Backwoods of India reveal tribes and headhunters in Britain's empire
Special correspondent explores India's jungle peoples from Assam to the Himalayas. He sketches animist Nagas, Yanadis, Andaman aborigines, and Nagas chiefs, detailing headhunting myths, caste customs, polygamy, and tribal homes. He notes British rule, tribute payments, and vast cultural diversity across tea districts, forests, and frontier regions.
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Europe
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Robertson
India
Tibst
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Beluchstan
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Thasa Islands
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Calcutta
Foreign Office
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Persia
Not a particle or clear skin cure tale from 1909
A Toronto born infant suffers a severe skin condition spreading over face and body. Various remedies fail until Cuti cura remedies are used after May 1909 and reportedly cure the child with no recurrence. Signed by Robert Manx of Proctor Minnesota. Sent to Potter Drug & Chem Corp for a $2 page book.
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Toronto
Duluth
Cutieura
Gutieura
Robert Manx
Proctor
Minn
Sead
Potter Drug & Chem Corp
Columbus Ave
Boston
Afghan trade, rail links, and a Paris to Bombay route plan
Frank G Carpenter notes Afghanistan remains closed to foreigners with only rough trails and no railroads. He describes partial rail growth near Delhi and Quetta, the Likely Russian expansion north of Afghanistan, and the potential for a future through line from Paris to Bombay via Indian and Afghan networks.
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Afghanistan
Delhi
Lahore
Peshawar
Quetta
Heluchiatan
Khojak
Paris
Bombay
Calcutta
Hera
Constantinopia
Frank G Carpenter
Hundreds of Americans Stranded in Paris This Year
A Paris dispatch notes many Americans tour Europe, with 75,000 at Oberammergau and rising stranded numbers in Paris. It describes willing and unwilling prisoners, last minute return tickets, and scams by beggars, echoing how travelers fall into Parisian traps while paying hotel and travel costs.
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Paris
Augusta
Parte
London
Europe
Oberammergu
Gunnalen
Companiay
Paria
Carda
Essyn
Amerien
Broka
Faris
New York
Pineapple and Butternut Pills advertised in vintage ad
A dated herbal advertisement touts Smith's Pineapple and Butternut Pills as liver tonics boosting appetite and health. It claims to stimulate digestion, prevent constipation and headaches, and promises safe delivery by mail from a Berio Mass supplier, with dealer order options.
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Moditmer
Alanis Aveo
Berio
Mass
Methodical Fishing in Newark Jr
The Newark Jr prints a Jim McDermit era tale told in darkey dialect about traveling salesmen in a southern town visiting a pond where a negro fisherman jokes that there are no fish in the pond and that he has no time to weed the garden due to his wife’s chores.
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India
Assam
Bimleyas
Savage
Mlages
Punjab
Bengal
Wimalayan
Asyam
Kashmir
Todas
Nijgii
Tam
Nilgiri Hilla
Nigiri Nila
Madras
Japan
Newark Jr
Jim McDermit
Amiali Pond
Adolf Negro
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Iver
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Central Africa
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Maasailand
Henwal
Abe
Ceylon
Hindustan
Beluchistan
Ita
Enate
Hare
Kahub
Herat
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Kabul
Wodleh
Righer Plmalayas
Zach Aas
Tie Magas Shreich
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Strauss Pritz CO Phat
Whiskey Express
Kentucky
Bis
Smiths
Lithia
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