New Roman Catholic Cathedral in London Opens for Service
The newly opened Roman Catholic Cathedral in London, initiated by Cardinal Vaughan, stands amid Westminster near Hyde Park Corner and Victoria Street. It measures 350 feet long, 156 feet wide, and 90 feet high, with a 240 by 60 feet nave and Byzantine style. Total cost about £150,000.
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London
Cardinal Vaughan
St. Peter's
Rome
St. Paul’s
Westminster
Tothill Fields
Hyde Park Corner
Victoria Street
Miss Roosevelt's Dancing Fame and Modest Charm
Miss Roosevelt delights on the ballroom floor while maintaining modesty at Washington hops. She favors dancing with skilled partners, especially college men, and accepts invitations to avoid losing future chances. Her gowns are dainty, mostly white, and she enjoys velvet visiting gowns in winter.
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Alice Roosevelt
Miss Roosevelt
Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Academy
Annapolis
White House
Civilizing Negroes in Africa Report
Great changes described among the negroes of German East Africa as they adopt European goods and customs. They now use plates cups glassware saucers spoons knives umbrellas and clocks and call for soap and kerosene. Markets show tea with sugar and women wear European clothing and use sewing machines even in interior districts.
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Africa
East Africa
Electric street railways rise in Shanghai
Shanghai becomes the first Chinese city to arrange for electric street railways. The notice hints at modesty in progress, suggesting gratitude may be widespread rather than a single person’s achievement.
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Shanghai
Americans at Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
An analysis of American undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge under Rhodes scholarships. It notes two types: American sons of wealthy Anglophiles and American-born children of English parents, predicting potential Americanization of Oxford while warning of clashes with existing traditions. It then shifts to debunking a weathered newspaper tale of an electrified house, explaining basic electrostatics and the origin of static shocks.
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Oxford
Cambridge
London
Mr. Rhodes
America
Rhodes
United States
Banking Habits Evolve With Mail Deposits And Checks
The New York Press notes a drift from in person banking to mail deposits and check cashing. It warns that firms still rely on young assistants and stresses the need for security and personal handling of deposits, while noting the shift toward remote bank transactions.
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New York Press
Ant tale and social musings from Lord Avebury
The piece describes Lord Avebury pouring drunk ants into a nest, prompting the residents to rescue and isolate the newcomers. It then shifts to a social reflection on chivalry, suggesting a man’s protective gesture pleases a woman and comments on theater and tearful moments as a female preference.
Reins of Fear and Remedies in a Satirical Page
A collage of venting pains and quips about nerves and kidneys, touting Hood s Sarsaparilla as beneficial for the kidneys. The text includes a minister story about Jessie and a comic exchange on prayer and pong pong, ending with a gag about Mamlin s Wizard Oil and a tiger in the jungle.
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Hood
Brown
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot Ease Debuts Cure
An 1890s style ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder for painful swollen feet and corns with a 25 cent price. It promotes a free trial package and lists Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY as address. Also notes skeptical quips about water cure and a pension joke from local papers.
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Allen
Allen S
Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Contagious Blood Poison and a Vegetable Cure
An old warning about a disease described as Contagious Blood Poison with symptoms from ulcers to gland swelling and throat pain. The ad promotes SWIFT SPECIFIC CO S S S as a safe cure, claims heartily no minerals, and offers a $1,000 reward for proof it tempts. It invites readers to consult physicians free of charge and sends a home treatment guide.
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S. S.S
Family dinner humor spans two papers in quick quotes
The Glasgow Evening Times quotes a five year old Willie struggling with tough meat while asking to cut his own. In the same piece a mother and father in another remark discuss music as a desirable accomplishment and a girl’s social play with a young man, as shown by the Washington Star snippet.
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Washington Star
Congressman Aldrich Endorses Peruna Tonic
From Washington D C Hon W F Aldrich congressman from Alabama endorses Peruna manufactured by The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus D It is a safe vegetable remedy that builds up a depleted system rapidly and is recommended for debility
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Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
W. F. Aldrich
Peruna touted as tonic for stomach catarrh by physician
A physician-endorsement review praises Peruna as a tonic with merit for catarrh of the stomach and head, kidney complaints, and pelvic weakness, claiming it cleanses the system and aids digestion and sleep. The ad notes a free book from The Peruna Medicine Co. and Columbus, Ohio.
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H. S. Emory
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Teasing quotes spark political wit and teething remedies
A humorous mix of quotes from Chicago papers notes political charm and a teething remedy. It cites a critic praising a future leader for feigning interest and recalls a classroom quip about an elegy author, referencing Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a popular teething aid.
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Mrs. Winslow
Dr Klines Great Nerve Restorer Promises Cure
An advertisement claims FITS are permanently cured with Dr Klines Great Nerve Restorer after one day use. Offers a free $2.00 trial bottle and treatment details from Dr R H King Ltd in Philadelphia. A second item notes a Paris post office misdirected letter and a returning youth inquiry.
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Ayer
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Avebury
Jessie
Mamlin
Philippines
Philadelphia Ledger
Somerville Journal
Atlanta Journal
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, Ga
Aldrich
Alabama
Washington, D. C
Eleanor
Edmonia
Puck
Mortimer Biggerton
Chicago News
Willy
Mamma
H'm
Satan
Castoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Ono
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
Gray
E. Z. Benomme
Cohoes, N. Y
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell
Mass
Chicago Post
Ethel
Willie Smit
Chicago Daily News
Paris
Monsieur
Carter
Carters
Oregon
Idaho
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver CO
Portland
Hoitt’s School
Hoitt
Menlo Park
San Mato County
Cal
Ira G. Hoitt
Xathen
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