German Boys Trained for Foreign Trade In Berlin Schools
London Daily Mail notes Berlin commercial schools train boys age 12 or 13 for business life. Courses include English and French, bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, and office tasks. The Dresdener Strasse 90 Berlin school is non boarding with quarterly fee 28s. Emperor William’s speeches are published. official stenographers cover them.
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Berlin
Leipsiz
Ologne
Harslarge
Dresdener Strasse
London Daily Mail
Seasons and stars frame a hopeful cosmic view
A Boston Globe excerpt ponders seasons, night and day, labor, and the cosmos. It muses that human life and events may be part of a larger infinite plan, with nature’s cycles signaling preparation for greater purposes.
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Boston Globe
Tricks and Deception in a Philadelphia Boarding House
A man seeking cheap private boarding for his strained finances marries Grace Kingsley using a staged ceremony to appease his scheming uncle in Vermont. The ruse collapses when the uncle questions the marriage date, but he laughs it off, praising the man's cleverness.
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Grace Kingsley
Grace
Vermont
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Explosive toy ship model with detachable deck and reassembly
The article describes a toy warship with a central detachable deck containing turrets and masts. A powder receptacle inside the hull uses a percussion cap and spring release to trigger an explosion, demolishing the vessel, then reassembling for another blast. Cardboard and wood strips form the ship, designed to endure repeated detonations.
Fate-Tossed Man Reflects on Lost Future
A line from a Philadelphia North American piece features a fate-tossed man recalling a once clear future. An old friend remarks on what was lost as the man admits he lived too fast and got ahead of his destiny.
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Eentans
Uttra
Haridaomo
Paris
Miliinera
Anyamalley
Todd, Smith & CO
Radison Street
Enteaso
Philadelphia
Miracle Cure Story Boosts Dodd’s Kidney Pills in Missouri
Mrs. M A Goss of Bernie Missouri credits Dodd’s Kidney Pills with curing months of sciatica and rheumatism after failed treatments. She says after a week her condition improved and within weeks she could sit up and walk. Her statement is reprinted by the St Louis Globe Democrat and readers travel to hear her tale.
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Bernie Mo
M.A. Goss
Douglas County
Dodd
M. A. Goss
Mrs. Goss
Missouri
Allen's Foot-Ease and Patent Remedy Ads Chronicle
Various old advertisements promise cures and tonics for foot ailments dyspepsia and teething with names like Allen's Foot-Ease Dr Shoop's Restorative Piso's Cure and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. The notices urge readers to write for samples or buy from druggists and shoe stores. Warnings about frugality and moral cautions appear amid promotional lines.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Mrs Haven Praises Lydia E Pinkham Remedies
Mrs Euma Haven of Council Bluffs Iowa writes in February 1900 that four years of womb trouble with heavy monthly flows left her bedridden. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier Sonative Wash and Liver Pills she says she now feels like a new woman.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lewis
Valentine Ave
Tremont
New York
Euma Haven
South Ave
Council Bluffs
Iowa
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William
Offtal-Gazette
Themperor
Sigridur Jonsdottir
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Reykholasveit
Bardastrandarsysta
Iceland
Europe
Dodd's
Dodds Medicine Company ‘of
Buffalo
Ly Island
Iele
Ormandy
Pilkington Brothers
Britain
Dorchester
Baker &Co
Swreck
Ani
T Haye
Bermuda
Queensland
Osman Digna
J. W. O’brien
Third Avenue
Minneapolis, Minn
Piace
Joss
Tam
Emma Havin
Council Bluff
National City Bank
Lynn
Mass
Lupia E, Pinxwam Merpyciter. Co
W.L. Douglas
Eal Ayorth
WAL. Doutas Sk
Nise
Ct Ton Mass
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Donging
Brockton, Mass
China
Japan
Pern
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