Wise square two story house plan by William A Radford
William A Radford offers free advice on building a compact square two story family home. The design emphasizes a large central living room, two carnedos for big furniture, and a loggin that can become a sun parlor. Heating relies on a central chimney with three flues and a furnace, kitchen range, and fireplace draft considerations. Upstairs include three bedrooms, a bath, closets, and an alcove for a crib. Exterior may feature climbing vines on a front porch and lattice trellis supports.
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Kespa
Aleo
Gascarets Promise Quick Relief For Sick Headache
Describes biliousness and sick headache from a torpid liver with fermented gut matter reabsorbed into the blood. Claims Cascarets clear stomach, remove undigested food and foul gas, relieve bile, and purge bowels overnight with a 10 cent box.
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Ativ
Men of Law at a Premium in Raid Case
A drummer tells how a backroom game was busted by police with about thirty patrons present. The court fined each man two dollars and gave fatherly advice as the judge, who had stepped out during the raid, let them off.
Couldn't Stump Father in Five Minutes Late Clock Scene
A man reads a volume of sensational fiction to his family as the clock tolls five minutes past midnight. His youngest daughter corrects the time, while Paterfamilia asserts the clock is five minutes slow.
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Gwendolen de Vere Hastings
Algernon Mannering
Paterfamilla
Christmas Grist Antiprofanity Law Angers Michigan
A quirky note from Michigan describes an antiprofanity statute making it a misdemeanor to swear in the presence of a woman while humorously noting it does not bar a man from swearing at their presents. The remark is attributed to a judge.
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Michigan
Three Reasons for Grape-Nuts From a Boston Mother
A Boston mother writes of feeding her three sons Bob Jack and Dick Grape-Nuts since infancy. She notes remarkable improvements in a weakened neighbor child after a half-portion of Grape-Nuts and cream and adds that her husband and she use the cereal daily to keep their family strong and healthy. She promotes Grape-Nuts as a healthier alternative to candy for hungry children.
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Boston
Bob
Jack
Belgrade the Balkan Capital With a Thousand Battles
Belgrade, long described as the Paris of the Balkans, stands on a strategical Danube confluence. Its history spans Celts to Ottomans, with repeated sieges and shifting rulers, shaping a modern city of 90,460 in 1910 and a center for Serbs' national consciousness.
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Elgrade
Paris
Balkans
Walla
Europa
National Geographic Society
Belgrade
Danube
Hungary
Danubs
Semlin
Singidunum
Justinian
Byzantium
Suleiman
Turkey
Servia
Aun
Fortunes Paid for Poems in Renaissance Naples
A Naples born poet Jacopo Sannezaro in 1458 earned one of history’s richest poem payments for Six Hines of eulogy to Venice. Venice rewarded him 6,000 golden crowns, a sum noted beside later to Horace Smith’s earnings from Strahan. A witty jibe about the brewer’s legs drew another $10,000 by will, equating to 1,250 a year in time.
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Naples
Jacopo Sannezaro
Venice
Hvelyn
Horace Smith
Strahan
Smith
London Chronicle
Woman in bad condition praised Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy
Letter from Mrs. Mary Gauthier of Montpelier Vermont extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief from irregularity fatigue chills bloating and pain after forty years of popularity. The ad claims the medicine cures and invites women to write for confidential advice. It ends with a sly jab about husbands ignoring wives when confronted with nagging.
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Mrs
Mary Gauthier
Ridge St
Montpelier, Vt
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
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