Royal Baking Powder Advantages Over Alum Powders
Royal Baking Powder asserts superior purity and healthfulness of its ingredients. It states its leavening acts without altering flour, producing wholesome hot breads and griddle cakes. It warns alum powders are cheap but corrosive and dangerous to use in food. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
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Waitesporo
Tex
Paris
Mepitina Co
St. Louis
Stude
Grove
James D. Roberts
Electricity for Brain and Cures from the Past
An article fragment discusses a brain stimulation band device and extols Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and Dr Kline's Invigorating Tonic. It weaves in advertisements for Laxative Bromo Quinine and Piso's Cure, plus notes on bird eating habits and a Magic Lantern bargain list.
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E. W. Grove
Be True to Yourself and True Living Ethics
A Chicago News excerpt debates personal integrity and patriotism urging self honesty and lawful conduct. A playful exchange compares endurance on water with a sea captain’s lifelong habit highlighting resilience and moral character.
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Miles
Giles
Chicago News
Do It and Stick to It Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad and Pat Anecdotes
An old advert describes Hood's Sarsaparilla as curative for blood disorders catarrh and rheumatism urging faithful use. It features a Pat joke about moving a well and water waste. It notes mining adds about 700 million dollars annually to national wealth with steady long term growth and a big jump from 1897 to 1898.
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Hood
San Diego Emerges as Mining Center with Desert Deposits
San Diego County rises as a mining region with prospecting near the eastern desert and new mines in development. An unusually fine kaolin near El Cajon is sampled for Japan and deemed world class, signaling a major export market. Lead, coal, and molybdenum mines are also being exploited.
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San Diego County
el Cajon
Japan
Railroad Ties and Timber Sizes Across Rail Lines
A survey of rail construction notes wide variation in mile ties and timber. The New York, New Haven and Hartford line uses 2,800 ties per mile, mostly chestnut with some oak, while others run 2,000 to 2,500 per mile. Tie lengths mostly 8 feet, with 12 percent at 9 feet, nine foot ties common where pine is cheap. Thickness also varies by region from five to six inches in New England to seven inches elsewhere. widths range five to eight inches.
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New York, New Haven
Hartford Railway
Southern
New England
New York Sun
Derby hat and school bill collection notes
Perkins teases Jimpsonberry about rare books. Jimpsonberry reveals a hobby shift to derby hats shoes and school bills. In California at the Stone Wall mine cyanide tailings work by Straus and Shin shows outsiders estimating profits of at least $200 per day, with a year more to run.
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Perkins
Jimpsonberry
Harper’s Bazar
Stonewall
Cuyamaca
Straus & Shin
Memory Tricks Behind Political Fame
A veteran observer ridicules political memory feats as mere familiarity. He explains how henchmen cue a politician at receptions with a ready description of a voter’s occupation to trigger a cordial greeting and boost reputations.
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Mr. Blank
Blank
New Orleans Times- Democrat
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FIGS
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Spee Star
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