Actor begs for change for shave to win Virginius role
A weary, bearded actor seeks a quarter from a stern woman to afford a shave and haircut so he can audition as Virginius. She dismisses him and jokes he should instead seek Rip Van Winkle, then she begins to unchain the dog.
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Wayfarer
Virginius
Rip van Winkle
Cure for Itching Horrors Promoted by Cutiura
O L Wilson of Puryear Tennessee describes a three year battle with a severe skin eruption spreading from face to arms. After consulting two doctors and using three sets of Cutiura remedies he reports the sores nearly, then fully, healed. Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston.
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O. L. Wilson
Puryear
Tenn
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Bole Props
Boston
Quaker Oats Thirty Day Health Challenge Ad
A promotional paragraph urges Thanksgiving era readers to start November with regular Quaker Oats meals for thirty days. It claims improved health and vigor, advises substituting meat or greasy foods, and requests children receive ample servings.
Object of Increased Solicitude
There is note of farmer support and political talk alongside an advertisement claiming Hall's Catarrh Cure offers constitutional treatment. The passage cites F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio and promises $100 for any cure failure, with a supplement about Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Corn Tossel
Washington Star
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Hall
They Were Shady They Traced Ancestry For Twenty Guineas
A brief dialogue from Cassell's Saturday Journal features a genealogist naming a twenty guinea fee to reveal ancestral ties and silence about the lineage. The exchange plays on secrets and costs in family history pursuits.
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Cassell
Saturday Journal
Government buys 2 percent Rough on Rats for Panama Zone
The U. S. Government purchased 3,600 boxes representing 2 percent of Rough on Rats to distribute in the Panama Canal Zone. The ad touts the product as the old reliable unbeatable exterminator available in 1édc, 25c, and 75e pricing.
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U. S
Panama Canal Zone
Do You Know Him and the Jokes of a Mean Man
An ironic sketch notes a man who mocks anything mean unless it applies to him and jokes about family life. It promotes Hamlins Wizard Oil as a universal remedy for sprains cuts wounds burns and other soreness.
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Cascarets
Practical Method for Planting Trees Straight
A practical guide describes constructing a tree-planting stake using a 1x2 board with notches and iron pins to guide straight placement. It also covers pruning times for flowering shrubs to optimize blooms, with advice on pruning after flowering and specific handling for hydrangea, clematis, and multi-stem shrubs.
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Deutzia
One Crop Farming Downfalls and Diversified Threads
The article argues against single crop farming, noting it leads to seasonal unemployment and reduced profits. It advocates diversification through specialty crops along with livestock, crop rotation, and soil health to provide year round employment and stable returns.
Hog House Floor Foundation Mix and Surface Advice
Describes hog house floor construction using cement and gravel foundation, covered by a one inch cement sand mix. Recommends a roughened surface to prevent slipperiness and outlines ratios of cement to sand for the surface layer.
Value of Eve in Wool and Fleece Returns
The text explains a ewe's value rests on fleece if she dies her funeral expenses are paid by the fleece if she lives her spring wool and fall lambs yield double revenue or profits.
Six-Horse Gang Plow Evener Sketch
A historic sketch describes a six-horse gang plow evener built from a oak plank and a four-horse evener on top. Holes are bored two to one with two inches for two horses and one inch for four, allowing front and rear configurations. It notes a five-horse variant by adjusting hole placement and using three horses.
Unique Relationship of Potato Plant Facts
An authority notes potatoes form a large unique family relation with tobacco tomatoes eggplant and peppers. The potato bug threatens these crops and the text explains how potatoes can grow new vines from leaf nodes using plant stems as illustrated by breaking a piece of a rose bush to grow another plant.
Texas man preserves blooms with smart watering
The editor notes a Texas man who waters his shade trees and home grown flowers on the hottest day of the year. While neighbors’ bushes and trees are parched, his plants stay fresh, yielding beauty and a vivid example of proper watering.
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Texas
Dreamer and the world beyond reach in poetic verse
A reflective poem contrasts dreamers who pursue distant seas and ideal lands with pragmatic souls who chase tangible gains. It questions obsession with goals, praises the dreamer’s clarity, and suggests learning to dream. Included are quips and humorous anecdotes on advice, hair loss, strawberry marks, and graduation essay counsel.
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Rome
Alps
Italy
Wall Street
Folklore Advice on Training Children with Odd Pranks
A fragment recounts a tepidly humorous yarn about a wise woman offering bizarre childrearing tips. She suggests sewing corn grains into trousers to curb crawling, embedding carpet tacks in pants, quinine on sugar, and hot stove caps to stop barefoot wandering, among other odd remedies.
Government Sanatoriums Run by Three Agencies
The United States government operates tuberculosis sanatoriums at Fort Bayard New Mexico for army personnel, at Fort Stanton New Mexico for merchant marine and coast service workers, and at Las Animas Colorado for navy officers and enlisted men. The War Department runs the first, the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service the second, and the Navy Department the third.
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United States
Fort Bayard
N. M
Merchant Marine
Navy
Fort Stanton
Las Animas
Col
Department of War
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Navy Department
Henson criticizes archbishop attire at Yale lecture
Canon Hensley Henson denounced the English archbishop's clothing during a New Haven dinner amid Yale lectures. He cited a Kansas church sermon in knee breeches gaiters and an apron, noting the town's leading paper described the archbishop as wearing Highland dress.
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Hensley Henson
New Haven
Yale
Kansas
Dye and health tips from a vintage ad page
An archival ad page promotes Dy o la Dyes from Burlington Vermont emphasizing fast color and economy. It also offers Allen s Long Balsam for coughs and throat irritation and ends with a homespun proverb about honesty over appearance.
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Burlington
Vermont
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Proclaimed Curing Women
Milwaukee reader Mrs Emma Imse reports relief from backache and fears of a tumor after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The Pinkham company claims thousands of grateful letters prove the remedy cures obstinate female illnesses after other means fail and urges sick women to seek advice.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Emma Imse
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Lucia E. Pinkham
Ms. Pinkham
Complete Illustrated Price List of Fruit Trees and Ornamentals
A complete catalog offering our entire line of fruit trees and ornamental plants. Includes descriptions, cultivars, and pricing for home gardeners and professionals seeking orchard and landscape varieties.
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