Modern two family flat house for $2500 designed by Kintz
Five rooms per floor with identical sizes across two flats. Details include bay front parlors, dining rooms, two bedrooms per floor, kitchens, vestibules, baths, pantries, and three closets. Underpinning is bluestone, clapboard exterior, gas and hot air heating, full basement with necessary rooms, art glass, and finishings. Owner offers optional extra bedroom and rental income from one flat to offset costs.
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George A. W. Kintz
Hay Baths In Tyrol Offer Unusual Spa Cure
Reports describe Tyrolean hay baths where uncured mountain hay is used as a heat cure. Participants dig into a hay pit, cover themselves, and endure intense heat with attendants. several cases noted fainting or near-fainting and serious conditions.
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Tyrol
Schlern
Voels
Aldein
The Heat of the Sun Might Melt Ice If Concentrated
The article notes earth receives at most one thousand millionth of the sun's total radiation. Concentrating heat could render Earth uninhabitable and melt ice rapidly. It states heat would melt three hundred millions of miles of solid ice per second and that energy generation is about ten thousand horsepower per square foot of surface.
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North Pole
Some Marvelous Figures of Nature
The passage notes astounding figures in biology including a caterpillar with over two thousand muscles and the human skin with about two million sweat glands and ten miles of surface ducts. It mentions vast vascular networks, countless blood cells, 30 million retinal rods, and estimates brain cells around a hundred million.
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Meinert
Enraptured Youth and Object of His Affection Debate Engagement
A playful exchange quoted in the Chicago Tribune shows a young couple discussing an engagement. The dialogue, framed as flirty banter, hints at readiness and past delays in formalizing plans.
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Chicago Tribune
Brief wartime style note on scheduled visit
Mrs Gabb asks to visit this week and specifies Thursday. Mrs Gadd suggests she may be unable if rain on Thursday, and proposes Wednesday instead. Judge notes the implied scheduling adjustment.
Cake Walk at Boarding House Mentioned in City Punch
In a playful exchange from Harlem Life and Pleasing Amusements, Mrs. Hashleigh warns Counter ship about regular board payments while a cake walk morning breakfast gag is explained. The Detroit Free Press notes the joke as a novelty.
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Detroit Free Press
Lucindy and I a Dream in St Nicholas Verse
Poem fragment by Esther A. Harding published in St Nicholas invites Lucindy to imagine motherly care and secret whispers. A playful tale of tea time and lullabies voiced through a child’s perspective and affectionate imagery. The verse cadence recalls tender domestic scenes and imagined closeness.
Monster Python Measured Beyond Twenty-Two Feet in Philippines
In a Philippine Islands account, a massive python measured 22 feet 6 inches after men trapped it with snares and used chloroform on the creature. The resilient reptile fought until a final stab to the heart ended the struggle and allowed skinning.
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Philippine Islands
Philippines
Dean C. Worcester
Amusing experiment and early newspapers history
A needle bored by balancing knives and corks demonstrates a simple hole making trick. The note then recalls early newspaper origins from Venice 1536 and England with the Weekly News in 1622, while also debunking the English Mercurie 1558 as a forgery from the mid eighteenth century.
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Nathaniel Butler
Flags of Cuba and Crete Stircontinental Interest
The article notes the U S War Department has authorized a blue white flag for Cuban coasting ships lacking national recognition. It discusses Cubans becoming citizens without US allegiance and compares Crete’s new flag with a white cross on blue and a red field star, symbolizing liberation from Ottoman rule.
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United States War Department
Mexico
United States
Havana
Spain
Cuban Republic
Principality of
Crete
Europe
Prince George
Greece
Cats and weights and a hunter tale in one page
Reading bits about cats, a parlor scene shows a cat crept into the room when the owner is away. A butter case ends with a farmer using bread as weights. In a woods story a hunter shoots a catamount maiming a stag after a trap is sprung.
Steel Nest Captured by Swiss Museum
A steel bird nest was found in Soleure Switzerland by a museum after a worker observed wagtails collecting steel filings from clockmaking workshops. The nest was built almost entirely from metallic filings and later sent to the museum after the fledglings left.
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Museum of
Soleure
Switzerland
Nervy blackmailing letters drive woman to harsher perfumery post
A former collecting agency worker recalls posing as a proprietor to menace men with blackmail notes. A wiry man disrupted the office by smashing fixtures and a chandelier, triggering her transition to perfumery work, described as steadier though still nerve wracking.
