St Joseph's Boom Draws Rail, Real Estate Surge
A press memo reports St Joseph Missouri, a city of about 60,000, rapidly growing toward 100,000 in a year. Rail extensions by Rock Island, Santa Fe and Milwaukee lines spur real estate booms, imports, and new stock yards with hundreds of thousands in daily deals and projects across hotels, belt lines, and streetcar systems.
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St. Joseph
Kansas City
Chicago
St. Louis
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Topeka
Atchison
Burlington and
Missouri
Denver
Hannibal
Theares
United States
Portland
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
New Mexico
Boston Post
The Inquisitive Boy Again
A street car scene features Aunt Ella and a bright eyed boy named Johnny as they discuss bells registering fares and Sunday school, with playful back and forth about truth and stories. The Rochester Herald notes the humorous exchange and the boy’s clever quips about repeating tales.
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Lake Avenue
Ella
Ila
Johnny
Luca
Chia
Rochester Herald
Tid-Bits and outdated quips from a bygone era
A collage of humorous asides and social jibes from an old issue. Mentions Tid-Bits, CanDINAL DE RICHELIEL as France's leader in 1642, a quip on weddings and best man, a remark on self love, and a note about Alfred the Great’s ninth century navy. Contains scattered archaic phrasing and partial dialogue.
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Candinal DE Richeliel
France
Louis XIII
Alfred the Great
Navy Officers Deserve Better Portrait Than Rumors
Professor J. R. Soley of the United States Navy defends naval officers against attacks that they are idle and drawing pay. He argues officers are patient, hard working, and highly capable, enduring strict discipline and long deployments that limit study, travel, and broad social contact.
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Washington
J. R. Soley
United States Navy
Scribner's Magazine
Curious Breastworks and Beeves in Civil War Tactics
The piece recalls 1863 actions at Milliken's Bend where six hundred mules shielded Federals as a living breastwork failed for Confederates. It also mentions New Hope where Confederate troops repelled a Federal attempt by letting a herd of beeves pass and then holding the attackers, a scene the Confederates reportedly enjoyed as combat humor.
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M. Quad
McCulloch
Milliken’s Bend
New Hope
Alluring Boston Advertisement and Laughing Life Talk
A 1742 Boston ad touts a healthy enslaved woman for sale, a stark relic amid comments on laughter boosting life. The piece also discusses laughter’s bodily effects, steam disinfection, and a Louisville physician’s failed rheumatism cure until St Jacobs Oil.
Grand Union Hotel Ad Promises Comfort and Location
A historic hotel notice urges travelers to use the Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot. It notes 613 rooms, a million-dollar fit-out, daily rates from $1, elevator access, and a restaurant. Horse cars, stages, and elevated rail connect to all depots, with a claim that families can live better there than at any other first-class hotel in the city.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Air Purification In Homes Through Simple Measures
A guide urges ventilating sleeping and dining rooms with minimal effort and cost. A pitcher of cold water in rooms absorbs respiration gases, while water should never be drunk and kept covered. It warns about drinking water from pumps and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to boost digestion, blood quality, and immunity to malaria.
Cynical Ouida on Vulgarity in Inquiry
Ouida argues that interrogation is vulgar and that Socrates was overly inquisitive. She claims strangers reveal breeding by asking questions and advises delicate, non demanding questioning only when silence harms rapport. She contends curiosity in friendships and loves is inherently vulgar.
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Socrates
Ouida
Im North American Review
The Most Remarkable TBusiness in the Country
Citizens note notices about a little harmless food plant named Moxie found in South America last year. Its taste as a beverage and claimed energizing effects boosted demand, with 5,000,000 bottles sold in 17 months. Projected sales suggest rapid growth over five years.
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South America
Jess
Rules for Success Advice for Women and Cough Cure Ad
A column presents feminist-tinged guidance urging women to pursue their aims without entitlement and to raise daughters with independence, followed by an advertisement for Red Star Cough Cure endorsed by Prof Williams. The ad touts a twenty five cent price and claims rapid relief for severe coughs.
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Prof. Williams
Delaware
Icelandic Wood and Forest Decline Noted in History
The article explains Iceland once possessed larger forests now reduced to dwarfed birches, with trees only fifteen to twenty feet tall being rare. It attributes forest loss to human destruction rather than climate or eruptions, urging readers to use Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy instead of hawking and spitting.
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Iceland
The Salmon’s Enemy Sea Lions in Oregon Fisheries
The sea lion is a major foe of Oregon salmon and fisheries, taking about half of early Columbia River salmon and damaging nets costing thousands of dollars. They gather at Tillamook Rock and Seal Rocks, and some propose dynamite to drive them away, amid a mix of concern and debate.
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Oregon
Columbia River
Tillamook
Sealrocks
Acadian Ways and Lessons From Harper's Magazine
A Harper's Magazine piece by Charles Dudley Warner describes Acadian communities near New Orleans. They live simply, self-sufficiently, with strong family ties, and remain largely uninterested in war or rapid change. The essay also cites a New Orleans Picayune view on trades education as social preparation and contrasts it with self-reliant artisan work.
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Charles Dudley Warner
Harper’s Magazine
New Orleans
Mgr
Lee Blanc
New Orleans Picayune
St. Paul
Hood's Sarsaparilla Credited With Wide Ranging Cures
Testimonies from W C Henry at Elkhart Indiana William G Wuerth of Detroit and Mary J Ryan of Indianapolis praise Hood's Sarsaparilla as a superior blood purifier and spring medicine. They recount personal improvements including weight gain from 135 to 137 pounds relief from skin humor and dyspepsia and urge others to try the remedy with confidence.
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Hood
W. C. Henry
Elkhart
Ind
William G. Wuerth
St. Mary's Church
Antoine Street
Detroit
Mich
Mary J. Ryan
High Street
Indianapolis
James R. Darrow
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ST. JO
Boston
United States Naval Officers
Jedford Standard
C. A. Donaldson
Louisville
St. Jacobs Oil
Iceland’s
Disturbine the Grave
New York World
Teun
M. Daur
Drnecist
R. W. Tansile
Europe
America
Wenson
Benson’s
Seabury &Johnson
New York
Waar Wayrina
Aun
Radway
Radway & CO
C.J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
LW. McCormick & Son
Cluelmati
C. J. Hood & CO
H. F. Kirk & Co
Milwaukee
Wis
Brewster
Holly, Mich
T. H. Bock
Crisfield
Maryland
J. A.sherman
New Yorks
Hainesville
N. J
E. T. Hazeltine
Warren, Pa
Port Jervis
N. Y
Atock
Frank McKetry
Kidder
Malarlestown
Wne
Randolph St
Lord & Thomas
Fae Perfect
Froder & Gamble
DR. Non
Harter
Dr. Harter
Wizard Oil
Hamlin
Company
Chichester
Chmicheste Chemical, Co
Madison Square
Philada
Sobichewters Englinl
Piaso
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