Old Colonel Trippitt Tales Stirring A Past Retold
A reminiscence at Hennessys rekindles a feud of memory as Col Trippitt’s long yarns about old times are challenged. The narrator retraces a night of conundrums around a glass eye and a name that proves elusive, ending with the colonel’s sharp, comic recall.
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Langley
Col. Trippitt
Washington Irving
Hennessy
Billy Gough
Hanson’s Creek
John
Jesse Randall
Jesse
Meredith
Merryweather
Merry
Delaware Avenue
Carrige
Peat
Merry Merry
Parisians Enjoy Rainy Days The French Smile Through Weather
The article notes rain lifts Parisian mood, people stay cheerful, and children Helene and Henri walk to school with capuchon and small umbrella. The baby, nurse and family attire reflect French charm as they proceed through wet streets.
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Monsieur
la Petite
Helene
Henri
Unu
Lebebe
Dean's Kidney Pills Advertises Backache Cure
An old Texas reader from Lufkin praises Dean's Kidney Pills for curing backache and gravel after a sawmill injury. The ad notes backs relief and no further bladder trouble, with a 50 cent box price and Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y distribution. A closing line makes a bleak joke about married women and remarriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
J. A. Haywood
Lufkin
Tex
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement Growls From Le Roy
A vintage ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure tired feet and ease new or tight shoes. It urges asking for the product, with a note to accept no substitute and provides the seller's address in Le Roy New York.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Truly a Modern Patriarch Celebrates 100th Birthday
James Webb of Peters in San Joaquin County California marked his 100th birthday on July 27. He was born in Kentucky and fathered 13 children with seven surviving. Webb has 51 grandchildren about 150 great grandchildren and 26 great great grandchildren. About 100 descendants attended the celebration.
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James Webb
Peters
San Joaquin County
California
Wan
Kentucky
Ancient mine burial found in Somersetshire England
The body of a young woman, preserved hair in a plait, lay 16 or 17 feet deep in the waterbone slit of Priddy lead mines, with five large blue and green glass beads beside her. A separate note recounts Gen Carr’s Civil War anecdote about Big Bethel and an anxious relief among officers at the Army and Navy Club.
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Priddy
Somersetshire
England
Army and Navy Club
Washington
Chaffee
Carr
New York
Troy
Big Bethel
Harper's Weekly
Woman credits Postum coffee substitute for health turnabout
A Michigan woman shares that her husband’s heart palpitations and bladder catarrh, caused by coffee, disappeared after switching to Postum. She notes stomach trouble resolved in two weeks, children benefit, and an observed change in a visiting invalid, praising long boiling for flavor. Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan, is cited.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Early Medical Tests Detect Kidney, Diabetes, Tuberculosis
Modern medical advances enable early detection of kidney disease diabetes and lung trouble through chemical and microscopic analyses. Specialists urge annual tests. insurance penalties drop for those who test early. Manhattan Laboratory in New York offers mailable specimens and analyses for a small fee.
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York City
Europe
Space
Manhattan Laboratory
Box 97
N. Y. City
Sparrows Hatch Eggs In Hat After Sunday Nap
A Kansas City Journal item recounts L Van degrift dozing on a porch in a rural town when an English sparrow built a nest in his hat and laid a full clutch of eggs. The mother bird began incubating while he slept, illustrating the bird's surprising fecundity.
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Vandegrift
Pument— Smiths
Virginia
Kansas City Journal
Remarkable Cure of Child Sores with Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Mrs Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut describes a year and a half battle with worsening facial and body sores in her infant son. After trying doctors he grew weak and scratched himself nearly to death until Cuticura Soap and Ointment were used. Within two months all sores disappeared and the child recovered fully.
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Egbert Sheldon
Woodville, Conn
Cunarder Vessel Under Construction Uses Giant Steel Plates
Report from England describes the new Cunarder being built at Wallend as using the largest steel plates in the world. The silicon steel plates weigh ten tons each and the boilers are expected to weigh over 1000 tons. Massive ingots and slabs of 12 to 14 tons pass through rolling mills for this work.
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Wallaend
England
First Quill Pens and Steel Nibs Timelines Fragment
Fragmentary notes discuss the advent of quill pens and steel nibs with early sales prices mentioned, but the text is incomplete and unclear about dates or full events.
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Joan
Sorfleet
Sorefeet
Daily Story Pub. Co
Jericho
Jerusalem
Valley of the Jordan
Bartimaeus
Jesus
David
Matthew
Zacchaeus
Christ
Bartimaeus and
Cutiura
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