Cure of Idiocy Claims Shocking European Scientists
A sensational report portrays Doctor Bourneville of Vitry France as curing idiocy in both infants and adults. It highlights Jacques Menod of Marseilles as a poster patient, detailing weeks of gentle care, massage, gymnastic drills, and Pestalozzi teaching to restore function and obedience, leading to a hopeful return home.
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Bourneville
Vitry
France
United States
Doctor Bourneville
Jacques Menod
Marseilles
Jacqs
Jacques
Viry
Allaire New Jersey Once Thriving Iron Village Now Ruin and Revival
The piece recalls Allaire New Jersey once a booming iron town where ore and steel fed early rail and sea trade. Decline followed cheaper refining, leaving crumbling walls and a deserted site with a revived hotel and a resident descendant of the founder offering a glimpse of what might have been.
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Goldsmith
Allaire
N. J
Brooklyn Eagle
Swedish Firm Plans Large Electric Machinery Plant in Ludvika
A Swedish company forms to manufacture electrical machinery on a large scale. The Ludvika site has water power, with initial capital of 302000 dollars and 00 workers, aiming to grow to 1000 employees as the business develops. Frank Woodward Chicago Record reports.
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Sweden
Ludvika
Frank Woodward
Chicago
The Really New Potato From Stem to Fruit
The article describes a potato reportedly grown as fruit from the stem rather than underground tuber. It praises the superior flavor of the new potato and forecasts future horticultural advances. It suggests farmers may harvest potatoes from trees by the end of the next century, noting current feats seem as unlikely to ancestors as many modern practices.
A Rockafeller Mystery in the Philippines War
The disappearance of Major Charles N. Rockafeller of the Fifth Infantry in the Philippines unravels a tale of tragedy from home and battle. Yen the nurse and a child vanish on a steamer voyage, sparking a citywide search. Years later the diary and a white man named Paul Stanhope reveal frigid clues in a grim, war torn saga.
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Philippines
Charles N. Rockafeller
Fifth Infantry
Central America
Egbert
San Juan
Manila
Lawton
el Caney
Rockafeller
Lieut
Father and son meet on battlefield in Hong Kong to deadly end
A dramatic story traces Major Charles N. Rockafeller and his Filipino soldier son amid long vanished family ties. A diary found at Hong Kong exposes how a Chinese foster child became Paul Stanhope and how a father and son unknowingly faced each other in combat. The note from E Wildman suggests further inquiries.
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Paul Stanhope
Hong Kong
Rockafeller
Pacific Mail
San Francisco
Thea Rockafeller
Charles N. Rockafeller
Paul
Yen Lal
Walter Stanhope
Stanhope
E. Wildman
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