Retired man endorses Cooper medicines in letter
BE H Lambert of Everett Massachusetts writes that after suffering kidney disease for years he found relief within 24 hours from Cooper medicines. He says his wife also improved stomach distress and nervousness after taking the remedy, claiming the stomach is the main sickness cause and Cooper has a remarkable medicine.
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Cooper
BE. H. Lambert
Francis Street
Everett
Mass
Itr
Lambert
Bright
Cooner
T. GC
Basye
Thought He Could Buy Them Cheap
An elderly German at a lodging house door argues about a misread ad for a bedroom suit. The boarding house mistress scolds him, and he reads the ad aloud, exposing the humorous confusion over a cheap sale.
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Germen
Tenants Must Have Babies in New Phipps Apartments
A Philadelphia Press note discusses Henry Phipps erecting affordable Allegheny, Pennsylvania flats, with a policy that tenants must be parents of at least one child. The larger the family, the better. The piece also shares humorous theatrical quips about stage kinks and rent jokes from old plays.
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Henry Phipps
Allegheny
Philadelphia
Phipps
Roderick Dhu
Roderick
Wilziames
Sadler's Wells
Cornhill Magazine
Bavarian Peasant Converts Hats Into Makeshift Aquarium
A Munich incident describes a peasant who buys a new hat and keeps both by placing the new hat atop the old. Amid a platform crush the fish bowl breaks, fish spill out, and he stuffs them into the old hat, fills it with water at a tap, and boards his train smiling.
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Munich
Cor
London
Globe
Facing a Waterspout in the South Seas
Beatrice Grimshaw describes a waterspout forming from a black cloud trunk toward the sea. A colossal cone and a vast black pillar rise as the storm joins cloud and water, a terrifying sight framed by a copper crimson sunset and a ship at risk.
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South Seas
Beatrice Grimshaw
Illinois Doctor Claims Peanuts and Lemons Fuel Life
Dr. T J Aller of Aurora, IL, finished a sixty day test living on peanuts and lemonade and says he thrived on a 15 cent daily diet. He envisions bananas added to the regimen and plans a follow up contest comparing meat eaters to his peanut banana plan.
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Illinois
T. J.aller
Aurora
Chicago Special Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aurora Savant
Allen
Youths Trying Position Over Farm or Love at Indiana Univ
Indiana University student Dink Morgan faces a clash between a $30,000 farm and Miss Helen Trayley as dictated by his grandfather Ralph Morgan. The will bars Morgan from marrying Trayley or inheriting the farm, prompting bets on the college sweetheart versus family wealth. Trayley, beloved by classmates, is dubbed the $30,000 beants as Morgan weighs love against the estate.
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Dink Morgan
Indiana University
Helen Trayley
Bloomington
Ind
Morgan
Ralph Morgan
Miss Trayley
Extermination of Deer Advocated by Dover Banker
Elisha B. Brown a Dover banker and president of local banks calls for ending the closed deer season and exterminating the deer on humane grounds unless NH game laws allow rifles and ban shotguns. As agent for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals he cites mutilated deer and says he is legally powerless to stop the suffering.
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New Hampshire
Elisha B. Brown
Dover
Banks
N. H
New York Tribune
Brown
New Hampshire Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Scotch brides form brides club on Atlantic voyage
Seven young Scottish women arriving in New York on the Anchor Line steamer California learn mid voyage they are all bound for America on similar missions. Each man is Scottish and has long planned to bring his future wife over to marry in a manner befitting a well to do adopted American. The brides club vows to write and share wedding news once ashore.
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New York
Anchor Line
California
Glasgow
America
New York Sun
United States
Safety Devices Boost East River Tube Train Safety
The East River tunnel in New York operates under a central control with a giant illuminated diagram showing train positions. A block system allows the in charge man to halt any train by cutting power. Telephones every few hundred feet connect to dispatch and incident sites, and multiple pumping stations store fire equipment for rapid response.
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East River Tunnel
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
New York Times
New East River Tube
Bowling Green
Intesborough Company
Typewriter powered wireless messaging breakthrough claimed
Elmer Burlingame a 30 year old former Anderson Indiana wire chief claims to flash wireless messages using a standard typewriter keyboard as the key. He connected pole wires to typewriter levers and batteries and says messages traveled three miles and were accurate. He later tested between Logansport and Fort Wayne and sought a patent attracting San Francisco investors.
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Elmer Burlingame
Anderson
Ind
Burlingame
Chicago Inter Ocean
Madison County Infirmary
Logansport
Fort Wayne
San Francisco
Christian psychology envisioned for inebriate care
Bishop Samuel Fallows plans a sanitarium for treating drunkenness and drug habits using Christian psychology. The Chicago Dispatch notes wealthy donors support the plan, and Fallows says drunkenness is a nerve disease that Christian psychology can cure. He currently has no suitable facility to treat inebriates.
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Samuel Fallows
Reformed Episcopal Church
Chicago
Fleet to the Pacific Line Ahead
A vivid naval poem describes a long Pacific voyage with the admiral's signals, the roaring sea, and a shipboard crew facing storms. The poem contrasts the harsh clamor of engines and chains with the ominous rain and phantom squadrons as the voyage nears its end under a final call.
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Pacific Line
Teatime tale at the Country club sparks a bold engagement
At the Coountes Club four women gather by the big fireplace while their company of men arrives. Tressie Stuart jokes with Junior Mason as Mrs. Amesbury frets over youth and wealth. Junior proclaims his plan to marry Tressie, a moment witnessed by Angela and Aunt Georgia. The curving story ends with Tressie agreeing as Mrs. Amesbury finally acknowledges the engagement.
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Mrs. Amesbury
Tressie Stuart
Tressie
Angela Amesbury
Angela
Junior Mason
Country Club
Puffle
Barnes
Junior
Kentucky
Marion
Miss Angela
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Basye’s Drug Store
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Indiana Electrician
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Paia
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Coountes Club
M. M. Cunningham
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Metropolitan Magazine
Edgehill
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Clayton
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Sir Henry Verney
Florence Nightingale
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