Breyvi Pies and region notes highlight local trips and incidents
Breyvi Pies reports William Jeeckle's vineyard damage from a ball storm and several travel plans including L Hubbard’s camp launch on August 1. It covers trips along the St Joseph River, visits to Lansing, and friends in Belding, plus a car mishap near Corlis marsh and races in Kalamazoo with numerous attendees. It notes state health conventions planned in ten cities, Detroit excluded, and the death of Wm Moore of Wilderville with funeral details. A $10,000 damage suit against Battle Creek Gas is filed by Robert Zelten over a January accident at the plant, and a dry county pledge is voiced by Samuel Dickie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Dixon
State Board of Health
State Department
Lansing
Detroit
Robert P. Zelten
A. L. Hooper
John Wragner
Battle Creek Gas Comppany
Zelten
Ses
Prohibition Debates Shine Amid Albion Election Turmoil
In Albion voters faced a special election with liquor questions as several towns, including Lee Township and Lee Center, weighed siting a saloon. The state reports June deaths total 2,661 with infant deaths at 432 and deaths from pneumonia 83, plus 165 cancer fatalities and 29 meningitis cases. A Farmers Institute train through Marshall, promoted by J R Taft, will showcase wheat, bread making, domestic science, and disease prevention lectures and displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion
Calhoun
Lee Township
Lee Center
J. W. Houston
J. R. Taft
Farmers’ Institutes
Michigan Agricultural College
Farmers Institute
Marshall
Secretary of State Board of Health
Allen's Foot Base antiseptic powder ad claims relief
An old advertisement promises Allen's Foot Base powder relieves hot tired aching swollen sweating feet. It claims to alleviate pain from coins and buttons and offers a free sample. Sold widely for 25 cents with address to A. S. Olmstead, Le Roy, M. It reflects a period marketing tone and generic foot care product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
A. S. Olmstead
le Roy
Portrait Ring Novelty A Hidden Portrait Box Ring
The portrait ring is a novelty of the season. It looks like a signet ring but has a spring on one side. Pressing it makes the top spring back to reveal a miniature box containing a tiny copper portrait in color or monochrome.
Milk Extinguishes Gasoline Fire Says Home Department
A National Magazine Home Department note claims milk can extinguish gasoline and other petroleum fires by forming an emulsion with the oil, while water spreads flames. The claim stresses milk’s effectivity in cooling and smothering burning hydrocarbon liquids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TAK
Home Department
National Magazine
Cleansing Blood Tonic Burdock Bitters Promoted
An advertisement claims many skin eruptions like scrofula pimples and rashes come from impure blood. It touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a cleansing tonic that will make you clear eyed clear brained and clear skinned.
Markets Report Detroit and Chicago Grain Quotes
Detroit and Chicago market wires list cash and July futures for wheat corn oats and rye. Prices cover No 1 and No 2 red wheat, No 2 and No 3 corn, oats, and rye with changes by date, including bean and clover values and butter eggs hay unchanged in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Dee
Alsike
Timothy
Chicago
Marshall Markets Price Quotes From Local Centers
Local market notes list farm produce and meat prices including butter at 22 cents per pound, eggs at 13 1/2 cents, hens and spring chickens with shipping costs 18 and 16 dollars respectively, corn 35 cents, white wheat 75 cents, rye oats and other grains, potatoes at 1.56, live steers 5.00 to 5.50, cows 3 1/2 to 4 1/2, veal 1.25 to 1.60, and hogs with various grades noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iocal
Attained Too Late in a Boyish Ambition Exchange
A sentimentalist asks if any boyhood ambitions were realized and receives a reply about baldness and pride. The piece references Dr. Thomas electric oil as a remedy for pain, promising quick relief from toothache, burns, hoarseness, and sore throat with stated timeframes.
Have You These? A Quote From Chatlag Dickens
A literary quip urges a heart that never hardens a temper that never tires and a touch that never hourts. The lines mix paradox with praise and reflect enduring moral ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
No Need for Flatter. Mrs Flynn and Mrs Kello Banter
A humorous exchange features Mrs Flynn admiring a childish phrase and Mrs Kello teasing Casey about waiting while she buys a bat. The dialogue captures playful banter and neighborhood chatter among Mrs Flynn and Mrs Kello as observed by Puck.
Two Evils in a Terrible Choice
A brief odd note mocks a man who jumps from the skillet into a stove and a gent who chews tabasco as an antidote to smoking. An Airtisan Glene flavored quip reflects quirky contemporary humor.
