A Patent Elopement Ends In Secret Concession
Leslie Austin plans to marry Alice Smith against her father Farmer Smith's wishes. After a tense confrontation, Alice quietly signals agreement to a bold scheme aided by friend Bob Townsend. The story hints at a clandestine plan and imminent elopement.
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Lenis Cane Jabez
Jax
Farmer Smith
Alice Smith
Bob
Leslie
Swsie
Alice
Old Smith
Jones
London
The New Motor Power Trick Enchants a Farmer and His Family
Farmer Jabez Smith is duped by a boasting stranger posing as a scientist who presents a wheeled rake with an air brake. The device pulls Alice and the stranger in a motorized rake on a field trip, prompting fear, then laughter as the town learns the ruse. The farmer’s wife urges mercy.
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Llowing
Smith
Alice
Jabez
Jabez Smith
Bob Townsend
Mr. Smith
Bob
Old Jabez
Ile
Leslie Austin
Farmer Smith
Indianapolis Journal
Philadelphia Bulletin
Freddie
McGorry
Docthor
Bagzgar
Washington Star
Muggins
Buggins
Philadelphia
Willie
Jugend
Siegende Blatter
Admonishing Children and the Sugar Coated Reproof
Kate Upson Clark counsels gentle, sugar coated correction for grown children and advises women to become practical "business girls" at home. She urges private, measured discipline before age fourteen and stresses budgeting, charity, and a balanced household role for daughters.
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Kate Upson Clark
Wordplay and Wit Across the Pagelight Panels
A collage of quips, puns, and cartoons spans jokes about robbers, lovers, dogs, and gourmands. Quotable lines touch on misunderstandings, manners, and social mores from playful exchanges to sly one liners, with brief captions syndicated from various era outlets.
Salt Lake City Promoted as Key Transcontinental Stop
The article extols Salt Lake City as essential for cross-continental travel praising its attractions, climate, and a rail route served by Rio Grande Western Railway linking East and West lines. It cites travel incentives, Pullman cars, dining service, weekly excursions, and requests readers to obtain copies about Salt Lake City the City of the Saints. It also highlights Colorado scenery and health climate along the Denver and Rio Grande line and notes petroleum output and wheat market insights with a Be
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Salt Lake City
Tabernacle
Great Salt Lake
Dead Sea
Holy Land
Rio Grande Western Railway
Denver & Rio Grande and
Colorado Midland Railways
Southern Pacific
Oregon Short
Utah
Colorado
J. D. Mansfield
Washington St
Portland
Geo. W. Heintz
Denver & Rio Grande
R. C. Nichol
Washington Street
Southern Pacific Company
California Fig Syrup Co. laxative praised in ad copy
The ad extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant liquid laxative from the California Fig Syrup Co. It claims gentle, cleansing effects, relief from colds headaches and fevers, and permanent help for constipation. It notes the formula uses senna and figs, warns of imitations, and lists sale points in San Francisco Louisville and New York with price per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Catifornia Fic Syrup Co
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
New York
Price Inc
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Clara
Bride
Sydney Town and County Journal
John the Baptist
Brooklyn
Norristown Herald
Deacon Black
Deacon Johnson
Puck
Leslie’s Weekly
Great Rock Island
A. E. Cooper
G. A. Pld
Portland, Or
Los Angeles
Beerbohm
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