Sleep Diseases Linked to Overwork and Sleep Deprivation
Historical note explains a non tropical form of sleeping sickness as meningitis with drowsiness. Dr Browning cites 28 cases where prolonged wakefulness preceded symptoms, including a teen staying out late, a radio-working man, and a student burning midnight oil. Rest is essential.
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Tropics
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
William Browning
Brooklyn
Browning
Pirate Captain Hiram Breakes Aims and Downfall in 1764
In 1764 the Dutch born pirate Captain Hiram Breakes commands ships between Saba and Amsterdam. He murders a Chilean captain and seizes 200,000 bars of gold from the Acapulco, then gains a semi official privateer license at Gibraltar. After plotting a wife-for-all, he retires to Amsterdam to find Mrs Snyde hanged, and ends his life by drowning in a canal.
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Hiram
Hiram Breakes
Saba
West Indies
Amsterdam
Snyde
Fore
Iran
Vigo Harbor
Acapulcn
Valparaiso
Breakes
Acapulco
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Balearic Islands
Minorca
The Incredible Pirate Captain Bowen Ends in Peace
The account follows Capt. John Bowen who turned from piracy’s myth to a profitable career. He seized ships near the South Seas from Bengal to Madagascar, built a fort at Madagascar, and amassed over a million dollars in loot. After his wealth and power grew, Bowen settled with the Dutch on Mauritius, dying there in peace.
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John Bowen
Bowen
Merrie Companye
Bengal
Madagascar
Mauritiug
Preventing Deafness Through Early Ear Care
An article discusses how all knowledge comes through the five senses and stresses the ear’s fragility. It explains the ear’s anatomy, how infection can reach the inner ear via the Eustachian tube, and urges prompt attention to adenoids throat discharge and mouth hygiene. It warns against earache in children and the risks of swimming pool water causing infections.
Choosing a Puppy From a Blanksburg Collie Kennel
Old Man Negley helps Mark Rendle pick a collie pup from six at Blankacre kennels. He guides selection by temperament, ear shape, and health, filtering out shy, top-eared, and lame pups to leave two promising choices for Mark to observe.
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Negley
Vine Street
Althe Mark Rendle
Mark
Blankacre Collie Kennels
Blanksburg
Mr. Negley
Rendle Chaufeur
Blankaere Collie
Ike
the Keanelman
Sunnybank Goldsmith
Seedley Stirling
the McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Sounds of the day in a hospital and careers of the unseen
A writer recalls hospital bells powerful enough to alarm and guide. The essay traces how sounds from nun bells to ambulance sirens shape fear, suspense, and memory. It notes nurses on fire drills and the superstition culture among professions, ending with a patient told to stay in room thirty.
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N'A Hospital
EH. G. Wells
Africa
Lfe
Fourth Estate
Purses through the Tudor era and Renaissance fashion
The article traces poke origins from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries with side pouches. Henry VIII is noted for a red satin purse embroidered in gold and Catherine de Medici popularized perfumed leather purses costing up to $30 each.
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Henry VIII
England
Catherine de Medici
Virtue’s Support A Bible and a Newspaper in Every House
A quotation from Franklin praising a Bible and a newspaper in every home as main supports of virtue morality and civil liberty. notes education and local districts as worthy values.
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Franklin
Soda fountain clerk jokes about chocolate flavoring
Harry Hirshfield visits a soda-water emporium and asks for an ice-cream soda without flavoring. The clerk replies that they have no chocolate flavoring and offers a soda without vanilla instead. The gag hinges on the clerk’s dry misinterpretation and literal options.
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Harry Hirshfield
The
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
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Health
Western Newspaper Union
Weiller S Weiller Livestock Commission
ST. Paul
Minnesota
Albert Payson Terhune
Virtue
Wriglay
Des Moines Register
Golden Medical
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