Weird Funerals of Africa's Kings
The piece describes King Wobeh of Totoquelll dying in Liberia near Monrovia and a multiweek funeral. It covers ceremonial chicken killings for messages to the king, royal lamentations, a public wake, the arrival of foreign miners, and a three stage burial with a grand feast and distribution of the bullock meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Totoquelll
Liberian
Monrovia
Africa
Wobeh
Wabeh
Goomah
Totoquell
Bush
West Coast
Matis
Tayard
Tetoquelll
King Bow
Dean's Kidney Pills Promote Quick Relief Claims
An advertisement cites Mia John H Wright of Mitchell South Dakota praising Dean's Kidney Pills for ten years of kidney trouble and back pain with improved health after use. It lists 60c boxes and Foester Milburn Co Buffalo New York as the seller. The piece also notes opinions on tuberculosis care and charitable hospital efforts in the United States and tensions over patient access in the Southwest.
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Mia
John H. Wright
East First
Mitchell, & D
Dean
Foeter-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
East
West
California
Texas
Vast Vermont Marble Quarry Near West Milford Hub
Report describes a massive marble deposit near West Milford Vermont. A mouthwide quarry holds about 12 000 finished pieces and a vast hill yields marble with deep unseen depths after decades of blasting. Sage Advice for Husbands quote by Rev Father Bernard Vaughan urges patience with wives in daily talk.
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West Mutland
Father Bernard Vaughan
Grape-Nuts Promises Digestible Nutrition For Stomach Ailments
A Terre Haute reader shares relief from four years of indigestion after using Grape-Nuts. Her husband improved after transitioning from ordinary foods, and their son thrives at school on the cereal. The piece extols Grape-Nuts as a nourishing daily staple and cites its nutrient content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Trusts Beget Monopolies in Clever Wordplay
A married philosopher cloaks a joke about trust and monopoly in a dialogue with a bachelor. The banter moves through coy remarks and practical mockery as characters name and challenge each other. The piece relies on social humor about relationships and wealth.
Kind of Husband He Was
A New Jersey woman shows keen interest in her servants welfare, even asking about a new mold of daily velvets. Nora remarks her husband is rough yet playful, joking that he could be a good husband if he treated her better, a line echoing Harper's Weekly humor.
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Wobeh
King Low
Riad
Ain Onseers
Rom
New Jersey
Nora
Alie
Shure
Gyurl
Harper's Weekly
Public the Beat Censor and Moral Contempt in London Stage
A public censor would reject an impossible play and an unetical manager would face risks. The production would quickly end as the public rejects works morally repellant to London Stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Local color notes at summer resort prompt sharp remark
A casual exchange hints at a writer chasing local color at a summer resort. The speaker boasts about taking pride in a dramatic effect, joking about drawing out details from an imagined arm gesture.
How England Got New Zealand
England secured New Zealand for the British crown after a race from Sydney between a British and a French warship, thwarting French annexation plans. A French adventurer Haron de Thierry briefly proclaimed himself king with 100 followers but failed due to lack of funds.
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England
New Zealand
France
Sydney
Haron de Thierry
London
Kalser Defined By A Student In School Discussion
In a classroom debate on world rulers the teacher asks for the meaning of kalser. Willie, distracted, defines it as a stream of hot water springing up and disturbing the earth, altering the political history lesson.
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Esther
United States
England
Willie
Wille
Lippincott
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