Love at first sight and a park rescue tale
Ellsworth Remsen ten million and mounted Policeman O Roon become rivals and allies in a comic romantic episode in which Remsen saves O Roon’s badge and honor during a park chase. A romance with the lady of pomegranate blossoms drives the lighthearted plot.
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8. S. McClure Co
Bradstreet
Ellsworth Remsen
Remsen
O'Roon
O’roon
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Spain
Renisen
Victoria
Policeman O'Roon
Otreon
St. Pyrites
O'Bioen
Ten-Miilionaire
Knickerbocker
Earl of Ardsley
Fanny
Angela
Glycerine in Dr. Pierce medicines praised for healing
An advertisement extols glycerine in Dr. Pierce remedies including Golden Medical Discovery for coughs bronchial throat and lung ailments claiming nutritive and medicinal properties. It cites Finley filingwood M D of Chicago and Dr W Pierce of Buffalo and promises a free booklet with details about the medicine and its alcohol free formula.
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Weil
Finley Filingwood
M. D
Bee
Finleie
Chibee Chicago
Giyne
RV. Rlerce
Buffalo
N. Y
The Card Trick Laughs At M Derschatta In Non Smoking Car
In Paris a joke targets M Derschatta Austro Hungarian minister of railways. On a Vienna bound train he endures a smoker in a non smoking carriage. The smoker ignores his protests, cites authorities, then reveals the minister’s card. Station master apologizes and the minister laughs at the ruse.
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Paris
M. Derschatta
Vienna
Castro's Palace of Steel in Caracas
The article describes President Castro's residence, a steel clad palace in a Caracas park, touted as the strongest house in the world. Built after earthquake scares, the structure is faced with soft stone and claimed to resist heavy gunfire.
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Castro
Caracas
London
Four Hours of Sleep Not Enough
Life questions Thomas Edison on health and longevity criticizing his claim that four hours of sleep suffices. The letter mocks his habits and lamp patents, noting his mastoid abscess and urging moderation rather than universal rules for living.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas
Photographing the Stomach Invention by Dr. Fritz Lang
An improved stomach photography device from Munich allows the camera to be swallowed. A small electric lamp laminates the stomach walls while a 20 inch by 0.25 inch film advances with a cord pull. The surgeon activates light to capture images and repeats with new film sections.
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Fritz Lang
Munich
Cut it out and go to sleep
Humor poem by Duncan M N Smith urges dropping worry. It argues worry wastes time and resources and offers little benefit. The reader is urged to rest, end late night fretting, and accept calmer, sleep filled nights.
Have a Cigar Bill Says
A brief exchange shows one character urging another to smoke, while the other declines then relents, revealing a humorous moment about breaking the tobacco habit.
Midsummer Madness and a Silent Lie
A lyrical speaker swears eternal love in July on a shore, praising a beloved and promising faithfulness. The verse blends soft weather imagery with romantic sentiment and a confession of deception, amid youthful ardor and lingering devotion.
Weather forecasts through picnic ads draw sarcasm
A reader mocks weather department forecasts predicting long range weather. The exchange questions forecast accuracy and suggests using picnic advertisements to foresee rain, labeling the idea a profitless dream.
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Weather Department
Weather of Time Question Stirs Witty Exchange
A brief dialogue ponders if times improve or decline with a sharp reply Yes. The exchange ends with a playful contrast about choosing either option.
A Boon to Elderly People and Corny Observations
A column of pithy maxims contrasts humor with social foibles. It notes cheerful optimism in marriage, vanity of superiority, cagey salable secrets, and fears of skeletons in closets. A medical ad touts Foley's Kidney Remedy as a boon for elderly kidney and bladder issues, urging use for vigor.
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Foley
O. D. Koapefel
Agricultural notes urge frugal use of grease and feed
The survey highlights cost comparisons favoring lubrication over new machinery, urges late July sowing for turnips, and cites farm efficiency data. It covers forest management in Japan, dairy improvements from cream separators, calf rearing, green feeding for hens, angleworm behavior after rain, cottage cheese methods, and best dairy cattle types and breeding practices.
