A Chance for a Hero and a Summer Romance
Dorothy Courtney, daughter of the Revolution, admires courage and recounts her summer tale. Harold’s feather gives way to a stranger hero, Mr Kempton, whose sea mishap ends with Dorothy saved by Mr Hathaway, the hall boy who proves brave yet reveals fears of dogs.
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Dorothy Courtney
Dorothy
Harold
Courtneys
Mr. Kempton
Miss Dorothy
Frankfort
Kempton
Kiane
Alek
Couldn't Have Doth Have Fire Extinguishers and Concerts
A dry goods drummer asks for fire extinguishers in a town. The village merchant replies no, explaining they chose between extinguishers and a band concert every Saturday night, prioritizing concerts over safety gear. The quotation accompanies a Chicago Tribune piece on why some people save by foregoing desires to afford others.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Daily News
United States of Africa proposed after Boer war settlement
The article argues for a federation uniting British Africa into a United States of Africa with local self rule and a central federation modeled on Canada and Australia. It predicts a rapid transition for the two Boer republics, with non Boers gaining equal rights and British influence aiding rehabilitation and gradual self government.
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London
Africa
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
United States of Africa
England
Egypt
Turkey
United States
Alaska
South Africa
Water power in Italy sparks Naples electric plan
Southern Italy detects 50 000 horsepower in local streams near Naples unused and plans to generate electric power at source. If realized, Italians seeking work abroad may find opportunities at home. Also mentions hot water from wells supplying Baise Idaho to homes and offices.
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Ialy
Italy
Naples
America
Im Baise
Daho
A Delicate Position in a Rural Exchange Tale
A Detroit Free Press vignette recounts a colored man in a village trading goods with a coonskin and eggs, listing items from a sugar package to beeswax and chickens. He frets over a missing coonskin worth 50 cents and fears a prior misdeed tied to a rope halter, avoiding trouble by careful return and possible blame.
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Detroit Free Press
Rube
Rome
Thomas
Joe
Mr. Thomas
Children Sold in Hungary Raise Alarm at Temeswar Foundling Hospital
Hungarian authorities crack down on a widespread child selling system. Mothers bring illegitimate children to Temeswar foundling hospital and buyers pay for selections, with 30 children sold in a recent instance. Circus people and a millionaire sought heirs, prompting stricter investigations into buyers. The tale highlights a thriving market for children and mothers’ willingness to relinquish infants.
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Temeswar
Hungary
Temesvar
Humorous Exchanges Across Papers From The Past
A collage of witty quips and anecdotes from 19th and early 20th century papers. Selections include misheard lines about music, yachting, math puzzles, theater chatter, dancing mischief, and a playful dog bite story.
Moose and Locomotives Defeat Aroostook Moose Family
A Bangor dispatch reports a freight train on the Bangor and Aroostook road killed a moose family in ten seconds after they faced the locomotive at a curve. The bull stood defiant as the cow and calf fled, but momentum and speed avenged the challenge leaving three carcasses. A section crew buried the moose near the track. the bull described as enormous. A separate note recalls an Intercolonial Railway moose racing a train near Dalhousie Junction, where the animal jumped a fence and hung midair as the train passed.
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Maine
Bangor (Me
New York Tribune
Bangor & Aroostook
Moose Family
Aroostook
Intercolonial Railway
Dalhousie Junction
Quick-Witted Pastor and Wary Congregation
In Germany a country preacher forgot his sermon and claimed to smell fire in the church risking a mass exodus as families rushed to check their homes. The tale notes the fire was only in the pastor’s imagination. Also present is a humorous exchange about wages and ignorance in a domestic scene from the Philadelphia Press.
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Germany
Visit the Old Home to the East and Fare Offers List
A jumble of travel promos and patent remedies appears from era advertisements. It notes rail fare to Indiana Ohio Western New York and Pennsylvania via Erie Chicago St Paul with agent directions, plus multiple patent medicines and quotes from newspapers. It cites Dr Fowler Wild Strawberry extract claims to cure dysentery seasickness and nausea and praises Dr Thomas Electric Oil for pain relief.
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Indiana
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Erie
W.O. McNaughton
Eris Bek
St. Paul
Minn
Dioneria
A Hard Struggle and Kidney Pills Cure Claim
Veteran Josiah Heller of Urbana Illinois recounts a fall 1889 purchase of Dean's Kidney Pills at Cunningham's drug store in Champaign and a public endorsement after relief from kidney trouble back pain and flank aches. He says he still relies on the pills to avert attacks and promotes a free trial by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. price 50 cents per box.
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Josiah Heller
South Walnut St
Urbana
Dean
Cunningham's
Champaign
Doan
Donn
Mr. Heller
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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George W. Rose
Grand Travers Bay
Preszant
Traverse City
Nemesis
Mr. Hathaway
Philadelphia
Misa Dorothy
Hathaway
Smith's
Chicago
Teibane
Foundling Hong
Seddes
Blobba
Fudge
Arthur
Chelsea Gazette
Farmer Clover
Man
Jabbs
Jibbs
San Francisco Bulletin
Bridget
Hiram
Philadelphia Press
Mississippi
N. Ys
Expres
Philadelp ‘Rem
Detroit
Bree Press
Cleveland
Monarch
Hannah More
Putnam
Meyl
Bor Calf
Saif
Wiel Kid
Dorcas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Raentou CA
Sawyer’s Excelsior
Chamwen
Censlogve Tel Nis Bory
Pou Receipt
Cannes
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