Rainbow city joins list of American city nicknames
The article surveys multiple U S cities and their famed epithets noting Buffalo as the rainbow city for the 1900 era World’s Fair exposure. It lists Chicago as the White City then Windy City while other cities earn nicknames like Iron City Mound City Beer City and Flower City among Rochester St Louis Pittsburg Cincinnati and San Francisco.
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Buffalo
Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Duluth
Bison City
White City
Garden City
Windy City
St. Louis
Gotham
New York
Hub
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Crescent City
New Orleans
City of the Golden Gate
San Francisco
Mechanical Engineering
Partridgeville Adopts Eight-Hour Day Policy
Historical notice notes Partridgeville Massachusetts, later Peru, voted on April 2, 1792 to grant £150 for highway repair with labor paid at 3s 6d daily for two-thirds in June and one-third in September, establishing eight hours as a day’s work.
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Partridgeville
Mass
Peru
Perils in Salt Lake Bathers Die from Salt Accumulation
George Y. Russell of Park City Utah describes Salt Lake’s dangerous buoyancy and salt deposits that can suffocate bathers. He notes people drifting or wrecking and later dying from salt in mouths and nostrils, contrasting Utah water with Chesapeake Beach bathing.
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Dean Choksad
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
George Y. Russell
Park City
Utah
Salt Lake
Chesapeake Beach
America
Red Rock of Red Hook and the painting day tale
A village on the Berkshires once known as Pilfershire renamed Red Rock after a peddler blamed the town for missing wares. In 1825 villagers agreed to plant a red rock and paint day became a long standing festival held roughly every dozen years, last painted in 1899.
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Berkshire Hills
Lexington
Sylvanus Cunningham
Red Hook
Ladies’ Home Journal
Thrifty Beacons in a War of Ads and Slogans
In a witty critique from the Monthly Review, Mary Cholmondeley mocks advertising mania as white cliffs become spaces to let and belts of firelight text. The piece imagines a future wartime coast where hospital ships and shore signals are replaced by brands like Lemco and Labby’s Lip Salve, prompting humorous exchanges aboard a ship.
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Mary Cholmondeley
The
Monthly Review
Albion
Bill
Lemco
Labby
Keating
Roosman couple welcomed a daughter in city records
Mr and Mrs Oscar Roosman of 2387 Indiana street welcomed a baby girl born Sunday Oct 6. A boy was born to Mr and Mrs Holmstead on Wednesday Oct 9. Lena Anderson, summering in Europe, expected home Saturday. East system paving progresses. Becker Brothers 71 In 48th Ave hosts band concert next Saturday Oct 12 with Garfield Park Military Band from six to ten.
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Oscar Roosman
Indiana Street
Lena Anderson
Europe
Becker Brothers
Garfield Park Military Band
Lulu Tyler Gates Read The Sky Pilot In Moreland
A rare treat comes to Moreland Sunday evening October 13 as Lulu Tyler Gates reads The Sky Pilot at Rehberg's hall. She is described as entertaining and pleasing to her audience.
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Moreland
Lulu Tyler Gates
Sky Pilot
Rehberg’s
Bargains in Bicycles and Accessories
An auction style offer lists a second hand triplet bicycle for 15 dollars and second hand tires and casings priced from 50 to 100 cents. Includes emphasis on value and affordable repairs.
A Typical African Store With Broad Range Of Goods
O. R. Larson runs a versatile store in a valley nine miles from the railway and twenty five miles from the nearest town in Sundays River Cape Colony. He reports farmers within thirty miles rely on his Chamberlain's remedies with fourteen cured in the last year indicating strong local demand. Available through The Avenue Pharmacy Oak Park G H Harris Schnitzus' Austin.
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O. R. Larson
Bay Villa
Sundays River
Cape Colony
South Africa
Chamberlain
Avenue Pharmacy
Oak Park
G. H. Harris
North 48Th Avenue
Schnitzus’ Pharmacy
Austin
Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets Arrive On Sale
A new remedy for biliousness is on sale at The Avenue Pharmacy Oak Park and Schnitzus' Pharmacy Austin. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets offer quick relief and may prevent an attack if taken at first symptoms. Price 25 cents per box. Samples free.
