Brigands complain as Missionary Miss Stone is kept
Dec 13 report from Constantinople says Ellen M. Stone and Mme Tsilka are improving and receiving basic comforts. The abductors, claiming a sacred cause, dispute legality, resist ransom terms, and threaten to hold out all winter. They may accept a border envoy offer, if presented.
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Miss Stone
Constantinople
Miss Ellen
M. Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Mme
Tsilka
Mr. Dickinson
Cuban Politics Clash Delivers Mass Rally in Santiago
In Santiago de Cuba a large demonstration in support of General Bartolome Maso caused a citywide disturbance. Thousands of Palma supporters cried Viva Palma outside the venue while police failed to disperse the crowd. rural guards arrived to prevent riot. Independent leaders alleged mayoral complicity. clashes continued into night as Nationalists cheered Tomas Estrada Palma.
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Maso
Palma
Santiago
Santiago de Cuba
Independent Party
Bartolome Maso
Venus Cafe
General Collazo
Viva Palma
Tomas Estrada
Multiple Unconnected Deaths and Resignations Reported
Henry Demond, Wash State University student, died seeking education. Ewald Elchorn, near Du Quoin Illinois, beaten to death by robbers. A Filipino soldier punished by court martial in the Department of the Visayas. Dr. Joseph Zeemp elected president of the Swiss confederation for 1992. W G Purdy resigns as president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. Leeds elected successor.
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Henry Demond
Washington State University
Ewald Elchorn
Duquoin
Ills
Department of the Viscayas
Joseph Zeemp
Lucerne
Federal Council
Swiss Confederation
W. G. Purdy
Chicago
Tock Island
Pacificr
T ‘Tors
Leeds
Tiny Burmese Twins Fatma and Smaun Captivate Museums
Two Burmese siblings Fatma and Smaun, among the smallest recorded humans, measuring about 50 to 52 cm and weighing under 17 pounds, have drawn attention after being displayed in Europe and now in America. They speak Burmese and are learning English while performing a cake walk and singing. The article notes their normal parents and a nearby average-sized brother, linking ancient pygmy legends to modern cases.
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Irawadi
Burma
Fatma
Smaun
Europe
Smaln
Tom Thumb
Asia
Oceanus
Indian Cradle Song Verse Fragment
A fragment from a poem titled Indian Cradle Song describes a papoose sleeping in a birchen nest while the coyote and owlet share night sounds under a bright moon. Theaveraging lines convey lullaby imagery and a hunter father dreaming beneath June leaves.
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New York
Witty naturalist and historic vignettes compile a breezy bioscape
Myra Emmons lauds Aldo Leopold style in The Ladies Home Journal while recounting Ernest Thompson Seton painting a blue window frame. Anecdotes from Choate in a Yale Harvard boat race car scene and Polk at Faneuil Hall mix humor, misread signals, and wartime letters into a light collage of turn of century personalities.
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Myra Emmons
Ernest Seton- Thompson
Ladies’ Home Journal
Ab’s Rock
Putrefying bowels blamed on poisons and pills
The text parodies medical ads promoting Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a cure for constipation and biliousness while mixing in social and comic lines about marriage money a tuxedo and a park scene. It reflects humorous dialogue and a dated ad style from a historical page snippet.
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Dr. King
Barett and
Doyle
Record of 1901 San Francisco prescription transfer set
A historic 1901 San Francisco transaction paid 412 500 in coin and stock for a treatment claimed to cure Brights disease and diabetes. An investigation began Nov 15 1903, reporting 87 percent improvement in test cases. physicians and cured patients supported the method. John J Fulton Company Bartlett and Doyle published reports and offer free mailings. Bartlett & Doyle advertise Chamberlains tablets at 25 cents a box.
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San Francisco
Bright
Pute Ting
John J. Fulton Company
Montgomery St
Cal
Bartlett & Doyle
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Pres
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Casen
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Hulshizer & CO
Webster Bros
Furbush
Ridg
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L. J. Abbey
Metelman Bik
Cor. Square
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Hopkins
Boucia
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John Conner
O. K
Pickel & Murray
Eureka Barbershop
T. Mitchell
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L. J. Kynett
Davis’ Hardware
North
Argyle St
Julien
Fred Pettigrew
Sioux Falls
S. D
Fred W. Pettigrew
Tobias Castor
Lincoln
Burlington Railroad
Nebraska
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Omaha
Castor
Saline County
Cheyenne, Wy
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Patterson
Labor Union of
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Colo
Jerry Kelly
Guthrie
O. T
Oklahoma Five Stock Sanitary Committee
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Seton-Thompson
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Yale
Harvard
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Polk
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Violet Brook-Hunt
South Africa
What Is
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Gentaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
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Miram
Bright’s
Republic
Chamberlain
Royal Medicine CO
Stoner & CO
Kline
Madison Medicine Co
Madison, Wis
E. C. DaWitt & Co
Chica
Crywer
Bondolentia
Pat Ency
Scientific American
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Omico
F St
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W S Jones
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