Plan to rescue Violet at the School of Arms
Neil and Major Rally to raid the School of Arms run by Professor Wicks on Easton Road. They plot a night approach with a boxing trick to locate Violet while avoiding Rivington and Coombes, sending a messenger to monitor the target and bait the guard with a boxing lesson.
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School of Arms
Wicks
Huston Road
Neil
Coombes
Easton
Harborow's
Professor Wicks
Easton Road
Harborow
Blackguard
Violet
Rusten
Neill
Rivingtons
Riyington
Kaston
Rivington
Jove
Dart
Major
Nell
Humor in a Domestic Dilemma About Speech and Kissing
A wife loses her speech and a husband jokes about fears and cures. The dialogue explores whether the condition could be permanent and if kissing could be dangerous, with a punchline about ending bachelorhood rather than medical risk.
Priest Shot in Mulheim Confessional Mistaken Target
Father Petrus Wenger, leader of a Jesuit mission at St. Engelbert's Church Mulheim en Ruhr, was shot dead by a Dutch assailant who claimed he intended to kill Father Welter over a grudge. The suspect Weinand, described as demented, was arrested after the fatal incident.
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Berlin
Germany
Wenger
Mulheimen-Ruhr
Rhenish
Prussia
Weinard
Welter
Muelheim
Petrus Wengeler
Father Wenger
Weinand
Father Welter
Minard’s Ointment Cures Dandruff Promptly
Laundry chatter reveals a chain of personal tidbits. A laundress notes a great day with a daughter’s release, while a man remarks on his own month-long absence. The exchange underscores daily concerns and small fortunes in everyday life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black
White
Domestic Exchanges Reveal Dinner Proposition Plan
Snibbs asks to use a phone to call his wife about bringing a man from out of town to dinner. He worries his face during her reaction as the visitor sits in his room.
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Waston
Teas and Postum: a shift from tea dangers to Postum relief
An Illinois woman details that heavy tea use caused nerve pain headaches and numb spells risking paralysis. After quitting tea and switching to Instant Postum she reports sleepless nights ended, bilious attacks reduced, and her heart growing stronger. Postum marketed as convenient with uniform flavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Windsor
Ont
Every German Will Be a Soldier in Peace Time
At a banquet the German chancellor Dr von Bethmann Hollweg called for strengthening land armaments this year. He stated that every able bodied man should be a soldier to defend the empire and the homeland against war, and that the nation is united in this resolve ahead of Reichstag discussions in Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Fmmerlal
von Bethman-Holmes
Balkan
All in Too Mrs.Racey Hunter Returns
Dialogue fragment shows a hunter returning after an accident asking if he was in at the death. Jack denies involvement and requests a costly payout including a sixty guinea horse a ten pound suit of clothes and four front teeth.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Reward and Endorsements
A vintage advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from Walding Kinnan & Marvin of Toledo and F. J. Cheney & Co. claiming honesty and financial reliability. The copy explains internal remedies and directs readers to buy at seven eight cents per bottle with testimonials available.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding Kinnan & Marvin
Aye Halls
Ten Times Best Man Receives Gold Medal for Weddings
Harvey Stapleton of Market Deeping Lincolnshire has served as best man at ten weddings and is awarded a gold medal by friends. The piece also notes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a leading worm destruction product and claims it brings relief to children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Harvey Stapleton
Market Deeping
Lincolnshire
Belgian Lieutenant Flies 31 Miles With Flowers
Lieutenant De manet of the Belgian army carried a bouquet by aircraft from Brasschaet near Antwerp to Louvain Brabant to surprise his fiancée. He completed a return flight over Louvain with his fiancee last week.
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France
Brussels
Louvain
Brabant
Demanet
Brasschaet
Antwerp
New War Machines at Olympia reveal aviation arms race
London reports on Grahame-White biplane and other war aircraft displayed at the Olympia aero show. The article details heavy enclosures, wind screens, self starting devices, radio-like electrophones, and armaments including a Coltaulek firing gun. It notes 90 horsepower is likely insufficient and mentions other models from Royal Aircraft Factory, Bristol, and Vickers plus the armored Alriio horsernder monoplane designed to destroy airships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Grahame-White
Olympia
Grahame
Royal Aircraft Factory
Bristol Company
Vickers
Hanpens
Bleriot
Fair Visitor and Fond Mistressy Dental Exchange In Jest
A playful dialogue features a fair visitor questioning why Fido’s teeth get a thorough brush while Fond Mistressy explains the dog bite incident. The exchange captures a light domestic moment with wit and characterization.
