The Night Blooming Millers Obsessive Millers at Night
We observe the Millers a two story frame house near the corner living as a female household. They skip conventional meals, wake late, and hide from daylight. By night their home brightens, guests fill the rooms, and chatter and music echo through streets until the small hours.
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Millers
Miller
Amy Miller
Amy
Uss
Maltie
Ulster
Beulah Miller
Beulah
Milter
Bule
Realah
A Necessary Precaution at College Function
Invitations to a college function included explicit dress instructions for foreign professors. One organizer explained the need after a previous event, where a German savant appeared in a dress suit and carpet slippers due to confusion about attire.
Parody of Millinery Slump Blamed on Men and News Trade
Censors of Fifth Avenue report a millinery slump unseen in twenty years. High class milliners complain men and newspapers mocked early extreme hat styles, causing demand to fall and prices to collapse from former highs to ten to fifteen dollars.
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Fifth Avenue
New York Sun
Illinois Brevities Report From Clinton And Towns
Clinton reports a jury finding Col Thomas Snell insane at his death, nullifying a large will bequest and altering annuities. Royal sees a fatal head on collision between two trains. Rockford notes a boy nearly loses a leg to a rope accident and a Civil War veteran dies by suicide during illness. Numerous small items include drownings, disappearances, and local legal notices across Illinois towns.
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Clinton
Thomas Snell
Col. Snell
Mabelle Snell MccNamara
Heira
Fi Bo
Champaign
Ilinois
Royal
Here
W. E. Barker
Chicago
Paulson
Vila Grove
F. H. Hollenbeck
R. Berger
Villa Grove
Oscar Thomas
Rockford
Andrew Nelson
Effngham
Dudley Bourland
Carlyle
Pocahontas
Bond County
Canton
Philbrick
Kewanee
Gerald Landis Johnson
Colvin Park
Yvene
Illinois Central
Adelia W Hamumond
Galesburg
Ransom Sanitarium
Ransom
Peona
Jeannette Dolan
Richard Carle
James Dolan
Chillicothe
Columbia Park
Monmouth
Guy C. Scott
Edinburg
Samuel Brandt
Sterling
George H. Forks
Sterling ¥. M. C. A
Lagrange
George Marshall Fox
Illinois
Cecil Sturdevant
Ada Faldwin
Neaga
Landis
Presbyterian Church
Mount Caramel
Mary T. Tonatw
Colored man tried for clothes theft in Charlestown court
A colored man confessed to stealing clothing including a dress suit an overcoat and a silk hat in Charlestown. The plaintiff valued the items at 80 75 and 10 dollars respectively, while the defendant claimed he took the items but not at those prices. The judge indicated he would weigh the case before deciding punishment.
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Charlestown
Plaintiff
Inked Exchange Sparks Plainspoken Wit in Neighborly Banter
In a brief scene Williams boasts of a fountain pen’s smooth run while his neighbor, blotting his trousers, hints at having an inkling about the matter. The quick échange captures a moment of dry humor and casual domestic reportage.
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Williams
Missionary talk on heaven and hades at Cleveland dinner
Mme Helene Vincente, a noted Congo missionary, notes Americans fit heaven to their tastes. She recalls a Georgia preacher who altered hades to ice cold to spare his people from frost and to avoid unrest among elderly believers.
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Mme
Helene Vincente
Congo
Cleveland
Hades
Laymen Battle White Plague Says TB Study
A National Association report shows nearly 450 percent of volunteers in the anti tuberculosis campaign are laymen and the layman share has tripled in four years.
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National Association For the Study
F Pravention
A Series of Breakages in Wordplay
A brief humor item notes Banks had his engagement broken and asks if he took it hard. It states he was broken up after the break and then he broke down, delivering a concise pun on relationship mishaps.
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Banks
Toasties Post Toasties described as tempting pearly corn snack
An advertising blurb extols Post Toasties as golden brown crisp morsels with a rich flavor. The corn cereal is praised for its texture and mouthfeel, noting it is pearly white corn cooked, rolled and toasted. The copy lists pricing in popular package sizes.
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By Marion Hill
B. Lippincott Co
Tem
Brown
Harper’s Weekly
Post
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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