Dyspepsia as a Myth and American Causes
P C Remondino argues dyspepsia is not solely a stomach issue. He cites global eating habits and endurance fares of various peoples, notes education of the palate, and links modern dyspepsia to saloon drinking, excessive work, and lack of cheerful amusements. He urges looking to social factors and not the stomach for the cure.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Avéry
Ireland
Scotland
America
P. C. Remondino
National Popular Review
Bee sting in the garden noted by Angeline
An Angeline cartoon caption describes a bee sting incident, with a character lamenting the painful encounter and a humorous note about finding a honey mine, as featured in Harper's Bazar.
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Angeline
Harper's Bazar
Republican Reorganization Debate in North American Review
Senator Dolphin argues against basic reform of the Republican party. He warns that altering core principles to satisfy popular winds risks dissolving the party and detaching from its proven tariffs and federal election stance. He calls for adhering to core principles to win broad support.
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Republicas
Reult
Republican Party
Senator Dolphin
Smelt Village Fearing Ice Break Triggers Quick Escape
In Stroudwater the ice bound fishermen, twenty wooden shanties near a tide mill, felt sudden panic as freezing water rose and forced their retreat to the bank. One man tethered his house and towed it ashore, prompting a swift exodus as the entire smelt village vanished before the water subsided.
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Stroudwater
Portland
Kangaroo venture eyed by Sydney trader in America
Henry G Adams of Sydney Australia arrives in Montreal and proceeds to Topeka Kansas to scout the American southwest prairies for large ranches to rear kangaroos. He believes kangaroos may replace buffalo and plans wintering in the south west with first kangaroo imports by next summer.
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America
Henry G. Adams
Sydney
Australia
Montreal
Topeka
Kan
Mr. Adams
New South Wales
Ghostly pledge and silk-like relic confound textile experts
Ezra Morgan recalls a railroad tale from Painter of the International and Great Northern. After his wife’s death she appeared, spoke, and handed him a silk-like fabric piece she cut from her dress, leaving experts puzzled by its origin and nature.
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International
Great Northern
Ezra Morgan
the Lindell
Painter
Galveston
Willis
Tex
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Squeezing Corruption in Chinese Officials Alleged by Jesse Herbert
In China two officials per post spy on each other and report only the others deeds. Senior officials engage in broad bribes as a rule. Viceroys earn £60 yearly but take at least £8,000. Judges receive £40 but draw £2,000. Canton has 1,200 police who are unpaid yet highly desired. Police allegedly cooperate with thieves in Canton.
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China
Canton
Jesse Herbert
Two English Poets Critics in Rural Chat
A cottager near Farringford asks his clergyman about Lord Tennyson and Shakespeare as great poets. The clergyman agrees, but the rustic replies he approves of neither, offering a blunt rural verdict from a New York Tribune item.
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Farringford
Lord Tennyson
Shakespeare
New York Tribune
Matrimony Mystery Haunts Shenango Church Case
A tale from Jamestown Pennsylvania describes Thomas McCobb accused of marrying his deceased wife’s sister. The claim swirls through the Shenango congregation as a justice of the peace, William Clyde, and a bemused trio of sisters are tangled in a church trial that ends with McCobb and his wife expelled from the congregation after synod ruling.
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MacCobb
William Clyde
Wenango
McCobbs
Thomas McCobb
Nhen Fletcher
Greenville
Miss Blank
Newton Fletcher
Thomas
Justice of the Peace
William
McCobb
Jamestown
Pittsburg
Chicago News Warns Journalists: No Jobs During World’s Fair
The Chicago News-Record cautions reporters that Chicago papers are saturated with applicants and not hiring. It notes an overflow of unemployed writers, many with no funds, driven to leave town or seek streetcar work. The warning urges writers elsewhere to avoid Chicago for employment.
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Chicago
Chicago News-Record
Ocean survey pins crow's nest height on White Star ships
Marine Journal reports that White Star crow's nests sit 265 feet above the main deck on the foremast, making a 70 foot sea a plausible height for the wave that swept away the Majestic and Teutonic crow’s nests. A 40 foot deck level suggests waves of about 40 to 70 feet, typical in north Atlantic storms.
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Daily
Majestic
Teutonic
Marine Journal
North Atlantic
Hunger Drives Foxes to Bold Theft at Maryland Coast
In severe winter weather, hungry foxes near North Beach life saving station on the Maryland coast abandon fear of people and openly approach the station in daylight, attempting to steal chickens and even small pigs.
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North Beach
Maryland
Washington Post
Communications by Pert in Paris Siege Use Bold Schemes
Reports detail Paris authorities using baled carrier pigeons hollow coins hollow teeth and zinc spheres to smuggle dispatches past German lines. Messengers faced high risk of discovery while attempting tunnels river crossings and diving suits. The schemes yielded little before armistice ending the siege.
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Paris
Seine
Origin of Lynch Law and Early Trials by Lynch
Webster's Dictionary traces Lynch law to a Virginia farmer named Lynch who executed private punishment. In Campbell County, Loyalists were flogged by Colonel Lynch and allies, inspiring widespread unofficial trials by “Judge Lynch.” The practice spread to other counties as a rough, extralegal justice system.
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Virginia
Lynch
Campbell County
Charles Lynch
Robert Anderson
Calloway
King George
III
Louis Republic
An Experienced Artist on a Self-Managed Play
A stage star insists on revising a play to omit the hero from the first and last acts while remaining involved in the box office and the sheriff's duties, prompting a clash with the dramatist in a New York Weekly item.
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Star
New York Weekly
The Change of Life and Lydia Pinkham Remedies
A written message promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women approaching menopause and for adolescents, with a Florida reader praising its health benefits. The advertisement notes Lydia Pinkham Liver Pills sell for 26 cents and urges readers to consult druggists.
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Lydia FE. Pinkham
W. W. Culner
Palatka, Fla
Lypta
Pinxham Mep. Co
Lynx
Mass
Lydia
Pinkham
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W. D. Cross & CO
Concord
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Acton, Mass
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Tuttle
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