A Tale of Germs and Love in a Medical Lab
In a hospital laboratory a young physician Dr. Young shares a risky romance with Miss Alden as he unveils a new cholera test. Rival Penton and jealous Heller scheme to ruin his work by tampering with cultures, leading to a dangerous incident and a late night confession.
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Young
Bouillon
Jack
Penton
Heller
Alden
Dr. Penton
Dr. Young
Alice
Cians
Dr. Jarden
Doctor
School for Socialists established in Brussels
A new school for socialists has opened in Brussels to teach political economy, the history of social systems and doctrines, and the principles of cooperation and trade unionism. Herr Bernstein, ex-Reichstag member, lectures the scholars on strikes and lockouts in Germany.
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School For Socialists
Brussels
Herr Bernstein
Reichetag
Germany
London Mail
Never Rode on Cars
Miss Mary A. Eege, a longtime Allen town resident, died suddenly today. She had been married for over 60 years and lived near a railroad and an electric railway for 16 years, yet she never rode on a steam train or trolley. This obituary note appears in the Philadelphia North American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A. Eege
Allentown
Philadelphia North American
Marsh Harvestor and the birth of the self binder era
Fifty years ago near DeKalb Indiana two young farmers Marsh reinvented grain harvesting by adding a platform to the reaper. Their Marsh harvester doubled binding speed and introduced factory discipline to fields, marking a turning point in farming and making the big Marsh a landmark in agricultural history.
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Marsh
DeKalb
Old Dogma and the New at Yale Alumni Weekly
A Yale graduate recalls major shifts since the 1970s including non clerical leadership, non sectarian divinity study, and religious diversity. Sunday services moved to Woolsey Hall, chapel and afternoon services ended, and public access began for the art collections and Peabody Museum signaling liberalization and a move toward modern humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
Old
Congregational Divinity School
Taylor, Bacon
Dwight
Woolsey Hall
Art School
Peabody Museum
New England
yYale Alumni Weekly
Senator Curtis humor at hash house breakfast tale
Senator Curtis known as The Indian jokes about breakfast at a hash house in Indiana. He suggested frying eggs on both sides but the waiter retorted with a Bowery stare and sarcasm, saying he is there to do his job. The anecdote reflects his quiet, grave humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Curtis
Kansas
Indiana
Curtis
Think Highly of Korean Chief Yi Kang Nyan
Korea Daily News says Yi Kang Nyan, longtime insurgent chief and former volunteers leader, has resurfaced after the last Japan Korea accord to rally Koreans against invading forces. He reportedly wounded a Japanese in battle, attracts recruits, and is described as bold and disciplined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yi Kang Nyan
Korea Daily News
The Cook to the Rescue
A cook overhears the author express that he must be greatly moved to write poetry. After breakfast the cook offers his own father the job, claiming he has a good toss and wagon and charges only moderately, in a humorous rural exchange.
Man battles bulldog to death and dies after accident spree
Douglas Hudson Riker publisher in New York fought a ferocious English bulldog that had leapt onto his chest. He restrained the dog with a blanket until it suffocated, then collapsed. Riker had recently endured a chain of accidents including a gun explosion injuring his brother and a man being struck by a car.
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New York
Douglas Hudson Riker
Rikers
Minnetonka
Brooklyn
Florida
Riker
Mr. Riker
Childs
Markham Dunbar Riker
General Electric Company
St. John's River
Spring
Broadway
Wife punishes drunken husband to enforce reform
Gowrie Iowa report details Mrs. Ivan Olgrey binding her intoxicated husband in a blanket and administering a horsewhipping after he beat her. He pled for mercy, signed a pledge to reform, and agreed to stay on the farm for six months with her handling out-of-home duties. The scene was witnessed by a hired man and documented.
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Gowrie
Ind
Ivan Olgrey
Olgrey
Tan
Bear Besieges Schoolhouse Near Howard
In Londonville Ohio a cinnamon bear lingered near a one room country schoolhouse for an hour frightening students. Six boys fled for help while a hunting party captured the bear weighing 425 pounds. it had been roaming hills near Brink Haven and killed 24 sheep on J. N. House farm.
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Londonville, O
Willie Smith
Howard
Willie
Brink Haven
J. N. House
Canadian Promise from a Iowa Farmer
A letter from W A Spice, formerly of Green Mountain Iowa, praises Western Canada from Paynton Saskatchewan in 1907. He reports early spring warmth, abundant grain yields, oats up to 100 bushels per acre, wheat 265 to 50, rich stock country, plentiful timber, fish and wildlife, and a thriving homestead life with low lumber costs. He compares life in Canada favorably to 13 U.S. states and ends with three cheers for Canada.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada
W. H. Ellwanger
Green Mountain
Iowa
Turtle Lake
Yankee
Des Moines
United States
W. A. Spice
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure
A 19th century advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as a definitive remedy for catarrh and constitutional disease. It offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and urges readers to send for testimonials while promoting internal use and general family laxatives.
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Fall
Hall
F. J. Curnbey & CO
Toledo
Fifteen-two and a pair makes four in crib game
Subbubs and Popley converse over a cribbage hand as Popley boasts a silly ootsums tootsums phrase. An Allen's Foot-Ease ad promotes a 25 cent powder for feet and ingrown nails with a free trial offer from A. Olmsted. A motto and cigar ad conclude the snippet with a jab at critics.
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Papa
Subbubs
Popley
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Witness lists multiple jobs in light questioning
In a Oklahoma court, a witness under pressure lists his diverse roles including deputy sheriff city marshal janitor and saloon bartender after being prodded to answer what his business is The exchange underscores the witnesss evasive style and the judges demand for a straight reply sourced from a Kansas City Times report.
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T. Jocelyn
Wichita
Judge Pancoast
Oklahoma
Guiner
el Paso
Kansas City Times
Remarkable seed catalog ad and miscellany with brom decrees
A torn page shows seed sales offers including 12c orders for Quick Quick Carrot Earliest Ripe Cabbage Earliest Emerald Cucumber La Crosse Market Lettuce and others with 1000 flower seeds offered. It notes a Brom Quinine line and a humorous digression about life and ships. The fragment also mentions Pat and S. Salzer La Crosse Wisconsin and a Pettit Eye Salve.
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Ilinois
Tao
la Crosse
John A. Salzer
Bu. Co
Lydia Pinkham's Compound Promises Relief for Change of Life
A Columbus Ohio reader testifies Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound eased nervousness headaches and other symptoms during the Change of Life. The ad touts the remedy’s thirty year history curing displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities backache and more and invites women to write for advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
E. Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
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J. L. Hill
Joseph B. Bowles
Douglas H. Riker
Mad Beast
Ald
Bruin
Stantain
Oxford
Edward
Samuel Neff
Fulton Township
Eben D. Reath
Reath
Garret
Emerson
Lewis
Peoria
Styx
Satan
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Aipogtare
Wow Grove
Carters Wer
Craig Suen
Olds Bocas
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