The barber scored and the circuses strange exchange
A comic dialogue unfolds with the India Rubber Faced Man boasting of his barber’s skill and a bird fancier lamenting a parrot’s crude chatter. The scene highlights quick learning and a humorous clash of personalities.
Getting In Society
A group of young men describe routes into high society. One dances into favor, another uses Sunday school Bible study to meet the best families, and a third travels to New York where helping a prominent leader leads to marriage. The piece reflects social climbing tales from New York society.
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Sacred Circle
New York
West
Presa
Constantinople Beggars Feast Day Observed
In Constantinople the beggar guild marks November 25 as St. John the Almsgiver day. Orthodox mendicants attend a morning service at St. Constantine led by an archbishop. The festival, hosted by the beggars’ guild, fills the day with festivities that often stretch into the night.
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Constantinople
St. John
St. Constantine
Some Metals and Their Values Across Industries
Iridium, at over 78 dollars per pound, tops as the hardest metal used to tip gold pens. Lithium beyond 1100 per pound shows value in medicine, its salts aiding rheumatic ailments. Tungsten at 80 cents per pound aids metallurgy, Mo. bdenum at 1.44 dollars strengthens steel even when heated. Selenium at 22 dollars loses resistance to light in telelectroscopes. Uranium at 86 dollars appears in glass and porcelain. uranium carbide surpasses nickel or tungsten for high grade steel. Palladium, costing 4.82 dollars, is used for instrument mounting. vanadium costs 602 dollars, burns redhot in hydrogen and resists acids, used in coloring agents and indelible inks.
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France
Mrs Sadie Koch Praises Lydia Pinkham Cure in Milwaukee
A Milwaukee reader testifies to relief from long standing female health troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims rapid improvement and a year of good health, urging others to consult Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
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Sadie F. Koch
Milwaukee
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sane KB. Kocn
10Th St
Wis
Skin blemishes cure touted by S. S. S. blood purifier
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as a blood purifier and skin beautifier that removes eruptions and blemishes by purifying the blood. It claims evidence from testimonials and promises free medical advice, touting a vegetable formula without minerals. A mother’s account of successful treatment for infantile eczema is included.
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S. S.S
THE
SWIFT
Atlanta
Sharp Retorts and Groaning Domestic Quarrels
The passage presents quips by Jekyll about a frugal Chief Justice Kenyon and a Welsh judge famed for greed. It contrasts the gloomy Lincoln house with idle chatter about elite status and parlor scenes. A wife pleads for praise as a husband defects to fault finding and sarcasm.
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Kenyon
Lincoln's
Ino Fields
Jekyll
Gentleman’s Magazine
John Henry
The Dog Seizes the Chair in a Clever Swap
A man cared for a friend’s large dog who sat in his arm chair. The man tricked the dog by calling cats to lure it away, and then sat in the chair himself. Later the dog reclaimed the chair by rushing to the window and guarding it as the man moved.
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Cate
Benham Quip Sparks Tense Greeting at Home Visit
Dialogue from the New York Herald shows Mrs Benham noting mother’s presence and Benham replying with a sharp joke about not dying of joy. The exchange hints at underlying strain in family relations.
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Benham
New York Herald
Arnica salve praised for cure and new railroad schedule
A Virginia reader touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve curing a daughter’s scald head and lists its uses for cuts burns and ulcers. The Illinois Central Railroad announces a new Omaha Chicago timetable with two daylight and one overnight through trains plus modern Pullman cars and dining service.
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R. N. Bevill
Old Town
Bucklen
I Illinois Central Railroad
Omaha
Chicago
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
Dubuque
Freeport
Rockford
St. Paul
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
Tucson
Memphis
St. Louis
Louisville
New Orleans
Laxative Bromo Quin and Tucson Lots for Sale
An ad offers Laxative Bromo Quin e tablets with a money back guarantee from E W Grove. It also advertises lots in Bruckner and Manlove’s addition to Tucson near the railroad reservation, with easy payments, promising good water, depth, and air. Contact Charler A Hoff at 124 Hoff Street, Main 1051.
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E. W. Grove
Bruckner & Manlove
Tucson
Bethe
Charler A. Hoff
Hoff Street
Real Friends Testify to Kocol Relief for Dyspepsia
W T Sturtevant of Merry Oaks North Carolina shares fifteen years of dyspepsia and indigestion relief after using Kocol. He says he can eat almost anything now and digestion is good. The ad urges not dieting but wholesome food and promotes Kodol for digestion without the stomach.
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Eczemm
W. T. Sturtevant
Merry Oaks
N. C
D. Bell & Son
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