Chicago Telephones in Austin corrected to May 5
A lengthy listing records Chicago telephone numbers and associated names and businesses for Austin, including companies such as Austin Fire Department and Austin Floral Co, with corrections noted to May 5 and instruction to cut the line.
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List of
Chicago
Austin
Abbott
E. F
Abernethy
Alden
F. H
Andrews
Geo
Atherton
Atwater
Mies
Austin Coal Co
Austin Fire Department
Austin Floral Co
Austin Prig. Co
Austin State Bank
Austin Storage Co
Aun
C. B
Bagley
A. G
Barnim
Barry
J. W
Bassett
N. M
Beeson
F. C
Bennett
W. E
Bennett W. H
Benson
A. L
Bigges
P. G
Bbiges & Son
Blair
D.C
Blomgren & Johnson
Boehm
Aug
Bond
Jas
D. V
W. R
Bonney
C. F
Braman
L. E
Britton
Brown
Geo. H
W. C
Bryning
S. L
Burke & Hansen
Burns
Wisdom Fragments On Faith And Society
A colloquial reflection contrasts truth telling, wealth, and trust in religion versus humanity. It questions moral pretenses in churches and belabors alienation, grace, and divine intervention while challenging greed and pride in everyday life. The piece ends noting some men love God more than their neighbors.
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Kristyan
God
Lively Victorian Snippets In Straw Skies And Purses
The column recalls Mark Twain in Berlin noting a lingering death from slow cabs. It notes John Holmes as a witty bachelor living in Cambridge and a joke about marrying to improve quarters. A Kensington purse find in London returns with a brief postcard reply, illustrating Victorian manners.
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Berlin
Mark Twain
John Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cambridge
John
Holmes
Kensington
London
Self Cure Claim From Home Remedy Sparks Attention
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio claimed a rectal fistula left him dying after doctors advised costly surgery. He says five boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica salve cured him, praising the product from Hooser Traill & Cooling and Chas. P. Miller druggists.
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Renick Hamilton
Weat Jefferson
Ohio
Hoxeer Traill & Cooling
Chas. P. Miller
How It Worked Delights In Quirky Demonstration
A Criterion excerpt describes a physician with a Toeplers Holtz machine and his dignified wife turning a party into a comic display. She dramatically demonstrates electricity’s spark and then calmly leads guests outside to admire chrysanthemums, leaving observers amused and puzzled.
Sixteen to One Father in Washington Post Office
Norman Thomas H, a Washington post office laborer, proudly father of sixteen girls aged 19 months to 25 years. The family, with several darker children, moved from Montgomery West Virginia and draws crowds for photographs. He earns $55 a month and funds his large household through photo sales.
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Thomas H. Norman
General Post Office
Washington
Montgomery
W. Va
Paige typesetting machine showcased at Cornell
A Paige typesetting machine costing 2 million dollars is presented to Sib ley College of Engineering at Cornell University. It contains 19 000 parts and is controlled by a keyboard. Despite flawless operation the device is commercially nonviable due to its cost and complexity. It measures about eleven by three feet, stands six and a half feet high, and weighs nearly 35 500 pounds.
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Sibley College of Engineering
Cornell University
Paige
A Day of 3 552 Hours Across European Cities
The piece lists unusual day lengths in multiple cities. Berlin and London report sixteen and a half hours, Stockholm eighteen and a half, Hamburg seventeen, St Peterstug nineteen and five, Torena in Finland twenty one and a half and two and a half, Wanderhua Norway from May 21 to July 22 without interruption, and Spitherren three months and a half.
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Berlin
London
Stockholm
Hamburg
St. Peterstug
Torena
F Nland
Wanderhua
Norway
Spitherren
Dead Material Gone to Waste
A coroner laments the cost of inquests and fees while reading a somber image of soldiers burying Filipino natives. The exchange hints at the human cost behind wartime casualties and the bureaucratic burdens that accompany death.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pisce to Search for Lost Collar Button
A puzzled father, Mr. Mann, searches for a confounding collar button, while his young daughter suggests unlikely places to look. The lighthearted exchange hints at domestic misplacement and small household mystery.
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Pisce
Mr. Mann
Pa A
Minister's Quiet Cavil Over Plate and Buttons
A fragment notes a minister sighing and remarking on the plate and buttons, with a jab that he would mind less if all the buttons matched. The line hints at a humorous or homely exchange about uniformity and preference.
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Jingso
Stage Folks and Aging Actors Highlight London Scene
Alice Neilson plans a summer tour abroad to rest and study. Annie Russell prepares a May London season including Catherine. Gerald du Maurier, rising star in The Musketeers, appears in Punch family images. London notes claim Mr James Doel is the world’s oldest actor at 95, amid recalls of Keeley, Thorne, and Woffington lifespans.
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Buffalo Bill
San Juan Hill
Annie Russell
Sue
Bret Harte
London
Catherine
Gerald du Maurier
Her Majesty’s Theater
Punch
George du Maurier
Peter Ibbetson
Mrs. Keeley
Sarah Thorne
Kitty Clive
Mrs. Siddons
Helen Falcit
Mrs. Jordan
Peg Woffington
James Doel
Naples Surgeon Manini Pioneers noninvasive preservation
The Naples surgeon Brother I Manini astonishes European doctors with a three stage body preservation method. It uses baths without incisions or injections, starting with provisional desiccation to prepare for dissection, followed by nutrification to harden the body, and a final restoration of color and flexibility so the subject appears merely asleep.
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Naples
Br. I. Manini
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