Aerial Navigation in America and the Parachute’s Promise
The article traces progress in ballooning and parachutes from 19th century French beginnings to American refinements. It notes the parachute reduced some dangers though winds complicate descent, and contrasts land versus sea navigation, stressing the need for wealth-backed support and numerous test flights to advance aerial travel.
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America
Grachute
Darius Green
Green
Pennington
Chicago
Exposition Building
Go Lake
Count de la Vaulx
Mediterranean
M. S Dumont
United States
Value of an Honest Eye
A writer argues a bright honest eye can outshine recommendations. He recalls a merchant who hired a candidate who looked him in the eye despite lacking credentials, and rejected one with proper attire but dull gaze. The piece urges cultivating a fearless, straightforward look to win or lose opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isiness
Tesus
Esk
Greasewood Gum Said to Yield Rubber Substitute
A Yankee inventor patented a method to extract gum from greasewood shrubs in western deserts. Bruised stalks are soaked in carbon disulfide, liquids distilled, and the resulting gummy, elastic substance washed and purified. Described as a fair india rubber substitute with potential for desert produced gum shoes and bicycle tires.
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Deserts
India
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Sunday Piano Comment Sparks Domestic Talk
A Philadelphia Press excerpt quotes Mrs Nexdore criticizing a daughter for playing piano on Sunday while Mrs Epperys questions why Sunday is singled out, reflecting family debate over Sunday music and etiquette.
Ambition, Excuses, and Lively Parodies of Daily Life
A stream of brief jokes and quips from various newspapers notes a boy’s wish to write and spell better to excuse tardiness, a shopkeeper’s mock theft with a pun about kleptomania, a coal shortage turned into a playful domestic poem request, and short gags about a smokeless boy, a moustached youth, an actor who fails to get an encore, and a ticket-seeking misfit. The items mix humor and everyday scenes with light satire from Chicago and New York papers.
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Johnny Doolittle
Chicago Post
Tunnel Travel Echo in Chicago Daily News
A quirky dialogue from Chicago Daily News recalls a tunnel journey with Mrs. Stubbs and Mr. Stubb debating its length and their memory of wishing the journey would end. The exchange captures light newspaper-style humor and period voice.
Language as vehicle of thought sparks town topics
A playful York Weekly style item notes poor tooling of thought and a Western trader promising payment after a stand up deal. It contrasts a chief clerk and firm head mocks cattlemen while noting the seller is an undertaker, reflecting urban humor and commerce ambiguity.
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N. Y
Hearts Not Trumps in a Cigar Pocket Quip
A young man laments a broken moment and tells a maiden that she has broken his smoke stash. He ribs himself explaining the ten cent cigars stored in his vest pocket while the pair exchange witty barbs in a playful scene.
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Chicago Daily News
Can't Get Away. Townsman Quarantined Over Smallpox
In a Philadelphia Press item, Cillman notes Mr Backlett is quarantined at home due to smallpox. Subbubs confirms the house has the illness with a sick child. the servant girl is also quarantined, though he downplays the severity.
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Cillman
Mr. Backlett
Philadelphia Press
Humorous Quips From Dailies Show Off Beat Gossip
A collage of light dialogue from 19th century newspapers features Mrs Tompkins and Mrs Simpson debating a son's imagined heartbreak, a playful line about Archibald's self love, a gag about a wife’s daily dress needs and a clever aside on a patient’s recovery by a “clevah surgeon” note in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Just Giddy Girls and City Gossip Nuggets
A collage of humorous exchanges from various papers presents flippant dialogue. A Philadelphia Press item mocks a rich heiress and a suitor, Chicago Tribune notes a playful marriage remark, New York Weekly captures domestic banter, and Puck delivers a quip about Bronco Bill and a loan. The snippets showcase light social wit and urban repartee.
Plum pudding disguises now intruding breakfast hash
In the Boarding House the festive hash once intrusive is missed but will reappear disguised as new plum pudding as noted by the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Quote about laying eggs from Brook lyn Eagle
A humorous exchange from the Brook lyn Eagle notes a speaker declining further eggs while mentioning a cook's laying for them, capturing a light moment in the publication.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Sensible talk and family banter in a late 19th century column
A quip laden dialogue features a woman remarking smoking shortens a man’s gear while a youth defends his smoking grandfather at ninety three. Aunt Wayback critiques a bolero jacket as sensible, noting its foldable front to prevent dropping vit tles, with a closing gag about fired hearts and a father figure.
