How a Friendship Grew to Sapollo’s Welcome
A reading of the passage shows Sapollo winning warm reception in homes, whether familiar or new. It highlights rapid, thorough cleaning across the house, with laundry practices included as the next step, transforming dirty hands and worn skin, and smoothing carpets as if by magic.
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Sapollo
Adams St
Chicago
Ills
The Dainty Woman's Friend Hand Sapolio Ad
Try hand Sapolio. Its steady use will keep the hands white and un tanned for busy women. It is promoted as The Dainty Woman's Friend in the suburbs and on the farm. The ad claims Sapolio removes sunburn lines and neck streaks from collars with velvety lather.
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Hana Sarono
Evolution, A Game of Checkers on the Earth
A New York Sun verse credits McLandburgh Wilson with a poetic history of evolution. The piece traces growth from primitive cells in ocean beds to humanity’s ascent through a game like checkers on a global board, marking stages from ape to cave and the idea of crowned kings.
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Ape
Cave Mas
McLandburgh Wilson
New York Sun
Passport to the Pole and a Town on the Move
The story notes a Russian governor issuing a North Pole passport with a clause limiting Russian liability beyond borders. It recounts Lepsinsk residents moving a town of about 5000 people to a new site 35 kilometers away after a long land dispute with Semiretsche Cossacks.
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Pole
Povolsk
Arctic Ocean
North Pole
New York Herald
Russia
Lepsinsk
Semiretsche
Turan
Thither
Iron Skull Man Walks Home After Van Mishap
A burly laboring man named Wm Ainge suffered a van wheel weighing about 26 cwt pass over his head at Westminster hospital London. Surgeons found no skull fracture though flesh was bruised. He refused to stay, insisting on returning to work immediately.
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Westminster Hospital
London
Eng
Wm. Ainge
Insect That Sits on Eggs Observed by London Journal
F P Dodd reports in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London a bug species where the female broods over her eggs for three weeks. She stays close to the eggs as they hatch, eats nothing, then leaves the hatched young to fend for themselves. The behavior may protect offspring from ichneumon flies.
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F. P. Dodd
Entomological Society of London
London Globe
Paralysis Mistaken for Death In Fairview Doctor Recovers
Dr Sault of Fairview Pennsylvania was believed dead after a sudden illness. He later sat up in bed and declared he was not dead, with doctors attributing the episode to a slight paralysis stroke. The piece also notes a new rubber paint for surgeons and a cautionary quip about errant race track excuses.
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Sault
Fairview
Hughes
Fall Planting Advice From Wilhelm Miller Miller
Garden expert Wilhelm Miller offers practical fall planting tips to protect crops from frost. He recommends covering tender blooms with cloth or boxes, planting hedges to cut wind, ordering evergreens, and sowing fall bulbings and early flowering seeds to ensure spring color.
Col Dyer and His Dye Ads Spark Demand Across Maine
Col Dyer ran a Skowhegan drug store for over thirty years and advertised a dye that could color forty colors. When a customer asked for a package, she requested a dye that colored forty colors as advertised, prompting the colonel to respond with courteous inquiry.
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Col. Dyer
Skowhegah
Maine
Pittsburg Seeks London Woman Preacher for Welsh Church
Miss Eleanor Williams of London has preached at Chatham Street Welsh Baptist church in Pittsburg for twelve years and a move is under way to call her to the pulpit. She will consider the offer.
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Pittsburg
Eleanor Williams
London
England
Chatham Street
Origin of Mrs Cain
A satirical dialogue attributed to Fitzhugh Lee debates Cain's wife in biblical lore. A white preacher mocks a white man asking who Cain married, claiming Nod’s lazy people intermarry with “white trash” families, with a Saturday Evening Post framing.
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Eve
Cain
Nod
Uniol and His Bearers in Freedom Village N H
A fragment recalls Uncle Sol known as Uncle Sol in Freedom Village New Hampshire. He died a year after serving in the legislature and mocks a session where a member named Bol was chosen chairman. The scene shows Sol being made to mount a platform in a performative political moment.
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Freedom Village
N. H
Solomon Ark
Sol
Hidet
Bol
Jerusalem
Impoverished Image of Czarist Russia Servants
Four enslaved attendants in Russia remain idle under the czar and his child, deeply loyal to them, and dressed in lavish attire adorned with gold ornaments.
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Russia
Czar
Acetylene Lighting Promises Safe Home Gas Setup
A simple acetylene gas burner using calcium carbide yields white light for about 25 cents. The piece notes insurance scrutiny of 70 approved generators from 600 tested, and reports far fewer fires from acetylene than kerosene, gasoline, electricity, or candles, highlighting safety by approval.
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Conten
Insurance Board
America
Cornell University
Clergyman Urged Divorce Citing Scripture Exception
A Chicago divorce case featured a respected clergyman who supported the divorce. The judge asked if he would grant the divorce, and the minister replied he would if the Almighty did not join the couple. The minister argued the couple were not joined by God. The verse was invoked to justify the decision.
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Chicago
Windy City
Delicate Hint From Thiersch On Surgical Travel
A Lepic physician Thiersch offers travel guidance to patients seeking surgeons in Berlin Munich or Vienna. Also notes a Jersey City chewing gum trust profit report with dividends and a $9 million capitalization. The piece closes with a proverb: there are few certainties in the world, one being a mother.
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Thiersch
Bergmann
Berlin
Nussbaum
Munich
Billroth
Vienna
Leipsic
Chewing Gum Trust
Jersey City
Pensions Granted to Danish Elders Over 60
All native born and naturalized Danes over sixty receive monthly pensions from two fifty to four dollars if they cannot support themselves or their families.
Allen's Foot-Ease Powder Ad and Aged Pretension Joke
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder promising relief for swollen sore hot callous and ingrowing nails with a price of 25 cents and free sample. Small-town address listed LeRoy New York. Punning line about a girl from eighteen wanting to seem twenty two and at twenty eight wishing the same.
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Allen
Acetylene Jones Ad Appeals For Free Booklet
Readers are urged to contact Acetylene Jones for a free booklet. The piece contrasts rural France wash houses along streams with heavy soap and chemical use, claiming water contamination can affect cow milk. It also notes Mauna Loa reaching 13 650 feet above sea level.
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France
Mauna Loa
Sandwich Islands
Bottling Lemon Juice for Quick Use
Instructions to bottle lemon juice by squeezing, straining, and sweetening with one pound of sugar per pint. Store in small bottles with a layer of salad oil on top. To use, lift oil with cotton, then mix one tablespoon per gill of water for lemonade.
Test Its Value Simmons Liver Purifier Endorsed by Oswego Reader
W M Tomlinson of Oswego Kansas endorses Simmons Liver Purifier as the most valuable remedy for constipation and disordered liver. He states it works thoroughly without causing griping and recommends it whenever the opportunity arises.
Enterprising Thief Faces Trouble, Seeks Other Measures
A wary observer warns that the fellow who lands in a peck of trouble should try other measures. The remark implies caution and alternative remedies in difficult situations.
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