The dynamite hulks of Canvey Island mystery
The narrator investigates Captain Shannon's whereabouts by tracing Mullen’s identity and probing Canvey Island’s dynamite hulks off the Thames. He plans a covert inquiry with ship skipper Quickly, weighing hulks off Convoy and the Cuban Queen for hiding places while noting Canvey’s isolated, wary community and strict hulk rules.
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Southend
Mallen
Mullen
Hardy Muir
Heart
Shannon
Muir
Quickly
Esid Muir
Nore
James Stephen
Dublin
Trinity House
Canvey Island
Canvey
London
Thames
James I
Jons Croppenburg
Crown
England
Queen Victoria
Edward VII
Hole Haven
Huughes
Hughes
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve Ad for All Skin Ailments
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve claims best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions. It guarantees complete satisfaction or money refunded with price 25 cents per box. Sold by E T Scott.
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E. T. . Scott
Lincoln's Inauguration Contrast in 1900s Essay
Literary notes describe Stephen Fiske's March Ladies' Home Journal piece on Lincoln's first inauguration. It recounts Lincoln's Springfield to Washington journey and the heightened security and tensions during the parade with detectives in civilian clothes and armed guards.
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Lincoln
McKinley
Stephen Piske
March Ladies’ Home Journal
Fiske
Springfield
Illinois
Washington
Capitol
Mr. Lincoln
Buchanan
Chicago hotel rates for meals and rooms in brief
A fragment lists pork chops breakfast bacon salt pork broiled fried sausage lake trout and fried perch with eggs. It notes Chicago hotel connections offering rooms at 50 cents and 1 dollar per day.
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Chicago
Two Lives Saved by Dr King’s New Discovery
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City was told she had consumption and cured by two bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery. Mr Thomas Eggers of 159 Florida St San Francisco recovered from a dreadful cold to cure in two weeks. Free trial bottles at KE T Scott’s. Regular size 50c and 31.5
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Phoebe Thomas
Junction City UJ
Dr. King
Thomas Eggers
Florida St
San Francisco
Dr King
KE. T. Scott’s
Cotton Belt Route Excursion Rates Announced
Half rates to Arkansas Texas Louisiana Oklahoma and Indian Territory via the Cotton Belt Route with one fare plus $2 round trip. Tickets on sale April 6 20 May 7 15. Stop-overs permitted on going trip. For full information write W A Mecquown T P A Louisville Ky.
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Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
W. A. Mecquown
Louisville
April Delineator previews spring fashion and culture
The April Delineator highlights color plates and illustrations of spring toilettes wraps shirt-wAists skirts and millinery. It features Charlotte Everett Hopkins on Washington social life J a Becket story Why Did He Come Maud C Murray Miller motherhood notes and Emma Haywood embroidery Jewel Work plus tea table chats book notices and Tatting Crocheting designs.
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Washington
Charlotte Everett Hopkins
J. A Becket
Carolyn Halsted
Grace Pelham Murray
Maud C. Murray-Miller
Marie Gloden
Emma Haywood
Mr. Vick
Little Maid O Dreams Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Ad
An advert touts Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a pleasant cure for constipation indigestion and sick headache. It promotes 10 50 cent and one dollar sizes sold by BE T Scott.
McClure's April issue promises Sherman letters and diverse features
McClure's Magazine for April will publish unpublished General Sherman letters to a young lady and other period pieces. The issue includes works by Octave Thanet, Jan Maclaren, Cy Warman, a sea story, installments of St Ives and Kipling, a Hamilton portrait series with Henry Cabot Lodge study, and Grant life recollections by Hamlin Garland with Mrs. Boggs providing recollections of Grant in Missouri.
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St. Ives
Kipling
the Grand Banks
McClure’s
Will H. Low
McClures
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Grant
Missouri
Hamlin Garland
McClure
Justin the Favorite Bot
An old advertisement proclaims Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a superior cure for constipation indigestion and sick headache with a money back or neighbor recommendation pitch. It mentions 50¢ and 1.00 price points and urges readers to try the remedy.
Electric Bitters for Old People at Scott's Drug Store
Old people needing medicine to regulate bowels and kidneys are urged to use Electric Bitters. The tonic acts gently on the stomach and bowels, strengthens organs, aids digestion, and improves appetite without whiskey or intoxication. Price fifty cents per bottle at Scott's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott’s Drug Store
Garden Spots of the South excursion sale announced
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Marketed round trip tickets to principal points in Tennessee Alabama and West Florida at about half rates. Excur sions offered first and third Tuesdays of March and April. Inquiries to C P Atmore Louisville Ky or J K Ridgley Chicago Il.
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Tennessee
Alabama
West
Florida
C. P. Atmore
Louisville
J. K. Ridgley
Chicago
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Jens
Green
Fenchurch Street
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville
New Monon
Bedford Belt Railroad
Raiload Company
Ilson
Orrow and Song
Dodd Mead and Company
Bucklin’s
Arnica
Meyer
Bull’s
Lance
A.C. Meyer & Co
Balte
Clark St
Judse
Demorest
Judges Library
Demorest Publishing Co
Fifth Avenue
New York
Eliza
Baine Wheeler
LaPorte
Circuit- Court
Hiram
Herrold
Eliza Paine Wheeler
Circuit Court
aPorte
Indiana
H. W. Sauuwasser
F. McCue
Dpy
de Lumbago
Little Maid
Justin
Compound Oxygen
Starkey & Palen
Arch St
Philadelphia
Cal
Toronto
Canada
Dr. Miles
Tinois Central Railroad Company
Southern Illinois
Yazoo Valley
Mississippi
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company
Miss
E. P.srene
Park Row
B. Moe
U S.journal of Medicina
W. H. Peeke
Cedar St
Bear Tees
Lmb Pries Otter
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