A Fallen Idol Ends With The Chela’s Demands
In a tense drawing room the group debates a risky mission to India as Nebelsen, the Chela, insists on taking a carved idol back to its homeland. Campion resists yet feels compelled to go, while Sybil and Mrs. Staniland fear the plan’s consequences. The scene ends with Campion determined to depart.
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Campion
Chela
Mrs. Staniland
Babcock
Nebelson
Sybil
Shast
India
Leedle
Ronald Campion
Ronald
History of Enameling Through Ancient Civilizations
The record traces early enamel glazes to Babylonian and Egyptian artifacts dated to the seventh to sixth centuries B.C. The Babylonian glaze shows a soda-glass base. It notes likely knowledge among Greeks and Etruscans as well, with excellent glazes preserved from ancient ruins.
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Babylon
Waste of Lives in Ancient Engineering Projects
The Kansas City Journal notes ancient engineers paid heavily in human life for grand works. It cites the Red Sea Canal with an estimate of 120,000 Egyptian deaths, though Buckle doubted the figure. It argues massive slave labor underpinned pyramid construction across two decades.
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Red Sea Canal
Buckle
Elephantine
Pyramids
Kansas City Journal
The Old Man's Counsel
A youthful departure is urged with cheer and bold aims. The old man warns against small risks and advises pursuing big ambitions, even if it means encountering fate on the road and facing costly setbacks.
Linguists Do Better in West Coast South America Trade
Japanese merchants fluent in Spanish and English expand their commerce in major western South American cities, strengthening cross cultural exchange and market reach.
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South America
Orchids Shine in Schonbrunn Palace Collection
The Austrian Emperor's Schonbrunn Palace houses a premier orchid collection with 18,000 plants praised as the finest in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austrian Emperor’s Palace
Schonbrunn
The Old Days. Molly Named Women in Memory
The piece recalls a bygone era when many girls were affectionately called Molly noting how common the nickname was among young women who would become grandmothers in time.
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Molly
Cheap designs from Lanett and old remedies advertised
The item lists 200 cheap designs by Lanett okorien weukiie and promotes Brown's Bronchial Traches as asthma relief with no harmful drugs. It notes librarians say reading rises in November and advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. Claims about earth’s permanent depth, a laxative Tea, and Kansas City Journal remark about Topeka’s lawyers per 800 population.
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Brown
Leavenworth
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement with 100 Dollar Reward
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J Cheney & Co Toledo endorsed by Walding, Mann, Irvine druggists. Cure taken internally, acts on blood and mucous membranes. Testimonials available free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
Iron Eaters
A carpet layer recounts swallowing tacks as a common, harmless quirk of the trade in a humorous Los Angeles Times anecdote. He notes colleagues swallow many tacks daily and jokes about the habit with his partner, exaggerating to comic effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Times
Skin Troubles Cured by Cuticura Remedies
J F Hennen of Milan Missouri reports years of itching and stings cured by Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. After a leg break out following grippe and pneumonia he used the remedies three times and the sore healed. May 13 1907.
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J. F. Hennen
Milan
Rents in Mexico Outrage Americans Find Soaring Prices
George T. Lessing of St. Louis notes halls in Mexico City show rents shocking to Americans. Two story houses run 150 to 200 dollars a month with pretentious homes up to 2400 dollars in Mexican currency about half U.S. value yet still higher than U.S. city rents. Living costs in Mexico are otherwise reasonable.
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Mexico
George T. Lessing
St. Louis
United States
Baltimore
Horses by the Hundred in Modern Warfare Costs
The article notes horses as a key factor in warfare. It cites British wartime horse needs and high national expenditures. Germany and France require hundreds of thousands to a million horses, with Britain and France spending hundreds of thousands annually on army horses.
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Germany
France
Britain
Surgical Operation Fears Women and Unnecessary Procedures
A historical article fragment discusses women's fear of surgical operations and claims many procedures performed on women in hospitals are unnecessary and could often be avoided.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Offers Hope
Letters from readers praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing severe female troubles and delaying surgery. The ad claims thirty years of use, listing displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and backache as conditions improved or resolved. Readers are urged to write for advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Base
Kingman
Kansas
Pinkham
Young Women Stare at Illuminated Sign in Germantown
On a Saturday evening a group of young women stood on Main Street Germantown gazing at a bright overhanging sign lit by incandescent bulbs. The sign hangs from a historic stone building once the King of Prussia Inn now partly housing a barber named Hug a German barber.
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Main Street
Schoolhouse Lane
Germantown
King of Prussia Inn
Hug
Philadelphia Record
Four Missouri Ex-residents in Oklahoma House
An odd item notes four former Missouri residents serving in Oklahoma's House of Representatives. It promotes patent medicines including Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and Woolford's Sanitary Lotion with dubious cure claims. It also mentions longevity advice from M Metchnikoff and Cyprus locust bean production for whisky.
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Ter
Missouri
House of Representatives
Oklahoma
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Lanett Okorien Weukiie
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Iron Eaters
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W. J. Dougee
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Lydia E. Pinkham
ST. Jacobs
St. Vitus
Kline
H.R. Kline
Arch St
Phila
M. Metchnikoff
Woolford
Cyprus
SeaGnan
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Mother Gray
Children’s Home
New York City
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