Cure for eye errors through lens shaping gains hope for wearers
The Pall Mall Gazette reports that refractive errors caused by eye malformation can be treated by reshaping the eye's lens to alter the focus. Paris doctors and London surgeons showcase cases where glasses were no longer needed after a painless, safe procedure, offering relief to millions in England and beyond.
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Darier
Paris
Battersea Park Hospital
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Jury Dinners and a Bale of Hay Echo in Court Humor
The court contemplates twelve dinners as jurors reach day two with one juror still unconvinced. The foreman jokes eleven diners and a bale of hay as humorous theater. Separate quips from Mrs Scribbles and Scribbles mirror satirical exchanges. London Fun and New York Press blend the wit. The Free Press advertises a one year subscription.
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New York Press
Cabbage Hustle and a Carriage of Errors
In a late hour curbside tale a huckster sells a single cabbage for a nickel to a hopeful buyer, then repeats the same offer to a second woman before quietly passing the head to the latest customer. A dispute erupts when the first purchaser protests she lost her cabbage to another buyer. Also included are German newspaper clippings correcting the mock attribution of The Merchant of Venice to Grillparzer, noting Shakespeare as the true author.
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Gays
New York Sun
Bill
Jersey
Indy
Long Island
Bacon
Vienna
Star Theater
Grillparzer
William Shakespear
Bear Passes Berry Picker as Man Clings to Tree
In Sullivan County New York a man gathering blackberries spots a bear nose to the ground. He climbs a tree in fear but lands in a trap of his own arms and legs wrapped around the trunk. The bear passes without noticing him. Forest and Stream reports the tale.
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Sullivan County
N. Y
Troublesome Matches and a Boy's Request
A country grocer and a small boy exchange a penn'orth of matches with the lad returning hours later claiming the matches won t strike. The grocer demonstrates by striking one on his trousers as evening falls and the boy repeats his mother s complaint that she has no time to come round to strike them. A London Graphic note adds a comic aside. Jenkins replies to a gift copy of a book on knowledge, joking that forethought would have been better than kind thought.
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England
France
America
London
Jenkins
Clement
Ethel
Geese Shod for Market Trek in Vilna Province
In Vilna district Lithuania geese are shod to prevent footsoreness on long market treks. Birds practice the goose step in tar and sand, wearing booted feet for the 200 mile march to the Warsaw goose fair.
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Vilna
Lithuania
Thial
Warsaw
Origin of the Rothschilds and the 152 Judengasse shop
Amschel Moses Rothschild ran a coin store at 152 Judengasse in Frankfurt’s Jewish quarter. The red shield on the shop inspired the name Rothschild as he traded curiosities art goods and old precious metals. His son Mayer Amschel (1745–1812) continued the coin business and formed ties with a court banker, launching the Rothschild banking firm.
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Rothschild
Amschel
Moses Rothschild
Judengasse
Frankfort
Mayer Amschel
Landgrave of
Hesse
Mayer
Elden Monthly
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A. W. Meccnenelas
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