Two of Brodie's War Experiences by Dock Soper
Col Brodie now Arizona governor recounts two wars from his youth, including a June 24 wound in Arizona and a later Las Guasimas injury in Cuba. He describes a 700 mile ride to Fort Grant, a desert trek, a canyon charge against Apaches, and survival with 2,000 hostiles nearby.
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Brodie
Dock Soper
Col. Brodie
Arizona
Rough Riders
Arizona Staion
West Point
Las Guasimas
Cuba
Fort Grant
Fort Apache
Geronimo
Los Angeles Herald
Wisconsin Cleo Law Halts Milwaukee Sales
Chicago Post reports a new cleo law in Wisconsin stopped sales in the Milwaukee district with only one license issued. Rural World notes a retailer’s operation paused as authorities enforce licensing.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Fragments from Era Humorous Dialogues and Quips
A collage of witty exchanges and social jabs from various papers. It covers prize fighter diets with a pound cake punch line, a first lifeday telephoned girl, a devoted husband amid financial worries, Morgan’s costly library, a cautious abstract of title, summer boarder money woes, a joke about mosquitoes, a broke Borroughs scene, a broke joke about breaking a twenty, and a boastful western millionaire who vows furniture over a chair.
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Dukane
Pittsburg
Indianapolis News
J. Pierpont Morgan
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Post
Jenkins
Ohio State Journal
Markley
Borroughs
Philadelphia Press
Baltimore Herald
How Chop Suey Is Made A Historic New York Culinary Tale
A 19th or early 20th century piece outlines chop suey as a national dish in the US context, noting about 60 Chinese restaurants in Greater New York and American eateries adopting it. It offers a kitchen formula with pork, liver, gizzard, celery, mushrooms, peas or other vegetables, and a quick five minute fry. Variations include mutton instead of pork, turkey liver and gizzard, soy or Worcester sauce, brown sugar, curry paste, and price guidance from 10 to 25 cents per plate in Chinese restaurants.
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China
New York
New York Post
Turkey
Singapore
Trussed, Madam Thinks To Pay Now In Poulterer Shop
Oh Dewe recalls a London Spare Moments vignette where a woman enters a suburban poulterer to buy a spring chicken and, as she fumbles for her purse, the shopman asks if she is paying in advance. She insists she wishes to pay immediately and indignantly rejects being asked to be trussed.
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London
One of His Troubles
Weary Willie laments the hard world and the need to move in the shade as shadows shift, a brief exchange with a passing stranger reflecting fatigue and hardship.
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Willie
Chicago Post
Hen Adopts Five Kittens After Barrel Lodging Incident
Port Arthur Texas reports a hen caring for five kittens after discovering a mother cat in a barrel. The hen displaced her own chicks, housed the kittens in the barrel, and now the feline brood climbs over the hens with no aggression toward other poultry. The remarkable brood gained attention from photographers, with a picture in Dr. Fred B. Selby of Chicago. The kittens handle farm life calmly and show no urge to harm the other birds.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Fred
Automobile for Boys
Instructions describe building a toy auto from a cardboard box with wooden strips axles spools and a hanging weight motor. The design uses a rear weight to wind a cord over a crossbar, driving the rear wheels and propelling the vehicle until the weight lowers, then repeat for another run.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Trick for Amateur Magicians Using Static Electricity
The Det wolt Free Press describes a simple magic trick using glass a foot long and eight inches wide placed between two books. Cut small colored paper figures a half inch high, set under the glass, and rub the glass with warmed wool or silk to make the figures dance and jump toward the glass ceiling as if energized by electricity.
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Det Wolt Free Press
Buffalo Schoolhouse Sites Marked with Tablets
Tablets will mark the sites of the first Buffalo schoolhouse built in 1807 and the first courthouse. The school was destroyed when British forces burned Buffalo in 1813. The notes reflect broader historic claims about local industry and shipbuilding trends through the early 1900s.
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St. Louis
Union
Buffalo
United States
A Faithful Friend Helps Lenox Man Find Relief
Lenox Missouri September 1 Mr W H Brown credits a trusted friend's advice for relief from a year of backache. After trying various remedies he used two boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills and reports the pain disappeared and he regained his former health. He expresses lasting gratitude for the recommended remedy.
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Lenox
W. H. Brown
Dodd
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