Lawn Party Boomerang Gun Mishap Draws Crowd
A village lawn party at Banker Brown’s residence ended in comic disaster as guests used a boomerang gun for a supper escort game. Judge Lilly and Mrs. Eddy fired accidentally, with the weapon returning to strike a target and provoke cheers, while onlookers laughed at the mishap.
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Lilly
William the Conqueror
Birs
Eacs
Noble
Martie
Mrs. Eddy
New Sport
Brill
New York
Art Visitors Seek Familiar Scenes at the Exposition
Guests in the United States collection dormer rooms study paintings with homesick longing. A man and three women discuss judging rules as they search for pictures that tell their own stories while a distant home memory lingers.
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Art Palaces
United States
Seth
Tremendous Shaking Up and Hidden Ailments
The item discusses a broad, warning claim about a universal disruption caused by various diseases and the ineffectiveness of common cures. It promotes Ho tetter's promach Bitters as a cure for the root cause and to prevent future injury to organs and systems including the liver kidneys and stomach.
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Ho Tetter
Homemade Coolers and Cordials For Hot Weather
A vintage guide lists raspberry syrup cream soda and lemonades with eggs for cooling drinks. Recipes cover blackberry cordial ginger pop household beer and lemonades with tea or eggs, with step by step mixing, heating and bottling instructions.
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St. Louis Republic
Meyer
New Orleans
New Milik
Bagging Grapes Curb Mildew and Aid Ripening
The article argues bagging grape clusters is a strong preventive against mildew and helps fruit ripen and form. It notes cost considerations, bag types, and methods, including pinning bags to the support and trimming corners to prevent water entry. It also mentions a stomach pain remedy, Chamberlain's, used by a local resident.
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Minneapolis
Eider
Reaver
McAllsterville
Ju-natta Co
Chamberlain
Garrott& Poarre
Frede
Law of chances governs marriage ages among occupations
A New York Ledger summary notes a law of chances: workmen marry earlier than intellectuals. Miners show the highest early marriages, followed by textile workers, shoemakers, and artisans, with farmers delaying. The wealthy marry later but continue wed over time.
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New York Ledger
A Perversion of the Word Creole in Historical Use
The passage traces the evolving meaning of creole from a broad geographic origin to a narrowly racial use in Louisiana and the north. It notes restricted senses tied to foreign parents in Louisiana and Spanish or French lineage, then discusses the term's alleged racial implications and historical naming of the month July and its origin.
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West Indies
Tropics
Louisiana
Ocean waves and local trials amid a troubled coast
A fragmented historical notice blends mythic lines about the ocean and a voyage with a troubling medical testimonial. It recalls a coast known for treacherous waves near Good Rope and Buercé, and a diaristic note of adversity and a call for care amid illness and healing.
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Buerce
Muddy Road Tale: Turtle Outwits Hare in Spring Thaw
The tale recounts a mud turtle waking from winter and meeting a boastful hare. The hare teases the slow animal, driving the turtle to anger. The mud turtle, a regular reader of his home paper, proves a clever counter to the hare’s taunts.
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Roth
The Hare and Turtle Race Through Mud on Main Street
A humorous tale unfolds as a hare bets a turtle on a roadside race from Kleckner's corner to Loran. The hare streaks ahead through sticky mud, leaves the sidewalk, and falters. the mud turtle plods along, finishes the course with a few bumps, while the hare lags behind cursing the road. Good Roads.
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Yellow Creek
Loran
Kleckner’s
Frr
Tive Leups
Road Reform and Its Economic Value in Agriculture
An essay argues education in road building is essential, tracing Macadam and Telford to agricultural needs. It notes how good roads replaced toll-ridden turnpikes and boosted farm values near cities, contrasting bad and good routes with economic effects. A World’s Fair exhibit shows road construction processes and materials, highlighting the impact of improved highways on commerce and rural prosperity.
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Macadam
Telford
Shaler
France
Italy
Germany
Clover Root and Cholera Remedy Advertised
An 1800s-style note touts Chlamborlein's Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy and Karl's Clover Root as blood purifiers and digestive aids. It claims rapid relief for diarrhea and associated symptoms and lists Garrett & Pearre druggists selling 25¢ and 50¢ bottles.
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Charnherlain
Oson
J. E. Hare
Trenton
Tax
Garrote & Pearre
Frederick
Karl
Garrett & Pearre
Draggists
Dairy Feeding and Pasture Effects on Cattle Milk Output
A study from the Cornell station reports three summers of grazing Jerseys and Holsteins on mixed grain rations. Results vary with pasture quality: low milk with grain on good pasture, small milk gains on short pasture, and meat gain with grain. Also discussed are cheese standards, fraud in full cream cheese, and dairy management practices including fly control and night grazing impacts on milk yield.
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Grady
L P. Roberts
H. H. Wing
New York Cornell Station
Electric Bitters Promises Purity and Rapid Cure
Plectric Bitters claims strong universal cures for liver and kidney diseases, pimples, rheumatism, fevers, headaches, constipation, and indigestion. The advertisement promises elimination of impurities, guaranteed satisfaction or money back, with pricing at 50 cents or 1.00 per bottle through Garrett & Pearre's Drug Store.
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Livierand
Garrett & Pearre
Why flowers sleep and their hours of opening
The article discusses Sir John Lubbock’s idea that flowers open and close at different hours, with examples such as the daisy at sunrise and sunset and others like dandelion, Arenaria rubra, and Tra gatogon pratensis. It explains possible links to pollinator habits, noting that night pollinated flowers stay awake and scent emission aligns with evening hours and that wind fertilized flowers do not sleep.
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John Lubbock
John
Baltimore and Ohio runs World’s Fair excursion trains
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers round trip tickets to Chicago for the World’s Fair at one fare from Baltimore and western stations to the Ohio River. Dates are August 6, 12, and 17 with first class day coaches, lavatories, and a Tourist Agent on each train. Meals stop en route. tickets valid only on the outward special trains and return on all trains from Chicago within ten days. Schedule of principal station runs follows.
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Hart
Baltimore and Ohio Ratiesd Co
Chicago
Baltimore
Here
Ohio River
Ciry
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