Homeseekers' Rates Via the Minneapolis & St Louis RK
Homeseekers can travel on first and third Tuesdays to Nebraska Kansas Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Indian Territory Texas New Mexico Colorado and other states. Stopovers allowed and tickets limited to one day. Bar rates time of trains available. call on agents or address A B Curts General Agent Minneapolis Minn.
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A. Minnesnelis
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Noah's Ravens and a Mountain Skeptic Blacksmith
A Tennessee mountain blacksmith famed for honest work and pulpit exhortations faces a skeptic named Tom Bradley. During a camp meeting he improvises a Biblical riddle about Noah and the ravens, finally answering that the ravens came from the old raven pair guarding five eggs in a nest.
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Tennessee
Tom Bradley
Tom
Billy Hite
Kiver
Ark
Jonah
Noah
Satan
The Opera Originating in Italy in 1600 A History
The book traces opera’s rise from Florentine amateurs reviving Greek tragedy to a new art form. It notes Peri’s Euridice in 1600 as pivotal, with recitative and accompanying instruments. It compares Monteverdi and Gluck, Tian, and later Wagner in tying speech and music, reflecting on progress to the modern era.
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Italy
Streatfeild
Florence
Peri
Monteverde
Perl
A Big Mistake and a Shaved Head Prank
A fool, a barber, and a baldheaded man travel and sleep outdoors. The barber shaves the sleeping fool, waking him to declare a mistake for shaving the baldheaded man. A waiter recalls a once modest earner now supposedly richer, noting a shift from a fifty cent tip to a nickel.
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Liverpool Mercury
Phil
Adelphia Press
Model Cookbook Jokingly Praised by Wife
A brief quip notes a man claiming to have written a new cookbook for his wife by listing each dish with the restaurant where it is best. The item reflects playful adages about cooking and gas meters, contrasting old proverbs with modern humor.
Tarpon Tales of the Silver King at Boca Grande
A detailed reminiscence of tarpon fishing experiences at Boca Grande. The narrator describes catching from the channel bottom with long lineage tackles, dramatic jumps, and a seven feet tarpon. A camera captures the moment as a shark, multiple jumps, and explosive fights unfold, ending with a memorable red letter day.
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le Kus
Boca Grande
A. W. Dimock
Appleton
Almanac Block Sparks Lunar Forecast Tale in Chicago
In Chicago a quainter tale unfolds as Aun auliquary acquires a carved wooden raft block. He calls it an original almanac with figures guiding moon phases for the year, describing it as an al-mon heed meaning observation of all moons and linking alma bac to its name.
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Aun Auliquary
Chicago
Quotable Oddities From a Transit Tale
A dispatcher recounts a comic interchange about collecting a fictional Dill from a conductor. A bystander jokes about a artist's genius, with Miss Cayenne remarking that true genius would avoid praise while alive, drawing on public reaction and wit from the Washington Star.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Superstitions in Golf Draw Laughable Doubts
The London Mail notes two chief golfing superstitions. It claims two up and five to play never wins a match and that winning the first hole is unlucky. The piece jokes over which is sillier.
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London Mail
Thatched Roofs and Rain: A Historic Owen Quotation
A fragment notes a rule about roofing where one feather must be thatched with another or rain will seep through. The line attributes weatherproofing advice to a person named Owen, reflecting practical building guidance in a historical context.
Local remedies boast quick relief and praise
Mrs D Charles of Harbor Maine praises Ty as a neighborhood favorite and quick relief for dyspepsia liver trouble and nervousness. Advertised tonics include Rocky Mountain Tea and Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Various druggists offer Kodol and other digestives with testimonials from Eugene A Pfefferle and J H Porster. claims of spring health boosts and affordable remedies.
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D. Charles
Harbor
Maine
Electric Bitters
M. Olsen
A Neat Bit of Selfishness
A married man recalls years of passing the tenderloin to his wife at meals. He invited her to carve at the head of the table and since then has always had the tenderloin, which she gives him with politeness. He presents the anecdote to the Society of Chuck Eating Husbands.
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Society of
Chuck
Atchison Globe
Doctor's All Agree This Time on Pierce Remedies
Promoters tout Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the only medicine endorsed by eminent writers on Materia Medica for mucous-tract diseases and lingering coughs. The ad urges buyers to insist on known composition, notes All-Healing Salve for open sores, and cites decades of proven cures and dealer honesty.
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Materia Medica
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Sage
Jorce
R. V. Pierce
Main St
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