Love at the Village Fair Progress
Luke Maxwell, shy farmer, finally confesses love to Harriet Weber at a country fair after a hypnotist suggests a marriage proposal on a scroll. Harriet agrees to marry him if he asks, and the couple shares a hopeful, blushful moment as they plan a future together.
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Bis Fartim
Luke Maxwell
Harriet Weber
Luke
Harriet
Ore
Ped
Brown & Green's
Maude J. Sullivan
Womans Home Companion
American Hospital in Paris Funded by American
An American donor plans a fully equipped Franklin hospital in Paris managed by American physicians and nurses. The note advocates such hospitals in major foreign cities to aid travelers and the poor, offering language comfort and American care standards.
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Paris
Franklin Hospital
Ontario opens annual moose hunting season for hunters
The Ontario government replaces the previous rule that allowed hunting only in every third year with a new annual open season. Ontario offers rich moose country and this autumn is expected to attract a good number of American visitors to its wilds, per Forest and Stream.
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Ontario
Between Conraes and their polished ways
The note mocks certain wealthy individuals whose manners imply privilege and refinement, likening refined conduct to having knives in their mouths.
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Conraes
Puck
Oil Wells of Japan Rise in Echo of Boom and Change
Renters of the British Consulate reports on Japan oil, noting Echigo as the main production area with Amase as the hub since 1888. Wells in the sea, pipe lines to refineries, and a planned two hundred mile line to Tokyo mark rapid modernization, with 1899 output totaling 418.833 billion gallons and Echigo accounting for 18.713 billion.
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Renters
Japan
British Board of Trade
Echigo
Amase
United States
Tokio
Echizo
A Historic Punch Bowl From the Indiana Battleship
The Indianapolis 18 pound silver punch bowl aboard the battleship Indiana bears scars from a Socapa battery shell during the Santiago de Cuba blockade. A five pound fragment struck near the Indiana state seal, creating a large indentation that officers say greatly enhances the bowl’s value and legend.
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United States
Indiana
Santiago de Cuba
Socapa
Ward Room
State of Indiana
Portugal at Coast of East Africa Collects Taxes and Trades
A Portugal governor in an East African possession maintains a coastal cafe for collecting customs dues and selling stamped paper. Inland trade is perilous due to lack of protection for whites, with land divided into hut-based holdings taxed at 35 per hut yearly. Holdings are leased to Portuguese who agree to tax all huts and build roads, police and maintain order. St. Louis holds nearly 17 million dollars for Exposition purposes and expects more.
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Mozambique
Tea Output Reduction Move By Ceylon Planters
At the annual meeting of the Ceylon Tea Planters Association a policy was adopted to combine with Indian planters to restrict output. If 80 percent of the tea acreage in India and Ceylon join, a 10 percent production cut or equivalent green tea output will be made. The aim is to correct the overexpanded market. projected London shipments this year may fall by 4,000,000 pounds compared with last year.
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Ceylon Tea Planters’ Association
Columbo
India
Ceylon
Certon
London
Frog Farming Popular in U S Says Food Commission
The Food Commission estimates the United States catches about 2,000,000 frogs annually as a growing industry. Hunters and frog farms alike profit, with frog activity creating an estimated $100,000 yearly investment for producers and $150,430 for consumers.
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United States
Food Commission
Commission
Glaciers Recede Straining Alpine Hotel Trade
Alpine hotelkeepers report dwindling guest bookings as glaciers steadily retreat from hotel borders. Once adjacent to a great river of ice, positions now lie farther away, reducing site appeal and shortening registers. The glaciers retreat not by fleeing but through gradual, persistent deterioration.
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Alps
Telephone cable link Britain and Belgium via North Sea
The British Postel Department and the Belgian government announce plans to lay a telephone cable beneath the North Sea to connect Britain and Belgium. The project aims to enhance transcontinental communications and commercial links between the two countries.
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British Postel Department
Belgium
North Sea
Vogeler's Curative Compound Promoted for Rheumatism
A letter from Gaerer Clare of Beechcroft Road Surrey extols Vogeler's Curative Compound and St Jacobs Oil as a cure for rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatism. He claims long relief after trying numerous medicines and urges others to try the products, sending for free samples from St Jacobs Oil Ltd in Baltimore.
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St. Jacobs
Vogeler
Vogelers
St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd
Baltimore
Peruna praised by Brooklyn and Detroit readers
Mrs. Anna Martin of Brooklyn reports backache dizziness and irregularities vanished in three months after using Peruna. Miss Marie Johnson of Detroit credits Peruna with curing eleven years of female troubles in three months. Miss Ruth Emerson of Buffalo says Peruna cured years of irregular and painful menstruation in six weeks and praises the remedy as a friend to health.
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Anna Martin
Hoyt Street
Brooklyn
NX. C
Peruna
Penman
Marie Johnson
Columbia
Detroit
Mich
Hope Lodge No. 6
Independent Order
Good Templars
Tetuna
Ruth Emerson
Sycamore St
Buffalo
Emigration Plan Aimed at Transvaal Colonization
Rev. I W Barr of New Whatcom Wash has gone to South Africa to organize a wholesale emigration of British-born Americans to the Transvaal. The plan envisions these emigrants joining Boers after the war to ease postwar tensions. The British government reportedly offers land grants as incentives.
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I. W. Barr
New Whatcom
Wash
South Africa
Transvaal
United States
All Newspapers Talk Weather Bulletin Impact
The passage notes vast daily weather publication across U S newspapers. It highlights 47 triweekly, 434 semiweekly, and 14 734 weekly papers disseminating bureau weather bulletins for their states, reflecting broad readership attention to forecasts.
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United States
Baptism of Clovis Referred to Jncence Use in 486
The record notes the term jncence or incense as used in Christian churches during the baptism of Clovis I of France in A D 486, marking an early liturgical practice.
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Jncense
Clovis
France
Peruna Cure Claims for Catarrh and Remedies
An old advertisement touts Peruna as a universal cure for catarrh and related ailments. It features testimonials by Miss Ruth Emerson and claims effectiveness during snow periods. Dr Hartman offers free medical advice and a booklet on catarrh to readers who write for it.
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Ruth Emerson
Perana
Harrmen
Catarr
Medicine Co
Hart Gsr
Soe
Hy Hartman
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American Hospitals
Abraai
Portugal
St. Louis
Mrs. Martin
Schmelzer Arms CO
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Colorado
ueWorld
Intel
Arg
Gelder & CO
New York
Ar &Xchange
Denver
Colo
California Fig Syrup Co
Amatifiey Areouisville
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