Fourth of July races open to girls at Douglaston
In Douglaston a plan to bar girls from the town Fourth of July events sparks a local showdown. Mary and Bunny rally girls to join forces with the boys, adding a girls obstacle race plus a combined event at the school field, with proceeds aiding the junior ball team. Grandniece Mary leads the girls to victory in the challenging obstacle course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandaunt Mary
Grandniece Mary
Mary
Bunny
Tom
Douglaston
Susie
Evelyn
Tom Mason
Evans Place
Evans Meadow
Douglaston Girls Race and Relay on Judge Evans Meadow
This afternoon from two to five, Douglaston girls compete in racing, damping and basketball on Judge Evans meadow. Admission is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children. The scene includes activites as young spectators watch and cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglaston
Wanted to Meet Him Again The Stranger
A Native and a Stranger swap a tale of a wrecked calf and a bad twenty. An old man sits on a fence for three years waiting for the driver of a big red car to return, hoping for repayment after a mistaken payment and a gun hints at grievance.
Fragmented satirical items from a 19th century newspaper
A stream of humorous anecdotes and quips about finances, church manners, manners, and medicine. It includes a hypothetical crowd scene at a baseball gate, a pithy remark on marital routines, a church elder’s overbearing piety, a magistrate’s kind heart, a lion cage joke, and assorted ads for Castoria and Allen’s Foot-Ease.
Defiance Starch Ad Telegraphed In Various Snippets
A compact collage of humor and ads appears, including a German shoemaker’s near miss with gas, praise for Defiance Starch and a campaign against consumption among French postal workers, plus quick gags on laundry, crass jokes, and domestic miscommunications. The pieces mix jokes, product plugs, and brief social notes from a bygone column.
Back Aches Warn Kidney Trouble Says Liberty Man
A. G. Smith of Liberty Missouri describes severe back pain and kidney issues that left him bedridden until Dean's Kidney Pills provided relief and a seven year cure. The testimonial notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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A. G. Smith
Mills St. Liberty
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Scout's idea of marriage in old Grafton man’s view
Moses P. Stowe, an eighty year resident of Grafton Massachusetts, declares he will never marry. He explains that women would not enter his house and calls marriage troublesome. He recalls chasing girls in youth and says infatuation would be his end.
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Moses P. Stowe
Grafton
Mass
Opportunities and satire in a bustling desk scene
A column features a high-brow lecturer proclaiming that opportunities dance on every desk while a grouch warns they bite like spring fever. Humorous exchanges follow about baths and Missed If Taken, then a jester quip. An ad touts Hamlins Wizard Oil for daily pains, and a note on building a frame house requiring rocks.
Teething aid and tobacco ads in a clipped era
An old page fragment mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and Winicola Deadette remedies. It also notes a social quip about marriage after marking his name and praises Lewis' Single Binder cigars. A global stat claims 2,000,000 tons of butter and cheese were consumed worldwide.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Backed by Patient Testimony
A Lindley Indiana case praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for removing a four year cyst tumor, despite three physicians declaring operation necessary. The ad touts thirty years of use, urges readers with female health issues to try the remedy, and notes Mrs May Fry's endorsement and free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Massachusetts.
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Lindley, Incl
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sam Ve
Lydia E Pinkham
May Fry
Lindley
Ind
Lydia EH
Pinkham
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Own Slater
Johnny
Judge Evans
House of Hia Chum
Johnny Driecol
Page Bah
Chataole
Bia
Patriarch
Mr. Brown
John
Mrs. Brown
Everybody's Magazine
Mose Lamblack
Allen
Allein
Mre. W. J. Zwyeliker
Camden
N. J
Detroit Free Press
Misa
Grant
Kansas
Lincoln
Cleveland
Kansas City Journal
Herkimer
Herkimer Hosking
Abirta
France
Puck
Palmist
Man
Scout
Grusty
Massachusetts
Columbia
Hamlins Wizard Oil
Acien
Paina
ST. Louis
Blacemer & Post Pipe Company
Louis
St. Louia
Atent Experts
Small & Small
Trot Bldg
Waahin Wow Bask
Comzsron Bldgs
Routs Als, Be
Barnes
Roueben
Andrens J.B. Anderson
Lewis
Defiance
N. Y., ST. Louis, NO. Af
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