Too Much Tolerance and Indian Woman Lawyer Mention
The piece argues that excessive tolerance erodes moral urgency and notes Miss Laura Lykens, a 28 year old Shawnee lawyer trained at Carlisle and practicing in Oklahoma City. It then offers home life advice on male devotion and child guidance, followed by health tips and a neuralgia remedy using mustard plasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Laura Lykens
Law Department
Carlisle, Pa
Oklahoma City
Maj Gen Hutton Named Commander in Chief of Canadian Forces
Maj Gen Hutton, 50, named commander in chief of the Canadian military. A veteran of the Zulu, Boer, and Egyptian campaigns, he has led colonial troops and Australian forces. He promises that recent leadership tensions will not affect troop management.
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Hutton
Secent
South Africa
Alexandria
Tel-el-Kebir
Aristocrat Aids British Statesman in 1800 Marriage
The text notes a British aristocrat married in 1800 to Eleanor, only daughter of the Marquis of Winchester. Mrs Hutton accompanies her husband and is described as amiable and distinguished within the aristocracy.
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Eleanor
Marquis of Winchester
Hutton
King Malietoa of Samoa Reported Dead in Auckland
King Malietoa of the Samoan Islands, ruler for about 500 years among the monarchs of the Samoan group, died in Auckland, New Zealand. He was noted as a key figure in the Samoan war and criticized for his treatment by foreign powers and rivals.
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Malietoa
Auckland
New Zealand
Tamasese
United States
England
Germany
Matietoa
German Residents Urge Tamesese Overthrow on Samoa
In Apia vice king Tamesese urged by German residents to topple Maletoa. Maletoa sought aid from United States Consul Greenebaum who set up a protectorate later disavowed by the President. German forces opposed Mate tant with Maalieton as rival, deposed, and pensioned at 50 dollars monthly by three powers.
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Tamesese
Apia
Maletoa
United States
Greenebaum
Kervia's Six King and the Servian Rise to Power
Ex king Milan of Servia described as aged and flawed with a swineherd grandfather. Historical notes claim 1808 Michael’s assassination moved Milan to throne after Paria treaty. Queen Nit tale divorces, Servias grant funds to leave country, later son Alex under Milantius squanders seven fortunes.
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Kervia
Milan
Servia
Michael
Paria
Ust
Nittale
Bia
Servius
Utd
Alex Whnder
Milantius
Maine justice of the peace recounts a complex marriage case
A Maine justice of the peace recalls arranging marriages and divorces for a couple, later binding the man to another woman, securing a divorce, and eventually remarrying the original pair. The anecdote illustrates irregular matrimonial actions across multiple partnerships.
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Thom
Cioy. Powers
Maine
Min Clinches Final Word in Argument With No Woman
The exchange ends with the man gaining the last word as the woman yields to Lim, concluding the dispute. The scene centers on who holds the final say and the characters involved.
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Min
Lim
Practical Kindness From American Tobacco To Soldiers
The American Tobacco Co. supplied free tobacco to U S soldiers and sailors since the war began. They have distributed over one hundred thousand pounds of Battle Ax Plug and Dukes Mixture and bought fifty thousand briar pipes. Headquarters were set at each camp and every hospital, plus ships in Cuban waters shared the rations. The note recalls the claim that corporations have souls in practice.
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Goms
American Tobacco Co
U. S
Ealora
United States Army
United States
Shah Fond of Felines
The shah of Persia loves cats, keeping fifty with their own attendants and meals. When he travels, the cats go with him on horseback. The late czar of Russia favored cats, and anecdotes recount a Danish king’s early morning rescue of a cat from a fierce dog. Siam’s royal car is a revered white short-haired cat with a black face, prized by English officials in Bangkok.
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Shah
Pers'a
Ife
Czur
Russia
Denmark
Siam
Bangkok
Hall's Catarrh Cure and War Time Tax Revenue
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents. A vivid wartime note describes heavy bombardment at Se bastopol and cites a new tax on old iron and shell sales raising nearly 75000 dollars for government needs.
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Hall
Sebastopol
Lane's Family Medicine Advertises Daily Bowels Remedy
An 19th century medical notice claims Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels daily to keep health, acts gently on the liver and kidneys, cures sick headache, and is sold at 26 and Ac.
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Lane
California Fig Syrup Co
Cantforma Fig Syrup Co
Advertisement and News Briefs Note Diverse Claims
A London advertisement seeks a female cook and performer with two companions and a child for a compact residence, praising a good home and two friends. An Anna M. Rosa letter from Williamsport Pa claims Piso’s Cure as the only medicine for consumption. Reportedly sharks have entered the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal from the Red Sea.
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Cook
Performand
Nurse
London
Anna M. Rosa
Williamsport
P’a
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Skull painting endures in Austrian mountain burials
A lingering custom in Austrian mountain districts involves exhuming skeletons after eight to ten years to free space in small cemeteries. Relatives attend the process without food so they can clean the remains and place the skulls in bonehouses, sometimes painting the skulls or marking them with the deceased’s name.
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Austria
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Spectator
Shee
Shawhee
Kangas
Bluejacket
Lykens
Heauty
Dr. McLeod
WSS
Laura Lykins
Contum
BE. T. Wf. Hutton
King Malietoa
Hood
America
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell
May
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
New York
Lisbon St
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Gene Wass
Bank St
Cincinnati
Lydia B. Pinkham
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