Lincoln's Sacred Car Left Untended at Joliet
The martyred president’s private car, which carried Lincoln’s body to Springfield, sits unused on a Joliet sidetrack. Attempts to donate it to Chicago Lincoln park commissioners failed. The piece laments neglect of revered artifacts and critiques American paradoxes between reverence and materialism.
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Lincoln
Washington
Springfield
America
Joliet
Lincoln Park Commissioners
Chicago
Note of Warning On Nose Safety For Girls Behind The Bat
A comic warning from Muncie Indiana about female baseball players neglecting masks. It imagines a girl’s nose damaged by a foul tip and mocks facial beauty without a nose. It urges careful behind the bat, proper headgear, and even jokingly suggests a bird cage if a mask is unavailable.
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Ind
Interurban Lines Transform Indiana to National Model
The Indiana interurban trolley system carries millions annually, linking distant cities, speeding commerce and creating vast employment. Advocates say it will spread nationwide, shrinking city country divides and boosting markets, industry, and consumer demand across the United States. A Montana inventor notes a potato yield breakthrough, signaling broader agricultural optimism.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
United States
Unino
Learn to Walk Gracefully and Stand Correctly
Ancient fitness feature teaches graceful carriage through posture and steady exercises. Guidance covers standing alignment, toe rises, hip tilts, head balance, and breathing, with cautions on pace, shoes, and symmetry. two months of practice promised to transform bearing.
Prunes and Pranks Echo Through a Day In Town
In a whimsical column a weary Mr. Cashington scorns prunes while Mrs. Grubber defends them as wholesome. A sequence of vignettes follows with jokes about hats, gnats, a pretty girl, Peary, horse betting, a hatched plan, and a courtroom quip about a self styled college man.
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Mr. Cashington
Moonlit Morning Reflections and a Questioned Fortune
Gerald recalls a moonlit scene and a tale of a moonstruck man as he wakes with a headache. A dialogue follows about Tessie, a future son in law, and a 19000 pound inheritance with partnership till death. The crucial question remains: where is the money.
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Gerald
Jim
Tessie
Lovers Meet in New York as Gerald Returns with News
Gerald Danvers arrives in Oakville by train and reunites with Tessie after confirming a large sum of money. He explains his joyful mood to Tessie and his father’s reaction, sharing plans for how the funds will be used. The couple speaks privately on a country road.
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Beleres
Ivan
Astra
Seatte
Wantington
Claus
Offich Ragleys Drug Store
Pike Street
Stortling
Teave News
W. D. Ward
New York
W ‘Tribune
Gerald
England
Depew
Oakville
Teasie
Gerald Danvers
Tessie
Bright
Bonnie
Brown
First Avenue
Seattle
State of Washington
State Society Dental Board Trust
A Parson’s Call Lures A Fractured Alliance
Dialog shows Gerald pressing Tessie toward a marriage plan using a debt and promise as leverage. Tessie resists yet Gerald proclaims ownership and claims he has earned her, while a note about a buffet grill service on Northern Pacific trains hints at travel details between Beattie and Spokane and Seattle departures.
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Northern Pacific
Beattie
Spokane
Seattle
Datty
Life for a Double Harness Beyond a Farm Door
A dramatic scene ends with a folded newspaper revealing a shocker as Tessie, Gérald, and a farmer confront a brutal truth about inheritance and murder, while a mysterious note hints at a deadly game and future revelations.
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Collina Bidg. James
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Bank of EnglaNd
Walion
Josh
Peary
Lal
Willy
Sunday Times
Outfitting Co., Inc
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Reliable Credit House
Gérald
A . PR . Brown
Express
K J. A. Harvey
Quaker Drog CO
Second Avenue
Marion Street
Maria
ROE
Second Ave
Marion St
Marion
Kohler & Chase
A. Meyer
Mer
Seattle Lighting Co
Building
Fourth and Union
Sunset
Atlantic City
Griffin
Washington Street
C. D. Hillman
Times Block
Brown’s Painless Dentists
Union Rhone
MacDougall Southwick’s
Houghton & Hunter Jewelers
W. B. Hutchinson CO
Boston Dental
Alsa
Chicago Loan Office
Harry Silver
Yesler Way
Albert Hansen
de Warques
Eur
First Ave
Moor Howard
Penn Mutual Life
RED Front Furniture Co
Pike St
London
Guy
Isaac Lurie
Reliable Transfer CO
Postoffice
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