Local items from Marehall and Kalamazgo counties
A garbled Marehall bulletin lists uncalled letters, car troubles near Lyon Jake, and race attendees in Kalamazgo. It notes health officials plan fall sanitary conventions in ten cities, with Detroit hosting one. Obituary reports Win Moore found dead at Wilderville, funeral Saturday. A civil suit seeks damages from Battle Creek Gigberate for an injury at a plant. Community notes cover saloon debates, infant mortality, and upcoming Wheat Growing lectures and demonstrations.
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Robert L. Dixon
State Board of Health
State Department
Lansing
Detroit
Win
Moore
Wilderville
Henry Sevvans
Randall
Vekousha
Weat Eckford Geometery
We Houston
Farmers’ Institutes
Michigan Agricultural College
Marehall
Secretary of State Board of Health
Marshall
Pinch Allens Foot Ease Promotes Fast Relief
An old advertisement promises fast relief for aching feet and corns using a hot antiseptic salve. It claims to ease burning, sweating, and pain in the feet and toes. Sold widely with a free blue book offer and a mail order address in Le Ray, New York.
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Olmatead
le Ray
Portrait Ring Novelty Makes a Tiny Sealed Portrait
The portrait ring is a season novelty appearing as an ordinary signer ring with a hidden spring. When pressed a top lifts, revealing a miniature box and a copper portrait in color or monochrome. The device functions as a tiny viewing miniature for the wearer.
Milk to Put Gut Fire Mt Extinguishes Petroleum Fumes
The Home Department in National Magazine states milk can extinguish petroleum fumes by forming an emulsion with the oil, unlike water which spreads it. The finding suggests milk’s practical use in fire control.
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National Magazine
Burdock Blood Bitters Promote Cleansing Tonic Claim
An ad asserts skin eruptions and blemishes stem from impure blood and touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a cleansing tonic that cleanses the blood and improves complexion. The copy uses sensational claims about clearing eyes, brains, and skin.
Grain and commodity market summary from Chicago trading
The report lists cash grain prices for wheat corn oats and soy at Chicago markets with bids for No 2 red wheat around 84 cents and other futures quotes. It notes unchanged butter hay and details various rail and commodity prices across months and contract terms reflecting a typical mid century market page.
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Chicago
Awad Tate
Marshall Market Prices and Farm Produce Rates
Local deslera list prices for farm produce and meat. Butler prices 20¢ per lb for gee pet, 24c retail. Spring chickens at 1bc. Hay No 4 at 13.00 shipping 16.00. Potatoes New 4.54 per bu. Live steers 5.00 per 10 lb, cows 4 7-2¢, veal 3 1-2¢, lamb 4c, heavy hog.
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Deslera
Butler
Thomas' Electic Oil Relief Claims For Pain
Fragmentary OCR notes advertise Thomas' Electric Oil offering rapid relief for various pains including earache toothache burn and sore throat with stated times of reaction. The text presents quirky phrasing and typographic errors typical of old advertisements.
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Thomas
Mave You These Ends with a Charley Fickena Quote
A brief excerpt presents a sentimental admonition about a heart, temper, and touch, attributed to Charley Fickena, urging enduring kindness and restraint in personal conduct.
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Charley
Fickena
Unclear OCR Text About People and Flattery
Fragmentary readable phrases mention Mrs Flynn and Mrs Kelly and a cager figure. The text appears garbled with quoted phonetic speech and misspellings, lacking coherent events, dates, places, or outcomes to summarize meaningfully.
Of Two Evite Speaking of Jumping From the Whtl Fet Into the Stove
The Atchison Globe notes a quirky incident as a man, attempting to quit smoking, uses chewing tobacco as an antidote and contemplates drastic action.
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Atchison Globe
The Craze for the Weird Art Critique
A brief excerpt notes a current taste for novelty in art, seeking expressive forms and bold color blends. It laments postimpression trends and similar movements, arguing they distract from truth and beauty.
French Farmer's Large Family Including Thirty-One Children
A Se. Usurgues farmer in Sanne et-Laire, France, named Bogsut, has fathered 31 children with three wives. He has 17 sons and 15 daughters, two of whom are still living, as his thirteenth child was recently baptized.
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Se. Usurgues
Sanne et-Laire
France
Bogsut
Apa
Bia
Partner Wanted for Electric Supply Store in Toledo
Silent or active partner sought with two thousand dollars to open an electric supply business in a town of twenty five thousand nine hundred nine. Excellent opportunity. Address R N Lane 128 South Both Street Toledo Ohio References Excharged.
