Hairy London women and industrial mergers in Providence wedding
A humorous note on London women's hair amounts to five tons of switches and frizzes. The Wooston Transcript reports a Providence wedding joining two Rhode Island manufacturing families and fortunes in an industrial merger. An Evansville boy accidentally ignites powder, and Rev. Joseph Carter is jailed in Columbus with two women on intoxication charges. He has 20 years of evangelistic work with United Brethren.
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London
United
Wooston Transcript
Providence
Rhode Island
Joseph Carter
Columbus
Jennie Jackson
Lizzie Guess
Carter
United Brethren Church
Indiana
Snyvestment Advice From The American Cultivator
The American Cultivator promotes first mortgage on another farm as the best investment for a farmer or his wife. It notes the panic caused many investments to fail but a cautious mortgage loan can be worth full value at Wiss Worth, selling for one hundred cents on the dollar.
Naval experts urged to curb war fever in peaceful pause
The Boston Post argues that reducing political hysteria hinges on naval and military experts halting bickering. Such discord prevents nations from forgetting the reality of war and hampers any chance for calm.
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The
Boston Post
Concrete figure dwarfs local housing units in canal report
The Panama canal report estimates the concrete for locking would build over 22 eight room city houses, illustrating the scale of the work. The remark notes the concrete is more impressive than the abstract.
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Panama
Few Denatured Alcohol Plants Yet Established Nationwide
The commissioner of internal revenue reports only ten suits have been set up nationwide to manufacture denatured alcohol. The note stresses the industry’s potential as a boon while recognizing the time required to create a functioning system linking consumer and producer.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Tme
Public relief and labor colonies in Holland
The passage describes 5000 acres divided into six model farms where paupers are sent for agricultural instruction before renting small holdings. It notes a forced labor colony that ships vagrants to perform farm and other tasks whether they consent.
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Holland
Public health crusades gain momentum against disease
The movement to safeguard public health has expanded greatly in recent years. Organized campaigns and scientific methods in disease prevention are becoming common, with optimism that germ resistance will prevail against opposition, as urged by the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Day in Jealous Rage Kills Sweetheart in Rensselaer
Daniel Day, son of a local contractor, shot and killed his sweetheart Miss Madaleine Phillips in a jealous rage. Day is under arrest.
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Daniel Day
Rensselaer
Madaleine Phillips
Day
Overflow Floodwaters Halt Spring Planting on Kankakee Bend
It is believed much of the rich bottom land along the Kankakee river cannot be cultivated this spring due to high water. Hundreds of acres remain overflowed to depths of twelve to sixteen inches.
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Kankakee River
Will H. Craig Takes Over State Republican Press Bureau
Will H. Craig editor of the Noblesville Ledger assumed management of the State Republican press bureau last week. He succeeds Geo. Lockwood secretary to Vice-President Fairbanks.
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Will H. Craig
The
Noblesvile Ledger
State Republican Press Bureau
Geo. Lockwood
Fairbanks
Standard Steel Car Plant Closes After Large Layoffs
The Standard Steel Car Company, the largest industry in Diammond, has closed. About 600 men were laid off earlier and 1,200 more have since been discharged, leaving the plant idle. The payroll prior to closure ran about $150,000 per month.
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Standard Steel Car Company
Diammond
Hemenway Denies Charge Over Daughter Clerk Claim
United States Senator Janes A. Hemenway of Boonville issues a statement denying a magazine accusation that his daughter Lena M. Hemenway acts as clerk for the senate committee he chairs. The senator rejects the charge.
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United States
Janes A. Hemenway
Boonville
Lena M. Hemenway
Senate
Hemenway
Jle
Watson Gives Away 20 000 Roses In Indianapolis Campaign Stop
Congressman James Se Watson of Rushville republican candidate for governor handed out 20 000 American Beauty roses at his Indianapolis headquarters before last week’s convention.
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James Se. Watson
Rushville
Indianapolis
Strange Resignation Over Marital Status Belief
Rev William Stephens, pastor of the Baptist church at Garrett, resigned after discovering he had married a couple both previously divorced, thinking he violated a law from Jeremiah twenty third chapter according to his interpretation.
