AID FOR SPINSTERS Plan for Old Maids on Suburban Farms
Massachusetts plans to supply 100000 spinsters with small suburban farms near cities where they can grow crops and raise fowls. An association seeks state land or mortgages to create acre lots, homes, and farming implements to employ women and children in sanitary, profitable work, with a bill proposing land distribution by a five agronomist and five laborer commission.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Women's
Massachusetts Home ‘Stead Association
Commonwealth
Homestead Association
James H. Mellin
Worcester
Denver inventor claims phonographic safe lock works only for owner
Denver resident George J. Charpiot unveils a phonographic safe lock using a telephone mouthpiece and a recording groove. The dial is opened only when the correct owner repeats the recorded word, with experts confirming the test results as several men failed to imitate the voice.
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Denver, Col
George J. Charpiot
Denver
Twelve Year Old Artist Stuns Salon with Work
Paris 1900 salon jury accepts a painting by Maurice Levallard aged 12, believed to be the world’s youngest artist. The piece will hang among other displayed works.
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Paris
Maurice Levallard
Old name kept by notary wife under Kansas opinion
Kansas Attorney General F D Jackson says a married woman may keep her maiden name or adopt her husband's name by custom, not law, and a husband may also take the wife’s name. He notes a notary married after commission may use her maiden name but should abandon the notary role and focus on household duties.
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Topeka
Kan
F. D. Jackson
C. EK. Denton
Taft Chooses Edward Robinson House for Summer Town
President Taft has picked the Edward Robinson house in Manchester Massachusetts as his summer residence this season. The cottage, about a mile from the village center near Essex County club, dates from twenty years ago and stands two and a half stories high in an old English architectural style. It is commodious and attractive and well suited to its intended use.
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Taft
Manchester
Mass
Edward Robinson
Essex Country Club
Mothers Graduating as Lawyers at New York University
Among 27 graduates completing the New York University law course, six are married women and several are mothers. They join a growing cohort entering the legal profession from the university.
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New York
New York University
No Need to Risk Paint Quality Says Houseowner Outfit
No need to take chances in selecting paint materials. A free Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49 offers a color schemes book, specifications book, and a testing instrument from National Lead Company of New York, the world’s largest pure white lead maker, with the Dutch Boy Painter trademark guaranteeing purity.
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National
Trinity Building
New York
Fairly Warned In Harsh Exchange On Missteps
A scolding warning captures a harsh scene as a speaker chastises a younger person for crying and threatens disownment and financial cutoffs, signaling tense authority dynamics and potential family conflict. The porch conversation conveys strong emotion and social power.
Hair Restored After Severe Scalp Dandruff Claim
W. I. Steese of Pittsburg writes that after typhoid and years of scalp scales he used two bars of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. He reports his scalp cleared and hair thicker than before, reversing a near bald forecast. Potter Drug and Chemical Co. of Boston markets the products.
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W. I. Steese
Broad St
Pittsburg
Penn
Potter Drug & Cham, Corp
Sole Props
Doston
Man Receives Fine For Love Bite That Wasn’t
In Baltimore Justice ONeill rejects the claim of a “love bite” as justification. George Phoebus, 27, East Baltimore Street, bit his wife on the cheek causing excruciating pain. Phoebus is fined five dollars and sentenced to ten days in jail.
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Justice O'Neill
Baltimore
George Phoebus
East Baltmore Street
Phoebus
He Came Back Hard in Farm Remark
A Billville farmer recalls a quarrel with a youth who challenged his Scripture reply. The farmer quoted labor and gold, but the young man answered that he valued treasure in heaven over worldly riches, a line attributed to the Atlanta Constitution.
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Billville
Atlanta Constitution
Responsibility Tale From Success Magazine
A humorous anecdote recounts Mrs. Malone's patience tested by a maid with her mouth open. The maid answers that she simply opened it, illustrating a comic miscommunication from Success Magazine.
SICK DOCTOR Praises Grape-Nuts as Lifesaving Nourishment
A physician shares a personal recovery from a grip attack using four tablespoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and cream three times daily for two weeks. He asserts the food aided digestion, rebuilt health, and argues doctors should widely adopt Grape-Nuts to combat nourishment shortages in serious illnesses.
A Serious Case of Love and Longing in a Parlor
In a quiet parlor, John flirts with love while a sick Geraldine foreshadows a spring marriage. She hints at illness and departure yet clings to hope, asking for care and a ring as John clutches hidden doubts and emotion.
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John
HARDSHIPS OF ARMY LIFE STORY OF DAVID W MARTIN
Retired Bolivar Missouri merchant David W Martin recalls kidney trouble since the war after a back injury from a fallen horse. He suffered back pain headaches and dizzy spells with irregular bladder action. After using Deans Kidney Pills for a short time he was entirely rid of kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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David W. Martin
Bolivar
Mr. Martin
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Colonel and the Horseback Challenge Oddities
A veteran recalls a 20 mile run in about 30 minutes amid a tale of a horse riding challenge. The piece then touts a patent cure for catarrh, claiming wide cure rates and urging readers to contact F J Cheney & Co of Toledo for testimonials.
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Uall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
I’. J. Cheney & CO
Strength of Character and Self Control Principle
A short quotation defines strength of character as two traits willpower and self-restraint. The text urges action and caution, warning that strong feelings require strong command and that consequences follow if control is lost. Mention of WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT appears as an advertising interruption in the excerpt.
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Frederick W. Robertson
Lying in Advertisement Fragments From an Era
A trimmed montage of vintage ad copy and quips. Pettit's Eye Salve offered for 25¢ by Howard Bros. Spearmint and WRIGLEY'S branding appear amid general product pitches. A stray line jokes about stealing away from bad company as justifiable larceny.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
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George Rigdon
Jonesboro
Ind
Oregon
Missouri Jayhawkers
Price
Pea Ridge
Wilson
Robert Rigdon
Rigdon
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Wilson Rigdon
Minnie Froat
Jackson
Kansas
Geraldine
Wrigley
Winslow
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marton
N.J
Lydia
Pinkham
Gxrora
Jorpy
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Pinkham Laboratory
Lynn
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