Future Leaders From Today's Boys in Time’s Eye
Poem recounts a dreaming youth who hopes today’s schoolboys will become future Franklin, Jay, Adams, Marshall, Jefferson, and Washington. Father Time challenges the wish, suggesting many modern youths may rise to prominence. A reflective verse from Frank Walcott Hutten Youth's Companion.
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Ben Franklin
Franklin
Jay
Adams
Marshall
Jefferson
Franklins
Adamses
Otises
Marshalls
Anothershington
Frank Walcott Hutt
Despised Yucca Yields Durable Paper Source
The yucca tree of the Mojave region, a tall leafless plant with spiny ends, yields strong durable paper via a lathe process. Its fibers produce tear resistant sheets suited for bonds and documents. An English firm once considered yucca paper in California but found freight and duties unprofitable.
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New Mexico
Arizona
California
Mojave Desert
Chicago
Little Chronicle
Path to Power through Service
A Presbyterian minister earns devotion by standing with grieving parents after their child dies of diphtheria. He visits the home, conducts a prayer, and helps carry the coffin to the cemetery. The act embodies the idea that service leads to power and honor.
Baby Telephone Girl From Omaha Sets Modern Teen Trend
Virginia Pixley an 18 month old from Omaha is hailed as the youngest telephone conversationalist in the United States. Her father W A Pixley works for a local phone company and the baby speaks plainly about daily activities and even requests such as horroantanny. She handles the telephone with the poise of a veteran operator.
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Virginia Pixley
Omaha
United States
Chicago
Virginia
W. A. Pixley
Horroa Tanny
Cat Becomes Hen Foster Sleeps With Chickens In Wisconsin
At 108 Chicago Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin, a two year old black cat named Tabitha adopts a henroost life. It sleeps on a perch between two hens and even carries a rat to a hen beside it. The odd bond with the flock endures after a night locked out of the henhouse. A second brief note tells of a pigeon at a funeral in Verviers, where a pigeon perched on the coffin and starved to death at the cemetery.
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Tabitha
Mr. Reind
Biddy
Henri Chapelle
Verviers
Architecture style home plans with detailed specs
Detailed description of a nine room house including foundations, dimensions, room sizes, and features. Notes on materials such as redwood, cedar shingles, Georgia pine, and galvanized iron. Includes plumbing gas wiring, insulation, windows, doors, fixtures, and: veranda, basement access, and finish details attributed to GEORGE A. W. KENTZ.
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Jay
O. G
George A. W. Kentz
Trees Die from Insomnia in City Lights
A local observer warns that constant electric illumination harms trees. He argues that trees need rest like people, and exposure to bright lights all night causes leaves to wither and drop on the sunlit sides of affected trees.
Valuabie Man and City Editor Addicted to Races
The Brooklyn Eagle notes the paper’s need for the long time tip writer known for turf tips. A St Louis Star joke about a dog with appendicitis hints that such stories may fade from the human world.
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Spacer
Playig
Brooklyn Eagle
St. Louis
One of Dinah's Surprises in the Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore family recalls their old southern cook named Dinah who questions city wages and new habits with humor. She reports a Sun newspaper charge of 24 cents for sunlight, comparing it to free air in Virginia. The item mixes quips from multiple papers about humor and light verse.
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Dinah
Baltimore
Missus
Virginia
Hebben
Baltimore Sun
Picked Up Here and There
Facts from varied topics including Wisconsin farming 45 counties, St Lawrence river depth 986 miles, a Montreal to Port Arthur voyage 600 feet ascent, 1000 fishing boats off the British coast named Mary, U.S. vacation spending about 400 million dollars annually, a Dyer County tree yielding four cords of firewood three gallons of honey and five raccoons, a 234 year old almanac sold in Boston for 155 dollars, and U.S. population around 77.6 million with a ten year gain of 20.7 percent based on census figures.
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Wisconsin
St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Port Arthur
Mary
Dyer County
Tenn
Boston
Samuel Green
Cambridge
United States
Wonderful case in Indiana reports cure by Dodd's Kidney Pills
Buck Creek Indiana July 15 Mrs Elizabeth Rorick had rheumatism doctors said could do nothing she was very bad and in pain used Dodd's Kidney Pills and fully recovered with no recurrence since stopping the pills many in Tippecanoe County hearing of her cure are using the pills and reporting wonderful results.
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Buck Creek
Ind
Elizabeth Rorick
Dodd
Tippecanoe County
Mrs. Rorick
Supreme Court Upholds Foot-Ease Trademark Injunction
Supreme Court in Buffalo orders a permanent injunction with costs and accounting against Paul B. Hudson and a Brooklyn retailer to stop selling Dr. Clark's Foot Powder as an imitation of Foot-Ease. Allen B. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y., owns the Foot-Ease trademark and first promoted the powder nationwide. Similar suits will target other infringers profiting from the Foot-Ease advertising and packaging.
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Supreme ‘Court
Laughlin
Supreme Court
Buffalo
Paul B. Hudson
Dr. Clark
Brooklyn
Allen
Olmsted
Leroy
N. Y
Emphatic Neighbor Quips About Carpet Beater From Below
A neighbor in a flat remarks to his wife that the downstairs resident Smith could make an elegant carpet beater due to his touch. The exchange, noted in a New York Times style quip, reflects humorous local sentiment and social tone from the era.
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Smith
N. Y
Hoxsie's Croup Cure Ad Warning of Opium Use
Short ad proclaims Hoxsie's Croup Cure as a life saver for children with no opium and a 50 cent price. The piece quips that losing humor is usually one’s own fault, attributed to the Washington Iowa Democrat.
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Hoxsie
Washington (Ia
Democrat
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Light Brigade
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New York
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Bree
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Indiana
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Jtower CO
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Muskoka Lakes
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New England
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