Why He Favored Them
A humorously phrased dialogue shows a husband embracing women’s suffrage meetings, claiming approval and freedom to return home late without scrutiny, contrasted with a light sales pitch for Hamlin’s Wizard Oil to ease tired feet for a better morning.
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Kansas City Journal
Teething Remedy And Alligator Law Echo In Conversation
A dialog contrasts a Florida law allowing alligator killings with a hunter’s view on continuing the practice. The second speaker mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething remedy for children.
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Realistic Slusic Critic and the Wandering Hotel Bill
A critic comments on a performance as the composer plays a final piece and notes a chilling passage. The composer explains a wandering figure is confronted with a hotel bill, a quirky moment highlighted by Fliegende Blaetter.
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Clear Waste of Money Lapleigh The Doctor Says There’s a Problem
The dialogue presents a blunt exchange between Sharp and Boaton Tran about medical advice. The doctor’s remark is criticized as wasteful spending, highlighting tension between patient expectations and professional opinion.
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Bone-breaker Vulture and Antarctic Mineral Hopes
A bearded vulture from southern Europe known as the bone-breaker is described. The piece notes Antarctic exploration yielding minerals including coal and suggests Australia could profit from Antarctic resources. It discusses airship harbor needs, electrical charge separation in raindrops, and thunderstorm electricity as explained by Doctor Simpson.
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Storms Hard on Philadelphia Water Quality
A writer in the Washington Star recalls how Philadelphia water turned undrinkable after small storms. One man complained to Peter Burness, described as an incorrigible optimist, but received little encouragement. I told Peter after a storm I couldn't…
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Landing of the Huguenots in America Revisited
Two hundred twenty one years after the Huguenots settled near New Rochelle a descendant celebration featured pageantry. Suddenly from a hidden rendezvous twenty canoes with two rowers each approached the bay. A white caravel with high hull met the canoes while Indians on shore joined the spectacle with war cries.
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Refuges for airship navigation and tropical compass talk
The piece cites plans for reinforced concrete shelters with end doors to admit airships in distress and argues such refuges are needed for Zeppelin voyages. It urges engineers to carry compasses in tropical forests and notes dangers of sun and terrain for navigation. It also mentions a rain electricity theory and a humorous bath scene about muddy water in Schuylkill.
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An Average Man Defined By Office Smile at Home
A humorous exchange in which Aunt Sophia explains that an average man pretends to be pleasant at work but behaves irritable and cross at home to maintain the outward average. The discussion centers on gendered expectations and social roles.
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Sociologist and Toiler Debate Expenses and Revenue
A humorous exchange notes that expenses are easier to manage than revenue. The cartoon suggests even a very tall man may not meet lofty expectations.
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Conceited Man Claims Small Fault in Nickel Analogy
A conceited man admits a fault, claiming it is minor. Knox counters by likening it to a small hole that leaves a plugged nickel useless. The exchange appears in the Catholic Standard and Times.
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Pettit's Eye Salve Promises Restoration for Diseased Eyes
An advertisement proclaims Pettit's Eye Salve restores normal eye conditions regardless of disease or injury. It credits Howard Bros. druggists of Buffalo New York and is paired with a riddle from the Washington Herald about seeking the seashore or mountains.
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease Ad
Cure for painful swollen feet with powder that eases smarting and sweating. Helps new shoes go on easily. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores with free sample. Address A. S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Plausible Prevarication in Two Kinds of Liars
A Detroit News-voiced aphorism discusses deception, contrasting the feared plausible liar with the crude liar who is merely a joke. The piece hints at public skepticism toward convincing misrepresentation and the danger of subtle falsehoods.
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Howard E Burton Assayer and Chemist Notice
Howard E Burton Assayer and Chemist of Lead New Colorado offers specimen prices for gold silver and lead with fixed rates. Milling envelopes and full price lists available on application. Reference to Carbonate National Bank appears in the notice.
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Carbonate National Bank
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