Defiance Starch offers trips for trade mark contest
A sweepstakes across Illinois Iowa Nebraska and Missouri rewards 35 ladies with a round trip to the St Louis Exposition for submitting Defiance Starch trade marks. Entries must reach Defiance Starch Co Omaha Nebraska by September 2 1904. The ad also touts Defiance 36 cm pounds of starch and notes widespread sale of the product amid other notices on real estate lands and various period items.
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Defiance Shack Co
St. Louis Exposition
Illiois
Iowa
Nebraska
Ravens
Missouri
Defiance Starch Co
Omaha
Nabe
Defiance
All Deglera
Kidney Troubles and Cures Highlighted by Mrs Brown
A 19th century remedy promotion features Mrs. William T. Brown, a Paterson nurse, endorsing Dean's Kidney Pills after her own kidney trouble. The ad markets a free trial and 5 cent boxes through Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, with other health ads for Allen's Foot Case and Postum coffee alternative.
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Dolly
William TW. — Brown
Inne St. Paterson, N. Jr
Dean
Mra. Brown
United States
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
LOOKING UPWARD IN A LOVE LAMENT
Fragmentary verse laments a sad night and unfulfilled love. The speaker references love and yearning, with obscured lines hinting at emotional longing and spiritual overtones.
Cottage Mystery Over a Missing Will in Old Estate
Two girls eye a ivy covered cottage once tied to a now dead owner with no will. A gardener and caretaker named Gerald Wrately guides them through the house, hinting at promises and past ties while the history of the distant Australian heir lingers.
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Molly Page
Liege
Weslhbourne Square
Australia
Mary Fordham
Molly
Hamilton
Hamilton reveals self in Rose Cottage plot twist
Molly confronts Gerald Hamilton who arrives claiming to be the same man Molly met at Letham. He explains his disguise was to avoid scrutiny while settling his affairs and obtaining the Rose Cottage tenancy. Molly reacts with surprise and annoyance, weighing his motives and the rent deal.
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Salesvlile
Oklo
Thare
N. J. Stephens
Dodd
Hays
Timon
Mr. Stephens
Korea
King-Hi-Tao
Zust
Furnteal
Tyo
Molly
Gerald Whatelgamllon
Gerald Hamilton
Rose
Deuce
Apparition Prank Ends in Fatal Shot at Harvard
A college tale from Harvard describes a youth who tries to scare a friend by ghostly illusion. He wears the guest attire and fires a pistol when his companion, Brown, reacts with fear. The phantom remains unmoved, and Brown dies after the frightful moment.
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Harvard
Brown
Fighteuet
Ulin
Erratic Verse of a Lamenting Self and Lost Love
A fragmented, poetic tableau unfolds with jittery narration about a speaker and a watchful robin. The text follows a mournful mood as memory and longing blend with eerie, dreamlike images of pursuit, doors, and a sunken heart shadowed by an eclipse of love.
Temper Triumphs In Social Graces Across Games
A guidance note urges players to keep calm during games like Bridge and croquet. It argues temper loss harms friendships, shatters ideals, and ruins public gatherings, stressing that private outbursts are troubling and hostesses cannot forgive public disruptions.
The First Moving Day and Strange Inventions
The scene shows Phe and WacHntly amid a dreary waste with no home or lights. Eve notes May 1 as the date as a new invention, a steam boat propulsion device, is described for lake or river use. A 200 ton canal barge towed by a horsepower propulsor and a vehicle tying to a parlor suite are mentioned in a strange, disjointed narrative.
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Phe
Elain
Channe
Aml
Ds Bulngy
Herd Hatte
Counterfeit Money Also Mr Hamilton 8878
Fragmentary OCR reads about counterfeit money and a figure named Mr Hamilton with mentions of government nickels and various counterfeit types. The text is garbled and lacks clear events, dates, or a coherent narrative.
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Hamilton
Korea
Destructive Torpedo Factory Delivers Long Range Lethal Weapon
A wartime report describes the Austrian torpedo factory at Flume producing a 23 foot long lender mig slip with 8,800 yard range and high destructive capability.
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Flume
Russians Driven Back After Four Mile Japanese Frontage
Japanese forces under General Kuroki forced the Russians from the Yalu bank near Antung. The assault covered a four mile frontage with heavy artillery and infantry pre dawn. Japanese losses were light on the crossing, while Russian casualties reportedly exceed 800 with many prisoners taken.
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Antung
Feng Huan Cheng
Lie Fal
Toklo
Yalu
Knrvk
Anges
Tnird
Ona
Algut
Third East Aberian Rifles Brigade
Zassalitch
Second Siberian
Tokio
Kuroki
Yalu River
Chiv ‘Cien Ghepg
Sho
Aids
Wiju
T Heir
Sulkochiy
Wia
Koevya
Yala
Yoin
Imparial
Kosan
Kurok
Tina
Yoshoko
Kalaq
Kurvki
Tuntes
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Union Pacific Railroad
Union Baelic
Great Wheat Belt
Kansas
Colorado
Noansys
Allanda
Enign Pacifiq Land Agency
Gih St. Des Moines
Ted OF & CG
Toledo
Ik Drine Warnixe
Ke Yin
Tultia
Hall
Cathee
Goodland
New York City
Wicks & Shepard Co
Battle Creels
Mich
Nationa Aingss College
Lewis’ Tury
Peoria
Atchison
Mother Gray
Chidren
New York
Olmsted
le Roy
Allen
Ailen S. Oimsted
le Ray
Laundry Blue Co
Michigan Street
Chicago
Piso
Endavay
Vanburen
Ind
Higman
England
Dover
Bearse
Beer
Christine Nilsson
Vivollvilte
Barker
Evelyn
Bunny
Westbourne
Aunt Haerlet
Page
Mr. Hamilton
Min Ha
Rose Cottage
Harriet
Miss Page
Wome
Gerald Stamilton
Mally
Tg Arme
Yosterday
Ives
Losnorrowiee
Toney
Zorba
Mary
Faye
Robin Woley
Shanghai
Cilates
Hal ‘Yen
Eagle Point
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