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R. N. Lane
Toledo
Ohio
Mayor Pledges $25 Reward for Liquor Sale
Notice from E. C. Sawdy mayor offering a 25 dollar reward for arrest and conviction of anyone selling or furnishing intoxicating liquor to any person.
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E. C. Sawdy
Kidney Pills Advertised By Name Dean’s Remedy
Mrs Adam Hils of Marshall Michigan testifies she suffered back pains and bladder issues before using Joans Kidney Pills. She reports relief after trial and continued use with a steady home supply. The ad claims the pills cure kidney disease symptoms and advises buying from Foster Milburna Co New York as sole US agents at 50 cents.
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Diana
Bright
Marshall
Adam Hils
Marshall Ave
Marshall,Mich
Taan
Joan
F. di. Seaman & Co
Foster-Milbura Co
New York
United States
Dean
Radium Safe System and Mercury Contingencies
A historical account describes a radium safe design meant to protect a mysterious substance and its peculiar properties. It notes a London engineered safe with a water fill and mercury provisions to absorb emissions, aiming to prevent theft or tampering, while warning about the dangers and the need for special handling. It also includes an unrelated medical ad for Dean's Regulators and constipation relief.
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London
Np Tower
Strance
Say
Angeles
Timex
Fragmented Confused Narrative from The New York Share
A highly garbled memoir style piece discusses time use in New York and London, with stray remarks about luxuries watches and conversations with a barber. The narrator mentions being interrupted by a barber and recalls a brief seat, then shifts to scattered phrases about terror and private information.
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New York
New Yorker
London
Harry
Atlantiec
True Eloquence and the Limits of Speech
A passage on rhetoric argues that eloquence cannot replace action or resolve political meaning. It claims passion and declamation fail to move votes unless real events or forces compel change, likening speech to mere eruption without tangible impact.
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Wenster
Just Once Grizgs An Odd Exchange At Pinto Dealer
A fragmentary quote shows Grizgs warning about Biel and a plea for a risky scheme. Cleveland Pinto Dealer responds that he never planned to rely on Biel again, highlighting strain in their collaboration.
Relentless Smith Impresses With Imitation Talent
In Fariety Life, Tottie notes Smith’s sharp mimicry and asks for his presence, praising his ability to imitate anyone with ease as Relief urges, “Gabber you ought to meet Smith.”
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Gabber
Smith
Eanybody
Tottie
Mothers Powders for Children Relieve Feverishness and Teething
Mothers for 22 years trust Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children to ease feverish ness headaches upset stomach teething discomfort and regulate bowels. They claim to destroy worms and break up colds in 24 hours. Sample free at A 8 Ohim sted LeRoy NY.
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Gray
Ohimsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Individuality in a Large Family Urged by London Sketch
The London Sketch cautions parents to foster individuality in each child. It suggests sending girls to different schools to prevent slovenly speech, self-imposed codes, and a general contempt for the wider world among siblings.
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London
Nearly Out of Cheese Cartoon Joke Entry
A grocery clerk confronts a delivery boy who jokes he is the whole cheese as the proprietor is absent. The boy leaves a note stating you are nearly out of cheese, prompting a humorous exchange that captures the cartoonish tone of the scene.
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Caruaman
A& Store
The Height of Happiness and a Boy With Ice Cream Wagon
An aged reflection on happiness linked to age and life pressures. A young boy rolls a sidewalk with a hand driven wagon while eating an ice cream cone, illustrating a simple, kind moment amid life’s varying pleasures.
Japanese Vegetable Oils Mentioned Inquiries Made
The article lists various oils used or known in Japan including gesawe Torreya Bififera beech peanut mustard and rape seed along with several others. It notes inquiries were made of numerous dealers about the oils but none appeared to know about certain specifics mentioned.
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Japan
Firet Maul of the Bay Breakfast Insight
A fragmented, stylized passage discusses breakfast as a marker of respectable society. It contrasts breakfast’s steadiness with dinner’s frivolity and notes the importance of prudence and proper speech at highbrow gatherings. The speaker jokes about mispronouncing words and the value of simple, honest meals.
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Bay
Why She Chose the Gown in Chetyvale Kea
A woman weighs options between a new parlor rug and a summer gown, after three sleepless nights she selects the dress. She argues darkening the parlor and the rug would look right at night, and the dress will be seen by hundreds who would otherwise not notice the rug.
