Mind Your Business Story On A Stage Coach Ride
A driver Wallace Cummings recalls a passenger who kept asking questions about scenery and mail bags. After a quarrel over who should mind whose business, the two parted with a cold ride. The clipping notes infant mortality rates in Prussia, Russia, Sweden and France.
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Wallace Cummings
Bridgton
Portland
Wallace
Allence
Boston
Prussia
Russia
Sweden
France
Peruna praised by veteran for stomach cure
Captain W W Jackson, a Black Hawk Mexican Civil War veteran and physician, reports protracted stomach catarrh improved after using Peruna. He credits three bottles with complete relief and endorses it as an infallible remedy in a testimonial to Dr S B Hartman of the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbia Ohio.
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W. W. Jackson
N. W
Washington, D. C
8. B. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbia, Ohio
C. Gee WO
United States
Boy cries to prove he’s a man in anxious tale
A mother comforts her son Jamie who laments being mistaken for a girl due to curls and dresses. He recounts mockery from other boys and a kissing incident, expressing a fierce desire to be a boy and to shed feminine traits. The passage centers on gender expectations and parental response.
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Jasmie
Jamie
Piaget
Mamma
Jamie Becomes A Manly Boy In A Night Of Change
A mother urges her son Jamie from cradle to boyhood as he cuts curls and dons pants. He returns home wearing trousers, showing new boldness and a plan to fight a boy over a girl tomorrow, while his father is away.
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Jamie
Papa
Pop
The Wilful Kangaroo and a Tea Party Tale
A playful slice from a 19th century tale section. The wilful kangaroo refuses water and baths, mocking cold soap while other animals accept it. A five year old girl attends a tea party and jokes about tying her sash herself since she is in front. A mother wren charms onlookers with a saucy tail as a gray gentleman reads nearby.
Wren raids hair and builds nest from old hair
A wren steals white hair from a man, tugging at his hair playfully. The bird returns repeatedly until a nest forms among brown vines on a porch with a lining of hair.
An Interesting Experiment With Flower Colors
The article describes exposing flowers to ammonia to alter their colors. Lilies become yellow, pink roses shift to light green, dark red sweet peas turn blue, and purple tones appear rapidly, suggesting a magical effect.
Spinning an Egg Demonstration
A method explains spinning a hard boiled egg by twirling it between fingers. The egg resists spinning on its side and instead stands and spins on its large end, illustrating gyroscopic behavior.
Their Years Are Wasted A Caution On Baseball Wealth
Jimmy Ryan argues that top players waste earnings and years chasing extravagance after fame. He notes stars lose fortunes, fail in business, and drift from glory to menial jobs as they age. The piece laments how crowds idolize players who then fade from prominence.
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Jimmy Ryan
Alrs
Indianapolis
Cast of Local Sights and Humorous Anecdotes From City Desk
A string of short items from the District of Columbia and nearby scenes. A Tennessee comment on a religious census prompts a joke about a congressman from Tennessee. Governor Douglas recounts Eph Friday’s burial anecdote. An exchange from a city column describes a scenic view obtained by a long journey via stage and steamer to Moose Landing and Lover’s Leap.
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District of Columbia
Tennessee
Capitol Hill
Douglas
Massachusetts
Eph Friday
Eph
Philadelphia Ledger
Pokeville
Hem Lake
Moose Landing
Skeeter Mountain
Puck
Chicago Sequence and the mill worker’s joke
The text uses a garbled dialogue about love and matrimony and a mill worker quip. It mentions men around a mill and scales, hinting at weighing today and yesterday. A remark on plentie turning to hogging under trusts appears as a social aside.
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Chicago
Laughable Fragments and Wordplay Across Papers
A jumble of jokes and quips appears from Brooklyn Life Detroit Free Press Puck Punch and more. It collects light humor on doctors wives long-winded operas and a cartoonish tax of social quirks.
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Brooklyn
Detroit Free Press
Sommerville Journal
Philadelphia Ledger
John
Puck
Brown
Smith
Gotrox
Cook
Marm
Deep Bendigo Mine Reaches Eight Thousand Feet Depth
The New Chum mine at Bendigo Australia is described as the deepest gold mine in the world with Main shaft down to three tiers of a mile. Working at such depth requires cooling measures as the air reaches about 108 degrees Fahrenheit. A spray of cold water is used while miners work nude from the waist up.
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Bendigo
Australia
Railroad Rate Legislation Testimony by Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty testified before the Senate committee in Washington, opposing giving a commission power to set railway rates. He argued railways should set their own rates as property rights under the Fourteenth Amendment protect against unreasonable rates and confiscation, urging fair and reasonable charges.
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Senate
Washington
Interstate Commerce
Prouty
Commission
Circuit Court of the United States
Getting Off A High Horse The Experience Of A College Grad
A businessman recalls a college graduate who sought a $100 monthly start and was rejected for lacking readiness. The tale contrasts early overconfidence with a later sober acceptance of a lower beginning, illustrating tempering pride in the job market. Mothers are advised to use Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for teething children.
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Mrs. Winston
Where Extremes Meet in Fashion Talk
A fashion feature shows Mrs DeStyle debating sleeve style this season with questions on proper fit. A cough remedy by PR pa Cress, priced at 25 cents, is advertised for sale by druggists.
Chip of the Old Block jokes on baby’s dirt craving
In a humorous exchange, Mrs Growells and Mr Growells joke about why the baby cries during a cleaning. He is said to take after his father, while Mrs Growells quips the child wants the earth.
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Growells
Mrs. Growells
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Yonkers Statesman
Virginia
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Reierson M Machinery CO
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Seattle
Chinese Medicine CO
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Dantzic
Germany
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Ken
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Ben Boa
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