The Heiress at Coffee Dan’s and Other Strands Showings
The Strand offers Bessie Love in The Heiress at Coffee Dan's with Elite screening Myrtle Gonzales in The Girl of Lost Lake on Wednesday. Geo Walsh stars in The Mediator with Fox, and Montague Love in The Challenge. Thursday features Clara Williams in Three of Many and Social Pirates, plus Marguerite Clark in Silks and Satins. Friday showcases Owen Moore Irene Fenwick in A Girl Like That and Shielding Shadow, with Muriel Ostriche in A Circus Romance and Helen Holmes. Saturday presents Ethel Barrymore in The Awakening of Helen Ritchie and Pearl White in Pearl of the Army, Luke and Christie Comedy.
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Rednesday
Geo. Walsh
Fox
Elite
Montague Love
Pathet
Clara Williams
Marguerite Clark
Strand
Owen Moore
Irene Fenwick
Muriel Ostriche
Helen Holmes
Ethel Barrymore
Helen Ritchie
Ellie
Pearl White
Luke and Christie
Alternate-day feeding Cuts Fish Deaths in Aquarium
The New York Zoological Society reports their 3000 fishes of 1400 species suffer fewer deaths and save labor when feeding is done on alternate days rather than daily. Excess fat resulted from a too generous diet.
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Aquarium
The
New York Zoological Society
Bad Habits And Indigestion Remedies
Those who eat breakfast at eight or later lunch at noon and dinner at six risk indigestion due to insufficient digestion time between meals. Allow at least five fours between meals and consider Chamberlains Tablets to aid natural stomach function and quick recovery. Obtainable everywhere.
Roman cream found in ancient Ticino toilet article
A soft yellowish brown truss from an ancient Roman vise, discovered near Ticino, is identified as toilet cream by M. L. Keutter. Analysis shows a bees wax and fat mix with storax and turpentine, likely mixed with wine, imparting a yellow color to the skid.
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Ticino
M. L. Keutter
Storms Reach Deep Seafloor From Surface Tempests
A historic report notes gales may disturb sea depths up to fifty times wave height, based on United States hydrographical experiments. It describes a nearly 100 foot depth, an ocean cable crossing a ridge depression between the North Atlantic and Norwegian seas, and indicates cables move during storms. Violent tempests are inferred to extend to greater depths.
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United States
Hydographicalies Frei Tiharatory
Aton
Neeth Athiatic
Norwegian Sea
Sacred Bo Tree Revered Across East For Ages
The sacred fig or peepul tree is venerated by Buddhists and Hindus across the East. It is linked to the birth of Vishnu, grows tall and evergreen, flowers in April, yields sour bark sap, and is believed to house the awakening of Gautama under its branches. Planted about 250 BCE in Anuradhapura, Ceylon, it is known as the Bo tree with the native name Jayasri mahabodhiya wahuwal meaning The Great Famous and Venerable big Tree. For both religions, swearing by the sacred Bo tree is a solemn oath.
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Vishnu
India
Gautama
Amuradhapoera
Ceylon
Jayasrimahabodiawahuwal
The Harmony of Life in Patriotism and Nature
The editor argues harmony as the universal law guiding existence and progress. It links harmony to happiness, growth, and the efficient operation of machines, urging inward and outward balance as essential to liberty, destiny, and national character as reflected in quotes about the Minute Men and cavalry of the South.
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Minute Men
Cavaliers
South
Naonal Magazine
Hatchery of Fakes in New York City
A New York City storefront floods customers with cheap pressed glass posing as genuine cut glass. Salesmen push bogus ware once tied to pawnshop displays, using labels like one dollar marked down to 45 cents and 75 cents cut to 35 cents. The piece calls this a modern dodge in the long-running fake goods racket.
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New York City
Thia Glass Mill
Success in the Man Business
The piece argues that the key to growth is building and sharing with good people rather than solitary effort. It stresses that every employer should invest in finding training and retaining talent, as business expansion hinges on capable individuals and collective effort, not just one entrepreneur.
Last Case of Liberal Lawyer Sparks Funeral Room Scene
A longtime liberal lawyer dies stirring reaction among peers. A friend rushing back for the last rites arrives minutes after the service begins and asks about the proceedings. Another lawyer jokes they may have opened for the defense as the crowd gathers.