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Wayback
N. ¥. Weekly
Peruna touted as preventive and cure for winter colds
An advertisement extols Peruna as a preventive and cure for catarrh linked to winter colds. It urges taking at first symptoms to stop spread and offers free medical advice from Dr. Hartman, president of The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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Hartman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
PERUNA Praised By Memphis Women For Health Boost
Several Memphis women report strong relief from colds and tonic improvements after using PERUNA. Miss Lizzie Brady and Miss Lou Cetchum describe recovery from severe ailments, including grippe and nervous exhaustion, crediting PERUNA with restoring health and vitality.
Textile unions, rails and reform in 19th century notes
A compilation notes Rochdale’s 1844 cooperative act by 28 workers with £28 cap ital. It reports The Wrapper Makers union of women striking in New York for higher wages and union recognition, and United Textile Workers uniting five textile unions. It also mentions demand for window glass, a large Chicago bascule bridge at Taylor street, built by Pennsylvania Steel for the Sanitary District at a cost of $500,000, and Georgia’s proposed child labor law barring under ten year olds from mills with limits on under 12s and under 14s without literacy. committee on labor backs the bill.
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England
Rochdale
Lancashire
New York City
United Textile Workers
Chicago
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company
Taylor Street
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Sanitary District
Georgia
Committee On Labor
A Wonderful Cure in Wright City Case
Wright City Missouri December thirty medical men debate Symes case after inflammation rheumatism plagued Joseph G Symes. He used Dodd s Kidney Pills and quickly improved with six boxes restoring full work and sleep, doctors calling his recovery nearly miraculous.
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Wright City
Symes
Joseph G. Symes
Dodd
Handsome Calendar of the Season Advertised for Auction
An advertisement offers a ten color calendar of the season titled The Handsomest Calendar of the season, a Prado reproduction in six sheets sized 10 by 12 inches. It is issued by the Passenger Department of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and will be sent on request by the Passenger Agent in Chicago.
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Prado
Moran
Chicago
Set Paul Railway
Fassenger
Chiron Re ‘&. Milcago
Man’s Mistake Leads to Downfall at Coal Office
A long time dry goods clerk ends behind a coal office counter. When a woman asks for two tons of coal, the clerk jokes with a cigarette and asks if she will take it or have it sent, a flippant remark that foreshadows his undoing, as reported by Yonkers Statesman.
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Harold
Puss
Chicago ‘Tribune
Yonkers
Baker's chocolate and cocoa trade mark alert
Consumers are urged to check packaging for the authentic Baker's trade mark as many imitations exist. A free copy of Miss Parlon's choice recipes can be obtained by writing to Walter Baker & Co. Limited in Dorchester Massachusetts.
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Baker's Chocolate
Baker’s Cocoa
Miss Parlon
Walter Baker & Co., Limited
Dorchester
Mass
Aeasda
W. L. Douglas
Corona Colt
It Wasn't Smallpox Says Quarantined Porter
A colored porter from the Hannibal and St. Joe line, quarantined in Kansas City for suspected smallpox, told acquaintances it was not smallpox at all but nutlin and celluloid, a remark cited by the Chicago Chronicle.
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Hannibal & St. Joe
Kansas City
Chicago Chronicle
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Promises Health Restore
A testimonial style ad claims all illnesses from headaches to cancer improve only when bowels are right. Cascarets Candy Cathartic is advertised as a natural relief, easy to use, costing 10 cents to start, with genuine boxes stamped C C C and warnings about imitations.
Dream Interpreted Amid Jest by Mrs Hoon Officials
In a light exchange Mrs Hoon jokes about dreams and gifts, noting a dream of an automobile and a horse, while replying that dreams often bring contrary outcomes. The playful dialogue reflects social banter and domestic humor in a historical setting.
Holiday Flowers and Greens From Chicago Florist Ad
Holiday Flowers and Greens from Chicago offer best Chicago Market selection. We fill orders for flowers and ship by express nationwide. Send trial order to G Mair Florist 580 Michigan Ave Chicago Establishment 1865.
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Chicago
G Mair
Florist
Michigan Ave
Cicago
Oakland
Hurried Wife Seeks Husband in Frantic Exchange
An agitated woman tells a calm peer she has been searching for her husband for two hours, while the other replies she has waited twenty five years for a husband. The scene, from the Tammany Times, reflects a wry cartoonish take on domestic pursuit.
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Tammany Times
Putnam Faceless Yes Sold by Drugists 10c
A Philadelphia Press snippet notes a legal or consumer item labeled Putnam Faceless Yes sold by druggists for ten cents per package. The brief mentions a policeman’s union and a copper company as part of overheard talk.
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Putnam
When a Young Lover Counts the Rent and Groceries
A Chicago Journal item notes a husband facing marriage compares to inevitability. It humorously cites a line about curing a cold with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and jokes that a young lover considers all costs except rent, butcher, grocer, clothes, and incidentals.
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