Ayer's Hair Vigor Promises Hair Restoration
For fifty years Ayer's Hair Vigor has claimed to restore color to gray hair and keep the scalp clean and healthy. It purportedly stops hair loss and promotes thicker, longer hair with regular use. Mrs. L. E. Stevens of Cle Elum Washington endorses the product along with praise from customers. Allee J. C. AVER CO. Lowell Mass.
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Ayer
Mrrs
L. E. Stevens
Cle
Elum
Wash
Allee J.C. Aver CO
Lowell
Mass
A Prairie Chicken Wager and the Selfish Stomach
A Western man undertakes a thirty day daily prairie chicken diet as a test of stomach endurance. The piece praises bold self sacrifice in betting while noting risks and the paradox of fame built on culinary endurance. It likens the wager to abstinence from shaving until a political victory.
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New York Mail and Express
General Sherman Uncovers Old Cadet Barracks Cellar
While visiting West Point for June graduation exercises, General William T. Sherman and the commander inspect barracks. He uncovers a hidden brick hollowed space behind the mantel containing tobacco and contraband, recalling he made the hole as a cadet and lived there.
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Sherman
West Point
Widow on Kansas farm asks suitor for a quick yes
A widow toils with a cow and mule hitched to a plow in Kansas. She asks a passing stranger if he will marry her and help with debts, noting she is raising seven or eight children and expects men to stop treating her as a curiosity. She ends by urging the team forward.
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Materia Medica
Kansas
Conundrums and Puns from a Riddle Exchange
A string of wordplay jokes and puns contrasts visitors with a host, a late train with a school mistress, medicines that must be shaken, the moon on the wane, carpenters and the existence of etone, doctors as bad characters, and a chair treated for being unable to bear you.
Some Authors Ranked by Qualities in Chicago Times Herald
The Chicago Times Herald lists authors by traits with Summer Smiles as the most cheerful, Howells as the noisiest, Longfellow as the tallest, Hawthorne as the most flowery, Pope as the holiest, Thomas Tickell as the most amusing, Gay as the happiest, Chatter nn as the most talkative, and Aikep side labeled the most distressing.
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Howells
Longfellow
Hawthorne
Pope
Thomas Tickell
Side-Lights on Life Quotations and Reflections
A collection of aphoristic observations on life. It ponders judgment, fortune, aging, risk, and the learning process, noting that experience treads differently on individuals and that missteps teach more than warnings.
Ten Thousand Chess Problems For Young Squallop
The uncle dies leaving a will that reveals Squallop inherits ten thousand chess problems, not money. A lifelong collector, the uncle amassed problems clipped from weekly chess columns and left them entire to his favorite nephew who cannot tell a pawn from a bishop, a bitter disappointment in life.
Lines to Laura and Other Fragments in the Paper
A reader offers a short verse to an editor, reading Lines to Laura and asking for publication without pay. The exchange includes a comic to prove originality and a joke about a 400 year old poet. The snippets also mention The Tramp, a life matter, and a quip about debt and theosophy.
Aladdin Lamp Tale Draws One-Eyed Chump Comment
A rough exchange quotes Tough Mike and Mild Yom debating Aladdin and his lamp. The dialogue references a lamp tale with a one-eyed chump remark, as reported by Syracuse Herald.
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Mike
Syracuse Herald
We Owe the Past in Indianapolis Journal Excerpt
A fragment from an Indianapolis Journal page shows dialogue about history and theatre. The lines reference Miss Pau line and a professor, implying a discussion of historical plays.
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Pauline
Indianapolis
Laxative Bromo Quinine Taviets Endorsed in Ad Claim
An old advertisement signature proclaims Laxative Bromo Quinine taviets as the remedy that cures Gerd in one day across every box.
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Ohio St
Sedalia, Mo
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Louisville
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Sedalia
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West Third Street
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Ohio Street
Frank Kamp
Warrensburg
Rogers Bros
W.main St
White House
Ayers & Boswell
Osage St
P. Brandt
Glass and Queensware
Meakin Goods of
England
J.C. Porter
Melephon Bell N
Amine St
Rickman’s Flora
Globe
West Main Street
Doc Cross
Castor
Peeeipe
el Dr
Fac Sumile Signature of
New York
Bears
Summer Smiles
Gay
Chattue Nn
Aikepside
Chicago Times-Herald
Queer Request
Squallop
Laura
Theosophist
Snarley
Slowpay
de Gang
Castoria
New York City
R. C. Dolph & Co
Arbuckle’s
Main Street
Q. C
J. H. Bothwell
E. R. Blair
WM. Courtney
B. F. Blair
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F. Yancey
W. H. Evans
Wm Courtney
H. W. Meuschke
Charles E. Musick
Martin Renkin
MH. G. Clark
D. F. Brown
Henry Lamm
J. W. Murphy
W. A. Lower
John N. Dalby
A. P. Morey
W. A.latimer
Third National Bank
Sedalia, Missouri
Tis Bank
J. N. Dalby
R. H. Moses
Henry W. Harris
D. H. Smith
J. H. Mertz
N. H. Gentry
Charles H. McAninc
Samuel C. Gold
Morris. Harter
James T. Montgomery
John J. Heard
W. H. Powell
Chas. Co
Company
Missouri Trust Co
Sanene Sedalia, Mo
John T Heard W H. Powell
Charles C. Evans
J. J. Welch
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L. P. Andrews
Landmann
Insurance and Rental Agency
Trust CO. Bullding
Fourth and
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Stanley Coal CO
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