Resignation and witty remarks at New York Players Club
Paul Wilstach discusses a failed farce at the Players' Club in New York and likens authorial failure to the tale of Jethro Higgins in Lafayetter. Other clipped items reference a banquet master’s farewell speech and a mock funeral for a joy rider, with barbed literary humor.
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Paul Wilstach
Richard Mansfield
Players’ Club
New York
Mr. Wilstach
Jethro Higgins
Lafayer
How She Got Out Of It Illustrated Bits
A brief humorous quip from Illustrated Bits notes a wife thought to be brunette but actually blonde after dyeing. The exchange plays on the joke of hidden hair color and marriage gossip.
Ice Heat Sparks Mental Lingo On Heatwave Musings
A quoted pair ponders how extreme heat affects sanity. The lines argue that hot days provoke radical thoughts and strange behavior as people seek relief from the rising temperatures.
Prolific Writer and Berlin Exposition Notes
Prolific writer Wright-Oh is cited for dual-sided publication habits. The 1911 International Exposition in Berlin will focus on land and sea travel, with accommodations for travelers. A French physician claims textiles affect bullet marks differently. New York meadow land yields 6 million tons of hay from 5 million acres. The German War Ministry introduces an armored automobile with machine guns. The Geological Survey opens a permanent Denver branch.
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Berlin
New York
German War Ministry
Grape-Nuts Cures Longstanding Constipation Claim
A lifelong constipation sufferer reports relief after using Grape-Nuts pre digested food. She details prior reliance on laxatives and cathartics, claims doctors said digestive muscles were paralyzed, and credits Grape-Nuts with immediate digestion and permanent improvement.
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Power of Scientific Food Unlimited
A Dog Reflects on Its Mistress and Holes
A narrator dog praises its mistress, notes her wisdom, and laments her indifference to holes on country walks. The poem humorously contemplates digging, bones, and a wish to reveal devotion while acknowledging the wiser human attitude. It is attributed to Harper's Magazine.
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Harper’s Magazine
King of the Pines and the lonely Uncle Ord
A New Hampshire woodlands tale follows Uncle Ord, the cheerful pine-farm recluse, as the New Hampshire Lumber Company builds a saw mill. His isolation deepens as the pine trees fall and the valley’s workers depart, leaving him to endure withering aging and a final, mournful vigil beneath the crest of the pines.
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New Hampshire Lumber Company
Bill Bickford
Bill
Ord
Uncle Ord
Bi Bickford
King of the Pines Ends a Long Trek by Uncle Ord
A man struggles up a mountain toward a giant pine he calls the King of the Pines. Weak, he crawls and stumbles past brambles and stones until reaching the tree, where he kneels and weeps before it. He falls asleep beneath the monarch as the pine stands vigil on the summit.
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Uncle Ord
Nather
Moses A
Boston Post
Tireless Campaigner in Ozarks Reading The State
The Rev. R. L. Davidson Kansas City state superintendent of Baptist Sunday schools endures grueling schedules with two hour speeches daily travels 3240 miles in 90 days and 220 addresses while studying Missouri sociology economics and geology His Ozarks focus reveals a versatile hog farmer carpenter sorghum miller and preacher blending duties across counties and communities.
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R. L. Davidson
Kansas City
Baptist Sunday Schools
Missouri
Ozark Country
Ozarks
Kansas City Star
The Value of Radium and Its Dangers
The article notes radium’s immense value and the risk when a tube of radium bromide is mishandled. It cites Sydney Holland at a London lecture and recounts Curie’s Paris mishap where a glass tube shattered but the radium powder was recovered with minimal loss. The cost of radium bromide is about £7 per milligram, equating to over £200000 for an ounce.
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Sydney Holland
Frederick Treves
London Hospital
Frederick
Curie
Paris
Dundee Advertiser
Nevertheless the gid dy young bachelor argues woman superiority
A quirky exchange features a young bachelor insisting on female superiority while an old married man jokes about marriage and a coach named Shuply adel, hinting at social roles and witty banter.
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Shuply_ adel
Commerce column reports broad trade gains and outlook
R G Dun & Co weekly trade review shows banks outside New York 15.9 percent higher than last year and 24.5 percent above 1906, New York up 24.1 percent from 1908 and 1.3 percent from 1906, April railroad earnings up 13.9 percent over 1908 with 10.3 percent drop from 1907, immigration 212000 above last year, imports strong, iron and steel orders and prices rising, copper hardening, and construction surging. Bradstreet notes improving retail trade, farming gains, and brighter trade outlook, while weekly business failures total 214 versus 262 last week and 258 in 1908. Wheat exports 1,452,969 bushels, up from 896,312 last week and 1,956,883 this week last year.
