Wicked Madame de Brinvilliers and the city reforms
A historical tale links Madame de Brinvilliers and her lover Sainte-Croix to poison plots and a public beheading after torture. The piece then shifts to municipal reform highlights in Petersberg under City Manager Louis Brownlow, detailing budgeting, purchasing, and expense controls, plus national trends in city management and expert commentary.
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Madame de Brinvilliers
Sainte-Croix
Madame de Brinvillies
End of a wild and wooley week in politics and travel
Wild week with clashes between capital and White House politics. Filibusters sink subsidies while coal riots erupt in upper New York. Secret Service disrupts a counterfeit ring. a Chicago barber turned financier shutters several banks. Public notices note puritan reforms, strikes, and industrial turmoil amid a broader world crisis.
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White House
Senate
New York
Secret Service
Jospeh Biata
Marquino
Chicago
First National Bank
Warren
Mass
Niagara Life Insurance Company of
Buffalo
Mechanics and Merchants Bank of
Philadelphia
Anti-Saloon League
Hughes
China
Bryan
Mexico
Dragon Republic
Supreme Court
Lloyd George
Manuel Herrick
Congress
United States
Cleveland Discount Company
Poison legends of Madame de Brinvilliers in 17th century France
D E Wheeler writes in a recent Stories Magazine issue about widespread 250 years ago. Madame de Brinvilliers is depicted as the arch demon of poisoners. She allegedly poisoned patients at Paris hospital Hotel Dieu while feigning mercy. The piece notes fear of poisoning during Louis XIV’s reign and mentions the antidote Thectac made from about 50 drugs. Madame de Sevigne is cited as an era writer.
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Detective Story Magazine
D. E. Wheeler
Madame de
France
Louis XIV
Tutankhamen and the sleeping world ahead
Athens readers get a satirical column by Clinton Webb of Logan recalling Rip Van Winkle and Tutankhamen myths. The piece muses on a future where Egypt inspired fashion, social trends, and humor, mixing quips about hair, bears, and a whimsical view of grand-scale sleeping and waking in society. It references local figures and ads, including Nelsonville, with playful nods to want ads and a nod to a basketball team.
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Rip van Winkle
Tufakhamen
Egypt
Old Tut
Land of Nod
Tut
Carter
Jie
Mammoth Cave
Studebaker
Tutakhamen
Paria
Petersburg Plans Million Dollar City Improvements
Petersburg Virginia reports a 1928 program of public works including a bridge over the Appomattox River a junior high school two grade schools street paving and other projects. The work costs just over a million with the city paying seven to eight hundred thousand and railway companies providing the remainder. Citizens show full confidence in economical expenditure and no doubts about contract letting or purchases.
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Petersburg
Appomattox
Questions and Answers Information Request Notice
Readers are invited to send questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington D C. The bureau will reply by mail for two cents postage. It cannot offer legal medical or financial advice or settle domestic troubles. Include full name address and question briefly.
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Athens Messenger _ Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
The
Inquirer
Eternal Youth in Next Life Says Conan Doyle
London reports Sir A Conan Doyle asserts eternal youth exists beyond the Styx. He says on the other side there is marriage in the sense of love, children grow at the same rate, and old people are rejuvenated to prime. The good remain welcomed. the miserly wander alone.
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London
Styx
A. Conan Doyle
Laxative that Helps the Elderly for Better Health
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is promoted as a gentle, effective remedy for constipation in seniors. The ad cites health benefits, urges trial with a free sample, and names Dr W R Caldwell of Monticello Illinois and testimonials from elderly users.
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Dr. Caldwell
Women to Lead in Politics Says Ida Tarbell in Boston
Ida Tarbell, lecturer and writer, told a Boston audience at Old South Meeting House that men would soon be forced to share political power with women. She ridiculed Congress and tariff bills, predicting a Congress of women would perform better.
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Boston
Ida Tarbell
Old South Meeting House
Miss Tarbell
Congress
Congress of Women
Russian polar junkets reveal coal deposit discovery
Moscow reports a large coal find by a Russian mining survey expedition returning from the polar region. The team also located a new island about 130 miles from the Yenisei River mouth and recovered a mail bag once belonging to explorer Amundsen that had been missing since 1918.
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Moscow
Amund*en
Admiral Reads Cure by Coue Method Proclaimed
Vice Admiral Fleet announced publicly that he has been cured of rheumatism by the Coue method. The claim centers on mental suggestion as the path to relief.
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Reading
Eng
Fleet
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