Lobster Canneries Flourish in Nova Scotia Straits
Lobstering ends August first and yields high profits across Northumberland Strait factories. An average net of about 4 000 dollars per cannery is cited by a lobster canning investor. The short June July season boosts the catch and size of lobsters for canning. An American firm with fourteen plants ships all products to French and English markets under Machias Bay Lobsters labels.
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Tie Lobter Cato
Nova Scotia
Prince Eiward Island
Northumberland
Straits of Northumberland
Machias Bay
Cure for rapture and catarrh claims by constitutional treatment
An advertisement promotes Hall Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio claiming to cure rapture, piles, and other diseases without pain or detention. It asserts the only constitutional cure on the market and offers 100 dollars for any energy that fails to cure, urging readers to request pamphlets and mail order details.
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Market Street
San Francisco
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Obie
Poledo
Dr. Pierce
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Merita
Lowsuke Med. Co
Philadelphia
Sun Worshiper Vision in Winter Solace
The speaker, a sun worshiper, finds solace in the promise of spring and divine healing amid winter’s barrenness. Though vision falters, a rapture from Purvos and Clinton Scollard’s voice in Youth's Companion hints at nature’s renewal through faith, poetry, and hopeful transformation.
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Clinton Scollard
Coal Delivery By Telescopic Tube Imagined For High Floors
A New York Sun excerpt notes a citizen’s remark about job seekers with shovels and coal baskets. Widening coal wagons with adjustable bodies and chutes multiply, but coal still must be carried upward. The piece imagines a telescopic tube to deliver coal directly to upper floors with no extra charge.
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Ron
Bill
New York Sun
Ancient Russians and Race Mixtures Across Central Russia
A 25 year study by Professor Anatola Bogdanov discussed at Moscow shows kurgans in central Russia yield two races: a tall dolichocephalic blond group and a shorter brachycephalic brunette. He posits Slava origin for long heads and admixture with Mongoloid elements in northern and western Russia.
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Russia
Anatola Bogdanov
Congress of Anthropologista
Moscow
Bogdanov
Water in Bucket Sparks Wari Day Exchange
A small scene described with a Kentucky gentleman rising from a spring and offering water from a bucket to an Ohio visitor on a porch. The exchange turns curious as the visitor asks for a drink, and the colonel confirms the liquid is water.
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Kentucky
Ohio
Detroit
Finger nail signs to judge a future wife in Victorian text
A satirical survey examines how nail shape and condition supposedly reveal a woman's temperament and suitability for marriage. It cites almond, square, and bitten nails, notes on temper, prudence with money, and hints at famous figures, concluding the palm reader’s inferences are playful conjecture.
Pompous man pays 25 cents at hotel
A pompous guest pays a munificent 25 cents to a hotel waiter and quips about doing things by halves. Detroit Prep Press notes a humorous exchange as the waiter retorts with a quarter joke.
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Tie
Detroit Prep Press
Mitten Misunderstanding on the Car Ride
A Chicago News Record anecdote recounts a woman dropping a mitten on a crowded car at six o clock. A deaf man teases her about the lost mitten and nickel as the conductor and other passengers joke about fare and misreadings during the ride.
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Chicago News Record
Amusing attitude toward strangers in New York court
A New York court scene shows a female witness in a case of a young man accused of slashing a young woman's dress on the elevated. A lawyer questions whether she saw cuts yet did not inform the woman, prompting the witness to explain women often ignore such fashion faults and that men would be thanked for pointing them out.
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New York
San Francisco
Nervousness and health tips ad from old ad copy
A fragment describes signs of extreme nervousness and promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Hitters to fortify digestion and sleep. It claims the medicine stabilizes the nervous system and prevents ailments, urging thrice daily use. The passage ends with a personal engagement joke about a ring.
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Nalses
Ford&idney
Imitations Hit On Allcock’s Porous Plaster Claim
The piece warns buyers to insist on Allcock's Porous Plaster as the genuine standard while denouncing imitators who claim parity. It argues the difference between genuine gold and copper, urging verification of authentic formulations amid mixed ad copy.
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AlLcork
Allcock
Arteser
Allcook
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