The Body and Its Care Warn Against Dangerous Diets
A long excerpted piece warns that abrupt drastic dieting leads to prostration and disease. It notes multiple cases where sudden tissue loss and excessive exercise caused weakness and death, urging medical guidance before altering diet. It also covers pages in Congress with young pages and dancing culture in Washington, and a miscellany of odds and ends from medical curiosities to crime and industry news.
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Vegas
Untitled Reflective Prose on Labor and Virtue
A fragmentary meditation argues that courage, labor, and restraint shape prosperity. It warns against envy and the allure of wealth, noting that true value lies in steady truth and measured progress while individuals must restrain greed and build barriers against social floods.
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Tom West
Unseemly Word Retold in Quaker Tale
Greene recalls a boyhood tale of a strict Quaker who after being harassed by a stubborn ox uttered a single unseemly word. The story ends with the Quaker muttering a harsh vow rather than cursing or beating the animal.
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Greene
Fistacremichice
Make their mark lead poncila article in Rome
Bishops Donne of Albany Whipple of Minnesota and Vincent of Delaware arrive in Rome to make their mark. The trio, led by faced with duties and expected to confer with church officials, travels amid ceremonial activity and media attention.
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Donne
Albany
Whipple
Minnesota
Vincent
Delaware
Lave
Rome
Public Schools Spending Across Cities and States
The article notes Massachusetts towns spending over 7.5 million dollars annually on schools, Chicago and New York figures for state and local funding, and New York City employing a female superintendent at 2000 a year. It also mentions 2500 NYC pupils lacking admission due to accommodation limits and Kansas allowing districts to own and select textbooks, effectively making books free.
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Vanelog
Washington
John
Orivo
Waco
Texas
Axsour
New York City
Kansas
Green-Haired Men in Ward Nevada Mine
Report from Ward Nevada describes eight men at the Martin White Mine who develop green hair and beards after ore roasting. The hair remains soft and uninjured, while fumes from copper compounds in the ore are suspected to cause the unusual coloration.
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Nevada
Martin White
Ward
Nev
Sunday School Row Over Israel's Leader
Frustrated superintendent questions children about who led the Israelites into Canaan. A timid boy nervously blurts that it wasn’t him, joking that he “jist moved yera last week” in Missouri. The moment captures classroom tension and a stray quip from a pupil.
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Israel
Canaan
Mizzoury
First Step Into Nervous Prostration Warning Ad
A vintage patent medicine ad urges readers to take Electric Bitters to restore nervous health. It claims improved appetite digestion liver and kidney function with a 2 cent bottle offered by D Humphrey, a local druggist.
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Humphrey
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