Harper & Brothers fail after eighty years in business
The Harper firm, publisher of New York, collapses with liabilities of five and a half million dollars. McClure cites keeping aging staff as a partial cause, while the Baltimore Sun suggests cheap competition undermined the business. The piece also notes strong dissent in North Carolina about the Railroad and Corporation Commissions. Commonwealth urges abolishing the commissions and bringing railroads under individual-law treatment.
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Harper & Brothers
New York
McClure
The
Baltimore Sun
Harpers
Commonwealth
Railroad Commission
North Carolina
Corporation Commission
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Promotion Overview
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a long trusted teething remedy used by millions of mothers. It claims to soothe gums relieve pain cure colic and diarrhoea with immediate effect. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle urging buyers to insist on the original.
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Mrs. Winslow
Washington’s enduring resolve in the Revolutionary War
Present Day Thoughts examines George Washington’s early royalist leanings, then his steadfast turn to justice over safety. It highlights his quiet courage, unwillingness to quit, and the eight-year struggle that shaped his mature, nearly impersonal leadership amid disputes, plots, and wartime burdens.
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Washington
Patrick Henry
Jefferson
Congress
Man Behind the Plow Hero of Modern Times
A poem by S. E. Kiser in Chicago News hails the unseen force behind warfare and progress. It contrasts soldiers and planners with the ordinary farmer who funds and builds nations, noting future glory will overlook the plowman as cities rise and eras advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Kiser
Chicago News
Irishman seeks job and uses speaking tube in building
An Irish man enters a business house and asks for work. Told to reach Mr H on the second floor, he whistles into a speaking tube and calls out to Paddy Flynn. The note ends with a cartoonish punchline about the man’s bold method.
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Paddy Flynn
Tam
Mr. H
Flynn
Cincinnati Enquirer
County protective association in Illinois horseshoers
McLean county blacksmiths and horseshoers formed a county protective association effectively a trust, adopting a 20 percent price rise for horseshoeing citing higher material costs. The Hardware Association will charge nonmembers higher prices, reducing competition and likely forcing public payment of the increased rates. Also notes Chamberlain's Pain Balm gaining local notice through user testimonial from D B Johnston of Richmond, Indiana.
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Chicago Tribune
McLean County
Illinois
Hardware Association
Facts and Fads from a Distant Era
A collage of snippets notes military health among German troops, Swiss villagers using eggs as currency, golf in Constantinople, etiquette keeping French judges off omnibuses, Tyrolese guides, German women in factories, Austrian Jewish officers, dried beef nutrition, ancient Chinese iron swords, and asparagus alkali affecting brain form.
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Constantinople
Tyrolese
Robbed the Grave by Electric Bitters Claim
John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a dramatic recovery from severe illness after three physicians gave up. A friend urged Electric Bitters, and after three weeks of use he improved markedly, insisting the remedy saved his life and “robbed the grave.” Available at E T Whitehead & Co’s Drug Store for 50 cents guaranteed.
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John Oliver
Philadelphia
E.T. Whitehead & Co
Gastonia Mills Spark Growth in Yazoo City Visitor Says
A Gastonia North Carolina mill advocate details how cotton factories transformed Gastonia from a village of 211 to a city over 5,000. He cites a $19,000 stock investment by John Love yielding $9,750 in cash dividends and notes vast mill profits drawing investors, with new mills planned in Gastonia and Avon sourcing cotton from Mississippi and Yazoo County.
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New Orleans
Gastonia
Yazoo City
Mr. Brumfield
John Love
Young Love
Love
Avon
Miasissippi
Yazoo County
Cotton mills profit plunge in Yazoo City freight savings
The excerpt notes freight costs from your station to Gu tonia at about $3 per bale and claims a mill earns 33 percent or more profit. It suggests Yazoo City mills, with access to all cotton grades, could be far more profitable due to eliminating this freight.
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Gutonia
Yazoo City
Oil in Road Making at Asheville Demonstration
Buncombe county prepares a practical example of oil in roadmaking after William K. Richart secured a Dustless Roadball license in Philadelphia and New York. He will equip for spring demonstrations on private roads, citing oiling preserves top dressings, reduces wind loss of fine stone, and extends repair life. California, Bryn Mawr, Chester county show success, with oil applied yearly and costs similar to standard dirt road upkeep. If results meet expectations, marked road improvement may follow in the area.
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Asheville
Buncombe County
William K. Richart
Philadelphia
York
North Carolina
Richart
Bryn Mawr
Chester County
Pennsylvania
California
Cound't Catch the Old Man Selected Tale
Mr Kahn was thrifty and proud of his appearance refusing new coats. His sons plotted a bargain buy with a tailor, haggled to six dollars, then the coat vanished as he showed it to a streetcar friend who offered eight dollars and bought it.
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Kahn
Irony and Circuses in a Child's Banter
A mother explains irony to her son Bobbie who riffs on whether saying I love you less is iron. The boy asks if it was iron when she refused a circus ticket. He then attends the circus that afternoon, reflecting a light domestic moment.
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Mama
Bobbie
Harper’s Bazar
Train schedules for Wilmington and Weldon lines detailed
Daily rail timetable lists arrival and departure times for the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and branches. Connections at Fayetteville Maxton Red Springs Sanford Kinston Washington Tarboro and other points. No. 78 connects Weldon to North via Richmond. Officials H. M. Emerson J. R. Kenly T. M. Emerson.
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Yngtoun and Weldon Railroad
Diviston
Wilmington
Fayette P
Sanford
Fayetteville
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Bennettsville
Bennetteville
Maxton
Red Springs
Hope Mills
Carolina Central Railroad
Bowmore
Seaboard At Line and Southern Railway
Gulf
Durham
Halifax
Weldon
Washington
Tarboro
N.C
Plymouth
Midland N. C. Branca Aves
Goldsboro
Smithfield
Goldaboro
Nashville
Rocky Mount
Spring Hope
Clinton Branch
Wersaw
Clinton
Rai
Richmond
H. M. Emerson
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Lawrence
Scotland Neck, N.C
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Harrison
Adunn
Ward L, Travis
Matthews
Whitakers, N. C
Chasm Walsh Sirum Marble and Granite Works
Vmore
Petersburg, VA
Wales
Walter Clark
Justice Furbes
Beddingfield
Justice Clark
General Assembly
Horseshoers’ Trust
Chamberlain
D. B. Johnston
Ind
E. T. Whitehead & Co
Copton Mills
Kir
Thomas ©. Bower
Glencoe
E.T Whitehead & Co
Norfolk
Virginia
America
J. M. Ressier
Wilmington & Weldon R. R
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company OF
South Carolina
Weldon Ar
Rocky Mt
Wilson
Selma
Florence
Ly. Golde
Winwington
Eznelia Goldsboro
Leave Wilson Ar
Rocky
Ar. Weldon
Cleare
Alpine Safe & Cycle CO
Cincinnati
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