Centuries of Warfare Over Christ's Tomb
A long-arc report describes enduring battles over Jerusalem's tomb of Christ. Monks from Franciscan and Armenian orders clash using crucifixes and censers amid sieges, lifting cycles of Crusades, sultans, and consular interventions across centuries. The piece ties Helena Constantine and later rulers to ongoing strife ending with 1908 Easter tensions.
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Christ
Jerusalem
Constantine
Helena
Chosroes II
Heraclius
Urban II
Peter the Hermé#t
Europe
Godfrey de Bouillon
Lorraine
Hugh the Great
Normandy
Robert of
Flanders
Vohemond
Tancred
Sacred Tomb
France
Turkey
Raised From A Sick Bed By Dean's Kidney Pills
John Armstrong of Cloverport Kentucky describes years of kidney illness with swollen limbs and failing sight. He states doctors could not help, but after using Dean's Kidney Pills he improved quickly and regained vigor. Sold by all dealers 650 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Godfrey de Bouillon
Egypt
Syria
Europe
Saladin
Frederick Barbarossa
Philip II
France
Richard the Lion Hearted
England
Henry IV
Innocent III
Germany
Frederick II
Jerusalem
Acre
Selim
Seliman
John Armstrong
Cloverport
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Seven Fables from Leslie's Weekly
A series of ironic miniatures from Leslie's Weekly recounts a fisherman who stays silent about his catch a dramatic critic praising his own work a Bernard Shaw type posing deep feelings an actor considered insane a distrusted earnest politician an actress photographed smiling without teeth and a limerick winner who felt justly treated.
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Bernard Shaw
Leslie’s Weekly
The Oldest Encyclopedia Pliny's Natural History
The article notes Pliny the Elder's Natural History as the oldest encyclopedia, composed of 37 books and 2493 chapters on cosmography astronomy meteorology geography geology botany medicine and arts. Pliny died 79 A D and compiled it during leisure from public affairs. It stood as a high authority through the Middle Ages.
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Pliny
German pennies sold to U S makers as copper substitute
Four hundred pounds of obsolete German pennies, roughly copper tin mix, were reportedly bought by United States manufacturers at 21 cents a pound. The purchase positions the pennies as a cheaper alternative to electrolytic copper for high conductivity castings.
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United States
Chicago Board Adopts 1908 Budget for Schools
The Chicago Board of Education approves a 1908 budget totaling 15,357,174 dollars, including higher salaries for elementary teachers.
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Chicago Board of Education
Postum Improves Health Says Washington Woman
A Washington woman credits stopping coffee and drinking Postum for a dramatic recovery from nervous illness. She details days of fatigue, renewed energy, and returning to housework and caring for two babies, praising Postum as the source of her new cheerfulness and health.
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Washington
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellvilla
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Christ’s Tomb
Omar
Church OF the Nativity
Chicago
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