A Rural Letter Cartooned in Cider and Poetry
The narrator recalls visits to Uncle Joe White and neighbors as Mary’s life is saved by a poem. he writes verses for Zeb Davis and Joe Robbins, meets Squire Lee and Aunt Hannah, and pens an obituary for a lamb, all in a nostalgic town portrait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe White
Abe
Martha
Zeb Davis
Zeb
Mary
Joe
Uncle Joe
Squire Lee
Red Bridge
Joe Robbins
Hannah
Spooner
Present Day Philosophy in American Illustrated Magazine
Quotation themed piece on money power and virtue. It contrasts money's drive with character's pull toward good. It asserts that social excuses excuse wrongdoing and notes leadership can fail to impart true thought. It ends with a warning about self deception before God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
American Illustrated Magazine
Steves and Sons Carload Buyer Claims Big Savings
A brief notice from Steves & Sons states they purchase goods in car load lots to secure savings for local customers, highlighting bulk sourcing as a cost-cutting method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steves & Sons
Blood Sucking Flies And Their Venomous Traits In Texas
The Sunday Light describes venomous insects with defense tools and sucking organs. It highlights blood feeding flies like the Texas horse fly that spread morbid products through inoculation, causing fatalities in animals and humans during hot seasons across prairies where cattle and decaying carrion abound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natural History
Texas
Texas Cattlefly Attacks and Blowfly Biology Examined
The article describes wide spread cattlefly damage to cattle and notes other flies feeding on decaying matter. It details blowfly reproduction with up to 20 000 eggs from a single fly and explains the fly’s blood feeding apparatus and potential public nuisance. It calls for stronger pest control beyond existing methods.
Fly and Skeeter Chorus Banned in Bitter Malaria Context
A dialect wind of 19th century malaria lore appears in Mariani's Coca Leaf medica excerpt. The speaker rejects flies and mosquitoes, contrasting danger with past slaves and white folks, warning the creatures to stop singing and to stay away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mariani
Medica
Skeeter
National waterways convention urged for rapid harbor work
Col Walter Gresham and Galveston interests back a national waterways congress planned for Washington DC January 15. The movement, led by the Ohio Valley Improvement Association and supported by the rivers and harbors and trans Mississippi groups, seeks liberal federal funding to speed river and harbor improvements benefiting commerce nationwide.
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Galveston
Tex
National Waterways Congress
Baltimore
Walter Gresham
Deep Water Committee
Washington, D. C
Robert Ramsay
Col. Gresham
Deepwater Committee
Chamber of Commerce
The
Business League
Maritime Association
Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade For
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
United States
Cincinnati
National Congress
National Waterways Conference
trans-Mississippi Congress
Portland
Trans- Mississippi Congress
Rivers and Harbors Congress
East
Central West
Missippi River
Congress
Business League and
Cotton Exchange
West
Wreck Expert Discusses Causes of Ship Disasters
A veteran wreck expert, speaking as a representative of insurance underwriters, cites 400 shipwreck investigations. He highlights causes such as fog, neglect of sounding, and unknown currents, noting dangerous waters off eastern England and Cape Usant and Cape Finister. He mentions cargo shift via long feed pipes and a South American four master laden with high heeled French shoes used as boxing gloves by natives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Cape Ushant
Cape Finister
Lewison's Studio Promotes New Photographic Styles
A brief notice from Lewison's Studio at 2 W. Commerce Street invites readers to call and see new photographic art styles. The ad uses a moral vignette about effort and success featuring a line from Henry Coyle in Success Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Coyle
Success Magazine
Lewison
Commerce Street
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Clower’s
Cak
Honest Abe
U.S
Thompson Lee
Earth
Aunt Hanner
MR. Harriman
Pacific Railroads
E. H. Harriman
Wall Street
Hill
Harriman
Alaska
Edward H. Harriman
Gould
Napoleon
the Sunday Light
R. Menger
M. D
Nature
Prairie
Jerways
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