time to Worry on a Bicycle Time Reckonings
Reported from Washington via the Star a new method of reckoning time. A young woman quips that devotion to the bicycle can overshadow hours, noting she and a companion rode until after dinner time when the cydometer showed two miles and a quarter past.
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Washington
Star
Sald
Women Win Intellectual Battle At Professional Woman's League
A speaker recounts a Virginian clergy man's claim of female inferiority and argues that creation's order shows woman as the final act. The piece blends quotes, patent medicine ads, and brief notes on travel and photography progress, reflecting a mixed early 20th century newspaper page.
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Professional
Woman's League
Wilcox
Virginis
New York Herald
Relief Report From Mrs Pinkham Treatment
Miss Mary E. Saldt writes to Mrs Pinkham expressing gratitude for relief from nervous prostration and general debility caused by falling of the womb after using your Compound Two bottles cured her back pain headaches and sleeplessness she urges others to try the medicine for happier homes
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Mary E. Saldt
Sarpy
Dobstown
N, J
How Does Mubty Like Thief An Atchmwon Married Woman
Fragmentary text suggests a mix of references to a married woman, rumors about a thief, and a claim about ownership of objection rights. The passage mentions a five year gap and a globe publication, with stray quotes from Longfellow and commentary on talent and virtue.
Ought to know teacher what makes you feel stout
A dialect sketch shows Willie asking why fourteen ounces equal a pound and his father delaying grocery visits, revealing the child’s arithmetic puzzle and rural household humor. The exchange highlights the simpler measures used in everyday life and a jokey tone about teaching and groceries.
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Willie
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