Manekelea of Melanesia Stands Against Head Hunters
Native teacher Manekelea blinded by ophthalmia faced a deadly threat from a head hunting chief. He met the chief and spoke calmly about the wrong of head hunting, then signaled a fellow fighter with a pipe to distract the attacker. The astonished warrior dropped his tomahawk and the danger passed.
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Manekelea
Melanesia
Melanesian Mission
Manekelen
Simi
Manckelea
Fighting at Peking tensions and troop dispositions
A Taku dispatch says allied forces attacked the Pei Tang forts at daybreak. General Chaffee prefers winter tents to unsanitary camps. About 10,000 allies expected to winter in Peking with German troops largest. Russians to hold 2000 in Peking. Japanese to pull back to Nagasaki. Dowager Empress open to return if protected. Viceroys of southern China appeal for peace talks.
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Chaffee
Peking
Viceroya
Taku
Pekin
Nagasaki
Pan Wees
Russia and German Peace Proposals on Punishment of Chinese Leaders
The text analyzes a shift in strategy during peace talks. Russia previously urged punishing Chinese uprising leaders as part of a general program. Germany now requires punishment as a prerequisite before negotiations, differing from Russia’s view that punishment should be included in the negotiations.
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Russia
France
Boer Forces Panic as Transvaal War Collapses
Lord Roberts reports from Nelspruit that about 3,000 Boers retreated from Komatipoort with 700 entering Portuguese territory. The rest scattered across the Komati river toward Lobombo spurs, destroying artillery and leaving only scattered marauders led by Whelly-Kenny at Doornberg.
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Lord Roberts
Transvaal
Nelspruit
Pretoria-Delagoa Bay
Komatipoort
Frontier Station
Machadodoro
Komati River
Lobombo
Whelly-Kenny
Doornberg
Horny-handed son of toll asks for soap and water
A Washington Star reprint recalls a 19th century political exchange between Tom Stuart and Boone in Winchester. Boone boasted of farmers’ hands as horny-handed, Stuart countered with a jab about cleanliness, leading to Boone’s defeat and Stuart’s election.
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Tom
Cice
Tom Stuart
Winchester Democrat
Boone
Daniel
Stuart
Toll-T
Washington Star
Two Canals Binding Atlantic to Pacific Seen Promising
A claim that two canals will bind the Atlantic to the Pacific is made, though its value is unestimable. The note adds a health pitch for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, urging use for indigestion constipation dyspepsia and biliousness.
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Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Hard to Please London Tit-Bits dialogue snippet
A wife asks John if she should die would he marry again. He deflects with a joke, she accuses him, and the exchange reveals tension over marriage and motive in a London Tit-Bits snippet.
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John
London
Hall's Catarrh Cure and a school joke recap
An overdue catalogus line notes Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents alongside a humorous London Tit-Bits anecdote about a pupil answering a biology question with My grandmother. The piece mentions a Putnam dye product promising superior color and a quip from the Indianapolis Journal about a patient unable to dress due to mothball packed clothing.
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England
Indentata
London
Clergy News Highlights Liberal Ties and Church Visits
Notes on a fund for a memorial in Canterbury Diocese for Archdeacon Midstone. Furse, a Liberal ally of Gladstone and Rosebery, is remembered. A Bishop visits Walton jail, first official prison visit by a bishop. Methodist Bishop Hawilton arrives in San Francisco as youngest bishop at 55. Prof Gould of Newton Theological Institute dies. Bishop Derrick of New York advocates South reformatories and schools for imprisoned youths to aid reformation.
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E. P. Gould
Newton Theological Institute
Protestant Episcopal Divinity School
Philadelphia
William B. Derrick
New York
African Methodist Episcopal Church
South
The Young Guards at Waterloo Tale
An account of the Young Imperial Guard at Waterloo, aged eighteen to twenty one, sent by Napoleon to the front. They fight fiercely against Highlanders in a hand to hand clash. A French youth with seventeen wounds survives to tell the tale the next day.
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Young Guards
Waterloo
Young Imperial Guard
What Do the Children Drink Grain-O Ad
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for children. It claims Grain-O made from pure grains tastes like coffee when prepared properly and costs about the same, with grocers selling it for ibe and 25e.
Noted social chatter as Clara sighs at marriage
The Party Papers recount Clara's sighs over her husband George who is a congressional candidate, while Hilda learns from opponents how dreadful he is. A breakfast tip plugs Mrs. Austin's pancake flour.
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Clara
Hilda
George
Congress
Oblivious of Others Quips About Health in Snide Exchange
A brief confrontation features Diges bragging about his own health while ignoring others concerns. The counterpart retorts that Diges would miss a serious illness like smallpox and its source.
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Diges
Vagrant Robbers Target New Orleans Residence
Six robbers in evening dress and silk hats raided Mrs. Wilda Cole’s New Orleans home, stealing about $2,000. The incident is noted among a string of advertisements and miscellaneous items in the page.
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Wilda Cole
New Orleans
What Shall We Have for Dessert Jer ious Try Jer ious
A short homemaking note promotes a ready healthful dessert name Jer ious. It claims two minutes to prepare with hot water and cooling. Flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry advertised at grocers. An unrelated science aside follows about electric fish of the Nile and a 260 volt battery analogy.
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Gotel
Nile
Lane's Family Medicine Ad Promotes Health Claims
An OCR fragment advertises Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement benefits, liver and kidney cleansing, and headache cure for prices 25 and 50 cents. The jumble mentions irregular eyeballs as an insanity indicator and references various names and misread phrases.
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Lane
Caretads for Bowels Claims and Cautions
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Cascarows candy cathartic pills promising cure for a variety of ailments by regulating bowels. It markets the product as natural and painless with a ten cent price and urges consumers to beware of imitations.
Ocean Cable Proposal From Copenhagen To Iceland
A proposed ocean cable linking Copenhagen and Iceland would span 4a miles and cost about $850,000.
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Copenhagen
Iceland
Grain-O quips as coffee substitute for all ages
In an advertisement a Grain-O product is pitched as a coffee substitute safe for children and adults. It promises rich mocha like color and flavor from pure grains and claims to cost 47 per package or 260 per package. The note mentions American fiction about cotton garments before Europeans.
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Ian
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