Uncle John Ends Gossip With Street Raze
A Kansas City Journal item recalls Uncle John ignoring dramatic doomsday rumors at the post office steps until a street lumber pile collapses, prompting him to unleash a sudden outburst of action and physically tear down the dangerous pile.
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Uncle John
Vermont
Connecticut
John
Ohio
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Kansas City Journal
Two Ways of Looking at a San Francisco Money Tale
Ty Gelest quoted at the New York Booksellers dinner tells a joke about a San Franciscan wife who mocks her husband’s rich purchase a 420 horsepower car. He replies that without her money she would not be there, or even alive. The pairing riffs on money and romance.
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Associaton
New York
Mamie
Patent medicines rule doctors orders in most cases
Physicians often rely on ready made remedies despite public condemnation of patent and proprietary drugs. Historical data show prescription reliance rising from negligible use in 1860 to a majority by 1902, with Dr Jacobi noting about 70 percent of prescriptions in some stores for patent medicines.
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Journal of the American Matheal A Association
A. Jacobs
Univer
Jacobi
Chas. H. Fletcher
F. Gerald Blattner
Bumtato
N. Y
Gustave A. Eisengrauber
St Paul
Minn
B. J. Dennis
St. Louis
Dore
S.A. Buchanan
Philadelphia
J. E. Simpson
Chicago
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Omaks
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Edwin F. Pardes
New York City
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Brooklyn
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Pelitencas Surprise in Home Window Fixture Debate
A Germantown woman scolds a German workman for placing window fixtures too high while he calmly continues. She asks if he heard her question. He answers with a garbled, toothy retort about being unable to speak until swallowing Rome, in a gentle tone.
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Rome
Harper's Weekly
Fragmented quotation collection from assorted sources
A jumble of quoted lines and attributions. The text weaves maxims from Fielding and Marcus Aurelius with stray phrases about Tinder, cigars, a Lewis factory in Weoria, HL, and weather. The overall piece reads like a collage of aphorisms and odd notes without a clear narrative or single event.
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Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Weoria
Mammal Sermon Mixup At Atlanta Sunday School
In an Atlanta Sunday school a lesson on Mammon and riches led the superintendent to ask the infant class to recite the golden text about serving God and money. A pupil boldly altered the line to Ye cannot serve God and mammat.
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Atlanta
Huarper
God
No Relief From Eczema Ends With Cuticura Trio
A Tippecanoe Indiana resident reports two years of severe eczema on the limbs below the knees and failed cures from physicians and home remedies. After using Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent, the patient states immediate relief and eventual recovery. Signed C. V. Belts, Tippecanoe, Ind, Nov 15, 1908.
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C. V. Belts
Tippecanoe, Ind
Colorado Land Sale Details in Routt County Notice
Summary of land auction listing for irrigated property in Little Spake River Valley Routt County Colorado priced at 25.50 per acre. Mentions Carey and Denver address 14 11th Street. Dated September 5. Includes reference to a transaction by a company or agency.
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Little Spake River Valley
Routt County
11Th St
Denver
Colo.er
Carey
Brazos Valley
Texas
Tinaxa P
San Antonio
Tyxae
Calf Described as Odd Kangaroo Like Creature
A calf born in a western state resembles a kangaroo rather than a typical calf with notably shorter front legs and no tail. It moves by hopping on its hind legs, while its playmates frolic nearby, creating a curious, rare sight.
New Homes in the West for Free Homestead Information
Send for a free pamphlet outlining United States homestead laws and how to secure a quarter section of farming land along the Chicago & North-Western Railway lines in South Dakota Wyoming and other states. Special excursion rates to homeseekers and full information on request to W Tenniskern Passenger Traffic Manager Chicago.
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United States
Chicago & North-Western
South Dakota
Wyomaing
W. Tenniskern
Chicago
No Not as a Rule and the Nature Writers Debate The Teacher's Question
George P Ansell defends animals and criticizes nature faking while noting some writers imitate toy designs. A boy asks if it is a lie if nobody discovers it as the class surveys honesty and imagination in a classroom moment.
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George P. Ansell
Boston
Will Long
Wild yacht tale and scattered adlets in a damaged page
A fragmentary Extremin report describes a becalmed yacht and a dwindling champagne stock, with distress calls unanswered. The scene shifts to a chaotic mix of fear, prayer, and frenzied songs as passengers confront fate, interspersed with stray ad copy and quotations from various brands and authors.
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Puck
Odd Sheep Drive and Teetotaler Jest
Asa Goddard of the American Automobile Association recalls touring tales in Worcester about a flock encounter on a narrow road. A London magistrate questions a drunk Scot who blames bad company from Glasgow, only to confess he drank his own whiskey.
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American Automobile Association
Worcester
London
Glasgow
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