Gather Up the Fingers and Lessons of Success
A poem by Peter Grant from the Chicago Record-Herald laments a boy harmed by a fireworks accident while celebrating Independence Day. It contrasts patriotic zeal with the boy’s loss and reflects on sacrifice and the futility of quick joy. The second piece by Martha L. Jones from the Louisville Courier-Journal reflects on success as mastering virtues such as love, forgiveness, purity, and the Golden Rule through daily effort.
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Peter Grant
Chicago Record-Herald
Martha L. Jones
Louisville Courier-Journal
Oceanic verse and moral lines from period miscellany
A collage of poetic stanzas and moral verse from period publications. The text features Theodosia Garrison’s sea imagery, Jay Bee’s exhortations to optimism, and Martha Shepard Lippincott’s lines on love and mercy. It presents literary snippets rather than a single news item.
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Martha Shepard Lippincott
Boston
The Cost of Kindness in Daily Life
A reflective verse from Open Window urges small acts of kindness. A single kind word, smile, or touch can lift a neighbor’s mood and ease hardship, costing little yet shaping days.
Do Your Best in Cloud or Shine
A Cleveland Plain Dealer lullaby excerpt urges courage and steady effort in adversity. It contrasts hope with hardship and ends with a call to press on and do one’s best. The verse is paired with a moment from Overheard in the Children’s Ward and a light quatrain about a bird and breakfast crumbs.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Little Bird
Bird
Jefferson Fletcher
Traveling mail box aids farm letter delivery across river
James E. Taggart of Delaware county Ohio shows a traveling mail box that crosses Olen tangy river on a wire line. The device uses a No 60 twine belt and pulley system to pull the box along the wire with wheels and a crank, costing under $2 in material with farm-made construction.
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Washington
James Taggart
Delaware County
Olentangy
James_ E. Taggart
Ohio
Creameries Boost Butter Supply And Prices
New creameries are continually starting, some as cooperatives, aiming to improve butter quality at existing prices. As population grows, supplying good butter becomes harder and the market will take all that can be sold. Hope is that butter supply keeps pace to prevent substitutes from rising.
Bacon Curing in England
Take the whole side after the ham and shoulder are removed and rub it with a dry mixture of salt brown sugar and saltpeter. For every 100 pounds of meat use seven pounds of salt one pound of brown sugar and four ounces of saltpeter. Apply to the flesh side rub in well. Layer pieces and repeat until all meat is salted. Keep for three weeks then drying or smoking may proceed.
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England
Giant Gold Nugget Found in Klondike Washup
A giant nugget valued at 264 dollars was found on American Hill in the Klondike as 1901 clean-up season heats up. Reports from all creeks indicate heavy activity with water runs and claim owners washing up, while summer work begins and double shifts spread across camps like Sulphur Creek Hunker Goldbottom and Bonanza.
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American Hill
Klondike
Barefoot girl carries rag doll baby on street corner
A young boy asks about a rag bundle the girl calls her baby and doll. The scene shows a barefoot child in tattered clothes posing with a makeshift baby named Bum Annie, with the girl affectionately cradling the bundle.
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Annie
N. Y
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised powder for sore feet
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or New Shoes Feel Easy Cures Corns Itching Swollen Hot Callous Smarting Sore and Sweating Feet All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it 25c Sample sent FREE Ad dress Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y
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Allen’s
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Dispute Over Arm Cuffing Cited as Joke or Earnest
In a dispute one cuffed the other on the arm. The victim asked if it was a joke or in earnest, and the response implied earnestness. The Philadelphia Times noted the exchange, warning not to treat such actions as jokes and stressing seriousness of the incident.
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Philadelphia
Sterling Remedy CO
New Tech of
Chicago
Markets Report from Major Cities on July First
Summary of farm and livestock prices across New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo East Liberty Cincinnati and other hubs. Grain prices show flour and wheat varying by city with modest shifts. cattle hogs lambs and sheep prices listed, reflecting regional trading activity for July first.
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New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
Toledo
East Buffalo
East Liberty
Cincinnati
Adventures of a queer boy at Buckingham Palace during Queen Victoria's reign
Edward Vizettelly recalls the boy Jones who twice sneaked into Buckingham Palace in the early reign of Queen Victoria. He carried a sword and bear grease, hid in chimneys, and claimed access to the queen's private rooms. After mild punishment he was sent to Australia, before Baron Stockmar later reformed palace discipline.
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Boy Jones
Buckingham Palace
Edward Vizettelly
London Free Lance
Royal
Prince Albert
House of Correction
Australia
Baron Stockmar
Mosquito Comment Sparks City Hotel Humor
In a light exchange at The Summer Hotel a young guest jokes about mosquitoes singing in his room and an old guest replies he welcomes the sound since it drowns out a university glee club practicing on the piazza. The quip captures a playful piece of Chicago Daily News humor.
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University Glee Club
Chicago Daily News
Ted and Ned Spar Over Germ Fad Romance
In a light exchange Ted complains his girlfriend avoids ice cream due to a germ fad and Ned notes she also won t kiss him to avoid micrnhas, revealing a quirky health-obsessed relationship moment.
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Ted
Ned
Micrnhas
Misapplied Industry
A brief exchange throws light on a young worker facing being let out as a practical politician critiques his efforts. The critic says the candidate’s industry serves taxpayers, not the workers, and laments lack of judgment despite noted diligence.
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Chicago Post
Palmer's Lotion touted as cure for severe hand burn
A New York man, J. H. Malkmus, reports terrible hand burn from a dull red hot iron on June 20 and says by June 26 he is cured using Palmer's Lotion alone. He recommends everyone have it and offers samples via Solon Palmer at 347 Pearl St. New York.
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J. H. Malkmus
New York City
N. Y
Palmer
Solon Palmer
Pearl St
New York
Fairy Tales And Monuments In A Nation’s Tale
A collection note contrasts a “painfully new” country with fairy tales and tablets on monuments. An 1900 Minneapolis letter praises Piso’s Cure as a cough remedy. Detroit Journal quotes on girls, writing, and fame reflect varied paths from youth to notoriety.
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J. W. O’brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Coughs Colds and Croup Cure Advertised by Gibbs Noopium
An early period advertisement touts Hoxsie's Croup Cure with no opium. It mentions price as 50ets and includes a quoted exchange about self knowledge and friendship. The fragment reflects sales language and a dialogic tag line from the period.
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Hoxsie
Women Must Sleep Warns of Nervous Prostration Cure
Mrs. Hartley of 221 W Congress St Chicago Illinois suffered indigestion exhaustion womb displacements fainting dizziness headache and backache. She was cured by Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. The ad urges women to rely on the remedy for relief and renewed health.
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Mrs. Hartley
Congress St
Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Plankham
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Theodosia Garrison
Ainslee
Will
Jay Bee
ZSYN
Traveling
Queer Boy
Queen Victoria
Fairy
Detroit Journal
Gibbs
Smaré
Atis van Buren
California Ave
U. S
McCormick & Sons
Cincinnati, D
Washington, D. C
Carter
Carters
G&j Tire Company
Indianapolis, Ind
Sozopont
Forth Hall & Ruckel
Canada
F. Ped Ee
Ottawa
M. V. McInnes
Merril Ik
Detroit
Mich. T. Holmes
Big ‘Our
Indianapolis
Ind
FISO
MA College
Carl Ackermann
Liwa
Otte
Ccc
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