Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Compound for cure
Mrs J H Meyer of Orange California describes severe health issues including tumors and ulcers and displacement. She attributes her recovery to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and notes she used it during the Change and can perform full work now.
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Orange
Cal
Yagq
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. H. Meyer
South Orange St
California
Portrait Studio Delay Sparks Complaints
Mrs Newrich visits a studio seeking a journeyman portrait. The attendant asks her to wait while the master works on a study. She reacts that she wants an artist who has finished with his studies and leaves to seek elsewhere.
Crow’s Fortune: Owner Refuses Ten Thousand Dollars
A trained crow in this country reportedly refused a bid of ten thousand dollars from its owner and is now performing stage stunts. The claim highlights the bird’s value and unusual career path.
Painting the Rainbow, Alice I Want Jack to Call This a Regular Love Letter
A fragment from a psychological drama features two speakers, Virginia and Alice, debating the tone of a letter to Jack. Virginia insists on a simple postscript urging burning. the exchange hints at secrecy and emotional distance.
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Alice
Jack
Virginia
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Teaser for Laundry
Advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as the satisfying solution for snowy white laundry after a hard day of work.
Fragmented dialogue peeks from Birmingham ad parody
A garbled exchange mentions a beauty parlor, a hair restorer, and a divorce lawyer named Mr. Partem. The Birmingham Age Herald source shows nonsensical lines and stray quotes, suggesting an OCR artifact from a parody or satire piece with no clear event.
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Kalso
Partem
Birmingham
Jlerald
Woman Kidney Health Ad Promotes Swamp-Root Remedy
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble often without suspecting it. The ad claims kidney disease causes other organ issues and lists back pain headaches and nervousness as symptoms. It urges prompt treatment with Dr Kilmer Swamp Root and offers a sample by mail from Binghamton New York.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Lived In Different Worlds in courtroom notes
Incompatibility leads to separation as Mark cites differing interests. Parks notes the gulf between golf talk and bridge chatter reflects their diverging worlds and causes the split.
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Marks
Parks
California Fig Syrup Ad Warns About Imitations
An old advertisement urges mothers to feed California Fig Syrup to children for gentle liver and bowel cleansing. It promises quick relief from constipation and biliousness, claiming the syrup makes a sick child well again within hours. It warns to ask for California by name to avoid imitation products.
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California
Absent minded professor hosts Scots in Highland garb
A scatterbrained professor invites learned Scots to ruins and wears a kilt at a luncheon. Jane sees him and rushes upstairs, returning with a pair of trousers, revealing bare knees and prompting her blush and remark about forgotten garments.
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Jane
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Value of New York City parks appraised at nearly half a billion
Public park lands owned by New York City are appraised at 489,989,000 with major valuations for Central Park 286,500,000 City Hall Park 31,198,000 Battery Park 16,527,500 Bryant Park 22,553,000 Riverside Park 15,152,000 Manhattan Square 11,275,000 Van Cortlandt Park 18,250,000 Bronx Park 8,611,900 Pelham Bay Park 5,775,000 Prospect Park Brooklyn 33,600,000.
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New York
New York City
Central
City Hall Park
Battery Park
Bryant
Riverside Park
Manhattan Square
van Cortlandt Park
Bronx Park
Pelham Bay Park
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Edith-Gladys and Harold End Engagement
Grace notes the couple has broken off and their engagement was denounced. The remark hints at sorrow and the bond formed in shared grief.
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Edith
Gladys
Harold
Grace
Opium Case on the Maggie Ends in Shipboard Plot
In a harbor tale on the Maggie, Adelbert P. Gibney opens a sealed zinc box to reveal two dead Chinamen and an argument over oriental goods. Captain Scraggs, McGuffey, and Gibney scheme to recover costs, while Scrags vows revenge as the crew contemplates a drink and a new plan.
