Free trip contest for Defiance Starch customers
A promotional offer runs in five states Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri. Defiance Starch Co Omaha Neb seeks the largest number of trade marks from a ten cent package to win a round trip ticket for five ladies to the St. Louis Exposition. Entries must be mailed and received by September first 1904. Tickets mailed September sixth by registered mail.
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Defiance Starch Co
St. Louis Exposition
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance
Omaha
Nebr
Defiance Starch Offered as 16 Oz Option
Some grocers do not stock Defiance Starch due to existing 12 oz brands. Defiance provides 16 oz for the same money, appealing to buyers who want more product. Also noted are Winslow’s Syrup for children and a proverb about promises.
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Defiance
Allen's Foot-Base Powder Ad Promote Comfort
Slips of an old advertisement tout Allen's Foot-Base powder for tired tight or new shoes. It promises relief for swollen hot sweaty feet corns and bunions and offers free samples via address in LeRoy New York. It ends with a blunt business adage about failures in business.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N.Y
Care of the Hair and Household Habits Advised
Advice on hair care promotes brushing and creaminess with Ivory Soap lather to preserve hair. A mix of product mentions and humorous lines note Defiance Starch superiority and short items about cigars and a comedian, reflecting a collage of household tips and ads from a vintage page.
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Eleanor R. Parker
Gov Chamberlain warns Filipinos aid tale at Bridgeport dinner
Connecticut Governor Chamberlain used a fable about a man with a ram to condemn shifting blame. He told a dinner audience that one should not cast trouble onto others, recounting how a man escapes by having another hold the ram, then disappears. The tale left listeners puzzled as the ram loomed in the road.
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Chamberlain
Gov. Chamberlain
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Gigantic Rents in London Crown Seven Telephone Booths
A London property owner near Threadneedle Street commands high annual rentals. Seven telephone boxes fetch about 12, 00 a year each, while a mezzanine suite at 5, 000 and six rooms at 10, 000 yearly show the scale. Strand shops also command large rents. Bond Street tops the list for shop rates.
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London
West End
Old Lady
Threadneedle Street
Royal Exchange
Throgmorton Street
Strand
Bond Street
Charing Cross
Lyceum Theater
Tas Street
Weekend poker tale taints rector sermon memory
President Fish recalls college pals who played poker “weekend” at Garrison's. Sunday in church, the rector cited the text “And Ephraim went out with a full hand.” A classmate whispered that Ephraim was a fool for aiming high.
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President Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Garrison’s
Fish
Ephraim
Ephaim
New York Times
Dreyfus May Visit Fair
Capt. Dreyfus and his wife plan to visit the St. Louis fair. He wishes to travel in a carriage but may be unable to do so. He has repeatedly expressed gratitude for the sympathy shown by the people and press of this country during his troubled years. He believes American public opinion has had a strong moral effect.
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Dreyfus
Fair
Capt. Dreyfus
St. Louls, Fair
Sunshine and Kind Deeds Across a Dark Life
Poetic exhortation to bring light to others through small acts. The piece urges daily kindness over material gifts, noting a smile, hand-clasps, and deeds as true riches. It ends with a call to record kind acts and live generously each day.
Rich Marquis of Bute celebrates twenty third birthday
One of England's wealthiest bachelors the Marquis of Bute marked his twenty third birthday and sparked interest among high status young women. The requirement that a future marchioness be Catholic filters matches and narrows eligible partners for the prized match.
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England
House of Peers
Marquis of
Bute
Portugal's King Demonstrates Athletic Prowess
King Carlos of Portugal, famed as an athlete, recently beat Ligur B. W. McIntyre of the battleship Town during a North Atlantic visit. The king also exhibited high skill, including a pistol shot, before American visitors.
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Portugal
Carlos
B. W. McIntyre
Algo
Ar Piatol
Theien Silenent
Ofihig
Peculiar Tales from Warships to Pajamas in News Snips
A collage of oddities from a British ship saluting Costa Rica with twenty one guns to Russia’s cattle wearing snow spectacles. A Japanese railway habit of sitting with shoes on, a frightened Dumfield girl killing a five foot black snake, and stamps reused by washing off postmarks. A New Orleans pajama loving girl and a streetwise shopkeeper explain why rum costs more due to Russia Japan war.
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Puerto Arenitas
Costa Rica
Russia
Mary Creveling
Dumfield
Red Cross Skin Soup Soap Ad Promises Great Skin Benefits
An advertisement touts One Large Cake of Red Cross Skin Soup soap as a revolutionary cleanser containing Vaseline glycerine and witch hazel. It promises clearer brighter skin and claims the soap is the purest toilet preparation of the 20th century. Also notes a free cake at grocers to introduce HUBINGER CO products and mentions Stuttgart tenants blacklisted for landlords guidance.
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RED Cross
Hubinger
BST
Jsaper
Family remedies and patent cures advertised in a century old page
A cluttered OCR page touts Mother Gray’s Powders for chil dren, Fauxt J Chenry’s oath about cavargil remedies, and Doct F J Cheney’s catarrh cure. It promotes tonics, patent medicines, and household items, listing samples, testimonials, and druggist availability with a scattered collage of names and claims.
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Trank
Chenry
Gleason
Ifal
CHENEY # CO
Toledo
Humorous Anecdotes and Quotes From Public Figures
A collection of brief, witty items about editors, William Jennings Bryan, Dean Stanley, Lenbach and the Queen of Holland. Also notes on Senator Beveridge and Professor James, with quips about fortune and marital hair color.
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Bevington
Mid
Grace Medical Company, (Inc
Des Moines
Maude
Winslow
Lewis
Peoria
Hughson
Chicago
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Dar
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Tom
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lardley Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
UN -Leigh Mitchell Hodgea
West Java
Willie
Philadelphia
Ledger
New Orleans
Japan
J. C. Hubinger CO
Stuttgart
Germany
Mother Gray
New York
FBI
A. S. Olmsted
Leltoy
N.Y
Earth
Onto
Crry
ToLepa
Ba Lutark
Fauxt J. Ghenry
Fo J. Carneyd& Co
Waliera
Tuledo
Gitrata
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Arthur Stanley
Westminster
Ameriga
Ponce
America
Dean Stanley
Lenbach
Holland
Beveridge
Hao
Keener
Mr. Beveridge
Trefessey
William James
Trarvard
Lonz Aco
Jara
Professor James
United States
M. C. Butler
South Carolina
U. S
M.C. Butler
Washington, D. C
Hartman
Dr. Tlartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Hye Trouh
Hotimen
Ulies
Thompson
Sieype
Samuel Pitcher
Salta
Hendsperiitt
Peron
Far Sismile Signature
Bears
Castoria
Euraiia
Sicoureva
Handy Blueing Book
Handy Blueing Book Co
E. Lake St
Ill
Flavell
Han Bardon
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