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R. G. Dun & Co
New York
Bradstreet’s
United States
Canada
Market News Across Grain and Livestock Cities
New York flour and corn meal hold firm while rye and oats vary. wheat receipts total 69 000 bu with spot No 2 red easing near 145 148c. Butter cheese eggs mixed with steady to firmer tone. Chicago cattle and hogs see steady to higher demand. Kansas City cattle softer with mixed steers and southern stockers. Philadelphia and Baltimore summaries show higher oats and firm butter.
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New York
C. Lf
Duluth
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Western
Red Western
Chicago
Beeves
Tve
Eity
Kansas City
Doan’s Kidney Pills Proved Helpful for Kidney Pain
A Whitesboro Texas preacher Rev. G M Gray testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his five year distress from lumbago and urinary troubles. He calls the remedy honest and urges others to try it. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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G. M. Gray
Whitesboro
Texas
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Judge Crane and the drunk and disorderly anecdote
The Philadelphia Bulletin recalls Judge Frederick E. Crane using a sharp anecdote to make a point in earlier cases before his elevation to the bench. It features a reticent witness and a magistrate quipping about the duty to help the court.
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Frederick E. Crane
Thornton Hains
Crane
Philadelphia Bulletin
Simple test guards against adulterated white lead in paint
National Lead Company offers a free Houseowners Painting Outfit No 49 to test impurity in white lead and ensure purity with the Dutch Boy trademark. The ad urges obtaining the outfit before painting and notes the paint quality depends on pure white lead. It also mentions related products and eye remedies.
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National Lead Company
Trinity
New York
Bobby's blunt truth shocks elder kin in a family tale
In a recount from Youth's Companion a boy named Bobby refuses a handshake with Mr Brown, claiming he will not risk lying again after a recent spanking. The anecdote sits beside noting that eight paper mills in British India produce about a third of the nation's paper.
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Moree
Bobby
Brown
British India
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Promise
One hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case. F J Curary & Co Toledo O endorsed by Watprxo Kinxson & Marvin wholesale druggists. Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally via blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Curary & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Watprxo, Kinxson & Marvin
Farmer Corn tessel on Congress member noted for arguments and seeds
The Washington Star quotes Farmer Corn tessell noting the congressman as famous for stubborn arguments that never settle and seeds that fail to germinate, highlighting local political satire.
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Congress
Farmer Corntessel
Washington Star
Feverishness Cure Remedies Listed in Ad Text
A short advertising snippet lists remedies for feverishness and cold under normal conditions with price markers 10c and 25c. The fragment emphasizes simple remedies and ends abruptly with pricing.
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Eetieree
Goa
Oil Illuminated 1931 BCE At BNU Discovery
A 1931 BCE artifact note reports oil used for illumination at BNU. The find highlights ancient lighting practices and storage vessels uncovered during early excavations.
Capudine Relief Claims and Odd Advertisements
Premium patent remedies and curious product notes appear with Capudine touted as instantly effective for various ailments. The page lists multiple tonics and tonics’ prices, mentions safety claims for chloroform mortality, and cites products like Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Woolfords Sanitary Lotion. It also notes crude oil sample results and a humorous anecdote about trousers.
Ordinary Good Fellow Hero, Not a Milksop
The note from Atchi son Globe laments that readers crave real men who are decent and capable. It contrasts traditional story heroes with endlessly virtuous milksops and argues for relatable, flawed protagonists who embody everyday courage.
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Atchison Globe
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Hatsomal Lead Company
Trisity
Jethro
Parton
Hanzab Maria
Toasimaster
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Chicago Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Penman
Wright
Yonkers Statesman
The
Geological Survey
Denver
Jesse
King OF the Pines
Alice Spencer Geddes
Rev. G. M. Gray
Paneer
Allen
England and
Wales
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Australia
Libby
Libby, MecNeli
Eczema
W. Harrison Smith
Mt Kisco
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Gardiner
Maine
A. Roe
Capudine
Woolfords
Caddo Oil Field
Louisiana
Tommy
Tommy Whacken
Dyna As
Banedt
Xwood
Chirtren
Loneni Pehisees
W. . Donugins
aPakx
Gereet Brockton
Wells Medicine CO
Lafayette, Indians
Paxton Toilet CO
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Wits
Notary Pabic
Washington, D.C
Stamps Book Publishing House
Leonard St
N. Y. City
Boon
Leon
PUB
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Mrad St
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