Sleeveless Jackets For the Small Girl
Sleeveless jackets for young girls feature boxy lines with an inverted box plait at the back yoke, providing fullness to cover a jumper apron. The described pattern fits ages three five and six years, priced 10 cents for mail delivery.
Laundry Lines and Ironing Board Tricks
Practical household tips on hanging clothes with hooks or staples in small ironing boards, starting handkerchief ironing at center to prevent bulging, protecting rusted wire lines with newspaper, painting the line, and washing flannel to avoid hardening or shrinking, noting cold water soaking and soap use.
Prosperous Young Actor Seeks Rest After Two Plays
A tired young actor, fresh from a matinee and tonight’s performance, sighs that good actors should be in bed. A gruff critic or reader responds that they are, indeed, in life.
Indian Engineer on Burlington Train Ties Past and Present
A Tama Musquakie descendant serves as a fast passenger train engineer on the Burlington road. He surveys same lands his ancestors lived on and notes wind and storms as before. He wears modern clothes and speaks a new language while guiding civilization forward.
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Tama
Burlington Road
Prairies
Burlington Post
Imperial Chef Perski Remains Royal Cook After Jest
The former Count Rheingaum’s cook Perski, paid ten thousand dollars yearly by the Austrian emperor, was sent home in a packing case as a joke. The case contained Perski unharmed and the emperor laughed, keeping Perski as royal chef thereafter.
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Perski
Rat Week Proposal Sparks Health Benefit Debate
The Staunton Dispatch suggests a nationwide Rat Week to dedicate time to killing rats. It argues the effort would be highly profitable, sanitary, and beneficial to public health with lasting effects.
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United States
Honey and Tar Remedy Offered for Asthma Relief
An advertisement claims Poleys Honey and Tar provides immediate relief for asthma and has cured resistant cases. It promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as the best remedy for coughs colds and throat and lung trouble without harmful drugs.
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Poley
Foley
C. D. Eusefsil
Fire Alarm Stations Listed in Vincennes Streets
A long list of fire alarm station locations appears, naming intersections and streets across Vincennes. The fragment references multiple cross streets including West Seventh, Ohio, Tenth, Floyd, Main, Market, River, Spring, Culbertson, East Fourth, Vincennes, Oak, Pearl, State, Green, Poplar, Thirteenth, Elm, and others. The text also mentions Reel House locations and a Pants Factory at East Third and Railroad.
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West Seventh
Ohio
West Tenth
Floyd
Main
Market
Spring
Lower Fourth
River
West Eighth
Pearl
Reel
East Fourth
Culbertson
Spring Streets
Main and
Vincennes
Oak and Thomas
Pearl and
Oak
State
Poplar
Thirteenth
Stone and
Highteenth
Lower First St
Southern H. Railroad
Chartres
Cherry and
Constitution
East Ninth and Market
East Tenth
Elm Streets
Fifteenth St
Culbertaon Avenue
Charlestown Road
Vincennes Street
Robinson's Pants Factory
East Third and Railroad
Vincennes and
Elm Avenue
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Tridne Company
Tas
By Duncan MN. Smith
Svening Tribune
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Kansas
Nebraska
Dakota
Japan
Jerseys
Lattin
Nbok Wis
Chef
the Tribune Company
New Albany
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Ros
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Tha & B
Niagara Falls
Michigan Central
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Blane Steasiers
Addrras
L. A. Lewis
Gen
Fase
Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat CO
Philip H. Bcbillan
Mca
Daucney & Co
Parker
Blair
Druggeata
the Tribune CO
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Co
Chicago
West Baden
French Lick Springs
Carlsbad OF
Frank J. Reed
Chi
New Ai
Siday
Bloomington
Northweat
Atte
New Albesy
Sumiay
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