Dr Nott Melon Seed Remedy Promoted In South
The Hessig Ellis Drug Co of Memphis promotes Dr Nott s Melon Seed Kidney and Bladder Remedy as a widely trusted treatment. The ad cites back pain dizziness and urinary issues, offering a 50 cent free bottle and a booklet with testimonials from prominent readers.
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Dr. Nott
South
Hessig-Ellis Drug Company
Memphis
Tenn
Dr. Nott’s
Hessig-Ellis Drug Co
Loughran & Bauer
Indian Trail Communication and Navigation Methods
A contemporary notes that a Canadian Indian never loses his way in the woods, finds routes once followed, and penetrates unfamiliar forests with guidance from another Indian. They signal by smoke, mark portages with inclined stakes, and use bending branches to show timing and direction. A hunter's detour may be shown by a squaw marking the path with sticks and clothing fragments.
The German Censor and the Morality of Theater
A review of Dr Robert Heindl s Munich study on German censorship shows how Vienna and Stuttgart censors policed stage life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Censorship targeted political allusions and decorum of word and thought as well as improprieties such as misalliances and bare legs in Greek dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Robert Heindl
Munich
Stuttgart
Goethe
Dr. Heindl
Counting Postal Cards in Government Work
A note highlights counting and tying postal cards into small bundles as part of the government’s daily operations. The article mentions several interesting machines used for this task and describes their function in organizing mail.
Never meddle with another man's business says elder son
The London Mail quotes a table talk where a man professes to avoid meddling in others' affairs. He notes his new confidential clerk, a hard looking man who has been intoxicated many times, but is actually his eldest son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Condential
London Mail
Look Ahead Payment Earns Grocer Praise
Simon settles a long delayed bill at a grocer who knows him well. The grocer thanks him warmly and praises the act, while Simon asks for discreet credit in the future.
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Simon
Dumine
Interference and Prisoner Debate in Court Room
A magistrate admonishes a prisoner, warning of dire consequences if he does not mend his ways. The prisoner defends his venture as profitable, but laments ruined reputation amid conflict between his work and police scrutiny.
Please call and settle on back of bill rule
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a creditor message about a bill sent a month earlier. The editor explains the newspaper ignores manuscripts written on both sides.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Denham Reflects On Uncertain Paths And Despair
The speaker considers uncertain ways and questions whether greater trouble lies beyond despair, contemplating risk, safety, and moral doubt in a reflective mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denham
Dr King’s New Discovery Cures Lung Ailments
Washington man recalls his brother’s years of hopeless consumption and treatment until Dr King’s New Discovery cured him with six bottles. The ad touts quick relief for weak lungs coughs colds bronchitis la grippe asthma and offers 50c and 1.00 with a free trial bottle guaranteed by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Lipscomb
Washington, N. C
Dr. King
Sardou finds inspiration in an accidental letter fragment
While adapting Candide Sardou lacks funds for tobacco but finds wine vouchers and a scrap reading Marie Laurent. He imagines a mother son letter and a dramatic twist that becomes his play Les Pattes de Mouche.
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Sardou
Voltaire
Marie Laurent
Charles
London Chronicle
A Human Gibraltar and the Bold Colonel Burnaby Tale
A friend recalls Colonel Fred Burnaby’s bravado in a Windsor barracks football match. In frock coat and tall hat he strides onto the field as spectators view from verandas, while the colossal Bates the fullback stands nearby, illustrating Burnaby’s legendary reckless courage.
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Fred Burnaby
Lord Binning
Windsor Cavalry Barracks
London
Bates
Collision on the Veranda Delights Onlookers
A strong challenge during play sends Burnaby sprawling, but the Yorkshire player remains unharmed and Burnaby smiles, assuring no interference as spectators cheer from the verandas.
Studying the Crowd in Morning Transit
A New York Globe excerpt notes the difference between crowded trains at different times. A passenger explains that morning cars are loud with dialogue and laughter, while nighttime crowds are quiet except for rattle and cough. The piece frames this as a brief study in human nature.
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New York Globe
Perpendicular parties and strict Etiquette at Trinity Cambridge
In reminiscences about Dr. Whewell at Trinity Cambridge Mr Tollemache recalls his masterful unsociability. A Trinity friend says Whewell hosted “perpendiculars” with undergraduates standing while he sat. He is described as shortsighted and inspecting each man up close. A freshman speaks. Whewell replies to communicate through a tutor.
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Trinity
Cambridge
Whewell
Tollemache
Pastor declines pillow top raffle photo plan
In a church bazaar room, a new committee member suggests reproducing the pastor's photograph on pillow tops and raffling them. The pastor objects saying he has been sat on enough already, prompting approval from the girls but his firm refusal.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Back Yard Study Gone Awry in Life Passage
A child pleads to play in the garden. mother guards the indoors and study. The Life vignette contrasts play with prescribed study of nature, underscoring a rigid domestic moral.
