The Town of Nogood in the Fog of Despair
A New Haven Register poem-passage contrasts Nogood with duty and courage. It paints Nogood as a dead-alive town shut in by mountains and gloom, where cowards dwell and the fool, rich, or idle crowds gather, urging readers to live up to a single duty.
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New Haven
Staten Island
New York
Ripans Tabules
Prospectors Amid Their Friends Mailing List Request
A fragmentary item notes prospects and mailing list solicitation. It mentions sending six stamps to W. R. Callaway in Minneapolis Minnesota and references shipping and telegram style news items. The text is garbled but centers on prospectors and mailing list inclusion.
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Soo Line
Evers Moendar
Destrantes
Rylees
Aiskin “Prospectors
Ow. R. Callaway
G. Poa
Minneapolis
Ming
Christina Rossetti
My Wife Misses Concert Heavily Mocked by Messenger
Humorous Chicago paper item notes a wife unable to attend a concert due to a baby’s health scare. The baby apparently did not have croup, prompting a sharp exchange about the incident and resulting ire.
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Catarrh Cure Claim Promises $100 Reward for Failures
A newspaper advertisement proclaims a guaranteed cure for catarrh with a $100 reward if it fails. It states Catarrh Cure works by acting on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease and bolster the patient’s constitution. The ad invites testimonials and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as the makers and 75 cent sale price through druggists.
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Pooling of Efforts Inspires Shoe Provision Plan
A humorous note from Harper's Bazar quotes a country parishioner asking congregants to pool efforts after the mothers meeting on Tuesday. He praises the ladies who donate slippers yearly and requests a collective fund to supply one year of high leather boots instead of thirty pairs of slippers.
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Poolingeir Offor
Mona Craig nursing Debrisay and Lisle visit
Mona cares for Madame Debrisay as Lisle visits in London drawing room. General Fielden arrives, Lisle questions Mona’s heart, and Debrisay sees a future meeting while Mona wonders about Uncle Sandy and her options amid advancing illness and winter chill.
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Gilad
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Monat
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Aisle
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Trrther
Moin
Beck
Mom
Mary Black
Edinbregh
Uncle Sandy
Allen's Foot-Hase Powder Advertisement
Ancient spelling heavy ad copy touts Allen's Foot-Hase powder to treat chilblains, frost bites, damp feet, corns and bunions. Claims quick relief by sprinkling powder into shoes. Available at all druggists for 25 cents. Sample offered by S.Olmsted LeRoy.
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Rival Politician Grasp Questioned in Public Debate
A Washington Evening Star exchange questions a candidate's grasp of public affairs and a senator notes the rival has his hands full. The second item notes that two thirds of Britain's ships are built on the Clyde.
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Sorghum
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The Oriental Way and a Bizarre Laundryman Tale
A fragmented, comic sketch notes Judge Little Mickey Oi and Hop Lung the laundryman reading a nose book and sharing a tale. The narrator derides the scene with comic exclamations while referencing Pullman and a supposed family scheme to seize on wild oats.
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Hop Lung
Pullman
Dyspeptic’s Relief and Quack Remedies Featured in 1890s Ads
A collage of old ad blurbs tout Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion, fever, rheumatism, and other ailments, plus patent medicines like Allen’s Foot Ease and Piso’s Cure, with brief quotes and product pitches. Includes faded verse, jokes, and scattered social notes, reflecting a late 19th century newspaper page.
Ocean voyage fuels pricey oil paint tale
Chicago Paper reports Splasher’s costly sea trip ended with a storm and the captain tossing Splasher’s oil paint logs overboard to calm the waves. The ad price notes 30 a bottle for Winslow’s Eooraine Svacr teething remedy, claimed to reduce discomfort.
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Splasher
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