Dan Builds A Twin Bicycle For A Picnic
Dan completes a remarkable tandem bicycle with a two person setup and a 4 gear chain, enabling Nan and Ethel to attend a Brown's Woods picnic despite their wheels being gone. The sisters celebrate with Dan, who insists the invention makes the outing feasible and fun. In Brittany, Plougastel preserves unique pardons and child festivities with old world costumes and bird hunting traditions.
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Dan
Nan
Eva
Brown's Woods
Ethel
Eirl
Elvils
Brittany
Plougastel
Wide World Magazine
St. John’s
Examination Answers from a Curious Quiz
The text lists questions and playful answers such as two kinds of nuts being peanuts and forget-me-nute, milk from camels and the milkman, hens covered with feathers, dogs with fleas, and a fanciful ferocious animal named Moas quita in the United States.
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United States
See-saw Delight in the Air and Playful Joy
A playful verse recalls children on a see-saw rising toward the sky and visiting the moon. Mary Tom and Joe laugh as they ride, returning home with glad voices and a bright, carefree mood.
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Mary
Tom
Joe
Imitate Voices of Animals in Silent Films
A public demand for realism in motion pictures spurs studios to invest in sound effects and vocal simulations. The article notes critics argue visuals alone lack authentic animal and ambient sounds, pushing industry effort toward synchronized audio.
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Realife
Popular
Mechanical sound machines imitate barnyard noises
The article describes moving picture sets equipped with mechanical devices to simulate animal sounds. The first device imitates hens cackling, the second combines horse whinny cow moo and pig grunt, and the third reproduces a rooster's crow.
Back Yard Parties in Summer Socials Outdoors
In warm months young women host back yard parties since indoor heat is uncomfortable. One yard rivals a garden with ivy covered fences and a central grass plot framed by geraniums and hardy blooms. Beneath Japanese lanterns, guests lounge on a cot bed divan, play games, and enjoy banjo music, lemonade, ices, and cakes in informal, open air gatherings.
American Men Are Stupid Critique of Youth Culture
A columnist rebukes American men as dull and uninterested in reading music and art. They are poor conversationalists while women value conversation and courtesy. The piece questions global awareness and notes an irrelevant boast about ships over 100 tons.
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Atlantic Monthly
Nurse Credits Dean's Kidney Pills For Quick Relief
A Oklahoma nurse Mrs Minnie Turner credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid health improvement from backache and kidney related symptoms. She says five boxes built her up and she is telling others. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Minnie Turner
E. B. St. Anadarko
Okla
Economy Lessons From Clergy Maids In Hire
A New York Tribune report notes an employment agency matron asks about applicants' experience in ministers' families to gauge economizing skills. Of 34 girls interviewed, none had ministerial experience, yet she remarks those from clergymen's households often learn frugal practices, guiding her hiring choices.
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New York Tribune
Elvis
Guess Where She Is From
The head of the house had been ill for many months and had lost his appetite. The mistress laments to the maid from the old country, who retorts that invalids want nothing and then refuse what is offered.
Feeding Farm Hands With Quaker Oats Advice
A newspaper style note extols Quaker Oats as ideal for workers on farms. It praises oats for sustaining vigor and reducing fatigue, notes economy and packaging varieties, and adds a humorous Oxford anecdote about Professor Jowett enforcing punctuality in belief.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Containing Mercury
Mercury containing catarrh ointments are warned against as dangerous to smell and overall health. Frall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo is advertised as mercury free and taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Family Pills for constipation are also promoted.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Droggiata
Price
Battle
Hall
Having Fun With A Banker Prank Upends Night Call
Councilman F A Drew enjoyed playing a prank on William H Lee president of Merchants LaClede National Bank. Drew pretended to be a reporter seeking the bankers views on prohibition. Lee, roused from bed, described the potential misery of a dry Missouri before realizing the caller was a jokester.
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F. A. Drew
William H. Lee
Merchants-Laclede National Bank
Drew
Mr. Lee
Drew Tate
Lee
St. Louis
Missouri
Mr. Drew
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Child Eats Cuticura Ointment Proving Pure and Sweet
A New York friend of Cuticura recounts a three year old son aboard a ship eating an entire box of Cuticura Ointment and graham crackers. He says the ointment cured a cold, proving ingredients are pure and harmless for children.
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New York
Cuticura
Atlantic
State Room
Potter Ding & Chom
Gorp
Bolo Vropa
Bostom
Old Lady and Boatman Note Insurance Eases Fear
A rural exchange features light banter about danger and insurance for a boat trip. An onlooker jokes that the boat is insured, framing safety as a reassurance amid casual commentary on the scene. The page also includes satirical quips on class, virtue, and ancestral pride.
Suffer Little Willie Finds Toothache Lesson in Bible
A boy named Willie endures a toothache visit to the dentist with his mother and father present. He recalls the Sunday school golden text about children and repeats it to comfort himself, claiming the phrase makes the pain fade. The piece blends humor and moral tone.
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Willie
Father
Realnor praised by physicians for skin disease cures
A Baltimore physician notes six months of using Realnor to treat acute and chronic skin diseases and ulcers with consistent success. He calls it reliable, with prompt and pleasing action, citing A I Volkman of Baltimore as endorsement. The piece blends medical claim with sample quotes and humor from contemporaries.
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A. I. Volkman
Baltimore, Md
Of Some Benefit in a Quip and Puff
An older exchange notes a bottle of hair restorer used by a customer who says it kept them from wasting money on more products. It remarks that Lewis' Single Binder is favored by many smokers over Cocigara and that a girl’s ideal can shift to her husband, reflecting humorous social commentary.
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Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Urlstencom
Noalcos
Lewis
Cocigara
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Adverts
A collection of testimonial letters praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women changing life and suffering from distressing female illnesses. Mrs Hanson from Columbus Ohio and Mrs Barclay from Graniteville Vermont recount improved health and strength after using the product, urging others to consider it. The notice promotes the compound as a thirty year standard remedy made from roots and herbs.
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Columbus, Univ
Lydia E. Pinkham
FE. Hanson
East Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Graniteville
Lydia Ei. Pinkham
Charles Barclay
Br.f.d
Lydia EB. Pinkham
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