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Everybody's Magazine
Family Credits Black-Draught For Health Improvement
Mrs. J. B. Whittaker of McDuff Virginia reports long relief from sick headache and stomach trouble after using Thedford s Black-Draught. The vegetable remedy is said to regulate weak stomachs aid digestion and relieve indigestion colic wind and nausea. Used for 72 years it claims to have helped over a million people and is sold by druggists for 25 cents per package. N C 128
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McDuff
J. B. Whittaker
Thedford
N.C
Engineering Not His Forte The Bisset Stevenson Tale
Reverend Archibald Bisset of Ratho longtime friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. A paternal clash over career choices and an Edinburgh episode shows Louis ignoring a bridge pressure problem, joking he will rely on his father’s judgment. The elder Stevenson ends the scene with blunt guidance to return home.
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Archibald Bisset
Ratho
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bisset
Stevenson
Edinburgh
Louis
Lewes
Goethe
Manchester Guardian
Curious Error By Noted Artist In Nature Study Painting
A famous artist renowned for his nature depictions erred in a recent exhibition piece. The life-size tiger at a stream shows the mouth buried underwater, making the animal appear to drink like a horse rather than a tiger, a fundamental misstep in an otherwise respected work.
Ancient Hebrew Wine and Oil Labels Found in Samaria
Labels from ancient Hebrew writings were found in Samaria on wine jars and oil jars. They served as seals indicating the deposit year, the vineyard, and for oil jars the producing district. These seals date to the reign of King Akub about a thousand years ago, showing numerous individuals stored goods in government storehouses.
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Samaria
Akub
Beware of Hasty Speech and Its Consequences
A fragment discusses how hurry leads to ungrammatical, slangy, and unclear language. It argues many speak carelessly due to lack of thought. The piece notes people choose weaker terms from slang and fail to select precise words for clear expression.
Habit of Taking Cold Tip Card
Advice urges daily cold sponge baths at about 90 degrees and sleeping with window open to prevent colds. If a cold occurs, use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and recover quickly. Available everywhere.
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Adv
Bethlehem Steel Chief Seeks Private Navy Yard Jobs
Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel argues that current bids for sixteen and fourteen inch naval shells and gun construction cannot yield profits. He explains costs above government estimates and proposes building two battle cruisers in government yards while Bethlehem builds the other two at cost with no extra charges, to speed readiness.
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Terrapin Club
Philadelphia
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem Steel
Europe
United States
Navy Department
Congress
Lovernment
Grow Your Own Food to Cut Living Costs in 1917
A 1917 Hastings seed book ad urges South farmers to boost home gardens and grain for self sufficiency amid wartime uncertainty. Higher cotton acreage risks lower prices and food costs soar. plan a year round garden to halve living expenses. The ad promotes free catalog from H. G. Hastings Co. Atlanta Georgia.
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Europe
H. G. Hastings Co
Atlanta
Advt
Veteran Guard of Nanak Keeps Sacred Sikh Bible in Hyderabad
Gurmuk Singh, nearing 100, serves as guardian of the Nanak at the Lion temple in Hyderabad. He has wartime service with the Sikh army, later emigrated to the Nizam's country, and, pensioned, now holds his temple post.
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Gurmuk Singh
Hyderabad
Call for Individual Drinking Cups in Schools
The Progressive Farmer argues that shared dipping cups spread colds and diseases among students and urges quick adoption of individual drinking cups for all school work to prevent transmissions. It notes some places still use a common cup despite the health risks.
Dr King's New Discovery Relieves Painful Coughs
The advertisement promotes Dr King s New Discovery as a long standing cough remedy. It claims soothing pine balms mild laxative ingredients and quick relief from winter colds croup grippe and bronchial affections. Available at your druggist for 50 cents.
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Dr. King
50C
Ady
Test of a Good Book
A compact quotation of Amos Bronson Alcott extolling a book that opens with expectations and closes with profit. The author praises the masterpiece as thoroughly mastered from title page to end, noting that dense details can wait for quieter moments.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Sure Thing Claim for Chamberlain's Tablets
A user named B. Wixon of Farmers Mills New York says Chamberlain's Tablets have long helped stomach and liver disorders and that they are the best he has ever used ad says they are obtainable everywhere.
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B. Wixon
Farmers Mills
N. Y
Ady
Prayer devices spread across continents described
The article notes mechanical prayer devices common in the East and Tibetan prayer flags. It explains that prayer flags hang on long lines, sometimes spanning four rivers, and are believed to record prayers as long as they flap in the breeze, benefiting those who hang them up.
