Sally Ann's Letter and a Mountain Town Tragedy
In a mountain cove Sally Ann Larkin lies gravely ill awaiting a letter from Bud Hunt considered lost. Jim Farner visits the widow and faces a confrontation as the dying girl reads a doomed message. Bud’s supposed faithfulness collapses when Jim reads aloud a final line then destroys the letter in front of the fire.
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Jist
Jim
Sally Ann
Sally
Polly
Bud
Non
Jim Farner
Sally Aon
Sally Man
Larkin
Martha
Sally Anny
Troye
Do not complain to reach sunny Italy's heaven
A reflective verse passage urges: do not fret your soul over today’s cold and rain. The speaker encourages perseverance, comparing life’s trials to tunnels through earth and Alpine snows toward a sunny victory in Italy.
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Ata
Pazrake Ehort
Mont Cente
F. Burr
N.Y
Science and Industry Miscellany of 1900s Trade
A miscellany notes tea seeds sown thickly in beds like cabbages and eight patent medicine firms spending 500000 dollars yearly on advertising. It mentions 4000 sheep moved from Mumiana to Lansing to feed on sugar beet refuse, a 1700 year old Chinese anesthetic use, many coffee apparatus inventions, and the PatelIe olive packs selling for 25 dollars. Dredging tech expands to 60 feet down and up, England loses land yearly equivalent to Gibraltar, Rugtani edge submerged in a century, and Canada–US salmon trade shifts with traps, price gaps to cannery costs.
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Mumiana
Lansing
Mich
Parle
China
Ttme
England
Gibraltar
Heligoland
County of
London
Canada
Washington
Oregon
Population shifts in 1900 census figures in United States
The June 1 1900 census shows more native born whites and females, fewer foreigners and blacks, with native born rising nearly double the foreign born. Total population 76,303,387. males 37,? and females 39,? highlight shifts in race, birth origin, and gender distribution.
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United States
Chicago Amerina
Alaska
Hawaii
Indian Territory
Haswaii
Electric motors achieve longer range with regenerating dynamos
A Detroit Free Press report notes English experiments where 42 four-plate cells with 180 ampere hours powered a four-wheeled dogcart twins motors of ½ horse power each for 0.4 miles? The key is reversing motors on downhill to act as dynamos, charging accumulators and strengthening the battery at the bottom.
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England
Detroit Free Press
Evanston Man Moves Faith Based on Preference
A Chicago Record-Herald note says an Evanston resident left the Methodist church for the Presbyterian denomination because his preaching desires could not be accommodated. The item highlights a stubborn stance on having preaching done to order.
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Evanston
Methodist
Presbyterian Church
Chicago Record- Herald
Noted Physician Endorses Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A Lansing Michigan physician testifies to the value of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female disorders including ovarian troubles and uterine issues. He claims it can restore the affected parts, cure barrenness, and cites confidence in the remedy while warning readers to beware counterfeit testimonials. The piece also includes a church anecdote about teaching scripture to children and a joke about a minister's wife.
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Wanata
Lansing
Mich
Teribe
Materia Fedica
Tyla E. Pinkham
Wanara
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bald newspaper man touts Herpicide cure for dandruff
Veteran journalist Col Daniel Searles writes in The Northwest about using News brothers Herpicide to stop dandruff and promote hair regrowth. The ad style claim asserts the dandruff germ is killed at the scalp root, yielding renewed hair.
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Northwest
Col
Daniel Searles
Butte
Newsbro
Peruna Almanac Astrology Hooks In Demand
The druggists report high demand for the Peruna almanac featuring astrology. Competent astrologists contributed the zodiac characteristics and monthly lucky and unlucky days. Rush expected as stock depletes. ask your druggist for one early via Pullmans Company routes to St Augustine.
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Verona
Peruna
Current Topics Summary of diverse global notes and data
A compilation of disparate facts and figures covers electric taxi profitability in Paris, historical references to the Christmas tree, papier mache scabbards for Russian officers, dairy production in London, savings banks opening in America, US railway employment in 1900, the Danish royal tradition, Bank of France policies, American adviser salaries to Cuba, Chinese coolie art, Lord Stanmore’s peerage, Australian land holdings, Senator Hanna’s mail, heathen origins, egg storage value, early electricity machines, day reckoning by astronomers, Madagascar medical missions, and rainfall rankings by continent.
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Paris
England
London
James Cooper, Jr
Red Bank
United States
Bank of France
Cuba
Lord Stanmore
Gladstone
South Australia
Hanna
Germany
Ptolemy
Madagascar
South America
Africa
North America
Europe
Asia
Australia
Education progress in Calis highlighted at Pan American exhibit
The Calis exhibit at the Pan American exposition showcases advances in education since American rule, earning nine medals. It also notes a record back of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claimed as an incomparable remedy for dyspepsia indigestion and fever and ague, with a stray quote about a late automobile incident reflected in Smart Set prose.
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Calis
Hostetter
Odd Health Ads Echo Across a Fractured Ledger
Classified style clippings tout cure alls and tonics with claims from Cascarets to Piso’s Cure for Sognumotion. Short quips reference hospital visits, cough remedies, and teeth whitening while branding imitations and cheap imitations. The jumble mirrors era ads and fake testimonials from diverse sources.
Do You Get Up With A Lame Back
Pain or dull ache in the back signals possible kidney trouble. The Swamp-Root remedy from Dr Kilmer claims to cure kidney and bladder issues, offers a free sample by mail, and promotes hospital and doctor endorsements to persuade readers to try it.
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Nature
Bright
Kirwin & Co
Binghamton
N.Y
Etlamwr
P. Thoma
Bez
St. Butlum
Kilmer
Dr. Kilier & Co
Binghamton, N
Dr. Xilmer
Binghamton, N. Y
Largest white lead plant planned for St Louis
Generalities of interest report a $15,000,000 capital project to establish the world's largest white lead manufacturing plant in St. Louis. Other items note salt shortages threatening railroads, inheritance tax totaling 361803.43 on Cornelius Vanderbilt's heirs, and various health and betting statistics across Europe.
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St. Louis
Capital
Broderick
Eix
Bine Pons
Cornelite Vanderbilt
Uncle Sam
Egbert
India
London
France
Germany
Bank of England
Atx Indies
Prince of Wales
Edward
Mixed Lot Notes From a Quirky Era
A fragmentary send up of 18th and 19th century curiosities cites Poland penalizing Polish speech in public resorts, Britain losing over 10 million pounds yearly to fire, and odd stats on widows and widowers per thousand. It also references Turkey beauty myths, a claim about eggs and milk as poison antidote, and a youthful prince of Wales nicknamed Sprats during naval days.
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Poland
Great Britain
William Jenner
Turkey
United States
Prince of Wales
Grateful Patient Certifies Dodd’s Kidney Pills Cure
A resident of Cox Wisconsin reports severe kidney pain and frail health until taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. After several boxes, he fully recovered, regaining strength and expressing gratitude for the restoration to health. The notice highlights a dramatic improvement from near immobility to full wellness.
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Dodd
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