Forbidden Romance Aboard a Quiet London Train
Trevoe and a nurse named Jessie form a flirtatious bond during a solitary journey from the west to London. They exchange names, hide their real identities, and charm an observant elderly couple before parting at Paddington with a promise of anonymity and a shared debt for the milestone encounter. The tale ends with Trevoe's reluctance to pursue further contact and a note on flat champagne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trevoe
Jack
Jessie
Trevor
Paddington
Victoria
Victoria Station
Cigar Collector Dies With 18000 Prewar Smokes Stored
Reading Pennsylvania reports a cigar maker Reuben Keinert who died leaving 18000 cigars from before the Civil War and four wagon loads of tobacco stored at his home. He refused to stamp and sell under wartime revenue laws, awaiting repeal, and kept the stock for 45 years despite offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Internal Revenue Office
Reuben Reinert
Hereford
Keinert
Rabbi Teachings From a Poetic Plea in Avante
A fragmentary verse scene shows a speaker addressing a rabbi asking what one should do to live. The dialogue uses wine as a metaphor for guidance and spilling or withholding knowledge. The sense of urging generosity and complete sharing contrasts with withholding. The piece reflects devotional and rhetorical questions within a 19th or early 20th century literary setting.
Better Goods and Home Canning Compared by Michigan Farmer
The Michigan Farmer argues that home canned goods, while requiring time, may still be healthier and purer than store bought options. It warns against potential coal tar dyes and unnutritious materials in commercial products, urging careful consideration of value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
A Winter Poultry House
A winter poultry house should divide flocks into small groups when 75 to 100 hens are wintered. Consider a three or four floor plan adaptable for winter or summer use with an elevated walk letting hens access side yards. In summer yards can be alternated. space beneath the walk aids winter use.
Arrangement of Poultry House for Better Hens Heat
A Michigan farmer describes an improved poultry house layout increasing floor space by about one sixth. Features include drip draught protection with a removable bur lap curtain, plank partitions to two feet high, a continuous low side wall, a roof-supported plank walk, wire netting separation, elevated drinking vessels and feed dishes, four light windows per pen, and buckwheat hulls to insulate and dry the space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Cooperative Hog Butchering Encouraged by Farmer-Neighbors
An Iowa Farm and Home correspondent urges farmers to form small cooperatives to butcher and cure hogs at one location. By pooling labor and facilities they save on slaughtering, curing, and distribution costs, avoid butcher shop markups, and market excess meat locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
The Live Stock Advice for Sheep and Horses
Farm Journal advises on profitable sheep farming with emphasis on lamb and mutton for home meals. It cautions against confusing nervousness with temper in horses and stresses matching plow horses by size strength and gait. Proper care includes clean bedding and avoiding damp straw to prevent rheumatism and scratches. Corn stalks are wasteful for sheep, as they mainly eat the leaves which suit young lambs best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Journal
The Best Farm Wagon
A farmer argues for wide tired low wagons as labor saving on soft roads. He notes wide tires travel over soil while a heavy load sinks a high wagon, and praises the lower wagon for loading manure and other tasks on the farm.
Producer and Consumer Seek Moderate Market Prices
The text notes the clash between producer and consumer aims with producers seeking high prices and consumers seeking low prices. It states that only moderate prices satisfy all parties and ensure profitability.
Storehouse for Cabbage Plans for cold climate storage and ventilation
A detailed design for a cabbage storehouse with concrete foundation, thick walls, multiple air spaces, double glazing, and ventilating shafts. The plan supports 20 degree below zero conditions with careful insulation, air chambers, and two doors per bay to allow wagon access and air circulation.
Beating Lice on Hens with Simple Grease
Readers learn that inexpensive common grease can kill lice on chicks and old hens without insect powders. Thorough grease application suffices, and no kerosene is needed. Keep coop air flow high by opening the side of the house rather than tiny cracks.
