Curious cures and health fads from distant lands
A survey of bizarre wellness crazes and quack therapiesitaria ranging from boots that supposedly cause rheumatism to oil sprays and plank beds. Russian milk cures and boredom methods alongside painful torture as therapy are described with names such as Unterberger Mosoleff Rodklovitch and Lint, noting the dubious claims and outcomes.
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Unterberger
Oxaterberger
Versailles
Russia
Mosoleff
Moseloff
Samara
Breb~mer
Leipzig
Brehmer
Rusalan
Rodklovitch
Ummer
Rodkievitch
Fright cure and soot remedies once popular in Bavaria
A Pearson's Weekly excerpt notes Bavarian soot cures as fashionable, claiming soot boosts organic matter and used in meats and medicines. It also describes an Austrian doctor Lehmanns fright cure for St Vitus dance, recommending staged fires, burglars, and cold-water shocks to harden nerves.
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Bavaria
Lehmann
St. Vitua
Pearson’s Weekly
Sultan Foregoes Duty for 480 Pesos Uniform Gamble
Washington reports the Sultan of Jolo won a symbolic victory over American customs by paying 480 pesos for a lavish uniform or else go naked. The outfit mixes an old hat, tights, gold brocade waistcoat, feather boa, moccasins, kimono, and Moro pelt. To avoid a clash, the Philippine commission allowed the gear duty free.
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Washington
Jolo
Philippine Commission
Life sentence for young McLeod in Georgia trial
McLeod, 17, found guilty in Telfair superior court of complicity in the murder of Joseph Studstill near Milan. He was sentenced by Judge Martin to re imprisonment after a two day trial. Ike Rawlings was previously convicted and given a life term.
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McRae
Telfair Superior Court
Jack McLeod
Joseph Studatill
Milan
McLeod
Martin
John R. Cooper
Macon
Roberts
Eastman
McLennant & Wotten
B. D. Graham
Eschel Graham
Joseph Studstill
Ike Rawlings
Rawlings
Carved Betrayer in Approved Style Freeland Pa
Gaetano Fierro of Hazle Township near Freeland attacked Joseph Bardi with a razor after accusing him of betraying Fierro’s daughter. Bardi was disfigured and likely to die. Fierro fled and is believed justified by locals. Fierro’s family has suffered, with his son in an asylum and his wife invalid.
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Freeland
Penn
Gaetano Fierro
Joseph Bardi
Bardi
Fierro
Hazle Township
Joseph Barat
Fiorro
Cara
Italy
Oldest Couple in the Country Exhibited in Alabama
Bessemer residents gather to see Elbert Gipson born in 178 and his wife claimed 89 years old. Gipson recalls events from the War of 1812, though he is now blind and frail. The couple, married 65 years, live in a one room log cabin eight miles from town, and their devotion draws local interest.
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Bessemer
Ala
United States
J. C. Burgin
Elbert Gipson
North Carolina
Shelby
Jefferson
Gipson
Rand
Twenty Children in One Family in Owosso, Mich
Owosso Mich Oct 26 Strenuous opponents of race death by own action are Mr and Mrs Hesse whose twentieth child was born yesterday All the score who is 21 and the oldest down to the last little girl who has just opened her eyes on the world are healthy and happy Hesse has the contract of coating Grend Trunk engines here The quarantine in Georgia has been lifted and the Atlanta health board can now rest easy
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Owosso, Mich
Hesse
Grend
Stables theft leads to high speed chase and arrest
A stable hand at E. P. Fears stables stole a shotgun and an overcoat. Anderson Ford fled but was pursued by Fears, J. S. Cheney, and Policeman Seagraves across streets to the colored school, where he was captured. Ford was bound over to the state court in a $400 bond and jailed in Clarke county.
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E. P. Fears
Anderson Ford
Fears
Cheney
Ford
Seagraves
Broad Street
Oconee Street
Rock Quarry
Colored School
Foster
Clarke County
A Queer Suit Filed In New Jersey Kiss Case
Mary Chas inaky of Secaucus New Jersey accused Wadiso Boroughsky of assault and battery after frequent kisses over a year with his rough beard causing lip soreness and kitchen delays. Boroughsby's lawyer said the man was insanely in love and asked for a postponement to next Monday.
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New York
Mary Chasinaky
Secaucus
N. J
Manning
Jersey City
Wadiso Boroughsky
Fred Stohr
Boroughsby
Statistics of railroad accidents 1905 report released
Washington reports twelve months ending June 20, 1905 saw 886 killed and 13,783 injured in railroad accidents. Passenger casualties rose while employee deaths fell. 1,271 collisions and 1,535 derailments caused $2,410,671 in damage. Also mentions upcoming gubernatorial campaign debate at Monticello between Flake Smith and Russell next Monday.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Flake Smith
Russell
Monticello
Cotton receipts rise as railroad stock boosts Athens totals
The Athens market reports cotton receipts near forty thousand since September first with railroad shipments outpacing wagons. Despite a short crop, total season receipts may match last year as railroad cotton gains rise, aided by increased rail deliveries and larger stock on hand from 1904 and 1905 comparisons.
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Athens
Col William Simms Dies At Draw Poker Table
Huntington scene of sudden death as Col William Simms a noted stock dealer and adventurer collapsed at the Little Queen City Club rooms during a high stakes draw poker game. He apparently died of overexcitement after obtaining a royal flush in diamonds.
Boy Starved in Freight Car Tragedy in Philadelphia
Eight year old Louis Dobek of 21 Beck Street disappeared for days then was found dead in a freight car. A detective named Carson allegedly threatened the boy to deter disclosure. Autopsy showed death from exhaustion as he struggled to escape the grain car.
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Philadelphia
Louis Dobek
Beck Street
Dobek
Dobek Lad
Carson
Dog grafts dog bone to man's leg in landmark surgery
A Swedish man with a compound leg fracture had five inches of bone removed and later grafted with a dog's foreleg bone. The dog and man were joined with silver wire and plaster, yielding pain minimal for the patient and eventual bone knitting. Six months later the grafted bone grew toward the size of the original, and the man walks with a cane. The report notes the unusual and pioneering nature of this animal to human bone graft.
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Jeg
Leen
Ang
San Francisco
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