Exceedingly Low Rate Round-Trip Tickets to San Francisco
In 1901 San Francisco hosts the Fifth International Convention of the Epworth League. Southern Pacific offers very low round trip fares from the East to San Francisco for July 6 to 13 with return by August 31. Tickets allow stopovers en route and travel via Sunset Ogden or Shasta routes with through sleeping car service. Information available from W Neimyer at Chicago office. One test of intellectual power is sticking to a thing until you have mastered it.
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San Francisco
Epworth League
Southern Pacific Company
Southern Pacific
Sunset
Ogden
Shasta
Neimyer
P. Co
Clark St
Chicago
Snadles Can Wear Shoes After Foot Ease Powder
A humorous note promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder to ease tight shoes and swollen feet. It claims relief for hot, sweating and aching feet, ingrown nails, corns, and bunions. Available at all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Trial package sent by mail from Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Alldiasgists
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
New Fast Train to Colorado via Missouri Pacific
Missouri Pacific Railway doubles daily service from St Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and Pacific coast. Trains depart St Louis at 9:00 AM and 10:10 PM, Kansas City at 6:00 PM and 10:00 AM, offering through sleeping cars between St Louis and San Francisco. Excursion tickets on sale. For details contact H C Townsend G P T Agent St Louis Mo. Also DeFiance Starch 16 oz package ten cents with guarantee.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Colorado
Utah
Pacific Coast
St Louis
San Francisco
H. C. Townsend
Western Canada Sportsman's Paradise and Settler Ads
An article extols Western Canada for farming wealth and abundant game. It describes prairie panoramas, wildlife such as wapiti and snipe, and frontier life including butter, gal, and railway access. It also notes government land ads and settlement prospects, followed by a social note on gender and a missionary report on negro death rates in the South.
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Canada
New Library Scheme Introduced at Springfield Mass
Public library starts home book delivery with 100 patrons paying six cents weekly for ten weeks. Each patron selects ten books and uses them by calling at the library. Believed to boost patronage and possible spread nationwide if proven a public accommodation.
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Springfield
Mass
Rosaries and accordions made in Loreta Italy plants
In Loreta Italy a rosary factory uses thirty five women for about 450 days a year and produces 35000 dozen rosaries for sale in Loreta and other Italian locations. At Castel Fidario and Loreto three accordion shops employ 160 workers, mainly exporting to the United States.
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Loreta
Italy
Castelfidario
Loreto
United States of America
Stomach aids and starch brands in retro grocery ad snippet
An old collage advertises Beeman's Pepsin Gum to ease digestion and promotes a 10 oz Defiance starch for 10 cents. It ends with a plea against villains and a testimonial about Piso's Cure for consumption, signed by Joan B Boyen of Trinity Springs, dated February 16, 100, and a stray question about a homely actress facing stage fright.
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Joan B Boyen
Trinity Springs, Ltd
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Miscellany Fragments
An obscured fragment lists Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally with price T5c, alongside a mix of quips about villains, Kid-No-Oids for kidney diseases and Lack-echo with claimed merits. Mentions druggists Bou and jokes about fools and ancestors resembling potatoes.
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Hall
Price
Bou
Fast Sailing From Europe Rocksorh Kenilworth Sets Sail Record
The four master Kenilworth capt. Taylor completed a Delaware Capes arrival 18 1/2 days after Liverpool departure, racing to Philadelphia for a cargo of water pipes to Java. Though fastest in years, it isn’t a transatlantic record. Dreadnaught and A. J. Ropes posted shorter runs decades ago. The Kenilworth, rebuilt and American-registered after a Glasgow origin, is 300 feet long with 48 feet beam, and has logged over 15,000 miles in five months.
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Atlantic
Kenilworth
Taylor
Delaware Capes
Liverpool
New York Sun
Philadelphia
Java
East Indies
Maritime Exchange
Janey
Boston
Mary Whitridge
Baltimore
New York
A. J. Ropes
Glasgow
San Francisco
CIRL'S SOUL IN A PUPPY
Mrs M Halpruner of Alameda California believes the soul of her dead daughter Lillian May Halpruner dwells in a spitz dog she owns. She cites the dog's gestures prayers and motions as proof and treats the dog as her child, asserting reincarnation as fact. St Louis Republic reports.
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Lillian
Mrs. Halpriuner
St. Louis Republic
Repairing Bric-9-Brac In Sixth Avenue Window
A sign in a Sixth avenue second story window advertises a young woman as a repairer of bric-a-brac. An admirer says she earns well gluing together broken vases and antique items, turning mend work into art as she patches pottery. The field is limited yet fascinating, with stories of repairing a vase broken into 700 pieces and improving its antiquity.
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Sixth Avenue
New York
Steam Out of Duty Predicts End of Steam Travel
H G Wells argues against steam locomotives as heavy and tiresome, predicting a shift to motor cars that will pick travelers up at their doors and move on broad highways or dedicated tracks with no rails, embankments, or tunnels.
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H. G. Wells
London
Illustrated News
Mississippi Smoanii Vato and Madrid Museum Plans
A Mississippi note states the state population exceeds 1.5 million while last November total votes were under 60,000. It also mentions steps toward forming a commercial museum in Madrid.
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Madrid
Tonkawa Kiowa Amid Feud Meet In Oklahoma Valley
The Tonkawas visit the Kiowas in Oklahoma revealing a historic feud’s easing. A peaceful exchange includes gifts and a dance with ponies painted in bright colors as both sides show hospitality and mutual respect. Professor Herbert W. Conn of Wesleyan will speak at Boston University on June 5 about The Biology of the Higher Education.
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Herbert W. Conn
Wesleyan University
Boston University
Court Divided Over Porto Rico Laws In Foraker Act Ruling
Supreme Court split on governance of territory. majority upholds the Foraker act taxing Puerto Rican imports, while dissenters say Puerto Rico is incorporated and not subject to the constitution. Do Vero cases outline limits on presidential tariff power and territorial incorporation.
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United States
Justice Brown
Congress
Porto Rico
McKenna
Brown
Gray
Shiras
White
Downes
Island
Spain
Porto Rica
Dooleye
New York
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