Strange Bequests and Gratitude Across Tales of Injury
Anecdotes recount strange wills and acts of gratitude from victims, rescuers, and professionals. A surgeon losing a patient due to a mistaken artery receives an annuity. a Polish princess forgives her killer with a 200 ducat bequest. Other tales note large gifts from grateful survivors, including a widow praising a rescuer and Burns among the onlookers. A New York magnate offers wealth to an author, but the offer is declined.
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Sidius
Hem
Burns
Valle
Tyne
Tillionaire
New York
Lipton on Poverty, Hard Work and Success for Youth
Sir Thomas Lipton extols the merit of starting poor to gain drive and opportunity. He argues that a poor background cultivates value for money, perseverance, and politeness, while a rich upbringing dulls ambition and willingness to improve. He urges study, language learning, and productive labor as keys to success, noting personal motivation from the prospect of pleasing his mother.
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Thomas Lipton
Thomas
Beautiful Eyes Advice For Eye Care In Everyday Life
The article discusses how to preserve and beautify eyes through rest, proper lighting, and simple home remedies. It suggests short rests by closing the eyes, lavender oil in water as a brightening rinse, cologne as an alternative, rosewater zinc lotion for inflamed eyes, and cocoa butter along the lash roots to promote growth, noting clipping lashes is not advised except in childhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ailine
Cologne
Power of Love and a Homeward Holiday Mixup
A jumble of comic vignettes unfolds as George and Clara feud over a kiss in a ninth letter and a wanderer’s return. Benedict and bachelor banter reveal conflicting refrains about marriage. a student defies return home amid a stern father’s questions and a town’s holiday bustle.
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George
Clara
Traveling bath tub and social quarrels in a giggling world
A distorted reminiscence piece recounts a boastful millionaire showing a travelling bath tub with gold fittings and pneumatic tyres, and a reporter overheard remarks about wealth, class tension, and emigration. A parallel comic vignette features a Labour leader’s wife reacting to political scorn, while a comedian’s lodgings misadventure ends with a stern fatherly rebuke to a gossiping boy.
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Marl ‘Pwain
Ili
Gobella
Lec Ly
Atlantic
Coney
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Wangarat
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FAL
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Walsh's Hospital
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