Opium Culture In Persia
A detailed account of opium cultivation in southern Persia around Shiraz and Isfahan. It describes poppy growth, incisions to harvest juice, methods of collection, processing into cakes, packaging for export, and the high morphine content. The piece notes domestic consumption, opium dens, and social impact, ending with a dire view of Persia’s decline due to widespread use.
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Persia
Shiraz
Fara
Ispahan
China
Europe
France
London
Poacher Tale Linked Shakespeare to Charlecote Park Visit
Picture shows the great gates at Charlecote Park Warwickshire England a site associated in tradition with William Shakespeare's poaching activity. The piece notes the park's place in local lore and its historical link to the playwright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlecote Park
Warwickshire
England
William Shakespeare
Park
Pastime at Child's Party Doll Hunt for Little Guests
A clever party idea for children uses a doll hunt with colored cords ending in each girl’s doll name. Dolls are found along a stringed path through the parlor to the dining room where gingerbread dolls serve as keepsakes and place cards bear each child’s name.
New Tech Advances Highlight Early 20th Century Innovations
The article surveys diverse progress from aviation and accurate telephones in farms to wireless Rome Tripoli communication, new rifle mechanisms, ferro- silicon and potash production, auto theft countermeasures, pivoting window sections, and Washington horticulturists pursuing a US grown rose producing attar of rose via distillation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Rome
Tripoli
Sweden
Washington
United States
End of the World Car Quote Sparks Grand Forecast
A professor of natural phenomena predicts a dramatic planetary upheaval tied to a gasoline car. He imagines a sequence of tire failures and inner tube ruptures signaling a cataclysm so vast it could shake the Dog Star from its kennel and thrust the Dipper into a new era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natural Phenomena
Kingdom Come
Excellent Precepts on Work, Wealth, and Sleep
A compact aphorism urges labor for enjoyment of food and raiment, and to secure rest by carrying a clear conscience to bed. The maxim links daily life choices with moral discipline and personal peace.
Not Society's Fault Gibbs How Did the Rich Tool Man Enter
Judge remarks on social entry, noting the man was not introduced to society but rejected, highlighting class barriers and public perception in high society circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibbs
Hibbs
One Side To Matter Floral Bouquets For The Living
A column excerpt discusses offering floral bouquets to the living, with reflections by Tom Thompson and references to Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It notes the tendency to favor gifts for funeral occasions and includes a humorous aside about reception of such offerings. The piece also mentions a rural humor vignette with tariff-themed dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Thompson
Howard Courant
Ella Wheeler
A Wilcox
Chancellor Bradford
Chautauque
Talaga
Kansas City Star
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Restore Skin and Hair
A reader from Greenwood Indiana describes long hair loss scalp itching and severe pimples. After trying many remedies they report success using Cuticura Soap and Ointment with three months of treatment yielding smooth clean skin. This article also notes a belief in perpetual motion being impossible with Newton and De la Hire cited.
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Greenwood
Ind
C. M. Hamilton
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Isaac Newton
de la Hire
Fragmentary ad copy and quips from a faded page
The readable text shows botched phrasings and stray product mentions. It includes lines about a joke provoking anger, a cough drop remedy, a moonlit lover, and worm expulsion, all in a rough, garbled layout typical of an old newspaper page fragment.
Not As Bad As All That Skirt Controversy
In Kansas City Judge Ralph S Batahaw recently crushed a movement against close fitting skirts. He argued narrow skirts do not imply immorality and recalled hoop skirts as a past imprudent fashion. The piece notes social advancement yet mocks jokes from cartoons. A humorous vignette about a doctor and a patient ends the excerpt with implied consent to a joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph S. Batahaw
Kansas City
Latahan
Preposterous Old Party and Early Ad Claims
Fragments of advertising copy and quips echo in a 19th century style. Mentions Indian Vegetable Pills Winglaw's Soothing Syrup and Roman Eye Balaam alongside jokes about marriage and hope.
Woman Escapes Operation After Pinkham Remedy
Cary Maine resident Mrs Hayward Lowens reports dramatic relief after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for abdominal pain backache sleeplessness and nervous exhaustion. She credits the medicine with restoring appetite energy and ability to work. The ad invites doubt-filled readers to seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
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Cary
Maine
Lydia EE
Pinkham
Ordos
Lydia E.pinkham
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OF Lette
Benitas
Shakespeare
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Pettit
Eve
Mercer Go
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Lindville
Duaule A. Lindony
Aegis
Chicago
Eaight
Judge
Savoy
Bun
Indy
London Opinion
Wright
Are. Winglaw
Childres
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sloan
Alisa Mat
Myrila Asia
Creas
Slosa
Linkwan
Atall
Mad
Earl
Sloan, Inc
Standard Oll Company
Indiana Corporation
Chicago, Illinois
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