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A jumble of phrases references wills, shopping, fashion, and gossip across various lines. Mentions of a laundress, groceries, and a New York Sun joke blend with stray names and incomplete thoughts, lacking a coherent single event or story.
Football knickers for his lady reported in transcript
A floorwalker charms a customer with a small boy asking for football knickers. The customer replies in the Boston Transcript style, noting Mr Jonas as the buyer. The scene reads as a humorous exchange in a period newspaper snippet.
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Amall
Jonas
Boston Evening ‘Transcript
Squag House Guest Complains of Leaky Roofs in New York
At the Squag House in New York a guest reports a leaking roof and is soaked. The landlord returns with a damp washcloth and jokes about filling it as needed, while local hotels are described as superior to those in London Paris and the Riviera.
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Squag House
Simeon Ford
Man
Humoriat
New York
London
Paris
Riviera
Doctor Knew Had Tried It Himself
A physician in Prospertown and his patient describe Postum as an easy, pleasant coffee alternative. The patient credits Postum with curing dizziness, eye blindness episodes, and nervous symptoms after stopping coffee. Postum is offered in Regular and Instant forms, with prices noted.
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Prospertown
Methey
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Sam of Paris remembered as cheerful old man
A lengthy tribute recalls Sam, an aging Black resident of Paris Missouri, famed for 60 years of cheerful courtesy and his role around the woodpile. The piece notes his rough appearance yet gentle nature, his habit of lifting families with song and laughter, and his place in local memory. It also covers broader topics from health department findings on Black death rates in DC to census data on Black populations and economic strides.
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Bam Venerable
Paris
Thin City
Tom Bodine
Sam
Missouri
Cordwood
Nobdy
Census Bureau
United States
South
Booker T. Washington School
Tuskegee
Birmingham
Agelerald
Mendicant Revealed as Apartment House Owner in New York
A recent five day workhouse sentence for street begging uncovered that the man owns a large well furnished New York apartment house. The apparent motive was a fondness for faking poverty to hide his wealth.
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New York City
Strat
National tulip display planned for Panama-Pacific Expo
The article notes a grand tulip exhibit from the Netherlands at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Two acres will be devoted to beds of tulips, marking a landmark display outside Holland.
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Hostetter
Alico
Maud
Kalekor
New York Sun
Doctor Knew
Health Department
District of Columbia
Conference of the Colored Baptist Ministers of
Washington and Vicinity
Zion Baptist Church
Geriah Lami&Klna
McKinley Memorial Church
Lamkins
Margaret Simpoot
Associated Charities
Lima
Pittsburgh
Willard
McKinley Church
The
Colored Workers
Henry Baird Delany
CD. Leigh
N. C
Walter Dorsey McClane
J.D
Cambridge
Mass
George Freeman Bragg
D.D
Baltimore, Md
James S. Satterwhite
Raleigh
Archie 8. Nicholson
Philadelphia
Freeman Bragg
Baltimore
Emmet B. Miller
Petersburg
Muskoges
Okla
Jow
Oklahoma
Kanaan
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
George R. Howe
Norway
General Theological Seminary
Oxford
England
Weet
Miller
Italy
Hisap Fareh
Tev. Clarion W. Baldwin
St. Mary's’ Church
Hewelwood
Scarborough
H. Oakley Baldwin
Supreme Court of the United States
William M. Stewart
Youngstown
James Welsh
Erie Railroad
Stewart
Emil J. Anderson
Supreme Court
J. J. McKeever
Williams
Peoples’ Cafe
North
Boston
J. L. Lockard
Prop
J. B. Stradford Real Estate
Greenwood
Tulsa
Weldy Bros
1St St
WM. Ragsdale & Sons
Second Street
Muskogee, Oklahoma
C.O. Winter
Mowbray Undertaking CO
Second St
Newry
Tulsa, Okla
H. Augustus
Archer
A. P. Bryant
Tef
Greenwood ST
OFL
the Anderson Grocery
Agaiay
L. C. Anderson
Sat
Tulsa Star Printing Co
North Greenwood
Tulsa, Oklahoma