Bombay observes a kaleidoscope of New Year days
A traveler recounts India’s many New Year observances across religions and regions. He describes Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Parsee new year rites in Bombay and Benares, noting the Parsee fire temple at Malabar Hill and the Towers of Silence, where vultures receive the dead. He also mentions Hindu cremations, Muslim funerals, and a Chinese New Year in Calcutta.
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Ndia
Bombay
Benares
Monkey Temple
Jumma Musquid
Calcutta
Delhi
England
Yardenardi
London
Zoroaster
Malabar Hill
Parsee
Arabian Sea
Dikence
India
Bentinck Street
United States
Austrian War Boys Earn Prominence In Eastern Galicia
Austrian newspapers highlight schoolboys called war boys aiding troops in eastern Galicia. They carried water and ammunition around Cuernovitz and Weinberg, collected shell fragments for repurposing, slept with front-line regiments, and even ran a Czernovits hotel solo. Their home front efforts supported families while Rome and guides aided armies, marking boys as key wartime figures.
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Galicia
Cuernovitz
Weinberg
Czernovits
Missteps of a Colored Maid at the Hall Door
Harper's Magazine recounts Mary Ellen, a newly hired colored maid, shown instructive but flawed etiquette. She guides visitors only to the hall, shouts for her mistress from the foot of the stairs, and announces that two ladies have come with their tickets, revealing stage fright and limited training.
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Mary Ellen
Ellen
Harper’s Magazine
Heal Your Skin with Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Bathe with Cuticura Soap, dry and apply the Ointment. They stop itching instantly, clear away pimples, blackheads, redness and roughness, remove dandruff and scalp irritation, heal red hands and most baby skin troubles. Free sample by mail with Book. Address postcard Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Ingenious Soul and Blithers Grapefruit Motoring Gaffe
Blithers enters the dining room wearing yellow automobile goggles. He declines a drive with Binks and jokes he wants grapefruit juice to stay out of his eyes.
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Blithers
Little Binks
Marine Eye Remedy Co Advertises Eye Book
A Chicago firm named Marine Eye Remedy Co promotes an Eye Book on request. The missive frames aging readers as seeking relief and markets vision aids through a mailed publication offer.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Dainty Touch Sparks Husband’s Monogram Stamp Feud
A Philadelphia Public Ledger fragment notes a wife’s insistence on placing a two cent dog biscuit monogram on Fido’s treats, provoking her husband who calls it extravagant. The item reflects social satire on domestic spending and display.
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Fido
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Piles Relieved by First Application and Six to One Day Cure
An advertisement proclaims PAZO OINTMENT as the universal remedy for all forms of piles with relief after first application and complete cure in six to seven days. It offers a money back guarantee through druggists if it fails.
Glove fitter claims skill over women in dialogue
A brief, humorous dialogue features a glove fitter boasting control over women and a joke about Red Cross Bag Blue for whitening clothes. The ad tone references everyday chores and playful misstatements.
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Red Cross
Ady
Leaky Roof Sparks Dueling Demands at Home
Morning after a heavy rain, a dispute unfolds between a wife and Henry over landlord repairs. The ceiling leaks, and the wife insists the landlord must address the water damage, while Henry resists to avoid exposing the kids’ destruction elsewhere in the house.
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Henry
Disputed claim on Nero and the fiddling narrative
A skeptical man questions the old saying Nero fiddled while Rome burned and challenges the idea of a violinist with Nero’s influence permitting a pyrotechnic display during a rival performance.
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Nero
Rome
The Real Thing. Little Lemuel
Paw explains a miser as a pocket edition of mankind and defines greed as the visible sign of human vice in a short dialogue featuring Lemuel and his father.
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Lemuel
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