The Truth About Tobias Unveiled in a Chicago Flat
Tobias Ryan leads a double life as a devoted brother and a secret lover. His sister Hanora discovers the truth after a wedding to Dennis Maguire reveals Tobias has another household and a new wife. The reveal comes when a cheerful, decorated flat and a parasol hint at Tobias’s hidden arrangements and a shifted marriage.
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Hanora
Tobias
Twist & Taffeta
Leas
Beyant
Hanora Ryan
Dennis Maguire
Tobias Ryan
Dennis
Mrs. Maguire
Lord
Chicago
Pullmar
Larch
Shipping Department
Ryan
Chicago Tribune
Snakeskin Belts as Treasures of the Fair Sex
Glenwood Springs report from Hotel Colorado shows lady guests adopting snakeskin belt fashion. Daily females gather near the electric light company plant to glimpse a marked bull snake that dwells there, hunting for reptiles. Some accompany by escorts, others brave solo, pulling the reptile by the tail if it hides. Miss Hamberger and Miss Curtiss of Chicago are among many women donning snakeskin belts as trophies of a pastime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Denver
Hotel Colorado
Electric Light Company
Hamberger
Bessie Curtiss
Chicago
Passion Play plan sparks a hundred apostles idea
The Indianapolis News notes a tale of an American manager who saw the Passion Play and vowed to reproduce it in the United States. His ambitious plan allegedly would replace twelve apostles with a hundred, aiming to improve the performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies Frohman
Eugene Field
Indianapolis News
America
Ohio appoints six year old as Superintendent of Squirrels
Gov Nash names M Marriott of Ohio to the newly created post of superintendent of squirrels. The six year old official wears a blue uniform with large brass buttons as part of the role.
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Squirrels
Nash
Ohio
M. Marriott
American Banyan Tree in Avalon California
In Avalon on Catalina Island California stands a banyan tree claimed to be North America’s only of its kind. Its branches grow to the ground forming a rooted network, creating a dense impenetrable mass about twenty five feet in diameter and twenty feet high with a flat top and lush foliage. The tree bears a flower and red berry enhancing its striking appearance. Millions for Baseball. A million dollars is spent yearly on baseball yet health research surpasses this, prompting a mention of Hostette Stomach Bitters for digestive and urinary relief.
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Avalon
Catalina
Horses Shot With Peas In Wisconsin Pasture Incident
Horses owned by August Froeming of Wisconsin were shot with peas after wandering into a neighbor's pasture. The peas embedded an inch in their flesh, swelling and sprouting roots, causing severe pain since the July 3 incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Froeming
Wisconsin
Peruna touted as cure for summer catarrh in Omaha exhibit
Mary J. Kennedy of Armour & Co at the Trans Mississippi Exposition writes Peruna cures summer catarrh by addressing chronic catarrh stomach derangements and impure blood. She says after three months she is rejuvenated and permanently cured, inviting free samples from The Peruna Medicine Co of Columbus Ohio.
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Mary J. Kennedy
Armour & Co
Omaha
Neb
Miss Kennedy Payee
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Filipino water pipes cannons sent to Royal United Service Museum
Three small water-pipe cannons once used by Filipinos against the Americans in the late campaign were sent to the Royal United Service Institution Museum. The exterior surfaces are bound with hemp gal vanized wire and telegraph wire, showing their primitive construction.
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Royal United Service Institution
London Chronicle
Notre Dame University Ad Offered For Potential Students
Notre Dame University in Notre Dame Indiana invites readers to request a free catalog and details on terms and courses. A linked preparatory school and St Edward's Hall for younger students are highlighted. The institution emphasizes thorough higher courses and devotion to student care amid 56 years of educational service.
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Notre Dame
Ind
Notre Dame University
West
St. Edward’s Hall
Cure-alls and court rulings in a clipped era
An assortment of ads and notices: Cascar ets candy cathartic claims, a stern warning about imitations, a Notre Dame rector's move to Holy Cross college in Washington, Parker's Hair Trade Mark promises, a Supreme Court injunction against Dr Clark's Foot Powder, and Foot-Ease trademark actions. Also quotes on advertising ethics, a claim about Piso's Cure, and a coinage on watermelons and city ice in a fragmentary pages review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Laughlin
Supreme Court
Buffalo
Paul B. Hudson
Dr. Clark
Brooklyn
le Roy
N. Y
Various Household Cures and Parlor Humor in Advertisements
A collage of ads and quips touts remedies for catarrh and dandruff, a hair color product, and refunds on hats, with jokes about intellectual women and aristocracy. It also pitches Faultless Starch, Russ Bleaching Blue, Carter’s Ink, and Primley fruit gum. An excursion rate to Utah via Union Pacific is noted with specific travel dates and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Union Pacific
Salt Lake
Ogden
17Th Street
Ovarian Troubles Promised Cure by Vegetable Compound
Two letters from women praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian and womb ailments. Mrs Pixkuam from Arlington Iowa reports swelling and pain easing after one bottle, while Mrs Evans from Otisville Michigan says six bottles cured her severe symptoms and restored health.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
Pixkuam
Saurra
Arlington
Iowa
Dean Mra. Pixxitas
Pinkham
Sam
Mus
Evsix Buran
Otisville
Mich
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University OF Notre Dame
Washington Star
Congregation of the Holy Cross
Indiana
James A. Burns
Community House
Holy Cross College
Washington
Catholic University of America
Father Burns
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Catholic Educators of America
Parker
Joan F Borra
Trinity Springs
Mall
Caine Russ
Panken
Carter
Primley
California
Billy
Security
Seo Pac-Siml
Ev Hannes
E. Burlingame & CO
Cxschatony
Colorado
Lawrence St
Allea
O'Parrell
New York Avenue
Washington, D.C
Knollis & Exclusive Sheep Commission
Kansas City
Brookane
W. N. Y.denver
Xeon
J. D. Best
Autody
Bosanko
Bosanko, Philada Pe
Express
Spehal
Les Diocor
Express Argos
Adivarius
Odel
Roberts
Roberts Supply House
Minneapolis
Minn
Ani
We Rt
Brown Palace
Educatig
THE
University of Classica
A. Morrisse
M. Roberts
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