Unionville stage line ads and misc notices blend
An assorted newspaper fragment mentions the Southern Railway boasting fast service to Southern and Southwest cities with through trains from New York to Savannah Jacksonville Tampa Augusta and more. Also notes ad copy for Pullman dining car service and berths. Various product quotes promote cold cures and health tonics.
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Florida
South
The
Southern Railway
Southwest
New York
Savannah
Jacksonville
Tampa
Augusta
Asheville
Chattanoooga
Atlanta
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
New Orleans
Memphis
Nashville
Macon
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Alex. S.thweatt
Eastern Ass. Agt
Broadway
Help for Women Who Are Always Tired
A Chelsea Wisconsin woman, Mrs Ella Rice, shares her struggle with fatigue, bearing down pains, headache, and backache believed to be caused by falling and inflammation of the womb. After consulting physicians and trying numerous medicines, she reports being entirely cured by a treatment not specified in the excerpt.
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Ella Rice
Chelsea
Wis
World Made for Boys and a Hidden Penny Tale
The piece blends children’s verses about boys finding value in play with a true tale of Jabez Alvord who, aged ten, hid a penny in 1818 and forty-three years later found it while his family demolished the old home. Readers are invited to imagine Jarvis Island turtles and Norse myths through Margaret P. Boyle’s Favorite.
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Jabez Alvord
Winsted, Conn
Jabez
James Alvord
Fathez
Alvord
Ous Jarvis Island
Equi
Jarvis Island
New York Tribune
Thor
Loki
Margaret P. Boyle
The Story of Thursday and Thor the Thunderer
The text describes Thursday named for Thor, Odin's eldest son and strongest god. It details Thor’s magical hammer that returns after throwing, a belt that doubles his strength, and mentions a belt and hammer as sources of power.
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Thor
Odin
East End Hooligans Fight Clubs Stir London Districts
Sir Walter Besant describes East London youths forming street rival regiments. They arm with clubs leather belts stones and even toy revolvers and clash with neighboring streets. The battles leave wounded, police struggle to halt the cot at the scene and the following day the leader faces the Bee court.
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Walter Walter Besant
Private School Principal Bemoans Summer-Marriage Trend
A Chicago South Side private school principal who trains girls for college laments that two top teachers will marry in fall, complicating staffing. He notes many candidates seek teaching as a livelihood but questions motives, while questioning how to fill vacancies.
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Chicago
South Side
Paris
Elephants Drive Siam Trade Woes Reported by British Consul
The 1899 consular report from Chiengmai notes a threefold rise in elephant prices, underscoring difficulty in exploiting teak forests and Siam’s economic reliance on elephants for prosperity.
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Siam
Chiengmai
Natural bowel cure and pills advertised in old ad
An old advertisement touts Cascanzts or CascanErs Candy Outhartie promising natural bowel relief and health returns for 10 cents to start. The note warns against imitations and claims genuine boxes bear 0.0.C. stamps. Also mentions a historic sea battle between Corinthians and Corcyreans with Corinthians victorious at 664 B.
Legal oath in Toledo firm case 1886
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cugnayids Co in Toledo Ohio pledging that Brox will pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarre not cured by AAti s Camarre Cure. Sworn before witnesses on the sixth day of an unspecified month in A D 1886.
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Arabia
Ae At
Unionville
E. W. Guove
Beeman
Kline
Dr. Ri A, Evie, Ltd
Arch St
Phila
Dufour
Bobby
Johnny
Tommy
Jack Frost
Chestnut Wood
Afidgard
Sir Walter Besant
East London
Thert
Japan
Ayers
J. ©. Ayer
Howe, Mata
Ayer
Chemsa
Corinthians
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