Striking An Average Glycerine McCuray Compromise
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune piece shows Glycerine McCuray and Orlando Spoonamiore in a playful exchange about love and friendship. The dialogue hints at a compromise on platonic terms as tensions soften.
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McCuray
Orlando
Spoonamiore
Chicago Tribune
Carlyle mocks Rousseau theory while nobles laugh
At a dinner with Thomas Carlyle the British public was said to laugh at theories. Carlyle quipped that the French nobility once laughed at Rousseau, but the second edition of The Social Contract proved their skins paid for the theory.
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A. Carlyle
Price
Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Plant Sibson's Roses Offer From Portland Nurseries
Advertises Sibson's roses grown in 20 acres of open-field stock with two year old bushes and free catalogue from 1180 Milwaukie Road Portland Oregon. Also notes a birdlike sparrow joke and mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children.
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Sibson's
Bibson
Millwaukie Road
Portland
Ore
Vacation Mood In Summer Resort Reading
A witty exchange highlights readers fleeing to the countryside as they plan escapes. The humor rests on the traveler’s claim of going everywhere by digesting summer resort literature.
Don’t Wear DB Truss Offers Instant Relief Cure
A promotional notice touts an illustrated book on a device claimed to cure rapture and allied conditions instantly when others fail. It invites readers to mail a free coupon to receive testimonials, prices, and patient letters, asserting no salves or harnesses are used and urging the reader to judge for themselves.
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Dr. May
May Medical Laboratory
W. H. May
Pearl Street
New York
Purchase Coupon for Appliance Cure of Rupture
A reader requests information by mail about an illustrated book and a rupture cure appliance. The form lists sender C E B Brooks, 2859 Brooks Building, Marshall Michigan, with space for name address city state.
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C.eb. Brooks
Brooks
Holding Company Clarifies Family Business Joke
In a Chicago Tribune snippet Bessie explains to Kajones that George is not merging but a holding company. The exchange shows playful confusion over business terms as a parlor scene unfolds with light humor.
Piles Cured with Pazo Ointment Guarantee
Pazo-Ointment promises to cure itching bleeding or prolapsing piles in six to fourteen days or a full refund. The ad asserts rapid relief and a money back guarantee.
Duddy and Cartwright Clash Over Aviation Wins
The excerpt notes Cartwright boasting of aviation prizes and Duddy asserting himself as part of the aerostocracy, hinting at tensions between rivals in early aviation circles.
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Fuddy
Cartwright
Duddy
Aerostocracy
Boston Transcrint
Prompt to cure a cold in one day with bromide tablets
An old advertisement promises a cure for a cold in one day using laxative bromide quinine tablets. It notes a refund from the druggists if the remedy fails and claims E W Grove’s signature on each box.
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E. W. Grove
Do you believe in table tipping says advocate and man
An exchange in the Roatan Herald features a woman advocate of spiritualism asking if table tipping is believed in and a matter of fact man replying that waiter tipping suits him when hungry.
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Roaton Herald
Boy Ready for Skating Before Ice Thickens
In the Washington Star remark, a doctor urges a father to insist on his boy accustoming himself to cold baths. The father worries but says the boy will be out skating before the ice thickens.
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Washington Star
Military Rats and Royal Rat Catchers in Old Warfare
The London Standard notes ancient techniques using rats to ignite powder stores and cites Vauban rules to counter them. It mentions Samson’s foxes as a distant parallel and details a royal rat catcher’s scarlet livery with mice motifs.
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Vauban
Samson
Pennant
Liecester
London Standard
Unclear Fragmentary Notice From Historic Page
Fragmentary OCR hints at a domestic scene or court-like line with a mention of a housemaid and a court decision pending. Names and exact context are unreadable, offering only partial quotes and stray punctuation.
Tufford Knutt Tanks Chago Tribune Headline
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a question about Rockefeller giving a million dollars and references Wareham and a Tribune. No coherent event or names beyond these scattered items.
Cascarets Claim Cure for Headaches in 25 Years
A testimonial from E. M. Dickson of Indianapolis states his father suffered headaches for twenty five years before using Cascarets. He reports the pills cured the headaches and endorses their use with a money back guarantee. The ad promotes sizes 10¢ 25¢ 50¢ and the genuine tablet stamped CCC.
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E. M. Dickson
Resiner St
Indianapolis
Ind
Large tract offered for colonization with irrigation rights
A client viewed an advertisement for 6036 acres in a level valley 40 miles by 90 miles, fully fenced and irrigated. It includes 640 acres under plow, 8500 in hay, 1896 virgin acres with water rights, ready for subdivision, with an 80 day option at 50 per acre including water rights.
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