Rope Teaches No Lessons When It Is Taut
A taut rope cannot learn or acquire knowledge. learning is a property of minds and organisms, not inanimate objects. The phrase plays on the idea that tension or stretch does not impart wisdom or understanding to the rope.
Colorado Gea Field Mining World Promotion
The ad proclaims Colorado gea field and mining production figures for 1897 exceeding $20,000,000 with an optimistic forecast over $30,000,000 this year. It invites readers to subscribe to Mining World for 25 cents for six months or $1 per year, claiming to be the world's newsiest mining paper.
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Colorado
P. O. Box
Denver
To quit tobacco easily and forever with No-To-Bac
A vintage advertisement offers No-To-Bac a nicotine substitute claiming to end tobacco use by boosting vigor and nerve. It promises a free booklet and sample from Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
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Sterling Remedy Ca
Chicago
New York
Sterling Remedy Company
Montreal
Star Tobacco Brand Praised as World Leader
An upbeat claim lauds Star Tobacco as the leading brand globally. The piece asserts quality and dominance while offering no verifiable evidence or external viewpoints.
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Star Tobacco
No-To-Bao Cure Ad Promises Habit Breakthrough
An old advertisement touts No-To-Bao as a guaranteed tobacco habit cure claiming to make weak men strong and purify blood. It states Sec.81 and urges readers to buy from all druggists with a slogan indicating consistency in promises.
Advertising Merit Drives Repeated Purchases of Cascarets
The article notes money is earned by offering real value in advertising and cites Cascarets candy tablets as a proven success. Readers are urged to try Cascarets, guaranteed to cure constipation or money back, described as a delightful laxative and bowel stimulant.
University chess match Oxford Cambridge vs Harvard Yale Columbia Princeton
The April 20 clash will be staged at the Manhattan Chess Club rooms in New York between Oxford and Cambridge and the American universities Harvard Yale Columbia and Princeton. American student clubs accepted English proposed rule limiting eligibility to five years after matriculation. one day event with unfinished games adjudicated by a referee.
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Oxford
Cambridge
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Princeton
New York
Manhattan
Passing Pleasantries and Witty Banter Fragments
A collage of comic exchanges and quips. Tales of alliances, accidents, and misadventures thread through a social scene with telegrams and one‑liners. Jests cover insurance, duels, bear encounters, suitors, and a coal dealer testing legal authorities with punchy retorts.
Public library in Rome and curious world notes
The long listing notes the first public library in Rome founded 167 B C, an electric canoe in Cherbourg, a Constantinople church begun in 532 AD now a mosque, and roses that change color in sun. It mentions Otto Seibling’s family tragedy, lime burning in Maine, a Panama hat doll with a convict cap, massive Massachusetts college endowments, a Philadelphia architect’s self contained village, and methods for engraving eggs on shells through wax and acid.
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Rome
Cherbourg
France
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Otto Seibling
West Scio
Oregon
Maine
Paris
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Is consumption curable the case of Mrs Morris shows
Mr K Morris of Memphis recounts how his wife, once diagnosed with consumption, recovered after using Dr Ayer s Cherry Pectoral. He praises the remedy for relief from coughs and lung troubles, notes affordability with half size bottles, and urges readers to write for the curebook.
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Blinkerton
George
Laura
Nym Rodd
Farmer Field
Mr. Lafferty
Littleton
K. Morris
Memphis
Tenn
Dr. Ayer
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