Western Canada Immigration Rise and Wheat Frontier Hopes
An excerpted editorial from the Chicago Record-Herald notes Canada's 40 672 new arrivals in four months, driven by wheat lands in the Northwest. most came to Winnipeg, with Scots and English migrants high, and Americans and Continental Europeans also contributing. It predicts Canada as a growing grain rival to the United States and invites readers to seek government pamphlets and agent contacts for land grants in Western Canada.
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Chicago ‘Red-Herald
Canada
Dominion
Committee On Agriculture and Colonization of
Thewcomers
Wheatlands
Northwest Territories
Winnipeg
Great ‘Britain
United States
Great Britain
Ireland
United.States
Europe
Chicago Record-Herald
New York Life Building
Omaha
Nebraska
Defiance Cold Water Brand Promoted as Superior
The ad copy claims Defiance Cold Water Branc has no equal in quantity or quality. It asserts other brands lack the standard of beauty and references a girl as a model, typical of early 20th century consumer pitches.
Public Transportation Advertisements From Early 1900s
The item describes rail and travel promotions including routes between Missouri and Texas with prices like 18 dollars round trip. It mentions publications and addresses in St. Louis and Missouri towns, with stopovers noted at Clinton and Kincaid and travel dates in 1903.
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Texas
Missouri
Tagian
T. Ry
Clinton
Kincaid
Kan
A Lesson for Physicians on Harshness and Lordliness
A critical piece from American Medicine condemns the old rude style of medical practice. It argues that brutal, crass manner and subservience from patients no longer pay, noting a leading doctor in a large city who harms patients with irascibility. The essay calls for a gentlemanly, humane approach in modern medicine.
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Dr. Johnsons
Memory Test Baring a Clerical Pride
The late Dr. John Hall of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian once failed to recall a young man who claimed Hall had baptized him in Dublin twenty-one years earlier. The elder recounted Hall’s usual clear memory but noted this rare lapse.
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Hall
John Hall
Fifth Avenue ” Presbyterian Church
Dublin
New York Times
Around Town Dog Pleads for Kindness in Snowbound Night
In the Gonérado Springs Gazette style piece a town dog begs for food warmth and care. The speaker contrasts the dog’s misery with what a human friend might offer a pet, lamenting neglect and the cold harsh streets after a storm. The piece uses plain, empathetic language to evoke urban hardship.
The Midnight Hour Poem Fragments Incomplete
Fragmentary verse depicts a sleeper waiting for dawn and a night to pass. The speaker narrates watching the clock and moor beams while longing for a fuller day and the arrival of dawn. Dense with broken punctuation and altered spellings, it evokes nocturnal restlessness and anticipation.
Yale Negro Student Wins Ten Eyck Prize At Cambridge
Will Ald the Negro Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New York sister of JMs Roosevelt offered financial help to William Pickens Yale student who won the Ten Eyck prize for oratory. Pickens spoke at a Cambridge Citizens Trade association ladies night banquet and entertained with Yale essay and stories in negro dialect.
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Will Ald
Douglas Robinson
New York
Jms. Roosevelt
William Pickens
Yale
Pickens
Citizens’ Trade Association
Cambridge
Mass
Iowa Farms $4 Per Acre Cash Till Balance Paid
Multiline ad from Mulwall Sioux City Iowa offers $4 per acre cash and balance crop until paid. Happiness noted as a ray of sunshine between two clouds in the ad copy.
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Iowa
Mulwall
Sioux City
Defiance Starch Buy Leads to Trade Warning
Grocers report they do not stock De fiance Starch after a customer’s purchase of 16 ounce Defiance Starch. They say 12 ounce brands on hand cannot be sold to a customer who has used the larger size for game money. A humorous old remark notes a woman never pockets what she can hold in her mouth.
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Defiance
Infomercial snippets and product pitches in one page
A collage of old advertisements promotes cough remedies Defiance Starch Putnam dyes and Piso cures with claims and slogans from 1900. The bits mention Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets 25 cents a box and a Nostalgia style line about a girl and cheek along with stove ads and a cheeky note about alimony from wild oats.
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Fits Daily Home Use
A compact advertisement urges shoppers to ask grocers for Red Cross Ball Blue powder. The 2 oz package is offered at 5 cents, marketed as essential for every home.
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RED Cross
Felt Hat on Ita Travels Across Northern Europe
A felt hat blew from a tourist’s head through a railway window in Sweden last year. An honest rail employee shipped the unclaimed hat from station to station across Sweden and Norway and beyond, collecting tickets but finding no owner. The hat traversed Upsala Trondheim Christiania Gothenburg Malmo Zealand Finland and parts of Germany, becoming a famed symbol of northern honesty. Some men fail to see they are on the wrong track until they sit down on it.
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Sweden
Europe
Norway
Upsala
Trondhjem
Christiania
Goteberg
Malmo
Zealand
Finland
Germany
Man's Enmity Turned Lost Battle of Actions
A terse maxim notes that any act creating an enemy ultimately becomes a loss. It underscores the futility of confrontation and the cost of perpetual hostility.
Saved His Life in June with Dodd's Kidney Pills
Lon Manley of Whitehall Wisconsin suffering Bright's Disease was told by his home doctor there was nothing more to do. A friend urged him to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. After starting the remedy his health quickly improved and he fully recovered, praising the pills as wonderful and life saving.
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Whitehall
Mil
Lon Manley
Bright
Dodd
Manley
Warning of Nervous Prostration Linked to Uterine Disorder
A period ad describes nerve trouble and hysterical mood swings tied to uterine disorders and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the proven remedy. It cites patient letters from Philadelphia and Millersville praising relief and cure after doctors failed.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs.Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Martin Bowers
Millersville
Ohio
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Samson and the barber lull him with a handkerchief
A humorous note compares peril at sea to the influence of a pretty girl’s handkerchief. The lines suggest Samson’s escape could have relied on hair or scent, but a female barber’s persuasion proved decisive as waves loom.
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Samson
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