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East
Tibet
Music Supreme in Art Detachment Says Surette
An Atlantic essay by Thomas W. Surette argues music is supreme among the arts due to its detached nature. He praises Beethoven’s third and ninth symphonies as exemplars, claiming intellect, feeling, and action are present only as sound without real manifestation.
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Beethoven
Thomas W. Surette
Hunter shoots rabbit as bystander is slightly wounded
James Jones, walking along a Pennsylvania line track near Hartford City, was slightly wounded when a hunter's shot struck, after a rabbit jumped up. The hunter apologized, saying he did not see Jones until after firing as the rabbit was pursued along the brushy area.
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James Jones
Jones
Hartford City
Bunny
Indianapolis News
Precocious Infant Boasting Contest In City
Two fathers compare their babies in a morning city chat. Jones boasts his child talks freely, Brown’s infant barely babbles. Jones then claims his child walks, Brown says not yet. The exchanged quips reveal a lighthearted rivalry and city humor.
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Jones
Brown
Miny
Tine
New York Globe
Trickster applying for bric a brac job
A dealer tests a job applicant with a ruse about handling high class ware. The candidate admits no experience but proposes a cunning trick to break a porcelain vise deliberately and place it where a wealthy customer will topple it. The dealer hires him despite the odd answer.
Fragmented Text With Random Phrases From Aged Prose
Readable fragments hint at references to Emerson Carlyle and meditation on thought and conversation. The garbled lines mention good companionship and reflection in an era of liners and achievements, with scattered proper names and vague sentiments about wisdom and presence.
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Aoukin
Emerson
Maredaurelies
Carlyle
Stich
Los Angeles
The Wild Turkey Discovery Across North America
The text notes early explorers found Indians and corn but not wild turkeys in North America. It describes turkeys inhabiting forests from Maine to Nebraska and into Mexico, referencing the Spanish historian Annzaley Fortunes de Oded who described the wild turkey near Toledo in 1127, misidentifying males as peacocks.
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America
Maine
West-Ward
Nebraska
Mexico
Annzaley Fortunes de Oded
West Indies
Toledo
Miracle Cure Claim For St Vitus Dance Promotes Jackson Cordial
Prominent Georgia planter T W Crow testifies that Jacksons Cordial cured his St Vitus Dance after two weeks, with weight gain and restored health. The ad asserts the remedy treats indigestion, constipation, dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera morbus, heartburn, kidney and liver troubles and urges readers to buy from leading druggists and merchants.
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T. W. Crow
Watkinsville
Jackson
Protect Bottle Labels With Paraffin Coating
A note from Popular Science Monthly recommends amateur chemists apply a thin paraffin coating to reagent bottle labels. A fine brush coating prevents drops from attacking or discoloring labels. Paraffin is largely inert to most reagents, and the coating should extend about a quarter inch beyond label edges.
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Popular Science Monthly
San Juan Shines With Unmatched Cleanliness and Order
In San Juan the city gleams with spick and span streets. Vendors keep baskets to collect discarded skins, maintaining neat cobbled and asphalted avenues. Bright Porto Rican sun bathes the town in glistening white light.
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San Juan
One Hundred Dollars Reward for Catarrh Cure Claim
A historical ad promises a $100 reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It extols J Cheney & Co of Toledo, claims 15 years of honorable business, and notes the cure is taken systemically with testimonials and price six six cents per bottle, amid general patent medicine rhetoric.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Kino Ae
Cheney
National Bank OV Merc
How to Remove a Stubborn Glass Stopper
A glass stopper often resists removal. Hold the bottle neck in hot water until heated, apply a few drops of oil at the stopper junction, wait five minutes, then the stopper will come out easily.
Credit and the Cost of Dancing In Debt
A compact critique notes that credit fuels prodigal spending. It argues debtors pay later with higher costs, leading to compulsive spending that exceeds means. The piece frames credit as a manipulative force driving excessive consumer dancing beyond ability.
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Bessie Love
Coffee Dan's
Keystone Comedy
Myrtle Gonzales
Lost Lake
Castoria
Bethreham Steel
Uncle Sam
Grace
Navy
Veteran Guard
the McGregor Co
ST. Vitus
H. R. Palmer & Sons
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