Justice in Alabama Not Guilty Verdict for Broker-Defendant
A Jacksonville broker, invited to a trial in the Alabama mountains, defends a prisoner accused of shooting a Black man. Lacking funds, the judge appoints the broker, who delivers a flamboyant speech citing Chitty on Pleadings. The jurors, amused, enter a swift not guilty verdict, cheering the lawyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Alabama
Darky
Wiat
San Francisco
Chitty
Fragmented Nativity of Health and Commerce Across Eras
The text glimpses a garbled 19th century notice blending medical patent claims for catarrh remedies and tonics with farming prices and temperance movement notices. It references Hall's Catarrh Cure, Cannab salves, and Bitters, plus farm prices and a Woman's Christian Temperance meeting in St Louis with travel tickets offered.
Iowa and Missouri farming and patent medicine ad brochure
A damaged OCR page presents agricultural posters and patent medicine promos for Missouri and Nebraska. It cites Harrison, Lobster, and Atchison Globe style ads detailing tonics, tonics for coughs, purgatives, and liver aids. The piece includes moral quotes and a dubious medical claim set with names and places.
Deep Plowing for the Soul in Talmage's Harvest Sermon
The preacher uses farm imagery to urge deep conviction and steadfast sowing of the gospel. He compares grace to plowing digging seeds and harvesting, stressing the Cross as the standard, and urging persistent reaping, sowing, and spiritual threshing through trials.
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Soule
Talmage
Christ
Carthage
Strabo
Hesiod
Cato
Hut
God
Jaman
David
Iina
Ion
Grinthrop
Canada
Jesus Christ
Christendom
Wall Street
Wall ‘Street
Third Street
Third
State Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Notable Odds and Ends From Around the World
A former Canadian premier marked a golden wedding, Greek royal salaries outpaced by some rulers, and the sea otter skin fetches high sums. A stamp affixing machine promises rapid mail handling, while a New York village bans campaign button wearing as dementia. Mexican burial customs mix matting coffins, tram hearses, and processions to the grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sin Cuan Purren
Ttuwa
Ife
Althoten
Greece
United Stats
Saiitoe
Tur School Board
Buchanan
New York
Outflow of Wealth Sparks Domestic Strife
In a Detroit Free Press excerpt, Orlando vents on Europe’s money leaving the United States. He rails at heiresses marrying nobles and performers sending money home. His wife shifts topic to a leaky faucet, noting domestic concerns amid the heated dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tim
Detroit Free Press
Orlando
Iam
Europe
Humorous Q&A Bits From Old Newspapers
A collage of jokes and witticisms from Chicago Record Washington Star Philadelphia North American New York Herald Baltimore News Boston Courier and Cincinnati Enquirer. The assortment lampoons critics fatherhood language golf attire and bicycle ambulance humor.
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Chicago
Jingoli
Washington
Philadelphia
Willie
N. Y. Herald
Friendleigh
Litterleigh
Baltimore News
Wagiman
Wagimman
Boston Courier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Miss Grumpey
Grumpey
Detroit Free Press
Thibetans and Their Cattle Describe Marco Polo Era Yak and Musk
Noah Brooks reports on Thibetan wildlife from Marco Polo era notes. Yaks described as huge cattle with long white hair used for work. musk secreting wild gazelle like animal and the extraction method. pheasants, local people, and customs. Venice curiosity tied to Marco Polo voyage.
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Messer Marco
Venice
Noah Brooks
St. Nichols
A Curious Farm Saga Of Cats And Squirrels Near Twainbridge
On Amos M. Collins farm near Twainbridge Ohio a demure house cat fosters two orphaned squirrel kits. The kittens befriend the gray squirrels during a woods foraging expedition and the mother cat ferries a squirrel to the farm returning for the second, creating a shared family watched over by the feline matriarch.
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Amos M. Collins
Twainbridge
Tibbs
Cincinnati Enquirer
Russian Volunteer Fleet Sails to Expand Trade Links
An 19th century note sketches the Russian volunteer fleet extending from Odessa to Vladivostok with Baltic port ventures and Alaska trade. It notes Prince of Ways and Communications guiding a vast, possibly promotional, maritime trading network benefiting foreign shipbuilders and mercantile interests. The piece also cites a Century excerpt describing African natives’ deliberate village greetings and extended stays.
