Summer Vacations via Southern Pacific Sunset Route
Excursion tickets are on sale at reduced rates to many states including Alabama Arkansas Colorado Georgia Iowa Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin. Travel via the Cromwell Line to New York is recommended. Literature and rates available from M L Robbins Houston Texas.
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South Kensington Museum Keeps Largest Elephant Carving
The second largest elephant was acquired by a Sheffield firm in Antwerp for £325. It weighs 216 pounds, measures ten feet in length and twenty three and three quarters inches in girth.
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South Kensington
Antwerp
Sheffield
Defiance Cold Water Starch Offered for Housewives
The pitch urges housewives to try Defiance Cold Water Starch as superior to rivals. Each 10c package provides 16 ozs while competitors offer 12 ozs. The ad claims quality and quantity will win and that once used, Defiance will become the chosen starch.
Twain's fortune rises after Webster debt relief
Mark Twain, who paid off the debts of the ill fated Charles L. Webster & Co., has recovered lost ground and is now wealthier than ever according to reports.
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Mark Twain
Charles L. Webster & Co
What About Your School Houses
A promotional pitch urges school districts to tint interiors with Alabastine to improve aesthetics and eye comfort, noting its sanitary cement coating and health safeguards for crowded classrooms.
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United States
French macadamized and unfinished highways in 1867
As early as 1867 France had 200 951 miles of improved macadamized roads while 174 667 miles remained unfinished. Most of the unfinished network has since been completed.
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France
Time folders reveal railroad timetable complexity
A railroad time folder represents vast work with a Big Burlington System example. It is built from sixteen division time tables and lists 2000 town names with schedules for over 590 trains. When changes occur, sixty thousand figures must be checked and corrected.
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Burlington
Revered Silas S. Cummins Celebrates 88th Birthday
The veteran soldier preacher Silas S. Cummins is honored for reaching his 88th birthday. He is renowned across New England for his long service with the Home for Little Wanderers.
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Silas S. Cummins
New England
Little Wanderers
Self Home Treatment for Ladies Offer
An offer of free home treatment instructions for female troubles including leucorrhea ulcers womb displacements and painful periods. The seller promises no sale and charges about twelve cents a week if continued and asks sufferers to address Mus. M. summons Box M Notre Dame Ind.
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Alsend Tog
Ranteca Cure
M. Summons
Notre Dame
Ind
Law Limits Newspaper Actions to Local Courts in Germany
The reichstag passed a law restricting actions against newspapers to the town where published. This sets local jurisdiction for such cases.
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Germany
Reichstag
Grocers Say Defiance Starch Stock Sails Slow
Some grocers report De fance Starch sales hindered by in stock 16 oz packages though they carry 12 oz brands. They prefer customers to buy the smaller package to use the same money and clear shelf space.
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Snag
Tey
Relief in Emotion: Crying and Swearing Across Genders
A reflective note on emotional expression, stating that women find relief in crying when angry and men release tension by swearing. The remark contrasts gendered coping styles and suggests emotional authenticity.
Your Money Refunded. Soares’s Pice Cures Fail
An advertisement states money will be refunded and claims Soares’s Pice Cures failed to cure. It lists druggists Sammy Faux and HOME REMEDY CO of Houston Texas as the sellers or distributors.
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Soares
Sammy Faux
Home Remedy CO
Houseton
Texas
Incomplete Phrase Narrates a Romantic Tradeoff
A fragmented old text hints at a critique of flirtation and gender roles, describing a kissable mouth as a tempting but empty symbol and likening it to a costly exchange for a woman in a moralizing tone.
Judah Faces Damascus Scourge in Hidden Mission
The king orders construction of a secret plan to capture the Scourge of Damascus. Judah, chosen for wit and endurance, agrees to lead a covert operation promising citizenship, wealth, and a wife if he succeeds. He prepares, disguises himself, and pursues Julian toward Abilene through a perilous pass.
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Damascus
Julian
Abilene
Judah
Tartarus
Judea
Israelite
Women Physicians in Russia in Early Medical History
The Chautauquan highlights Nadezhda Susloff as a pioneering Russian woman doctor born a serf who, freed in 1861, received elite education. By 1870 male faculty started courses for women, and within a decade 959 women studied, largely from privileged backgrounds. In 1877 twenty four students served at war and earned the title women physicians with imperial approval and a badge.
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Russia
Chautauquan
Nadezhda Susloff
Nadezhda
Chicago photographer patents nickel in the slot machine
A Chicago photographer invents and patents an automatic nickel in the slot photograph machine named the photographist. It promises a complete picture in 20 seconds and is described as simple yet remarkable.
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Chicago
Miss Virginia Granes Praises Lydia E Pinkham Compound
Nurse and president Miss Virginia Granes of Watertown New York testifies to long hospital and home use of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She cites relief from ovarian and womb inflammation after years of suffering and urges others to try the remedy while offering free advice from Mrs Pinkham.
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Nurses’ Association
Watertown
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Lydia KE. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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