Homeseekers Excursion Tickets to South Dakota
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway offers regular Homeseekers Excursion tickets to all South Dakota points at one fare plus $2 for the round trip on September 18 and October 2, 1900. The trips enable visits to Mitchell Corn Belt Exposition from September 26 to October 4, 1900, highlighting South Dakota’s agricultural wealth and land opportunities. For details contact any C M St P ticket agent or Geo Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
South Dakota
Mitchell
8. D
Geo. H. Heafford
Chicago
Jersey City Captures Illicit Whisky Stills in Cellar
Police seized two illicit stills and two furnaces in a Jersey City cellar. The raid recovered genuine Jersey lightning whisky, noted for its high profit and quick sale compared with distilling in rural areas.
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Jersey City
New Jersey
Somerset County
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Jersey Lightning
Woman Takes Up Carpentry on California Ranch
Beatrice Harraden seeks health recovery on her California ranch and has taken up carpentry mastering saws and planes. She has become proficient as an orchardist and in other grounds work.
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Beatrice Harraden
California
Lydia Pinkham
Miss Good
Parasite Behind Elephantiasis Found in Mosquitoes
The parasite causing elephantiasis has been identified in mosquitoes, signaling a transmission route for tropical regions where the disease is widespread among native populations.
Low Rate Excursions to West and Southwest
Half round trips to the West Southwest and Southeast via Missouri Pacific plus 2. Tickets go on sale Tuesdays September 4 18 October 2 16 November 6 20 and December 4 18 1900. For full information contact agents or H C Townsend G P I Agent St Louis Missouri.
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Hnes
H. C. Townsend
St. Louis
Missouri
Late King Smoked Much in Ruler Class
The late king was described as one of the most inveterate smokers among rulers. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and President Kruger of South Africa are said to be the only two now left who shared the same smokers' class with the Italian king.
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Humbert
Francis Joseph
Austria
Kruger
Van's Buckwheat Flour Offers Free Art Coupons
In every package of Van's Buckwheat Flour you can save coupons that entitle you to splendid works of art. The advert promotes the flour as absolutely pure wholesome and nutritious and urges shoppers to ask their grocer for it and insist on getting it.
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Van
Admiral Alexieff Named Russian Naval Leader in China
Admiral Alexieff at 65 heads Russian naval forces in Chinese waters. The commander is described as having significant Tartar ancestry and a long career in service.
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Admiral Alexieff
With Rod and Gun in Arkansas and Enroute to the Southland
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad issues two free booklets via its General Passenger Department. One covers hunting and fishing on the St Francis river in Northeastern Arkansas with notes on game fish wild fowl deer and bear. The other describes Chicago to Nashville points of interest early history and regional legends across Illinois Indiana and Tennessee.
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Arkansas
Southland
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
St. Francis River
Chicago
Nashville
Illinois
Indiana
Tennessee
C. L. Stone
G. P
T. A
Oglethorpe and Wesley Exchange Ironic Double Entendre
The quotation pairs Gen Oglethorpe and Wesley in a sharp exchange. Oglethorpe declares he never forgives while Wesley retorts he hopes he never sins. The lines resemble a witty moral clash reflecting themes of temper and virtue.
Three children wish riches from the meadow brook
In a Sacred Heart Review poem a trio of fisher folk named Ned Tom and Moll spend a day by a brook wishing for ships pots of gold and wealth. They imagine endless riches yet none is ever paid leaving the youngsters with a lesson on desire versus reality.
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Tom
Sacred Heart Review
The Professor's Gun in the Arizona Expedition
A small military party led by Lieutenant Isaac Murphy travels from the Rio Grande to Arizona. A newcomer nicknamed the professor joins, rugged, cross eyed and near blind, yet sturdy in travel. After Apache riders attack, the professor unveils a Creedmoor rifle, aims from a wagon and prepares to deter the enemy.
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Isaac Murphy
Rio Grande
Arizona
Socorro
Man
Murphy
H-M-M
Gaddle
Tularosa Range
Mesa de Los Labos
Professor and Indian Fight Near Zuni Outpost
In a Youth's Companion recount, the professor uses a powerful rifle to rout the Jicarilla Apache at two thousand yards while troopers and Murphy celebrate a dramatic victory. The scene ends with the party leaving the Zunis without learning the professor’s name or origins.
