Democratic unity boosts Bruce bid for U S Senate
Campaign across the state highlights unity within the Democratic Party for William Cabell Bruce. Speakers cite tax burdens from tariff laws, noting Republicans shifted taxes onto ordinary citizens while cutting other levies. Voters in Baltimore and counties rally behind Bruce and the party ticket.
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William Cabell Bruce
United States
Congress
Bruce
Issaes
Baltimore City
Wiliam S. Norris
Baltimore
Republican Congress
Odd ideas concerning tides from ancient to colonial times
The text surveys historical beliefs about tides from Aristotle and SteracHtus to medieval and colonial era notions. It notes sun driven explanations, animal myths, sea respiration, lunar heating, earth vapors, alternating air-sea decay, and a serpent swallowing water. Folk in Cape Cod linked tides to death, and Scottish lore tied tide to poultry outcomes.
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Aristotle
SteracHtus
Plato
Cape Cod
New England
Scotland
Vikings Buried With Ships and Rich Grave Goods
Ancient Viking practice buried prominent dead in ships sunk into earth and covered by a mound. Ships contained horses carts wagons sleds apparel and servants. few relics survive due to damp soil. Three ships have been reconstructed, the Oxebrge ship being the finest unearthed near Jarishers Larvik.
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Walhalla
Potters
Jarishers
Larvik
The Impression One Gets
A brief odd exchange suggests a traveler has visited many places and is pressed to size up a prime minister abroad. The dialogue tone mirrors a light, humorous local column in the Ave Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biriming
Wanted Gospels by Mark in San Francisco depository
Rev A Wesley Mell secretary of the Pacific agency of the American Bible Society faced a robbery in a San Francisco depository. A six foot one cowboy with one eye shot out entered and asked for Gospels by Mark. He later, short of funds, contemplated a street theft but discovered an 8 cent Gospel of Mark left by the bedside. The encounter ended with the cowboy obtaining the Gospels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Wesley Mell
Pacific Agency
The
American Bible Society
San Francisco
No Cinch On Alphabet Warns Of Initials Use
The London Morning Post reports a Canadian Pacific Railway notice to hotels shops and eateries protesting unauthorized use of its initials. Timothy O’Brien owner of the O P T Barber Shop in a prairie village replies with a humorous letter claiming the letters on his sign do not represent the railroad but his own memories of his Irish mother Christina Patricia Reardon and asks what the company will do about it. He argues there have been no cut rates locally and denies any relation to railroading.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Timothy O'Brien
Prairie Village
Str
London Morning Post
Roman Woman First Nurse in History and Nursing Origins
The article traces nursing roots from ancient Rome with Fabiola who founded a hospital and convalescent home around AD 380, forming a society of noblewomen trained as nurses. It notes the decline of professional dignity in 1514 at St Bartholomew's, the turn to untrained aides until 1790, and Kaiserwerth's 1836 school under Fileder whose methods influenced Florence Nightingale in England.
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Fabiola
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
London
New York Hopital
Filedner
Kaiserwerth
Germany
Florence Lightingale
England
Courtesy on the Road to Kamakura in Japanese Politeness
In a Japanese road scene near Kamakura a drunk laborer lieges in the street, a chauffeur stops inches from him and gently boots him aside. The man rises, bows, and offers no apology in his native tongue as travelers proceed, illustrating stubborn courtesy.
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Kamakura
Coulle
Oiebt
Ben Hur Lamptonn
The
Portland Oregonian
Warlike Masai Tribe and Their Savage Customs
A harsh portrait of the Masai, described as arrogant and warlike, counting around 50,000 and ruling vast regions by raiding neighboring tribes for cattle. The account claims they subsist solely on meat, despise plant food, drink ox blood mixed with milk, and revere the ox as their chief food source.
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Africa
Veteran Pa. 2. R. Man Praises It as Tanlac Restores Health
William Livingston of 4 Harris Ave Baltimore Maryland a longtime Pennsylvania railroad worker credits Tanlac with restoring health and strength after two months of digestive misery and near collapse He reports weight gain improved appetite and better sleep and urges others to take Tanlac as indispensable. Tanlac is said by all good druggists to help.
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William Livingston
Harris Ave
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tanlac
Taniac
Atlas Portland Cement
Atllas
Atlas Portland Cement Co
New York
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