President Helps Orphans and Praises Electric Bitters
The head of the Indus trial and Orphans' Home in Macon Georgia reports Electric Bitters has aided nine years in stomach liver and kidney issues. He claims it strengthens vital organs purifies blood improves digestion and boosts appetite, especially for weak pale children. Only 50 cents at drug stores.
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Industrial and Orphans’ Home
Macon
Durg
The Old Sail Drill and Its Deadly Risks in Historic Fleets
The article recounts how sail drills defined by old warships faded with steam power. It notes frequent accidents as crews vied to perform evolutions, with giant spars and crowded decks creating deadly dangers, including a French midshipman who fell from the mizzen crosstrees in Kiel harbor.
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J. W. Gambier
Kiel
Unruly Mast and Sail Drill Told in Vivid Sea Tale
A vivid account recalls shipboard sail handling where masts yards and vast canvas shift rapidly. Ropes blister with friction while officers monitor a chaotic yet precise system. A near catastrophe looms if orders fail and the drill tests crew courage from cradle to grave.
Thorp’s Corpse: A Grieving Heir Erects Brief Stone
Englishman Thomas Thorp dies and leaves fortune to a poor relative on a stone bearing his name and a verse. The relative objects to the verse length, so a brief inscription is ordered. The final epitaph approved reads Thorp's Corpse.
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Thomas Thorp
Gingerbread Tree Palm In Egypt And Arabia
A palm Hyphoe ne thebaica grows 25 to 30 feet tall in Egypt Arabia Abyssinia and Nubia. It bears long fruit clusters of 100 to 200 fruits each irregular in shape and yellowish brown and polished. In upper Egypt the fibrous mealy husk is eaten and tastes like gingerbread giving the tree its common name.
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Egypt
Arabia
Abyssinia
Nubia
Upper
No wedding bells for me in crowded Brooklyn trolley
A New York Post report describes a man in a Brooklyn trolley echoing relief at freedom from wedding commitments as a noisy baby provokes commotion and a mother exits after two miles. The crowd reacts to the scene with amused commentary in 1900s urban transit life.
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Brooklyn
New York Post
Hanging the Babies. Whistler’s display at Liverpool exhibition
Whistler describes arranging a Liverpool exhibition with a striking baby group. He places the academy babies in the gallery with a central juxtaposition of vivid infant scenes including a baby with a mustard pot a baby with a puppy a doctor holding a pulse a grieving mother and a funeral scene near the door reflecting his provocative display approach.
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Whistler
Liverpool
Heinemann
Academy
The Ventriloquist at a Thames House Party
An amateur ventriloquist entertains a house party by the Thames with a tree climbing joke. A thin young voice from the tree answers and charms the guests who applaud his safe, humorous exchange.
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Thames
London
Rats Seek Shelters In Bitten Winter Cold
In bitter weather rats and other animals huddle for warmth. Squirrels and rats retreat to hedges and dells, often trying many burrows. A single hole may release twenty or more rats crowded together, as they block windward holes to keep out drafts.
Rat and Squirrel Food Storage Highlight Frost Threat
A London Standard note compares rats and squirrels storing food for winter. It suggests the keeper may struggle more to protect potatoes from frost than from furred pests, underscoring storage challenges for winter provisions.
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London Standard
Rattled Bridegroom At Niagara Falls Honeymoon Marker
A mature groom, after marriage, registers under the name John Doe and wife at a hotel in Niagara Falls. He corrects himself to John Doe and bride, revealing his sudden jitters. The Philadelphia Ledger recounts the humorous moment of marital nerves.
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Niagara Falls
John Doe
Bride
Philadelphia Ledger
The Safest Employment Peasant Proprietor and Home Industry
The Dublin Irish Homestead asserts the safest work is the peasant proprietor who grows corn potatoes peas beans fruit milk and vegetables. Sheep provide wool and homemade cloth becomes quality wear, keeping hunger at bay and life close to the earth.
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Dublin
Calling Names in Debate On Germ Titles
A Washington Star quotation frames a clash between a conservative campaigner and a scientist about the impact of labels on germs. The exchange highlights skepticism toward naming and the possible social effect of Latin titles in science.
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Washington Star
Kindness Delays a Train at a Branch Road Eatery
A hungry traveler has two minutes before his train departs when a courteous waitress offers coffee and then calls the superintendent to delay the train. She explains the branch line has no other traffic today and the superintendent owns the restaurant.
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Ames
Minneapolis Journal
Drake
Gibraltar
Burnaby
Paley
Fiis
Thorp
Ventriloquist
Drs. Fellows & Fellows
Actoe
DRS. Fellows & Fellows CO
Walnut ST
Des Moines
Foiming
Gilbert Station
W. Ll. Pitcher
Collins
Wm. L. Steiner
Rhodes
Chas. Tucker
Boone
Simon Burger
Gladbrook
John H. Looby
F. W. McCanon
Iowa
Chamberlain
J. E. Cagwin
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