Absorbine and remedies advertised in old catalog blur
An aged product list touts Absorbine JR antiseptic liniment with claims to reduce cysts ulcers and swollen veins along with delivery options $1 and $2. It also promotes Hoyt’s Headache and Neuralgia Cologne and a real estate ad for 360 acres near Prespest Ta. A plant safety tale notes cockroaches gnawing electrical insulation in a branch circuit, causing fuse blows and hazards.
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Absorbine, JR
W.f.young
Temple St
Springfield
Mase
Banish Pimples Quickly with Cuticura Ointment
A vintage advertisement advises applying Cuticura Ointment to pimples for five minutes, then cleansing with Cuticura Soap and hot water. The routine is suggested on rising and retiring and at any time. Free samples by mail with the book offered by Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Empress Saved by Doctor Crane in Paris Flight
The will of Mrs. Sarah Gray Crane in Surrogate's court created a 75000 dollar trust for Amherst College. It recounts how Dr. Edward A. Crane saved Empress Eugenie from a Paris mob on September 4, 1870, arranging her secret flight to Deauville after Sedan, then passage on Lord Burghoyne's yacht to England, earning her a pearl from the Empress.
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Sarah Gray Crane
Amherst College
Edward A. Crane
Amherst
Crane
Eugenie
Paris
Deauville
Republic
Sedan
Lord Burgoyne
England
Doctor Crane
New York Times
German Aerial Insurance Issued for Property Damage
A German insurer creates a department offering policies that cover damage to real and movable property from falling aircraft or airborne objects, and from landings or parts of airships and airplanes. The policies exclude injury to or loss of life. Demand grows due to air raids near battle fronts, especially in the West. Miss Wise asks if a sweetheart has been ordered out. Miss Guy confirms her father gave the order last night.
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Aerial Insurance
Wise
Guy
Training: Today’s From a New Point of View
Sidonie M Gruenberg argues for a shift from price to human effort in teaching thrift. She notes old colonial thrift focused on material saving, while modern cost should measure welfare rather than money. A classroom anecdote links waste to value, urging redefined thrift education for children.
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Sidonie M. Gruenberg
Hatever
Europe
Board of Education
Record of Paper Use and Waste in City Schools
The teacher notes there are hundreds of thousands of students and about 175 attendance days annually. It questions the cost of giving each child an extra daily sheet and stresses avoiding waste. It urges teaching children to think about resource use and to foster a prudent attitude at home toward materials.
Thrift and Economic Habits in a Family Tale
A father teaches thrift by sending a boy to buy for the mother while recording purchases. The mother notes the mismatch between old price memories and current costs. A family habit equates sugar usage with thrift, showing how households cultivate pet economies and extravagances.
Reconciliation and Forgiveness Across Families
The passage urges reconciliation after disagreements arising from misunderstandings. It emphasizes explaining, apologizing, and washing away bitterness to restore harmony. It promotes forgiveness, goodwill, and a genial spirit to restore happiness and mutual trust.
Feeding the Infant Iron Sources and Egg Yolk Cautions
The infant’s iron store depletes during nursing, requiring iron from foods at weaning. Egg yolk is highly valuable for iron and nutrients but must be fed carefully as it can upset some babies, and overuse can spoil tolerance. Other iron sources include beef juice, scraped beef, prunes, whole wheat foods, oatmeal, and spinach per some doctors.
Wonderful Insect World
The insect world presents a vast field of life and activity. Over 300,000 species have been described, with likely about twice that number awaiting study. Insects form a major food source for virtually all animals and many plants rely on them as well.
Zanzibar cloves suffer from inefficient harvest methods
Ninety percent of the world supply of cloves comes from the Zanzibar archipelago, but much of the crop is lost through inefficient harvesting methods.
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Zanzibar Archipelago
Old Age and the Fear of Growing Old
A reflective piece on aging, noting the fear of aging and the seemingly unchanging elder generation. It compares old age to a fragile, yet stubborn, one-horse shag that lasts years before suddenly breaking apart. The writing questions fashion, gravity, and youth’s influence on attitudes toward aging.
Flubdub Boasts Of Constituents Receiving 800000 Peat
The remark displays a congressman bragging about sending eight hundred thousand dollars in peat to constituents in a cloakroom chat. The tone suggests a political optics moment rather than a formal announcement.
Wit and Wisdom from Everyday Observations
A collage of maxims on debt, prudence, aging, and human folly. It notes that delaying tasks risks never finishing, that willpower sustains life, and that people misread others aims while spectators seek gossip in crowded theaters.
Forestry Notes on Trees and Puns from an Insightful Judge
A playful compilation of tree planting witticisms and observations. It whimsically links species and locations from willows in tiers to nut trees near asylums and family trees planted deep, ending with a punny note on birches guiding to a schoolhouse.
