Paris Pattern No 3246 for Little Girls Middy Suits
Patterned fashion brief describes a four size middy suit for girls aged six to twelve. It features a blouse with sweater fold and a side-plaited skirt attached to an underwaist with back buttons. Materials listed include flannel cheviot linen crash duck and gingham. Pattern cost ten cents and requires specified fabric yardage. Also includes a note about author George Meredith and poet Tennyson friendship.
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Paris
Illinois county fairs and local incidents summarized
Reports from Illinois towns detail county fair dates across Champaign, Coles, Kankakee, Moultrie, and Fountain counties with Covington Indiana, plus a Colp mine gas explosion injuring inspector George Boston. Other items note missionary departures to Africa, a large Enst Rester celebration, a veteran death, newspaper consolidations, a robbery charge, a drowning death, hog prices, militia encampment planning, a long pedestrian march progress, a Chicago receiver appointment, a fatal buggy accident, and a state hospital transfer for Dr Eugene Cohn.
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Illnois
Champaign
Platt County
Monticello
Coles County
Charleston
Champaign County
Urbana
Kankakee County
Kankakee
Moultrie County
Sullivan
Fountain County
Indiana
Covington
Dean's Kidney Pills and quirky quotes from old pcks
An assortment of ads and jokes from an old issue. Dean's Kidney Pills claim to cure weak kidneys with a testimonial from Rev. Abram Weaver of Georgetown Texas. Also included are product pitches for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills and a column of unpublished utterances attributed to Emerson Carlyle Shakespeare Bacon Hume Dickens Newton and George Eliot.
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Dean
Abram Weaver
Georgetown
Tex
Baptist Herald
Jackson
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Emerson
Carlyle
Shakespeare
Francis Bacon
David Hume
Charles Dickens
Isaac Newton
George Eliot
Valentine Day Tale From Bermudian Shipboard
A Bermudian passenger recalls a Valentine Day tale about an Irish suitor who accepts both yes and no with grace. He asks on February 14 to the beloved gift, she says she belongs to another, and he wistfully wishes for twins to at least share half of her.
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Mark Twain
Valentine
Thoughtful Child at Zoo Faces Elephant
A three year old girl on her first zoo visit clings to her father as an elephant appears. She whispers she will not go too close for fear of frightening the animal, capturing a tender moment at the Detroit News Tribune.
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Detroit News-Tribune
Quote about telephones and laughter from notable figures
A playful exchange notes a potential shock from a telephone depending on the caller. The humor contrasts scientific curiosity with social wit. It also cites Leigh Hunt on laughter as a privilege of reason and humanity.
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Leigh Hunt
Cigar ads and medical remedies in a scattered 19th century page
A collage of commercial pitches selling Lewis' Single Binder cigars Davis Painkiller and PAZO Ointment with guarantees and prices. It also features humorous lines about vanity and time, a census plug for Waterman pens, horse and dog cures, Spohn's Distemper Cure claims, and Defiance Starch advertising a stronger thinner formula for laundry use.
No Healthful Cure for Eczema, Child's Remarkable Recovery
A Chicago mother recounts her five year old son's severe skin eruption and failed treatments. After using Cuticura Ointment, the sores dried and he recovered fully, twelve years later. The notice includes dates and the name Robert Wattam.
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Robert Wattam
Chicago
Couple's labor ends in theft and a suffragette exit
A man and woman labor together to accumulate wealth until ten thousand dollars, then the man uses power to buy a home rather than the promised automobile. The woman, angered by the betrayal, joins a mob of suffragettes. The text notes the era's social tensions and hints at gender roles.
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Brutel
Puck
The Innocent Victim and The Parrot’s Vocabularies
A blunt speaker declares freedom to speak plainly while Miss Cayenne cautions that many are corrupted in language. The exchange centers on honesty versus the risky stakes of sharp speech.
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Miss Cayenne
Bringing Up in a Hard Times Era
Fragmentary notes describe attitudes toward raising a child during economic or social strain. The text mentions a nurse assigned to care for a baby and a contrast with modern mobility, suggesting tension between nurturing practices and practical needs.
Why do doctors wear Van Dyke beards
A Boston Herald quip notes doctors wear Van Dyke beards to avoid being mistaken for bankers with side whiskers. The joke plays on facial hair stereotypes and professional image.
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Boston Herald
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Guimpe
George Meredith
Tennyson
Bize
News OF Illinois
Marion
Colp
George Boston
Boston
Africa
Pana
Thomas Arch O'Farrel
New York City
Pana High School
O'Farrell
Knights Templars
Bloomington
Knights Templar
Springfield
Paxton
Decatur
Lincoln
Mount Pulaski
Clinton
Ilinois
D D Darrah
Ilnois
Brownstown
Illinois
Odin
Or. Lewis Publishing Company
Odin News
Marion County Democrat
Salem, Ill
M Downs
G. A Hickman
Franklin County
Princeton
Aurora
Ella Hopkins
United States
Albert J Hopkins
Hopkins Garden
Cairo
Shelbyville
Findlay
Shelby County
J W Coventry
Chas. Miner
F. 8. Dickson
Ilinois National Guard
Weston
Peoria
Edward Payson Weston
Williamsfield
Til
Galesburg
Box Board Company
Carpenter
United States District Court
Austin J. Smith
Morris
Prairie Box Board Company
That City
Mulberry Grove
John Cripe
Cripe
Cohn
Peoria Asylum
Anna
Eugene Cohn
Ilinois Southern Hospital For
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Inby
Grumpley
Aid
Hia
Hi Arm Walding
Rowan & Maavin
Toledo
Wall
Frice
Old Bird
Bi. Sey
Miss Mithely
WM. A. P
DAVIS
Waterman
Annie C Lynch
Pettit
Howard Bros
Spohn
Spohn Med. Co
Goshen
Ind
Fair Office Exchange
Stenoy
Vern
Florida
Dodds
Rees
Guar
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cresson
Ella E. Askey
Baird
Sarah Leighton
Wnational Dairy Machine CO
ORR
Standard Oil Co
COLT
Peakiee
Frazier
Solera van Nals
Hercal CO
Nappanee
Aise Se
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