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Avenue Pharmacy
Oak Park
G. H. Harris
North 48Th Avenue
Schnitzus
Austin
Stricken Man Shows Cure By Pain Balm
Henderson Grimett of Logan County West Virginia was paralyzed on one side and nearly cured after two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The note mentions several other cures for partial paralysis and promotes the remedy for rheumatism sprains and bruises. Marketed by Avenue Pharmacy Oak Park G H Harris Schnitzus' Pharmacy in Austin.
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Henderson Grimett
Chamberlain
Gee
R. McDonald
Man
Logan County
W. Va
Avenue Pharmacy
Oak Park
G. H. Harris
North 48Th Avenue
Schnitzus’ Pharmacy
Austin
Ambiguity In Telegram Sparks Bold Auction Purchase
A New York lawyer’s wife, fond of collectible faces, faced a $2,000 bid and sought his counsel. Her husband’s telegram read No price too high. She bought the faces and added another 38,000 worth after learning the true wording.
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Les
New York
New York Commercial Advertiser
Pictet Distills Oxygen For Large Scale Use
Swiss chemist Raoul Pictet, a Geneva professor of chemistry and physics, reveals a remarkable discovery for manufacturing oxygen on an extensive commercial scale after three years of laboratory work in Geneva.
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Raoul Pictet
Geneva
Fate of Wilkes Booths Body Revealed by Captain Hilliard
Captain E W Hilliard of Metropolis Illinois contests press reports on John Wilkes Booths burial and provides a firsthand account of his bodys fate after Lincoln's assassination detailing movements with Sheridan s army and the Capitol prison in Washington
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E. W. Hilliard
Metropolis
Ill
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
St. Louis
Booth
Greenmount Cemetery
Hilliard
Sheridan
Old’ Capitol
Washington
Army of
Secret disposal of Booth’s body revealed by Civil War veteran
An Illinois veteran recalls the night in Washington when John Wilkes Booth was killed and his body disposed of at a gunboat on the Potomac. Four privates and officers followed orders to remove, wrap, and cast the corpse into the river, with details preserved by a single witness. The piece links the thumb lore to social customs and cites historic authorities on oaths and pledges.
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Potomac
Washington
Forty-third
Ohio
John Wilkes Booth
Boston Corbett
Jeftus
Booth
Philip Lalow
Emer McElwee
Fort Wayne
Ind
Cuba
Dagan and Dougherty
Buffalo
Lord Erskine
Scotland
Selden
Tacitus
The Clerk Spoke English In Berlin Shop Tales
Mrs. Gillespie reviews A Book of Remembrance detailing a foreign trader in Berlin who, despite efforts in German, answers in English. The scene includes towels, distant searches for goods, quips about napping cloth, and a line about “Execute me in an instant” as a shopkeeper’s reply.
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Looli
The Bobolink’s Migrations and Names Across Regions
The bobolink spans from Labrador to Mexico and the Antilles, known as the rice bird in the south and reed bird in the middle states. It feeds on seeds and insects, shifts from animal to plant foods as it ages, and returns south in late summer to enrich marshes with fat, valued as game. Ledger Monthly.
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American
Middle States
Labrador
Mexico
Antilles
Do you think a man is always better off for college
A housewife challenges the idea of universal benefit from college education. She recalls a wagoner who insisted that fresh eggs are always nice eggs, and nice eggs are always fresh, illustrating a sharp retort to the question.
Passing of the Table Cloth Fashion Notes
The piece argues for going without a cloth on the table using bare wood. It praises natural woods like oak and walnut with regular polishing. It extols damask napkins and hollow centerpieces, then shifts to a courtroom anecdote about a compassionate judge and a thief facing sentence.
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Chicago Chronicle
Comin Through the Rye Folklore and Song Origins
The Ledger Monthly explains that the Burns song Comin Through the Rye refers not to a rye field but to the River Rye in Ayrshire Scotland. It notes the river’s small size and recounts a lassies dress lifting tradition as Bobbie Burns and companions waited in midstream to steal a kiss, describing the mischievous prank in period tone.
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Burns
Ayrshire
Scotland
Bobbie Burns
Ledger Monthly
Dinners at the White House with President Roosevelt
The article notes that formal meals at the White House during President Roosevelt's tenure are used to host notable men. He invites guests to lunch or dinner to ensure agreeable company and to gather ideas and gauge public sentiment on current topics.
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White House
Roosevelt
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