The Season's Verse Dinner Scene
A pair travel by dining car in a tale of quiet romance and fate. They order crackers and Roquefort with lemonade as their bond deepens. at sunset they depart together into a shared future, while a passerby quips about Cupid.
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Black Jerome
Cupid
Henry Nesbitt
Fattening Poultry at Canadian Stations
An account from Orange Judd Farmer describes scientific methods at new Canadian chicken fattening stations to maximize English market prices. Chickens buy weight 3 to 4 1/2 pounds, fatten in small coops with ground grain porridge, then crammed with tallow and fed no food before slaughter. Cost per pair totals 1.08 dollars. sale price is 1.76 dollars per pair.
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Canada
Orange Judd
Portrait of a Quiet Farewell in a Summer Night
A poem by Mrs. M. M. Hill in S. S. Times recalls an afterlife reunion with loved ones. The speaker imagines leaving this world to join dear friends in a "not made with hands" home where pain ends and God's glory fills the eternal mansion.
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M. M. Hill
S. S. Times
Praise Ye the Lord by Ernest W. Shurtleff
Poem excerpt from Youth's Companion praising God as provider of rain sun moon and harvest. Celebrates beauty of creation, endurance of divine love beyond death, and universal praise for the Lord across ages. Stay with elevated, devotional tone and simple meter.
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Heaven
Ernest W. Shurtleff
A Song of Morning from Westminster Gazette
The poem thanks God for morning time and the daily dawn. It reflects on waking life beyond the hill, the silent dawn bringing unknowns, and the sun rising as God smiles. Night fades as the earth waits, urging praise and hopeful thoughts of morning. The piece ends with cherishing this time as near to the divine.
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Pardon
God
Westminster Gazette
The Foolish Old Belief Revisited by Two Friends
A nostalgic reflection recounts two boys chasing a pot of gold where a rainbow ends. The tale shifts to adulthood as one friend loses money at a race, leaving them wiser than their childhood belief in buried treasure.
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S. E. Kiser
Chicago Times-Herald
Prayer for Paradise Health Wealth and Will
A fourfold plea rises from a 19th century excerpt: faith to soar, health to aid others, wealth to be generous, and a will to do God’s will. An angel answers with a single divine response, shaping the moral tone of Lena S. Thompson’s Good Housekeeping quotation.
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Lena S. Thompson
Good Housekeeping
Pleasantville dream and peril in two verse snippets
A playful ode to Pleasantville promises health and cheer in a flawless town where smiles never fade. In contrast a sea voyage image laments lost hopes and wrecked ships as sailors chase the fairest breeze, reflecting contrasting tones from Chicago newspapers.
Hints About Horses from Farmers' Voice
Practical guidance on horse care for workhorses including daily rations of corn oats and hay, pasture at night, and the importance of green feed. Advises kindness and gradual training for young horses and outlines breeding mares for future colt sales, with gestation care.
Golden-red fall plants yield fine honey color and taste
Farmers' Voice notes honey from golden red fall flowers is richly colored and flavorful. It contrasts with tasteless syrupy honey produced when bees are fed sugar, lacking the nectar-derived taste.
Engagement Ends Over A Tale Of Promises
In Pearson's Weekly a girl in brown recounts how a fiancé deceived her by promising to quit smoking drinking clubs gambling and more then failed to reform at all. She ends the engagement after discovering his lack of true change and says nothing remained interesting.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Brown
Irl
Gray
Iase
Man at Union station asks for Kentucky tickets
A lean, bashful man shambles to the Union station ticket window and asks in a half whisper if tickets for Kentucky exist. An old woman with a sunbonnet demands a ticket to Platte county, insisting the agent sell it without disclosing her destination.
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Union
St. Joseph
Kentucky
Platte County
The Stranger Recounts a Farmer’s Hidden Kindness
A London Answers tale recalls a farmer who fed and encouraged a poor boy with an old suit, five shillings and a pledge to repay kindness. The man says the boy, still poor after 15 years, will honor the vow, prompting a comic outburst from the farmer and his wife.
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London
Timid Suitor Faces Father Over Supporting a Family
The timid suitor finally states his case while the girl's father sternly questions if he can support a family. The young man reacts with surprise asking if the suitor has lost his job.
Poison bottle cited as remedy amid seasickness
A fragmentary quotation from the New York World notes a warning about a bottle labeled poison used as a remedy for seasickness. The passage includes a brief social remark about trust from George Macopald.
