Col Atkinson's Wit At Wayne Circuit Court
A Wayne circuit court judge recalls Col John Atkinson’s sharp barroom sarcasm in a clash with James H Pound. Pound challenged the case as the Colonel delivered a biting quip after the decision, noting Pound’s silence and head shake as he uttered nothing more than a gesture.
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Wayne Circuit
Col
John Atkinson
James H. Pound
Pound
Child to Chair Her Club With Talking Dolly
Mrs Ada Brown Talbot of New York recalls a seven year old girl who runs a club led by a talking doll as president. The child explains the chair is for her club not for herself and compares it to her mother's club where a noisy dolly acts as president until worn out.
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Ada Brown Talbot
New York
Mamma
Dolly
Mrs. Talbot
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Norristown
Philadelphia Record
Jason Crow
Oscarville
Sayns
Woodliff
Swanson Rheumatic Co
Lake St
Chicago
Exxa EB. Brenner
East
Rochester
Ohio
Lydialk
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Patels
Lie, Inc
C.D
C.O.D
Gulf Coast Holiday Spots Promoted by L N Railroad
The piece touts the Gulf Coast between Mobile and New Orleans as a winter escape with mild climate pure air even temperature and top class visitor accommodations at moderate prices. Through cars from Northern cities reach the area only via the Louisville and Nashville Railroad with Florida routes advertised.
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Gulf Coast
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Mobile
New Orleans
Florida
J. K. Ridgely
Chicago
The Great Ruby at McVickers Chicago Opens Second Month
Manager Jacob Litt presents The Great Ruby at McVicker's Theater in Chicago as it enters its second month. audiences remain strong and the balloon scene draws widespread talk as two men vie for possession of a priceless ruby amid a dramatic aerial struggle.
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Jacob Litt
McVicker’s Theater
Chicago
Longman
Jassim
Dusty Rhoades Returns From Iowa Misadventure
Mrs Goodwin questions Dusty Rhoades about his stray from the state line and his later admission of a self inflicted condition as he tours through the region.
Remarkable Farm Region in Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas
Describes a fertile farming and stock country along the Frisco Line in Missouri and Arkansas. Claims vast mineral wealth and cheap wild lands awaiting improvement. Invites home seekers and capitalists to request descriptive literature from Bryan Snyder, G P A Frisco Line, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Missouri
Arkansas
Frisco
United States
Bryan Snyder
G. P. A. Frisco Line
St. Louis
Rock Island Playing Cards advertised by mail order
An ad for Rock Island playing cards claims slickness and offers a mail order deal: one pack for 15 cents, four packs for 50 cents with stamps or money orders, prepaid express shipping from John Sebastian in Chicago. Also mentions Kemp's Balsam cough remedy with free sample and two price options.
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Rock Island
Express
John Sebastian
G. P.A
Chicago
Kemp
Doln M. Smyth Co
Mammoth
John M. Smyth Co
Awe
Madison Street
Notable Advertisements and Quips From Historic Paper
A collage of old ads and quotes includes Emily Medicine promising daily bowel relief and liver kidney benefits, price 25 and 50 cents. Job offers promise 24.00 weekly plus 4 for a product introducer. Humorous lines from Dallas and Chicago papers reflect social attitudes and pill ads like Laxative Bromo Quinine 25 cents.
Iowa Republicans gain large majority in state ticket and legislature
The Des Moines special reports the Republican state ticket leading by about 57,000 votes and a larger House and Senate majority. It lists the new legislature by district with party controls and holdovers, noting added concerns on private insane hospitals and brewery proposals in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Boards of Supervisors
Senate
Battles and bombardments widen in South Africa
Dispatches from Cape Town and London detail cavalry actions near Belmont, heavy skirmishes at Kenilworth and Schwest Drift, and relief efforts. Officer casualties include Col C E Keith-Falconer killed and Lt Wood mortally wounded. Reports cover Mafeking shelling, Ladysmith bombardment, and ongoing British and Boer gunfire with limited British losses noted.
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London
War Office
Cape Town
Gough
Orange River
Belmont
Ninth Landiers
C. E. Keith-Falconer
Northumberland Fusileers
Bevan and Hall
C. C. Wood
Lincashire
Wood
David Ndibe
P. van der Merwe
Redvers Buller
Kekewich
Kimberley
Orange Free State
Turner
Transvaal
Kenilworth
Peakman
Kimberley Light Horse
Col. Turner
Peaktman
Diamond Field Artillery
Ayleff
Cape Police
Schwest
Lubbe
Sergi Wuntermage
Kampers Dam
Ottos Kopje
Cape
Mafeking
Estcourt
Natal
Ladysmith
Bulwara
Workers, mills, and automation reshape industry figures
The report cites 1 400 letter carriers in Chicago and 2 388 Pittsburgh mills with 60 blast furnaces, paying 60 million dollars in wages and employing 2 000. A new automatic ore unloader and four machines per ore steamer are touted to substitute many workers, while Buffalo paper plants run entirely by Niagara Falls electricity.
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Chicago
France
Great Britain
Pittsburgh
Cholmers and Cure Ads in a Chicago Paper Spoof
A fragment from a Chicago paper includes mock ads and quips about cures for catarrh, a sales pitch for Hall’s Catarrh Cure by Cheney Co Toledo Ohio, testimonials, and notices from John M Smyth Co Chicago with sewing machines and catalogs, plus assorted jokes and quotes.
