Blinker Falls For Florence On Coney Island Visit
Blinker visits Coney Island with Florence and enjoys the vulgar glamour of the midway. He falls for her while rejecting his old social snobbery, then faces a shipwreck scare and a revelation about his family’s red brick district holdings and housing leases.
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S.S. McClure Co
Linker
Blinker
Broadway
Oldport
Northwoods
Alexander
Sune
Bunker
Old Fogles
Fogies
Symons
Coney Island
What Do They Cure Dr Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription
An advertisement extols Golden Medical Discovery as a potent alterative blood purifier and tonic aiding mucous membranes. Favorite Prescription is praised for building strength regulating women’s functions and relieving pain, with both medicines sold without secrecy and claimed to contain glyceric extracts from native American forest plants.
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Doctor Lorce
Pierce
Forecast of Fashion and New Stationery Items
The article highlights pastel gowns gaining popularity for daywear and subtle evening tones. It promotes thin new stationery with six size patterns and mail ordering details. Also notes mourning Dutch collars, detachable linen buttons, and button-down front skirts as convenient fashion options.
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Maude
Birthday Festivities Across Ancient Traditions
The text notes that birthday customs are ancient, spanning thousands of years, and mentions Pharaoh's birthday celebrations as referenced in the Pentateuch.
His and Her Suitcase Their Suitcases love story aboard a boat
A short romance published by the D. and C. Line features two prettily decorated suitcases that play a key part on a D. U. boat enroute to Mackinac. A summer reading item offered by the D. and O. Navigation Co. in Detroit requests a two cent stamp to obtain it.
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Mackinac
Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold
A. 8. Nashaan of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer suffering from hay fever and a summer cold. He says doctors prescriptions failed to help and several medicines worsened symptoms until Foley's Honey and Tar quickly cured him. His wife later used it with same success.
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Nashaan
Batesville
Indiana
Foley
O.D. Knoefel
Peasant Laces From Many Lands And A Pole Proof
The article surveys peasant laces from England Ireland Armenia France and Italy noting handmade bobbin and needlework forms used in bedspreads and church decorations. It contrasts Armenian needlepoint lace with cobweb fine Irish lace and mentions Tr kifns and Catholic altars adorned with home made lace. The piece shifts to a Oshermen boat discussion on Peary and the need for proof of the pole claim via a camera and shadow arc demonstration.
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England
Huutton
Ireland
Erin
Mexico
France
Italy
Peary
Pole
Nouth Pole
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Superstitions in Cooking and First Lessons in Domestic Science
Time proves that cooking teaching to schoolgirls should emphasize chemical laws and cause and effect. The article weighs group versus individual methods, noting concerns about teaching pace and parsimonious habits while promising that grasp of principles will let proportions and temperatures scale for larger households.
Foley's Kidney Remedy For Elderly Health Gain
Advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Remedy for elderly people claiming it eases kidney and bladder troubles. It promises stimulus to organs, regulates irregularities, and tones the body, urging immediate use by O. D. Knoefel.
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Foley
O. D. Knoefel
Germany's End Prophecy Foresees Five Year Collapse
A thirteenth century monk in Lehnin, Brandenburg, allegedly wrote the Vaticinium Lebainense foretelling Germany's end in five years. The verses claim Wilhelm II last of the Hohenzollerns and the empire ending in 1913, with earlier prophecies of Jena defeat and 1815 Germanic confederation. A Prussian king reportedly heard a 1840 prophecy promising throne, empire in 1871, death in 1888, and 1913 collapse.
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Hermann
Lehnin
Brandenburg
Germany
Jena
Wiltian II
Israel
William I
Prussia
New York Sun
I love ag animals and spiders says Carmen Sylva
The speaker praises insects and spiders, calling them musical and clever mothers. She notes admiration for ants and bees and defends wasps, while admitting fear of snakes. She attributes aversion to lack of study and cherishes animals whose innocence is understood.
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Hallstrom
Carmen Sylva Fo Ceuturs
Noise Free Room Aids Research At Utrecht University
The University of Utrecht has reportedly achieved a nearly perfect noiseless room designed by Zwaardemaker. Its walls and ceiling are eleven inches thick with six layers including trichopiae horsehair felt, porous stone isolated by lead, a one inch air gap, wood, and cork and sand with korkstein at the core.
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University of Utrecht
Zwaardemaker
London Globe
Looking Into the Past and Sanity of Daily Life
An elderly New York resident recalls fifty years of marriage and a vanished era marked by clothes wringers fluting machines and scarce modern conveniences. She notes hired girls earned little while bath and kitchen items were scarce reflecting a gentler but harsher time.
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New York
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