Man Overcomes Kidney Pain After Dean's Pills
W L Jackson of Parkersburg West Virginia describes twenty years of kidney troubles and back pain worsened by nightly urination. After using Deans Kidney Pills his urine flowed normally and pain faded. He claims eight years of cure and remains active at over seventy. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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W. L. Jackson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Cheap way to show off in a subway store swap
A portly woman and her thin friend witness a shopper maneuver a price swap in a store. The buyer pretends to choose an $18 table then secretly counters the order to a $3 50 piece, later regretting not choosing a $100 item to spite another shopper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Presse
Reverend Kellogg Controversy Sparking Maine Towns
Old Maine parishioners oppose Rev. Eliah Kellogg during his tenure as they publish alleged inconsistencies in church members lives. A party of locals plan to move him to another region while Kellogg jokes about watchdogs as townsfolk disperse. An unrelated ad extols Dodd's Kidney Pills with testimonials from Mrs. Taber of Hulett praising cure of kidney trouble.
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Eliah Kellogg
Maine
Kellogg
Boston Herald
Mr Wellage
Citien
Halett
Woo
Dodd
Mary Taber
Hulett
Bright
Smallpox Diagnosed in Madame Says Doctor
In a clipped dialogue the friend learns from the doctor that the illness is smallpox, described as a trifling and very small trouble, sparking relief and further anxiety about the patient. The exchange preserves period speech and setting in a London context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cuticura Remedies Endorsement and Odd Advert Claims
A reader letter praises Cuticura Soap and Ointment for skin sores and hair regrowth, signed by Harry J Spalding of New York City. The page features assorted ad blurbs touting patent cures, health claims, and humorous quips from the St Louis Globe Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry J Spalding
West 104Th
Street
New York
Ciy
From Foreign Fields and World News Snippets
The excerpt reports on the Prague river project costing over 3 million dollars, protests by the British Peace Society against rifle clubs, a London court remark on whisky as luxury, a grand wedding near Morlaix with 1 800 guests and 200 servants, a balloon voyage to Calcutta for the prince of Wales, a Chester canteen arrest over beer barrels filled with water, Warsaw doctor Biger elected honorary in Tokio, eastern London tax burdens, Castlemartyr property purchases, new Italian stamps without the monarch’s head, and a baboon mascot’s joy as troops depart for South Africa.
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Moldau
Prague
British Peace Society
City of London
Lumley Smith
Sévignac
Morlaix
Brittany
England
Calcutta
Prince of Wales
Chester
Biger
Warsaw
Japan
University of Tokio
London
Castlemartyr
County Cork
Earl of Shannon
South Africa
Bright Bits by Wits: Moral Bits and Sayings
A collection of quips on virtue and vanity. It contrasts appearances with real merit, notes how kindness can be insincere, and warns that worth and reputation cannot be bought. The witticisms reflect social judgment and self awareness in a concise, sardonic tone.
Bits by the Way Oddities and facts from around the world
A collection of curious notes on social norms and natural world quirks. It states women are rarely photographed in China, monkeys fear snakes, ice production dates to 1783, Indian clothing cost a dime yearly, women’s sense of smell lags men, and lemons are used in soap in lemon-growing regions.
Good Blood for Baby and Rheumatism Cure Story
A Dubuque man J G Menkel describes severe rheumatism from mining work. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People for three months his swelling and pain vanished and he has remained well for eight years. He endorses the pills as a household remedy and urges others to obtain the genuine medicine from druggists or the Dr Williams Medicine Co.
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J G Menkel
Jackson Avenue
Dubuque
Iowa
Robert Yates
Klaner Manufacturing Co
Duobuque
Dr. Williams
Dr Williams
Mr .Menkel
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Ima
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Letta Spencer Porter
Avante
Felly
Nolse
Inquirer
New Yorker
Grease
Lice
Tate
Noy
Mrs Austin
Thos. Robbine
Norwich
Moon Hase
Louw Globe-Democrat
China
Joo Drops
Lane
Carters
O. Rocheater
M Y
Mrald & CO
Box K
Bears
Castoria
F. W. Diemer
M. D
Spsingfeld
St. Jacobs Oil
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