NO LONGER A PROPHET IN BUSHBY
Obed Small, once town weather prophet, refuses to forecast a picnic day. A former resident recalls a 1902 storm that ruined Ma'am Gregg and Mary Jane, leading to lingering bad memories and a vow to stop predicting weather. The tale ends with Small acknowledging another passerby will know the forecast better than he ever would.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Obed Small
Bushby
Mr. Small
Ma'am Gregg
Mary Jane
Wilson’s Lake
Marshaltown
Gregg
Ull
Noises of London and the expansion of traffic noise
The London Truth laments a surge in city noise driven by heavier traffic. Sleek motor vans and buses replace leisurely horse-drawn drays, intensifying pace, dust, petrol smells, and daytime to midnight clamor across suburbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Suburbia
Airs of the Parvenue in a Country House
A poverty stricken urban family rises to wealth and tries to project importance. They boast about manners for their social level while visitors tour their country home. Their young daughter feigns knowledge about poultry, claiming the chickens “could” lay daily but adds that in their position they don’t have to.
Made Statue Out a Hoodoo
An elderly Shrewsbury man guides visitors to the statue of Darwin, claiming the statue a hoodoo. A visitor quips that Darwin said humans come from monkeys. The host adds a church steeple once fell, blaming the town for erecting the statue.
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Shrewsbury
England
Darwin
New York Bake Shops Face Thorough Investigation
New York City authorities conduct a wide review of local bake shops amid concerns over cleanliness. Public officials aim to eliminate cockroaches and improve sanitary conditions across the sector.
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New York
A Small Thing Paints Progress Into Everyday Life
In a reflective piece L. P. argues the nineteenth century’s advances shaped daily life. He asserts progress from railroads to electric light improved comfort, placing knowledge within reach of the common man. He highlights paint as a small yet vital benefit embodying scientific toil and factory craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methusalem
George Washington
L. P
What He Most Wished For
An American historian Joan Fiske, fond of music, endures heat at a midwest summer school. A church quartet nearby bores him. when offered a new novel, he quips that the only choir he can hear is an audible one, revealing his wit and fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Fiske
Middle West
Condemn Daytime Naps and the 40 Winks Rule
The London Telegraph reports doctors condemn daytime naps as disrupting natural vitality peaks from 10 am to 2 pm and risk headaches. It notes a 40 minute nap is refreshing for some since it is short and unlikely to cause harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
Grape-Nuts Promises Help for Loose Teeth
Ontario woman reports two years of using Grape-Nuts Food with excellent results. She says it builds nerves, aids sleep, reduces stomach nerve irrritability, and claims her loose teeth stopped worrying her after starting the product. The note cites Postum Co. and the booklet The Road to Westville with the slogan There’s a reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Westville
Lessons From Britain On American Factory Methods
London corresp observes British manufacturers increasingly adopt American ideas and workers. Simplified machines with female operatives yield competitive costs, while some U.S. makers balk at supplying certain machines. A London merchant obtained local designs and had them produced in Britain to meet demand.
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America
England
London Cor. N. Y. Herald
It Won't Be Gardner
Gardner recounts a Denver laundry visit where a Kansas City hostess, posing as a wife, asks him to locate a bartender named Smith and to report back on a husband who deserted her. The tale centers on Gardner’s peculiar encounter and the odd interrogation.
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Gardner
Coates House
Kansas City
Denver
Smith
Dean Swift Condemns Abbreviating Words in Verse
The essay recalls Dean Swift denouncing poets for abbreviating words to fit verse measure with examples like druged and disturbed. He laments the rise of such clipping in prose and argues against spelling words exactly as spoken, warning it would ruin etymology and endless reform.
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Dean Swift
Roosevelt
Swift
Parson Calls for Uniform Collection Plate Buttons
Parson Whangdoodle urges church members to design a special button for the contribution plate to standardize the look of offerings. He stresses a unified, orderly collection during the congregational gathering.
