The Japanese Kindergarten System and Tea Output News
The article extols Japan's kindergarten method based on entertainment, describing wooden geometric aids and straw models with green peas for joints. It also reports a Ceylon Tea Planters Association meeting proposing output restrictions in alliance with Indian planters to curb losses, with 9 million pounds fewer tea shipments anticipated to London this year.
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Japan
Ceylon Tea Planters’ Association
Columbe
India
Ceylon
London
Surgeon's Knife Ends in cure for womb trouble
Mrs. Eckil Stevenson of Salt Lake City recounts six years of ovary and womb inflammation. After doctors failed, she used Lydia E B Pinkham's Vegetable Compound on her sister's suggestion. Within four weeks pain lessened, nerves steadied, and after three months she was cured, avoiding surgery. Mrs Pinkham invites women to write for guidance. address Lynn Mass.
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Lydia EB. Pinkham
Stevenson
State St
Salt Lake City
Utah
Difficulties Children Face Learning to Talk
A Milwaukee Sentinel report notes children master language early, often bilingual, while parents struggle with English. A six year old’s trial with verb forms leads to a humorous mispronounced sequence as the mother watches, counting stitches, and the child fumbles through asking what phrases like what is that going to be become.
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Lucille
Milwaukee Sentinel
Moonlit garden scene in a Mary Adams short passage
A vivid extract from Confessions of a Wife by Mary Adams in The Century, describing a moonlit garden moment with Job the dog and a young narrator flooded by fragrance and color. The scene contrasts warm life with white night, ending with a sense of the world watching.
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Mary Adams
Job
Oil Wells of Japan Show Modern Drilling Rise
British trade report outlines Japan’s nascent oil boom in Echigo. Arase has driven production since 1888, with sea wells and earth-filled pilings, while many speculative firms collapsed by 1892. Pipeline plans extend to Tokyo as 1899 output reaches about 18.83 million gallons, nearly all from Echigo.
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Japan
British Board of Trade
Echigo
Arnase
United States
Tokio
Indiana Battle Bowl: Battle Scarred Steam Silver Challenge
The 18 pound silver punch bowl of the battleship Indiana bears scars from a mortar shell during the Santiago de Cuba blockade. A fragment struck the bowl near a strong seam, yet the Indiana seal remains central in a large indentation, valued by officers and crew as enhancing its worth.
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Indiana
Santiago de Cuba
Socapa
Ward Room
State of Indiana
Portugal Halls Civilization in East African Possession
An accounting of Portuguese rule along a East African coast colony describes a cafe culture, lack of inland protection, and tax by hut. Holdings back of Mozambique are leased to Portuguese who cover all hut taxes and commit to road building and policing to maintain order.
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Portugal
Mozambique
All Newspapers Talk Weather in Daily Forecasts
The piece notes weather as universally published in the United States daily papers and many weeklies print the bureau crop bulletins. It highlights the vast reach of weather information across 2000 plus papers, with St Louis planningExposition finances estimated near 17 million dollars.
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United States
Peruna praised by Mrs Martin and others in letters
The letters from Mrs Anna Martin of Brooklyn and Miss Marie Johnson of Detroit recount dramatic health improvements after using Peruna. They claim relief from back ache dizziness irregularities and female troubles. Addresses and testimonials hint at a nationwide marketing push for the remedy via Dr Hartman and The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus.
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Hartman
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
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Frog Farming Boosts US Frog Industry Amid Global Tone
The Food Commission estimates about two million frogs are caught in the United States, fueling a paying industry with frog farms and hunters. Investment reaches $100,000 annually by frog producers, with consumers paying about $150 per unit. The piece also notes unrelated ads and miscellaneous claims from the era.
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United States
Food Commission
Commission
Guests Pass With Glaciers
Hotelkeepers in the Alps report a decline in guests as glaciers retreat from hotel borders. The advancing erosion of ice reduces the appeal of once scenic sites, though the glaciers are not fleeing but slowly deteriorating, shifting hotels away from their icy rivers.
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Alps
Vogeler's Curative Compound Praised By Surrey Gardener
CroRGE CLARKE of 33 Deechcraft Road Surrey reports sixteen weeks out with rheumatism in 1896 after nine weeks in 1594. He credits Vogeler's Curative Compound and St Jacobs Oil, used internally and outwardly, with dramatic improvement and urges others to try a free sample from St Jacobs Oil Ltd of Baltimore.
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Vogeler
St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Oil, Itd
Baltimore
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