Female Pickpockets and a Dramatic Post Office Tale
A detective condemns female pickpockets as more ruthless than male thieves targeting poor women. He recounts cases of a jewelry loss and an acquittal amid jury sympathy. The second tale follows a triumphant Archduke Louis Salvator moment prompting a high‑drama postal director intervention in Trieste.
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McQuaide
Ninth Street
Grace
Ireland
United States
Pittsburg
Triest
Archduke Louis Salvator
Barber Shop Tale Of A Lie In Boston Kindergarten
A Boston kindergarten story recounts two boys in a barber shop. A boy relays a message about four waiting men but adds two boys to avoid lying, citing a classroom picture of George Washington. The teacher plans to retell the cherry tree tale with renewed interest.
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Boston
George Washington
Yonkera Statesman Exchange Reveals Hidden Side
A terse dialogue frames a clash of perception as a wife accuses a husband of knowing only his flaws while he retorts that he also knows his better side in a pointed exchange from the Yonkera Statesman.
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Yonkera
Spain's Greatest Need Electric Bitters Ad
Mr R P Olivia of Barcelona reports wintering in Aiken South Carolina and credits Electric Bitters with curing back head pains. The ad claims it cures liver kidney trouble purifies blood tones stomach strengthens nerves and boosts energy. Guaranteed 50 cents at D C Prader & Co.
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R. P. Olivia
Barcelona
Spain
Aiken
8.C
America
All
D.C. Prader & Co
Mexico's Sign Language and Universal Gestures
A look at how Mexicans use hand and face signals as a spoken language. Fixed gestures convey meanings understood across nations from Guatemala to Texas, including signals for No more, wait, I don’t understand, and more.
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Mexico
Guatemala
Texas
Our Great Clubbing Offer to Farmers Readers
Our offer bundles six agricultural publications for 2.20 including The Homestead with April issue thirty pages plus a 24 page Special Farmers Institute edition, The Poultry Farmer, The Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal, The Humane Alliance and local news. Largest weekly agricultural paper bundle in the country.
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Homestead
Farmers’ Institute
Poultry Farmer
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Journal
Humane Alliance
Felling Big Trees by Calculated Undercuts and Anchors
The article describes a professional felling method using plumb line and measured undercuts. If lean limits are met, the arborist selects a lay out, completes a one third undercut, then saws from the back to meet it. When close, the saw is removed and the tree falls by its weight.
Germs Can Penetrate Unbroken Eggshells
An article cites evidence that typhus and cholera bacteria can pass through an intact eggshell in about 16 hours and reach the egg contents. It warns to exercise great care in storage and handling as eggs may transport deadly poisons, though high cooking temperatures usually destroy germs.
Treating Lockjaw and a Curious Missouri Anecdote
A Chicago Post tale notes tetanus treatment in New Jersey via brain serum and recounts a Liberty Missouri incident where Dr Wood knocked the patient’s chin to induce a jaw closure, leading to recovery. The report contrasts medical methods and ethics across regions.
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New Jersey
Missouri
Liberty
Wood
Kansas City
Chicago Post
Coroner Inquiry Term in Australian Colonies Provenance
A note from Notes and Queries questions a journeyman term used in Australian colonies for coroner inquiries. It asks how the letter i appears in the form and considers possible links to coronal and baronial origins, suggesting a unique colonial usage not found in standard dictionaries.
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Morris
Lost Doll Leads to Hidden Pleasure Scene
Figurative quote about a child Pauline and her mother unfolding a playful exchange. A doll goes missing on purpose to create the thrill of a discovery, as cited from Figaro.
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Pauline
Figaro
One Minute Cough Cure Endorsed As Best Remedy
An advertisement extols One Minute Cough Cure as the sole effective treatment for pneumonia grippe sore throat coughs cods catarrh bronchitis and lung trouble. It urges insistence on this remedy and rejects substitutes. The text notes 152 American women have married European noblemen boosting aristocratic fortunes by about $20,000,000.
