World Jewish Population Estimates and Notes
Jewish world population estimates by region and city sizes, with counts for Russia Austria Germany Balkan states France Italy and others. Mentions of Jewish Bank in Constantinople, emigration rules, water projects in Jerusalem, Hebrew poetry, congressional remarks, and various community actions in the early 1900s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeone
sLett
Helgew
America
Permon
Holy Land
J. Masel
Masel
Congress
United States
F. J. Harrison
Himelf
Aml
Empire
Alfred Levy
France
M. Levy
M. Israel Levi
Yates Kebn
Revue Des Etudes Juives
Ihe
Upper
Alsace
Lower
Lorraine
Pire
Kolomea
Galicia
Russia
Baron Meyendorff
New York
Goldfogle
Nathan Straus
Lemion
Builders Exhibition Promises High Attendance and Large Displays
Preparations are underway for the builders and contractors exhibition at the Coliseum corner Guy and Dorchester streets during Easter week April 20. The event aims to surpass last fall’s Victoria Rink showing with added space and stronger exhibitor interest from Canada and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coliseum
Guy and
Dorchester Streets
Victoria Rink
Canada
United States
Leutiac Limited
Rexford Bishop
E. Cavanagh
T. Chanaine
Jos. Laurier
Absent Minded Men In Barber Shops
A New York barbershop tale notes many customers act as if entering bedtime space. Men remove coats, collars, and ties only to wind watches and prepare to sleep, mistaking the shop for a hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
The Habitual Command at Universities
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts student decorum at Heidelberg where applause for professors is forbidden in classrooms. It also tells of Lord Kelvin at Glasgow University defining an ideal magnet as an infinitely long, uniformly magnetized bar, a remark that earned applause until one day the class forgot and Kelvin still cried Silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidelberg
Lord Kelvin
Glasgow University
Philadelphia Ledger
Hospital scenes and wild hallucination in Tremens case
A Chicago Tribune note depicts a tremens patient convinced of a snake in the room and a physician trying to reassure him. The exchange reveals the unsettled mind during withdrawal and the doctor’s attempt to calm the patient.
Health hints on sleep baths walking and diet from a 19th century column
The column extols night sleep, warns against late hours, and links sun exposure to health. It recounts an old lady who never bathed, discusses exercise like sawing wood, and urges walking over streetcars. It covers foot baths, lemonade remedies, and cautions about corsets while advocating open skin pores and weekly full baths.
Dyspepsia Fool's Cure Ends in Washington Observation
A New York man beats dyspepsia by self treatment after abandoning doctors and dieting. He travels to Washington seeking relief with liquor, returns no better, and finds his self prescribed cure far from effective. The piece mocks self diagnosis and medical quackery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Low York Sun
Amin
Washington
New York
Man reports house fire on second floor in alerting scene
A Hervara man recalls seeing heavy smoke and flames from a residence second story. He rushes inside, rings a bell answered by a deaf woman, and delivers the warning amid a comic exchange about the fire. The Portland Oregonian reports the anecdote.
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Hervara
Stranger Echoes Long Preaching at Village Church
A stranger enters a church and asks how long the minister has preached. The old sexton replies about thirty years, prompting the visitor to stay since the sermon should be nearing its end.
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Stranger
Old Sexton
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ailments. It claims to cure displacement, inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pains, and nervous prostration, inviting women to write for advice at Lynn, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pillikham
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. A. Laliberte
Artillerie St
Quebec
Mrs. Pinkham
Desiccated and Confiscated In Church Matter
A Philadelphia Ledger report recounts a colonial-era exchange where a local colonel asks about finishing a church project. The old butler George replies with a pledge to proceed at morning service, using archaic phrasing to imply drastic action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Darkey
Philadelphia Ledger
Parkdale bank robbery plot suspect arrested in Sarnia
George Tarry of Sarnia was arrested Saturday on suspicion of involvement in a plan to rob a Parkdale bank in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Tarry
Sarnia
Parkdale
Miracle Cure Hope For Leo Corrigan Skin Disease
A boy named Leo Corrigan suffers from severe eczema causing burns itching and pain. His parents spent much on doctors and treatments with little success. He spent weeks in hospital and bed in Toronto as winters passed with the condition leaving him unable to walk at times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Corrigan
Toronto
the Chemists’ Co. of Canada, Ltd
Familto
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pbureau
Odessa
England
Lord Swaythling
Samuel Montague
Federation of Synagogues of London
Joseph Meyer Asher
Orach Chaim
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Berlin
Warsaw
Rusia
Jerusalem
St. Petersburz
Heron Edmond de Rothenhill
Paris
Cxar Ven de Vieite
St. Petersburg
Jacob H. Schiff
Yeshiva of
the Builders
Drugsiete
E W.urove
Chicago Tribune
Portland
Oregonian
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