Foley to ride to Frisco on $500 ninety day bet
James P. Foley, aged captain of Lagamgert Indiana police, will ride horseback to San Francisco in ninety days for a $500 wager. He has prior western rides and frontier experience, claiming to cover 45 miles daily through Indiana Illinois and Nebraska and 10 to 15 miles across mountains. He trains daily on a wiry Indian mustang enduring severe weather.
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James P. Foley
Lagamgert
Ind
San Francisco
Capt Foley
Elius
Utah
Foley
Indiana
Ilinois
Nebraska
Unusual Scientific Updates From Early 20th Century Conference
Reports from the International Conference discuss surprising results on equatorial climate and high latitude temperatures, notes on new steel production via electric ovens, an aerial navigation discovery by M Boudy, spectra comparisons of Arcturus and Betelgeuse, and a weather bureau explanation of the paen deacon phenomenon seen as ice crystal columns over bright lights.
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Selentith Agronaiutics
Beit Cecenthy
Milan
Mors
Telsserene de Bert
Curry
Equator
Rotsbet
Der
Many
Weather Bureau
Louisa Hostages Moliere at Night Meal Court Scene
Officials of the Privy Chamber resent dining with Moliere. Louisa overhears and vows to feed him, then the king serves him chicken and shares a wing with the actor. He declares the valets do not find Moliere fit company, ensuring the playwright dines at their table.
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Privy Chamber
Moliera
Louisa
Petit-Lever
M. de Moliere
Mouliere
Moliere
Louis
Valete de Chambre
Tdems
Chatield-Taylor
Mollera
Not a Thank You in a Streetcar Exchange
A fragmented quotation exchange hints at social friction aboard a streetcar. The speaker Pattathighla Ledew references a woman’s sense of ending conversations, noting a demand for courtesy as a test of manners in a public transit setting.
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Madem
Pattathighla Ledew
Art of corn cake making from old fashioned mills
Nashville American notes authentic cornmeal comes from traditional water mills in Tennessee. It praises distant mills on Fighting Creek and Unaka regions, contrasting with modern roller mills and canned foods. The piece argues proper grinding, drying, and sieving yield better corn bread and condemns sugar in corn bread.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Fighting Creek
Sevier County
Big Smoky
Sugarland
Unaka
Middle Tennessee
Rson
Battle Creek
Trust in Timber Lands and Hidden Owning Powers
The New York Sun reports that 100 individuals and corporations control about 75 percent of timber land not held by government or farms, with divisions by species and strongmen likened to claws of an invisible trust. Rising lumber prices are blamed on forest devastation and higher labor costs across harvesting, milling, and distribution stages.
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White Pine Association
Iike
Nittredge
Pittredge
New York Sun
Getting the Geed Plan Confronts Southern Lady
A visitor asks about keeping a plano and keys visible while a Southern woman insists she uses every item in the house daily to honor guests. She recalls life in old colonial mansions and the contrast with the present company.
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South
Ailver
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted As Cure-All Claims
A long advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal remedy curing eruptions, pimples, scrofula, salt rheum, eczema, dyspepsia, stomach troubles, rheumatism, catarrh, nervous troubles, and debility. The piece notes a 1908 Food and Drugs Act guarantee No. 8. It includes light anecdotes about singing notes records and humorous vignettes from periodicals.
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Hood
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Partsten
M Boudy
Boudy
M. Rouly
Arctures
Frefeeser Male
Adneem
Carnegie Solar Observatory
Meent
Witten
California
Dais
Anturus
Vecturus
Returus
Betelgeuse
Louia
Sas
Courtice Pounds
Pounds
Farinelli
Norman Salmond
Aung
Philadelpha Bulletin
Miss Ascum
Jack Hanson
Miss Newitt
Spain
Malaga
London Mail
Rufus K. Combs
Midway
Hin
Nise
Alfred Horsford
Sir Alfred
Lincoln
Sunday Magazine
Neas
Rest
Ape
Bears
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