The Girl at the Halfway House Chapter Continues
Buford and his family travel west and encounter Sam Poston at the midway point between Ellisville and Plum Centre. A depot hotel worker. Aunt Lucy. and a Black cook named Aunt Lucy push plans to settle, file land, and start a sod house while the White Woman Creek area offers water and opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buford
Sam
William
Ceately
Lizzie
Ellisville
Plum Centre
Ellis Down
Lucy
Kentucky
Depot
Nory
Settlin
The Chase on the Winter Buffalo Hunt
Franklin, Battersleigh, Curly set out with Sam and Juan to hunt buffalo for winter meat. They traverse heat and sand hills seeking water and relief as the plain reshapes, while the Mexican translates their progress and signals a prairie ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Himself
Battersleigh
Curly
Sam
Juan
Little Fathers of the Tenements A Boy Carrier of Child Care
A New York Press report depicts a boy nine or ten acting as guardian for a baby in a Sixth Avenue L car. The observer notes the child’s calm, protective behavior toward the mother and infant, contrasting it with the mother’s fatigue as they exit at Bleecker Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bleecker Street
New York Press
Canada Will Not Enter Reciprocity in Manufactured Goods
The Ottawa Globe correspondent notes Canada rejects reciprocity and opposes US-made imports. Canada will raise tariffs to protect industry, arguing the United States surplus risks Newfoundland jobs and factories. The piece cites Ottawa dispatches and U S tariff benefits as rationale, urging American workers to defend protectionist policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ottawa
Toronto Globe
United States
Fairbanks
Joint High Commission
Not a Single Interest Reconciled to Cuban Treaty
The piece disputes the Cuban reciprocity scheme, calling out the New York Commercial Advertiser for claiming universal reconciliation among American interests. It argues that beet sugar interests and others remain opposed, warning the proposal harms various industries and misstates broad support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Commercial Advertiser
Havemeyer
Quoted Saying on Effort and Change
A terse proverb compares persuading a stubborn person to driving change through an impractical method. It emphasizes the futility of forcing effort where it yields little result.
Canada Rejects U.S. Cut Price Invasion Threat to Industry
The article argues there is no path to reciprocal trade with Canada and predicts the United States cannot gain larger market privileges. It notes Canada will resist becoming a dumping ground for American surplus as iron and steel sectors face price-cut competition, with U S brands undercutting Canadian prices by about two dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Mail
United States
Republican Party
Toronto Mail
Artisans and the Tariff Lesson from Britain’s Free Trade
The piece argues protected policy benefits artisans and cites a London Telegraph report from August 4 1903 showing British free trade reduced manufactured exports by over £60000000 while imports rose by about £35.9 million. It contends adequate tariffs could have curbed this rise and protected labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
London Daily Telegraph
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Tariff Debate Echoes Across The Atlantic And U S
The Ottawa Herald argues England may abandon free trade to avert industrial collapse, aligning this with U S Republican protectionism. It asserts every Democratic era with low tariffs brings hard times while high protections spur prosperity, and cites six years of U S growth versus English stagnation under free trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
United States
Democratic Party
Ottawa
Kan
Atlanta Woman Claims Feigned Madness to Secure Funds
Mrs. Edna Hellen of Atlanta testified she feigned insanity to test familial love and obtain money left for her 10 year old daughter. A jury ruled her insane and Judge Wilkinson ordered her sent to the state asylum at Milledgeville, though she denies genuine madness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Hellen
Atlanta
State Asylum For the Insane
Miedgeville
Wilkinson
Deafness Cure Ad Claims and Patter
An old advertisement column touts Hulls Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any deafness case caused by catarrh that cannot be cured. It also lists various household remedies and quips, including Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup and Tisos Cure, with scattered product pitches and moralistic snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deane
Hull
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Uel
Red Cross Ball Glue White Clothes Offer
Advises using Red Cross Ball Blue to whiten fabrics and promises satisfaction with Defiance Starch return option. Mentions a 302 package at five cents and notes cobbler and doctor comparisons, whispering as a habit, and honesty against pilfering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Chicago Street Cars Claim Dozens Dead in October
Police and coroner records show twelve killed and 155 injured in Chicago by cable trains or trolley cars during October. Defective equipment and motorman carelessness blamed. many minor injuries likely unreported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
The Cook and the Pope Irish Cook Tale
Bishop Potter shares a dinner tale of an Irish cook who served his family. The cook calls an Italian gardener a dago and argues that the pope is infallible as a dago but would be twice as infallible if Irish. The theme considers luck and fate.
Man claims cure for backache using Dodd's Kidney Pills
In Newcastle Wyoming a stock raiser and woolgrower, 8 C Holst, testifies he was cured of years of back pain after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says the remedy restored vigor, allowed him to work freely, and made him among Wyoming’s healthiest men. He recalls shearing sheep when pain began and credits the pills with a complete permanent recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Wyo
C. Holst
Mr. Holst
Dodd
Wyoming
Also Mentioned on This Page
BY E
D. Assleton & Company
New York
Plum
Fies
Miss Beauchamp
Poston
Sam Poston
Chiapter X
Qttumwa
Iowa
Tiso
J. W. O'Brien
Third
Ava
Minneapolis
Mon
Defiance Starchs
Iris
Cook
Pope
Western Woolgrower
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!