Oxygen Therapy Said To Cure Madness At Villejuif Asylum
Dr Toulouse chief physician at Villejuif Insane asylum reports using pure oxygen injected under the skin via a hypodermic needle from steel cylinders. A observer notes remarkable improvements in acutely confused patients who become calm and lucid after a few injections. Effects include reduced insomnia and potential cures in madness, dementia, epilepsy and melancholia, with trials expanding to other forms of insanity.
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HARD LINES FOR BUSY MAN
A humor story about a very busy man whose wife receives daily love letters written by his efficient secretary. She celebrates the tokens, while the secretary handles letters, flowers, and book picks. Two months later the busy man discovers the secretary eloped with his fiancée and laments replacing another secretary.
Time Wasted In Mourning
A Kansas City Star quotation contrasts unproductive mourning with effort. It notes a man who lingered by a stream lamenting not becoming a colonel, while suggesting true leadership comes from strong corps and ambition, not idle crying. The piece urges action over regret.
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First Aid: A Tale of Lending and Charity
Simple Simon borrows one dollar from David with an agreement to repay two in three weeks. David, factoring Simon’s poverty, offers to take one dollar now and the remaining one dollar later. Simon agrees, and David pockets the early payment, easing the loan for Simon.
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New York Evening Post
Scribes and Paraphrases in a Glasgow teaching tale
A Glasgow News reader recalls a scholar’s remark that scribes and paraphrases are cheats now lawyers. a ten year old mocks spelling, mispronounces pneumonia as preumonia, and defends with boastful wit.
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Doctor Finds Prisoner Drugged at Police Station
A physician summoned to a police station examines an unconscious, muddy prisoner and declares the inmate not drunk but drugged. A police officer admits to drugging him, confessing it was done over a distance of about a hundred yards.
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Sounds Like It In Domestic Row Across Families
In a series of remarks the women discuss treatment of spouses with metaphorical language. Mrs Young claims Mrs Tubbs treats her husband harshly while Mrs Younger questions how such treatment is carried out. Mrs Young asserts she is being picked on by her husband.
Unpleasant Task Laid on Him from Tornado Look
A farmer’s son returns home pale after a rough day. His father asks the cause. The son trees a joke about a correspondence school sending a letter from sophomores telling him to hate himself.
Early Days of Journalism and the Free Press
The first distinguished English journalist Sir Roger L Estrange died long ago. He became surveyor of the press in 1862 and edited The Intelligencer to censor news. His monopoly failed as rival news letters spread and he later issued an unofficial Observator.
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Mental Fire Drill Courageously Taught by a Mother
A mother recalls a life changing scare when her home caught fire and how the event inspired a personal mental fire drill She explains the habit of keeping valuables in a known place both upstairs and downstairs and rehearsing what to save first Her account highlights self-reliance and gratitude toward firefighters.
Tennyson Family Poets Across Generations
The Tennyson family produced many poets including Alfred and his brothers and both sons who published poems anonymously in Macmillan's Magazine. Alexander Japp notes every male in the family wrote verse yet avoided public publication, unlike the famed poet. Lionel and Hallam’s works appear in Poets and Poetry of the Century, with the elder sending pieces by letter.
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Estimating Loss by Smoke in City Atmospheres
Engined aims to quantify soot and dust in major towns using standardized instruments from the smoke abatement committee. The rain gauge like device collects particulates over a fixed area via a glass receiver beneath a duct, emptied monthly for replacement.
German Language Quirks Highlighted by Child
A six year old girl innocently introduces a classmate by saying she is the little girl with red hair who sits next to me at school's mamma. The mother and observer note the humor in Germans using long compound nouns and complex verb placement, contrasting with a child’s straightforward answer.
Left Handed Tools and Corkscrews Reach Niche Market
Enterprising manufacturers tailor articles for left handed users including ears adjusted tools and left handed screws and gimlets. Corkscrews are made to twist the wrong way for left handed butlers and waiters. The piece also notes gravity yielding spherical drops of quid and lead in a rain like fall through perforated colanders atop a tower.
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London Chronicle
Princess Shot by a Moth in Naples Murder Trial
A Neapolitan prince is acquitted in the Princess Caravella case after a Naples detective proves a moth burned by a candle struck the pistol trigger, causing the fatal shot to the princess. The moth dust on the trigger and the weapon’s position support the accidental theory over homicide.
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Canada
Engineer Gets Record Fee in Ottawa Water Project
A report notes that Sir Alexander R. Binnie of London will receive a record fee of 400000 dollars to lead Ottawa Canada’s water supply construction. The English engineer will oversee surveying, direct all engineering branches, and visit the works each season. It contrasts with New York where city staff handled primary work and final supervision.
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Ottawa
Canada
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Hoe
New York
Sailor withdraws charge after Paris theft incident
A Ohio battleship crewman in Marseilles reported a £20 theft by an Algerian tirailleur who was later identified as not a soldier. He urged settlement “man to man” to preserve the service’s honor, but the magistrate rejected the rough remedy and the tirailleur remains in custody.
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Algeria
Boston's New Custom House Dominates Skyline
Boston's new custom house stands as a unique public building amid the rising city skyline. The tower once rose 505 feet, crowning the pyramidal view once led by the golden dome of the state house. Building laws now ban private structures over 125 feet, ensuring the custom house remains the dominating feature in city views.
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Man in Pink Pajamas Causes Belle Vue Stir
Luther Delaska awoke in Belle Vue Hospital New York after influenz a illness wearing pink pajamas. Enraged he leapt through a window onto Twenty sixth Street and escaped into the East River before being recaptured by nurses, watchmen and police. He returned to bed wearing a night shirt and slept again.
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Ald to Genius. Our idea on three children per family
TheGalveston News quotes a view that every family should have at least three children so that if one becomes a genius the other two can support him. The remark reflects early 20th century social thinking on family size and intellectual propulsion.
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