Royal Baking Powder Endorsed Against Substitutes
Be on your guard about grocers pushing substitutes to Royal Baking Powder. The argument claims higher profit for imitators implies inferior materials. For the finest cake and wholesome food, insist on Royal and reject substitutes.
Romance of South Chicago and Dr John Mabe Visit
Features a comic romance set in South Chicago with Gladys Vere and a suitor, plus a travelogue about Dr John Rabe, a California dentist, visiting the South Pacific. The piece mixes a melodramatic courtship with travel anecdotes, noting his dental work and ethnographic curiosities across Marquesas Tahiti Samoa Tonga Fiji New Caledonia and beyond.
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John Rabe
California
Oakland
South Pacific
Marquesas Islands
Tahiti
Valparaiso
Chiti
Samoa
Taanasese
Tanasess
King George
Tonga Islands
New Caledonia
Rabe
France
San Francisco
Australia
Java
Manilla
Carolinas
Japan
China
India
A Quack Adventure and a Midnight Escape
A narrator recalling a chaotic night after an imagined escape from Bradley asylum collides with a real arrival of his nephew’s parcel pumps. A mistaken alarm about a lunatic yields a comic revelation involving Benson and a curtain, revealing the new shoes were his own. The piece ends with a tease about the captured prisoner Stanley and a humorous misread.
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Jones
Jim Carson
Bradley Asylum
Tommy
Robert Grant
Ashworth Lodge
Benson
Elation
James Stanley
Pradley Asylum
Stanley
Hant
Flo
Questive
Abont
Joomp
J. Carson
Carless
Tiret
al Wee
Ben Ron
Tina
Carson
Temple
Italian bear performer fined and banished from town
A traveling Italian with a bear sought a license for street performance in a village. After failing to prove he had one, he faced a harsh, humorous judgment by the police justice. The judge levied a ten dollar fine plus a unique punishment: perform in the market until he repays the balance, then be driven out of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dbufalo News
Expensive Poet and Missing Door Tales
A fragment from the news recalls a child and two speakers discussing a house with no door, only curtains on holes. They joke about coal prices and chopping doors as a response to the damage, reflecting a rough, humorous local chatter tone.
Mackerel Prices to Fall as Spring Run Nears
Readable segments describe mackerel running in our waters by mid April with large initial catches but small fish. Law changes and price swings are noted as mackerel becomes cheaper once abundant while small clams may rise in price due to supply concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Richardson
Herr Stempel
Douglas
Bestdoncol
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Douglas
Ainethich
Bneman
Corean legation in Washington adopts Western customs
Corean diplomats in Washington shed silk gowns and pigtails four years after arrival. The minister's wife Mia Ye now attends prominent American churches and has joined the Presbyterian Church, with the minister and other legation members said to follow her lead after a Virginia visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corean Legation
Washington
Legation
Mia
Chicago News-Record
Czar Visits Military Camp Triggers Travel Ban and Disruption
Reports from London News describe the czar's visit to a Neva region military camp near St. Petersburg causing rail and river traffic suspensions. Workers on nearby mills could not cross the line or eat meals at home, while Moscow-bound trains were diverted and airless days without traffic stretched into evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zorn
Neva
St. Petersburg
Moscow
London News
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered as Constitutional Remedy
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as a constitutional treatment. It claims the remedy acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, markets the product as the only proven cure, and urges readers to send testimonials and payment for trial. The copy targets elderly readers and mentions ailments like dyspepsia and biliousness while praising overall vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F.J Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohi
Cheney & CO
Millbrae boys school offers strong prep for university or business
Millbrae California hosts a first class home school for boys with scenic surroundings and superior instruction. Fall term begins August 8 with catalogues and details from Ira G Hoitt Ph D Master ex State Supt Public Instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millbrae
San Mateo Co
Cal
Ira G. Hoitt
Remedy Advertisements and tastefully varied claims
Saintly testimonials praise Allwax's Plasters, Drills and Fig Syrup as swift cures for soreness stiffness and colds. The notices cite J E Sullivan and general endorsements from the Amateur Athletic Union and The Sporting Times. They push California Fig Syrup Co products for kidney, liver and bowel relief and urge buyers to obtain from leading druggists.
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J. E. Sullivan
The
Amateur Athletic Union
Pastime Athletic Club
Sporting Times
Allwaus
Allcock
Beasdeem
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Setlos
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Dayo
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Elle
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Brown
California Fig Syrup CO
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New York, W
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Portland, Or
Lily Golden
Moore
Wumgest
Maa M. Sremie Feld
Hood
Viet
Howl
Kilbourne
Hercules
Issome Engines
Pacific Coast
Palmer & Rey Type Foundry
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Front and Alder Sts
Portland
Erickson
Shields Exterminator CO
Idaho
Snell, Heitshu & Woodard