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D.C. Prader & Co
Austrian Barbers’ Guilds Uphold Tough Entrance Rules
The Vienna Barbers' and Wigmakers' union enforces strict standards for admission. Apprentices face two years before opening a shop, with women required to complete three years. Barbers must keep tools clean and understand antiseptics, while prospective barbers are tested on skills and ethics. The trade pays little, with shaves at five cents and haircuts about eight.
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Barbers
Wigmiakers’ Union of Vienna
Austria
Scientific American
Ceremony of Queen Elizabeths Dinner Preparation
A detailed account describes the ceremonial setup for Queen Elizabeths dinner. A sequence of bearers, including a tablecloth bearer, rod carriers, and salt cellar attendants, kneel three times and place items on the table. Twenty four scarlet clad yeomen of the guard present gold dishes while a lady taster inspects each dish for poison. Unmarried ladies later carry dishes to the queen in private quarters as she dines and sups alone with few attendants, admission limited by power.
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England
Frau Blumenthal Collects Her 20 Marks Per Thousand
In Berlin the wife of a famed playwright collected 20 marks for every 1000 earned by his hit Zum Weissen Roesse. When receipts dipped below the threshold she still demanded the payout, and after a brief calculation she secured her full 20 marks, despite lower takings.
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Berlin
Frau Blumenthal
Lessing Theater
Herr Blumenthal
Weissen Roesse
White Horse Inn
Germany
Physician Seeks Portrait In Last Illness Of Frederick the Great
An eminent Hanover physician was dispatched to Frederick the Great during his final illness. When the king asked about his life’s work for the dead, the doctor answered with tact and flattery, noting he had helped fewer men into another world than the monarch.
Monticello Establishes Street Grades Under 1899 Ordinance
Ordinance No 196 adopts the City of Monticello street grades based on the Plat of Streets and Sewer Grade System by civil engineer M Thergl Jr approved April 1 1899. It lists streets such as Angle Chestnut Cedar Centre Dunham Fourth Fifth Grand Lovell Maple Main Military North Cedar Orange Pleasant Railroad Second Sherman Sixth Seventh South Read South Cedar Sycamore Third and Walnut with grades shown on the plat and red grade line reference. It takes effect after publication in official papers.
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City of
Monticello
Beco
Angle Street
Meg Kirst
Lovell
Maple St
Military Road
Cedar Street
Orange Street
Fiares
Pleasant
Railroad Street
Sherman
Skelley
South
Sycamour Manet Re
Vuarvell
Walnut
Washington
O G. Meyer
J. ¥. Perorna
Unclaimed Letters at Monticello Post Office 1899
Post office list from Monticello Iowa dated April 8 1899 shows unclaimed letters for John Neely Edward Humbel J P Coan Esq T C O Leary Jos J Ament D E Pono and mentions Rear Admiral Kautz an Ohio native 60 years old Annapolis classmate of Admiral Dewey and longtime associate in Samoa.
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Monticello
Iowa
John Neely
Edward Humbel
J.P. Coan
T. C. O'Leary
Jos
J. Ament
Kautz
Samoa
Ohio
Annapolis
Dewey
Colorado
One Minute Cough Cure Promises and Past Health Claims
A collection of testimonials and notices touts One Minute Cough Cure from D C Prader Co for coughs chest pain and lung troubles. Also mentions Kingsley explorer German floors compressed paper and a quip about Admiral Kautz expansion. Includes brief anecdotes and warnings about counterfeit salves and local dental ads.
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D.C. Prader & Co
D. C. Prader & Co
White marble czar cenotaphs on Neva island
The article notes that all Russian czars from Peter the Great onward lie in a single memorial chapel on a Neva island. Each cenotaph is a plain white marble block with no decoration, distinguished only by the deceased emperor’s name.
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Russia
Peter the Great
Neva
Guaranteed salve for all skin eruptions and piles
The advertisement promotes a salve claimed as the best for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and lists 25 cents per box with D. C. Prader & Co. as sellers.
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D. C. Prader & Co
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