Remarkable Elephant and Hippo Dental and Nail Surgeries
The article recounts a circus elephant nicknamed Big Tom in Central Park New York whose temper and lameness improved after careful toenail trimming using a specialized chiropody kit. It also notes a traveling circus hippopotamus named Babe undergoing a lengthy dental intervention to shorten overgrown teeth, highlighting care for prized captive animals.
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Circus
Zoological Gardens
Big Tom
Central Park
New York
Hippo Dentist Pleases Crowd With Blood Red Sweat Show
A veterinary operation in a menagerie involves seducing the hippo Babe with dainties, forcing his jaws open, and filing his tusks and digging teeth. The procedure, though distressing, is described as swift with little pain, leaving Babe bloodstained and exhausted, yet calmed by the end.
Hippo Babe Undergoes Annual Dental Care in Menagerie Scene
The article describes Babe the hippo with twenty eight teeth including two prominent lower tusks used for tearing vegetation. To prevent tusks from piercing the upper jaw they are periodically trimmed in a yearly operation. The scene shows Babe restrained, then calmed as branmash is offered and he returns to the cage.
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Belle
Frederick A. Talbot
London Magazine
Queen Alexandra’s kindness to animals inspires relief for London cab horses
Short anecdotes from St James Bud get illustrate Queen Alexandra’s practical compassion for animals. She advocates less frequent cab stoppages to ease horse strain and has imported Copenhagen style light stands to support horse bags for easier feeding.
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St. James
Queen Alexandra
London
Copenhagen
Leslie
Ironing Shirtwaists: Starch, Drying, and Cuff Care
For stiff shirtwaists dry thoroughly before starching. if only partially dried, about half dry works. Use thinner starch for finer weaves. Iron cuffs first with a hot iron, prefer box irons for cleanliness and heat retention. Wipe cuffs with a damp rag to prevent sticking. iron sequence: light wrong side, light right, heavy wrong side, then heavy right.
The Sun and a Woman’s Window Screen Idea
A practical screen net for summer windows costs 50 cents per yard and fits inside or outside shutters. It is taut and fly tight when hung with brass rods, and designed to let windows open smoothly without removing shutters. The Sun: a faithful servant powered by a large solar motor at Pasadena ostrich farm uses 1788 mirrors to boil water and generate steam for pumping.
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Pasadena
California
Fruit and knitting advised for health and mood relief
A health note urges fruit pulps to counteract meat heaviness and uric buildup, with currant juice aiding digestion and easing headaches. It also recommends daily knitting to prevent hand stiffness from rheumatism and to aid nerves, insomnia, and low mood, noting sanitarium use boosts morale.
Hidden diamonds burned in misers tale at Nottingham
In a Nottingham mansion misers Mr and Mrs Close hid diamonds in a trunk. A bonfire destroyed most valuables including curl papers and worn corsets. A charity worker later revealed the diamonds were sewn into Mrs Close stays, now lost with ashes.
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Close
Nottingham
England
Mrs. Close
Traveling man urged to change scene by doctor
A physician tells a traveling man to stay home and see something besides hotel rooms and depots, while the patient argues he is a traveling man by profession. The exchange appears in the Washington Star.
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Washington Star
Study of Consumption and Artistry in Tracing Paper Era
A brief note contrasts advances in treating consumption over the past decade with a quirky aside about artists relying on tracing paper to earn a salary, reflecting a mix of medical optimism and creative humor.
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Chalis
Babe
Margaret E. Sangster
Alexandra
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