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Thussian
Prines Rhithed
United States
Canasia
Leeland
Odessa
Vladivessack
Haltic
Alnaska
Ao Gioantic
Nussia
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Acquisition with shade of Alexander on world pipes
The passage recalls a boast about laying pipes to acquire the world, with a witty shade of Alexander and a remark about an old bill. It then shifts to a recollection of Choltie Boggs and a comic line about whistling the koochee-koochee and a bug down the back at the Polisic, reflecting colorful local humor.
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Alexander
Detroit Tribune
Choltie Boggs
Flora
Polisic
Cincinnati
Traveling man recalls health tips and Pink Pills story
George Lockhart of Hudson Ohio, after months abroad, praises Dr Williams Pink Pills from a West South health trip. He narrates his prior leg trouble and recovery after meeting a man who recommended the remedy. Pills claim to restore blood and nerves and aid both sexes in various conditions.
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Cleveland
Ohio
George Lockhart
Hudson
Wil Hams
Mr. Loeihart
Mr. Lockhart
Williams
Druegis
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Svbenectady
Cowgirl Tests Steak Texas Style in Railroad Diner
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a young woman in a western railroad restaurant struggling to cut a tough steak. A cowboy interjects with blunt humor, steering the scene toward a lighter ending as the waiter fetches a more tender slice.
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Loston
Far West
Detroit Free Press
Lantern fashion lights up Paris streets at Neuilly fair
Paris society borrows a novelty lantern as personal adornment at Neuilly fair. Tin Gothic lanterns weighing about a walnut burn hours for six sous, worn in hats or carried in bouquets by men women and children returning from the fair. A giant phosphorescent sea crab from the Indian Ocean lights its tank nightly dazzling observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Neuilly
John the Baptist
Indian Ocean
Making Men Beggars Women in London Crowding Out the Sterner Sex
Walter Besant cites the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women report showing rising demand for women clerks and bookkeepers while many male clerks seek work. The piece praises efforts to place women in hairdressing cooking and temporary roles but notes the overall impact remains small against a population of 40.6 million.
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London
Walter Besant
London Queen
Society For Promoting
Wabash and Santa Fe Plan Sleepers to Los Angeles
The Wabash R R and Santa Fe announce a new restrained sleeping car line from St Louis to Los Angeles starting November 4. Sleepers depart St Louis on Wednesdays and Saturdays, arriving Los Angeles and timing listed, with inquiries directed to company offices.
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Wabash R. Rin
St. Louis
Ad i
Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles
En Swrer
SDP
Wibash
Carew
New Crisimas
Ohio
L. S. Carneux
Pla
Wabash Ror
American Nail Dank Bild'p
Louisville
No Te Bac Cure Ad Promises Quick Health Gains
An advertorial claims No Te Bac helps quit tobacco easily and forever with listed weight gain and 496.0 cures. It urges purchases from a local druggist with a free booklet and sample, credited to Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
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Strow Macuett O
Ad Sterling Remrdy Co
Chicaco
New York
Syrup of Figs and a dubious cure ad in print
An OCR fragment markets Syrup of Figs as a cleanser for the stomach liver and kidneys claiming gentle cleansing and relief from constipation headaches colds and fevers. It blends with a humorous dialogue about a wife’s reluctance and a separate dubious “Ceta” liver regulator.
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Shyasti
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Wilko
Uwoyou
aWead Bod Teat Ct
Ptes Peeves
Bothey
St. Loui
OC. WL & Ob
Loto
Missouri
Armel
Nebraska
Burlington
Wale
Pike
Tregist
Atchison Globe
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Aprilil
Bsug
Seirinness
Bam
Stoney
Richison Giche
Sarsaparilla
Hood
God's
Talmages
John Evods
Ranates
Paut
Isaiah
Suefanebman
United S
Thas
Sathan
Barey
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Peturheti
Soba
del Pass
Joseph
Paul
Erandfather
Grandfather
Nodving
Henry W. Longfellow
Mayo
Marco Polo
Zussian Volunteer Fleet
Harry
Africa
Cowboy
Walter
Corinsmons
Sineves
Baltimore
Iloo
Indianapolis
Flan
California
Mountain Top
Aong
Reuters Onservaxer
Brooklyn
T. Dewit
Eire
Warner’s Safe Cure Co
Rochester, N.Y
Eugene Field
Gene Fichl
Monument Fund
Eugens Viel
Mouroe Street
Stoge
A.N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
Land
Mashinessis & Nyman
Tiffin
CASIS
Stark Tree
Stark Brothers
LouCistana
Rockport IN
MPM
MEG. CO
Akron
Yucatan
Alice
Ertisers
Ayer
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