No Gause For Worry Seen In Odd Parade Of Tales
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item observes a string of whimsical vignettes including a Lakewood mother reading to her son about domestic hardship and resilience. It recounts a Cambridge student’s clever quip about money and a stubbornly sleepless student seeking a sovereign, finishing with cultural musings on perforated paper piano rolls and Evelyn Thaw's reemerging notoriety.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Gays
Lakewood
Billy
Palliating News and a Wife’s Quizzical Exchange
A fragmentary newspaper line presents a wife’s baffled remark about her husband’s fate and a station’s dry response. The exchange hints at a misheard or mangled report, suggesting a lighter fatal mishap or joke rather than a grave event.
Postum Converts Coffee Drinker To New Beverage tale
A housewife recounts a surprise switch from coffee to Postum after long stomach and nervous troubles. Her husband, a heavy coffee drinker, also improves after trying Postum. They credit better health and energy to the substitute, praising directions and taste. The ad copy touts The Road to Wellville and a branding tagline There’s a reason.
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Poston
Postum Co
Battle Cresk
Mich
Wellville
Oil Fueled Caledonian Locomotive Shown In Illustration
Illustration depicts a oil burning locomotive on the Caledonian railway with a cylindrical tank on the tender replacing coal storage. Air drawn to injectors feeds the fire box at two points mixing with boiler steam to create an efficient fuel.
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Caledonian Railway
England
Scotland
Tereby
Recovered Teeth From Zapata Robbery Rescue
Miller a railroad worker in Mexico lost his gold teeth to Zapatistas near Balsas after a demand for valuables. He returned with crew to Nogales, met Salgado who ordered the thief to return the teeth. Disinfected, Miller ate, then resumed his journey to Mexico City.
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Pre Miller
Cuermoves
National Railways of Mexico
Nos
Zapath
Tansite
Balsas
Surnass
Miller
Jesus Seldege
Zapata
Raza
Zanata Band
Salgado
Mexico
Depot Wrecked by Oxen Near Paris
A railroad goods station at Lise sur Tarn near Paris was demolished when two oxen pulling a farm wagon bolted after a passing train, bringing the station down on themselves in a sudden collision.
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Lise sur-Tarn
Paris
Mobility than 1820s world civilization in 1912
The piece notes the dramatic rise in travel by 1912, contrasting a mobile modern era with the fixed world of 1820. It cites millions on 60 day journeys within the US, substantial Atlantic and European travel, and mass movement to Canada, Alaska, and seaside getaways, arguing travel now broadens and diversifies ideas.
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Ulysses
Pennsylvania
Llysses
Baltimore
Yosemite
Alaska
Europe
North America
Boston
Hyon
Record coal trains surpass prior Lehigh Valley records
Unique in railroading history the Lehigh Valley railroad operated unprecedented coal trains. A 115 car coal train bound for Bethlehem steel works sparked a growth trend, followed by a 183 car locomotive assisted westward run from Perth Amboy to Mahoning yards. The 7000 foot long train exceeded a mile, with two locomotives and a pushing engine, leaving crew scarce as trains grew larger.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Bethlehem Steel Works
Perth Avabey
Mahoning
Muse
Mount Sinai location traced to Hati-Bedr volcano
Dr Musil of Damascus presented Berlin Academy findings linking the ancient Mount Sinai to the extinct volcano Hati-Bedr in northern Arabia near Hedjaxz, refining Josephus' Arabia Petraea reference and prompting renewed geographic discussion.
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Mount Sinai
Josephus
Movant Sinai
Moses
Arabia
Petraes
Aupjert
Academy of Science
Berlin
Musil
Damascus
Hati-Bedr
French Railroads Revenue in 1920 Receipts and Net Gain
Government railroads in France earned 43.92 million dollars in receipts for 1920 with a net revenue of 9.74 million. The operating ratio stood at 78.8 percent, indicating the portion of costs covered by operations.
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France
The Proof Buzzer Complains About Clerk After Vacation
The report recalls Buzzer praising a new clerk as a wonder before admitting he should have said he was. The day after the clerk returned from vacation he lent Buzzer five dollars.
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Buzzer
Canned Goods In Britain Rail Traffic Surges
In a single year Great Britain railroads transported over 500 million tons of goods, highlighting a major uplift in freight activity. The scale underscores the role of rail networks in supporting industrial supply chains across the country.
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Britain
Great Britain
Keep to Schedule. German Trains Bether Faster Than Schedule
German passenger services show unusually swift runs, with punctuality improving though travelers note the trains are still faster than the timetable suggests. Officials stress adherence to the published schedule remains the standard.
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Bether
Leen
Sheriff Candidate Promised Votes During Doorstep Canvass
A Wisconsin sheriff race report describes Mr Williams, one of five candidates, canvassing 8 mile district homes. At Farmer Thompson's door the housewife notes Williams promised to secure votes for several candidates, claiming he would pledge to support them in the upcoming election.
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Williams
Wisconsin
Miral
Thompson
Sherif
Norman
Mack
National
Cure for skin pimples featured in 1912 notice
A 1912 testimonial from Mrs Clara Mueller describes a severe skin eruption that resisted soap but cleared after three weeks with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. An accompanying ad promotes Cuticura products and a 32 page Skin Book from Boston.
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Dayton St
Cascago, m
Mias Clara Mueller
Cutleura
Dept
Boston
A Cleveland teacher ponders the difference between while and time
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer piece a teacher asks students about the distinction between while and time. A boy answers, claiming when a father says he is going out for a while the mother knows he means for a time, illustrating a humorous linguistic misunderstanding.
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Cleveland
Clevelard Plain Dealer
Papa Sya
Mamma
Righteous Indignation and a Tiny Outburst
A playful anecdote about J Little Ruth, the youngest daughter in a stern Presbyterian family. Frustrated by a doll’s misbehavior, she hurls the doll and exclaims in her baby talk that she wishes she belonged to a family that avoided profanity. The tale captures a child’s sharp wit and the era’s strict moral tone.
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Ruth
Dolly
Willie Questions Eden Bite Answer From Teacher
A Sunday conversation reports Willie doing well up a tree. He asks his pretty teacher who first bit the apple in Eden. She looks him in the eye and replies that nobody knows, noting attempts over 6,000 years.
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Willie
Garden of Eden
Takes Ugliness Philosophically A Smallpox Scarred Man Finds Amusement
A man with a face heavily pitted from smallpox explains how he derives amusement from his appearance. He recounts an incident of falling from a shattered tower and quotes a peculiar remark about shaving himself with a bell punch.
A Cure for Piles Carbolisalve Advertisement
A vintage advert claims Cole's Carbolisalve stops itching and cures piles. It suggests an appeal to gullible readers and markets a 25a0dSic price for the remedy, noting all druggists as sellers.
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Cole
Protected Both Ways and New Comparisons on Marriages
A short humorous exchange unfolds on a western train as two conservative women question a young girl traveling alone about earning zero money. The girl explains that with both sets of parents at opposite ends of the journey there is little danger, since four guardians watch over her. A neighbor remarks on new trial marriages as an old joke, while a college professor home from a conference mishears a noise from under his bed and wonders if someone is there.
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Lye
Last operation by famed surgeon cited in quip
A fragment discusses a notorious joke about a surgeon who cut his wife from his will and questions about what kind of woman enjoys gossip about the idle rich. It also notes worry over weight and relates luck to inherited ability or industry.
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