Glorious World’s Fair Exposition in St Louis
A vivid account extols the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It details Philippine villages, native races, a vast government display, the giant floral clock, the six acre crop map, the Rainbow Gardens, the 50 000 horsepower engines, The Pike’s grandeur, Japan and Germany pavilions, and nightly electric illumination. It notes immense investment and the grand scope inviting weeklong to seven month visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Pacific Archipelago
Uncle Sam
Philippine Islands
Philippine Commission
Patagonian
Filipinas
Africa
Japan
United States
Agriculture
Germany
Cascades
Charlottenburg
Gardens Fur
Hank Monk
Horace Greeley
Placergilla
Mark Twain
Artemus Ward
Cascade
Palace of Machinery
Allentown Girl Recalls First New York Visit
A young Allentown woman returns from her first trip to New York describing a matinee and a later opera visit. She shares her glowing impressions with friends, while a rival remarks on having seen it, prompting a playful exchange about evening matinees.
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Allentown
New York
Metropolis
Philadelphia Ledger
Why Co operative Colonies Fail
A lecturer and former Zoar colony member argues co operative colonies fail by losing touch with the wider world. He notes Zoar split property and earnings equally, reducing energy and thrift, while petty jealousies hindered work and the colony declined after its leader died.
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Zoar
Canadian Route Shorter for Europe to East
At a Halifax meeting of the royal transportation commission reports and maps show the Canadian route between Europe and the East is 680 miles shorter than routes from United States ports. Surveys for a ship canal across Russia to connect the Baltic and Black seas indicate a distance of 1,468 miles with an estimated cost of 180,000,000.
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Royal Transportation Commission
Halifax
Europe
East
United States
Russia
Baltic
Black Seas
How does the crew get inside
A seaside reader recalls a young gunnery lieutenant detailing a torpedo aboard a battleship. The girl, a country rectory resident, questions the crew access, sparking a moment of stunned silence over the weapon’s inner workings.
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London
California builds fruit pavilion at world fair exhibit
California erects a pavilion in the agricultural building covered entirely with dried fruit. Four tons of apricots peaches and prunes are shown. In Louisiana's world fair exhibit ninety eight varieties of mosquitoes are displayed in cases and guaranteed not to bite or sting.
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Japan
California
Louisiana
Center of Lamb Raising Industry in Colorado
Center of Lamb raising in Greeley Colorado grows with lamb shipments to Eastern markets now at 75 to 100 carloads weekly. Feeding lambs with sugar beet pulp during winter months proved successful in northern Colorado, with tens of thousands of sheep fed in Greeley Fort Collins Loveland and area.
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Greeley
Colo
Almos
Thea
Colorado
Greeley Ft. Collins
Loveland
Woman 74 Dies After Broken Heart Tale at West Ham
A 74 year old widow who wed her fourth husband, aged 72, in December at West Ham, was deserted two weeks after the ceremony. She died suddenly on Sunday with last words "My heart's broken." A coroner's jury ruled death from valvular heart disease.
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West Ham
Philadelpala Ledger
Noted Scientist Maximilian Nitze Remains in Berlin
Dr Maximilian Nitze the inventor of a luminous instrument for examining the stomach and internal organs continues to reside in Berlin. He serves as an instructor at the university and remains a notable figure in medical science from a quarter century ago to the present.
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Maximilian Nitze
Berlin
Telephone statistics show 25 million U S telephone opportunities
In the United States there are over 20 million families and at least 5 million places of business, totaling about 25 million opportunities to place telephones. About one eighth are currently equipped.
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United States
Household Ads and Promotions from Early 1900s
A collage of product pitches and slogans features Russ Bleaching Blue soap washing machines Defiance Starch 16 ounce packs for 10 cents and 1 gold seed seeds co marketing. Offers include a Great Star Washing Machine price 2.70 with wringer 3.90 and a gum wrappers puzzle book offer from L. E. West Gum Co. in Rock Island Illinois.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
West
L. E. West Gum Co
Rock Island
Catarrh Cure Promoted By Cheney Co as Blood Remedy
An advertisement extols Matt’s Catarrh Cure taken internally and Mall’s Catarrh Cure as a non quack medicine that acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims the two ingredients form a perfect combination yielding cures and offers free testimonials. Also mentions Hull’s Family Pills and other varied notices about starch, band ads, and amusing trivia.
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Matt
Mall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hull
Man Credits Grape-Nuts Diet For Restored Health
A California high school principal describes decades of indigestion liver trouble rheumatism and back pain eased after following an exclusive diet of Grape-Nuts milk and fruit. He reports rapid improvement within two months and claims ongoing vigor reinforced by Postum Company endorsement.
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Cal
I. City
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Three Bandits Executed In Chicago Murders
Chicago April 23 Neidermeier reader of the car barn bandits was hanged at 10 35 o clock after being carried to the scaffold. Marx and Van Dine followed in quick succession. Neidermeier wore a red rose but no coat as the rope broke his neck. Marx and Van Dine faced the scaffold calmly after prayers.
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Chicago
Peter Nuedermeier
Gustav Marx
Harvey van Dine
Neidermeier
Marx
van Dine
van Dineast
State Board to Build Deaf School Center in Council Bluffs
The State Board of Control will replace small buildings with a single central structure costing 175000 to 200000 at the Council Bluffs school for the deaf. A connected chapel dining room kitchen and serving area and an independent hospital building were added. Legislature has appropriated 250000 for the project.
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State Board of Control
Council Bluffs
School For Deaf
Liebbe
Hea
Medical ads and notes on household products and trains
A collage of 1904 era advertisements and notices. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin praised as gentle and effective for digestion. Claims of hosiery openings and a floor finish product. Almanac distribution by Kansas City Southern Railway with regional information. Mentions Manchuria population, Japanese national hymn history, and Charitable motives linked to weddings or funerals.
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Dr. Caldwell
K. Co. S
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Missouri
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Ore
Louisiana
G. Warner
Kansas City
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Santos Dumont
Defiance
Russiln
Nationausiness College
Quincy, Ill
Australia
Earth
Syria
Palestine
Manchuria
Manitoba
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Madras
India
Calcutta
Vandine
Miles
Arlington
Milea
Boston
Smallsmith
Hohenzollern
Atlantic
Pacific
Chas, Naeckel & Sons
Davenport
Iowa
St.Jacobs Oil
Wilson
17Th St
Washington,d.c
Kgt
OLD AG Lions
Pendong
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