Americans Learn Fine Art of Eating with Pillsbury Wheat Product
In America eating becomes a refined everyday skill as shoppers seek the white heart of the Wheat berry. Pillsbury's Vitos touts purée white wheat, nothing added, with two pound airtight packages claiming twelve pounds of substantial family food for 15 cents, available through grocers in the Rocky Mountain territory at 20 cents.
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America
Pillsbury
Rocky Mountain Territory
Gazing at Her Picture Poem Fragment
A fragment from the Chicago Chronicle presents a lyric about longing for a sweetheart. The speaker recalls her image, waits for news, and speaks to a silver framed photograph in a moonlit memory.
His Wise Parents
A job seeker from Sleepy Eye Minnesota seeks work at a city establishment. He explains his upbringing in Rising Sun Iowa and convinces the manager to give him a trial.
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Sleepy Eye
Minn
Rising Sun
Iowa
Beemtown Seeks New Church Leader Sparks Salary Talk
A local conversation centers on Beemtown residents wanting Son to lead a new church. The popular preacher declines, joking that only a bigger salary would lure him, while noting no divine call to the post.
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Peole
Beemtown
Cured Her Rheumatism by Kidney Pills
Deep Valley Pennsylvania reports a space about a girl cured after five years of rheumatism by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Father I N Whipkey says the medicine saved her from a life as a cripple and asserts kidney health eliminates uric acid causing rheumatism.
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Valley
Green County
I. N. Whipkey
Dodd
The Champion Drawing Card And Fair Customer Exchange
A rumor-filled exchange describes an advertising shot silks offered at five cents a yard, praised for mosquito netting. The tale mentions the silk arriving in an express car that was stopped by train robbers, framing a vivid period anecdote.
Four-Track News offers travel education subscriptions
The great illustrated monthly magazine of travel and education seeks students to market subscriptions. Terms to canvassers are liberal with a generous profit margin. Write to publisher George H. Daniels at 7 East 42nd Street, New York for full particulars.
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Great Illustrated Monthly
George H. Daniels
East 42d Street
New York
Mother’s wry portrait of a fast rising son
A fond mother describes her son’s quick ascent in a new position. He has only been there two weeks and already knows who should be discharged, awaiting promotion to act on it.
Counterfeiter Blind Beggar Confesses Motive and Sentencing
In a crowded courtroom Charles Martin a nearly blind beggar admits making and passing counterfeit coins to feed his three starving children He explains his fall from a once decent position after losing his sight and the failure of friends and relatives to help The judge accepts the confession and the jury finds him guilty while Martin appeals for humanity in his sentence.
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Charles Martin
Martin
Indee Scorders
Man Seeks Presidential Pardon After Five Years In Prison
The suspect reveals a plan to petition the President for a pardon, expressing resolve to carry it out personally. He asks Martin's lawyer to draft the petition as he vows to push for clemency following a five year penitentiary sentence.
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Martin
De Koven Pokes Fun At A Flattering Composer
Reginald De Koven ridiculed a foreign musician whose works seemed original yet were suspected of copying. He joked about making the man a comic opera character with long hair and a pocket fiddle and a brigand kidnapping scene. The brigand chief tests the composer by asking for an aria from The Pink Stocking.
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de Koven
Reginald de Koven
Mr. de Koven
A Fragmentary Ode to Lost Love Through Time
A fragmented poem recalls a past romance with May, love’s vows, and distant memories. The speaker laments changing fortunes and asks fate to spare strength and trust, noting a shore of glass and a year’s shift from what once was. Names and places are obscured by the text’s garbled state.
Pessimist Farmer Cassatt Chides Optimism on Bad Year
A. J. Cassatt, president of a Pennsylvania railroad, praises farmers for a good year yet mockingly cites a neighbor near Chesterbrook who insists the year is poor. The pessimist insists hay is spoiled and young calves lack feed, despite Cassatt’s challenge to justify complaints.
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A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania ‘Railroad
Mr. Cassatt
Chesterbrook
Stason
Henry
Bishop Ames Hears Slavery Sermon on Coolness
In a Philadelphia Ledger note, a Mississippi slave owner instructs Pompey to preach on stealing to the enslaved community. Pompey answers that preaching on theft would create a cooling over the meeting, reflecting on how discipline shapes religious gatherings.
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Ames
Mississippi
Pompey
Massa
Philadelphia Ledger
Rare Italian Frescoes Found Beneath Whitewash
In the old church of Cireggio near Omegna workers uncover six frescoes by Grandenzio Ferrarri after cleaning and whitewash removal during repairs. The finds are hailed as valuable medieval art additions with splendid color, noted by the London Globe.
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Italy
Cireggio
Omegna
Grandenzio Ferrari
London Globe
Despairing Woman Finds Relief With Dean Kidney Pills
Mrs Henry A Reamer of South Bend Indiana reports weakness pain and dropsy from kidney troubles improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills saving her life. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo distributed the remedy at 50 cents a box. The ad closes with a grim joke about engagement and illness.
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Henry A. Reamer
Main and Garststs
South Bend
Ind
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Satisfactory Old World Worth and Earned Pay
A writer muses on value and compensation in a reflective tone. The piece contrasts ideal pay with real earnings and urges readers to consider what they deserve versus what they receive.
Baby cures with Cuticura after costly doctors
A Milwaukee mother recalls spending over 100 on doctors for her infant whose skin worsened until a scab covered the face and body. After a month of Cuticura Soap and Ointment costing less than 5 the child fully recovered, ending a lengthy and costly medical chase.
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Cuticura
G. H. Tucker
Greenfield Ave
Milwaukee
Wis
Attracting the Men Lyceum Lecture Stir
Wife predicts many men will attend a Buddhist lecturer at the lyceum tonight. The husband doubts male turnout while the speaker is expected to mince the Christian religion.
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Lyceum
Women Speak On Others Not Husbands In Busy Talk
A wry remark notes many women lack time to comment on their own husbands because they have much to say about other women. The line highlights social chatter and domestic expectations in a light, humorous tone.
New Jersey Woman Finds Relief by Drinking Postum
A young woman reported severe stomach pains after meals and weekly coffee indigestion. She stopped coffee in 1901 and began Postum, which she says eliminated all discomfort and restored health, endorsed by Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan. Read The Road to Wellville booklet.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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