Simpler cure for assassination habit urged by James Q. Howard
The essay argues treating anarchists as mentally unsound to prevent killings. It contends courts judge insanity case by case and cites historical assassinations to claim removing dangerous leaders requires locking up professed anarchists. It likens violent offenders to untamed beasts and advocates compulsory asylum confinement for those advocating or capable of regicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria-Hungary
William McKinley
Where Chorus Beauties Come From
A New York World piece analyzes beauty origins of Broadway chorus girls. It notes many come from rural towns in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and California, while New York City and California attract ambition. It contrasts interior state brides with city stars and credits country migrations for the chorus’s allure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Qil City
Newcastle
Horseheads
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Ohio
Colorado
California
San Francisco
New York World
Popular Errors Concerning Volcanos
An early critique debunks common myths about volcanoes. It argues there is no combustion or flames emitted from eruptions, only lava melts and heats surrounding matter. It explains lava burns but is not consumed, smoke is condensation of steam, and new crater reports misstate fissure lava reaching the surface.
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Vesuvios
Etna
Pliny the Younger
Vesuvius
Harper’s Weekly
Painting the Kitchen Floor and a Pocketed Linen Case
A New York Press note recalls a New York woman painting her kitchen floor upon moving into a flat while Southern women bubble with ease, sharing memories of burnt sienna floors and stained hands, followed by a craft tip for a portable linen pocket with a red braid edge and ready for use, with optional art cretonne.
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New York
South
New York Press
Art Cretonne
Canning and Pickling Instructions for Fruit
Guidance on perfect fruit canning notes selecting ripe fruit especially strawberries, using granulated sugar, clean utensils, cooking in jars, packing promptly, making syrup, filling jars to rubbers, boiling gently until tender, then sealing each jar with proper rims and heat.
Fruit For Breakfast For a Healthy Child
A New York Telegram dietary note advises breakfast with seasonable fruit and well cooked cereals, milk, eggs, and bread. It urges feeding a small child soon after waking and recommends a larger midday meal to aid digestion before sleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Telegram
Sweet Potatoes and Apple Pudding From Old Household Recipes
The text outlines baked sweet potatoes with timing varies by size from 30 minutes to two hours and describes Apple Pudding with breadcrumbs apples suet lemon rind and a little milk. Bake in a well buttered pie dish at moderate heat.
Fig and Orange Jelly-Cook Dessert
Instructions describe cooking figs till tender then turning into a hot dish. Mix fig juice with lemon juice and orange juice, dissolve gelatine in water, combine and strain, then add chopped nuts. Mold and chill, serve with thick cream.
Dreadnought Unveiled Armament and Design Details
The first official white paper on the British battleship Dreadnought outlines a main battery of ten to twelve inch guns, twenty seven anti torpedo boat guns, and five submerged torpedo tubes. It describes turret arrangement, broadside and ahead fire, anti torpedo protection, turbine propulsion for 21 knots, 2700 ton bunkers, 5800 nautical miles at economy speed, 3500 miles at 18.5 knots, and an estimated cost of 8,987,485 dollars.
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Bere
Bourse origins and Grasshopper Glacier tale in Country Life in America
In this excerpt Country Life in America recounts how the Bourse name spread from Bruges to Antwerp and England through merchant gatherings, noting Queen Elizabeth's failed effort to end its use. It also describes Grasshopper Glacier in Montana, where two foot thick grasshopper strata are preserved in ice, likely from ancient swarms buried in a snowstorm.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Bourse
Bruges
Venice
Europe
Beurse
Leslie
Channel
England
Royal Exchange
Elizabeth
Montana
Rockies
West
America
Teaching a child virtue through example and action
The Philadelphia Inquirer emphasizes that a child learns most from a parent's conduct and example. It urges truthful, temperate, and kind behavior, hosting wholesome amusements, and earning a good name over wealth gained at others’ expense. Also noted: about 170 old letters found in a Belfast county courthouse post box, some from 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Inquirer
Belfast
Asteroid Found Beyond Jupiter Alters Old Ring Theory
A newly recorded minor planet, first seen February 22, lies beyond Jupiter, with a sun distance of 5.25 and an aphelion of 6.151, exceeding Jupiter’s orbit. The discovery challenges the idea that asteroids form a belt strictly between Mars and Jupiter. A medical journal notes rising milk consumption among people who drink cow's milk versus other animal milks.
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Mars
Jupiter
Notable Toledo Firms Endorsements and Local Gas Plant Profits
A garbled notice lists endorsements for various Toledo firms including Cw & Co and Hall's Wholesale Druggists. It cites reputations of FF. J. Cheney, references a lax medical cure and a patent claim, and mentions Hall's Family Pills. Odd mentions of gas supply in Glasgow and Nottingham appear with price and profit figures for Nottingham gas.
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Kew
Lall
Cw & Co
Toledo
FF. J. Cheney
Transacions
A & Teace Whlesale Druggists
Kazoo, Kixnyaxa
Manvix
Hall
Vince
Tég
Perbottis
Ell Dragzist
Lake Hall
Glasgow
Nottingham
Americas
Woman Kidney Health and An Old Advertisement Claim
A reminiscence on kidney weakness and backache cites Mrs. Charles F. Smith of 22 Boyden Street Woonsocket R I praising Dean's Kidney Pills for improving her health after years of suffering. An additional note corrects India’s map position and Everest height, and a claim reports a band of terrorists captured in Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Smith
Boyden St
Woonsocket
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
India
Mt. Everest
Poland
Avoiding Surgery with Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
A 19th century plea against routine operations for female troubles touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a safe alternative. Personal testimonials from women in Indianapolis and Milwaukee claim relief from functional disorders, inflammation, and weakness, reducing operation fears and urging readers to seek Mrs Pinkham’s counsel in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia BE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margrite Ryan
St. Andrew's Society
Indianapolis
Ind
Margret’ Merkley
34 Street
Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia B. Pinkham
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James Q. Howard
Frank Hennessy
Gaston Bonnier
Institute of France
Rarrens
Medica
Mergrite
Ryan
Eureka
Boston
Standard OT CO
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