Quotations on Wisdom and Folly from Various Thinkers
A collection of aphorisms on stupidity courtesy, and human behavior from Schiller Horace Greeley Danish Proverb Emer son Balzac and others. The quotes explore how stupidity is met with resistance and how sympathy and courtesy reveal deeper truth in people.
Lights Bright or Right: Meditations on Kindness and Success
A reflective column asserts that kindness toward others aids achievement and warns against overconfidence. It notes the slow climb from mediocrity and the rarity of sudden leaps to success, citing a Detroit Free Press quotation.
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Detroit Free Press
Brief Decisions on Speaking Style Reflected in Oration
Fragmentary brief discusses how some speakers equate eloquence with endurance as the deciding factor. It contrasts wind speed with this notion and recalls forefathers who sang patriotic tunes beyond mere display.
Safety First At Home Surpasses Public Precautions
A Cook County coroner report shows 11 years of accident deaths totaling 29,854 with 15,241 at home and 14,623 outside. Most home incidents arise from carelessness, with burns, scalds, asphyxia and neglect causing numerous fatalities including 105 children under five killed by scalds and burns in 1915.
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Cook County
Illinois
Chicago
Port of Missing Wheels
In Florida bicycles abound while motor cars surge in other places. Palm Beach lanes are filled with bikes and riders on the streets and sidewalks, with hundreds available for hire beyond a veranda and in shaded roads. Margaret Tuttle notes crowds of cyclists and women in the lobby ready to wheel.
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Palm Beach
Florida
Margaret Tuttle
Saturday Evening Post
Taken at His Word in a Cosmetic Mixup
A traveling salesman visits a well known chemist and claims his firm has the finest cosmetics. The chemist questions the claim noting the complexion appears natural and returns the photograph, leaving the salesman to depart without orders.
Why Thomas Why Female Telephone Operators Work
Mrs. Thomas asks why telephone operators are women. Mr. Thomas replies managers hire those in love with their job, as women love their work at the switchboard. He notes the operators mainly perform talking tasks at the exchange.
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Thomas
Mrs. Thomas
Mr. Thomas
Mrs Thomas
Neighbor Quip Sparks Late Night Baby Cry Joke
In a cheeky exchange, a man asks what the baby cried about last night. Mr. Youngpop replies the incident lasted about five hours.
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Mr. Youngpop
Rattlesnake Tales and a Toothache Joke
A brief, rural quip scene contrasts a boy asking why crying is needed with the blunt reply that a toothache keeps Willie from school. The narrator then notes the rattlesnake’s fearless nature, returning to a rustic humor and observation style.
Flag Seen in the Clouds Disturbs Pottsville Residents
In Pottsville Pennsylvania superstitious townspeople claim a heavenly American flag omen signals war while courthouse officials monitor a top of the courthouse flag with a searchlight. A separate classroom stunt involves a professor explaining steam power with a tin can as a child suggests a dog tail tie.
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Pottsville
Rutherford
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Controversial views on female roles stated at tea
A conversation reveals Mrs Tartleigh endorsing women’s submission while praising her husband’s similar stance. The exchange hints at domestic gender role norms and in-house support for patriarchal ideas, reflecting social tensions of the era.
Must be going to court old fashioned girl
Lemuel Wombat buys a fine buggy and hints at court action as a lightheartedexchange reflects local social life and colorful phrasing from the era.
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Lemuel Wombat
Church Visit Absence Sparks Dialogue Between Parson and Hodge
Parson questions why Hodge has not attended church recently. Hodge replies that he has not been going.
Wood Flour Industry Grows in United States
The European war spurs a new US industry producing wood flour from sawdust and waste lumber. Last month 20 000 tons worth 300 000 dollars were made mainly in small mills from Maine to California. Used in linoleum making and in wallpaper compositions as a cork substitute.
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United States
Maine
California
Spain
What Ammonia Will Do in Warm Water
Ammonia in warm water revives faded colors and removes grease spots on rugs and carpets like magle.
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Hoyt
Redd
Prespest
Popular Science Monthly
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Forestry Notes
White House
Schiller
Horace Greeley
Emerson
Heaven
Eliot
Mme. Swetchine
Lima
St. Paul’s
Baalbec
Palmyra
Horace Walpole
Willie
Pye
Roofing General
Chlange - Whitsdelphia Bt. Leute
Becton Ciersi
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Gan Frenciste
Ciastasat
New York
Oay
Les Augeles
Minneapolis
Bensa
A Biases
Gay West
Indianapole
Atlanta
Richmond Heaston
London
Sydney
Western Canada
Winnipeg
Regina
North Portal
Saskatoon
Fort Frances
Kingsgate
B. C
Coutts
Calgary
Alberta
Broughton
W. Adams St
McKinais
Jefferson Ave
Mich
Pennsylvania
Hodge
Western
Canada
Montreal
Weis
Ottawa
C. J. Broughton
W. Adams Street
McKinnis
Jefferson Avenue
Michigan
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