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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Sep 22, 1902
Page
4
The Pall Mall Gazette condemns Lieutenant Vogt who killed a man in a Mayence duel and was sentenced to two years in a fortress. After a year he was pardoned by the Kaiser, a leniency the paper calls barbarous and dangerous to German civilization.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports six Heidelberg students in a quarrel about a lady led to a Marcian duel. The medical student chosen by lot wounded himself to death, leaving the others to reconcile. Authorities debate suppression of such brutal customs.
Local residents report rapid relief from eczema, hives, rashes, and itching using Doan’s Ointment. The product is sold by Ashburton Drug Co and Foster McClennan Co of Sydney, with boxes priced at 3s each and six for 16s 6d.
A survey of eminent Germans names a diverse set of achievements as the century’s most important, including the German Empire, man’s rights, steam power, applied electricity, narcotics and anti gopsid, energy conservation law, Darwin, the scientific method, spectral analysis, X rays, Beethoven’s ninth, Faust part two, the Geneva Convention, universal education, women’s rights, and European explanations of Africa.
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