Beware of ads offering farm profits and oddities from Pawnee Bill
A jumble of notes warns against get rich schemes and boyish pranks while detailing Pawnee Bill's buffalo ranch plans and a federal post office debate. It mentions an Inside Inn sale, a buffalo crossing experiment, and Postmaster General Wayne on extending mail packages. Four express firms exist and parcel post is debated as a public benefit.
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Pawkee Bill
Pawwree
Oklahoma
Wayne
Germany
Quotations and oddities from a Portland news page
A mix of aphorisms about men women and pride, plus brief notes on seed corn selling for ten dollars a ear and a cougar killed on Fall Creek. The corn entry notes a South American farmer bought ten ears for ten dollars each, and the exhibit features 5 000 boys. The cougar’s hide measures six and a half by eight and a half feet.
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Illinois
Agricultural College
C. J. Oglesby
Fall Creek
Portland
Stationery schemes and a washwoman tale in society crowds
A Chicago Tribune reprint recounts a city society woman who solved washwoman hiring by using fine stationery to attract respectable help. It notes a reformer’s comic visit to New York art students, who respond with painted statuary dressed in shabby garments, prompting the reformer to flee in embarrassment.
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New York
League
Hercules
Mother Hubbard
Duryea and Artful Win Futurity at Sheepshead Bay
After the Futurity victory by Duryea and Artful at Sheepshead Bay, onlookers mockingly labeled Duryea a Job’s Comforter as an old coachman recalled a long career and farewells.
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Duryes
Sheepshead Bay
Mark
Duryea
Butterfly trainer Miss Mabel Adams Ayer of San Francisco
California social figure Miss Mabel Adams Ayer has achieved success training a number of butterflies in her garden. The report notes her prominent San Francisco background and unusual hobby.
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A. California
Mabel Adams Ayer
San Francisco
Cheesy Hero Returns From Playful Shops Tale
A reader snippet from Sunday at Home tells of Alexis coming home with ripped clothes and explaining that he and friends had been playing shops since school closed. He says they opened a grocery and “I was the cheese.”
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Alexis
Alivts
Experimental ideas and curiosities from a scattered page
A fragmented excerpt mentions experiments with formaldehyde and electricity applied to agriculture, referencing a Federal Bureau of Industry and varied phrases about courting and social behavior.
People’s Magazine and Home University Trial Offer
A promotional notice describes The People’s Magazine and Home University, an 80 page illustrated monthly with color cover, 1,000+ pages and illustrations, scientific articles, stories, and studies in literature history sciences biography philosophy natural history. Trial offer requires 14 cents postage for three months at any address.
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Pnt
ElVini
People's Magazine
FIOME
People’s Magazine
Notice to Hunters on Private Premises in Jeffer son County
Notice to hunters that all parties are forbidden from hunting on the sender's premises located in the N E of the N B E Bec 25 Town 2 Range 4 east in Jefferson County Nebraska. Violations will be pursued under trespass law.
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N. BE
Bec. 25
Town
Range
Jefferson County
Nebraska
D. H. Greider
Elizabeth Greider
Cardus
Wine of
Cardui
The
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga, Téena
Cole's Hot Blast Proclaims Long Fire Life and Smokeless Use
Advert explains Cole's Hot Blast keeps fire burning 36 hours with soft coal orchard coal without attention. It can heat the round two hours each morning with coal placed the night before. Features airtight, smokeless feed door for fuel use without gas or escape.
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Cole
Em&e
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