Aunt Julia the Moonlit Healer of Pulsifer’s Cure
In Chicago News humor pieces Walt Mason portrays Aunt Julia, a home remedy expert who brews potent tonics from strange yards and moon phases. Her bold, theatrical methods persuade the ailing Pulsifer family and mock doctors with a quick, vivid cure.
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Mrs. Doolittle
Jala
Royal Police of
Abyssinia
Turin
Julia
Mrs. Pusifer
Walt Mason
Chicago News
Local Social Roundup At Ledgepole and Surroundings
Fred Korsmeyer and friends visited Ledgepole and Cunningham's tavern last night drawing good crowds. J R Merifield and family hosted Sonsie farm hospitality while Mika youths from south of Ledgepole spent days with sister Mrs Se Strnpka and attended a dance. Ty FB Quinn traveled east for his wife visiting her parents. Weekly dances spark Terpsichore enthusiasm. A school district petition circulated amid a dispute over subdivision. Albert Jeudes aided Korsmeyer on his well. First snow Tuesday found residents ready as Hubert Fuller of Sidney drove 150 head and another 200 north.
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Tarston
Cunningham's
J. R. Merifield
Alice
Sonsie Farm
Mika
Ledgepole
Se. Strnpka
TY. FB
Quinn
Terpsichore
Albert Jeudes
Fred Korsmeyer
Las Well
Hubert Fuller
Sidney
Mr. Bartling
Tongue Twisters Spark Confusion and Laughter
A quirky exchange highlights the difficulty of enunciating tricky phrases as readers joke about mispronunciations. The piece captures playful chatter over phrases like the sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us and other garbled lines.
Higgins Family News From Sidney Area
Clara Higgins plans Thanksgiving at home while Mrs Wymer and children travel to Oklahoma on the 21st. Chas Higgins and wife with Lawrence were visitors from Sidney Saturday. P T Higgins and Violet Higgins visited Potter. Mrs Schumacher and Ella visited Mrs Lager. Lulu and Jesse Higgins started school. Louis and Harry Schumacher visited Fred Gustafson on Sunday.
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Clara Higgins
Mrs. Wymer
Oklahoma
Chas. Higgins
Lawrence
Sidney
P. T. Higgins
Violet Higgins
Potter
Mrs. Schumacher
Ella
Mrs. Lager
Lulu
Jesse Higgins
Louis
Harry Schumacher
Fred Gustafson
Local notes from South Divide district
Folkert Trattway raised a windmill this week. Flannery traveled to Oregon to inspect country. Peter Lenzen is constructing a new farm house. Clem Brauer hosted neighbors last week. Foster’s young daughter was ill Thursday night and a doctor was summoned. Hartway built a fence Wednesday around fall wheat. Eisenbusch returned from Julesburg after a visit this week.
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Mr. Flannery
Oregon
Peter Lenzen
Clem Brauer
Mr. Hartway
Mr. Eisenbusch
Julesburg
Umbrella Case Tactic Delivers Guilty Verdict
A London defense lawyer used an umbrella gag to sway the jury in a theft trial. The defendant argued witnesses carried umbrellas to taint minds, but the jury still found the prisoner guilty despite the ruse.
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Min
London News
Prisons and Property Rights in Early War Law
A New York American passage discusses how early warfare treated prisoners and property. It cites Justinian's plandicts claiming enemy property as res nullius and occupancy as a naturalistic ownership concept, questioning how brutal practices were in earlier eras.
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Justinian
New York American
Labor and political clashes headline European and US scene
French labor leaders plan resistance to government program. Nobel chemist Otto Wallach wins prize. Panama assembly backs recognizing Portugal. New York suffragists target Albany. Harvard reports third new star found. Savannah meets record 70.55 mph by Bruce-Brown. Cork and Dublin greet John Redmond. Massive cross border settler movement notes Canada and US figures. Iowa governor appoints US senator replacement. Charles Kohl dies in Wisconsin. Secretary of War to push five or ten aircraft for Signal Corps. Bishop elect Charles Burch named suffragan of NY diocese. Wilson Potter nears death in Atlantic City after Alaska race. Puritan tow plan, armor breach noted. Robbers flee after $10,000 theft in Mass. Pinchot seeks Alaska coal brief. Dunihoo jailed for aiding opium smugglers. Murder in Kansas and Kalamazoo body found. Chincha bug warning in Kansas. Prolific phonograph archive noted in Paris. Big Four discriminatory rates charges in Cleveland. Muncy murder warrant in West Virginia. Trumbull released after counterfeiting probe. New Mexico constitution debate over amendability. Chicago crime wave prompts police guard actions.
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France
Otto Wallach
University of Goettingen
Panama National Assembly
Republic of
Portugal
New York
Albany
Harvard College Observatory
Pickering
Savannah
David Bruce-Brown
John Redmond
United States
Cork
Dublin
Canada
Charles Hummer Burch
Richmond
Staten Island
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Wilson Potter
Thomas Potter, Jr
Atlantic City
Alaska
Navy Yard
R J Hines
United States District Court
St. Louis
James Parker
Hutchinson
Kan
Parker
Big Four Railway
Cleveland
Vassault
Interstate Commerce
National Refining Company of
Trindsay
Thomas AleCoy
Bethany College
Rudolph Munk
West Virginia University
Hobus
Richard K. Trumbull
Chicago
Foot
George B Willians
H N Secrest
Managua
Nicaragua
New Mexico
Theodore Roosevelt
Poignant Exchange From Houston Post Passage
A fragment from the Houston Post features a tense exchange in which a boy is questioned about his actions and urged to count to a hundred before striking another boy. The dialogue highlights disciplinary tension and the social norms of the period.
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Houston Post
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Yaros
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Fred Korsmieyer
D. J. Scanlon Drugs
B. Best
Sidney, Neb
Waving
B. E. Robinson
Jackson
HARPY
Kentucky
Saie
Kruse Bros
Clara
Folkert Trattway
Se Lansson
Swenson Land Company
Cheyenne and Kimball Co. Lands
Governor Carroll
Iowa
Lafayette Young
Des Moines
J. P. Dolliver
Charles 8. Kohl
Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association
Oconomo Woe
Wis
Dickinson
Signal Corps
Army
Ray Mason
Kalamazoo
Micu
Warsaw
Ind Ele
Leigh Rhodus
East St. Louis
W F Michaelis
Anton Helbig
Kansas Agricultural College
Kansas
Bibliothique Nationale
Paris
Johnnie
THE
Vienna
E. W. Ziebert
Closman & Son
Masonic
Lincoln Daily Star
Mail
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Star
Sidney Telegraph
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