Odd Men and Odp Jobs Useful but Unattached Members
A Lumon Globe article extols the value of the so called odd man a versatile helper who can turn his hand to many tasks though he avoids steady employment. It notes the social role of handy laborers in households farms and businesses and questions how society would function without such flexible workers. The piece also references a State Geologist Cox of Indiana praising exploration ideas.
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Egypt
Lumon Globe
Chicago
Doxato Moe Kay
Aml Boilerman
McKay
Lipa
Phil Sheridan
George Crook
Department of the Missouri
Captain Jack
United States
Doxaunm McKay
Canby
Donald McKay
Umatilla Indians
Lost River
Doxanp McKay
Weldon J. Cons
Minding His Own Business in a Coach Driver Tale
A Salem Massachusetts tale recalls John Smith, a Boston coach driver of old, famed for one eye and sharp wit. An inquisitive passenger's questions spark his blunt reply to mind your business. A mail swap leads to a mistaken bag, a quip about attention to one’s own business, and a quiet finish.
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John Smith
White Mountains
Boston
John
Smith
Blazes
Salem (Mass.) Gazelle
Why They Fail A college life critique from a New Era
A Lancaster Pennsylvania New Era item notes students recovering after hours of mental labor in a baseball themed discussion. It contrasts studious rooms with easy going peers and quotes a student who says he did not come to college to study I came to be taught. The piece argues the measure of college life and opportunities explains many young men's failures.
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Lancaster
Polar exploration and scientific insight anticipated in maps
The piece muses on future polar reach and the knowledge it might reveal about high altitude life and physical phenomena. It recalls Galvani and Volta watching a frog's twitch as an analogy for discovery, noting great scholars once saw only amusement in such experiments.
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North Pole
Galvani
Volta
The Grangers Delight at the Circus
A vivid portrait from the Chicago Ledger of the farmer mood at a traveling circus. The granger forgets his woes as joy erupts with claps, cheers, and peanut bounty, seeing life sweet again when the tent opens and the clown's antics ignite boundless laughter.
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Granger
Chicago Ledger
Deficient in Orthography and Cultivation Claims
A New York Times excerpt notes the Jersey Schools Commissioner mocks spelling while a dialogue about a teacher astounds. It praises succoursears for cultivation and the efficiency of sharp plows, hoes, and insect behavior contrasts with horseflies and hornets for agricultural work.
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Jersey Schools
Jersey School
Daxter
Skeeters
New York Times
How's Your Liver and the Mikado's Wisecrack
The piece discusses liver theory in ancient and modern thought, linking liver health to temper and behavior. It cites Fothergill and Warner's safe cure as a remedy for angry dispositions and domestic discord.
Characters of Scripture a Marvel of the Mind
Charles Meade argues that Bible characters, though written in the East, endure in the West and through antiquity. He denounces modern fiction that spoils narrative by overanalyzing personalities and breaking the dramatic unity with constant moralizing comments.
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Charles Meade
Red Star Couch Cure Praised by Cleveland Man
In Forest City Mr G E Bryan of 151 Putnam Street Cleveland says his family of seven suffers frequent coughs and colds. He reports giving Red Star Couch Cure a thorough home trial and finds it the best remedy he has used. It contains no morphia or opium and leaves no depressing effects.
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G. E. Bryan
Putnam Street
Cleveland
Ohio
Tie
Temple OF Music
Cita
National Poultisting CO
Chicago
TH. R. U
Lorillard
Abday
ING. G. Noitt .& CO
Tate
Chieage
Texas Siftings and Courtroom Banter Sparked by Horse Thief Trial
Scattered clippings describe a Austin district court scene with a young lawyer defending a horse thief and a juror quipping about stock-raising experience. The unusual banter leads to the prisoner receiving a ten year sentence amid broader notes on humor, social mores, and advertisements for medicines and hotels.
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Austin
Texas
Mothers and prisons show enduring maternal love in Sing Sing visit
A warden notes that mothers bring fruit and delicacies to prisoners during limited visits, illustrating a mother's undying love beyond sons’ misdeeds. The piece contrasts long-term devotion with husbands and fathers, who often distance themselves. Also advertises Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy and a mailing offer from Wonp''s lis PENSARY MINICAAn ASSOULATION.
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Sing Sing
Brooklyn Eagle
Men of all work a pair of shoes City Derrick
MENSMAN''S PrerTontzep BREF Tonic described as the sole beef based tonic containing its full nutritious properties. It claims blood making and life sustaining effects aiding indigestion nervous debility and general fatigue. Caswell Haslip Co New York distributes through druggists.
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Mensman
Caswell, Hasiid & Co
New York
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Toy
Cox
Indiana
Somezopy
Fothergill
Warner
Bible
Judge Peterby
Matilda Snowball
Texas Siftings
Dr. Pierce
Walker
California
Chilii
San Francisco Post
New York City
Gras Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Gault House
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
Hoyt & Gatts
Wyom
Jacob Manus
South Halsted St
Wonp
Main Street
Bullalo
N.Y
Mane
Drnestata
Deaters
Purlica
Charles A
Acs
Ea Ds
Franklin Street
Careago
Ibb
Sears
Hlophoros 3 CO
Wall &T
Perry Davis
Florida
B. Panmen
Yellow Springs
Valentine Brow
Sdanesvill
Wis
J. Atrphens
Lebanon
Bos. BE. Bonsall
Salem
Dresa Regulator CO. CO
Lemont, Centre CO
Pal
C. Hoffman
Jefferson
Wisconsin
Frere Particulars
Standard Silverware Co
Mass
A. VW
McCormick & Son
Cincimarti
J. M. Moore
Farmington
Mich
Detroit
Mice
Ely
Ime
Geen
Syracuse
Gatarah
Pat
Aline
la Age
United Statead
Wil
Pont ML
Roy
West Harpsolph Street
Jones
Bingamton
Binghamton, N.y.e
Gardier
Army and Navy Liniment
Emall
Army and Navy Liniment CO
LaSalle St
Chicrgo, TA
Dederick
HAY
Orderon Trin
P. K. Dederick & CO
Albany
Movacey
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Isaac Thompson
John BE. Thompson
THE
Indian Scout
WIAT
Don . Cobb
Crook
Northwest
Far West
Chicago Ledder
Franklin St
Ili
Milo B. Stevens
Washington, D . Ce
Clevelan
Micke
AS. Ledger
C.N.U
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