An Inexpensive Homemade Aquarium Idea
A globe fashioned aquarium using a two gallon bottle bought for a few cents. Fill with sand mossy stones and brook plants. Add snails tadpoles salamanders and dace from the brook for a self balancing habitat with weekly water changes as needed.
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Webb Donnell
Breakfasting in Bed and the Rest Cure Tradition
A Kansas City Times excerpt notes doctors advise breakfasting in bed as a rest cure for nervous complaints. Women told to ease daily duties and sleep more with milk and grain, a light midday meat serving, outdoor time, and two rests daily.
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New York
Kansas City Times
Rochester Woman Runs City Meat Market Solo
Miss D. E. Stevenson opens a corner meat shop at Plymouth avenue and Grieg streets and runs it with one delivery lad. She handles buying cutting weighing selling and books attends the store daily and earns patronage from Rochester’s affluent families. She stresses good stock and calm temper as keys to success.
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Rochester
D. E. Stevenson
Plymouth Avenue
Grieg Streets
Miss Stevenson
Philadelphia Press
Reveries and Riddles in a Textured Past
A collage of verse and prose excerpts from the St Louis Globe-Democrat Ohio State Journal and Washington Star reflect on family ghosts bachelor reveries youthful memories and reflections on aging. The pieces mix bedtime tales seasonal imagery and a young man’s boastful perspective across years and voices.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Newton Newkirk
Ohio State Journal
Eastward charm and fashion in a home scene
A description contrasts Japanese womanly grace with American fashion and domestic life. It notes delicate dress, silk garments, and doll like features of Japanese women, while American women favor loose jackets and ornate sashes. The scene shows a young girl resting after tea in a tidy room.
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East
Do Not Idle Dream. Press Onward Toward Great Deeds
Motivational verse urging daily action and vigilance. It emphasizes seizing opportunity, facing risk, and living through noble thoughts and sustained faith. The speaker, George Birdseye, appears quoted from the Boston Globe.
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George Birdseye
Boston Globe
Dreams and daisies beyond the stars
Poem fragments reflect on love loss and memorial daisies, and on striving ethics. The two verses cite F L Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution and Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Success, praising perseverance and the unseen impact of ambition.
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F. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The greatest day is yet to dawn in Chicago Times Herald
Poem urges hope with lines about unclaimed wonders and future triumphs. It cites unseen songs stars jewels and ships alongside the costliest Easter hat, attributed to E. Kiser in the Chicago Times-Herald.
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E. Kiser
Chicago Times-Herald
Peruna Endorsed as Spring Tonic by Notables
A long paragraph of testimonials extols Peruna as a premier spring tonic for spring catarrh and general debility. Notable endorsements come from Wm. A. Collier, M. C. Butler, Robert Mantell, J. W. Wright, Mrs. Timberlake, Captain Moss, Miss Johnson, D. L. Wallace, Fon. W. C. Chambers, Mrs. Gridley, Teffi Johnson, and Mrs. Toft lauding its restorative effects on nerves sleep digestion and overall vitality.
When a Man Gets Angry And Loses Reason
Quotation notes that anger causes reason to take a short vacation. The line appears attributed to the Chicago Daily News and contrasts originality with plagiarism.
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Chicago Daily News
Markets Report From Several Cities on April 9
New York Flour Market slightly lower with various flour types and animal prices listed. Cleveland Wheat and corn values noted along with butter cheese eggs and potatoes. Toledo East Liberty East Buffalo prices for cattle hogs sheep and lambs reported with ranges for steers, hogs, and lambs across cities.
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New York
Lehre
Cleveland
York State
East Liberty
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Fractured pursuits and busy fools in public life
The writer mocks diverse groups chasing wrong roles from teachers in stores to farmers in Congress. Servants, artists, shoemakers, and Beechers are each shown attempting unsuitable work while noted names loom in satire, ending with a cynical note on success.
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Reain
Choates and
Websters
Congress
Beechers
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