The Great French Conjurer and Palmer's Curse Tale
A collage of legends contrasts Houdin like feats with Palmer’s curse. It recounts Troudin’s pistol test on marabouts in Algeria and Palmer’s alleged metempsychic prowess and fatal curse among Bedouins. The piece links Eastern superstition, Orientalism, and imperial intrigue across adventures and trials, ending with short anecdotes of juries and autos.
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Irene Conjurer
Robert Houdin
Palmers
Algeria
Algiers
Hils
Toudin
Hondin
B. L H. Palmer
England
East
Houdin
Pahner
Assas
Palner
Coal is King and United States Holds the Throne
The Metropolitan Magazine asserts coal as the linchpin of global and national power. It argues that without coal the world’s railways, power, shipping, industry, and commerce would collapse, and that the United States possesses the dominant capacity to supply coal, ensuring lasting peace and economic standing.
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America
Cought
United States
Europe
Ohio
Belves
Metropolitan Magazine
Early Caricatures of Ancient Egypt in Humor and Art
In Louis Republic the piece surveys ancient Egyptian humor through caricatures and art. It cites a New York museum cat titled Egyptian fashion sipping wine while a tomcat serves as attendant. Papyrus scenes from Britain and Turkey show geese driven by a cat, goats by wolves, and a wolf with a double pipe. A pharaoh as a rat in carriage, greyhounds, war imagery, and comical animal groups illustrate the antiquarian fascination with playful scenes.
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New York Museum
Animalife
Dresco
Ife
T. Louis Republic
Doan's Kidney Pills Promised for Kidney Trouble
Days of dizziness and pains signal kidney illness. Mrs Irene B Myers of Smyrna Delaware testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured her kidney trouble and back pains after three years of suffering. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, sale agents for the United States. Remember the name Dean's and take no other.
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Denton
Irene B. Myers
Delaware &J
Smyrna
Del
Doan
Foster-Milurn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean's
Annuities and fears shape old age finance
A physician touts annuities as the best life investment noting many long lived elderly draw steady income while finances and worry shorten life for others. The piece blends quips on aging finance and insurance with comic vignettes about inns and a stuttering cure seminar. It closes with a holiday party miscommunication in Cincinnati.
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Lelease
Overcoat Seized At Leicester Square Eatery
A man dining near Leicester Square experiences a stranger seize his overcoat as he glances at a girl in a pink and white dress. The owner of the restaurant asks for permission to retrieve a forgotten cigar, urging the diner to keep conscience in mind as he departs.
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Hitio Felow O
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Joe Hummel
Denton
Moncey
Leicester Square
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