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Parson
Society's Conversation in London Gossip Circle
Society's Conversation surveys topics from racing and stocks to politics and motoring with current gossip on marriages deaths debts and divorces among London acquaintances and prominent circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smart World
London
Prisoner Contest Insanity Claim With Rowboat Incident
A courtroom exchange questions the accused’s sanity after a remark about a rowboat scene. The judge and defense debate whether the rowing incident shows insanity or criminal idiocy, guiding how the case proceeds.
Fortunate. Tales from Meggendorfer Blatter Quip
A translated quip notes lasting hires and marriages as lucky outcomes. The speaker recalls a cook staying six months and a husband a year, reflecting playful fortune in domestic life.
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Bettina
Meggendorfer Blatter
No Rest Night or Day Relief by Cuticura
A woman details a severe skin itch that began in late July, worsened despite baths and remedies, and caused hair loss. After four weeks of nightly hot baths and Cuticura Ointment use, her symptoms subsided and hair regrew. D. E. Blankenship of Indianapolis reports complete cure by four boxes in 1905.
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D. E. Blankenship
N. del. St
Indianapolis
Ind
New York Harbor Ranked Second World Seaport
New York stands as the world’s second great sea port with 1903 totals of over nine million tons of imports and about eight million seven hundred thousand tons of exports cleared through its harbor. London leads in imports while Antwerp and Hamburg rank third and fourth.
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New York
New York Harbor
London
Antwerp
Hamburg
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim and Reward Notice
A 100 dollar reward offer accompanies a promotional note for Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad claims a constitutional disease cured by internal treatment, with the firm F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio asserting efficacy and providing a list of testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
Toledo
All Druggista
Remarkable Double Wedding in Viennese Church
A double wedding in Vienna linked two families when Muller married a widow and his son wed the widow’s daughter. The arrangement makes the father-in-law of his own son and the mother-in-law of her daughter.
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Muller
Cheap Excursions Sold By Big Four Route
On the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month the Big Four will sell excursion tickets to most points in Virginia South Carolina Tennessee Alabama and Georgia at one fare plus 2.00 with return limit 30 days. Liberal stopover privileges. Write I P Spining General Northern Agent Big Four Route 238 Clark St Chicago for further information.
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Big Four By
Virginia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
I. P. Spining
General Northern
Big Four
Clark St
Chicago
Evangelists Torrey and Alexander Set Winter Meetings
Evangelists Torrey and Alexander are engaged to conduct meetings next winter in Nashville Omaha Winnipeg Buffalo Pittsburg and Montreal.
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Torrey and
Alexander
Nashville
Omaha
Winnipeg
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Montreal
Washing Windows Tips From Eleanor R Parker
A brief old fashioned house cleaning tip explains washing windows with lukewarm Ivory Soap suds. Dip a soft cloth, wring almost dry, wipe the glass, then polish with a chamois to avoid lint and ease the task.
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Eleanor R. Parker
The paramount events in an average man’s career birth and death
The note emphasizes birth and death as the defining moments of a man’s life and mentions Lewis' wage Binder cigar as a quality value for smokers with a Peoria Illinois dealer reference.
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Hidden enemies among friends in a curious adage
A proverb notes two thirds of a man s friends are enemies in disguise while an old pain relief claim from St Jacobs Oil asserts relief from hurt bruises or sprains and a claim about people with real troubles never advertise them.
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St. Jacobs Oil
Nervous Debility and Pink Pills Endorsement
A Victorian era advertisement discusses neurasthenia as nervous debility with symptoms like low mood fatigue and memory lapses. It cites Mrs. Jane J Davies of Scranton Pennsylvania praising Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People freeing her pain sleep issues and fatigue and claims they can help others with similar conditions. The ad promotes sale of Pink Pills by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady New York at 50 cents per box or six for 2.50.
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Williams
Jane J. Davies
Warren Street
Scranton
Dr. Williams
Chesebrough Mbg. CO
State Street
New York City
Lydia E Pinkham and Her Vegetable Compound Origin Story
This account outlines Lydia E Pinkham born 1819 in Lynn Massachusetts and her rise from teacher to creator of a herbal remedy. It details how poverty after 1873 spurred the family to market Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the laboratory kitchen beginnings, early pamphlets, newspaper ads, and the long effort to record case files guiding women’s health advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Pinkham
Pinkhams
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