Jersey B the Pure Bred Trotting Stallion At Stud
Jersey B the pure bred trotting stallion will stand for the 1910 season first three days each week at West Union livery barn and last three at Chenoweth wagon yard in Marshall beginning Friday April 1. Fee is $19 cash or $15 to insure a colt to stand and suck. due when foals are born. For details address Ross Buckner West Union Ill.
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Westnion
Chenoweth Wagon Yard
Marshall
Jersey
Jersey Wilkes
Ethel Mac
Jersey Mac
Planet
Home Circle
Jersey B
Blue Hell
Pat Rooney
Trial
Marvey
Bartholomew Wilkes
George Patchen
Clark County Fair
Ross Buckner
West Union
Ill
How to Cure Eczema Pimples and Dandruff
An advertising notice explains Zemo as a vegetable external remedy for eczema, pimples, and dandruff. It claims strong results, safety for infants, and a home treatment booklet from Kelfer Drug Co. The copy promotes continued agency and customer approval.
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Zemo
Kelfer Drug Co
Missing health guidance fragment summarized
Fragmentary text mentions health and wellness themes with unclear references. No coherent events or named entities are readable to identify people or places. The snippet lacks definite action or outcome.
Planetary mysteries and clouded views of the planets
The London Family Herald notes vast ignorance about planets. It cites unknown rotation, possible life on Benug, Saturn rings as moons or dust, Jupiter’s cloud bands, and Mars canals blurred by haze and sandstorms.
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E S Grew
Benug
Saturn
Jupiter
Professor Lowell
Sir William Huggins
Flagstaff Observatory
Juniter
Mars
London Family Herald
Amused by Cubs Endangers Huntsman in Africa
A wandering African hunter attached to a hunting party plays with two young lion cubs. The cubs chase and scratch him as a lioness circles. After mounting fear, the man watches the cubs until the lioness finally drags them away into the scrub.
An Artist's Struggles with Early Poverty
Professor von Herkomer faced severe financial hardship in his early days. He sold his first painting for 2 guineas and earned small weekly sums from a woodcut for a paper. After failed attempts with a minstrel troupe, he designed carpets and eventually found work with a weekly illustrated journal, the Loudon Globe.
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Professor von Herkomer
Mnstrels
Loudon Globe
First Oil Well Sparks Oil Boom Dreamer Drake
In 1859 L E Drake of Titusville Pennsylvania drilled the first oil well. Critics mocked the idea calling him a fool, while he pretended to seek a salt bed to recruit drillers. At seventy feet the bore yielded twenty five barrels daily with a band pump.
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LE. L. Drake
Titusville
Drake
New York American
Malacca Canes From Malay Archipelago Highlighted
The London Graphic notes malacca walking sticks are the priciest, grown straight on glass tubes. A yard long, under an inch thick, deep dark chocolate color with a smooth upper end. The lacquer gleams but easily chips with rough use.
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Malacca
Malay Archipelago
London Graphic
But They Can A Quip On Married Life
A brief joke exchange notes that marriage does not end troubles for girls. Mrs Muggins says a bride may think her troubles end, while Mrs Buggins counters that problems can still arise, referencing the Mrs record in a sly quip.
Flatfooted Bill Fails Army Footing Test
A man named Bill, eager to join the army, passes heart and nerve tests but fails at the final shoe test. He wades through a bucket and walks, leaving clear footprints before the officer declares him flatfooted. He leaves discouraged, reflecting on the outcome.
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Bill
Uncle Law
Army
Otter
Bil
Pittsburg
The Royal Hoax at Haymarket and the Lost Duke Sword
A 1749 London tale describes the Haymarket Bottle Hoax aimed to amuse nobles including the Duke of Cumberland. The conjurer vanished, and the enraged duke allegedly drew his sword, which was seized by an onlooker amid jeers. Thirty guineas reward offered for the weapon.
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Duke of Cumberland
Haymarket
Culloden
Cumberland
Hhis
London Chronicle
A Genius and a Strong Hint
A Chicago News quip contrasts a genius with a person driven to privilege by circumstance. A Newsboy scene shows a child, claimed to be out of practice, earning by selling papers as a window into daily life.
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Chicago News
Statue by Thorvaldsen for Westminster Abbey Declined and Moved
A commemorative statue of Lord Byron, funded by subscription, was sculpted by Thorvaldsen around 1833. Permission to place it in Westminster Abbey was denied by Dean Dr Ireland, delaying the work. After years, the statue was moved to the Cambridge Trinity College library in 1840. The sculpture shows Byron seated with a skull nearby and an Athenian owl above, the death date of Thorvaldsen noted.
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Byr
WeneanGae
Dean Lingola
Lord Byratt
Westmnster Abbey
Chantrey
Thorwaldsen
Customs House
London
Westminster
Ireland
Trinity College
Cambridge
Childe Harold
Thorvaldsen
That Awful Boy Jones Haunts Queen Victoria's Palace
A nineteenth century mystery surrounding a barber’s apprentice known as that awful boy Jones. He accessed Buckingham Palace without explanation, stayed days in royal rooms, and met Queen Victoria repeatedly. He avoided disclosure, was summoned before a privy council, then vanished under state protection.
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Jones
Queen Victoria
Sherlock Holmes
Buckingham Palace
Privy Council
London Globe
Grant’s Grand Ride on York at Academy Finals
A youthful Grant, at the academy, rode York the powerful chestnut horse to clear a high leap in final mounted exercises. He dashed from the ranks, turned, and rose with the horse to clear the bar, a moment still recorded as Grant’s on York.
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Grant
Academy
York
St. Nicholas
A Singular Kurdish Marriage Custom
A Kurdish wedding custom is described with the groom carried home on his back by a bodyguard. The bride and her pursuers attack him with sticks and stones along the route. The incident may include former lovers among the pursuing women who seek vengeance for perceived slights.
Comfort and debt jail memory in a wandering quote
A fragmented reader note cites lines about debt imprisonment and comfort from sources like the Washington Star and Buffalo Express. It juxtaposes a store scene with a asking salesman and a boss’s office. The garbled text ends with stray mentions of pets.
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Washington Star
Buffalo Expreas
Stomach Cure Claims From Mr Hoffman at Webster Hotel
Mr Hoffman of Webster N Y recounts six years of stomach misery and says a Miona treatment brought rapid relief. He reports improved weight sleep and health and notes the product is sold by Keifer Drug Co at 50 cents per large box with a money back guarantee. Booth's Pills for constipation priced at 25 cents are also advertised.
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Hoffman
Webster Hotel
Miona
Max M Hoffman
Webster NY
Keifer Drug Co
Booth
Milky Way creation debunked by moon cow myth
A humorous claim states the Milky Way was caused by a cow jumping over the moon, but scientific consensus attributes it to interstellar dust and star formation processes.
Doan's Kidney Pills End Back Pain and Urinary Woes
Testimonial from Mrs. J. M Archer of Marshall says Doan's Kidney Pills relieved severe back pain and irregular kidney secretions. Advertises the remedy for sale at 50 cents by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, sole US agents. urges readers to remember the name.
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Marshall
J. M Archer
Ash Street
Marshall Sr
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Township 11 Illinois School Treasurer’s Report 1909 1910
Township funds begin with 589.10 and receipts totaling 821.87 are listed. Expenditures include loans 600.00 district distributions 125.52 salary 245.00 and incidental costs 10. Taxes 967.18 and district property sale 1.09 are noted with ending funds shown.
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Clark County
Illinois
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