Tea Stores Toys Draw Crowds With Cheap Chrome Gimmick
A New York newsnote reports on tea stores selling mechanical toy games as promotions. Clerks describe factory made toys costing about 36 a dozen, sold with tickets for discounts on tea and coffee. Managers admit blending teas and adding cheap blends to maintain profit while lavish giveaways entice customers amid competition.
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Broadway
Ted
Grand Street
Second Avenue
Jericho
Scottman
New York
Dangers in the Use of Ether Anesthesia
Dr Arpad G Gerster cites risks from ether anesthesia in medical journals noting reckless overuse by inexperienced practitioners. He warns of cyanosis, stertorous breathing, mucus flooding the trachea, and possible gastric content aspiration leading to catarrhal or septic pneumonia and death not charged to ether.
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Arpad G. Gerster
A Woman's Philosophy Explored in Detroit Free Press
A Detroit Free Press piece humorously chronicles a woman house hunting and naming a street, with her husband reacting that the locality feels far and it is always near someone else. The exchange playfully questions the meaning of home, place, and belonging.
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Becen
Aga
Detroit Free Press
A Rat’s Remarkable Lesson in Reasoning and Memory
A mother rat near a chicken coop demonstrates cautious testing before sharing water with her five thirsty young. She tastes the water, signals safety with squeals, and then leads her brood to drink. The observer, F Croll Baum, notes the scene as evidence of rudimentary reasoning in animals.
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Ch Lees
Rat
F. Croll Baum
Old Man’s Farcical Kite Scheme Tops a Goose Haul
A farmer in the smoking car recounts his son’s odd plan to lure wild geese by flying a six foot kite topped with tar smeared branches. Eleven geese perched on the kite, enabling his son to trap and bring in six carloads for sale in Chicago, while the tale mocks naive yarns and clever trickery.
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Bian
Newhbraskey
Crutomers
Chicago
Chicago Herald
Solomon's Judgment in Chinese a Tale of a Wise Mandarin Wife
Two women claim the same infant before a Chinese mandarin. The wife advises a test by dressing the baby in a fish and throwing it into the river. A true mother dives in to save the child, proving her identity while the impostor flees, and the wife is hailed as wisest.
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Solomon
China
London Academy
Duke of Southwark George Handy Smith in Pennsylvania
George Handy Smith, president pro tem of the Pennsylvania senate, earns praise as the best dressed man in the Keystone state nicknamed the Duke of Southwark. He reportedly wears five different suits weekly, drawing envy from fellow senators. Mentions of a microphone telephone in private parlors spark flirting circles’ consternation. The horrid thing tells tales out of school.
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George Handy Smith
Pennsylvania Senate
Keystone
Duke
Southwark
Fragmented verse fragment about moonlit city and love
The text presents a fragmented verse describing a moonlit city and romantic imagery. It blends nautical and garden imagery with disjointed phrases, creating a dreamlike, inconsistent scene centered on love and night. The piece reads as a失 scrambled poetry excerpt with unclear structure and multiple odd insertions.
Derangement of Speech Types in Aphasia Examined
A summary from the Medical Record describes three forms of aphasia and related disorders. It covers sensory aphasia where letters read but ideas fail, motor aphasia where words cannot be spoken though understood, and mixed forms. Paraphasia and word loss are noted with examples from case reports.
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Odessa
Corres Povery
Train Car Scenes From Harper's Magazine
Charlies Dudley Warner describes a mixed train journey with first class Mexican men wearing ornate hats and pistols bound for a hacienda, and crowded third class cars with Indian-like women children and vendors at stations selling sapotas tamales and pulque, all amid lively station scuffles and colorful bravado.
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Charlies
Dudley Warner
Harper's Magazine
The Cowboy Along on a Train Reveals a Gruesome Trophy
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a passenger recounting a violent past with cowboys. On a train from Chicago, a small man shows a cowboy sombrero with a bullet hole and a preserved human ear, provoking fear as a passenger vanishes.
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Chicago
George
Detroit Free Press
Remnant of the Modocs Fade in Indian Territory
The Modoc tribe dwindles after relocation to Indian Territory as a leading chief Bogus Charley dies in La Grande during a visit to his sister in Walla Walla. The piece notes the tribe’s declining numbers and cites the Indian burying ground as a grim measure of their fate.
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Indian Territory
Bogus
Charley
la Grande
Walla Walla
la Grande Orc. Gazette
Through Trains to Warren from Philadelphia and Baltimore
Erie mail departs from Philadelphia for Warren with through Pullman sleeping cars from Philadelphia and Washington Baltimore to Williamsport. Through passenger coaches Philadelphia to Erie. accommodation Kane to Warren arriving 7 4 am. Warren Express Sheffield to Warren 8 22 pm to 9 00 am. Oil Express Sheffield to Warren 1 10 pm to 1 45 pm. Erie Express Ridgway 3 00 pm to Warren 5 25 pm. CHAS E PUGH general manager J B WOOD general passenger agent.
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Luave Mearren
Sundar
Shefield
Danbury
Larrisbore
New
Erie
Philadelphia
Witamsport
Baltimore
Kane
Erie Mail
Warren
York
Thiladel Plaa
Waylon
Baltimore Wi
Washington
Wiliamsport
Eri
Warren Express
Sheffield
Oil Express
Erie Express
Ridgway
Chas, E. Pugh
Gen'l Mau
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Erie Gat Erie
ICSS
J.B. Wood
Pelotos
Glade
Conewango Bridge
Co. L
Dalrymple
Hoe
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Ora
Nelson Greenland
Exchange Block
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W. H. Pickett & CO
Hl. A. Jamieson & Co
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Sherman
Dewett
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Gate
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V. Davis
S.p.johnson
A. Hertzel
W.D. Brown
G.N. Parmilee
A. T. Beofield
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B's
L. D. Wetmore
Prez
M. Beecher
Warren County
Agland
Ireland
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Ayer & Son
Highth
Chamberlain Institute
Randolph
N.Y
NY. P.&c. BR
Commercial College and Musical Institute
Pr.j. T. Ewards
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T. the Public
General Agency
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Exchange Bleck
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Meldrum
Main Street
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Main St
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Buffalo
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