Bjornson Birthday Tale: Windows Splitters Sing
The Norwegian poet Bjornson recalled his seventieth birthday with a tale of a conservative delegation smashing his windows. After the assault they began to sing the song of the land, and the poet felt a paradoxical pleasure from being celebrated despite the attack.
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Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Argonaut
Storthing
Parliament
Backache Cured by Dean's Kidney Pills, Farmer Testifies
A. A. Boyce of Trenton Missouri suffered a severe kidney cold and back ache. After trying many remedies to no avail he used Dean's Kidney Pills from Charles A. Foster's drug store. He reports the backache gradually disappeared and urges readers to request a free trial offer from Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo New York. Pills sold for 60 cents at druggists.
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A. A. Boyce
Trenton
Secret Betrayed in Celestial Empire Deal
A fragmentary exchange unfolds as a deciphered deal is threatened by a promoter's absent mindedness. The text hints at a planned venture tied to ancient references and a character named Chin-Nong introducing rice into the Celestial Empire about 2800 years ago.
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Celestial Empire
Cnpair Chin-Nong
Frances Stafford Testimony Supports Pinkham Remedies
Mrs Frances Stafford of 243 East Tidth Street New York City adds her testimony to the hundreds of thousands on Mrs Pinkhams files. Skeptics faded as year after year the group of cured women grew into a vast army. Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and other medicines are credited with aiding women across America.
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Frances Stafford
E. Tidth St
N.Y
Gty
Lydia E. Pinkham
America
Peter Chosen King in Serbia After Alexander Killing
The skupshtina and senate swift chose Prince Peter Karageorgevitch as king within minutes, amid praise and questions about civilization's stance on assassination. Britain warned to limit diplomatic ties if conspirators gain power, while Serbia’s new rulers push secrecy over their roles and rewards.
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Alexander
Peter Karageorgevitch
Serbia
Tresson
Great Britain
Ing
Chicago
Servia
Rambling World News Snippets and Piquant Observations
A collage of foreign and domestic notes touches on Balkan royalty, a Kansas City opening, red tape in relief efforts, Erie police strike, cyclone threats, a hypothetical dynasty agenda, panama hat fashion, Bulgarians’ prison releases, and a ransom kidnaping of an American. Variations in diction reveal chatter about global affairs, fashion trends, and ongoing public concerns.
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Karageorgevitch
Kansas City
War Department
Erie
Aeigen Fargr
Reese Souri
Queen Draga
Panama
Abdul Hamid
Abi
Mies Stone
Conscience Behind Counterfeiters Says Hazen
William P. Hazen former head of the U S secret service argues to a Baltimore Herald correspondent that perfect counterfeit money or bonds is impossible due to a mysterious conscience that sabotages the criminals work. He notes even expert engravers fail to achieve perfection and that suspicion often arises from an indefinable feel of the bill or coin leading to detection.
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Wiliam P. Hazen
United States Secret Service
Washington
Baltimore Herald
Treasury
The Way She Identified Them on Nantucket
One of the island’s most eccentric figures, Eliza Ann McCleave, ran a small museum and lectured visitors. She pointed to two figures and joked that one was Caesar and the other Brutus, asking Mary Lizzie to identify who was slain.
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Nantucket
Eliza Ann McCleave
Caesar
Brutus
Mary Lizzie
Dodd's Kidney Pills Save Child in Sedgwick Ark
Sedgwick Ark June 22 W H Taylor says the pills saved his child’s life after severe swelling left him a helpless invalid in his mother’s arms. Before using Dodd's Kidney Pills he was near death, and observers believe the cure was decisive.
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Sedgwick
Ark
Taylor
Tors
Dodd
Fragmentary 19th century notices and advertisements
A garbled collage of dialogue quotes, hymn references, and product lines. It mentions Miss Primleigh likeness to her mother, Jesus Accept the Praise by Charles Wesley, and hymns used at Methodist conferences. Also cites Piso's Cure for Consumption and Winslow's Soorarms Sundor for Children with price 55 cents for two bottles.
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Jesus
Charles Weslés
Methodists
Light peeks through cracks in famed preacher tale
Two Dumfries men hearing Edward Irving in Scotland debate his depth. One mocks the preacher as cracked, the other reassures with the line that light often peeks through a crack. Also notices June to July rail fares for Boston round trip via Lake Shore Michigan Southern with specific sale and return dates and stopovers.
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Edward Irving
Scotland
Dumfries
Willie
Will
Bostom
Lake Shore
Michigan
Niagara Falls
Chautauqua
New York
City Ticket Office
Clark
C. F. Daly
A. G. P. A. Chicago
Reasoned Out and Love in Blindness
A brief, reflective line from Chicago Past on perception and affection. It contrasts the idea that beauty proves love with the counterpoint that blindness accompanies true feeling. The quotation suggests love’s irrational clarity beyond sight.
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Chicago
Longest Diamond Service Holder Jim O Rourke
Jim O Rourke of Bridgeport Connecticut holds the record for the longest continuous service on the baseball diamond. He debuted in 1872 with the Mansfield nine of Middletown and has played without long breaks ever since.
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Jim O'Rourke
Bridgeport
Conn
Mansfield Nine
Middletown
Complete External and Internal Treatment For Skin Diseases
Advertisement touts Complete External and Internal Treatment for torturing skin and blood humours including scrofula and hair loss. Claims Catienra products and Cuticura remedies cure obstinate constitutional humours, infantile eruptions, eczema, and itching when other remedies fail, with many homes using these products.
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Catiura
Monsen
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