Colors and light physics and Exposition appropriations
The passage discusses how colors arise from light absorption and mentions a list of appropriation figures for the Louisiana Exposition from various states and entities. It includes amounts for States government and several states, plus Mexico and Hawaii, totaling about 16.19 million.
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Minsouri
Tilmots
Congress
Kansas
Arkansas
Win
Pennsylvania
Hawaii
Defiance remedies and patent medicines promoted in a garbled ad
The text promotes Defiance products and other patent medicines, claiming cures for fever and digestive issues. It references Garfield Ten and suggests various tonics and cleaners. It urges readers to buy via mail order and warns against book agents.
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Salt Lake Woman
A Salt Lake City resident testifies that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured years of menstrual pain after six bottles, praising its health benefits and noting the seller offers free advice to sick women in Lynn Mass. The letter implies a forfeit if testimonials are not genuine.
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Hulda Jakeman
Lydia Pinkham
Eral
Mia
Iba Jaaremarn
Salt Lake City
Utah
Jakean
Pinkham
Sven Hedin returns from Thibet voyage amid acclaim
Swed ish explorer Dr Sven Hedin has reached the Vale of Cashmere on his two year return from Thibet and the Gob desert. Born 1865 in Stockholm he earned doctorates from Upsala Halle and Oxford and received honors from European states. King Oscar backed his journey and will view its results with interest.
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Sven Hedin
Vale of
Cashmere
Thibet
Gob Desert
Oxford
England
Russia
Dr. Hedin
Orient
Peking
Sweden
Oscar
Poachers Use Pole Tricks To Take Trout In New York
Adirondack poachers hunting trout with a stick and hair’s breadth close approach hook fish from logs over deep pools. A related method aims at sturgeon in the Detroit river and Lake Superior streams using three-hook poles to snag fish during spawning.
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Adirondacks
New York
Detroit River
Lake Superior
New York Times
Cradle of Gold Lost in Shipwreck Recovered Mystery
A 1720 German prince sent a solid gold cradle to Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden. The ship wrecked off Tjorn Island during a gale, crew killed, cradle saved and buried on the island. The Swedish king offers 10,000 kronen for its recovery.
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Ulrica Eleonora
Sweden
Tjorn
Ulrica
Public Lands Restrictions Favor Elites Across Western States
A historical critique notes that while 600 million acres were theoretically open to settlement, real access is blocked by powerful interests and archaic laws. It argues 40 percent hold vast control over land, water rights, and resources, leaving genuine homeseekers with few original claims and risk of starvation or displacement.
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Commonwealth of Texas
Congress
Largest Snapping Turtle Records and Tax Evasion Tale
A photograph shows the largest snapping turtle on record weighing 155 pounds with a 5 foot 4 inch length and shell 30 inches. Century Dictionary notes this species can reach twenty to thirty pounds. a separate tale recounts English travelers in France evading tax by eating fruit from a basket before officials could intervene.
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Texas
North America
London Children Marry
London reports a rising trend of child marriages with four under twenty one groomed for every hundred brides and about sixteen girls under twenty one marrying per hundred. The figures underscore early marriage patterns among the city’s youth.
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London
Powerful London battleship poised to lead British channel fleet
The new British battleship London is ready for commissioning to succeed the Majestic as senior flagship of the channel fleet. It features four twelve inch barbette guns with 860 pound projectiles, twelve six inch quick firers, thirty two smaller guns, nearly thirteen inch Krupp armor, eight inch hull plating, and twelve inch bulkheads. She carries 2000 tons of coal and a crew of 755.
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London
Majestic
Calais
Dover
Hair Growth Revival and Deer Season Toll
An ad touts Newbro s Herpicide for stimulating hair growth where follicles survive. It also notes Wisconsin s deer season closed after a severe toll with seventeen killed and thirty three wounded, with further fatalities reported in Maine and the Adirondacks and more in other states.
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Newbro
Wisconsin
Maine
Adirondacks
Michigan
Beware of Mercury Containing Catarrh Ointments
Caution against using catarrh remedies with mercury. Hall's Catarrh Core, made in Toledo by F J Cheney Co, is marketed as mercury free and taken internally. Mercer county authorities seek Plummer McFarland for illegal liquor selling. he evades arrest by staying on the Ohio side of the border house.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co Oledo, O
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
Plummer McFarland
Mercer County
Ohio-Pennsylvania
Pennsyvania
Noted cancer healer touts oils and mass mail danger
An advertisement profiles Dr D M Bre a Dallas cancer specialist claiming over six thousand cures in eight years and warns that neglecting treatment can lead to death. it promotes oils and a free book with prices. The page also includes assorted consumer ads for dyes starch oats and medicines.
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D. M. Bre
da D. Bye Co
Lock Lox
Dallas
Texas
Blind people in Europe higher in Spain Norway Ireland
The report shows Spain, Norway, and Ireland have the highest blindness rates in Europe by population. Spain records 216 per 100,000, Norway 208, and Ireland 111, indicating greater prevalence in these countries compared with others.
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Spain
Norway
Ireland
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All Lake City
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Dean Mra. Pinntam
Lydia BF. Pinkham
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