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Alfred
N. Y
Markets Report from New York to East Liberty
The market notes show mixed activity across grains and livestock. Wheat values range around 79 to 83 cents in some spots, corn near 46 to 48 cents, oats mid twenty cents, with hogs generally trading lower to mid five dollar range and cattle and lamb prices varying by region and quality. Local reports from Cleveland and Toledo list similar commodity levels for flour, butter, cheese, potatoes, and livestock, reflecting a broad, regionally varied trading day.
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Cleveland
York State
New York Central Hauls Third Half Million Edition of Message to Garcia
The Passenger Department announces a new cloth bound edition of A Message to Garcia, numbered 1000,600 to 1,004,999, printed on heavy paper with a red bordered pages. It includes sketches of Andrew Sowan Calixto Garcia and Elbert Hubbard, press extracts, and notes from educators and professionals. Limited cloth editions cost 50 cents. illuminated paper covers are free by stamp or sold in packs of 100 for 50 cents per 100 for domestic or world delivery.
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New York Central
Garcia
Mr. Hubbard
Andrew Sowan
Calixto Garcia
Elbert Hubbard
Cuban Educational Association
Harvard-Americanism
George H. Daniels
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Grand Central Station
New York
Antiquities of the national game in a Missouri editor’s view
A North Missouri editor recalls biblical figures as baseball players in playful etymology. He cites Eve stealing first and Adam stealing second, Isaac at the well with a pitcher, Samson striking out many, Moses’ first run, Cain’s base hit, Abraham’s sacrifice, the prodigal son’s homer, David a long thrower, and Moses shutting out the Red Sea.
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North Missouri
Devil
Eve
Adam
Isaac
Rebecca
Sampson
Moses
Cain
Abel
Abraham
David
Red Sea
Chicago Chronicle
Grain-O coffee substitute advertised in early 1900s
Grain-O promoted as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with Mocha like color. Claimed safe for all ages and enjoyed by all who try it. Priced 15c and 25c per package at grocers. Also includes a humorous note about Mrs. Flypp's hat and a Beeman's Pepsin Gum recommendation.
Atchison Globe Notes Local Golf Works Echoing in Towns
The Atchison Globe remarks on golf becoming as familiar as daily life in Atchison with babies cutting teeth on balls, while a separate note praises Piso’s Cure for Consumption as unmatched for coughs and colds from Trinity Springs Indiana.
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Atchison
Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Quotations and Advertisements From Early 20th Century Papers
A collage of witty quotes and product notices appears across several papers. Lines reference the sultan of Turkey amid bill collectors, romantic quips about marriage and heartbreak, tonic and cough remedies, and a remark on a marshal's role at a county fair.
National Reputation for Lotion Mentioned in Letter
A Maplewood Pennsylvania resident, Mrs Henry O Silkman, describes discovering a lotion through friends in Fulton New York and Evansville Indiana and urges procuring the product for others. The notice claims the preparation has been public for over fifty years and highly recommended by users. Readers are asked to send a druggist's name to Solon Palmer in New York to receive a testimonials pamphlet and a free sample of Lotion or Lotion Soap.
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Henry O. Silkman
Maplewood
Fulton
N. Y
Evansville
Ind
Solon Palmer
Pearl Street
New York
British officer in Australia notes breeder’s cavalry horse supply
A British officer gathering mounts in Australia received a note from a horse breeder offering horses for cavalry artillery and infantry. The breeder adds a specialty in hors du combat the French term for officers war horse or charger.
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Australia
N. Y. Sun
Excursion to California by Rail from Chicago and St Louis
Chicago and St Louis departure tours join at Denver then travel via Rio Grande lines to Salt Lake City and Ogden before reaching the coast. Each party has a special agent in charge and comfortable sleeping cars. Send 6 cents for a 72 page illustrated California book by F E Bell city passenger agent C B Q R R 211 Clark street Chicago.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
Rio Grande
Salt Lake Wits
Ogden
California
F. E. Bell
Clark Street
Disturbance in China Threatens Tea Famine Fears
In a Philadelphia Press excerpt an old gentleman laments the China unrest and the likelihood of a distressing tea famine this year as natives clash, signaling widespread disruption and concern.
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China
Philadelphia Press
Laxative ad touts quick cure and refund offer
The Boston Courier and Washington Democrat note a drug advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming a cold cure in one day. The offer includes a 25 cent price and a refund if it fails.
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