Monster rock oak felled in Juniata township woodcut record
The Philadelphia Record notes a giant oak in Huntingdon County Juniata town ship cut down with butt circumference 12 feet 7 inches and a 4 foot diameter. End log diameter 22 inches, no limbs within 60 feet, yielding 2186 feet board measure of lumber and twelve crossties from limbs. Bark estimate 1.5 cords. White flowers noted for fragrance.
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Juniata Township
Huntingden County
Philadelphia
Baby's Face Cleared After Cuthura Remedies
Mrs. H. F. Budke of LeSueur Minnesota reports a two month old developed a facial rash that worsened to eczema on head and ears. After five months of ineffective treatment a family doctor diagnosed eczema. Two months of Cuthura Remedies healed the baby completely with no signs of eczema since.
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Catiara
H. F. Budke
LeSueur
Minn
Cheap living in France and the cost of meat in Bordeaux
A New York Press reporter recalls an American woman’s year in Bordeaux describing meat prices, soup scraps, vege tables, patisseries, and ice cream. She notes ham at 90 cents a slice, chicken scraps in soup, affordable vegetables, and rare ice cream, all highlighting French dining habits and costs. Previews country life and contrasts with American eating.
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Bordeaux
New York Press
Toyou
Dax
Relic of the Pant and Potent Portrait Quips
A fragmentary joke exchange contrasts buttermilk with star power via Mr. Fairbanks and a newspaper quip about a man drinking a gallon a day. The relic remark pivots to a woman guarding another man's photo as a portrait of herself in youth.
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Mr. Fairbanks
Star
Philadelphia Press
Louisville Courier-Journal
Clergymen Essay Provokes Amusement At Dinner
Bishop Potter hosted an ecclesiastical dinner in New York where a Coopers town schoolboy read a humorous essay on clergymen. The piece described three kinds of clergymen bishops rectors and curates noting the duties and traits of each in a pointed joke.
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Potter
New York
Cooperstown
Sunday School Lesson on Israel's Kings and Obedience
Review of First Samuel themes in a September 1808 Sunday School lesson. It explores why Israelites asked for a king, divine warnings, Saul’s anointing, Jonathan and David, obedience as sonship, and the moral of waiting on the Lord for rightful kingship. The piece emphasizes heart over outward looks and the Lord looking on the heart.
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S.b
Samuel
Mina
Gad
Baxternals
Gite
Gal
Fio
Povid
Saul
Ish-bosheth
David
Why New Houses Are Healthful Or Unhealthful
The Minneapolis Journal notes new houses use vast water during construction about 30000 gallons before drying. Water remains near surface and in walls causing dampness. Damp homes foster illness while older houses prove more healthful after a year.
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New Houzen
Minneapolis Journal
Thousands of Women Latter in the Same Way
Mrs. Thos. Dunn of Columbus Ohio testifies that a decade of backache exhaustion and dizziness vanished after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She credits quick relief and a permanent cure and notes the product is sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box.
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Thos. Dunn
Vine St
Columbus
Ohio
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
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Byrsight
France
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Rosebud Reservation
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South Dakota
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Gustave A. Eisengraeber
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H. J. Dennis
St. Louis
8. A. Buchanan
J. H. Bimpson
R. B. Eskildson
Omaha
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L. R. Robinson
Kansas City
Edwin F. Pardee
New York City
N. B. Sizer
Brooklyn
Champ” Clark
Missouri
James Beauchamp Clark
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
Dime Museum
Chicago Tribune
Red Cross
Hongkong Harbor
Winslow
Dunkirk
United States
Leen Iest
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Dallas
Gregory
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Chicago @ North Western Railway
Roosevelt
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Chicago & North Western Ry
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R Traffic Mgr
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Linterary
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Idaho
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