A Secret Service Hero and Ariadne on the Run
Weldon, a schoolmaster and secret service man, helps Ariadne flee moonshiners haunting a rural hamlet. After exposing a still, he plans to leave town with Ariadne aboard a freight train bound for Little Rock, but guards warn of danger as moonshiners close in, prompting a tense midnight escape on the caboose and a precarious future.
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Riley
Mr. Weldon
Weldon
Ariadne
Manny
Yarry
Work
Eilia
Favor
Jove
Secret Service
Bayou
Merton
Cloes
Manuel
Bea Manuel
Father
Jeff Cole
Garley
Sam
Deliverance
Little Rock
Milvale
Invitation to Matrimony and Odd News Snippets
A facetious notice invites proposals for marriage with comical qualifications and a strict closing time. Separate items report shrinking Nobel prizes and endowment income, lavish early 20th century commentary on social mores, and Austrian drug-related mortality statistics.
Comfortable Sofa Rug Pattern Instructions
Directions describe knitting and crochet steps to create a sofa rug using long hooks and needles. It outlines casting stitches, knitting rows, and forming upper and lower rug parts with a patterned crochet technique, including stitch counts and ridge patterns.
The Completed Rug Crochet Pattern Review
Instructions describe looping, stitching, and weaving a rug with double crochet edges. It details color changes in a red and white motif, forming fans and treble clusters, and sewing the rug to fit a sofa with taped backing.
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Nocona
Loni
Some Cotillion Figures and Party Favors
A guide to small cotillion figures for a genteel gathering. It suggests masks from hidden partners, the four in hand ribbon figure with four men and four girls, and how leaders guide pairs. Also notes numerous paper favors such as racquets hats and bells for the celebration.
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Tey
A Rose Jar Instructions for Rose Petal Jaraging
Morning gathered rose petals dried dew. Salt sprinkled on each half inch flyer. Ten days stationary and stirred daily. Coarsely ground cloves allspice and cinnamon added in layers. Petals moved to new jar with spice mix. Store in dark place three weeks for permanent stock.
Tremendous Itching Cures With Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Mary Metzger of Sweetwater Oklahoma says she suffered a severe eczema outbreak over her whole body for four months causing intense itching and bleeding. She used Cuticura Remedies as directed and soon found relief, reporting she is now well and recommends the products. June 28 1905.
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Ble
Cutieura
Mary Metzger
Sweetwater
Okla
Bird Eating Spiders Snare Birds in Tropical Webs
A London specimen of the bird eating spider is described as capable of catching hummingbirds and finches in its silk. Its bark-like coloring aids disguise, and its threads pose dangers to travelers in forests. The piece compares it to a tarantula, noting its ferocious appearance and prolific silk output.
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London “Co
Tropics
Tery
Artificial Vanilla Ice Cream From Cottonseed Oil
Professor Stillman showcased a milkless dessert at Sevens Institute dinner. He used cottonseed oil emulsified by a centrifuge at 3000 rpm, then frozen to imitate vanilla ice cream with gluein and nitrobenzol, a cheaper substitute sold in Southern states.
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Stillman
Silman
Sevens Institute
Driven to the Suburbs by Landlords in New York
A discussion notes rapacity of landlords forces tenants to suburbs as city flats become unaffordable for average clerks and workers. outlines the struggle to find rental spaces within reasonable means and the growing difficulty of meeting existing conditions.
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New York City
Woman's Ordeal and Free Confidential Advice From Lydia Pinkham
A sobering appeal urges women to write to Mia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential, free guidance on female illness. The column cites testimonials praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health and alleviating menstrual and related symptoms, urging trust in Pinkham's experience over local physicians.
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Mia Pinkhem
Lynn
Masa
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Floral Scarf Fashions In Paris Theatergoers Embrace New Style
A Paris correspondent notes the floral scarf is the hour’s novelty in feminine attire. White violets and tiny dog roses appear in pure white and colored designs. At the Opera last week a marabout feather trim with small flowers created a striking effect, while three lines of pale gray and heliotropes between the flowers offered a supple, harmonious color.
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Paris
Pat Marabout
West Virginian touts Dean’s Kidney Pills cure
An elderly Parkersburg merchant testifies after twenty years of kidney trouble and nightly urination that Dean’s Kidney Pills restored normal urine flow and eliminated pain. He claims eight years of cure with full activity, despite age over 70, and notes pills sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo.
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West
Hough
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Low Excursions From M. and St. L. to Regional Meetings
Special rail excursions offer one fare plus small extras to Portland Seattle Des Moines St Paul Minneapolis Springfield Louisville and more for various associations meetings. Tickets go on sale mid to late May with limited return extensions and optional one way routing via California. Contact A B Cutts GP and Tony Minneapolis for full details.
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Portland
Ore
Tacoma
Seaile
Puget Sound
Hotel Men's Association
California
Boston
Mate
American Modes Association
Springfeld
German Baptist Brethren
Louieville
Cutts
Tony Minneapolis
Minn
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Tie
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Baker's Business College
Fargo
N. D
Baaker's Business College
Northwest
Guy A. Sermon
Starbuel
Prince Kotchewheff
Berlin
Shen
Mother
Juanita
Brea
New York
BOC
Rees
TC. Willadsen
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Castoria
Allen
Reg Bon
Woodward & CO
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Tam
Weill
J. WH Aindlaub
Fargo, N. D
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Watkins
W.L. Douc
L. Bougina
Eage Ling
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Thompson
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