Do We Change Our Size and the Political Sway of Nations
A collage of excerpts discusses farm labor strain, urban tram damages, and social notions of body size. It cites Harper’s Monthly on farmer hardship, reports on New York tram damages totaling over three million dollars, and reflections from New York Weekly on perception of size. The piece also notes a British mayoral infant mortality pledge, Swettenham, Jamaica, and a Shakespeare portrait valued at twenty thousand dollars. It ends with a quip on women voters and ballots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woody Hutchinson
Harper's Monthly
New York Weekly
Mexican Romance Ends in Tragic Escape and Secret Marriage
Howard Wade arrives in Mexico to run his father’s mine and plans marriage in America. La Marina, devoted but jealous, poisons the scene with love and rage. Wade departs with Marina’s help after drinking an enchantment drink, and is later found playing with their daughter, a dark-eyed girl, in the hut.
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Marina
Howard Wade
Howard
Senorita
Mexico
Senor
Mile Girl
Sa Marina
la Marina
Senorita la Marina
Lfe
la Mavina
Church of
Tacuba
Gil
Stones in Their Pockets as Nevada Promoter Tartness
The Kansas City Star reports Nevada mine promoters tour hotels in Kansas City selling claims and stock. Promoters flash copper and gold bearing rock as proof of wealth, while clerks warn the stones symbolize the mine’s value rather than danger or defense.
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Nevada
Kansas City
Lost Keys Reported Missing After Depot Mix Up
Mrs. Keys told police she left her children at the depot yesterday and returned to find the situation unresolved. details of the exchange or location are unclear in the fragment.
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Keys
Gove
Senator Spooner Resigns Senate to Pursue Private Life
Senator John Spooner of Wisconsin tendered his resignation from the United States Senate to take effect May 1. He cites public life weariness and a need to earn money for his family as his career winds down, noting a storied history in law and politics and his long service since 1885.
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Tamales
Great Britain
United States
John Bull
Swettenham
Jamaica
Washington
John Colt Spooner
Guv. Davidson
Wisconsin
Ho Fe
Spooner Hi
United States Congress
Interior
McKinley
Senate
Spooner
Lysander Spooner
Boston
New York
Congress
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin University
Senator Spooner
Hudson
State Assembly
St. Croix County
Board of
Regents
United States Senate
William ¥. Vilas
Republcan
Ceed
Joseph B. Coghlan
New York Navy Yard
Coghlan
New Submarine Octopus A Wows at Boston Tests
The Octopus, newly launched at Quincy, surpasses contract specs with surface speed over 11 knots and submerged 10 knots. It impresses officials after six weeks of tests in Boston harbor and attracts attention from Japanese officials studying the yard’s electric craft.
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Quincy, Mass
Lake Submarine
Connecticut
New London
Massachusetts Bay
Boston
Europe
France
United States
Ieir
Washington
Ninister
Fore River
Mixed Ads and Curiosities from an Early 20th Century Page
The fragment lists price requests for live and dressed poultry and a note for writing to R B Cobb of St Paul Minnesota. It cites 70000 municipal workers in London and 2000000 in England, then promotes dairy shipments to Northwest stations. It mentions Allcock's Plasters as trusted for sixty years and cites a Detroit Free Press note about eldest sons correlating with crime and genius.
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Allcock
Detroit Free Press
Sciatica Cure Story From Dr Williams Pink Pills
Locomotive engineer Herbert E. Spaulding recounts years of pain from sciatica improved after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He credits six boxes with restoring ability to work and resume driving trains. Pills sold by druggists or postpaid by the Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
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Herbert E. Spaulding
Cincinnati, Leans & Texas Pacific Rail
Longview
Tex
Sciatica
Hot Springs
Allison
Williama
Willams
Wi Draggiete
Sem
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
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Williston
Jons A. Coxurrr, F
Ublisher
Greater
John P. Fox
United Kingdom
Ireland
Liverpool
Boston Elevated
Berlin Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Berlin
Brooklyn Company
Huddlesfield
England
Roosevelt
Indianapolis Star
Winston
Eng
Shakespeare
Dally
Blory Pub, Co
John C. Spooner
Will
Navy Yard
Goodrich
Joseph 8. Coghlan
Casper F. Goodrich
Nassau
Octopus
Lumbago Sciatica
ST. Jacobs Oil
Price Bc
Sheridan
R. B. Cobb
St. Paul, Minn
London
Gent Creamery
Northwest
Aioe Dairy Co
Sciatig
Williame
Pink Pilla
Carters
Genuina
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