New York's Second Hand Queen Moves Up Town
A veteran uptown merchant Mary J. McShane relocates from No 5 Madison Street to West Forty-second Street. She recounts decades of buying and selling whole tenements wardrobes and hotel consignments, supplying gowns, silks, diamonds, and other items to wealthy New York families including the four hundred.
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New York
York
West Forty-second Street
Mary J. McShane
Madison Street
Cork
Ireland
India
Empire
Europe
Paris
Fish Scales Stir Controversy Over Alto Horn in Pittsburgh
Rumors swirl around Harry Baker a city hall aide and alto horn artist in Northside German singing societies. Reporters seek details while Baker avoids interviews as gossip links him to a scandal involving a herring placed in his horn during a club performance.
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Ittsburgh
Bismarck
Harry Baker
Harry
Baker
Amy Wroce
Holy of Holies
Gabriel
Mr. Baker
Police Regulars Mourn Their Vanished Whiskers
Cleveland police banished long gray whiskers and the beggars who wear them face reduced pity. Desk Officer Eli Potts warns stay sober or lose your bush as beggars adapt, with Jacob Bush boasting of easier beats without facial hair.
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Leveland
Cleveland
Ontario Street
Eli Potts
Central Police Station
Bush
Jacob Bush
Eagle Lodging House
Riderless Motorcycle Rampages Through Crowded Chicago Streets
A riderless motorcycle sped along LaSalle street injuring two pedestrians and striking three more before tipping over. E C Gage, a Black man, started the machine for an unknown white man. Gage was arrested at Central station as officers cleared the scene.
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LaSalle Street
Central Police Station
Troquois Memorial Hospital
E. C. Gage
Jackson Boulevard
la Street
Gage
F. J. Arens
Adams Street
William Goodrow
Elizabeth Court
Oak Park
Goodrow
Joseph Barton
South Hamlin Avenue
Central
Arens
Hot Springs Liver Buttons Promise Gentle Constipation Relief
A Hot Springs Arkansas remedy claim markets Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a perfect laxative. The ad urges avoiding harsh cathartics and promises relief next day, improved mood, clearer skin, and fresher breath for 25 cents sample requests.
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Hot Springs
Arkansas
Hot Springs Chemical Co
Hot Springs, Ark
Saw Hope for the Bear Gets a Southern Family Card
Page, a true little southerner, shows strong family instinct as he believes the stuffed bear birthday gift will soon join his household. His dog Mickey initially shuns the bear but Page expects acceptance once the dog understands the bear is part of the family.
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Page
Mickey
Jickey
Annie
Eczema cured by Cuticura products after long illness
W. H. Williams of Lewisburg Kentucky details a fourteen year battle with eczema spreading from scalp to body. After many medicines he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment plus Resolvent and reports full recovery eleven years ago. Sample and skin book offered.
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Lewisburg
W. H. Williams
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Little Marion Solves Homework With Colts
In a playful math moment, Marion gives the answer five and three fourths horses. Her mother hesitates before the girl proposes converting the three fourths of a horse into colts to complete the reasoning. The exchange shows a child turning a whimsy into a solution.
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Marion
Vitalitas sale offer for remedies from Houston company
Vital Remedies Co of Houston advertises Vitalitas at $1 per bottle and Salve at 50 cents per jar. They urge asking a druggist to save shipping or offer express or parcel post shipping. Includes address Houston Texas.
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Expressor Percel Post F
Houston
Vital Rimedies CO
Houston, Tex
Advertising expert defines economy at Woolworth Dinner
F Irving Fletcher, noted advertising expert, spoke at a Woolworth Building dinner in New York praising economy as a way of spending money without gaining any fun, according to the report.
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F. Irving Fletcher
Woolworth
New York
Poison Oak or Ivy Remedy Ad By J B Tyree
poisoning relief suggested by bathing affected areas in Tyree's Antiseptic Powder mixed with water. A pint solution costs 25 cents and is available at druggists or samples are sent free by J B Tyree of Washington, D C.
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Tyree
Washington, D. C
Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Texas
No Chicken Fights Are Fair In These Drawbacks
A fragment notes that chicken fights inherently involve unfair elements. It presents a pair of quotes contrasting the fairness of the contests with their unavoidable unfair aspects. The text frames the debate around inherent flaws in such activities.
President Wilson and the art of handling visitors
At a Washington luncheon President Wilson joked about a overlong visitor who, despite the former Princeton training and tact, wore out his welcome. He recalled an old man praising a rising young lawyer who, within a short social call, pressed the visitor to return again.
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Wilson
Princeton
White House
Washington
George
Caruso Sings to Prisoners at Atlanta Penitentiary
Enrico Caruso performed three songs for inmates at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, including his Pagliacci solo. The concert prompted Julian Hawthorne, inmate No. 4435, to compose a poem praising the singer and the uplifting effect of his voice.
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Enrico Caruso
Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary
Caruso
Julian Hawthorne
Hell
Plant handedness observed in barley millet and oats
R H Compton reports to the Cambridge Philosophical Society that eight varieties of two rowed barley show 58 percent left handed first leaf. Across 12 000 seedlings millet and oats also show excess left handed growth while corn shows no clear trend. No hereditary peculiarity or significance is drawn.
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Cambridge
England
Philosophical Society
R. H. Compton
Fletcher's Castoria Safe Remedy for Infants and Children
Mothers urged to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature and note its use for over 30 years. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria as a trusted remedy, with the familiar branding emphasized.
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Fletcher
Seed selection and workers shape a thriving garden
In a candid line from The Amateur Gardener a reader notes that a successful garden hinges on choosing good seeds and, importantly, on hiring an intelligent and industrious worker to tend it.
Fragmented exchange hints at past engagement and wedding
A terse dialogue fragment shows a confrontation where one character asks why another hates a woman who was once engaged to her husband and did not marry him, revealing a tangled past relationship.
Quinine and Iron General Tonic Promotes Vital Strength
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic advertised as the standard remedy for malaria chill and fever and general strengthening while noting its bitterness is masked by insoluble ingredients that dissolve in stomach acids. The claim emphasizes three decades of recognition across the South and recommends purchase from a druggist.
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Grove
Showing Him the Road in London Bystander Tone
A playful exchange guides a traveler to Bill Watson’s ale and Harry Thompson’s tobacco option. The villager explains routes for Bill’s ale and a separate path for tobacco, noting Bill’s lack of shag but offering twist alternatives. A separate quip mocks a misperceived tragedy about Maude’s head.
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Bill Watson
Arry Thompson
Bill
London
Hanford's Balsam Tends Wounds of Hustler Misfortune
A brief note asserts Hanford's Balsam heals wounds on man or beast and implies a hustler facing misfortune must endure a rough patch.
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Hanford
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Ney
Peden Iron & Steel CO
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Planet JR
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