Lucky Louisiana lottery winner confronts reporter
An exuberant lottery winner, identified as J Trefts of Ertown, visits the Chronicle Building claiming a $13,000 prize from the Louisiana State Lottery. He boasts of his win and eagerly discusses his plans while staff question the tale, amid a chaotic exchange and disbelief.
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Louisetama
Dspoisco
Cal Chronicle
Julya
Chronicle
Yptro
J Trefts
Ertown
Nsnt
Tresta
Louisiane Lottery
Mechanical Automata in Historic Exhibitions
A summary of 18th and 19th century automata and mechanical figures. Describes Philip Camus on Louis XIV’s coach automaton, Jacques Vaucanson’s flute player and duck, Maelzel’s automatic trumpeter, and various conjurers and clockwork displays from Paris to Boulogne and Antwerp.
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Boston Herald
Philip Camus
Louis XIV
France
Alembert
Paris
Jacques Vaucanson
Grenoble
Vaucanson
London
Vienna
Maelzel
Aulett
Wesel
Dussek
Pleyel
Machel
Boulogne
The Wife's Strategy of Silk and Tears
A husband on Superior street overhears his wife’s plea for a blue striped silk dress valued at $225 a yard. He feigns remorse, buys the dress, and learns she manipulated him with a staged sob scene. She later reveals she tricked him, and he walks the town dazed by the manipulation.
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Superior Street
Startling Prediction From The Cinemnati Gazette On Gas Boom
A warned prophecy from Two hundred years ago predicts a Chinese gas craze ending in massive explosions. The piece warns that unrestricted boring near wells could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction, ripping the Lake Erie region and Ohio and Mississippi valleys apart, with Lake Erie waters flooding the basins.
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China
Fuo Chang
Jake Hoo Chang
Cas
Toledo
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
P Sncake
Lake Erie
Mississippi
The Hilarious Heifer Riddle
An elderly Sheep learns the heifer plans a last minute escape from slaughter as summer boarders arrive with an eight year old boy. The odd exchange highlights how moral circumstances can alter cases in a humorous Tid-Bits style vignette.
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Scott
Notre Dame offer for sons education in 1887
An 1887 prospectus invites guardians to educate sons at the University of Notre Dame Indiana with a five month Minim Department program priced at 1380.00 and open September 6. It promotes a complete curriculum including classics law science and languages and notes St Edward's Hall for younger boys taught by the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
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University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame University
Sind
St. Edward's Hall
University Board
Minim
Notre Dame
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New York
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Talent Manufacturers
Genius Creates
E. H. Hedge
Dr. Pierce
C. B. Palmer
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M. Katoff
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
Frank Hurd
G. W. Cohen
Waco
Texas
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Browniu
Chicago
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Smith
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Chemical Laboratory
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Ithaca
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Oxford
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Fulton Street
Procter & Gamble
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