Winter Travel to California via Iowa Central Route
Winter in California offers low round trip rates from St. Paul and Iowa towns. A four day trip via Iowa Central and Southern Route is highlighted with the Pullman Tourist Car service inaugurated for the season. For details contact Iowa Central agents or Geo. S. Batty G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown, Iowa.
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California
Pacific Coast
St. Paul
Mason City
Marshalltown
Oskaloosa
Hedrick
Peoria
Iowa Central
Pullman
Geo. S. Batty G. P. & T. A
Market ads trumpet closing stock sale at City Mill
Ikenberry offers trading stamps and crowding deals for Smoke the Bull Frog Lunch and Neel's. The Hub grocery and market promotes best groceries and meats with a Bull Frog slogan. Ten dollars buys 11 sacks best flour, five dollars fifty cents buys six sacks all warranted as stock is cleared.
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Neel’s
City Mill
Jingles and Jests The Difference Carved Hearts
A Baltimore Star item notes a vandal in a city park who carved names on trees and a heart with fame, then faced arrest by park police and a three dollar fine. The poem-like fragment contrasts woodland musings with street scene justice.
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Baltimore Star
Thoughtful and thoughtless girls in dialect lesson
A Detroit Journal item quotes an instructor and a foreign learner explaining how language marks thoughtfulness and value in a humorous exchange. The foreigner contrasts thoughtfulness with cost and propriety, noting how dialect reveals meaning.
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Detroit Journal
Rail magnate deflects quibbles over 40 cent dinners
A reporter asks if shirt waist men may eat in dining cars. The railway magnate replies he will not quibble when a man offers a dollar for a 40 cent dinner, as quoted by the Indianapolis Press.
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Indianapolis Press
Cupid’s Blow Reaches Hearts in Texas
In a Chicago Record Herald note, a romance strains as distant glances replace gracious smiles. A literal blow to love is described, with a father’s action in Texas cited as the turning point, leaving the narrator meeting her coldly.
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Dan Cupid
Texas
Chicago Record-Herald
The Cheerful Idiot and the Odd Number Joke
Brooklyn Eagle quotes a quip about luck in odd numbers. The Cheerful Idioct Jamaica is noted as likely lucky if the saying holds true. The Thoughtful questions the reason while the Idiot cites his odd figure as the cause for luck.
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Jamaica
Brooklyn Eagle
Saitan and the Dun Call Again Line
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer shows Abdul Hamid urging a contact to call again, first week after next. The dialogue hints at hope amid frailty, with Abdul Hamid repeatedly saying call again as a theme.
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Abdul Hamid
Cail
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Clarifying Barnacle Habitat Puzzle in a Little Boy Tale
A Philadelphia Press quirky item notes a boy asking where barnacles grow and receives a playful reply about barns. He later seeks tentacles after hearing of them, chasing whimsy in a light humorous vignette.
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Papa
Young Hopeful
Hopeful
Philadelphia Press
Poets, The Unreal And The Real In Search Of Wealth
The Indianapolis Sun notes a poet abandoned wealth chasing fame, chose to keep writing despite no pay or recognition, continuing to pursue verses as a moral or artistic calling.
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Indianapolis Sun
No Transatlantic Railway Rumor Debunked
In a Philadelphia Press excerpt a woman questions a greenhorn girl about crossing the ocean and training, but the girl asserts there are no trains and that she was shipped across, underscoring skepticism about grand transatlantic railway schemes.
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Hiram Offen
Greenhorn
Phildelphia Press
Two Different Views On Patient Methods And Tales
A physician declares his method never fails to a friend. The friend retorts that dead men tell no tales, in a witty exchange from Leslie's Weekly. The Chicago News notes a lighthearted quip about an old lady who dislikes funerals and scolds mean around seventy, reflecting humor of the era.
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Chicago Newa
The Vigilant Father in Flint Sprint Feud
A Detroit Free Press verse tale features a young Flint man who boasted in speed until the girl's father intervened with a swift rebuke leaving the suitor linted and defeated.
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Flint
Detroit Free Press
Mrs Gadaroun Delighted by Call Says She Was Glad
A Philadelphia Times excerpt shows Mrs. Gadaroun reacting to a missed home call. Ellen reports the woman’s response was simple and warm, expressing gladness to have reached someone she sought. The brief note captures a polite social moment with no further details.
