Train Hero Saves Baby in Gallant Rescue
A dramatic railway incident ends with a brave fireman leaping toward a speeding train to save a tiny blue eyed baby left astray on the curve. Despite the peril, the infant is placed with its mother and the man who acted is praised as a hero. the scene is witnessed by onlookers and police explain the gang’s ruse in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil
Rory
Avery
Greman
Prateen
Aube
Yale
Owen
Honor Among Thieves and a Countryman's Lost Watch
A city tale shows “honor among thieves” as a con man in plain clothes steals from a gullible elderly countryman. The man reports losing $80 to fake detectives, who recover the money by deception. The sergeant questions the old man, who explains his follow the bogus detective into a tenement room where another fake officer counts out the recovered $80.
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N. S. Tribune
Washington
Fireside Fragments and Sheep Herders Tales
A collage of household recipes and crafts from various papers includes coffee pudding and lemon ice recipes, fried tomatoes with gravy, and simple bamboo racks. A humorous piece from Farmers' Advance recounts a sheep herder's “sheep jiggers” illness and Joe’s city misadventure. An Absence of Mind vignette notes a merchant mistaking a phone call from the governor for a face-to-face meeting.
Fever Root and Its Growth in Farms and Gardens
The article explains Fever Root, Triosteum perfoliatum and T. augustifolium, its Greek name meaning three bones, and describes its herbaceous 3 to 4 foot form, large perfoliate leaves, dusky purple flowers, and three-seeded orange drupes. It notes medicinal uses and bloom in June, plus related shrubs and North American relatives such as honeysuckles, elder, cranberry, snowball, and black haw.
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United States
Gitte
Practical farming tips for pests seeds and soil care
Install wide scale control through targeted spraying when caterpillars are small and use large beets for meals or seed saves. Store non headed cabbage as winter seed stock. Fertilizer should mix in soil near roots, with caution on sensitive blooms. Scattered cow manure enhances soil fertility. keep cow costs around ten cents daily. Rake fallen fruit to feed pigs and prevent insect breeding. A device for land measurement uses batten strips to form a five and a half foot rod for accurate, quick surveying.
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St Louis Republic
Don ts for the sick room and humor sketches
A collage of admonitions for care in sick rooms lists avoidances like not rocking chairs not tiring patients and not rushing or noisy actions. It blends light humors from magazines such as The Dear Girls Epoch Munsey's Weekly and Saturday Evening Herald with jokes about manners and domestic scenes.
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Dox
Wicken Construction
Marie
Maria
Epoch
Edith
Ethel
Saturday Evening Herald
Harry
Strange Ledges and Oddities from Far Lands
A collage of curious notes from distant realms includes a Tasmanian girl’s marriage weight, Sumatra dress gold wire cloth, a giant spider in Sumatra, a Cameron Africa lake named Soden, an Atchison girl’s dental oddity, a pig-snatching snake, a whaling tale, Depew aide’s literary turn, and harvest excursions to the West and Midwest with rail line details plus promotional blurbs about crops in South Dakota.
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Sumatra
Cameron
Africa
G. Bolden
Soden Lake
Sea
Atchison
Gladwin
Carr. Maleus
G. C. Goss
Pacific Ocean
Haney C. Duval
Chauncey M. Depew
Fellowcraft Club
Grand Central Depot
Chicago
Milwaukee
Chicago, Milwaukee
South Dakota
A Very Useful Book on Rail Travel and Health
The piece reviews a Passenger Department publication from New York Central and Hudson River, highlighting frontispieces and scenic views like the Washington Bridge Harlem Line. It notes wealth of scenery, hotel and boarding-house details, fare data, distances, and possible excursions, with offers to send free samples for ten cents postage. It also mentions Pullman cars, excursion tickets, and related publishing plans by Geverut Bornee and others.
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America
New
Yore Central & Hudson River
Washington
Harlem
Banta Fe
Sprig
Aren’ Oe
Puebla Altowco
Clark Street
Chicago
August Flower Promised Cure for Illness in Australia
Engineer C A Barrington and General Smith of Sydney report that August Flower has effected a complete cure in Barringtons case. They say it acted like a miracle.
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C. A. Barrington
Smith
Sydney
Australia
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Honor Among Thieves
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