Sao Paulo State Drives Brazil’s Coffee And Industry Boom
Washington reports that Brazil supplies four fifths of U S coffee, led by Sao Paulo where 1 716000000 pounds valued at 140000000 were shipped via Santos. The state hosts hundreds of factories turning out textiles rope papers and more while agriculture expands railways extend across the region and Santos port handles about five and a half million tons yearly.
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Washington
Brazil
St. Louis
Sao Paulo
Santos
Europe
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
Honor Rested With Author A Henry story worth a fortune
A friend recounts how O Henry spent freely yet remained shrewd about money. A magazine contracted for a three part tale paying fifteen hundred dollars, with two installments earned and a promised third. The editor offered a prize instead of the final payment and the author urged a contest to win the prize. A separate vignette shows a justice of the peace joking about a marriage license and home delivery. Youth's Companion.
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Henry
Wald O. Henry
Marie’s Beach Lesson and the Undertow
A young girl on her first beach visit is fearless and enjoys bathing. She overhears locals warning of a strong undertow one morning. After returning from the sea she narrates the danger in her own grown up way, misplacing undertaker for undertow with humorous innocence.
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Marie
Real Calling and a Boniface Reader at Dinner
A New York writer, modest in success but rich in goods, persists in publishing and promoting his books. He counts Simeon Ford, a witty bon vivant, as his sole attentive reader. Ford jokes the author is a born chemist since every book seems a drug on the market.
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New York
Simeon Ford
Boniface
Ford
Sim
Mr. Ford
Simeon
Putting It Up to Uncle and Adornment Reflections
A New York lawyer Henry G. Brooks recounts a servant quip at the Waldorf Astoria about a niece choosing work over a funeral. The item blends a humorous family tale with brief quotes on adornment and vanity from Robert G. Ingersoll and a meditation on life’s fleeting nature.
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Henry G. Brooks
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Irish Proverbs Then And Now In Milesian Wisdom
A long piece contrasts ancient Milesian proverbs with modern usage. It lists many Irish maxims translated from Hardman's Irish Minstrelsy noting themes of wit, folly, prudence, time, and human behavior. It mixes Irish sayings with brief, dated items on abstainers in Europe, a note on a Marseilles professor buried in her piano, and a final garbled query about Charles Francis Adams and shelf room.
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Fethit
Moran
Cormac MacArt
Hardman
Hope
Marseilles
France
Markets and grain prices across major cities
New York and Cleveland report mixed commodity activity with grains and provisions steady to varied. Wheat and corn futures show modest shifts while live stock and butter prices appear mixed, with cattle trading higher in Chicago and Buffalo reports noting steady movement.
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New York
Stoney
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange Seabbe
Cleveland
Hind
Milinesote
Chense
York State
Riw
Keane
Biriethy Fomee
Beyond Power of Man and Scattered Humorous Snippets
A collage of quotations and brief anecdotes on power, technology, and everyday wit. Contains invective toward gay people, a kidney illness testimonial, a cigarette ad style line, a barber humor quip, a skirt joke, and humorous extracts from Success Magazine and Mark Twain.
A Determined Woman Finds Food That Cures Her
A Salisbury Missouri woman credits Grape-Nuts with ending her crippling cramps and vomiting bouts after trying the product on the Chicago traveler’s recommendation. She reports improved digestion, restored appetite, and a healthy appetite allowing household use. Her husband praises the trade, distributing cases to physicians who endorse Grape-Nuts.
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Salisbury
Chicago
mipeNuta
Wellville
Coca-Cola advertised in 1910 booklet offer
An ad urges readers to send a 2 cent stamp for Coca-Cola publicity booklets and the Coca Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910. It claims Coca Cola cools fatigue, quenches thirst, and is wholesome water with carbonation, and promotes a poem titled Casey At The Hat along with league schedules.
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Coca-Cola
Casey At
Coca-Cola Co
Avanta, Ga
Wrong Diagnosis Drummer Seeks Help After Sudden Pain
A drummer visits a renowned physician and complains of verve sickness and severe side pain. The doctor suspects appendicitis, sparking a humorous exchange when the patient reveals he is not a millionaire but a plain drummer and pays five dollars.
Thomas Hood and a Hanging Song of the Washtub
A compact sampled collage notes Hood’s legacy with Song of the Shirt and hints at a bleaker imagined washday lament. It mentions Easy Task soap as a later comfort for backaches and hard hands, plus a quip about a traveling salesman wife. It closes with a couple of moral reflections from Lord Lytton and a fragment on Wingow’s patie.
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Thomas Hood
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound praised for backache relief
A reader from Bloomdale Ohio credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing chronic backache and fatigue tied to female weakness. The testimonial urges others to seek root-cause relief, notes vast unsolicited letters support the remedy, and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
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Stoomdale
Onio
Jane
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. M. Preprerex
Bloomdale
Ohio
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