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Ellen
Two Objects Women Have in View At Homes in Tongue In Tow
Philadelphia Press notes a social folly where women, in their at homes or tongue and cheek gatherings, plan to dispatch invitations to friends while snubbing enemies in playful, public theater.
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Philadelphia Press
A Hopeless Case In Sharp Dialogue
A fragment shows two characters in a tense exchange about a disliked figure. One calls him horrid while the other contemplates potential change, then dismisses the idea that he will heed life lessons.
The Place to Learn Neva and the Church Sewing Club
A fragmented note mentions a meeting of the Church Sewing Club and a saying about half the world not knowing how the other half lives. The readable lines suggest an invitation to join a sewing club gathering.
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Neva
Civee
Greek Brain Diet Beets Dish Endorsed by Philosophers
A historical note recalls Greek philosophers praising a boiled beet dish seasoned with salt and oil as a practical aid to mental exercise. The account frames a simple food as linked to intellectual work in ancient thought.
Early diamond wear and temple decoration origins
In early times the diamond was worn rough or polished only on its upper surface. It was in this form that it adorned temples, goblets and crowns, and such stones remain infinitely valuable for ornament and symbolism.
Loot and Looters in China War Letters From Ninth Infantry
A Worcester Spy letter from a Ninth United States Infantry soldier in China claims vast loot captured by U S forces. He details selling silver, fur, silk, jewels, and bullion for far less than its value, noting officers profited while enlisted men received little. He also praises Japanese prowess and warns against opposing them.
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Worcester
Ninth United States Infantry
China
United States
Will exchange for marriage license in Omaha court
South Omaha spinster Barbara Lily bargained for a will in exchange for consenting to marriage to Jacob Mertz. In Judge Vinsonhaler's court the couple sought the license already procured. Lily presented a will by which Mertz left all possessions to his bride before the wedding proceeded.
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Vinsonhaler
Jacob Mertz
Barbara L. Lily
Miss Lily
Mertz
Omaha Cor
Chicago Record
Are Other Planets Inhabited Prize Debate
The French Academy of Science announced Mme Guzmann bequeathed 100000 francs to any person who contacts a celestial body excluding Mars. If the prize remains unawarded for five years, compound interest funds astronomy work. The founder’s aim is to award the prize this year if possible.
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French Academy of Science
Mme. Guzmann
Academy
Mars
M. Levy
Paris Cor
London News
Health board remedy for grip hot lemon juice
The Brooklyn Eagle recalls London’s board of health actions during the grip epidemic advising the public to drink hot lemon juice diluted with water or strong lemonade as a treatment. They urged precautions against cold and claimed hot citrus was a great remedy for influenza and colds.
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Board of Health
City of London
Brooklyn Eagle
Moscow rule bans public gatherings at Helsingfors university
The New York Tribune reports that Finland faces spoliation with decrees prohibiting meetings on social scientific or economic topics without a police license. Even faculty discussions on topics like Mars canals require permission and a Cossack with knout at the meeting.
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Finland
University of Helsingfors
Mars
New York Tribune
Hereford Cow Brings Record Price At Stockyards Sale
The Kansas City Star reports the highest price in history for a Hereford cow at the stockyards pavilion sale. After a half hour of fast bidding with $100 jumps, Clem Graves’ cow was bought by Jesse C. Adams of Moneaqua Illinois for $3,700, beating the prior world record of $3,150 set by Dolly V in Chicago last year.
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Kansas City
Stockyards
Clem’ Graves
Billposting Damages Ancient Nile Temples Notice
The Cairo Sphinx laments the billposting fiend defacing ancient ruins and temples near the Nile with hotel ads and pill posters. The piece condemns desecration of historically world renowned sites by careless advertising.
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The
Nile
Cairo
Public Auction Near Newton Court House Wednesday
A public auction will be held at the Wm. Brown or Strunk farm one mile southeast of Newton Court House on Wednesday January 15 beginning at 12 o'clock noon. Property to be sold is listed in the notice.
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Wm. Brown
Strunk
Newton Court House
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