Graze for the Weird and the New Art Fad
A critic laments today’s taste for novelty in art and new expressions of form and color. He cites odd impressionism and related movements where neither truth nor beauty drives the work, labeling them as cults rather than serious aims.
Truth in the Heart and Frenchman's Large Family
Truth in the Heart quotes a Ruskin line. Frenchman’s Family a Large One reports a St Usurgnes farmer in Saone t Lotre France baptizing his third child Bosaut and noting 17 surviving children from multiple marriages. Also a partnership ad seeks senior partner with two thousand dollars to open an electric supply store in a town of 25 006 people with address R N Lane Toledo Ohio references exchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Usurgnes
Saonet-Lotre
France
Taah
Bosaut
R. N. Lane
15Th St
Toledo
Ohio
Reward for arrest of sellers of intoxicating liquor
A 25 dollar reward is offered by Mayor C Sawdy for the arrest and conviction of any parties known to be selling or furnishing intoxicating liquor to a man. The notice emphasizes action by authorities and names the mayor as signer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Sawdy
Cure Your Kidneys Doan's Kidney Pills Ad
A grainy testimonial claims Doan's Kidney Pills ease back pain urinary issues and kidney inflammation. Mrs Adams Ries of Marshall Michigan reports relief after using the remedy and urges keeping a supply at home. Foster Milburn Co sells the pills nationwide under the Doan's brand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
Marshall
Adam Ries
S. Marshall Ave
Marshall, Mich
Bret
Dean
Doan
Fbg-Seaman & Coty Brug
Foster-Milburn Co
New York
Saje
United States
Radium Safe Protections and the London Shield
A fragment discusses radium as a dangerous element and the need for protection from its emanations. It explains a London safe with a three-inch thick inner cell and an outer guard to contain radium, with tubes to measure interior emissions and mercury to collect emanations. Also mentions a laxative ad for Dsan's Regulats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sofenaste
London
Los Angeles Pines
The New York Shave Study of a Quick Barber Experience
A narrator describes a rushed New York shave where the barber delays with chatter and a long look at a facial wart. The speaker insists on speed while the barber surveys a manicurist and finally returns to complete the shave, highlighting impatience and transactional service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Yorker
Meath
Anite
Atlantic
True Eloquence Must Be Native Force Says Webster
The excerpt argues true eloquence cannot be learned by labor alone but arises from natural force tied to the map subject and occasion. It condemns affected passion and declamatory excess as unable to reach authentic power, likening it to a bursting earth springing from within.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sponizaroba
Webster
Fragmented quote hints at risky investment dispute
A damaged clipping preserves a quarrel over a financial scheme as Griggs’s son is referenced as a wary ally. Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a strained exchange where one party fears overreliance on a single hopeful investment and a surety’s future involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Griggs
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Retief and Gabber-Too Meet Smith in Mock Duel
In a quoted Variety Life exchange, Retief and Gabber-Too are praised for clever imitation as they prepare to confront Smith. Turtle expresses weary wish that the imitator were more reliable, noting unpredictability in the arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Retief
Gabber
Smith
Turtle
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children advertised
An old advertisement notes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children relieve feverishness headaches and upset stomachs. It claims to soothe teething and regulate bowels while destroying worms and boosting colds in 24 hours. Used by mothers for 22 years. Available from Druggists for 26 cents with a free sample, address A S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
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Gray
A. S
Olmsted
LeRos
Individuality in a Large Family and a Cheese Clue
A London Sketch says every chin should develop separately within a large family and suggests varied schooling to prevent slovenly speech and social contempt. A grocery delivery mishap ends with a note about “really out of cheese” after a boy misreads the proprietor’s whereabouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Rand
The Height of Happiness at His Age
A small boy named Hare rides a hand propelled wagon along the sidewalk while eating an ice cream cone. His moment of simple joy is described as the height of happiness for his age, capturing a vivid street scene.
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Hare
Why She Chose the Gown in Cherryvale
The Journal notes a woman in Cherryvale Kes chose a Summer gown over a new parlor rug after three sleepless nights. She argued the rug would darken the parlor and many would see the dress, while hundreds would not notice the rug in subdued light.
