Tommie's Birthday Lesson in Honesty and Fishing
Tommie hides a spilled lie about getting wet while fishing. He later enjoys a birthday picnic with friends and mothers but feels guilt for disobeying and deceiving his mother. His mother comforts him and they discuss truth and remorse.
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Tommie
Grove
Tommteen
Ayaa
Farm Boy's Advice To Boys From Worthington Pa
The essay urges the farm boy to learn from the start to become a skilled, honest farmer. Encourage and guide mistakes, value small tasks, and take pride in tending stock and crops. Balance work with leisure, keep up with schooling, and enjoy winter country sports. Floyd Baker, age fourteen, Worthington, Pa.
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Floyd Baker
Worthington
Unhappy woman questions truth after deception claim
She laments unhappiness since he claimed his clothes stayed dry. She asks for a promise not to deceive her again. Tammie agrees and goes to sleep, feeling happier than before after hearing the corrected account.
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Tammie
Best Records in the South for corn and tomatoes
Carl Graves of Soso Mississippi tops Southern corn with 202 bushels in a year while Hester Sartain of Walker Alabama leads Southern tomatoes by 7037 pounds on ten ares. Sartain produced 1620 pounds with a net profit of 146.20 dollars on the crop.
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Mississippi
Alabama
United States Department of Agriculture
Carl Graves
Sosa
Miss
Hester Sartain
Walker
Ala
Like a Healthy Man: When is a newspaper Ike the blood of a healthy man
A wry quip explains that a newspaper is healthy when it has a good circulation. It likens circulation to blood in a body and implies robust readership as the measure of a paper’s vitality.
Veteran recalls rise from errand boy to firm head in war years
A Philadelphia North American interview recounts a veteran’s life from a one dollar weekly clothing store job to captain in the Army of the Potomac. He describes discipline learned early, rapid promotions after Lookout Mountain, and forming strong bonds on the Atlanta to Savannah campaign.
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Indy
Union
Army of the Potomac
Asd
Lookout Mountain
Antietam
Gettysburg
Sherman
Atlanta
Atlantic
Aevofai
Philadelphia
The Kindred Touch
A child named Howard refuses to speak after his mother accuses him of hanging her prized yellow leghorn in the coal shed. The scene captures a domestic moment with a prophetic scolding and a boy’s tacit reaction.
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Howard
Louis J. Scott
Ontario
The Professor's Statement on Dodd's Kidney Pills
Prof Aug F W Schmitz of Thomas Oklahoma reports long lasting relief from backache after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says two boxes eased pain then three more later, with no recurrence for years. He urges others to use the remedy and endorses it.
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Aug
F. W. Schmitz
Thomas
Okla
Bright
Dodd
Prof. Schmitz
Jack
Dodd's Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Adv
Spell It With a Big Black at the Post Office
A town businessman entered the post office and asked for his mail. The clerk asked the spelling and the man, identifying as George Black, insisted the name be written with a big B. The mail for Mr Black with a big B will be delivered promptly after the office change.
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Sfull
George- Black
Black
Colored roustabout’s voyage to Toronto after New Orleans race meet
After a season end in New Orleans a colored roustabout asks about the next meet. He’s told it is in Toronto and, thinking it distant, he rows off. Four miles out an acquaintance on shore calls him Link, prompting him to wonder who in Toronto knows him.
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New Orleans
Toronto
Link
Ole Boy
Ah Wondah
Eve’s Tempered Tale in Genesis Narrative
A brief note on Eve not nagging Adam about others, suggesting a nuanced reading of the Genesis account.
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Eve
Adam
A loafer never allows himself to get out of practice
A concise adage states that a loafer refuses to skip practice. The saying emphasizes discipline and steady effort as key to improvement.
Postum as Remedy for Insomnia and Nervousness
A Topekan woman credits Postum with curing lifelong coffee induced insomnia nervousness and dyspepsia after switching from coffee. She reports rapid improvement within weeks and five years of relief entirely without medicines. The ad promotes Postum Cereal and Instant Postum with pricing and a slogan There’s a Reason.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battleweek
Mich
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