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Fido
City's Keys in Pawn by Mayor of Naples
Naples mayor seeks recovery of the citys golden keys now in a pawnbroker shop after a baker named Circolo won a $1250 damages verdict. The appeals court ruled against the municipality and bailiffs seized the key and several oil paintings and marble busts of Italian sovereigns in the mayor's absence. The mayor sues the bailiff for recovery.
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Naples
Circolo
Court of Appeals
Art Treasures for America Superb Chinese Porcelain Lands in U S
London dealer Mr Gover acquires George R Davies collection of about 600 Chinese porcelain pieces. The haul includes a finest famille verte vase worth about 25000 and a rare Kanehe period circilar neanse box valued at 32500. Other prized specimens feature Sang-de-hoen vases and superb apple greens destined for the United States.
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London
England
United States
Gover
Bond Street
Alfred Trapnell
Bennett
George R. Davies
Atlantic
Nerhans
Sang-de-hoens
Children’s Walking Feat Draws Three Young Pedestrians
Linda Benton aged 6 Farrow aged 6 and William Farrow aged 6 walked from Peterborough to Whaplode Drove a sixteen mile trip on Sunday to visit their grandfather. TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE AR OMD Quinine Tablets druggists refund if fails to cure. W G roves signature on each box.
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London
Linda Benton
Farrow
William Farrow
Peterborough
Whaplode
W. Grove
Mad dog Berlin injures fifteen in streets then slain
Panic in Berlin as a mad dog attacked between fifteen and twenty people and two horses before a policeman killed it with a saber. Eight or nine victims have sought Pasteur treatment so far as authorities search for others.
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Berlin
Tragic Death In French March Ends Boy’s Valor
Four boys aged 12 to 13 followed a regiment on a long march from Sedan. Andre Lennion, 12, collapsed and later died after struggling to continue with no money or aid. His companions sought help after he failed to respond, and they found him dead next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Sedan
Andre Lennion
Lennon
Electric lines for India consults expert on Mumbai rail scheme
Electrical expert Charles H. Merz visiting Bombay met with the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway and Karachi Port Trust Railway to discuss electrifying Bombay railways. He also conferred with the railway board as details remain undisclosed. Possible trial on suburban lines. further consultations in Ceylon noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Calcutta
Charles H. Mera
Australia
England
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Bombay Baroda
Central Indy
Karachi Port Trust
Railway Board
Merz
Ceylon
Mill Bley Appoints Town Clerk for Keighley
Smith Terry named town clerk of Keighley with a salary rise from 2000 to 2500 dollars. He is a native who started work in a mill at age eleven, after a half time start in youth.
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Mill Bley
London
Smith Terry
Keighley
Baby’s Own Tablets for Infants Sold by The Dr. Williams Co
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as suitable for babies easing stomach upset colic teething and worm expulsion. Mrs. E. J. Ayer of Westmorland Point New Brunswick endorses their use and the tablets are sold by dealers or mail order at 26 cents per box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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E. J. Ayer
Westmoreland Point
N.B
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Whooping Cough Serum Claimed From Tunis Institute
Doctor Nicolle director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis claims a protective serum against whooping cough has been found. The Petit Parisien reports that virtually every case vaccinated with the serum has been cured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Nicolle
Pasteur Institute
Tunis
Petit Parisien
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills Endorsement Claim
The article promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as portable compact medicines that are popular when effective. It asserts accurate compounding with proven ingredients to regulate digestive organs and positions the pills as the most popular and reliable option.
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Parmelee
Wounded Alsatian Girl Inches Toward Paris Hunger
A one year old Alsatian girl Mile Adele Bartl was run over by a train at Rosny sous Bois on the road to Paris. She suffered the loss of a leg and two arms. When the doctor from Matin arrived she asked for bread and a sausage, saying I am very hungry.
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Paris
Adele Bartl
Rosny-sous-Bois
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