Alpena Woman Recovers From Rheumatism After Pink Pills
Mrs. Jas. M. of Long Rapids Alpena County narrates eight years of crippling rheumatism and nerve trouble. After failed treatment she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with rapid improvement. She regains mobility and can perform chores, urging others to try the medicine. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY, 50c a box or $2.50 for five.
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Alpena
Michigan
Argus
Jas. M
Long Rapids
Alpena County
Ann Arbor
Todds
Doings and Sayings Roundup of Odd Facts and Local Notes
Warden Atwood of Maine jokes about a rare disease named dacryocystos yringokataklelsis. Utica is not the only toll city. Allegheny City Pa. has two. In Turkestan broken engagements require returning gifts or offering another daughter. The gypsy moth from France has invaded New England since 1870. A pistol report in Bellgrove Pa. injured a man’s arm. Miss Morrison of San Francisco, Univ of California medical graduate, won applause from peers at her announcement. Fifty lobster smacks operate along Maine coast. thirty seven sell in Portland. Last year Portland landed about 4,000,000 lobsters worth at least 320,000 dollars.
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Atwood
Maine
France
New England
United Brethren Church
Bellgrove
Lebanon
Morrison
San Francisco
Medical Department of
The
Uniity of California
Portland
Amusing Anecdotes From Rural and City Life
A series of light notes recounts a Maine judge joking about farming brains, a Connecticut clergyman’s prayer during hardship, a conversation between an old lady and a tailor-made girl, and a New Haven station mishap as an elderly passenger misreads a celebrity portrait machine.
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Oxford
Thomsonville
New Haven
Weill
Maria Jokings
Page Restaurant Buckwheat Cakes Fall Short
A Page restaurant serves buckwheat cakes with excess buckwheat and not enough wheat. The note blames imbalance for poor satisfaction and uses envy as a metaphor for selfishness in the critique.
The Devil's Own Mine in Chantaboon Province
A Siam Free Press tale recalls a legendary gold mine said to lie in Chantaboon. An old villager recalls elephants visiting decades ago. explorers found only a trail of superstition, wild beasts, and treacherous terrain as they failed to reach the mine source.
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Chantaboon
Siam Free Press
Paper as Currency in a Joking Exchange
In a humorous exchange a dealer explains bank check paper can be worth huge sums. The buyer notes a signed one million dollar check would weigh about an ounce, framing the paper as highly valuable. The conversation ends with a wish to buy a ton of such material.
Street Railway Worker Contemplates Congress Pay Debate
A street railway employee muses on becoming a congressman noting the contrast: in Congress they discuss docking pay but never do it, while on the street railways dock promptly without discussion. He speaks as if revealing a grand philosophical discovery.
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Street Railway
Congress
What She Called It The Terrance Or The Old Divvil
Mrs. Duffy and Mrs. O Bryan discuss a great sufferer, Mrs. McGuire asks what she suffered with. Mrs. Duffy explains a long conglomeration of evils, sometimes calling it Terrance and other times that old devil, now dead.
Enrollment Totals by Harvard Schools and Faculty
The record lists student counts for Harvard colleges and schools: 1667 in the college, 308 in the scientific school, 258 in the graduate school, 50 in the divinity school, 504 in the law school, 454 in the medical school, 80 in the dental school, 65 in the veterinary school, and 12 in the Bussey Institute. Overall university enrollment is 3156 last year and 3290 this year. faculty numbered 322 last year and 7 this year.
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Harvard College
Divinity School
Law
Medical
Thirty Three Snakes In One A South African Tale
A South African ostrich farmer, Mr Mallerby, discovers a black snake with a swollen body containing a yellow snake and eggs. After dissecting successive layers, he frees thirty baby snakes, prompting questions about cannibalism, egg hatch within layers, and snake genealogy. Arthur E Viney vouched for the tale with details from Ceres Cape Colony.
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South Africa
Arthur E. Viney
London Times
Viney
Ceres
Cape Colony
Mallerby
Mr. Mallerby
Clearing the Mystery
Recaptured convict recounts escape involving bribing the warden and seizing his keys. The exchange aired in Trenton Talk as authorities question how the escape occurred.
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Trenton
The Maiden and the Past Tense
A brief dramatic exchange between a man and a woman ends with the woman wishing the man were gone. He departs at 11 p.m. while she expresses pain and reluctance to part, contrasting desire to stay with longing for finality.
Hard to Keep Straight on the Voyage
A dialogue scene where a woman asks about a distant place and a man identifies steerage. She wonders if all those people are needed to make the boat go straight, highlighting class and travel aboard.
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St. Jacobs
Wescalpe
Lansing & Co
Quincy
Chicago
German Coffee Berry seeds promise for LaCrosse company
In a dated advertisement style note, John A Salzer Seed Co of LaCrosse Wisconsin promotes German Coffee Berry seeds at one cent per pound seeds and sixty five packages of vegetables, claiming Europe tested seeds and large seed stocks. The piece also includes assorted patent medicine slogans and humorous lines typical of the period, with no clear single news event.
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Rio
Europe
France
Holland
Germany
John A. Salzer Seed Company
LaCrosse
Wis
Wahu
Swordfish Pierces Bark Hull at Pensacola Test
The Norwegian bark Lorenzo, newly arrived at Pensacola, withstood a swordfish strike that pierced metal sheathing six inches of planking and inner ceiling, causing a six hour daily hull leak. The weapon measured about two and a half inches around at the tip and five inches at the break, about twenty inches long.
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Lorenzo
Pensacola
Portrait of Me as a Football Player Revealed
A cartoon dialogue features Big Injun admiring a portrait labelled as a pretty squaw while College Man protests it is himself, recalling his days on the football team. The exchange ends with a jab about elbow room versus head room.
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Walt
Troy
Joan Shelby
Sheeley Block
Omaha
Ned
Allie Doverass
LeRoy, Mich
Janson
Cupid
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
Buppalo, N. Y
Bensio John W
North Uis
Washington
W.L. Douglas
Senice
Congoly
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Douglas
Rocks
Boston
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
E. O. McCormick
Cincinnati
Obie
McElrees
Cardus
Thegreny
W.N.U.D
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