Egg train to California from Newton Kansas
An egg train of twelve refrigerator cars left Newton for California. Aged senator Cocktell recovers a wallet stolen in Philadelphia after eighteen years. Fransis funds a seven and a half million dollar state school trust earning interest and reducing taxes. Piso's Cure for Consumption is advertised as infallible. Waist bags and fashion notes describe back details and stacked pleats to slim waists.
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Newton
Kan
California
King Edward Loves is Farm at Sandringham Estate
The article describes King Edward VII’s Sandringham country home farm, a two-hundred-acre stock farm run in his name. It supports 150 Shorthorn dairy cows, 30 Southdown sheep, and Jersey-Kerry dairy stock, with the famed Kerry bull Moon Uehter leading the stock and drawing guests.
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Edward
Sand- Thagham
Sandringham
Norfolk
Moon Uehter
Newcastle
Fortune Teller Foretells Happy Second Marriage Outcome
A Philadelphia Press excerpt shows Miss Lakeside revealing a fortune teller predicted her second marriage would bring happiness and wealth. The happy man expresses disbelief and anticipation as she explains she must finish her first marriage first.
Tea Dream Sparks London Bridge Anecdote
A witty exchange features a clerk replying to a question about genuine English breakfast tea. The clerk recalls dream imagery from supper the night before suggesting a quirky, humorous incident rather than a factual news item.
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London Bridge
Western Canada Offers Rich Grazing and Grain Lands
Thomas Regan and C Collins of Eden Valley Minn report from Calgary in December that mild weather, abundant feed, and thriving livestock impressed them. They toured Yorkton district in Assiniboia finding grain samples and good yields wheat twenty five bushels oats sixty bushels. They plan to settle there, citing open districts in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan with government agents to provide full details.
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Western Canada
Minnesota
Thomas Regan
C. Collins
Eden Valley
Minn
Calgary
Manitoba
Alberta
Yorkton
Assiniboia
Yorktowers
Assinboia
Saskatchewan
Hetty and John Cameron on the Devil's Backbone
In a tense scene on the Devil's Backbone Hetty Mulveil awakes after a close brush with danger as John Cameron fears his shot almost killed her. He helps tend her wounds while their attraction grows, Danny’s mischief and Mrs Mulveil’s gruff humor set the domestic backdrop.
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Hetty Malveil
Danny
John
Hetty
Satan
Letty
Tam
Raccoon Creek
Mra. Malveil
Mia
Mulveil
John Cameron
Hetty Mulveil
Cameron
Danny Mulveil
Truth
Mr. Cameron
Mister Cameron
Jack Cameron
Jack
Jacky
Mary
Sin of Using Tobacco in Early Colonial Days
The article recalls strict colonial laws on tobacco showing it deemed more sinful than alcohol. Landlords faced fines for allowing tobacco in taverns, and people were barred from public or private use before strangers. Two men could not smoke together and no smoking within two miles of meeting houses on Sundays. Connecticut allowed travelers to smoke once in every ten miles.
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Connecticut
Coal Riches in Northwest and Central Texas
The text notes abundant coal and valuable mineral wells in Texas northwestern and central regions. It condemns ingratitude as a vice that makes all other vices seem disgusting.
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Texas
Peruna Medicine Co Claims Catarrh Cures Via Letters
A United States Marshal and others praise Peruna for curing catarrh in letters to The Peruna Medicine Co. from Hazelhurst Mississippi, Buffalo New York, and Washington D.C. endorsements highlight quick relief and urges readers to contact Dr Hartman for guidance. The copy touts Peruna as a universal remedy with rapid effects on inflamed mucous membranes.
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Lon EB
RB. Deviner
Fred West Virginia
Washington, D.C
Peruna Medicine Co. Sa
Peruna
Mary Cy. Mentress
Weitestrom
Fa. Hartman
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Friendship With a Whale and Smuggling Profits
The article reviews Frank M Hullens tales of the whale The Orphan noting its vast size and beasts warlike battles it recalls that fourteen harpoons were embedded in its bladder. It then explains U S customs law and reward shares for smuggling seizures with officers receiving 25 percent and informants 35 percent up to 5100. Prior law in 1874 claimed 60 percent of proceeds with rest divided among port collectors and captors.
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Kipling
Frank Mhullen
McClure, Phillips & Co
Congress
Treasury Department
Farmer wife asks about Broadway in New York visit
Yonker's Statesman quotes a farmer and his wife discussing Broadway on his return home. The report notes the British war loan was oversubscribed about four times.
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Broadway
New York
Yonker’s Statesman
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Qanaca
W V. Benett
New York Life Building
Omaha
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Warren
N.Y
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Oriental
Teel A. Sayre
Gouraud
U. S
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T. Hopkins
Great Jones St
York
Mlb
Washington County
United States
Matthews
Mississippi
J. PF. Crnon
Huttale
Ube Scheo
Grand Island
Ss. M. Adsit
Qa. P
ST. Joseph, MC
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Kent Worth
W. L. Douglas
Dlaes
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Douglanr
Abrucktum
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Johnny
Plains
Sara
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