Backache relief helps Roxbury mother of five
Mrs Maups Jn Taylor of Roxbury Massachusetts writes she suffered chronic backache with dizziness and menstral pain after her last child two years ago. She found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound enabling her to sleep well and care for five children, endorsing the remedy for women with similar symptoms.
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Roxbury
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Mrs. Maups Jn. Taylor
St. James Place
Path to success demands self discipline not luck
John Blake tells Chicago Daily News readers that true success comes from inner drive, not pulling strings. He argues most achievers rose from poverty through desire to succeed, urging individuals to want success more than anything else and to stop blaming the world or self indulgence.
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John Blake
Chicaso Daily News
Is your boy learning anything at school
The Higher Education notes a quip about schooling and arithmetic. A parent jokes that their boy learns how little the parent knows about arithmetic, reflecting on how education often contends with parental mastery. The line nods to classroom learning and generational gaps in math.
Imaginative plot to lure coal mine owner in mountains
Hiram and Gardiner plot to kidnap Harris with cash for a fake mine owner, risking magnified danger in the mountains. Riles joins, the scheme relies on a mythic ownership, while Jim Travers confronts the intruding claim with wary calm at a Manitoba homestead.
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Hiram
Tle
Harvis
Riles
Harris
Gardiner
Honolulu
South America
Jim
Travers
Mr. Riles
Plainville
Harrises
Beulah
Wiles
Tiles
Trivers
Letter Plot Deepens as Riles Plans a Scheme
Gardiner coaches Riles through composing a dubious letter to Harris about selling farms and a coal mine. The pair finalize a copy, then send the real letter via a cowboy, sealing Riles' entanglement in the scheme and setting up potential legal exposure.
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Riles
Gardiner
Harris
The Gamblers and a Long Trip to the New West
Harris faces delays arranging farm affairs for his absence as Mary plans a visit, the hired man agrees to milk cows for butter, and Harris and Allan set off from Plainville for Winnipeg. The station agent jibes about money and land as Harris buys tickets to Calgary. the scene ends with the agent muttering about a Monroe doctrine.
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Harris
Mary
Plainville
New West
Allan
Winnipeg
Calgary
Sarris
Ife
The Horse of Thirty Five Study On Maturity
A New York Evening Post note compares horse aging to human aging, stating a five year old horse is like a twenty year old man, a ten year old horse like a forty year old, and a thirty five year old horse like a ninety year old man, in terms of maturity and behavior.
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New York Evening Post
Passed With Flying Colors Brought Back Old Times
A Scots prospective marine engineer faces a captain's tough questions with deft answers. When asked about water in his boiler, he quips he'd check the lake to see if water exists, misreading the dilemma. In Chicago a last bus scene shows demobilized soldiers sharing a joke as a veteran returns home.
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Scotland
Chicago Daily News
France
London Chronicle
Procrastination Wordplay Report Tramside
A passenger in a Duallas News piece quips about procrastination. He explains to the tramcar conductor that he looked up the word procrastinate and learned it means to put off. The exchange captures local color and humor.
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Duallas News
Like a Letter Prompted a Blunt Remark
A reader notes a bored young woman yawning and apologizing, saying she did not mean to. Mr Staylate responds with a curt aside that she opened something by mistake.
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Mr. Staylate
Quick quips on memory and patriotism
A snippet of jokes and wry observations. A comedian notes memory lapses in a wife and the irony of quick patriotism versus tax. Another line mocks blushing caused by drugstore complexion remarks.
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Cork
Stearns
U.S
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs Co
Jordan, Minn
C. H. Barry
Michigan Avenue
Chicans
Eutonic
Parker
Etsens Chem
Patchonne
N.Y
Hindercorns
Noah
Druge
Wichita
Kan
First Trent
Lone
Evelyn Ink
Ponca City
Orla
FORD
Strangsky
Uuma
Alton
Lewi
Mammoth
W. le. Declow
Cedar Rapids
Lowa
W N. Y
Des Moines
Irwin Myers
John Harris
Man Harris
Homstead Homsteads
Ian
Ehex Becaus
New York
Harry
Holt
Alabastine Company
Grandville Ave
Grand Rapids, Mich
Spahn
Spohn Medical Company
Goshen
Ind
Arthur LI. Folwell
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