Runaway Ice Yacht Narrowly Survives Shelter Island Incident
A young girl aboard a fast ice yacht nearly perished when she could not free a frozen sheet or steer from the edge of a tide churned ice floe near Shelter Island. Pursuers caught up as the vessel neared deadly anchor ice, rescuing her moments before disaster, while the runaway wrecked on the breaking ice.
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Shelter Island
W. P. Pond
Frank Leslie
Wy Franklin Hart
West 32d St
New York
Jones County Supervisors Proceeding Report and Actions
The record lists 14 bills of sale and an adoption, plus marriage licenses and district court misc. items. It notes a quarterly sheriff fee report approved, a tax transfer resolution to the county road fund, and postponement of courthouse heating arrangements. Continued next week.
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J. A. Hartman
Cl’k Dist. Court
Hiram Arnold
Dunn
Lucky Deuce of Spades Stirs Superstitions in Card Play
A London Mail tale notes a string of two of spades appearances in a whist game. The bottom two of spades appeared on both packs and again as the turn up card, yet the dealer lost six rubbers in a row.
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London Mail
Curious child dolls and coalfield facts in one page
The Contemporary Review notes children favor wax dolls or rag dolls with 845 surveyed. A few prefer tiny 4 inch dolls for wig play while another seeks a large doll to cuddle. Geologists rank coal reserves by country with the United States and Appalachians highlighted as vast, long term supplies.
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Professor Sully
Hall
World
China
United States
Rockies
Canada
India
New South Wales
Russia
United Kingdom
England
Pennsylvania
Appalachian
Retired railroader in church misreads collection cue
In a northern state town Methodist service a retired railroad conductor, ten years out of work, takes up the collection. While waking a sleeping member he blurts ticket please using a railroading reflex, causing a comic moment. Also mentions floating sand islands in Texas's Llano River.
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Ohio State Journal
Llano
Texas
Unparalleled winter clubbing offer for farmers
A newspaper promotes a six-paper yearly combination including The Homestead and its Special Farmers Institute editions, The Poultry Farmer, The Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal, The Humane Alliance, and local news at a total price of $2.20. The Homestead for the first week of April will feature forty pages plus twenty four from the Special Farmers Institute edition, totaling sixty four pages.
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Homestead
Farmers’ Institute
Poultry Farmer
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Journal
Humane Alliance
No Right to Ugliness and Health Claims in Ads
A compilation of period advertisement blurbs touts Electric Bitters for beauty and health, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for skin, One Minute Cough Cure for throat and lung issues, and various quips. It cites D C Prader & Co. as the supplier and mentions unrelated notes on divorces and coal mining employment.
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D.C. Prader & Co
de- Witt
DeWitt
D. C. Prader & Co
H. E. Thompson
Milledgeville
Swift
Ss. S. S
Atlanta
Georgia
The Best Salve For Skin Ailments Sold By D C Prader Co
An advertised salve claims to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all eruptions and guarantees satisfaction or money back. Priced at 25 cents per box.
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D. C. Prader & Co
Tragic Scottish tale of Helen Irving and two suitors
Helen Irving attracted by Fleeming faces rival Bell who vows murder. On the Kirtle banks Bell shoots Helen while she shields Fleeming. Fleeming crosses the river and kills Bell, then dies beside Helen, both buried in the same churchyard.
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Helen Irving
Bell
Fleeming
Kirtle
Childrens abilities and a life saved by medicine noted
A poem extols a girl who can perform many feats yet cannot help her mother. A Sedalia conductor recalls his daughter’s extreme illness and how One Minute Cough Cure saved her life after doctors failed. Armour is described as christened Dan forth after his father and with Philip as a childhood name.
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J. Scheer
Sedalia
D. C. Prader & Co
Philip Danforth Armour
Chicago
Danforth
Philip
Typhoid Pneumonia Survivor Credits King’s New Discovery
Hannibal citizen J. HB Lilly recounts nearly fatal typhoid that led to pneumonia and lung collapse. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with rapid relief and full recovery, noting 50 cent to 1 dollar sizes and free trial bottles at D C Prater & Co.’s drug store. Also mentions observatory relocation on Mont Blanc due to snow.
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J. HB
Lilly
Hannibal
Dr. King
D.C. Prader & Co
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