Lesson in Natural History from a Farm Visit
Miss Patty Shepard from North Thirteenth Street visited the country on Memorial Day with friends. At a farmhouse an old nanny goat nibbled grass near her peach basket hat trimmed with artificial roses, prompting her joke about goats thinking the roses real. The goat surprised everyone by not disturbing the hat.
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Patty Shepard
North Thirteenth Street
Patty
Miss Patty
Philadelphia ‘Times
Weil
Proved by Time David Price Kidney Recovery Story
David Price of Corydon Indiana describes severe kidney trouble with back pain and weakness. He began using Dean's Kidney Pills and within a week could walk without a cane, with health gradually returning. Seven years later he remains well. Sold by all dealers 50¢ a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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David Price
Corydon
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Land sale in Routt County Colorado under Carey Act
Colorado opens Routt County lands in the Little Snake River valley for entry under the Carey Act at fifty cents per acre. Purchasers must contract for a water right with ten annual payments, totaling thirty five dollars per acre including a perpetual water right. Land parcels of 40 80 120 and 160 acres offered. applications show rapid demand. Contact Routt County Colonization Co at 1734 Welton St Denver for details. canal plans and water supply approved by the State Engineer.
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Colorado
Little Snake River
Qounty
Little Snake River Canal
Moffat Road
Union Pacific
Routt County Colonization Co
Welton St
Denver
Horrid Wretch and a Money Lure in a Tiny Exchange
A sharp exchange reveals a woman pressing for marriage for money and a man denying it. She brands him horrid, calling him a wretch, while he stays firm that money would not entice him to wed.
Money and Morals in an Old Lim Village Debate
In a schoolhouse debate Opie Read style figures discuss wealth, work, and the love of money. Old Lim and a professor clash over whether money corrupts or sustains society, with tales of poverty, a money-minded widow, and a humorously tragic suitor who marries for fortune only to face a clever moral twist.
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Limuel Jacklin
Old Lim
Squire Goodall
Miz Goodall
Sycamore
Goodall
Opie
From Cookshops to Taverns in Early London Dining
The piece traces London eating venues from the cookshops of East Cheap where meals were cooked on the spot with patrons bringing wine, through a shift in Shakespeare’s era as taverns rise and the cookshops lose their hot-meat monopoly, reshaping public hospitality.
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London
East Cheap
Elizabeth
Unclear passage on wizard species and social order
The fragment discusses a wizard named Burbank and a disruption of natural order in search of corn. It questions how far such upheaval can progress without punishment and asserts that law should protect all new social distinctions arising from these actions.
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Burbank
Nature
Order of Creation
Reading a Half Read News Item Sparks Debate
A couple debates whether the unread newspaper story before them is a love tale or a patent medicine ad. The article mentions a statistic that over 200000 pounds of human hair are exported from Hongkong to this country annually.
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John
Hongkong
Puck Quips About Gentility and Subordination
The excerpt muses on aids to salutary subordination and notes corn without a cob cannot be eaten, using a satirical tone to question affordability of gentility and subtle breeding gains.
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Puck
Forgetfulness and a Flooded Home
A narrator recalls sleeping through rain and a forgotten ice box. a flood ruined parlor curtains and a rug. The person who should have warned him is gone, leaving him to repair the kitchen and send a check to hasten her return before more damage occurs.
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Noor
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed By Suffering Woman
Granitevilla Vermont letter from Mrs Barclay praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the change of life. The ad claims decades of cures for inflammation ulcers and nervousprostration and urges women to try the remedy as a lowcost option.
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Granitevilla Vt
Lydiak.Pinkham
Lydia E.dinkham
Lydia F. Pinkham
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