Back Pain Relief Story From Glasgow Judge
I Suffered Years With My Back reports a Glasgow Kentucky ex judge who battled back and kidney trouble. After trying many remedies a local druggist urged Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills, three months use brought kidney improvement and hope for full health. Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana sells it with a guarantee of benefit.
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Dr. Miles
J. P. Allen
City Court
Glasgow
Miles
Miles Medical CO
Elkhart
Ind
Christ's Schooling From Home to Holy Spirit
Sunday School lesson by Rev. J M Coon highlights Jesus childhood as a series of schools from ancestry and home to nature, work, synagogue, and the Holy Spirit. It urges obedience to parents, honors mothers, and stresses the moral duty of children to serve and honor their parents as part of divine training.
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Jesus
Mary
Christ
School of Nature
School of Human Society
School of the Holy Spirit
Lundie
London
Pin Test Sparks Umbrella Plan in Jocular Exchange
A Philadelphia Inquirer quip contrasts a friend praising honesty with Miss Cayenne jokingly suggesting testing a man with an umbrella. The exchange uses light satire to question virtue and reliability in everyday objects and actions.
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Miss Cayenne
Philadelphia Inquirer
Saving Mother Steps Stimulus for A Helping Hand In Home
The piece highlights a mother overwhelmed by daily chores and endless tasks. It urges family members, specifically John or Mary, to share duties like running stairs, fetching items, and aiding in the kitchen to ease her burden.
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Mother
John
Mary
What Kept Her Back From School
A mother consoles her daughter Ethel who resents school due to repeated spelling failures as the teacher keeps changing words, leaving the child discouraged about learning and prospects at the teacher’s inconsistent spelling.
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Ethel
Author Promises Quick Fix for Kansas Clone Scene
A Chicago Record quip notes publisher complaining about missing atmosphere. The author agrees to add a chapter detailing how the hero rescues the heroine from death in a Kansas clone, signaling a swift narrative adjustment.
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Kansas
Chicago Record
Not So Funny Then Donny’s Night Time Prayer
A child kneels with his grandmother to recite a line about dying before waking, then descends to fix Ted’s wooden soldiers after an interrupted bedtime prayer. The grandmother rebukes the interruption while acknowledging the boy’s boyish mischief and lingering fear.
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Donny
Ted
Grandmother's Farm Visit Prayer Fragment
A child asks God to excuse a trip to Gran'ma Howe's and describes rural chores and play days. The verse mentions cows, haystacks, brooks, and horse riding, contrasts with a prayer life, and ends with planning to sleep again when returning home. Maria Talbot is cited as the source in Lippincott's.
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Howe
Jack Chinn and the "even tempahed" man remark in Harrodburg
A Kentucky colonel riffs on the phrase about Jack Chinn and Harrodburg lore. He recalls Ole man Hutchins, who called Chinn the most even tempered man ever yet mad all the time. The dialogue echoes regional character and humor from Chicago sources.
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Kentucky
Jack
Helping Mother A Child's Playful Call to Duty
A tender vignette shows a little girl wishing to be grown to help her mother. The mother responds that children are meant to assist now, using their nimble feet and fingers to bring and carry for her, reflecting a belief in early family duty.
Somebody Else poem excerpt about others' feelings
A brief verse reflects on how others feel about a child's behavior and moods. It notes that while a child frowns, someone else grieves, and when a child smiles, someone else rejoices, highlighting the empathy of observers.
Laziest Man on Earth Found by Sea Travellers
Sailors stopping at the Solomon Islands report a notably lazy ruler named Chief Sonoa. Described as the shortest and heaviest of Kanaka leaders, he allegedly weighs about 365 pounds and has many wives. His legend includes a scene where he rests on the beach while a wife smokes, blows tobacco smoke into his mouth, and he inhales before exhaling. The tobacco and leaf mix is said to induce sleep, portraying the king as a luxurious, indolent figure.
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Solomon Islands
East Indies
Chotsene
Caristoval
Kenakes
Chief Sonoa
Kanakas
Islands
Woman rents flats and doubles rents by gossip scheme
An enterprising landlady sublets furnished rooms in a new building and secretly raises rents by exploiting tenants' gossip. She quotes high initial prices and warns of reductions, telling each applicant to keep it confidential. Within two weeks rents rose as tenants compared others.
Dining at a Chicago restaurant sparks curiosities
Kent Cooyer observed a well to do young man and a novice diner at a Chicago eatery. The man ordered a cigar and a demi tasse while the woman declined the cigar and asked for coffee. The waiter paused to note the final order as the couple finished their dessert.
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Kent Cooyer
Chicago
Fidgeting Children and Early Development Beliefs
A 19th century view claims still children become slow-witted while active infants will be clever. It urges parents to encourage arm and leg movement and playful finger and toe activity in infancy and beyond, opposing strict stillness.
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Pella
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J. J. Sybenga
Leighton, Iowa
VanderSyde & Goll
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Electric Palace
J. M. Coon
Chicazo UL
Temple
Saving Mother Steps
Jimmy Brown
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Maria Talbot
Lippincott’s
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
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Iowa
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