Plumbings and services advertise in Carrollton hotel ad page
A compilation of brief notices promotes W A Julian Co plumbing shop in the Carrollton Hotel Baltimore using heat sterilization for towels razors and gear. Other items tout Herpicide for dandruff control DeWitt's Little Early Risers dietary claims DeVitt’s and various local business notices with contact details and prices.
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Carrollton Hotel
Baltimore
Newbro
Herpicide Co
Dept
Detroit
Michigan
A few good men for street car conductors
Apply to CHAS. A. HOFF secretary No. 388 Stone avenue Have your painting and paper hanging done by C. V. Rinehart Shop 31 Broadway Charges reasonable Fortune favors a Texan distressing pains in head back and stomach and being without appetite I began to use Dr King s New Life Pills W P White sh ead No 9 Kennedale Texas felt like a new man Infallible stomach and liver troubles Only 25¢ at all druggists
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Chas. A. Hoff
Stone Avenue
C. V. Rinehart
Broadway
Dr. King
W. P. Whiteshead
Kennedale
Texas
Stock Reduction Sale Moves to Congress Street
Owing to preparations we sell harness, saddles, buggies and wagons at greatly reduced prices until the first. F J Villaescusa at 110 S Meyer Street. Sheet music at Brown's.
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Congress Street
F. J. Villaescusa
S. Meyer Street
The Sauerkraut Peddler on New York German Inns
The New York Post describes a popular German sauerkraut peddler who roams East Side inns and taverns with a blue or white apron and a circular metal box holding hot compartments of sausages sauerkraut and potato salad. He sells a full plate for five cents and targets bowling alleys taverns and halls. His gear is German made pewter with tight hinges to prevent spills and he adapts stock by demand.
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New York
East Side
Berlin
Hamburg
Germany
Vienna
New York Post
Silver Fork Mystery At Elite New York Household
A maid fears brass poisoning after pricking her finger with a fork. The mistress insists the tableware is pure silver, yet the next day the entire silver service vanishes from the household, leaving staff wary of each other in the absence of the employer.
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New York
Mary
Belles of Old Rome Beauty’s ancient rites contrasted with modern hygiene
The article notes that modern beauty culture relies on hygiene and scientific care, while ancient Rome used elaborate slave labor in toilet rituals. It describes three slave classes performing cleansing, hair removal, eyebrow shaping, lip color, and various unguents, culminating in mirrors of gold and mother of pearl. The piece ends by remarking modern husbands should count themselves lucky not to live in Brutus and Cato’s era.
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Poporea
Agrippina
Rome
Brutus
Cato
Utica
Washington Star
Concentration and the Basket Analogy in Business
Carnegie’s Empire of Business cites a paradoxical rule urging focus on a single basket to protect eggs. The quote argues that carrying many baskets risks breakage, with three baskets forcing a balance on the head and inviting a tumble.
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Carnegie
Quotations on milk and manners appear in retold gibes
A string of humorous exchanges from early papers features remarks about milk quality and social quirks. The NYT The Milk line jokes about sterilization, while the Boston Post riffs on weathered water cures and marital quips, reflecting light modern wit.
Don’t Get Morbid Think Yourself to Death Says Expert
A health pamphlet warns that dwelling on morbid thoughts can cause mental and bodily illness. It argues fear of disease or ruin seeds a fatal mindset, urging cheerful thinking as a medicine cheaper than drugs.
Poultry pointers from a 19th century farm guide
Advice on egg production emphasizes a meat-based diet, avoiding forced growth and close confinement. Warns against deformed birds, cocks kept too long, molting hens, and overfat hens. Recommends clean litter, separate housing, and shell calcium from lime sources like oyster shells and bones.
Persian Dinner Described in Wealthy Household Meal
A traveler recounts a Persian dinner featuring a chief dish of boiled meat with rice, eggs, fried onions, almonds, and raisins, plus Shiraz wine. Dessert resembles nougat with walnuts and almonds, praised as private and speechless due to a gum-like substance from a tree.
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Persia
Chicago News
Fertile Cuba Grows Diverse Vegetables and Crops
The article notes Cuba's fertile soil supports cabbage up to twenty pounds, radishes ready in 14 to 18 days, lettuce in five weeks, and corn with three crops yearly. Sweet potatoes regrow from old vines for new harvests in three months, with plentiful fruit, horticultural and greenhouse plants and bulbs also cultivated.
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Cuba
Dampening His Ardor in Chicago News Style
A desperate suitor pleads for the daughter, while a parental voice dismisses the romance as a noncriminal risk. The exchange reflects a humorous, old press voice in a Chicago context.
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Chicago News
Paradox on a bulldog friendship and a cryptic coal note
A playful exchange contrasts a bulldog’s beauty with a harsher view, then a Detroit evening paper quotes a cryptic line about coal burned in Feritzerlands within its borders. The fragment hints at a humorous regional dialect and a vague geopolitical aside.
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George Martin
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Bowie Railroad
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