Betsy Woods Leads Flag Room at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Miss Mary A. Woods known as Betsy Ross’s successor has run the flag room at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s equipment department for 28 years. Last year her team of eight workers produced 700 flags including 1580 American and 500 foreign ensigns, with total room costs of 70000 dollars.
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New York
Betsy Ross
Uncle Sam
Stara
Betsy Steas
Brooklyn
Mary A. Woods
Miss Woods
Navy Yard
Uncle Bom
Sam
Navy
Lowell
Pacific
Alguaia
Cordingly
San Salvador
Paragudy
Judge Farlip Ball Noted Civil War Vet Heads Illinois Central Ruling
Judge Farlip Q. Ball, aged 70, who dissolved a restraining injunction on proxies at the Illinois Central Railway annual meeting, is a Civil War veteran and former Wisconsin lawyer. He served as major, later on Wisconsin cases and Chicago fare rulings. He led Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Law Institute and advised West Park Board and Cicero.
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Chicago
Farlip Q. Ball
HE. EL. Harriman
Union Pacific
Railroad Securities Company
Linois Central Railway Company
University of Wisconsin
Cases County
Wis
Superior Court
Chicago Bar Association
Chicago Law Institute
West
Indian Peace Medal Unearthed in Kansas City Area
Corwin S. Curtis of Roseland Kansas owns a genuine silver Indian Peace Medal linked to 1803 treaty negotiations with seven tribes led by Delawares Pottawatomies and the Miami. Curtis reported taking the medal to the Philadelphia Mint for verification and values it well above $1,000, saying it has remained in his family since 1368. The medal measures about three inches and one eighth of an inch thick.
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Kansasily
James Madison
United States
Ohio River
Washington
Rosedale
Kan
Corwin S. Curtis
Kansas City Avenue
Tha City
Curtis
National Mint
Philadelphia
Mint
Explained at Last Banking Lousi ness In Department Store
A reader questions why a large department store has a banking lousi ness connected with it. The note suggests they invest customer money by waiting for change and earning interest while customers wait.
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Intar
Don’t You Think Soandao Is Great
A reader laments overly enthusiastic fans who push opinions about artists and actors. The text notes the difficulty of ending such conversations and jokes about funding a fund to suppress such annoyances.
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Soandao
Scandao
Chicago Record-Herald
Fragmented Snippets From The Messenger And Miscellany
A collage of vintage quips and cartoons from The Messenger and other items, including poems about revolution and valor, a jokey street scene about snowballs sold for pennies, a domestic quip about a mother and daughter, a cartoon caption about a city gang, and a nurse’s gag with a siphon.
Patient Reads Rifle Plan Amid Garden Urgency
A patient states a plan to shoot a rabbit in the garden and orders a gun. An attendant notes the time is five o'clock in the morning with everyone asleep. The patient insists on firing at first light.
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Jim
Tiptoa
Funeral Procession Intercepted by Verger for Brother
A solemn church procession nears the gate when the old verger halts the clergy and whispers that the corpse's brother wishes to speak. The moment adds a quiet twist to the ceremony as mysteries unfold at the churchyard entrance.
Excusable Candor Between Tuttar and Pinkerley
In a cautious exchange Tuttar and Mise Pinkerley speak in hushed tones about speaking candidly near Mise Pinkerley’s father, with Pinkerley insisting on honesty that would be fit to tell her father.
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Tuttar
Mise Clara
Mise Pinkerley
Mr. Tuttar
Papa
Wages Overdue and Payment Questions Refer Again
A brief exchange questions the days Mrs. Upperton receives wages and the days she pays. Norah replies payment on Fridays, highlighting concern over the timing of payments.
There Ain't No Use in Grammar Says Johnny Jay
A clipped humorous dialogue quotes Johnny Jay mocking grammar and learning in a paternal tone. The piece notes a judge and family figures discussing education and admonishes the value of instruction with a playful rustic voice.
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Grammer
Johnny Jay
United States
Plural Number Tourist Seeks Drink in Thirety Native Exchange
The tourist asks for a place to drink while a thirety native replies with a humorous misquote about two people getting a drink. The exchange highlights a playful regional dialect moment.
Climate praise and homesteading hopes in Western Canada
An Iowa to Canada migrant extols prairie life and farming success in Paynton Saskatchewan. He cites early spring warmth, strong grain yields, abundant game and timber from government supplies, and low fish prices, praising Canada as ideal for money and living. He compares U.S. experience and urges readers to consider homesteading.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada
W. H. Ellwanger
Green Mountain
Iowa
Central Town
Ellwanger
Nto
Turle Lake
Brother Yankee
Des Moines
United States
W. A. Spice
Fire and scam ads in one damaged notice fragment
An incoherent damaged snippet tells of a building fire and a demand for a match, then devolves into dubious cures and faux medical claims. The text cites a $100 reward and names Fr. Cheney and Hall’s Family Pills among scattered, unreliable promotional lines.
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Chia
Inara
Raulty
Tur Dim
Eestimuainia
Cheney
Tuluda
Hall
Puzzle and Patent Medicine Ad Blends With Legal Notice
The item blends a cribbage exchange where Subbubs and Popley joke over a sweet ootsums tooteiums girl, with an ALLEW foot ease powder ad and a Lewis' Single Binder cigar promotion. It closes noting a petition to incorporate in Marathon County presented to the circuit court on June 4 and a Supreme Court decision by March 0.
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Papa
Subbubs
Popley
All Drageials
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
Cous Col
Marathon County
Witness Answers Question With Weaving List Of Jobs
The court scene shows a witness refusing to name his business, instead listing multiple roles. He finally states he is deputy sheriff, city marshal, church janitor, and El Paso saloon bartender. The exchange occurs before Judge Pancoast in a case concerning liquor sales.
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S. T. Jocelyn
Wichita
Jorge Pancemat
Oklshoma
Pancoast
Guiuer
el Paso
Kansas City Times
Vegeidle seed catalog promises mailed samples
An ad offers seeds and plants from Salter Seed Co including Quick Quick Carrot Earliest Ripe Cabbage and Emerald Cucumber with postpaid mail order terms. Separate snippets mention a surreal Styx exchange, Pettit's Eye Salve and a note about grape pressing for champagne.
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Minois
la Crosse
Berliner Farbeat Cantitles Y Salter Seed Co
Wis. KC
Fragmentary clipping hints at misread health and science terms
The unreadable text fragment mentions quinine and a world cura gold in oce day, with references to houses and women doing chores. The garbled lines obscure clear facts, leaving only scattered terms and potential historical references.
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A reader testimonial claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eases nervousness headaches and other symptoms of the Change of Life. The ad extols thirty years of use curing female ills and invites sick women to write for advice from Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Mass.
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Lydia £. Pinkham
E. Manson
E. Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia KE Pinkham
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Madison
the Messenger
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Howes
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Sallimore
Garret
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Styx
Satan
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pettit
Mit
Solemacolte
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