Local notices and ads from Weet Eighth street move
Preacott and Co relocate to 118 Weet Eighth street. The Starz Jourat’s Want and Miscellaneous columns claim record reach among Topeka readers. Ayers Ague Cure advertised for malaria. De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve promoted for burns sores and piles. Homoeopathic Preparatory School of Medicine urged for evening study. Bay City incident reports scalding water injuring a child. De Witts Trail Salve praised for burns and piles relief. Ayer’s Hair Vigor extols hair shine and color restoration.
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Preacott & Co
Weet Eighth Street
Starz Jourat
Topeka
Ayers
de Witt
J. K. Jones
Chas Rogers
Bay City
Mich
Ayer
Is This Possible That Women Are Too Ugly to Be Advanced
Gertrude Atherton argues in a New York Sun piece that advanced women are aesthetically repellent, predicting beauty declines if suffrage and feminist movements grow. The essay contends beauty and orderly society would vanish, urging men to avoid marrying advanced women to curb a feared cultural decline. A note adds two Cleveland society women have joined the Salvation Army, leaving privileged homes for reform work under General Booth.
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Heaven
Madue
Mesa
Sam
Mung Boll
Tan
Siiman
Woamnist
Gertrude Atherton
New York Sun
Salvation Army
Miss Lamson
Miss Judson
Cleveland
Mirracks
General Booth
Court of Common Pleas
Polite scenes and quirks from a bygone era
An odd montage of courtesy between doctor and patient and brief comic exchanges. It recalls a Boston physician with a polite, anxious manner, a dying patient speaking softly as a nurse steps away, and various light vignettes from period newspapers. It includes snippets from Youth's Companion and items from Tit-Bits and P and S.
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Mun
Norrie
Night aboard a river steamer and Irish dinner reveal
A captain recalls a restless passenger who fears life preservers including a comic exchange over safety gear. The piece then shifts to lightning’s destructiveness noted by meteorologists and an Irish country house tale where an under-keeper jokes about a long approach to the lodge and the ladies dining attire.
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Connaught
County Clare
R Dence
Clare
The Irresistible Attraction at a Grand Ball
A Chicago Record note recounts a social scene at Mrs Vain Bile’s ball with Mary and George in a tense courtship among nobles. A later vignette in Paris shows a portraitist’s dog tipping the fickle eye of a dealer, as a bulldog rewards a bacon-scented replica of a man’s face.
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George
Vain Bile
Mary
Gare
Chicago
Fragmented snippets of humorous clippings and ads
A collage of light newspaper bits, jokes, and trivia items. Snippets include quips about art, a donkey for sale, a note on United States treasury notes, a stray cartoon caption, and product mention of Sliver Leaf vinegar advertised as the cheapest.
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United States Treasury Notes
Washington Star
Finney County Fair Sets Irrigation Glory On Exhibit
The Finney county fair will present an irrigation themed exposition, not a “yellow pumpkin prize jelly” affair, according to its supporters. The event promises a broad display of irrigation glories.
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Finney County
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