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Cherryvale
Kes
Evolution of Outer Garments Through the Centuries
The passage traces how outer clothing thickened over time from noblewear to common use, noting early garments like vented coats and waistcoats, breeches, and the later rise of trousers. It explains the overcoat's emergence after the medieval cloak and its rarity until the 17th century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Coincidence In Deaths At Great Comberton Rector's End
Two prior rectors of Great Comberton near Pershore also died in similar fashion after being flung from their horses. The death of Rev 28 Hammond is noted as following a recent fatal incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Great Comberton
Pershore
England
Food for Cate and for Thought Says the Hobo
A clipped line from the Atchison Clone recounts a hobo wandering to a back door and asking for food. He quips about Saddam and the cat’s meal, and a farmer’s wife replies she has no objections to someone lying around the barn to catch mice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cate
Atchison
Japanese Vegetable Oils Market Inquiry Notes
Japanese oils list includes sessme torrera, beech, Heauut, mustard, rape seed, perilla, Elaeococca cordata, camellia, hempseed and others. Inquiries were made of numerous dealers about a chrysanthemum oil, but some appeared to know of it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
First Meal of the Day Breakfast Theme
A humorous essay extols breakfast as a respectable, staid meal essential to building a sound character. It contrasts breakfast with dinner and supper and warns against mispronouncing words after spinach.
Quotation Snippets: Surgeon Patient Banter and Travel Tip
A collection of short clipped lines from Victorian era papers includes a surgeon’s remark about appendicitis and fear, a patient’s quip on leaving a mark to deter future surgeons, a Winches ter Herald style joke, and Life magazine wits about economy and golf club costs. It also mentions candle wax as a traveling seal for bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Herald
Passing of Bridal White in wedding gown tradition
A Tatler note reflects on the decline of the old dead-white wedding dress and bouquet of pure white flowers as a timeless bridal standard, suggesting the era has passed and modern styles prevail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tatler
Sharpening Scissors Tip Includes Bottle Neck Sawing
The guide advises sharpening scissors by sawing blades on the neck of a glass bottle as if cutting it off to sharpen the dullest blades. This suggests a quick, improvised method using common glassware to restore edge.
Farmer asks barber for exact haircut timing
A farmer speaks to the barber asking if the wait will be in standard time or daylight time. The barber replies about thirty minutes, and the farmer leaves. The exchange reads with rural dialect and humor typical of old newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dsan
Lem
Sac- Creb
Worth Remembering Brethren Tale With Foreasté Harp Looseness
A quirky, archaic style reminiscence features a preacher-like figure named Taan warning brethren about steams, heaven, and angels in a humorous, flustered scene. The fragment hints at a parable-like caution against overreach and mischief with religious imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brethen
Unusual Circumstance in Rockland Widow’s Tale
An 81 year old Rockland survivor recalled caring for two sisters in their final years. She made baby clothes for the younger woman, then wedding attire, and at last prepared a funeral shroud and dressed her sister for burial, as described in the Kennebec Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Kennebec Journal
The New Victims in an Airplane Accident
A fragmentary report notes another airplane accident with casualty bystanders described as hurt. The dialogue hints at bystander involvement and a local sale advertisement at Honper's offering preserved kettle sizes.
Michigan United Railways Third Rail Electric Schedule
Jackson to Kalamazoo and Detroit through routes with limiteds and locals. Timings given for A M and P M services, with connections at Jackson to Lansing St Johns and Dwoaso. Sunday service different. all other days reportedly fail. Brown, general manager, Jackson, Mich.
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Jackson
Detroit
A. M
Battle Creek
A. Mih
Esttie Creek
Lansing
St. Johns
Dwoaso
Fackson
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L. Hubbard
Lyon
George Court
Clarence Binpee
St. Joseph
Tekeisha
Ora
Cora Butcher
F. O'Brien
Belding
C. Burton
Marie Burke
Calla Davis
Mise Grace Divon
J. M. Dewey & Co
Jobe Doland
L. Perkins
Della Snyder
S. Scott
Jennie Webb
H. Weston
Otto Linn
Corlis' Marsh
Will Clayhorne
Arthur Osborne
Kalamazoo
F. Kaumeyes
Bert Schwer
Eugene Hoslizel
Wm. Dart
D. Wright
Wih Naneman
John Marsh
Miles Townsend
Roy Brazee
H. J. Coleman
Earl Sears
Dell Thunder
Glenn Freed
Louis Naneman
Glenn Grant
Roy Rosencrantz
Albert Burged
Floyd Hoellen
Schn Storr
Ben Conley
Wm. Moore
Wildervile
Henry Sevrans
Rev. Randall
Tezovsha
West Eckford
Samuel Dickie
Samuel
Rhy
Gustin
C. L. Robinson
Marshall Markets
Ruskin
Radium Safes
Schroder Bros. Co
Central National Bank of
Michigan United Railways
Third Rail Electric
Jackson-Kalabeazoo
W. Brown
GE Epla
Jackson, Mich
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