The Bells of Genoa and the Wanderer of Limerick
A Genoan youth Giuseppe Giovanni toils years to craft a heavenly set of chimes. Brimming with hope, he faces ruin as creditors seize his bells. Years later in Limerick an old man mourning his lost chimes hears a celestial concert and dies with joy.
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Italy
Genoa
Giuseppe Giovanni
Giovanni
Giuseppe
Ciuseppe
Shannon
Limerick
Hereford
New York
Health of Young Women Orders Relief from Sickness
A reader from Aptos Cal requests help for irregular monthly sickness with cramps and heart pain. A response from Lydia E Pinkham notes success with Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. A Wisconsin reader reports relief from sideache chills nervousness and dizziness after three bottles of each remedy.
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Pryamas
Mary Gomers
Aptos
Cal
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia EE. Pinkham
Mary Gomss
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Matilda Jensen
Ogdensburg
Wis
Milwaukee Music Masters Meet in Milestone Mischance
A humorous note from Milwaukee describes a party where host and guests greet organist EH Beseler, praising his rendition of a piece by Bach. The moment highlights local wealth and culture, yet reveals an amusing lapse in familiar connections among notable figures in the musical world.
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Christian Bach
Milwaukee
EH. Co. Bescler
Bach
Los Angeles Times
The Eloquent Barber Declares Its Unique Offer
The Philadelphia Record recounts a downtown barber shop circular that markets a salon as a tonorial palace and curious shop. It promises patrons served by “finished artists” who have touched world rulers and offer ten styles of hair cutting for 20 cents while Nubian coat brushing and shoe shining are available.
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Turkey
Persia
Russia
Menelek
Abyssinia
Austrian
Constantinople
Philadelphia Record
Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed as universal remedy
A newspaper ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive cure for catarrh and constitutional disease, offering $100 to anyone it cannot cure. It notes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and urges readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, with Hall's Family Pills also advertised.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Chicago
Ill
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Cuba
Dodd
Indiana Timber Boom Threatens Great Walnut Forests
Indiana timber land faces rapid denudation as buyers lock in walnut and hickory stands. Speculators target isolated trees and large tracts alike, with high prices for individual walnut, poplar, and shellbark hickory. Recent sales include 1030 acres for 66000 and 55 standing walnuts sold near the Northern Indiana line for 10000.
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Indiana
Ohio
Goshen
Grant Coaineau
Wood
New York
Iniiana
Bottomless Pit in the Palisades near Hoboken
A New York area curiosity, the bottomless pit atop the Palisades in West New York sits 227 feet above the Hudson. Efforts to fill it have failed, with soundings showing no stable bottom. The half-acre surface has defeated attempts to haul fish or establish a tunnel route for the West Shore Railroad near 1880.
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Palisides
Palisades
New Jersey
Hudson
Devil’s Lake
California
New York
Hoboken
Hudson River
West New York
West Shore Railroad
Weehawken
New Durham
Odd Ways That Monks Earn Money
Monks across Europe run varied ventures beyond prayer. Char treuse and Trappistine liquors are produced in France, while German monks make kirsch wasser. English Benedictines manufacture salve and pills, and French abbeys craft altar wines and candles. Monastic printing, large land tracts, gas plants, and workshops also appear. Dublin Dominican Fathers publish the Irish Rosary. Canadian Trappists farm. Russian Solovetsk monks operate a steam ferry for pilgrims.
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Europe
la Grande Chartreuse
Chartreux
Grenoble
France
Abbaye de la Grace de Dieu
Department of Doubs
Germany
Black Forest
Alsace
St. Mary’s Abbey
Devonshire
England
St. Michael de Frigolet
Aignebelle
Grignan
Neuville
Montreuil
Boulogne
Dominican Fathers
St. Saviour’s Priory
Dublin
Ireland
Tracady
Oka
St. Norhet
Solovetsk
Red Dinner at Savoy Worth Sixty Five A Guest
A century old tale recounts the costly savoy dinner titled red dinner hosted by a millionaire who prospered from red at Monte Carlo. Forty guests attended as every detail in the room and menu was red including lamps, chairs, napkins, and the tasting courses.
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Savoy Hotel
London
Monte Carlo
TS Ecourses
Everybody's Magazine
Treating the lagging liver starts with digestion
A weary liver signals an ill nourished body. Do not lash with drastic drugs. Begin with the stomach and digestion to restore liver activity. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is praised for improving digestion, blood gland secretions, and cleansing the system to ease liver burdens. Also notes Potomac memorial bridge cost estimates, cough cure claims, and Guernsey cattle counts.
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R. Pierce
Does it Pay to Buy Cheap Cures for Lung Threats
A long drug advert style observe advising Boschee's German Syrup for lung troubles, plus other remedies like Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and Foley's Kidney Cure, with testimonials from H. J. Moogh and P. E. Grism an and mentions Paris tunnels and Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
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C. W. Williams
Sterling Run
H. J. Moogh
Boschee
Joseph Emmert’s
Emmert & Burrell
W. H. Shipman
Beardsley
Minn
E. C. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
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F.A. Schulz
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Foley
W. F. Jungkunz
Paris
Chamberlain
P. E. Grisnam
Guars Mills
Jos. Emmert
Emperor Willam
German Empire
Geo
Anderson
Rossville
York County
Penn
First
Illinois Volunteers
Dodds
Swarts & Fleck
H. J Mooge
Americas
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ST. Louis
Peoria
Areaverer
Pullman
Hot Springs, Ark
Denver,colo
Texas
Florida
Utah
Oregon
Chicago & Alton
Geo. J. Charlton
Illinois
Elena
Mana ' Tennessee
Georgia
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
CNR
Coe
NEW York Tribune
the Tribune
Tribune
Cleveland
Iéam
United States
Pett
Daily and Sunday Tribune
Tri-Weekly Tribune
Daily
the Weekly
Adsoniageurs
New York Cit
By Mail
Pean the Sunday Sun
the Sun
Chicago Journal
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