Broadway Jones and the Three Times Widow
Broadway Jones known as Broadway flees Jonesville for New Yorks White Way. After four years he falls into debt and faces engagement to Mrs. Gerard the widow. Wallace confronts the match while Rankin guards the mansion as Broadway and Beatrice plot a future.
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Jackson Jones
Broadway
New York
Jonesville
Abner Jones
Judge Spotswood
Robert Wallace
Gerard
Wallace
Mr. Jones
Mule and Mischief Roars Through Cuban Plantations
A traveling tobacco man recalls riding a mule on Cuban plantation tours. The animal’s tireless speed and willful pace outpaced his group until a single Spanish profanity halted it. He admits misusing words in Spanish and learning from the trek.
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Cuba
John Gilpin
Pearls From East Africa and The Possible Pearl Trade
East African natives offer cooked pearls from oysters gathered for food at low water. Most pearls are small and colored by cooking, but rare fine specimens appear, with one claimed sale of $5,000 in Zanzibar. Oysters bearing pearls exist on the coast, yet little effort has tested a profitable industry potential.
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Zanzibar
Mrs Lapsling Explains Cure for Contagious Diseases
Mrs Lapsling warns about contagious diseases and recalls using sulphur candles to disinfect the house after Johnny recovered from measles. The Chicago Tribune reports her remarks in a brief household advice note.
Remarkable Case of Mrs Ham Shamrock Mo Health Recovery
Mrs Jossin Ham of Shamrock Missouri describes severe health issues including fever, weakness, insomnia and nervous spells. After taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier she reports restored sleep, energy, appetite, and relief from hot flashes and pains. She celebrates renewed health and family happiness.
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Shamrock, Mo
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jossin Ham
Box
Shamrock
Missouri
Lydia F. Pinkham
Frenchman’s aero skiing craft eyed for polar expeditions
Count Bertrand de Lessups builds an air propelled machine with ski chassis and metal guard, capable of 15 to 60 mph on snow and near 100 mph with wheels on prop pins. Shackleton plans to take such craft to the Antarctic. abroad it’s called aero skiing.
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Bertrand de Lessups
Suez Canal
Antarctic
Shackleton
Brainy purchase and road to knowledge
A quip recaps Squibbs and Old man Jones buying a hogshead of brains. Gibbs jokes he cannot eat them all in six months. The punchline reveals the brains came with the hog, while a schoolboy aside notes too many switches along the road to knowledge.
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Chala Ulull
Wallace
Scott
Rankin
James Gerard
Squibbs
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Roadway Jones
Edward Marshall
George M.coran
United States
Etter
Mr. Wallace
Peter Pembroke
Champion's Hill
Black River
Gautadarates
Jones
Jackson
Gert
Mrs. Gerard
Beatrice
Bob
A Aan
East Africa
Ham
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