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Hall
I’ 7, Gheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
I. J. Cheney & Co
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Lane
Emily
Chicago Daily News
Kansas Food Co
Kansas City
Dallas
Dallas News
Hale
Pike
Hood
Iowa
Gov. Shaw
Wil
Adair-Madison
J. J. Crossley
Patterson
Allamaree-Fayette
J. H. Trewin
Lansing
Appanoose-Davis
Claude Porter
Centerville
Audubon-Dallas-Guthrie
F. M. Hopkins
Guthrie Center
Benton-Tama
E. G. Penrose
Tama City
Holdover
Black Hawk-Grundy. Co
W. Mullan
Waterloo
Boone-Story
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Nevada
Bremer-Butler
G. M. Craig
Allison
Buchanan-Delaware
H. J. Griswold
Winthrop
Buena Vista - Humboldt - Pocahontas
Parley Finch
Humboldt
Calhoun-Webster
T. D. Healy
Rep
Fort Dodge
Cass-Shelbby
J. M. Emmert
Atlantic
Nashau
Clarke-Warren
W. B. Tallman
Osceola
Clinton
J. Su Wilson
Clay - Dickison - Emmet
Dubuque
Ballyclough
Fremont-Page
William Eaton
Sidney
Hardin-Hamilton
J. Wallace
Eldora
Henry-Washington
A.N. Albersen
Washington
Howard-Winneshier
D. A. Lyons
Cresco
Iowa-Johnson
George W. Ball
Iowa City
Jefferson-Van Buren
H. WH. Brighton
Fairfield
Jackson
Thomas Lambert
Sabula
Jasper
J. R. Gorrell
Newton
Keokuk-Poweshiek
J. R. Lewis
Montezuma
LINN
J. S. Alexander
Marion
Lee
D. A. Young
Dem
Argyle
Lucas-Wayne
Alex Mardis
Corydon
Louisa-Muscatine
G. M. Titus
Muscatine
Lyon-O'Brien-Osceola-Sioux
G. W. Lister
Sibley
Mahaska
Pottawattamie
S. Hazleton
Council Bluffs
Scott
Hayward
Davenport
Woodbury
BE. H. Hubbard
Sioux City
Wapello
W. A. McIntyre
Ottumwa
ADAIR
J. M. Wilson
Macksbury
Adams
S. Crouse
Prescott
Allamakee
D. H. Bowen
Waukon
Appanoose
F. S. Payne
Audubon
Asmus Boysen
Extra
Benton
D. K. Harbert
Shellsburg
Black Hawk
A. Wise
Carroll
A. T. Bennett
Manning
CASS
M. N. Baker
Anita
Cedar
T. B. Miller
Stanwood
Cerro Gordo
D. W. Horn
Clear Lake
Cherokee
G. F. Coburn
Chickasaw
F. E. Ayres
Lawler
Clarke
M. L. Temple
Clay-Palo Alto
E. P. Barringer
Ruthven
Clayton
P. W. Conley
Volga
Anton Hannsman
de Witt
F. P. McGinn
Crawford
Theodore Blume
Denison
George W. Clarke
Adel. Davis
B. Downing
Drakeville
Decatur
B. L. Eiker
Decatur City
Delaware
George W. Dunham
Manchester
William Dodds
Danville
D. A Hawkins
Dickinson-Emmet-Osceola
W. H. Myers
Milford
E. J.sauer
James B. McAber
Luxenbourg
Fayette
Chris Miller
High
Floyd
W. B. Towner
Charles City
Franklin
D. J. Patton
Hampton
Fremont
W. T. Davis
Hamburg
Greene
Mahlon Head
Jefferson
Grundy
W. G. Kerr
Grundy Center
Guthrie
Nate Wright
Stuart
Hamilton
R. G. Clarke
Webster City
Hancock-Wright
Thomas A. Way
Britt. Hardin
Mark J. Furry
Alden
Harrison
J. E. Kirkwood
Missouri Valley
Henry
Thomas I
Campbell
Mount Pleasant
van Meter
Mahasea
W. G. Jones
Oskaloosa
J. I. Warren
Pella
Marshall
Thomas Kimball
Lamoille
Mills
Charles W. Black
Malvern
Mitchell
W. L. Eaton
Osage
Monroe
N. E. Kendall
Albia
Montgomery
Avoca
G. M. Putnam
Carson
Poweshiek
Joe P. Lyman
Grinnell
Ringgold
P. L. Prentis
Delphos
Sac
Charles E. Stalcop
Sac City
Henry Thuenen
William Theophilus
Shelby
H. W. Byers
Harlan, Sioux, Co
W. Carter
Rock Valley
Story
W. J. Veneman
Maxwell
Tama
J. FP
G. Cold
Berlin
Taylor
W. D. Blakemore
Bedford
Union
John Gibson
van Buren
J. A. Keck
Utica
A. W. Buchanan
Warren
J.M
Anderson
Indianola
J. Wilson
P. O. Koto
Forest City
Winneshiek
J. S. Roome
Calmar
J. B. Santee
Danbury
James Barrett
Polk County
Board of Control
Lowa
Buffalo Papers
Niagara Falls
Mr. Isaacs
von Games Schoost
Puck
Clarence
Cuiatzagin Nature Cure Sanitarium
Asheville, N.C
Elliott
G. W. Patterson
Inkster, Mich
Minnesota
Bertene
Meri WY
Ayer
Buckingham
Callagiaro
A. P. Hart & Co
Napnua N. H
Madison St
Red Cross
W. L. Douglas
Shoes Union
W. L. Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton
Masa
Bright
Warner
Warner Absorbent Cure CO
California
Santa Fe
St. Paul
Minneapolis
T. A. Grady
California Tourist Service
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Adams Street
Ea Ten Pee
Adams St
Monilon
Bliss Williams MG. CO
Iho
Ria Ae Tian ES Powell &Clement Oo
Main St
Milo
Stevens de
Washington, D.C
Cleveland
Detroit
Pesban
Dr. Kline
H. H. Kline, Ltd
Arch St
Phila
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