Blue Eyed Patient Finds Love In Hospital Ward
In a Boston Post tale a lonely hospital patient Millicent Everton, with blue eyes, recovers from a grave injury under the care of Dr. Edgar Canton. Longing and fate unite when Canton returns after Christmas to confess love and propose marriage on New Year’s Day, ending Millicent’s wary等待 with a hopeful future.
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Noleeta
No. 16
Edger Canton
Canton
Millicent Everton
Millicent
Millicoot
Adagar Canton
Littl
Pearlette Gir
Anhour
Edgar Canton
Dr. Canton
Mrs. Blake
Edgar Cynton
Millie
Mike
Boston Post
Penalty Paid by a Southern Planter for Mis Hilegible Chirography
A New Orleans spokeman recalls a planter whose miswritten order for blankets led to a prank: twelve large black cats were shipped instead. The cats arrived in a crate at dawn, causing chaos as they escaped and filled the plantation with felines.
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Old Colone ‘S
New Orleans
New York
First Express
Quad
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Parson’s son becomes famous like Baden Powell
Colonel Baden Powell, a striking example among parsons sons, follows the path of his clergyman father. He resembles Mr Cecil Rhodes in being a bachelor and shares a similar social trajectory as a famous offspring.
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Person
Colonel Baden-Powell
Parsons
Cecil Rhodes
Nell to Marry Man Old Enough to Be Her Grandfather
Chicago News reports whispers that Nell will wed a man aged to resemble her grandfather, while Maude expresses disbelief at such an aged match. The bustling social column notes curiosity over the possible union and its social implications.
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Clara
Nell
Maude
Chicago News
Peculiar Dining Habits Of Historic Singers
The Denver Times recounts amusing anecdotes about Mme Sembrich and other opera stars. It notes her insistence on warm drinks, a host’s hot water for champagne, Tamagno’s etiquette with a chef like a personal daughter, and Foli's stage mishap during a Saint Helen's concert.
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Mme. Sembrich
Sig
Magne
Tamagno
the de Reszkes
Mme. Melba
Signor Foli
St. Helen's
Foli
Denver Times
Rebuke to a Bride During the Honeymoon Tale
A Philadelphia Inquirer item recalls a newlywed couple where the husband criticizes the wife for leaving a comb full of hair on her dressing table. The bride recounts the moment and notes it taught her to keep a comb pristine and to avoid careless toilet habits.
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Hal
Elizabeth
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cure for Locomotor Ataxia Promoted by Pink Pills
An 1890s testimonial details a Boston patient with locomotor ataxia who recovered after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The account recounts severe numbness, cane use, and eventual walking without difficulty after three boxes, with the claim of radical cure and no relapse. The notice promotes buying from Schenectady, N Y, at 50 cents a box or six for 4.50.
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Willliams
William H. Harrison
Washington Street
Boston
Mass
Harrison
St. John’s
New Brunswick
W. H. Harrison
Josefa E. Duxpury
M.D
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Mammoth Mound: A 75-Foot High Aborigine Monument
In Marshall County Virginia a seventy five foot mound named Mammoth Mound is believed to be the monument of a high ranked aborigine. It attracts many travelers and is viewed as a significant local landmark.
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Marshall County
Toning Up With Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedum Schnapps
A health claim promotes Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedum Schnapps as a universal tonic for malaria fever and ague, liver debility, and general weakness. It is recommended for kidney and bladder troubles, rheumatism, dropsy, cramps, colic, and female ailments. sold by druggists with a warning against substitutes.
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Wolfe
Man fails to pay bar bill sparks hard check idea
A terse note suggests issuing hard checks to those who fail to settle bar bills. It hints at new agents offering a useful service and mentions Hillis Brothers, McFall. England views the Boer War as nearly over.
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Hillis Brothers
McFall
Bequest to University of France by M Bischoffsheim
M Raphael Bischoffsheim, banker of Dutch origin and French parliament member, leaves the Nice observatory and its branches to the University of France. He endows £100,000 for maintenance and the entire freehold, library, instruments and lands on Mont Gras, valued at about 5,000,000 francs or £200,000, ensuring the observatory’s future and work. London Telegraph notes the benevolent act.
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University of France
M. Raphael Bischoffsheim
Alpes Maritimes
Nice Observatory
Mont Gras
Nice
Bischofsheim
London Telegraph
Queen Wilhelmina Expands Her Doll Collection
Queen Wilhelmina preserves and constantly expands her doll collection, adding new pieces to the royal display.
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Wilhelmina
Woman's Medicine Praised by Grateful Letters
Read letters from women readers praising a medicine claimed to aid women's illnesses. Mrs. Ree offers free counseling to women, with address listed as Lyaa, Mase, inviting readers to seek advice.
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Ican
Ree
Lyaa, Mase
Income of a Naval Officer and Social Constraints
The article discusses the finances and social pressures on a young naval officer and his family, noting salaries, debt risk, and the social burden of maintaining a presentable lifestyle. It contrasts naval life with civilian debt cycles and reflects on sacrifice, leisure, and political restraint expected of officers.
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Navy Department
Exercises for the Cheat and the Breath
The text emphasizes proper breathing and chest flexibility for athletic training. It warns against flattening the chest or forcing air, advocates backward and forward chest movements to aid expansion, and calls for dedicated breathing drills. It links oxygen to energy, urging generous nourishment of breath and careful exercise to improve expiratory strength.
The Sun as a Fiery World Revealed by Photography
The article explains the sun's immense mechanical energy and the insufficiency of earthly coal to replace its heat, describes perpetual carbon clouds on the sun's surface, and notes that modern photography and the spectroscope reveal the corona as a crown of fiery tongues flickering from the sun's disk with flames lasting a quarter of an hour each.
The Hair Under the Microscope Reveals Hair Origins
A microscope shows hair with coarse jagged teeth resembling a rasp. Hair dealers can judge if locks were cut or pulled by rubbing them between fingers. If cut the hair stays aligned. if pulled or combed, segments slip apart due to jagged edges engaging.
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