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William Stephens
Baptist Church
Garrett
Saloon Keeper Joins Anti-Saloon Remonstrances
Anti-Saloon forces in Valparai filed remonstrances in the First Second and Fourth Wards. If these stand 14 saloons face closure by next November. Chris Quornholt a Second Ward saloon keeper with ten nearby signed the remonstrance.
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Valparaiso
Chris Quornholt
Fatal Fire Claimed Moran Woman in Attempted Coal Oil Start
Mrs. Fred Bell of Moran died from burns after attempting to start a fire with coal oil in her stove. The blaze endangered the home but a neighbor rescued her infant. Her husband had died in a prior runaway crash.
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Fred Bell
Moran
Grace Joyce Wins Liquor Judgment in Vevay Case
Mrs Grace Joyce of Vevay through her attorneys recovered a $2000 judgment on a verdict against Hugh Brown saloon keeper of Vevay for liquor sold to her husband James Joyce. The intoxication led to Joyce shooting and killing Jesse Harper. Joyce was convicted and is serving a life term.
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Grace Joyce
Vevay
Hugh Brown
James Joyce
Joyce
Jesse Harper
Hartford City Pastor Uses Printer's Ink for Revival Ad
Rev. F C McCormick of Hartford City Christian Church runs a five inch single column advertisement in local papers to call attention to ongoing revival meetings at his church.
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F.C. McCormick
Hartford City Christian Church
Indiana Purdue football rivalry restored for fall
Indiana and Purdue have made up and will meet in football this fall for the first time in three years. The announcement comes from Jimmy Sheldon Indiana's athletic director.
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Indiana
Purdue
Jimmy Sheldon
Express Rate Cut Ordered by Indiana Railroad Commission
The Indiana Railroad Commission ordered a 10 to 12 percent reduction in interstate express rates for Indiana operators, totaling about 100000 dollars in annual income across all companies. Companies have 30 days to comply, with potential court action if any loopholes are found. The ruling is described as one of the commission's most important decisions affecting all Indiana express firms.
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Indiana Railroad Commission
Indiana
Heir to $2 Million Estate Delayed Until Sixty
John Owen, a 21 year old from Princeton, inherits a Newark NJ estate valued at two million but must live on interest until age sixty. With 4 percent, he would receive about $80,000 yearly. He resides in Hazleton and reportedly engaged to a local woman, though no wedding announced.
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John Owen
Princeton
Oweno
Newark
N. J
Owen
Hazleton
Treasure legend spurs digging near Silver Creek loop
Longstanding tale claims a hidden stash of over 26000 in old Spanish silver lies buried near the loop on Silver Creek east of New Albany. Treasure seekers, influenced by clairvoyants, have dug holes hoping to locate the hidden wealth dating to the early 1800s frontier era.
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Silver Creek
New Albany
Planked First Shad You Have Broken Up Housekeeping
A clipped Harper's Weekly item notes a dialogue about broken housekeeping with a quip on a poor, dear father going to board. The fragment hints at social humor of households and financial strain.
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Harper’s Weekly
Rail way stocks watered from a pool
A humorous item from the Chicago News features dialogue about rail stock watering. Little Willie asks how stock watering occurs and Pa explains it as done from a pool, reflecting a playful regional exchange.
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Willie
Chicago News
One Too Many
A Philadelphia Ledger quip frames a convict claiming double life due to two wives waiting outside, illustrating ironic irony about jail sentences. The exchange features a prison visitor and the jailed man describing his predicament with a grim humor slight.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Newlyweds The Cook in Traveling Gown
Mrs Newlywed laments and reveals she found the cook in the kitchen wearing a traveling gown while the newlyweds question why. The humorous domestic scene appears in Harper's Weekly.
Peculiar Facts and Oddities From Across the World
A collage of curious notes covers natural history, science, and travel. Topics include animal biology, ancient myths, mining soil, falcons in war, rheumatism diets, air and water weights, bees and honey birds, a Vienna mint incident with wasps, gold sandals for a Boston lodge, and colonial exchanges.
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Switzerland
Vienna
Humansdorp
Cape Colony
Cain
Abel
South Africa
Lynn
Boston
Kentucky
Tennessee
America
Africa
London
The Raising of Lazarus Sunday School Lesson
A Sunday School text on John 11 32 to 45 describing Mary and Jesus at Bethany Lazarus is raised after four days. It covers Marys faith Jesus sympathy and his miracle guiding teachers to discuss time place and the work of Jesus and its meaning for believers.
