Bacteria in Digestion Reported in Chicken Experiments
Experiments summarized from Professor Schotelius and the Archv f Hygiene show that chickens raised without bacteria failed to fatten and declined in weight, while those given bacteria thrived. Similar results for tadpoles indicate bacteria presence is essential to nutrition and growth.
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Schot
Elius
Archivy Fur Hygiene
Staats Zeitung
Literary Digest
Mme
Metchnikoff
Footwear customs in Indian worship and Islamic practice
The Atheneum notes sandals and shoes among Hindus and Mussulmans, with boots in bright colors and gold embroidery. Shoes are removed before entering temples or mosques, first the right foot, linking ritual footwear to eastern social etiquette and religious practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Asia
Athanaeum
Salt Lake City Passes Germ Control School Ordinance
Salt Lake City enacts a stringent measure to curb scarlet fever diphtheria by banning book coverings other than paper and mandating disinfection of shared books. The ordinance limits book circulation and prohibits redistribution of pencils or sponges, with a 25 dollar fine for violations.
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Salt Lake City
Board of Health
Disraeli on coronation attire and Parliament duty
The quote reflects Disraeli's view that MPs must wear court dress or uniforms, a costly obligation that would prevent attendance at Victoria's coronation. He consoles himself that rising early and hours of attendance, listening to a sermon by the bishop of London, are sacrifices worth missing.
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Disraeli
Victoria
Westminster Abbey
London
Russian Opera Singer Awarded Fifty Thousand Dollars
A Russian opera singer who lost five front teeth in a railway accident receives $50,000 in compensation. The payout covers medical costs and damages, acknowledging the impact on the artist’s career and appearance.
Chinese gamblers among the Chinese in America
An article describes Chinese gambling as a common pastime in China and among Chinese in America. It details cards called chepae or paper tickets, their small size, and several named varieties including taeen-wan che-pae and suits like nine myriads of strings of beads.
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Bret Harte
Celestial Empire
America
China
France’s law on feeding infants draws sharp praise and scorn
A Tribune writer notes the French ban on solid foods for under one year olds amid tenement slum feeding practices. The piece cites 360,000 annual under five deaths in the United States, higher among foreign populations, and lists common “dainties” given to infants in poor neighborhoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Health Department
New York Tribune
Railways Without Rails On Long Island Automobiles Build feeder Roads
A proposal imagines automobile roads tens of miles long crossing other roads at grade to allow fast driving. Trailers could be attached and vehicles would transport passengers and freight, creating a traffic system feeding steam or electric lines where rail is uneconomical.
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Long Island
Astonishing Tale Of Rat Sailor On Shipboard Escape
The Pioneer recounts a rat caught alive on a ship that was thrown overboard. A seagull appears and a fierce struggle follows. The rat overpowers the seabird, then uses the gull as a sail and rudder to voyage toward the shore.
Trade of Smyrna Emerges as Turkey’s Trade Center
Smyrna ranks as the smartest town in Turkey for trade, surpassing Constantinople in size of business. It serves as the headquarters for wool, rug, and carpet trades, highlighting its regional commercial prominence.
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Smyrna
Turkey
Constantinople
Doctors and Charity and Preventive Medicine
The piece argues that poverty and disease stem from hereditary taint and unsanitary surroundings, not only ignorance or economics. It urges medical societies to form standing charity advisory committees to coordinate preventive charity with infirmaries, dispensaries, and hospitals to reduce social evils through sanitation improvements.
The Far West Wiped Out and New Pioneers Come
The Chicago Chronicle notes a Yukon demand for classic and scientific works, signaling the end of the old far west. The piece observes a shift to rapid transit, literacy, and mass access to culture as the new frontier takes shape with educated pioneers and organized civilization.
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Chicago Chronicle
Yukon
Northwest
Gibbon
Rome
Macaulay
England
John Stuart Mill
Flammarion
Bret Harte
Universal Free School
Mules Plow Asphalt in Indian Territory Field
In the Chickasaw country near Comanche Oklahoma six Missouri mules pull a large breaking plow through asphalt. Wells reach 100 feet deep with layers of asphalt found, suggesting an enormous, possibly inexhaustible deposit. Investors expect large profits from the Trinidad island like material.
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Chickasaway
Indian Territory
Kansas City
Comanche
Chickasaw Country
Missouri
Blackjack
Trinidad
Skimming a Pearl by a Delicate Lapidary
The Philadelphia Record describes a lapidary at work peeling a pearl with magnifying glasses and delicate kid gloves. He explains acid damage on the outer layer and his plan to remove further skin if the acid penetrates, noting pearls are built in concentric skins.
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Philadelphia
Bargain Lots In Stamps And Apparel Sale
A local sale offers two dollars in trading stamps with a fifty cent purchase daily two ninety cent purchases earn extra stamps. A wide range of clothing and goods priced from five cents to ten dollars including Underwear caps gloves stockings shirts overcoats coats trunks and suits to order.
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Caily
Strange Fatalities From Exchanges Across States
A Chicago Tribune column lists odd deaths from various exchanges. A man in Quincy, Illinois, kicked at a cat and died from a neck fracture after a fall. An Akron Ohio barber died from inhaling hair powder. In Blossburg New York a fractured peach can top sent powdered glass into a victim, causing death.
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Chicago Tribune
Quincy
Akron
Blossburg
N. Y
Lost Sheepskin Gun Case and For Sale Mare with Foal
Lost item a sheepskin lined gun case with a jointed brass cleaning rod. Finder to leave at this office. For sale a six year old mare with foal, perfectly sound. Inquire at Mc Dowell's Livery Elkhart. wtt.
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Perfectly Sound
McDowell’s
Elkhart
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Germless Schoolbooks
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la Villette
Bercy
Pedamons
Boulevard de Bercy
Bailly
Doctors and Charity
Far West
Green Trading Stamps
Main Street
A. L. Jones & Co
R. M. Johnson
J.D. Osborne
Indiana
Ns S.a Ae
St.Joseph
Louis M. Simpson
Main St
Elkhart, Ind
Lee & Porter Axle Works
Buchanan
Shafer & Schulz
Treet
Elkhart County
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