Southwest Limited Bedding Change Promises Comfort
The Rock Island System promotes southwestern immigration growth with low fares drawing six thousand homeseekers to Oklahoma and Arkansas. Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul adds a sleeping car innovation on the Southwest Limited, replacing woolen blankets with white counterpanes for comfort in hot weather, while blankets are kept for cooler nights. A humor line on fools and wisdom closes the note.
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Southwest
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arkansas
Southwest Limited
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Chicago
Kansas City
Has Jones an assured reputation as an author
A quoted exchange from Life Mistress and London Tit-Bits features sharp witticisms about authors and hens. The line mocks reliability, with a jest about producing poor work forever and a quip on keeping eggs by cool storage.
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Jones
Bridget
London
Hall's Catarrh Cure and 1900s ads tale
A fragmented nostalgia of early 20th century ads includes Hall's Catarrh Cure promises and testimonials. It features claims of cure and internal use, prices, medical endorsements by firms in Toledo, and assorted taglines on consumer products and beauty.
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Hall
Dominion Exhibition to Open in Winnipeg at Peak Attendance
The Dominion Exhibition plans a major showcase in Winnipeg Manitoba with extensive Dominion Government support. It will feature Canada's agricultural and industrial resources and attract visitors from the United States due to low rail fares. Minister Clifford Sefton is expected to attend the opening to declare the fair open. Hotel rooms will be plentiful, offering a prime chance to meet friends. A piano joke ends the piece.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
Dominion
United States
Clifford Sefton
Interior
Fan attachment for sewing machines aids seamstresses in heat
A new fan attachment fits atop the sewing machine arm, aligning with the operator’s face. When the machine runs the fan spins rapidly cooling the seamstress. a lever can disengage it to stop when not needed. It requires no extra effort from the worker and adds comfort without extra energy.
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Gimple
Snakes Invade Kansas City Paint and Paper Store
After the Turkey Creek flood, a Moccasin snake was found among rolls of wallpaper at B F Shouse's dury store and paint and paper house 38021 3025 Southwest Boulevard. A second snake appeared near Miss Ray Hintges who escaped injury as workers killed the reptile. The owner overhauls stock seeking the snakes and says they entered during the flood seeking shelter in wallpaper rolls.
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Dury
B. F. Shouse
Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City
Ray Hintges
Shouse
Before Carrie The Furies of Greek myth pursue guilt
The Furies were the feminine reformers of ancient Greece who pursued the guilty with torches rather than hatchets, embodying relentless justice in myth.
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Greece
Rattlesnake John Encounters a Big Blacksnake Tale
In Allentown Pa a man known as Rattlesnake John visited Colerain Mountains with eight rattles from a snake killed by a large blacksnake. He witnessed the blacksnake bite the rattler after a toad appeared in its mouth, then cut off the rattles as the larger snake crushed the rattler to death.
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John
Lower Milford
Colerain
Allpentown
Dispatch
Poor Reward for Honesty in Austrian Mine Riches
Austrian mining magnate Herr Tippelt learned honesty hurts after discovering his income exceeded his tax return. He paid 6500 to the Exchequer, only to face a demand for 3750 plus interest penalties twenty times the quoted rate. He appealed, but the court ruled against him.
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Herr Tippelt
Herr Tippett
Eggs disrupt church social in Little Silver near Red Bank
A church social at Little Silver near Red Bank N J was disrupted when an egg thrower sent two ancient eggs into the room. One egg struck a guest in the mouth and the other grazed the pastor’s head. The event broke up in confusion as men searched for the culprit.
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Red Bank
N. J
Meet After 27 Years Brothers Reunite in Waukesha
Frederick Clayton of Ellsworth Nebraska and his brother Henry B Clayton of Marshalltown Iowa aged 52 and 47 met unexpectedly on a Waukesha street after 27 years. They learned they were born in Marshalltown and had been separated by a family quarrel. Henry, married, lives in Bella Vista California, Frederick came to seek land and farming opportunities and visited North Prairie to see a cousin before continuing their long awaited reunion.
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Waukesha
Ellsworth
Neb
Frederick
Milwaukee
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Henry B
Frederick F. Clayton
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New York World
Rock houses near Blake's Hall in Kidderminster
In Kidderminster England near Blake's Hall are rock dwellings carved from red sandstone that remain inhabited. The four-room homes feature thick walls glazed windows wooden doors and tiled floors. Nearby lie older deserted rock dwellings and composite caves partly built and partly excavated in the rock.
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Blake’s Hall
Kidderminster
Eng
Wide World Magazine
Unique Gate Made From Farm Tools in Kansas
A Kansas farmer crafts a gate from rakes hoes and other agricultural implements, creating a distinctive entry feature for his property. The improvised gate showcases practical repurposing and rural ingenuity in a compact, decorative form.
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Kansas
How the Mussel Travels
In curious natural history, a mussel traffics by using gelantinous threads that extend from its shell to climb toward high water. The creature releases old threads as it advances, leaving a trail of past attachments. Its movement is comically slow, provoking amused speculation about a “slow race” among sea life.
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America
The Clever Farmer Hedge Riddle
In the center sits the landlord’s house with eight pear trees around it and eight tenant houses outside the pear ring. Ten apple trees form the outer circle. The landlord foils the plan by planting a hedge that encloses his house and the apple trees while isolating the tenants, giving each one a pear tree. The clever layout preserves his apples and allocates pear trees to tenants.
Lightning strikes Gardner home causing extensive damage
A storm lightning hit George Gardner’s house at Lee entering through the L gable and tearing out a window. It damaged rafters milk room and clapboards, bent a milk pan, then struck the penstock and pipe stopping water flow as the bolt exited the building.
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George Gardner
Lee
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