Surrendered His Claim on Liza and Child in Mountain Road
Hall Jenkins and his wife Liza Hutch live near Lowell in a rough North Carolina mountain route with their child Jenney. A stranger rider reveals Liza’s prior ties to Ben Reubins and plans to reclaim the family, but Hall accepts to raise the child and farewell notices an uncertain future.
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Blue Ridge Range
North Carolina
Jenney
Hall Jenkins
Lowell
Jenney Wi
Wifch
Liza
Lowell Fair
Jamney
Hall
Bia Uttle
Tal
Jonney
Hle
Halt
Beinis
Woods Ring
Fall
Yaga
Naga
Ben Réubdin
Frien
Pikeville Fork
Happy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow
Liza Hutch
Ben Reubins
Jenkins
Private Baths Debate at Arkansas Tavern
A northward tourist prompts a tavern landlord in Palkylity Arkansas about private baths. The landlord demurs noting discomfort and potential embarrassment for travelers using the office or porch, while acknowledging some by-passers might approve.
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Palkylity
Ark
Puck
One Girl's Reason and Other Short Items
A collection of brief gags and exchanges from various papers including Chicago Daily News and Washington Star. Jokes touch on manners, finances, honesty, and everyday quirks in a compact, humor column style. Includes snippets about ashes on sidewalks coal prices and a politician's honesty.
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Bull
Chicago Daily News
Change in Dancing Styles Hint in Quotations
An assorted clipping mixes dialogue about dancing and style with opinions on a man’s character. The piece cites Cassella Journal and Puck, noting a humorous shift in ballroom tempo and a jab about a man’s lack of finer sensibilities.
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Bir
Cassella
Fractured Bits From City Papers
A collage of whimsical quotes and brief notes from various papers recounts humorous lines about fat men at tailors, stolen tallow candies, birthday cake gossip, cough medicine, and domestic misprisions. Names include Milwaukee Zentine, Jocko, Patrice, Mrs. Lapsting, and Mrs. Titewell.
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Boston
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
New German Steel Hardened by Nitrogen Blast
The piece discusses a German patent by F. Munster for a steel of special hardness created by blasting molten metal with nitrogen. It notes automatic machinery replacing the human taffy puller, 13 magnetic zinc separation plants in Wisconsin, a heat hardened tool steel that hardens in air, and a Munich professor’s sick room clock that projects magnified ear and hand shadows for bedside viewing. It also includes a quip about yeast, gas, and Congress.
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Germany
F. Munster
Wisconsin
Munich
Measles pattern noted in Aberdeen and medical prospects reported
A Washington Star summary highlights an Aberdeen note on measles distribution over two decades with counts for males and females. It also covers French quinine substitutes from gentian and Bramiya use, Von Behring's tuberculosis research caution, Mont Blanc oxygen studies by French doctors, and a retirements question tied to policyholders.
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Aberdeen
France
Haye
Auvergne
Emil von Behring
Dre. Guillemark
Moog
Mont Blanc Observatory
Old World Oddities and Strange Modern Tales
A collage of brief items: Mathew Faulds the Kilmanrock weaver over 90 at his loom. Cambodian king funeral mourners use megaphones. William Reltz loses sight from a grain of rice at his wedding. an Edgbaston woman claims hypnosis for blowing a whistle at Berghborn. aging counts in Japan gain sticks in palace. Bristol sergeant serves summons on himself over a Stoke Bishop chimney. London druggist fined for selling dirty moldy water to a man seeking distilled water for photography.
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Mathew Faulds
Kilmarnock
Scotland
Norodom
Cambodia
William Reltz
Duesseldorf
Germany
Edgbaston
England
Berghborn
Tokio
Takayuki Sasaki
Tomoyuki Hayashi
Imperia
Bristol
Stoke Bishop
London
The Coffee Debate Exposes Health Claims and Postum Push
A coalition of coffee importers and roasters challenge coffee harms by urging a public facts driven discussion. They promote Postum Food Coffee as a substitute, claim it avoids disease linked to coffee, and invite readers to quit coffee for ten days to test health effects.
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Boston
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Annie B. Rouseman
Jenks
dJanke
Royal
Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Antos
Milwaukee
Zentine
Jocko
Chicago Journal
Orater
Mar
Johnny
N. Y. Sum
Dodds
Aetel
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Strost
New York
Eer
Mother Gray
LeRoy
Pye
Hoft
Canada
Govermmrik
It Century
Oke
Cmas
Pilling
Clifford Biv
Grand Forks
Nak
Machlan
Box
Watertawa
Rakou
Ocues
Sir Jackson Ket
Paul Mino
Mind's Encyclopedia of
Spalding
Vidal Rese
Suma Mnancier
Esac
Congress
Cleveland
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