Millionaire land deal in Arlington leads to backyard land swap
Fragments tell of W. W. Corcoran owner of the Arlington Hotel Wenbington Wis 90 ready to extend a building. An elderly neighbor offered a back yard parcel for sale and a frank letter exchange sparked a land purchase plan amid social gossip and anecdotal quotes from Harvard’s Barrett Wendell and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tee
W. W
Corcoran
Washington, D. C
Meiden
James Foilans
Baltimore
Milwaukee Sentinel
Gorcoran
Arlington Hotel
Wenbington
Wis
Indy
Milli Onaire
Slaaert
Mississippi Cotton Damage Dominates State Crops Outlook
Mississippi faces widespread cotton losses with claims of a near total failure in Claiborne Holmes Bolivar and other delta counties. Officials warn yields may barely reach 1 million bales while other sectors show recovery in timber and industry as tax and infrastructure efforts proceed.
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Mississippi
Claiborne County
Holmes
Delta
Bolivar
Washington
Sunflower
Allahatchie
Leake County
Journey into the home of priceless Kashmir shawls and roads
A traveler describes a 195 mile bumpy cart road journey by tonga from Rawal Pindi to Srinagar through Kashmir. He praises the mountain road carved from rock with cliff edges and the Jhelum below, notes floods and avalanches, and laments beggars and high prices dulling utopian beauty. He warns of crowded beggars and scarce workers in a sparsely populated land.
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Tonga
Kashmir
India
Jhelum
Jong
Winges
Rawal Pind
Srinagar
Deodar
Scotland
Ireland
The Passing of the Bore
An Irish style cartoon line recounts a boastful exchange as I passed your house yesterday. The dialogue mocks a boastful character and his casual social bravado in a comic frame.
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Sloper
Self made man Alice Herbert comments on regrets
The report quotes Alice-Herbert claiming self reliance while noting Kitty-How's harsh remarks about regret. Harner's Basar is referenced with a commentary on aging and intelligence, and Chicago News quotes tease about the czar's baby learning to speak Russian as seen in the Boston Globe.
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Alice
Herbert
Kitty
Harner
Chicago News
Boston Globe
Solomon
Germany
Indianapolis
A Boy's Industry In Writing
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt cites a Chicago mother who transformed her son Harry into a diligent writer. The mother says Harry now spends two hours daily writing after being instructed to make a best hand list of Christmas desires.
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Barret Wendell
Harvard
Brown
Jimmy
Inslsting
James
Carrie Chapman Catt
Woman Suffrage Association
Chicago
Harry
Colored preacher improvises sermon on pills at revival
An Indianapolis sermon ends with the preacher choosing a reader’s topic pills. He jokes about many medicine pills and shifts to a spiritual angle on remedies for the soul, calling them gospills as the service continues.
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Indianapolis
Short-Sighted Drummer and Pushy Postmistress Tale
A Chicago drummer recalls a Michigan village post office where a talkative postmistress delays cashing a money order. She demands identification, keeping him in town two days, while later a lawyer travels 20 miles to confirm his identity. The item mocks post office procedures and delivers a string of cartoonish quips and ads.
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Washington Belle
Washington
The
Washington Post
Michigan
Chicago
Daily News
Sam
James M. Blank
United States
The Strain of Work and Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement
Lieut. George G. Warren of No. 8 Chemical Washington D C credits Dean's Kidney Pills with easing kidney trouble and back strain after years of suffering. He says lifting six hundred pounds recently caused no ill effects and that other remedies failed. Stamps say for sale by all dealers at 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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George G. Warren
No. 8 Chemical
Washington, D. C
Dean
Kinney
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised by Mothers
Two letters from women describe relief from stomach problems and improved health after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs Fraxx Berer of Meriden credits the tonic with enabling a full-term pregnancy and a healthy baby girl. Mrs May P Wuanny of Milwaukee reports renewed strength and a healthy daughter after treatment.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
May P. Wuanny
The
Norman
Milwaukee, Wis
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Jimmie Wao
Honora
Albany Journal
Silver Bow
Helena
Artemus I. Litchfield
Canada
Louisville Herald
Maren Daly
Senator Hearst
J. B. Haggin
New York
Daly
Hearst
Troms
Geet Et Isa
Tec Sineio Sepraces of
Gastoria
Bears
Castoria
Mississippi State News
Jackson
Georgia
Alabama
Pike
Wilkinson
Circuit Court of
Adams
Insurance Department
Security Fire Insurance Company of
Fraternity of American Citizens
Meridian
Quitman County
Quitman
Dodson Plow Company
Tennessee
Columbus
Enterprise
Whitfield
County Boards of Supervisors
Misssissippi
Tishomingo Baptist Association
Tishomingo
Alcorn
Prentiss
Baptist Church
Chewalla
Tenn
Cross Roads Baptist Church
Tuka
Holston
Oak Hill Church
Booneville
Miss
Railroad Commission
New Orleans
Northeastern
Vicksburg
J. F. Campbell
Carroll County
Campbell
Kemper County
Messrs. Hopper
DeKalb
T. E. Hopper
Monroe
Monroe County
Board of Supervisors
Judge Dunn
Gulf & Ship Island Road
Osyka
Illinois Central Road
Dunn
Commission
McKay
New Railroad
Columbus, Memphis and
Pensacola
Wirt Adams
Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Company
Dr. McGee
Sean
Omer
Elia
Heart
Kline
Kine
Arch St
Philo
Sorghum
Washington Star
Wall Street
Detroit
W. O'Brien
Ave
N . Minneapolis
Minn
Yonkers Statesman
London
Se Ees
Wild Cata,— Uch
Lydia E
Pinkham Mod. Co
Lynn, Maas
W. L. Douglas Ie
W. TL. Douglas
W. L. Dougisa
W. L. Douglas
M. Gray Knowles
Phila. Srookten
Douglas
Corona Colt
Brockton
Mass
L.inke
St. Louis World’s Fair
St. Louis Union Station
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
New Haven
Conn
Anakesis
Peere
Ana FF
Gr. H.W. Green's Sons
Bex D
Allants
Stralia Famely
Delfvream
Whiting
Gus
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