Love and Schemes at Lady Darnford’s Ball
Victoria Stanhope faces pressure from Lady Darnford to marry for money but rejects the plan and reunites with her true love Eric. A rigged opera night aims to push Victoria toward Capt. Galway, while Petruchio Barnes dangled as a caution. Amid schemes, Victoria and Eric reaffirm their genuine bond as the night culminates in reconciliation.
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Lady Darnford
Victoria Stanhope
Stanhope
Petruchio Barnes
Victoria
Capt
Galway
Barnes
Berkeley Square
Hosteae
Capt. Galway
Mr. Barnes
Eric
Fortuna
Hoatesa
Victori
Darnford
Adieux
Petruchio
Miss Stanhope
Tresome
Piggy
Doreford
Pigey
Enny Victory for Pat in Odd Train Tale
A humorous fragment tells of an Englishman an Irtehman and a Soutchman debating who owns a matert traina sõld by the Englishman. The Scot recalls milestones as tombstones and Pat recalls a wild ride with a field of crops and water, describing a rapid passage.
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Pat
Bo Jabers
Baby's Itching Humor and Odd Perversion in a Blast From the Past
A 1907 reader letter extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for healing itchy sores on a child with no scarring or relapse. The note from Attica Indiana claims rapid cure after three applications and praises the remedies as best tried, with a warning about false hopes of blood toxicity. The page also includes humor snippets about a bemused Sunday school teacher and a playful exchange about secrets and a birthday dress.
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William Geading
Washington St
Attica
Ind
Dinner card idea from Paris with floral rack
From Paris comes a decorated card rack with artificial flowers that guests can change to match dinner colors, a cost saving addition to table settings. A four year old girl watches mountains with her grandmother and jokes the peaks are wiping their noses as clouds drift over the range.
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Paris
Margaret of
Built Right. A Wis. woman credits Grape Nuts for recovery
A Wisconsin woman describes a 12 year struggle with dyspepsia and near bedrock weakness. After trying Grape Nuts with milk and lime water she reports restored appetite strength and speech, now eating fruit meat and vegetables and using Grape Nuts for daily meals. The notice cites Postum Co and a promotional tagline There’s a Reason.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Walkville
Pkey
Dean's Kidney Pills Cure Kidney Pain in Columbus Woman
Sickness, Mrs. Rebeca Mack of 1796 Street, Columbus, Ohio, reports constant back pain and irregular kidney secretions before using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says the remedy gave prompt relief and, with continued use, cured her. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foxter Milburn Co, Buffalo.
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Rebeca Mack
Columbus
Ohio
Dean
Moe
Foxter Milburn Co
Buffalo
On the Glad Highway Exchange in Dialect Quip
A brief humorous exchange on the Glad Highway features a snappy back and forth about a missing dime, with one speaker asking if the other has any money and the other denying possession while noting the guess. The fragment hints at a playful street-corner dialogue style.
How Sloan's Liniment Saved a Fistula and a Sweeny Horse
A writer praises Sloan's Liniment and Sloan's Sure Colic Cure after dramatic horse recoveries. Claims a horse with fistula cured by the liniment and another with sweeny restored to strength, plus a neighbor’s horse cured and returning to work. Includes anecdotal endorsement from A. D. Bruce of Aurelia, Iowa.
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Sweeny
Sloan
A. D. Bruce
Aurelia, Ia
How He Shot Them in Florida Duck Tales
A sunburned New Yorker recalls wintering in Florida where hunting ethics differ. On a Jacksonville train, a German hunter boasts of gathering ducks from inlet creeks by shooting them on the wing and in the feet, and even the head, then shows the birds for proof.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Port Orange
Niles
Cairn Cure Claim Prompts Reward Offer
An advertisement touts a so called Cairn Cure promising healing for ailments by applying the remedy directly to the band and mucous surfaces. The promoters offer one hundred dollars to any case that fails to improve and urge contacting CHAREY CO at Filedo for details.
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Usi
CIA
Mean Man Again and Other Odd Fragments
A collection of fragmented, dialog heavy snippets and quips from a vintage column. Includes a farmer and son scene about plowing versus shaking chills, a juror dilemma line, pie advertising bait, a Pope quote on lying, Pettit’s Eye Salve pitch, and assorted odds ends from old newspapers.
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Baby
Cuthura
Taim
Glad Highway
Boas
Fred
Mamma
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Mra
Tiaenie Tant Surana Nat
Anne Goers
Sportemi
Louisville Courier- Journal
D-Zertm Co
Rochester
N.Y
Pope
Pettit
Gina
Howard Brow
the Centaur Company
Astoria
Bears
Castoria
Ieee
Sewa
Ornia
Carters WE
Carters
IIS
EADS
Andreas
O.wewigart
Dearborn St
Chien
Ahial
Simet
Abas
HatiSregua
Thompson’s Eye
Pan L
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