Three Years After Backache Cured by Dean’s Kidney Pills
Eugene FE Larin a ticket seller in Denver recalls his summer 1899 claim that Dean's Kidney Pills stopped his backache and he has felt no pain since. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo endorses the remedy and it is sold by all druggists at 60 cents per box.
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Eugene FE. Larin
Twentieth Avenue
Union
Denver
Col
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
Don’t give up says comforting brother in wartime appeal
A despondent man receives a heartfelt admonition from Brother Williams. He is urged to keep faith despite loss, with the reminder that the world may forget him but Satan is lonely for him too. The Atlantis Constitution quotes reflect a wartime moral appeal.
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Brother Williams
de Warld
Satan
Atlantic Constitution
Peculiar Demand and Quirky Claims in Rural Quick Read
A chaotic fragmentary piece seems to mix scolding grocers and a plea for money with odd statements about cures for piles and a mock moral lesson. Names and clear events are missing, leaving a mosaic of quotes and miscellaneous notes.
Emerson Quote Reflections on Work and Faith
A compact excerpt presents Emerson on self-reliance and toil. It links Tea and Schilling as a playful refrain before asserting belief in steady work guided by God. The passage frames the universal working man as one who seeks a fair path to living through sun and rain.
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Emerson
Accident mayhem halted. Schilling's Best remains unaffected
Fragmentary OCR notes suggest confusion over an accident but affirm Schilling's Best product line is not involved. Customer reassurances urge shoppers to check with grocers for availability, while the misread text hints at mispunctuation and unclear attribution.
Power in the Wifely Smile Headlines Home Comforts
A homely observation notes that a husband who returns to a wife smiling at his arrival is likely to stay. The memory of her happiness convinces him to return home, while leaving may trigger a desire to come back to nurture care.
How many families drink good tea in this town
Brief fragmentary quote reflects casual social observation about tea habits and a morning encounter with Mabel and her brown collie, noting her blue frock. The passage shows everyday rural magazine style writing and a stray story tone from Stray Stories.
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A. Schilting & Company
San Francisco
Mabel
Comforts of Travel on the California Limited
The winter porter will press trousers for fastidious dressers as the train offers in-rail amenities. Daily newspapers by wire arrive en route, along with fine stationery, western books, current magazines, and a Whitley exerciser. Electric cutting trans for ladies are listed among travel comforts as Santa Fe keeps its flyer at the front.
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California
Miteman
The
Santa Fe
Purity of the Mind Ruskin Quote
A compact reflection on inner purity, arguing that one cannot filter the mind into calmness and must preserve its purity by not harboring or casting stones that disturb it.
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Ruskin
Alaska tale of Paul and the hermit in Klondyke clash
Paul Miller travels with an Alaska hermit named Cracklash and a small party of Indians. The group faces captors and a lost walrus hide key to a hidden cache. Paul learns Laura Kean may be entangled with the scheming Lackland as danger rises in the cave siege and the quest for gold continues.
Paul Learns Laura Is in Alaska in Harsh Escape
Paul and the hermit are bound by Ned Padgett and two accomplices who had robbed him. They are dragged through dark snow toward an unknown fate as Indians are unlikely to pursue. The journey is punishing with walrus-hide bindings and a knotted stick.
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Padgett
Ned
Paul
Morris
Cap
St. Paul Island
Alaska
Old Glum
Glum_ Ralston
Glum Ralston
Jack Ralston
Mortis
Tom Ambrose
San Francisco
Laura
Ned Padgett
Glum
Mothers Honor Roosevelt Name Popularity for Babies
A newspaper note claims more babies have been named after President Roosevelt than any other U S leader except Washington and Jefferson, reflecting widespread admiration for the national figure.
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Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Washington
Jefferson
Chinese Views and Opium in National Debate
William Edgar Gell argues that Chinese life centers on a fictitious world and demonic worship. He notes vast opium use, distrust of mining, and a national mania blamed for social ills as he surveys China and its influence on global trade and morality.
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William Edgar Gell
Calua
Handsome money bid ends as grocer recalls funds
In a terse exchange the speaker urges bidding for cash while a grocer hints at refunding money if future transactions falter. The remark underscores financial caution in a retailer customer interaction.
Sam Houston tastes champagne and resists olives at White House dinner
In Washington, Sam Houston, New to the capital, enjoys champagne for the first time and rejects olives, telling President Jackson he likes the cider but prefers pickles. The exchange shocks the table as Houston, a western governor, comments on Western Palate.
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England
Gor
Sam” Houston
Houston
White House
Washington
Torward
Jackson
Gov. Houston
West
George Eliot Wager on Middlemarch Authorship
The note claims George Eliot wrote Middlemarch in four months though historians say she usually worked slowly and carefully with few edits after drafting. The fragment suggests a contested view of her writing pace and process during the period.
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George Eliot W Sach Nave
Pie excuse from pupil stuns Kansas City Times
A Kansas City Times note recounts a school incident where a pupil named Johnny missed Monday, returned Tuesday with a note pleading excuse for eating pie and a stomach ache, promising it won’t happen again. The teacher recalls receiving many odd excuses, but this one tops them all.
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Johnny
Kansas City Times
Vigo Scene of Much Warfare in Historic Raid
The article recalls Vigo as a wartime hub where Drake and Norris once sailed in 1585 to place Don Antonio on the Portuguese throne. It notes plunder and meager wages driving sailors to crime, later English actions under Rooke and Benbow pursuing treasure amid eight feet of shipwrecks, and how Vigo now sits as a small, ordinary town.
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Vigo
Drake
Norris
Don Antonio
Portugal
Lisbon
London
Rooke
Benbow
Cabby’s Idea of a Lady in a Humorous Exchange
An English cabman sued a woman for not paying the fare. He insisted, She ant a lady, despite his claim to know a lady when he sees one. He recounted a prior incident where a woman gave him a sovereign instead of a shilling, and the exchange ended with her telling him to keep the change and drink with it.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Joaney
Fader
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