Shiahs Sunnis Split Over Soul and Succession
The piece outlines Shiah and Sunni beliefs on the soul after death and prophetic succession. It notes Sunnis accept Abu Bekr Omar Osman Ali while Shiahs favor Ali, and compares pilgrimages and prayer frequency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mohammed
Abu Bekr
Omar
Osman
Ali
Nejef
Kerbela
Kazimain
Meshed
Persia
Samara
Kum
Mecca
Medina
Meshed Ali
Kazimani
Wandering Needle Tracked Through Body in Patient Case
A surgeon noted a sewing needle fragment broken in a woman's left thumb. After initial reluctance to extract it, a year later she felt a pricking in the right forefinger and removed the needle tip herself. The path allegedly ran from left thumb along the arm across the chest to the right arm and into the finger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers’ Journal
Dosing Oneself with Rochelle Salts Recommended
A physician endorses rochelle salts for self administration, suggesting several times daily use in water amounting to a 3 cent piece. He praises soda and dismisses fears about dosage, advocating a mix of rochelle salts and bicarbonate of soda as a gentle, beneficial general medicine.
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Philadelphia
New Use For Blotters
A drug store clerk notices a planned meeting with a lady, Aunt Bellamy expresses strong feelings about Bevil's talk, while Curtis and Lucile walk alone in a wood. Their long separation resurfaces as Curtis struggles with rekindled love under the secluded undergrowth.
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Heype
Aunt Bellamy
Bevil
Richard
Curtis
Lucile
Underwood
How Sidewalks Are Calked In New York
A New Yorker recalls ship calking on sidewalks near Wall Street and Broadway. A calker seals flagstone cracks with oakum while tar is applied to make the pavement waterproof for vaults beneath. The trade suffers as wooden ships decline and calkers seek other work.
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Wall Street
Broadway
Oakum
New York Times
Punching at the Park Row Bakery Inevitable Scene
A cashier at a Park Row bakery demands Sixteen come over to be punched again after a tense exchange. The incident ends with the cashier punching an OK hole in the checkbook while the patron pays for his drink and departs, leaving bemused about bakery manners.
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Park Row
Draw
Onyx
New York Sun
Too Precocious Child Shapes Blue Paper Cosmos
A South Side architect finds his bright young son busy punching colored paper with steel punches. The child scatters blue paper stars crosses and crescents across the study floor after proudly declaring he is finishing the last sheet. The architect leaves disappointed.
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South Side
Chicago News
Stop the Crying by Breath Stifling Method Cited in India
The article describes a harsh technique used to quiet crying babies by covering the mouth and pinching the nose to stop breath, repeated until the child suppresses screaming. It notes skepticism from American mothers and cites Philadelphia Ledger and Boston Traveller references about the method and its alleged fashion status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Philadelphia Ledger
Fragmented dialogue hints at a theater or radio skit
The readable lines show a garbled exchange about a character named Twynn and a remark that “Everything goes” attributed to Tess in a Detroit Free Ride context, suggesting a damaged entertainment snippet with unclear source roles.
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Twynn
Detroit
Tess
Gratitude to the preacher and a fuchsia mystery
A Lunchclub preacher recalls a compliment from a loyal parishioner after a sermon about sunlight and shade. A woman thanked him for the talk claiming his message helped her understand why her fuchsias thrived in shade, revealing a touching moment of recognition. A separate item notes a 30 year old local election custom in Brown township Delaware county Ohio. Hard boiled eggs are eaten on election night funded by elected officials.
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Chicago
Brown Township
Delaware County
Eden
Cincinnati Enquirer
Persian Peasants Describe Harsh Labor Under Iranian Rule
The piece notes crippling taxation on Persian agricultural workers who earn more only to have more taken by rulers. It highlights Shiraz's two harvests a year with crops like rice cotton corn gardens and autumn wheat and barley, plus grapes oranges and pomegranates. Shiraz is famed for pomegranates.
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China
Shiraz
Philadelphia Police Equipment Costs Spark Legal Debate
A Philadelphia police officer must buy his personal revolver and black jack though uniform gear is municipal funded. City lacks authority to authorize concealed weapons. courts grant police the duty to carry official weapons. Public Safety accepts an official revolver, while embellishments drive up costs.
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Philadelphia
Department of Public Safety
Growth of the British Museum Library Volumes
Sir E Maunde Thompson notes the library's expansion from 116000 volumes in 1821 to 1750000 by the present, with shelves and galleries totaling about 39 miles. The comparison to the French National library underscores space limits as newspapers swell.
