Hathaway Dr Bids Cure for Past Indiscretions and Diseases
An advertisement by J N Hathaway MD from Sioux City offering permanent cures for lost manhood sexual weakness and syphilis with a no cutting method for strictures. It promotes painless treatment, confidential service, symptom blanks for men and women, and a 61 page reference book priced at 10 cents. Office hours and street address given.
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J. N. Hathaway
M. D
Sioux City
Commercial Bank
Mitchell voters weigh new high school and ward building plans
In Mitchell a pro school crowd argues for brick or stone high school and a south side ward building heated by modern systems to relieve crowded Main street rooms. Supporters stress education as economic growth, urging public funds for better facilities and continued expansion.
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A. B. Hager
Mitchell
Au Gentleman
Main Street
South Side
J. Quigley
Soreyes and Melancholy Town Talk on Streets and Band
Residents discuss a dusty Main Street morning, a plea for a town band with a $10 pledge, and questions about a mayoral election and board of education demands. The letters reflect civic friction and local hopes for summer festivities and better administration.
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Soreyes
Main Street
Mendelssohn
Mitchell
Board of Education
Being Tied for Insanity Trial of Geo S Engle in Aberdeen
Geo S Engle former territorial attorney general under Gov Church is on trial in Aberdeen this week for sanity. Despite his wife’s terminal illness and death, witnesses testified, and the insanity commission ruled him sane and fit for liberty.
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Geo. S. Engle
Gov. Church
Aberdeen
Engle
Kisses and a Bible: A Curious Historical Pair
An odd juxtaposition of a lyric reminiscence on cheap kisses and the claim that the most expensive illustrated Bible, owned by Theodore Irwin of Oswego, is valued at 10,000 dollars. The Bible, enlarged from seven to sixty volumes, contains thousands of drawings and rare early Bible illustrations. Washington Stur
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Theodore Irwin
Oswego
Irwin
Univ
Cranmer
Nuremburg
Esasveice
Glass and crystal taste from Blackwood's Magazine
The article contrasts glass and crystal, noting a shift from ultrathin blown glass to heavy faceted decanters and goblets. It argues true artistry blends material excellence with the artist's craft, praising transparency, lightness, and brilliance while criticizing overreliance on brilliancy.
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Blackwood
Mrgazine
Boiling Down Speech and an Elephant Watch Tale
A Western newspaper correspondent recalls Mr Blaine asking to boil down a speech for an abstract while noting Blaine’s self rule on trimming. The London Spectator recounts an elephant used to haul a dead bullock and its frightened dash before reversing course to return the carcass.
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Washington
Blaine
Taneh
New York World
London Spectator
A Sure Sign of Wage Rise Mentioned in Raid Report
A young man talks about the business of "our tiny" in a voice loud enough to be heard across the street car, signaling his wages have climbed to 36 a week amid a New York lie raid investigation.
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New York
House of Seven Gabblers and Other Tales Parody
Fragmented OCR offers quirky lines on Hawthorne pastiche and social musings. It mentions a New York woman in diamonds, a girl’s tooth, Seneca accounts, and a rainy observer who finds joy in others’ bother. The piece reads as literary collage.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Julian
Chilldren
New York
Mariners Trial In Early Portland Harbor Tale
A storm torn voyage ends with a Portland harbor return and a captain's swift sober crash as his crew battles high seas and cold winds. The piece mixes a nautical anecdote, postal woes, and a local embossed egg scare provoking wide community reaction.
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Portland
Havb
Hunse Island
Portland Harbor
Lewiston Journal
How He Formed His Opinion in the Tenderloin
Jim Thornton a prominent Tenderloin figure ridicules human intelligence by recounting a Mars near encounter. While broke and thirsty he wrote a song My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon offered it for drinks and a dollar the bartender laughed. The song made him rich via royalties allowing $50 weekly cafe spend.
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Jim Thornton
Tenderloin
Mars
Earth
Jim
New York Journal
Age of Presidents and Nickel Deposits in Black Hills
The piece notes the average presidential accession age at inauguration and lists ages of past presidents from Harrison to Grant. It also reports nickel existence in the Black Hills with recent mining claims and assay results from deposits showing nickel and five to ten dollars in gold per ton. It mentions a Quebec photograph of 12 brothers and five sisters from two Colmin parents, all grown with families.
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Cleveland
William Henry Harrison
Buchanan
Taylor
Jackson
Adams
Monroe
Jefferson
Madison
J. Q. Adams
Benjamin Harrison
Hayes
Lincoln
Tyler
Arthur
Polk
Fillmore
Garfield
Pierce
Grant
Savannah News
Black Hills
Quebec
Colmin
Round the Compass in Australia Nights of Drought and Rain
A traveler with the author of Round the Compass in Australia records a drought haunted night at a stock farm. The manager laments dwindling wells and dying sheep until a distant ping on the roof signals rain. Joy erupts as rain falls and a dyke is raised, sparing the homestead for now.
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Australia
Jack
Waverly
G. D. Bruce Tupor
Sin
Hunting Zebras In A Nightmarish Plains Hunt
The narrator describes pursuing Burchells zebras across a hot plain. After a long chase, they outpace the herd and the hunter shoots a mare at about sixty yards, noting the animal’s fine coat and the head and skin being prepared at home. Longman's Magazine.
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Burchell
Qrimly
Dave
Longman’s Magazine
Millionaire L James Lick and His Legacy
San Francisco magnate L James Lick rose from poverty to build a $200000 polished California wood mill in San Jose. He left most of his fortune to charity, funded a statue of Key, and founded Lick Observatory at Alt Hamilton under UC, with his body interred beneath the great telescope pier in 1887.
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L James Lick
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
San Jose
California
Lick
Key
Lick Observatory
Alt Hamilton
University of California
New York World
The Value of Thought in Moral Bearings
London Spectator notes that regular thinking, not mere reading, strengthens the mind like eating solid food. It argues many dread thinking yet a disciplined habit of meditation and following coherent lines of thought yields powerful intellectual instruments beyond passive consumption.
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London Spectator
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Cascada
Atlantic
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Caieaco
Pulloin
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Superior
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Strain
Sivun City
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Sioux Urry
Northern
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Blick Hills
Sioux Falls
Lake Crystal
Elmore
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Pipestone
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Tracy
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Tie
Bob
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Ulin
Seneca
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Sie
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William Early
Pine Valley
Gabriel
Galveston News
Aoe
Fisher Stock
S.H Ccallin
L. Co. Gale
California Fig Syrup Co
Isements
SY. Ss
Parker
Crawford
Morton
Miller
Sec
Halford
Foster
Outfit
John
Hubbard Pub
Bway and Locust
St. Louis
Koal Spar
Currey & Jacobs
Dakota
Rayhbmn & Gilets
M. Campbell
Peight
J. L. Pomeroy
Tudor
Tudor Optical Co
S. H. Scallin
South Dakota
Sanden
Lsctric
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