Working elephants of Burmah fascinate visitors at Rangoon mills
Christian Advocate describes Ragoon sawmills where nine trained elephants labor daily. Mahouts guide the giant beasts with foot, voice and iron prod as they lift heavy timbers, form towering piles, push logs into water for rafts, and endure mud year round. Each elephant weighs about four tons, rises nine feet, and cost 1,200 before training.
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Tess
Burmah
Ragoon
Rangoon
A City of Zinc Beira Mozambique Zinc Town Emerges
A London Tablet excerpt describes Beira in Portuguese East Africa as a zinc dominated city built in six months. Houses hotels and public buildings are zinc with zinc stretchers zinc coffins and a zinc hospital. Large imports of zinc from France England and America fed rapid cheap construction.
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London
Mother s Friend Promises Easier Childbirth
A historical advertisement claims Mother's Friend reduces Nervousness and pain, shortens labor, and speeds recovery for expectant mothers. It cites a Macon Georgia reader, Joan G Pornitt, noting relief in three prior births and quick, easy deliveries with the product.
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Joan G
Pornitt
Macon
Bradfield Regulator Co. promotes women’s health tonic
Advertisement for Bradfield Regulator Co. offering a woman’s health tonic at 61.00 per bottle with express shipping on payment. Claims priceless information of interest to all women available free by mail to any address upon application from Atlanta Georgia company.
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Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Undefined fragment hints at sleepy paradox in skyward life
Fragmentary line references bed early rising and a persona linked to long life and better living. Mentions Dr. W and unnamed figures in a whimsical or editorial note. No clear event or identifiable entities emerge from the readable text.
Trewns Tron Bilters Promised to End Aches and Tiredness
A vintage advertisement touts Browns’ron Bitters as the preferred remedy for women and the sickly, claiming it banishes backache and headaches, restores strength, and brings a healthy complexion, with appeals to homes and families.
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Browns
Ron Biiters
Future paths seen by trance medium in old column
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch excerpt notes a trance medium predicting a young man will become an actor after wandering an unsettled expanse. The dialogue frames the teller as an explorer then shifts to a career shift toward stage, with hopeful approval from a futures dealer.
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Fair Dealer In Futures
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Free bottles promise from T A Slocum for lung cures
The Great Chemist T A Slocum of New York offers three free bottles of his new remedies to any reader affected by consumption or lung diseases. He claims a universal cure and cites testimonials from patients worldwide, asking readers to mail their address to 98 Pine Street, New York, and mention the Gazette.
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T. A. Slocum
New York City
the Gazette
M. D
Pine Street
New York
Farm Cleanup Plans For Spring Planting And Stock Care
The article discusses winter work on farms to maximize acre productivity. It covers feeding and tending stock, hauling manure, cleaning fields, and preparing ground for spring planting. Recommendations include cleaning fence rows, burning weeds, plowing under stalks, and using frost to break down debris to improve soil humus and prepare for cultivation.
Ex Secretary Carlisle’s Favorite Color Is Gray
Ex secretary Carlisle favors gray in attire and rarely wears other suit colors, reflecting a consistent personal style.
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Secretay
Carlisle
Practice That Made Perfect in Leschetizky Tale
Cleveland Moffet recalls a story from January Ladies' Home Journal about Leschetizky teaching piano by using six dried peas. The teacher tracks progress by moving peas to a pocket after each flawless run and resets if a mistake occurs.
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Leschetizky
Cleveland Moffet
Ladies’ Home Journal
Thad
One More about Grace at Savoch Kirk
In Savoch Scotland a diminutive minister David Daw married Grace Wilson a tall bride. On the first Sunday after the wedding a neighboring preacher preached so Daw could sit with his wife. The text Ephsians iii 8 prompted the sermon about grace despite warning not to mention the couple.
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Old United Presbyteran Kirk
Savoch
Scotland
David Daw
Grace Wilson
Mr. Cato
Caw
Davd Kenny Remedy Ad Across Fragments
An assembled fragment references a claimed kidney, liver and blood cure named Davd Kenny Remedy. It shifts to a social observe about two husband types failing in family dynamics. An ad for De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve claims healing for sores and wounds with a doctor’s name at end.
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Pr.davd
Kenny
de Witt
Montis
Key to Successful Domestic Financing
Frances Evans argues in January Ladies' Home Journal that small savings compound into wealth and that women, as almost naturally attentive to small details, can excel as financiers. She contends women gain independence when managing allowances and paying bills, despite lingering financial anxieties.
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Francis Evans
Ladies’ Home Journal
Frances Evans
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