French Ambassador Cites Porcelain Statues in Turkish Tip Scandal
A New York Tribune correspondent reports that M. Constans in Constantinople carried casks of Sevres porcelain La Baigneuse statues as gifts. Turkish officials reportedly received replicas, some on pedestals. One master of ceremony joked that a pedestal was hollow and empty, suggesting hidden cash.
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New York Tribune
M. Constans
Constantinople
Pera
Yildia
Baigneuse
A Typical South African Store Opens in Cape Colony Region
O R Larson of Bay Villa Sun days River Cape Colony runs a general store nine miles from the railway and twenty five miles from town. He notes farmers within thirty miles favor his shop and Chamberlains remedies. In a household where medical advice is scarce, twelve of sixty nearby residents were cured this past year by Chamberlains Cough Kennedy. For sale by J L Wikle.
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O. R. Larson
Bay Villa
Sundays River
Cape Colony
South Africa
Larson
Chamberlain
Cough Kennedy
J. L. Wikle
Sawfish hauled aboard after struggle in Caramata Strait
On a Singapore voyage in the Caramata strait Chief Officer Dewitt aboard the steamer New Guinea baited a shark hook and captured a gigantic sawfish. The monster battled wildly, creating sea turbulence like a steaming propeller, before being secured with a wire stock and hauled to deck for dispatch. The fish measured twenty seven feet with a 41% foot saw and thirty four teeth.
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Singapore
Caramata Strait
Dewitt
New Guinea
Remarkable Cure Reported for Paralysis by Pain Balm
Stricken with partial paralysis Henderson Grimett of this place regained use of his arm and side after two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The liniment is praised for rheumatism sprains and bruises and has many cures cited by R Mc Donald of Logan county West Virginia. Sold by J L Wikle.
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Henderson Grimett
Chamberlain
Gro
R. McDonal
Man
Logan County
W. Va
J. L. Wikle
Day Changes and Longitude Concepts
The article explains longitude as the east or west distance from Greenwich Observatory in England. It notes the earth’s circumference of 360 degrees and that 180 degrees places the opposite side from Greenwich.
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Observatory
Greenwich
England
Foley's Honey and Tar Ends Cough Dread with Miller Drug Co
Advertisement urges readers to avoid unproven medicines and buy Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds from Miller Drug Co. It portrays the product as a superior throat and lung remedy and warns against low merit cures.
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Foley
Miller Drug Co
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