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British Museum Library
E. Maunde Thompson
British Museum
Museum
Department
French National Library
Westminster Gazette
Pawning Their Posterity in India Says Booth
General Booth reported in Madras that unborn babies are used as debt security. Fathers borrow for weddings and pledge children or grandchildren as collateral. He found India a great pawnshop where people mortgage lands, oxen, jewelry, themselves, and kin for funds.
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General Booth
India
Madras Salvation Army
New York World
Blood Showers Across History Mentioned in Old Chronicles
The St Louis Republic notes numerous blood showers from 319 AD to 1802 across regions including Italy Syria southern Europe Burgundy England Wurttemberg and Siam. Accounts describe blood dust hail with blood filled cavities and pools following the events.
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Rome
Italy
Syria
Europe
Burgundy
Dedfordshire
England
Wurttemberg
Siam
St. Louis Republic
The Butcher Ribbing Over Tough Meat
In a humorous exchange from the Boston Transcript a customer complains the meat is tough while the butcher jokes about poor teeth and failing cutlery. The banter highlights cheap market quality and price questions as a light city-page vignette.
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Cleaver
Boston Transcript
The Scared Bachelor Dialogue on Women and Beauty
A weary boarder questions if equality with men would ruin women's beauty. The scared bachelor concedes there is truth, noting there are more pretty women today. From the Indianapolis Journal.
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Indianapolis Journal
Humor Seeding Floral Tributes for Chicago Aldermen
A noted Chicago Record remark envisions a humorous tale if the originator of sending floral tributes to city aldermen were known. The quip elevates the idea as a landmark in American humor.
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Chicago
Bonnet Order Requests From Detroit Patron
A Detroit millinery department received a mail order describing a bonnet with specific measurements and a black lace design. The note asks for streamers, red or yellow satin ribbon, pink roses or a blue plume, a black jet bucket, and optional decorative touches like a grape cluster or a bird’s tail, with minimal frou-frou and no extra ribbon strings.
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Detroit
Artifishers
Detroit Free Press
In the Finnish Woods Vignettes of Finland
The narrator travels through forests in Finland noticing beauty in mosses leaves lichens and fungi. Fire scarred areas contrast with colorful ground cover and the many shades inspire artistic appreciation of the landscape. The prose emphasizes vivid natural colors and textures observed along the journey.
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Finland
Charity and Mississippi as the Bayou State
Johnson quotes about charity as a universal duty and aid to neighbors. The Mississippi nickname Bayou State arises from the river’s long backwater stretches within the state.
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Mississippi
Mississippi River
Low Temperature Chemistry Promises New Elements
A chemist reports that experiments at extremely low temperatures yield not only satisfactory results but surprising new combinations and previously undreamed of investigations. He suggests entirely new elements may develop under such conditions, expanding possibilities in chemical work.
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New York Ledger
Sphere of intense vibrations noted in Boston club parlor
Lillian Whiting visits Boston's Latin quarter and hears a daintily gowned young woman claim she is in the sphere of intense vibrations after rejecting thought transference. The quip appears in the Minneapolis Journal as a humorous aside about playful chatter.
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Lillian Whiting
Boston
Minneapolis Journal
Ancient Mexican maguey paper used for manuscripts
The Mexicans produced paper from maguey plant pith. By pressing the fibers they formed a strong sheet that accepted ink and color well. Many examples exist in world museums and the National Library in Mexico City holds numerous manuscripts on this paper.
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National Library
City of
Mexico
Running for office notches in the political boom
A Washington Star line outlines the campaign dynamic with a candidate who handles running the office while a press agent, backer, and stage crew manage publicity expenses and stage details. An endorsement from FE L. Williams cites Family Cure for rheumatism and piles in Weston Ohio, sold by D D Bales.
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Washington Star
A. P. Sawyer
FE. L. Willams
Weston
Ohio
D. D. Bales
Gould's Orchids Legacy and High Prices Revealed
A New York Herald quote describes Jay Gould's orchid collection at Irvington as one of the world’s finest though purchased at high, often unjustified prices. It notes Gould’s aggressive buying, with agents in London obtaining rare plants at premium sums, sometimes paying fifty dollars for specimens hardly worth a quarter.
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Jay Gould
Irvington
Gould
London
New York Herald
Documentary Evidence Warns Women Against Writing
John Drew cites The Squire of Dames as saying women lacking a daughter should be taught speech but not writing. The New York Journal notes many parents overlook the dangers of pen use and urges caution in a girl’s education. A society woman quips her motto is avoid documentary evidence.
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John Drew
Dames
New York Journal
Obliging a Lawyer
A celebrated criminal lawyer who just won an acquittal for a noted assassin asks the judge to detain the prisoner until tomorrow. He explains he must cross a lonely field home where the culprit knows he has money. The judge agrees.
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Strand Magazine
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