Peruna touted as cure for chronic ailments from cold
A reader from Kansas recounts seven years of illness after a severe cold including kidney and bladder catarrh and digestive trouble. She credits Peruna with restoring health after months of illness and spending money on doctors, and invites others to write for free medical advice from Dr. Hartman at the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus.
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Joe Kate Brown
L. C. B. Association of Kansas
Jetter
8&T
Sas City
Kan
Enya
Misee Brown
Perana
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Fragmented quotes from a chaotic pages play misreadings
The text presents garbled phrases and stray dialect lines about judging a raffle and testing periods. It includes misread words like church raffle and cafe with odd spellings and misordered dialogue, lacking a coherent event or clear subjects.
Fei Weney’s Dilemma and Career Advice
A fragmented dialogue centers on self doubt and workplace expectations. A figure questions personal failure while referencing past guidance about leveraging intellect for different work. The exchange hints at pressure to redefine success and pursue alternative paths.
Left Helpless Your Girl Leaves for Mercy's Make
Dialogue fragment shows Mrs Brown and Mrs Black debating a breakup. Pain-Hamlin's Wizard Oil is invoked as a remedy, with a quip about using the last on the first to avoid both outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Brown
Hamlin
General Kitchener to oversee Delhi maneuvers
General Kitchener will supervise military maneuvers in Delhi India this December. The report dismisses a rumored Christmas engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitchener
Delhi
India
Opening Scene Sets Up Wealthy Amateur Roles
Director asks how to use the wealthy young amateur engaged this morning. The manager suggests assigning him to the smallest parts, even the armorer in the baronial castle scene.
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Btage
Monument to King Humbert Erected on Mount Superba
In Turin region a marble monument honoring the late King Humbert has been erected on Mount Superba. Signor Pozzi designed the structure, featuring a warrior at the base and a wounded eagle atop a tall marble column. Queen Margherita is said to be especially pleased, calling it the most striking memorial for Humbert yet built.
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Mount Superba
Turin
Humbert
Italy
Signor Pozzi
Margherita
Miss Estelle Baker Captures East Coast Horse Set Interest
Miss Estelle Baker of New York City drove a coach and six from Tuxedo to Sterling Forest and back, a 32 mile ride, winning acclaim among the East Coast horse-lovers. The tall brunette with a deep contralto voice attracted favorable comment at social events.
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Tuxedo
Sterling Forest
Estelle Baker
New York City
Orchid of grace and stately charm draws McKinley kin
The widow of the late President McKinley praised her beauty calling her an orchid of rare grace. She possessed the blend of eastern elegance and English gentility noted by the President's spouse.
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McKinley
The Dauce of Lightning in Storm Energetics
A Weather Bureau report credits condensation for most thunderstorm energy. Mist droplets fuse into raindrops, raising potential as mass squared, producing high tension. Ten drops above thousand volts yield a single hundred thousand volt drop, triggering eruptive lightning when storms begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Bureau
Too Extravagant and the Hat Habit Clash
A stern father refuses marriage to his daughter citing the suitor’s extravagant lifestyle. He notes ownership of horses lands automobiles yet blocks the match. The witty dispute hinges on the suitor’s Panama hat habit as the alleged reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark News
Reading excess blamed for New England burglar
A teenage burglar from New England is linked to excessive reading, described as the cause of his downfall. The article notes that until a published list of the culprit’s favorite authors appears, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and E. W. Hornung will be under suspicion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Sir Conan Doyle
Mr. Hornung
Monopole Peaches Ad From Wadhame Kerr Bros Portland
An advertisement promotes Monopole Teachta peaches from Wadhame Kerr Bros Portland Oregon. The copy emphasizes selection and strong syrup quality and urges customers to request Monopole peaches from their grocer.
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Wadhame & Kerr Bros., Packers
Portland
Ore
Leap for life nickname hides risky water jump
A man questions why the performer calls his jump from a tower into water a leap for life. The artist replies that he earns a living from the act, implying danger is part of his trade.
Should Keep Out of the Draft
Reported chatter hints at a potential upheaval in South America with a lighthearted aside about predicting revolutions and personal rheumatism as a running joke in the dialogue. The exchange notes anticipatory mood rather than detailing concrete events.
Undieputed Points in Courtroom Exchange
The participants clash over disputed points as attorney for the defense calls the opposing counsel a blackguard and bluff while the prosecutor retorts that he is a rogue. The court urges focus on the case disputes and moves to substantive issues.
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Defenee
Ehyster
Pat’s Harsh Look Through a Hunger Year
An Irishman named Pat, so plain his face offended the landscape, was as poor as his looks. A neighbor asked how he was, and Pat answered that starvation stared him in the face, provoking the neighbor’s sympathetic remark about shared misery.
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Pat
Begorra
Iils Friends.
Jinke and Winks discuss friendship and dependence as they joke about losing a job and friends searching for places to help, including a man who gave a receipt yesterday.
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Jinke
Tommy Seeks Cure for Sweets in Humorous Exchange
A dialogue from a historical column features Tommy asking if sugar can cure anything and his mother replying with patient, practical wisdom. The playful exchange highlights everyday family life and childlike curiosity about remedies.
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Kate Brown
Smith
Wa-al
Abe
Fei Weney
Miss Baker
Mrs. M'Kinley
Estelle Bakker
Leecen
Ayer
A. K. Randles
Nokomis
Meat Econoeateai
Wadhame & Kerr Broo
Ure
Carter
Vary Emeli End As
Cary Te Tehe As
Ogee
A.J. Towar CO
Fontuag Grage
M. P. BU
Senor
Beth
Moike
Tommy
Bishop Scott Academy
St. Helen’s Hall
Ortoor
Haan Normal
Eleanor Tebretts
John Poole
Obe
Morrison Brest
Specialty & Bee
Us Eoieee
Phedid, Leanio Pemtio
Hag
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