The Mystery of the Moneyless Neighbor Revealed
A New Yorker recalls a man known as the mystery living in a private house with a stylish family and a cane, later exposed as a beggar faker who, hidden in disguise, earned money by panhandling before being arrested and the band of fakirs dispersed. Also noted is a absent minded surgeon at a dinner who injures a leg of mutton while preoccupied. The German cavalry was thrice remounted during the Franco Prussian war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jove
Hiuman
New York
Dudley
Kentuecky
Bishop Dudley
Lewisville
Armored trains and wartime use across Europe and Africa
The article traces the development and deployment of armored trains from 1882 onward, highlighting Britain’s leading designs like the First Sussex Artillery Volunteers train. It notes reliance on cavalry, the risks of derailing, and the trains’ role in South Africa’s Ladysmith and Kimberley sorties, plus comparisons to armored motor cars. It also briefly covers stomach digestion shifts and avian ventriloquism discoveries.
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South Africa
Admiral Fisher
Paris
Europe
Great Britain
Sussex Artillery
Ladysmith
Kimberley
Alwas
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promotes Female Health
The Pinkham remedies for disorders of the feminine organs gain fame and sales due to proved benefits. Lydia E. Pinkham offers free counsel to women, inviting letters to her Lynn Massachusetts address for practical, honest advice from the noted remedy founder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Blunders of Sone Farmers and Odd Historical Bits
A jumble of ad like notes recounts rotting fruit trees as a blunder, dessert adverts for Jell-O, cures and quackery claims, a Kentucky bishop tale, blindness statistics, a Moody anecdote, and a Boston tabernacle joke about long haired men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sone
He Could Afford To Guest Beware of Empty Pledges
A dialog reveals the speaker asserting vast means to subscribe to every magazine, while another notes a library table overflowing with periodicals. The exchange centers on affluence and the obligation of reading.
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R. J. Hood
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Allen
Allen &, Olmstead
LeRoy
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Turkey
Kline
Arch St. Phila, Pa
Valencia
Hall
F. J. Cunxey & Co
Props
Toledo
Prai
Chicago
W. J. Yousa
Jincoln
Johny
England
United
Laim.o
Hires Rootheer
W. L. Douglas
W. L Douglas
Douglas
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Skton
Daniels
Ubb
Asylum St
Hartford
Conn
Wall Paper
Edwin G. Diehl
Wood Street
Pittsburg
P.N. U
la Crosse
Wis
Pinkham
London
Miso
Tuos
Maple St
Norwich
Med
Gruggtets
E.W. Guove
Russia
Finland
Egypt
Dr. Pentecost
Boston Tabernacle
Moody
Fagon
Em. Ody Ord
Ensir Lam
Enatis
Atease
Aryl
Anc
Smaseeeen
Elkhart Vara “ Aenes Es Pein Co
Friends’ Oats
Muscatine, Iowa
Wanis
Cascarets
Sterling Remedy Company
Gibson-Stewart , Co
Gibsonia, Pa
M. Oreen
Atlanta
Thompson
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