The Funny Editor and the Clown’s Joke Trade
A chalky faced man visits a circus editor seeking jokes for a funny column. The editor offers a stock of original punchlines about love, actors, and hotel clerks diamonds. The exchange ends with the white hat man fleeing as the paragrapher secures a circus pass to hunt fresh material.
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New York
Canada
Manieure
Teure
Hindeci
Sahl
Pamistouk
Sir
Noy
Tivis
Circus
Loston
Touching Discovery In Rome Unveils Ancient Sarcophagus
Workmen uncover a burial chest thirty feet below Rome foundations drawing a team of Archaeological Commission scholars. Inside lies Tryphiena Creperia, a young girl with a carved wooden doll, a gold belt, amethyst brooch, rings including a double betrothal, and a moving relief of her parting scene with grieving parents.
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Rome
Tiletus
Tryphiena Creperia
Tender burial notice for beloved daughter in Youth's Companion
Parents laid so tenderly away their dearly loved daughter with her ornaments and her doll. This brief line from Youth's Companion records a maiden’s quiet burial, noting affectionate tribute and personal keepsakes as part of the mournful farewell.
The Circus as Wicked Magic for Boys
Kale Thorn in New York H Weekly reflects on the circus's allure to boys and adults alike. It contrasts the thrill, ads, and sensational acts with moral warnings while noting the seasonal arrival and public fascination with performers and animals.
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Mademoiselle A Andango
Peony
Kale Thorn
New York
H Weekly
Impaired Light Causes of Impaired Sight
A list of eleven factors blamed for impaired sight by Dr. J. I. Hanaford of St. Louis Magazine. Items include rapid lighting changes, poor lighting, tobacco use, strong artificial lights, twilight seeing, exposure to fire light, reflected snow glare, long darkness, and moral excesses.
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J. I. Hanaford
St. Louis Magazine
Man begs nickel for car fare to Michigan avenue
A citizen at Woodward and Jefferson avenues refused a tramp’s plea for a nickel, noting the man could walk. The panhandler argued an exceptional case needing fifty cents to reach Fifteenth Street by 9 o’clock, then secured a loan and rode the streetcar ahead of the rear platform. Swear things in hats in the nights after relaxation.
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Woodward and
Jefferson Avenues
Michigan Avenue
Tam
Fifteenth Atreet
Detroit Prep Press
Purse Lost Then Found Twice and Returned
A Florida man Cummins lost a one hundred dollar purse while traveling from New Smyrna to Daytona. He recovered it near Port Orange only to lose it again near Suttoms Creek and later find it near Hiolfe's house. His wife helped secure the purse by tying it to a loopy seat before they returned home safe.
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Tago
Florida
Cummins
New Smyrna
Daytona
Port Orange
Suttoms Creek
Hiolfe
Fragmented Sightings and Fading Newsboy Exchange
A newsboy pleads for change while trying to sell a daily paper, the scene littered with garbled phrases and mock advertisements about remedies. The fragmentary text blends crass street barter with garbled medical prose, lacking coherent narrative.
Goulds Billiard Room Seen In New Melodrama
A theater plans a city life melodrama with a character modeled after Jay Gould. The billiard room from Gould’s city residence will be recreated using recollections from former billiardist George Slosson, who once trained Gould and his son. Gould approved inviting the scene painter to his home to ensure accuracy.
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Jay Gould
Joe Cold
Gould
Wall Street
George Slosson
Jay Goult
Ceorge
Eame
Slosson
Reo
Audi
Mr. Grould
New York
Pood for Consumptives Recommends Cod Liver Oil
A historical notice touts a medicine labeled as a remarkable remedy for consumption. It claims to soothe throat irritation and provide relief, promising fast and steady effect with no unpleasant taste unlike crude oil.
Prohibition money debates and ads mix in sparse notices
The page mixes political banter about funding prohibition efforts with oblique quotes on wealth and influence. It includes condescending quips about temperance supporters and bribes, then shifts to ads for cod liver oil emulsion art prints, a mosquito joke, and scattered promotional lines from various publishers and vendors.
Wanted to Get Out Waiter Gimm Me Lamb and Pears
A humorous dialogue shows a countryman named Wal asking a waiter for lamb and green peas with emerald pills. He complains about the meal and demands to leave, wondering which tent to exit through.
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Holton
Hibbard Pills Promote Safe Cure For Digestive Ailments
An ad style snippet touts Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills as scientifically compounded and safe for both adults and children. It claims relief for sick headache constipation dyspepsia biliousness and serves as an appetite enhancer. Also mentions various historical notes and odd quotes sewn into the page.
Hood's Sarsaparilla for Headache and Digestion
A health column describes chronic headaches linked to stomach ailments and biliousness. It claims Hood's Sarsaparilla as a reliable remedy for headaches and related issues, noting it cures dyspepsia and malaria, tones the stomach, increases appetite, and strengthens the body.
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Hood
Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by All Druggists
Hood's Sarsaparilla sold by all druggists at 1 dollar or six bottles for five. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co. apothecaries of Lowell Massachusetts.
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G.H
Huazeltine
Warren
C. I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
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Squire
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Golden Medical
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USA
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Trad
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Heat of
Washington
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Tower
Simmons St
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Tuerre
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