Cure Your Kidneys Kidney Pills Ad Promotes Remedy
An advertisement urges cures for kidney and related ailments with Dean's Kidney Pills. It cites back pain irregular kidney secretions and risks of diabetes or Bright's disease, featuring user testimonial Jaques Borders of Kearney Nebraska and noting Foster Milburn Co as U.S. agents. The pitch ends with price 50 cents and store sale notices at Sidney Mercantile Company and shoe offers from V. Kleins.
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Dean
Bright
Sidney
Jaques
Buffalo
New York
United States
The Cheerful Wax Candle Ends Up Top Of Tree
A pair of white candles in a Christmas tale argue about their fate. One burns brightest to delight poor children while the other, cross and doubtful, goes out early. A gentleman then places the brighter candle at the tree's tiptop amid the glowing lights.
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Harper & Wright
Cross
Cross Little
The Barber's Joke Christmas Scene
A Christmas morning at a barbershop shows a joke about Germans and Americans. The barber explains ten Germans pay more than one American, provoking a shocked reaction from a patron as the thermometer seems to drop.
Popcorn Jokes About Santa Corns On Fire
A playful line from a young girl imagines Santa avoiding chimneys due to corns and fear of popping when he climbs down a hot fire. Her whimsy highlights holiday kitchen humor and family storytelling.
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Santa Claus
Santa Claus' Revenge Reads Like A Christmas Riddle
A poem by Stacy E Baker narrates two boys protesting Santa by demanding two yearly trips and full lists of gifts for all, only to wake on Christmas morning to find no presents at all. The verse satirizes childish petitions and Santa’s perceived reactions in a playful moral.
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Santa Claus
Eddy Bear
Santa
Stacy E, Baker
Women Build Roads Campaign Grows in Virginia
Women across Virginia join a movement for better highways. Miss Edith Thompson of Fairfax County and her sister and mother reportedly built three miles of good roads while men farmed. Other women statewide take up road building, inspired by the effort.
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Virginia
Ty Fairfax County
Missdith Thompson
Mairfax Coutus
Jou Wookin
Tribute to Road Drag's Value by a Rural Carrier
Walter Shoemaker, a rural free delivery carrier from Drumore in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, writes to the Lancaster Pay Automobile Club praising the split log road drag as the best road for his mail route. He notes rural carriers, farmers, and automobile men all want good roads and offers support to improve roads for farmers.
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Walter Shoemaker
Drumere
Lancaster County
Lancaster Pay Automobile Club
Diplomats Debate Attendance at Wellington Funeral
The death of the Duke of Wellington triggered invitations to St Pauls for the diplomatic corps. The French ambassador fretted over attending given injuries to his country. Baron Brunnow advised that attending to his resurrection would be refused.
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Duke of Wellington
St Paul's
Rossia
Baron Brunnow
St. Paul's
Duke of
Baron Brounnon
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China
Wolf's Jewelry Store
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V. Klein’s
Housewives
Mark
Alice LE Baron
American Press Association
E. J. Sweet
Sidney, Neb
Kruse Bros
Yaegle
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E. R. Yaegle
Mcaleese Block
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