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Chetyvale
Kea
Evolution of Outer Garments From Medieval to Early Modern
The passage traces clothing layers from single medieval tunics to layered outfits. It notes the shirt emerged for the nobility first, followed by waistcoats breeches and eventually trousers. The overcoat became common later, while medieval cloaks faded by the seventeenth century.
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Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Coincidence in Deaths at Great Comberton Rectors
A queer coincidence surrounds the death of Rev. H. Hammond of Great Comberton near Pershire England. He was killed while riding his horse a few days ago. Curiously, the two preceding rectors of Great Comberton met similar fates in the same manner.
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H. Hammond
Great Comberton
Pershere
England
Fragmentary historic food tale with odd dialogue
A garbled account describes a scene where EP visits a Hadk doorvoday seeking food. A woman replies with a request about feeding a cat to satisfy hunger. The text then devolves into unclear dialogue and names like Atchisen Glebe, yielding a fragmentary, obscure historical snippet.
Once Wan Enough and Other Oddities in 19thCentury Wit
The piece presents quirky exchanges from a Winchester Herald humor page including a surgeon’s joke about appendicitis and a patient’s reply on avoiding future operations. It also parodies thrift in society, mentions church pews, and humor about travel etiquette and bridal fashion.
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Winchester Herald
Sharpening Scissors Amid Confusing OCR Note
Fragmentary note discusses sharpening scissors and blades on a bottle. Mentions sharpening blunt tools and a vague reference to gifts and a place or person named Hades appears as a distractor. Overall unclear source details and dates.
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Hades
Untitled Farm Scene Becomes Scrambled Barber Visit
A fragmented diary style exchange shows a four farmer entering a barber shop asking for a haircut. The barber replies about a half hour, the farmer complains about heat, then leaves as the door opens again and a second farmer asks about the weather.
Remembering Worth and the Gentle Forensic Finger
An editor’s fragment recalls a reverent farewell sermon as a good man closes the Bible and admonishes that no gleam whistles in heaven and no angel balks at time. The passage hints at moral discipline and cautionary uplift in a community reflection.
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Angel la
Unusual Circumstance Reported in Rockland Case
A very unusual event is recorded in the Rockland Journal about two ladies. One nearly dies in her seventies while the other survives to reveal details. The surviving woman, aged 46, made baby clothes for the other, then wedding garments, and finally the funeral shroud with her own hands.
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Kenneber Journal
The Neve Victime Wife’s Cryptic Note Published
A fragmented OCR readout cites a wife remarking on a senseless accident and bystanders. A man replies to clarify the event, noting the innocence and seeking understanding amid confusion. The garbled text preserves the core exchange without graphic detail.
Storewide Kitchenware Sale at Hopper's
Closing a few preserving kettles and other items at Hopper's offers all sizes and a bargain. Come and set your price now.
Michigan United Railways Third Rail Electric Schedule
Railway timetable bulletin for Michigan United Railways Jackson to Albion and Battle Creek areas. Details include east and west limiteds, Detroit junctions at Jackson, connections with Lanning and St Johns, and Sunday reception with all other days’ runs.
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A. M
Albion
I. M
A. Mx
Battle Creek
Jackson
Lanning
St. Johns
Oworse
Detroit
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Perouse
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Cora Butcher
F. O'Brien
Laneidg Todey
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Montie Burke
Celik Davis
Grace Dixon
H. HM. Dewey. & Co
Doland
To. Perkhkss
Bella. Snyder
Scott
Jennie ‘Webb
Otto Linn
Kalamazgo
J. Ff. Kaumeyer
Hert Bechuler
Bagetie Hoelard
Wr. Dart
DB. Wright
Noneman
John Marsh
Miles Townsend
Roy Brazee
H. J. Coleman
Bart Snara
Deli Thunder
Glenn Freed
Santia Noneman
Glenn Grant
Roy Rosencrantz
Albert Burges
Floyd Holton
John Storr
Ben Conley
Hamuel Pickla
Saye Sucowel
Lee
Lee Center
Lee Township
Ui. Pera Dd
Gustin
Bas
Jeby
Dozer
Dee
Hee
Rye
Clover
Alarke
Prinie
Marshall Markets
Mr Flynn
Kelly
Cager
Flynn
Huskin
Kinney
Radium Safes
Haven
Ark Ydir Druggist
Central National Bank of Battle Creek
Sue
Lam
Lem
Suesens
Saather
Michigan United Railways
Third Rail Electric
Jackson-Kalsmazoo Division
Jaskeon
W. Bron
Jackson, Mich
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