Ex Senator J G Fair Lifes Tales and Adventures
Special correspondence from Washington details James G Fair former Nevada senator and western millionaire. The piece recounts his travel stories from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands and Nile, his sugar investments, and his courtship of society. It notes his wealth, waterworks ventures, and a sharp wit in social circles while describing his family, travels, and character.
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Washington
James G. Fair
Nevada
Max
Hamlet
Wade
California
Fair
Senator Fair
Baron Mirnchausen
San Francisco
Sandwich Islands
Kalakaua
Bandwich Islands
Spreckels
Nile
Khedive
Cairo
Claus Spreckels
Egypt
Rocky Mountain
Shepherd’s Hotel
Fle
Shubra Avenue
Baden Baden
Prince of Wales
Stephen Field
Stanford
America
Judge Field
Jim Fair
Insachiomsa
Viarwua
Virginia City
D. C. Mills
Mills
A Scarcely Considered Evil in Society’s System
The St James Gazette laments ongoing cycles of crime reintegration, arguing prisons and convict systems return unrehabilitated offenders to communities, worsening society as crime spreads, entrenches depravity, and infects others. It decries hospitals’ restrictions and calls for reform to prevent recurrence.
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England
St. James Gazette
Compositor’s Peremptory Summons Ends in Suicide
A Cassell publisher’s compositor in London killed himself after leaving a note to his foreman, saying he must go to heaven to set the Book of Life’s title page. The jury found temporary insanity.
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London
Messrs. Cassell, Publishers
Mr. Skinner
H. G. Agnew
New York World
The Young People Lent Lessons In Sunday School
A Buffalo Epis copal Sunday school teacher used stories to teach Lent. Children told what they would give up until Easter. Freddie stops candy, Willie quits life’s game, Charlie skips the theatre, Louis renounces pancake syrup, Archie plans to stop attending Sunday school. Passing Away. Little Fanny asks her mother if she is a girl, learns she is a woman, and wonders where the girl went.
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Buffalo
Episcopal Sunday Schools
Freddie
Willie
Charlie
Louis
Archie
Annswer
Buffalo Express
Fanny
Jacksonville Hotel News
Cooling a Loom Observed by Two Sick Brothers
Two young brothers confined to a sickroom note their mother uses a thermometer to control heat. When she removes the thermometer, the younger says it will not be so warm because mamme took away that hot thing on the wall.
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Joe
Boston Globe
The Other One from a Window to a Coin Hoodwink
A collage of brief humor items from early 20th century papers. Marion braves a cold for a joke about her other cold. Uncle James counsels penny care as dollars follow. A child asks if Bella was black as a baby. Bobby ponders Eden and feeding animals. Johnnie jokes about dinner and manners. A boy imagines an orphan future and a misbehaving artist burglar in Chicago.
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Uncle James
Bobby
New York Sun
Harold
Bella
Boston Globe
Got Away from Him. Landlady Carving the Duck Scene
The New York Sun reports a humorous moment where Mrs. Hendricks searches for Mr. Dumley who is beneath the table. Dumley explains he is after the duck, keeping the household in lighthearted suspense.
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Mr. Dumley
Itinerant Vendor Promotes Fraish Waffles in Debate
A quirky scene unfolds as a traveling vendor hawks waffles amid a humorous exchange. A judge remarks on the language and requests a pause to listen, noting the speaker’s surprisingly pure English recalling London dialogs. The moment blends whimsy with regional character.
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Lunnon
Advice to Writers From Somerville Journal
Brief note advising young writers to leave ample line spacing in manuscripts. The world would not suffer much if many writers used more space between lines.
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Somerville Journal
Dancing Party Note Between Mr Wabash And Miss Waldo
A New York Sun item records a flirtatious exchange at a Boston party where Mr Wabash asks Miss Waldo to favor him with two or three rounds, and Miss Waldo replies politely, with a suggestion to continue or finish the dance.
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Mr. Wabash
Miss Waldo
Boston
The Cruel Russian Exile Tale by Kennan
George Kennan recalls a young lawyer in eastern Siberia who was arrested as a propagandist, acquitted, and later exiled for the mere possession of a black and white cow. The comic yet grim anecdote illustrates arbitrary Soviet controls and the absurdity of punishment without clear cause.
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Siberia
Moscow
Mr. Kennan
George Kennan
Dangerous cosmetics in France exposed by Hygienic council
A Paris hygienic council report by Drs. Dubrissy and Chafin warns that many cosmetics and hair dyes sold as harmless or vegetable are highly toxic. It lists formulas using lead, mercury, nitrate of silver, litharge, arsenic, and other poisons, urging factories to come under strict supervision.