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Gibney
Scraggs
McGuffey
Mr. Gibney
Captain Scraggs
Captain Scruggs
Mr. McGuffey
Twig
Scraggsy
Adelbert P. Gibney
Maggie
Chinatown
Bart
Oriental Goods
Captain Phineas Scraggs runs the steamer Maggie from Halfmoon Bay to San Francisco with a mutinous crew. After a fog wreck and a fake salvaging scheme, Gibney and McGuffey seize a derelict Chesapeake and tow it to San Francisco for a $1000 each, then return to salvage the Maggie and buy two boxes believed to hold smuggled oriental goods.
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Scraggs
Sanfrancisco
Mess Bay
Maggie
Adelbert P. Gibney
Secraggs
Neils Halvorsen
Bart McGuffey
Gibney
Captain Scraggs
Halfmoon Bay
San Francisco
Mr. Gibney
Hicks
Flaherty
Scruggs
McGuffey
Magelte
Loot on the Maggie as ginseng deal risks a wager
On the Maggie the crew opens crates bought in a shady deal. Gibney suspects the boxes may contain Oriental goods rather than ginseng and proposes they split profits, betting the contents and sharing any outcome. Scruggs and McGuffey agree to the bet as they pry open the lid.
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Mr. Gibney
Scruggs
McGuffey
Captain Scruggs
Scraggs
Captain Scraggs
Smugglers haggle over dead Chinese cargo in San Francisco
Captain Scraggs presses Gin Seng for five hundred dollars to release two dead Chinese men shipped as Oriental goods. Gibney and McGuffey profit by selling the corpses to Scraggs, then plan lunch while Scraggs grumbles at the double cross and awaits further moves.
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Mr. Gibney
McGuffey
Captain Scrages
Worthy
Drumm Street
Drumm
California
Cabie
Chinatown
Dupont Street
No. 714
Chinese Six Companies
Gin Seng
Scruggs
Scraggs
Scrages
United States
Jackson Street
Gibney
Maggie
Ah Ghow
Hop Sing Tong
Ng Chong Yip
Hop Sing
Gin Seng Company
San Francisco
Captain Scraggs
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charley
Denmark
Gib
Tiie
Christendom
Fig
Chinaman
John Chinaman
John
Bart
Munition aid to Mexico framed as urgent task
A wartime statement emphasizes delivering munitions to Mexican allies. The note highlights rapid shipment and cooperation with Mexico as a strategic priority amid tensions and military support efforts.
Mind influenced by signs erodes city landmark memory
An old timer laments fading landmark memory as eye catching advertising signs flood streets. He recalls vivid corners from twenty years ago but now says minds no longer imprint buildings or vacant lots due to constant exposure to letters and store signs.
Rapidity of Nervous Impulse in Tall and Short Bodies
Royal Society discussion notes how nerve length affects impulse speed between brain and limbs. Short individuals feel a step sooner than tall ones, though the difference is small, leaving both with limited chance to escape.
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Royal Society
London
Panama Hats From Ecuador Demand Fine Craft
Most Panama hats are made in Ecuador from paja tequilla leaves. The process includes boiling bleach with lemon juice and hand weaving in humid hours. A worker crafts a hat in six to seven days, finer pieces take six weeks. Monte Cristi hats are famed for superiority.
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Ecuador
Monte Cristi
Lava Souvenirs From Kilauea Volcano Edge
Tourists visiting Hawaii’s Kilauea donate coins pocket knives and brooches into the lava stream near the crater edge. Guides retrieve the items after minutes as they cool and become encased in molten lava, forming prized reminders of the world’s largest volcano.
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Kilauea
Hawaii Islands
Bridge Cable Woven In Place On Brooklyn Bridge
The eighteen inch cable of the Brooklyn Bridge was woven in place. It would have been nearly impossible to hoist it to its present position once complete.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Ingratitude Monstrous in Human Frailty
A literary note reflecting on Shakespearean lines about ingratitude and its moral force. The quote contrasts gratitude with the danger of turning the people into a monster through collective ingratitude.
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Shakespeare
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