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Chen
N. O. Times-Democrat
Alabastine Permanent Coating For Walls And Ceilings
Albastine is a durable wall coating that replaces kulsemines and wall paper, sets with the wall like stone cement, and is cheaper and easier to apply. It can be mixed with cold or hot water using a kalsomine brush, is clean and economical, and has twenty years of proven performance claimed by manufacturers. It is sold by paint dealers in 5 lb labeled packages.
Clever young physician bears misfortune with humor
A witty doctor, like Warren Hastings, faces slow practice growth with a smile. His motto Nitor in Adversitum mirrors resilience as he and a nervous companion wait in a crowded Hibemia bank, noting patience and irony in the delays. A colorfully observed joke ends with a quip about a fast black messenger boy.
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Gayely
Warren Hastings
Hibernia Bank
San Francisco News
Indian superstition versus modern engine at Hingoli mill
The Hingoli cotton mill engine broke down and native workers, believing the machine to be divine, forced a coolie into the furnace to propitiate it. The man was cremated while the engine remained obstinately inoperative.
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Times of India
Coatton
Hingoli
Steam motor car hits sixty miles an hour trial
A steam powered railcar recently completed a trial run at sixty miles per hour. The report parallels the claim that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the fastest path to health, curing indigestion constipation nervousness liver and kidney trouble and promising lasting relief.
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Hostetter
Baby swallowed diamond attic sparks quirky plea
Fragmentary note from Jeweler's Weekly references Joy-Oh, John and a bizarre scenario involving a baby, a diamond, a surgeon, and a bachelor brother physician, suggesting a sensational or satirical line from an old periodical.
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Joy
John
Lane'sa Family Medicine Claims Daily Bowels Health Rule
An old advertisement touts Lane'sa Family Medicine promising daily bowel movement as essential to health. It claims gentle action on liver and kidneys and treats headaches. Prices listed as 25 and 60 cents.
Cool Resorts of the North on Grand Trunk and LV Routes
The Popular Summer Tourist Route along the Grand Trunk Railway covers Petoskey Mackinaw St. Clair Springs Muskoka Lakes Lake of Bays Niagara Falls Thousand Islands Rap ids of the St. Lawrence White Mountains Montreal Saguenay River and North Atlantic Seashore resorts Also Watkins Glen Glen Summit Atlantic City Asbury Park and other resorts on the Lehigh Valley R R Vestibule Train Service. Illustrations and rates literature available from J H Burgis City Passenger and Ticket Agent 249 Clark St Corner Jackson Blvd Chicago.
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Grand Trunk Railway
Petoskey
Mackinaw
St. Clair Springs
Muskoka Lakes
Lake of Bays
Highlands
Ontario
Niagara Falls
Thousand Islands
Rapids
St. Lawrence
White Mountains
Montreal
Saguenay River
North Atlantic
Watkins Glen
Glen Summit
Atlantic City
Asbury Park
Lehigh Valley
R.R
J. H. Burgis
Clark St
Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
Engagement Ring Offer Sparks Public Handshake
In a pithy sports quip, Puck notes Haith offered an engagement ring after a deal, and you extended a courteous if guarded reply with a "glad hand" gesture. The exchange highlights tensions and politics around personal gestures in public sports discourse.
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Haith
Puck
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Hitchen
Branda
Bharler
Michen Axib
Hashleigh
Young Countership
Countership
Mrs. Hashleigh
Harlem
Lucindy
Lucinda
Dolly
Esther A. Harding
St. Nicholas
N. Y
Recall
Baker Dropped the
Missouri
Philadelphia ‘Bulletin
New York
Minnesota
Seeanee
Peres Gous Patie Sleleden
Rye ST. Louis
Texas
Omaha
Lucy Tucker
Vernalillea
Ind
Dr. Williams
Tucker
F.tucker
Frank Tucker
Huan Johnson
Justice of the Peace
The
Republican
Versailles
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
Lane’sa Family Medicine
Ayer
A.J. Smith
F. M. Byron
Cleveland
Sapolio
Clinton Chain Works
South Clinton Street
Carter
Electric Wheel CO
Quincy, Ill
Buckingham
Druggs
R.p.hall & Co
Nashua
Hewey de Mit
Life OF Wanted
Outfit Free
Millem
Lakeside Dtdg
le Oa
Whestbern
Canada
Department OF the Iithiol
Ottawa
OG. J
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
N. Tholomew
6Th Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Everett & Kantz
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Perretou
Druggists
Mail &Co
Capillaris, Manufacturing Co
Mansfield
Agt
Glen Kidge
N, J
Tukey
Byrup
Droge
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