Fortune follows disaster and clerk’s windfall
Bernard Herr a Fresno broker, linked to Pro aman and Sansom, sees his clerk son Louis win a $300000 Louisiana Lottery prize from ticket 42758. The Fresno clerk bought 1/20 of ticket 42758 for $1, survived a fire, then spent prize money on real estate and a new home at 2222 Jackson street after paying a $2500 mortgage. He plans a Lake Tahoe celebration as the family relocates to San Francisco.
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Bernard Herr
Louis
Louis Bach
Fresno
Wells, Fargo & Co
Geary Street
Jackson Street
Lake Tahoe
San Francisco
Cal
Infant tobacco prodigy earns headlines in Rochester column
A Rochester report describes an infant girl who reportedly smokes a pipe and exudes tobacco smoke through her nostrils. Her mother links the habit to the child’s late father and claims the baby cups tobacco, with the mother recounting convulsions and doctor warnings as the child supposedly grows more expert.
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Rochester
Casino Summer Garden
Thad
Newrman
Profitable Wheat and Turnip Crops in Midwest Farming
The article analyzes wheat profitability with and without manure, showing unmanured acres yield 15 bushels at 52 cents per bushel, versus manured acres at 40 bushels with 42.5 cents per bushel, offering much higher profits. It also discusses turnips as a cash crop near manufacturing towns, noting yields of 260–300 bushels per acre and potential $100–$200 per acre profit, plus guidelines on seeding, fertilizing, and timing.
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Northwestern Dairymen’s Association
GC. H. Adama
Illinois
New York City
Cincinnati Enquirer
Odd Household Hacks From a Bygone Column
A fragmentary guide offers deodorizers using hot coals and vinegar in a sick room, tips to remove ink stains with an ink brush, remarks on brown sugar being uneconomical, and a paper putty method for sealing floor cracks using flour water and alum.
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London
Advertise Then to-morrow for Prosperity and Fame
A fragmented meditation on advertising as a path to wealth urges readers to advertise boldly, promising fortune and lasting influence. It interweaves a New Zealand typ n note about drunken Indian depredations, then shifts to a cartoonish New York floor-seat anecdote and a quip about doctors and prestige.
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New York
Washington
Texas Siftingn
Blots and Blemishes in Victorian Views
A fragmentary feature admonishes readers about moral blemishes in society from pretenders to pious, phony fashion, then shifts to social conduct tips for women and men, praising openness in courting. It includes an endorsement for Dr. Pierce remedies and ends with a moral plea about liquor’s ruin.
The Elixir of Existence and Life’s Harsh Realities
A reflective notice on youth and aging, arguing that true value lies not in fanciful elixirs but in tested experiences shared across generations. It questions youthful idealism, warns against false hopes, and urges grasping life’s realities through practical wisdom rather than speculative cures.
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Ino Etelse
Peowell
Imag
The Demon Horse Thief at Grangtrin Town Theatre
Granger questions the price of tickets to the stirring melodrama The Demon Horse Thief, offered with blood curdling incidents. Ticket seller suggests upstairs seats for fifty cents, prompting Granger to ask what is played upstairs.
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Grangtrin
Granger
A Fairy Tale of a Railroad Reveal in Echoes
A famed woodsman boasted of finding a wilderness path and returning the same way. Deluge tested him as a slender thread served as a guide. At journey’s end he slept and folklore breathed, transforming the scene into a radiant railroad scene with mystic legend read by crowds.
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Onco
Fuduetry
Filshreve
Wisconsin
Dr Kline's Great Nerve Mestover Free Trial Offer
A distressed fragment touts Dr Kline's nerve treatment promising stops free at first use and marvelous cures. It mentions a free trial bottle through Dr Kline at Arch St Philadelphia with claims of relief from monotony and evil, a garbled pitch and contact lead.
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Dr. Kline
Kline
Gat Arch St. Phila
Santa Fe Route Announces Selective Fare Drops to West
Notices advertise cut rates to Kansas Colorado Indian Territory Texas and other western points from Chicago and along the Santa Fe line with travel dates August 6 80 September 10 24 and October 4. Inquiries directed to Jon J Byrne Assistant General Passenger Agent Chicago Ill.
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Kansas
Colorado
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
Santa Fe
Chicago
Jon J. Byrne
Ill
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