Yeats of grafting marvels in modern surgery
A historical overview of early grafting feats in surgery finds attempts to replace lost facial bones and limbs with grafts from arms, ribs, rabbits, and birds. Notable cases include a boy given a nose from arm tissue, a noseless man with a grafted nasal prosthesis, and calf shin-bone and rabbit bone implants enabling use of limbs. Other experiments span Charing Cross Hospital and New York Charity Hospital cases, highlighting experimental grafting's promise and limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berger
Academie de Mede‘cine
Charing Cross Hospital London
Speier
Guy' S, Hospital
A-Weiter
Beaujon
Freso
Charity Hospital
New York
Auckland
New Zealand
Remark on a Marquis of Townshend and a drumane sighted
A fragment describes a young Marquis of Townshend during engagement, noting a drumane beside him. The scene conveys shock as a cannon ball kills the drumane and scatters Rig: bibration. The superior officer observes and addresses the Marquis, who remains fixed and unimpressed by intimidation.
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Townshend
Dottie
Restruction in ee Athistics Re See ee a undergoing instruction
A historic account details probationary drills for new police recruits. Recruits, typically strong young men from rural areas, endure a rigorous program from 9 am to midnight. The process spans three to four months with medical exams, physical tests, and constant drill, fitness, and study of regulations before assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fegular
Baby's Own Tablets for June Weather Ailments
A vintage ad promoting Baby's Own Tablets as a remedy for summer stomach and bowel troubles in infants. It claims to ease sleeplessness and irritability, with testimonials from W. E. Bassam of Kingston praising the product. Sold at drug stores or by mail for 25 cents per box from Dr. Williams Medicine, Brockville, Ont.
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W. E. Bassam
Kingston
Ont
Brockville
Praying for Rain in a Small Irish Village
A Protestant farmer begs the village priest to pray for rain on Sunday next. The priest visits him and asks what to pray for, as all crops fail in the little garden and the weather breeds tension between faiths. The scene unfolds on a July day with wary humor.
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Parisis
England and the empire as a final global task
The Fortnightly Review argues imperial expansion has reached its limit with Pretoria’s peace. It says British rule now covers a quarter of the globe and a third of its population, requiring vast energy and resources. The piece warns that sustaining such power risks ineffectiveness, exhaustion, and moral strain, with no easy solution in sight.
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Pretoria
England
China
United States
Wisson
Elizabeth
India
Egypt
Peyor
Transvaal
America
Germany
War’s moral toll and America’s stagnation in a crisis
The author contrasts Britain and America in wartime character, noting England’s calm efficiency and America’s rapid industrial growth yet moral retrogression. Physical exercise and faith wane while devotion to empire remains diffuse, signaling a future of uncertain purpose unless clearer resolve emerges.
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England
America
German Empire
United States
Lamy
Strong Plain Counsel From Free Blind River Miss Emily Liddell
A pamphlet-like testimonial presents Miss Emily Liddell of Free Blind River Ontario detailing severe female weakness and backache she suffered months ago. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills she reports dramatic improvement, regaining strength and household capability, and endorses the remedy to other young women.
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Emily Liddell
Dodd
Bonith
Miss Liddell
Dutica
Suller
Prolonged Perarattorn and national wisdom debate
The text argues against overreliance on form over action and critiques the belief that decisive conviction proves national wisdom. It cites Sir Ian promaltone’s remarks on military education, urging alertness and rejecting alarmism despite disagreeable trends. The piece laments denial of troubling facts until catastrophe looms.
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Ian Promaltone
Committee On Military Education
Shaw Keeness
Passing of Pemican and the Hudson Bay trade
Fifty years ago pemmican linked buffalo wealth with Indigenous endurance. The article traces pemmican’s Cree origins, its fat and meat mix, and how the Hudson Bay Company stored and traded it across vast northern lands. It recounts Duck Lake 1899 camp scenes and the meat’s preparation from buffalo to sun dried sheets and finally to stored provisions.
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Northwest
Preat Fur Corporation
The
Hudson Bay’ Company
Red River
Hudson Bay
Rocky Mountains
Saskatchewans
Duck Lake
Thich
Preparing pemmican in ancient Northwest practices
The text describes pemmican making from dried marrow and meat packed in buffalo hide bags. Meat is sun and wind dried then pounded with rock to a paste, stored in sewn sacks, and later eaten by removing the hide and cutting portions. cooking options include frying, boiling, or eating as is.
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Northwest
Broadway Underpinning Lifts Upper Block Near Two Inches
On Lower Broadway New York a tall-office building end adjacent to a taller new tower was raised and underpinned by nearly two inches. The operation avoided damaging brickwork masonry plaster and did not disturb lifts or machinery. The long quoted garbled text around it mentions unrelated figures and phrases about theaters ink and wind but these do not alter the main event.
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Lower Broadway
New York
Aino Linen to Best Dle Restore Mainmast Length
Fragmentary items describe ship measurements math, disinfectants, and a spray of varied notes. Mentions Kaiser mortality figure, Britain locomotives, and a Mosquitoes remedy testimonial from Richards Co. Sums include Minard's Liniment and Old Country commerce references amid scattered product notes.
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Aino
C. O Richards & Co
Minard
Minard's Liniment and German lignite paper coal
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Minard's liniment for rheumatism and mention paper coal or lignite found near Bonn Germany. The text notes natural film splitting of the material and references a thin paper like layer, but details are incomplete.
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Bonn
Germany
Fragmented OCR summary of local notice and names
Incomplete readable text mentions individuals and firms with garbled spelling. Core items and actions are unclear, leaving only scattered names and fragments without a distinct event or outcome.
Widow sells Bible translation to British Bible Association
The widow of the late Russian professor Dr Kulesh sold his translation of the Bible into Little Russian to the British Bible Association for 82,500. The censor had prevented printing.
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Kulesh
British Bible Association
Milnari's Lloiment Cures Labigpe in 1890 notes
The fragment suggests a 1890 reference to Milnari's Lloiment curing Labigpe during a century era, mentioning 32 war medals and 98 clasps issued to the British Army, though the text is garbled and uncertain.
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