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Mary
Jesus
Martha
Father
Lazarus
Bethany
Bethabara
Jordan
Hurlbut
Christ
Purdue Ring Proposed for University Alumni
A Lafayette correspondent reports Purdue University may award a uniform ring for graduates, mirroring Princeton and other eastern universities. Alumni groups in Pittsburg New York Cleveland and Chicago have endorsed the plan with Murray Grant of Seattle proposing a Purdue seal at the ring’s center.
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Purdue University
Purdue
Lafayette
Ind
Indianapolis News
Princeton
Pittsburg
New York
Cleveland
Chicago
Murray Grant
Seattle
Wash
General Alumni Association
Flirting Advice Quotation From Detroit Free Press
A proverb about flirtation warns that those who tease and flee escape harm while those who linger to wed must remain vigilant. The Detroit Free Press edition presents this cautionary couplet with a playful moral.
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Detroit
Presa
The Wrong Tense in Dorothea’s Father’s Daydream
Dorothea interrupts her father as he kneels by a window in his country house. He gazes into the fields and mutters about looking into the future, prompting the quip that the future lies in the pasture. Harpers Weekly.
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Dorothea
Papa
Harpe 'S
The Locals Crisis Call Ignites Ominous Debate
A Louisville Courier Journal page quotes a solemn citizen declaring the time has come to face a crisis and a frivolous friend asking which magazine. The exchange signals rising public unease and speculative commentary within the community.
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Louisville Courier. Journal
Vaudeville Boost for Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens
The Pittsburg Post notes a shift as whistling girls and crowing hens gain acceptance and earnings in vaudeville. The piece highlights a four generation stigma turning into opportunity for performers and animal acts alike.
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Pittsburg
Eczema Cure Promised by Cuticura Remedies
Walter W. Paglusch of Chicago reports a year of severe itching from eczema ended after using Cuticura Soap, Cuticura, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills costing 1.25. He says he is completely cured and credits the treatment with relief. The notes mention dates Oct 5 and 16, 1908.
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Walter W. Paglusch
N. Robey St
Chicago
Old Tale Echoes in Chicago News Umpire Reference
A playful Chicago News line recalls Argus with a hundred eyes as a witty image while praising a teacher named Jimmy and noting Billy Gee would be a fine baseball umpire.
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Jimmy
Argus
Billy—Gee
Chicago News
Hall's Catarrh Cure testimonial from F J Cheney & Co
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio pledges one hundred dollars for each catarrh case uncured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason records oath dated December 6, 1886. Company claims cure works through blood and mucous surfaces and offers testimonials. product sold by all druggists. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Oto
Toledo
Lecas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A.W. Gleason
KF. J. Cheney & CO
All Drugeists
Poor John and Mary Wit From Everybody's Magazine
Senator Depew recounts a wife and false hair anecdote where a husband hides to confront his wife about wearing another woman hair and Mary retorts about another calf skin on her feet. The joke illustrates wit and gendered humor from a 19th century magazine.
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Depew
Mary
John
Everybody’s Magazine
Gardens of the world by regional titles
The text lists various regions nicknamed as gardens of nations: England’s Kent and Worcestershire. Ireland’s Carlow. Belgium and Italy as gardens of Europe. Amboise in Indre-et-Loire as France’s garden. Sicily as Italy’s garden and Andalusia as Spain’s. Ceylon and Burma in the east. Oude in India. Glamorganshire as south Wales’ garden. and the area west of the Mississippi called the garden of the world.
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England
Kent
Worcestershire
Ireland
Carlow
Leinster
Italy
Belgium
Europe
France
Amboise
Indre-et- Loire
Sicily
Spain
Andalusia
Ceylon
Burma
India
Oude
Glamorganshire
South Wales
Mississippi
Waiters Tipping Waiters Reflects on Etiquette
A gray headed man recalls a scene in a restaurant where a shift of waiters served diners who had just eaten, and then each waiter tipped the waiter who served him. He notes tipping as a customary practice among waiters and reflects on its mutual nature.
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New York Sun
Road Through Difficulty Seen Safer Than Bypass Route
A saying notes that the path through hardship is harder but yields greater safety than a detour. The maxim emphasizes caution in choosing routes when facing obstacles.
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