Use and Abuse of Salt by Horace Bianchon
Dr Horace Bianchon argues salt is vital yet dangerous, detailing how both excess and deficiency affect nerves, edema, and organ function. He cites studies on thirst, neurasthenia, and edema, noting milk with added salt worsens Bright's disease while saltless bread and meat aid recovery. He forecasts future salt use in therapeutics for rheumatism and kidney issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Bianchon
City of
Parle
Albert Robin
Meyer
Vidal
Commerce Moving Westward
The piece argues the United States must back national efforts to expand Asiatic trade horizons as commerce shifts from Atlantic to Pacific. It stresses stronger support for merchants, industrial development in China, and the role of modern methods in turning China’s resources into wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Manchuria
China
The Duty of Citizens By Hon David B Hill
The Duty of Citizens is plain. He should help form public sentiment to demand due process and lawful punishment for crime, with trial by court and jury under the federal constitution. These provisions protect life and liberty for every person, white or black, native or foreign born, rich or poor, educated or unlettered, wherever the American flag floats. The duty of every American citizen who loves his country remains.
School for Professional Training by Dr Edward Everett Hale
Dr Edward Everett Hale argues for delaying vocation choice to allow liberal and broad education. He stresses that top professionals including doctors lawyers clergy engineers and journalists need well-rounded training, and that practical, daily newspaper work supplies essential education beyond college specialization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
Man
Religion in the Public Schools by Hon. W. T. Harris
United States Commissioner of Education argues that religious instruction rests with the church and should be kept separate from secular schooling. He contends mixing the two in public schools degrades both, turning schooling into a deistic routine or a parochial program and diminishing church ceremonial impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hon
W. T. Harris
United States Commissioner of Education
Diversified farming urged to specialize for higher profits
The piece argues against broad, vague diversification and urges farmers to specialize in their best money crop. It cautions against sowing many hoed crops, advocates soil-friendly rotation, and stresses stock feeding, careful planning, and business-like farming to boost yields and profits. It notes regional variations and stresses practical, profit-driven choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Iss
South
Tennessee
North
Alabama
South Atlantic
Gulf
Gardner
The Tenant Farmer
The piece notes 35 percent of American farms are tenant operated, up 10 percent in twenty years and 7 percent since 1890, signaling rising landlordism. It argues tenants harm farm value, urges cash rent or crop share, and discusses landlord duties such as improving housing, gardens, and advising tenants to use agricultural papers and institutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Grundy
Poultry, Dairying, and Pasturage insights from a 19th century journal
The piece summarizes poultry cravings during molt, praises dairying as a science, notes Angora goat imports halted since 1881 with later South African sources, argues abundant Southwest feed but wasteful potential, and extols perennial pasturage and siloed corn for cattle. It also hints at corn shortages despite good crop reports and comments on efficiency in dairy versus steer production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry Journal
South Africa
Teta Mighty
Romance of the Papacy Reveals a Love That Shaped a Pope
The London Tattler recounts the dramatic true tale of Pope Pius IX as Count Mastai Ferrato, a forbidden English Protestant match, and the Jesuit orders that separated them. Miss Foster, daughter of Kilmore’s bishop, endured interferences as Mme De Salis blocked the union. The count’s secret marriage plans collapse, and he rises through church ranks after believing she wed another. Later, fate brings him face to face with his long-lost love, a moment of high drama unmatched in fiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican
London
Pius IX
Mastal Fer
Miss Foster
Kilmore
Italy
Mme. de Balls
Mme. de Salis
Count Mastai Ferrat
Pope Pius
Leo
Dumas
Jesuita
Progress in sanitation and public health gains
An English public health assessment notes that since the late queen's reign life expectancy has risen by three years for men and five for women. Typhoid deaths fell from 374 to 100 per million, typhus was stamped out, and sanitation saved about 20,000 London lives, mainly infants. Fever deaths dropped 85 percent and consumption deaths fell by about half since 1861 65.
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Boston Globe
England
British Sanitary Institute
Great Britain
London County Council
Bess
Institutes of Medicine and Sanitation
Irving
The Stage Child and Other Wandering Vignettes
A compendium of brief notes on stage children aging out into chorus roles and other society miscellany. It surveys how child actors drift from early fame into later occupations, then glances at a German silver plating idea for deceased bodies and a Vatican wardrobe staff that keeps pope garments immaculate.
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Everybody's Magazine
Vatican
Pryme's Philosophy Recycled Wit on Men Women and Wisdom
A collection of aphorisms on popularity humility and wit. Boomerangs and evil thoughts, wisdom of the rich, attitudes toward marriage and gender, and the quirks of lovers and friends are explored in compact, ironic lines.
The Self Made Man and Oddities From Crossroads
An eclectic column weaving satire on self made men and luck with local notes from Crossroads. It includes a child’s kidney remedy testimonial for Orbra Young and quips about editors, weddings, and social foibles set in a Midwest town.
Family Bookkeeping Slender Means of Hidden Debt
A humorous exchange contrasts a wife’s habit of keeping accounts with her husband’s push to stop. She admits there was extra money in the household ledger, claiming it justified spending, while he argues it shows a balance excess. The joke centers on misread ledgers and fiscal pride.
Sheep and goats tale and a steel range offer
A narrative fragment recalls a child fearful of goats alongside an advertisement for a 500 pound steel range from Sears Roebuck Co offering a three month free trial and a free big picture. The page also includes light vignettes about ice cream nostalgia and humorous quips from newspapers.
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Brooklyn
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
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J. P. McCumber
United States
North Dakota
David B. Hill
New York
Texas
Romance OF
Edna
Mr. Cave
Sram
Pryme
Puck
Crossroads
Fenn
Orbra Young
Lester Young
Orbra
Dodd
Oklahoma
Anosner
Coleagues
Chicago Post
Chicago Chronicle
Owen
Perte
Somerville Journal
Chicago Tribune
Milwaule Sen
Long
Miss Short
Meeker
Tiece
Don
Putnam
Doan
Dean
DeRngter
Jae
Ikacka
Bante
H. Honea
Ridgeville
Aspleung Tor
Mim Bal
AME
Atri
Jove
Heaven On Earth
Nien Robbins
Norwich
Inune Teller
Henpeck
Philadelphia Press
Baltimore American
Philadelphia Record
Seaciee
Anzonmst
Paxton
Dept . Hoston
Mass
Kioneve
iCure
Wm. Forrest
Memphis
Team
Smith Medical Co
St. Louis
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Douglas
Mall
L. Las
Brockton
A.N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
Jefferson Street
Tulane University
New Orleans
Bruey
Zendard
Orueuerizere
Ysis Bald & CO
Whiting
Yom
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
New Haven
Comm
Sinanis
Homnor
Drugville
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