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France
Hygienic Council of
Paris
Drs. Dubrissy
Chafin
I2au de Castille
Cities in the Wrong Place
George Alfred Townsend argues in the Boston Globe that pioneers chose faulty sites for cities such as New York and Newark. He notes Rome Paris Edinburgh and Constantinople as well-placed, suggests Westchester could have hosted a major city, and calls for enterprise to improve New York despite geographic challenges.
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Rome
Paris
Edinburgh
Constantinople
New York
Brooklyn
Newark
Westchester County
New York Island
Long Island Sound
Hudson River
Harlem River
George Alfred Townsend
Boston Globe
Horses for Cavalry Service in the Mississippi Valley
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes horses bred in Kentucky and Missouri are strong for various tasks but saddle horses ideal for cavalry are vanishing. Rising racehorses lack stamina for marches, and heavy wagon horses are slow for cavalry use. After campaigns, many horses suffer weak kidneys. Breeders must supply active, short coupled horses. if not, the famed saddle horses may disappear.
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Kentucky
Missouri
Teven
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Pickle Industry in Fredericksburg
The Fredericksburg pickle trade reports 80,000,000 cucumbers in supply. Cucumbers are 1.5 inches long and fetch eighty cents per 1000. A boy can harvest 3,000 per day, with smaller picks boosting vine productivity as early picks remove fruit.
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Fredericksburg
Roston
Chinese 25 Liquor Drinkers
A New York Sun quote asserts that almost no Chinese in the city drink habitually and that a policeman in the Chinese quarter has never seen a drunken Chinaman. The piece contrasts this with more Americans of both sexes who have adopted the opium habit than Chinese who drink.
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New York Sun
Have You a Baby Cure Ad for Hoxsie's Certain Croun
Have you a baby then preserve its health by giving Hoxsie's Certain Croun Cure at the first appearance of a cold. This remedy is the only one known that is absolutely safe for very young infants. Guaranteed to be an eminzot physician's prescription containing no opium in any form. Price 50 cents in dry or disk form three cents. sly
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Hoxsie
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J. G. Fair
Firs
Kalskaua
Justice Field
Bayard
Millent
Delaware
Cours
Pacific Ocean
South Pacific Coast Railroad
West
Jimmy
Senate
Farr
Pacific Club of
Occidental
J. Topp
J. G. Pair
Marion
Portland Argus
Garden of Eden
Adam
Lue
Grho
Johnnie
Johmnie
Troy Press
Papa
H. Mesris
Dr.King
Jesse Middlewart
Decatur
Ohio
Torch Drug Store
Frice Uc
Merck Drug Store
Arpet
Genewal
Glade Township
Lessler
W. C. Holmes
Broadway
N. Y. Gly
Business Directory
Charles A. Peterson
Warren
Brown @ Stone
T. Neill
New Exchange Block
Leoubant Bros
Harnese
J. A. Schofield
Suze Office
Brown & Stone
Attorneys AT Law
Second Street
First National Bank
R. Brown
H. E. Brown, c. W. Stork
Ball & Thompson
Beatty Block
A. A. Davis & Co
Ball
C. Thompson
Dinsmvoor & Cable
Office Water Street
Scoheld Black
Humtee & Son
Jas
CABLE
Wetmore, Noyes & Hinckley
Selund Street
Johnson's Perhange
LD. Wetmore
H. Noyes
W.D. Hinkley
Freeman & Trunkey
W. D. Tronkey
W. E. Rice
Beatty Brook
Oak
the. C. Cornelius
Ative Scofield
Front Street
W.Y
de. J. M. Davies
Omeopathic Physickan
Lberty Street
Baptist Church
McAlpine
Merek
Carver House
D. Danforth
S. W. Corner
Second
Lherty Streets
John Sager
Wwise
Exchange Hotel
H. Leonhar
Gus Mall
Palace
First Street
W. A. Greaves
Franien
Stafe
Haibluck
Episcopal Church
G. Smith
A. W. Merck
L. G. Noyes
A. Ruhl
Wyman & Davis
Woolford
Nice
Ata Ruhlman
Bartsch
Water St
Diamena Block
Veumall
UNSSC
Tamron
Med. Corp, Wooutockety
Fionna
Dy Arnheim & Co
Second Avenue
Pittsburgh
Stork
Island
Warren, PA
Korslet
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