River Rescue Ends Flood Driftorde Siders Heroics
In a river flood the narrator and Sam Soper watch Pete Siders drunkenly steer a sinking boat toward the bank. Sopers swims and grasps the bow, Siders steadies the craft and drags it ashore as Pete is rescued, saved from drowning. Pete vows to move upriver while Soper forgives, admitting blame.
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Gais
Pete Siders
Sam Soper
Loper
Vetet
Phet
Pete
Soper
Tras
Lis
Tia
Siders
Thes Eravel
Sam Lopez
Lita
A Londoner Arrives and Wires Home in Mock News Style
A young London man travels to a northern city and asks a post office about sending a telegram with specifics. A sharp clerk declines many questions and the man ends with a cheeky wire claiming arrival and a temper, amid a late 14th century fire in St.burg causing huge losses.
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London
Offles
Gira
Insect Pests and Aluminum Coffins in the News
A colonial era note describes invasion by black ants and cockroaches in Guiana homes. It covers pest behavior and household impact, then shifts to aluminum coffins in New York and Pittsburgh, detailing design, weight, cost, and expected use.
Indian Fighter's Recovery From Frontiers to Health
Joseph Flegant, once with the Ninth United States Infantry, returned to Philadelphia malnourished after frontier service and exposure to alkali water. A long illness followed, with bloody dysentery and conflicting diagnoses. After years of poor health in New York, Pink Pills for Pale People restored his strength, enabling him to work again. the pills, made by Dr Williams Medicine Company, cost 40 cents a box or six for $2.50.
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New York City
Joseph Flegant
Philadelphia
Ninth United States Infantry
Arizona
Geronimo
Mr. Flegant
Plains
Flegant
New York
Blegant
West Fortsse Ond Street
New Yor
Fregant
Dr. Williams
Schenectady
Witty priest and nouveau riche in Dublin tale
The Milwaukee Journal recounts Father Darcy, famed for wit, visiting a Dublin mansion of a boastful rich man. After a grand tour, they sit in the library where the host boasts his volumes as intimate friends. Darcy grins and notes the host never cuts his intimate friends.
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Father Darcy
Ireland
Milwaukee Journal
Dublin
Chateau
Darcy
Rash Promise: Magistrate Frees Lady After Holiday Ban
A London magistrate frees a woman found drunk after Christmas, due to her promise never to enter a public house again. She protests drugging and is coaxed to promise never to enter a drug store either, escaping a fine as all her soda water is gone.
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London
Eye migration in flatfish and other notes
Eye changes in flatfish explained as the larval eye travels across the head ridge before settling on one side in adults. Other fish differ, some transferring through soft tissue during early stages. Also mentions Dakota farming lands openings along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line with high crop prospects and settlement opportunities. Quarles verse and medical ad text on bilious symptoms promote Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy.
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South Dakota
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
B.fp
Hextell
South Nakots
Rhark Street
Chicago
Deafness Cure Ad Promises, Hall’s Catarrh Cure
An old advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by constitutional remedies and offers one hundred dollars for any case not helped by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. It credits J. Cunard & Co. Toledo and notes legality of product via physicians and druggists. A separate telegram snippet mocks Jude Parsons as a defaulter and a thief in a baseball memory.
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Chicago Chronicle
Hall
J. Cunaor & Co
Toledo
Draggiats
California Vig Syrup Co
Free Land Open for Settlement in Turtle Mountain North Dakota
North Dakota homestead land offers a chance to settle near timber, markets, schools, and churches with improved farms available under crop payment plans. Prospectors and Daunte settlers are urged to contact F L Thompson, Cando, N D, for details. The ad blends varied notices and quotations in a provincial 19th century newspaper style.
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Bree
Turtle Mountain
North Dakota
F. L.thompson
Cando
N. D
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Venus
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Pinxit
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D'Aubur
Indianapolis Journal
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Mary
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Dalay
Atchison
Tchison Globe
St. Burg
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Guiana
Tropics
James Rodway
Appletons
Popular Science Monthly
Pitsburgh
St. Louis
N.Y. World
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Evening Telegram
Carlyle
Et Lous
Burlington
Siorne
Fira
Kline
Fse Free
Arch
St. Phila. Pa
W. Alger
Piso
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ST. Jacobs Oil
Arkansas
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Boone County
North Carolina
South Carolina
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