Amor Vincit Omnia a Love Token Returns in a City Shanty Tale
In a ragged city edge, Italian Pierre Nicolini finds a Roman gold token marked Amor Vincit Omnia. A rich woman Madelain returns the coin, revealing a past romance and a husband dead, while a jealous man pursues the truth as old dreams collide with present lives.
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Selm
Pierre Nivolini
Peking
Nicolini
I. C
Ters
Nicoling
Mr.Nicolini
Saint Dominic's Church
Madelaia
Madelain
Tlave
Bree
Anas
Snan
Widow’s tribute stone depicts dramatic murder motif in Missouri
A Missouri widow erects a granite tombstone with a dramatic bas relief showing a man lifted by an unseen force, a noose and an astonished woman, amid a rural setting near St Louis. The stone’s 18 inch diameter relief center features a hat mistaken for a bird’s nest and a lamb-like creature with a monstrous head.
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Missouri
Geome
le Charles
Louis
New York Herald
Miss Kate Gordon New Luffrage Secretary in New Orleans
Miss Kate Gordon, newly named corresponding secretary of the Woman's National Luffrage Association, succeeds Mrs Mabel Foster Avery. A New Orleans leader, she marshaled a citywide campaign educating taxpaying women to vote on the sewerage drainage measure, uniting their ballots for the issue. She received a medal from the Progressive Union for her service.
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Mabel Foster Avery
Kate Gordon
Gordon
New Orleans
Loule Ann
Louisiana
Miss Gordon
Aneh
Shane
Lydia E. Pinkham
Renovating Furs Tips From Ladies Home Journal
The article offers fur care methods including renovating worn furs with gasoline soaked batting and heating sawdust for dark furs, with steps to beat dust from the fur and air dry in a shady place. White furs can be cleaned with magnesia and care is advised to avoid drying wet furs near fire.
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Alaska
Ladies' Home Journal
Hard Wood Floors and Home Cleaning Tips From the Era
The column offers floor care advice for shellac and oil finishes detailing dusting, wiping, washing, and renewing coats with turpentine and linseed oil. It covers waxed floors, inked hard oil woods, and maple kitchen floors with market scouring products. A second item, The Power of Forgetting, urges patience and forgetting petty quarrels to maintain family peace, from the Chicago Post. Also notes pepper as a home washing aid for dull fabrics.
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Gaya
Chicago Post
Notable Figures and Oddities From An Earful of a Telegraph
Cecil Rhodes proclaims a passion for collecting Dutch items in a playful interview. The Gideons in Chicago number 1 600 travelers who avoid alcohol and cards. Baroness Burdette-Coutts, born near Waterloo, is aging, with husband William Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts near 100. A Hutchinson Kansas exhibit shows three girl triplets Magdaline Mandeline and Mandeline with cups from Gov. Stanley who halts the cups plan. Lord Gwydyr, in his 90s, recalls four coronations. M Wallon, father of the French constitution, and his son saved three shipwrecked souls near Petits Dalles. the rescuer is 80 and awarded a medal. Dr Joachim, a child prodigy, expressed devotion to a violin from age five and slept with his viola in a cat bed.
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Cecil Rhodes
Nalveety
Gideons
Chicago
Baroness Burdette-Coutts
Waterloo
William Ashmead
Bartlett Burdett- Coutts
Hutchinson
Kaw
Magdaline
Mandeline
Gov. Stanley
Kansan
Lord Gwydyr
George IV
M. Wallon
Academy
Petits Dalles
Joachim
Decline of Consumption Deaths Tied to General Improvement
Analysis suggests a broad drop in consumption deaths over 50 years, with better nourishment housing clothes and air quality cited as key factors. Contagion and meat inspection have little impact. alcohol use shifts toward moderation while diet remains stable. Medical progress aids natural recovery, with doctors serving nature by guiding treatment and recovery.
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London
England
Reflections at a Hachelite on Money and Happiness
An aged speaker muses that money cannot buy happiness and warns against imitation and regret across generations. He suggests better conduct and warns against straying from virtue, advising prudent choices and self discipline to mend personal affairs.
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Agai
N.Y
Newbro’s Herpicide Bares Dandruff Germ Cure
Modern science traced dandruff to a germ that attacks hair roots causing loss and baldness. After Hamburg researcher Brof Uniray identified the germ, Newbroa Herpicide emerged as the remedy. It claims to kill the germ and restore hair growth by destroying the cause.
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Hamburg
Germany
Dressed Beef Exchange Sparks Heated Exchange
A tersely worded standoff unfolds between two social rivals over shares in a market, with one party scoffing at the other and a bold retort about the value of what is offered, revealing class tensions and sharp wit in Chicago’s social scene.
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Trent
Chicago
St Jacobss Oil Proves Quick Foot Pain Cure
Henry Doris of The Cycles Co. London reports a severe foot and ankle itch and pain being cured after a single application of St Jacobss Oil. The testimonial claims the remedy is simple, effective, and invaluable for busy men with limited mobility.
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J. Jacobs
Busimeas
A. Frend
St. Jacobi
St. Sacobs Oil
Henry
Doris
the Cycles Co
London
England
St. Jacobs Oil
Notable Names and Historical Echoes Across Distaff Lines
Private Secretary Cordlyou notes the pronunciation of Roosevelt as Rosevelt. Sherman predicted Civil War terror before the 19th century clash. Prof. Dewar of Cambridge heads the next British Association science meeting. Grant’s second term saw one period with no ex-presidents alive. Nordenskjald’s ancestry links to crowned heads via Swedish geology, while royal bloodlines surface in Wie grandfather’s line. Nansen reportedly lacks royal blood.
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Cordlyou
Roosevelt
Rosevelt
Sherman
Prof
Dewar
Cambridge
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Grant
Nordenskjald
Wie
Nansen
Mrs Madison's Case Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs Elizabeth P Madison of Polk City Indiana long troubled by kidney disease bowels liver rheumatism and related ailments found relief from Dodd's Kidney Pills. The first box brought improvement and continued use led to a complete cure. The case drew local attention due to its severity and prior hopelessness. Dodd's Kidney Pills claimed to cure Bright's Disease Diabetes Dropsy and other incurable conditions.
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Polk City
Elizabeth P. Madison
Dodd
Bright
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St. Charles May Cemetery
1 Wowne
National Suffrage Answeration
Jeorres
Pathigis
Comsompton
Nature
Natire
Seosman
Bloomfield
Snaege
Mr. Bellefeld
Snages
Pittaberg Chronicle-Telegraphs
Emma E. Felch
Fond du Lac, Wis
Social Economic Club
Dannrupr
Dela
Douglas
Douglas Shoca
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
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Seete
le Thoma
Galifornia
Minneapolis
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Los
California
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Robert Street
T. W. Teasdale
Mion
North Dakota
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Winneapolis
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Wursk
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