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Creedmoor
Murphy
George
The
Pencils Made From Ground Slate Replace Solid Slates
An 1899 account explains slate pencils were formerly cut from solid slate but grit caused scratching. A new process grinds slate to powder, bolts out grit, and forms pencils by hydraulic pressure into sticks about three feet long then cut to size. The method yields uniform hardness and strength, with over 25 million pencils produced by a Chattanooga firm.
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Chattanooga
Superstition in Hungary and the Szuszag Ghost
In the Hungarian village Szuszag farmers blamed the ghost of Joseph Zurka for recent calamities. An old man’s suggestion led to a stormy grave desecration at a churchyard where a person killed the corpse with a pitchfork. The villagers believe the ghost will trouble them no more.
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Szuszag
Joseph Zurka
London Standard
Water lily’s sunrise bloom links sun worship and ancient symbols
The text notes the water lily bud opens at sunrise and closes at sunset, cited by Pliny and used to explain why ancients revered the flower as sacred to the sun. It mentions the Euphrates lotus sinking at night and rising with the sun, and Hancarville’s view of the lily as emblem of the world arising from depths.
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Pliny
Euphrates
Hancarville
Spry Old Bobs Jump Ahead in South Africa Ride
An anecdote from South Africa recounts General Roberts inviting General Buller to a steeplechase course near Pretoria. Buller declines as too old, while Churchill era commandant moves ahead and completes the jumps. Roberts is sixty eight and Buller sixty one.
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South Africa
Redvers Buller
Pretoria
General Roberts
General Buller
Buller
Sir Redvers
London Pall Mall Gazette
Englishman Sees Rich Yet Troubled South African Farmland
Vanity Fair notes a young Englishman farming in a disaffected South African district. He reports three Mausers, three months’ provisions, and 400 rounds of cart ridges as his first crop, with hopes of a ten pound yield. He calls the rebel farms among the most fertile soils he has seen.
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South Africa
Vanity Fair
CACSARRET Candy Cathartic Advertisement Claim
Sloganeering health ad urges readers to cure various ailments by regulating bowels. Promotes CASCARETS Candy Cathartic as the genuine remedy, claims easy natural movements and quick health benefits. Warns to beware of imitations and notes a 10 cent starter price.
Intuition Drives Summer Girl Belief Cow Bites
A Detroit Journal item notes a summer girl holds a strong intuitional conviction that cows will bite, a belief the higher criticism must explain after denying that all flesh is grass.
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Detroit Journal
Oklahoma land opening menarik subscription offer
The notice promotes opening 3,000,000 acres for settlement in Oklahoma and urges subscription to The Kiowa Chief for a year at 1.00 plus a 1 0c single copy. Subscribers receive a free illustrated book on Oklahoma, Morgan's Manual, a 210 page settlers' guide with sectional map. Address Dick T Morgan, Perry Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma
Morgan
Dick 'T. Morgan
Perry
Fragmented Notices Merge Wit, Wildlife, and Health Claims
A collage of quick reads covers a Carlyle quote on biography as heroism, a playful exchange about a poem to Mabel, Sumatra snakes and lizards, olive oil history, dye slogans, moral maxims, a medical testimonial from 1900, and ad pitches for Carter’s Ink and habit prevention. The pieces read like a late 19th century newspaper clump of miscellany.
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Homeseekers
Missouri Pacifie Day
Iron Moun
Tain
Gen. Oglethorpe
Wesley
Las
Mrs. Pinkham
Miss Pearl Goon
29Th Avenue
Yeslar Way
Seattle
Wash
Miss Pearl Good
Mus. PinxeAm
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Was
National City Bank
Mass
Lupia E. Pinknam
Ned
Moll
Franklin Welles Calkins
Hving
Leutenant
Hungary
Water Lily
President Tyler
White House
Washington, D. C
Washington
Semple
Tyler
National
Shilowiga
Louise
D. C
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Carlyle
Walter Scott
Nell
Mabel
Sumatra
Mediterranean Coast
O. Endsley
Vanburen, Ind
Dr. Kline
BR. H. Kline, Ltd
Philadelphia
Hall
Price
Italy
White
Carter
Dryden
Farma
Neb
Minn
D. J. Mulbali
Sioux City
Iowa
Security
Carter Little
Joseiahi i
A. J. Tower
Boston
Ole-Airie
VANS
Hastings
Milton
Penn
BACO
Rite Eureka Chemical CQ
la Crosse
Wie
Henry N. Copp
B. G
W. N. Y. Chicago
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