Pelzer’s Ideal City Runs Without Courts Or Mayors
A reader describes Pelzer South Carolina as a thriving mill town of 7000 with four cotton mills employing about 8000 workers and processing 150000 bales yearly. Capt. John Smythe rules the city with obedience, bans lawyers editors and doctors from active business, and restricts Negro residents while providing company owned housing and a free public library. Education is compulsory for child workers, mills use electric power, and a local cooperative insurance system aids workers while Father Pelzer ties Piedmont to the enterprise.
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Pelzer
Palmetto State
Cites
Capt
John Smythe
Dom Paul
Transvaal
Smith
Smythe
Atlanta
Greenville
Charleston
Gouthern
Tien
Capt. Smythe
Saluda
Hia
China
South
Pelters
Capt Smythe
Rource
Deadera
Duncombe Or Smythé
Wujpeell
Innocent People Arrested on Suspicion of Crime
A historical piece describes mistaken identity leading to arrests of innocent English citizens for grave crimes, recounting a tale where wealthy suspects are implicated by error. It cites a story of a judge once arrested on suspicion of burglarious intent, highlighting the painful and frustrating nature of wrongful detention.
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High Court
Pin Swallowed Years Ago Exits Finger After Long Wait
Percy Smith, 26, swallowed a pin three years ago while with the Warlow Athletic Club. It lodged crosswise in the esophagus, later migrating to the fingertip where it finally emerged protruding from the first joint. He felt no pain until the pin surfaced, and he is recovering well.
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Whitetone Landing
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Percy Smith
Warlow Athletic Club
Dr. Bleeker
Smith
Mr. Smith
Hamlet actor and blackout end in Durban theater
Osmond Tearl in Durban Natal recently performed Hamlet when the theatre lights failed plunging the town into darkness. Leonard Rayne playing Polonius grabbed a candle and descended to safety as the gunnery scene unfolded amid the blackout.
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Hamlet
Candie Light
Osmond ‘Tearl
Durban
Natal
Ophelia
Leonard Rayne
Polonius
Smythe rule in Pelzer and Piedmont mills debate
A South Carolina town tale contrasts Capt Smythe’s control in Pelzer with Piedmont residents debating a local newspaper. The piece notes Southern mill investment, export trade to China, and a culture of self sufficiency, while recounting odd incidents from London to New York about judges, judgeship, and a humorous street scene.
Not Much of s Hen from the New York Tribune
There is a family of my acquaintance said F Walworth of Baltimore at the Fifth Avenue hotel the other day where tha.
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New York Tribune
F. Walworth
Baltimore
Fifth Avenue
French washerwomen honored with new order and medals
The text notes no limit to honors for washerwomen in France. It describes their prominent role on the Seine and in revolutionary periods, compares them to market women, and states the government awards twelve medals. The ministry of commerce distributes the diplomas to the prize washerwomen.
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France
Seine
Ministry of Commerce
Nothing to help Bim Up Hiram in city visit tale
A quirky, fragmented reminiscence set in an urban visit. The speaker and nephew’s household routines reveal playful banter and a carefree mood with lines attributed to Puck style whimsy. The text centers on domestic evenings and lighthearted dialogue.
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Hiram
Joan
Puck
Beating All Records Twenty Five Children Swartwood Family
Mrs. Samuel Swartwood of Wilkes Barre Pa is mother of twenty five children and largest family in the United States. At 41 she has twenty living offspring with two sets of twins and a youngest just days old. She praises married life and says all her children are well behaved and well educated. Her husband works on the Jersey City railroad and earns about 70 to 90 dollars monthly.
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Samuel Swartwood
Wilkesbarre
United States
Nirs
Swartwood
Father
Rook
Bnay
Grover Cleveland
Mr. Swartwood
Jersey City
Fourteen Mistakes of Life: A List for Reflection
An English paper outlines fourteen life errors, urging readers not to judge others by personal standards, seek perfect uniformity of opinion, or demand full understanding of everything. It warns against worrying over unremediable issues and living for time alone, since any moment may lead to eternity.
Paper Wrapping Costs Rise in Shopper’s Trip
A Baltimorean recently measured the weight of paper used for wrapping purchases. In a single day the wrapping accounted for about 10 percent of total cost. A list of map piles showed coating around 1.0 cent. the paper weighed with provisions cost 14 cents.
Spitting Practice Taught by Mothers in City Life
The Trenton Star Gazette argues boys should learn early the offense of spitting for decency and public health. It urges mothers to restore duty in guiding boys during habit formation, noting spitting at home leads to public spitting on sidewalks and steps. Spreading knowledge is favored over strict ordinances to curb the habit.
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Boye
Trenton Star Gazette
Lerreat
Rubber boots urged to beat winter cold by churchman
A quoted churchman advises readers from Maine to Oregon to wear rubbers as the key measure to prevent catching colds during winter, a practical tip highlighted in the season’s approach.
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Maine
Oregon
Chemist Returns Photo By Mistake To Traveler
A commercial traveler visits a well known chemist and presents a card claiming his firm offers a fine cosmetics line. The chemist compliments the traveler, but remarks the woman in a returned photograph looks natural, and the man leaves without a farewell, in a London Tit Bits item.
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London
Name Florida from Easter or flowers claim in 1703 quote
A quoted passage from Mechan's Monthly cites an 1703 book stating Ponce de Leon named Florida after Easter or the region’s blossoms. The Florida Warrier and Fruit Grower and The Farmer weigh reasons tied to Pasqua de Flores and the land’s spring beauty, noting Morida’s East season and stone wealth as supporting pieces.
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Ponce de Leon
Florida
Herrera
Morida
Mechan's
Feminine Intultian Dialogue About Shamrock and Columbia
A fragmented dialogue discusses a race or contest between Shamrock and Columbia. Characters Amy Susie and Brookyln Lite speculate on reasons for a close result, noting Shamrock's greater "waist" and suggesting beverages influenced performance. The language is garbled and informal.
Are You Using Allen's Foot-Roast Powder Ad
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Roast as a cure for swollen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions. It promotes a powder to be shaken into shoes sold by druggists and stores for 25 cents with a free sample offer.
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Allen
Drugelats
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Nad
Poor Skriblar Rebounds With New Book
In the Baltimore News account, critics mauled Skriblar as vulgar and unreadable yet he persevered,Then he wrote another work that proved his talent, showing resilience after harsh reviews.
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Suchenstal
Skriblar
Haltimore News
Bargain to Goiters and a Guitar Offer
A fragmentary ad from John M Smyth Coehoewn touts an elegant guitar for 7.66 dollars. The market chatter references Wheatmore the tall broker and a shorter broker contemplating deals, with hints of wheal questions and sharp corners. The text reads like a noisy Chicago News fragment from a bygone era.
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John M. Smyth Coehown
Wheatmore
Wan & Square
Yeu
Chicago News
Electro Medical and Surgical Institute Ad in Fargo
An advertisement from Fargo North Dakota promotes the Electro Medical and Surgical Institute at 10 Broadway offering a combined medicine and electricity treatment. It claims cures for chronic stomach, liver, bowels, kidney, and gonadal issues, rheumatism, catarrh, heart troubles, blood poisoning, and private ailments. It promises a painless rupture cure with no operation and no business downtime, plus a free ray examination for patients.
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Broadway
P.O
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Beats All Records
Pennsylvania
Mreswartwood
Marcind
Urteen
Amy
Columbia
Susie
Brooklyn Lite
The
Electro Medical and Surgical Institute
Fargo, N. Dak
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