Bronchitis Not Just a Cold Says Doctor Chase Remedy
Describes bronchitis as a recurrent or rapidly turning disease and praises Dr Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine for relief. Narrates its stern symptoms and risk of pneumonia, plus a testimonial from James F. Thompson of Leeds Co Ontario about curing his sons. Mentions purchase details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene
Chase
James FP. Thompson
Yong, Mills, Leeds Co
Edmanson Bates A Co
Toronto
Plucking Bats and Odd Paris Tales
A Detroit Free Press item blends a sailor’s tall tale of plucking hibernating bats in Paris with cafe cuisine, a jokey exchange about rat meat and venison, a quip about a new life motto and a brief health ad for Thomas Eclectric Oil claiming throat ulcer prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Delian Reward and Cure Claim Page Fragment
A fragmented OCR item mentions a medical claim about a cure for a disease. Included are names like J Cheney & Co and references to testimonies and services. A stray anecdote describes a mother dressing a child and a child remarking on prayers to wake up.
Better Than Spanking For Bed Wetting
A Windsor Ontario woman Mrs M Sum mers offers a free home treatment to cure bed wetting in children and urges mothers not to blame the child. The method also claims to cure diabetes and urine difficulties, and requests writing for instructions without sending money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Summers
Windsor
Ont
Family in Field Advised to Mock Charge Like Ball Fight
The speaker tells his pale-faced aunt to act like players in a ball fight by waving a red parasol to distract a cow. He explains that when the animal charges, she should jump aside lightly. The remark appears in a brief exchange about handling cattle.
Wall Street Icon Walter Morse Moves Markets on Confidence
Moody’s Magazine recounts Walter Wellmas Morse a young but dominant Wall Street operator of the early sixties whose public trust allowed him to influence stock prices. At a coal mining stock launch he drew a frenzied crowd as buyers rushed to subscribe amid his forecast.
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Wall Street
Walter Wellmas Moree
Fuch
Stark
Morse
Attead St
Mr. Morse
Moody’s Magazine
Birds as Scouts Before Sadowa Night Attack
Archduke’s Bohemian bivouac near a northern facing woods is alarmed by a Romany gypsy who detects approaching Prussian forces from the direction of birds migrating by moonlight. The archduke awakens forces and strengthens outposts. two hours later the outposts are heavily attacked.
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Sadowa
Bohemia
Archduke
Sir Evelyn Wood
London Saturday Gazette
Prophecies Fulfilled by Wartime Statesmen and Potentates
The text recalls Cromwell’s threat about a breach with the king and its fulfillment, Disraeli’s boast about future power, and Pope Pius VII’s Katrina storm remark on Napoleon’s Elba escape, later vindicated by events in the Hundred Days in 1815.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Cromwell
House of Commons
Lord Digby
Hampton
England
Disraeli
Pius VII
Napoleon
Elba
Pun play on words amuses and provokes thinking
A father explains three kinds of puns to his son, good ones, which you laugh at, indifferent ones you ignore, and bad ones you throw at the punster. The boy asks for a pun and the father teases about supper on his mind before a book is thrown.
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Rascal
Philadelphia Inquirer
Frog Farming In France
Frog farming in France allows people with limited means to use shallow warm ponds and marshes for productive yields. It turns small areas into a steady source of valuable food in high demand.
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France
Engagement Gossip Sparks Clarification
Miss Chel lus asks if Miss Bute is engaged to Mr Rick ley. Miss Bute confirms the engagement with calm certainty. Miss Chellus expresses astonishment, then correcting herself to catcher, revealing the playful misunderstandings surrounding the match.
Van Punks Move Sparks Landlord Question
The Cleveland main dealer notes that the feared Van Punks have relocated, provoking the landlord to ask where they went. The short dialogue captures urban tension and unresolved migration rumors in the neighborhood.
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Cleveland
Poem Lines on Youth and Memory by Bolles
A reflective verse notes how poetry flows through blood from youth to old age. The quotation from Bolles echoes enduring memory and the pull of verse across a lifetime.
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Bolles
Well Groomed Women Declare Nature Overrated in Taste
An Englishwoman writing to the Queen argues Nature is overrated for beauty. She contends hair color should be durable like plato brown, straight hair preferred, and natural features rarely attained. She urges training in dress, gait, dental care, nails, and overall civilization to improve appearance.
Beauty Hints for Sleep and Figure Maintenance
Nervous women may sleep better with a bran bath before bed. Use hip driven bending when lifting to protect knees. Exercises force stomach muscles to aid digestion and avoid post meal sitting. To trim figure avoid fats and eat chopped round steak three meals from a pound and a half daily.
Three Salads For Luncheon Plates With Lettuce And Nuts
A luncheon feature describes three salads served on individual plates. One uses a white lettuce leaf with a celery mound dressed in mayonnaise and topped with English walnut meats, ringed by strips of Spanish red peppers. A quick fruit salad suggests canned peaches with shredded almonds and cherries on lettuce, dressed with mayonnaise. A longer salad cooks English walnut meats with onion mace then serves on lettuce with hard boiled eggs and olives as garnish.
Homemade slipper spreader to save shoe wear
A home method adds a steel tool wrapped in ribbon and cotton to fill the toe of a slipper. The improvised spreader uses covered long steels, a puffed ribbon fill, and a sewn ball to maintain slipper shape and reduce need for a shoe tree.
From Death's Door to Health With Dodd's Kidney Pills
Hok Ontario tale of Mrs Samuel Thompson near death from dropsy and backache. Doctors tapped and gave up but Dodd's Kidney Pills restored strength. She recovers fully and credits the remedy for saving her life.
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Dodd
Mrs. Thompson
Samuel Thompadis
Sant
Tostay
Thompson
Little Tommy Whacken Chooses Unbeatable Knickers
A mother takes Littl Tommy Whacken to select knickerbockers and he picks a pelt with a card declaring These can't be beaten. The item appears in Current Literature.
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Tommy Whacken
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills Promote Clear Skin
A historic ad explains the liver governs blood quality and blemishes reflect liver impurities. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are said to act on the liver to purify blood and produce healthy skin. The piece notes women may safely expect gratifying results from intelligent use. A Judge joke about a Texas southbound train is included.
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Texas
Minard's Liniment Cited By Sufferer as Quick Cure
A testimonial from Mrs C D Prince of Nauwigewauk dated October 21 describes quinsy illness and says Minard's Liniment cured her at once, stating she is never without it.
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Minard
Quip Dialog Fragments From News Cartoon Snippets
A collection of humorous quotes and captions from various papers. Snippets reference Watsons wives magistrates a robbery scene and family dynamics with cartoon style humor across newspapers. The lines illustrate light commentary on domestic life and public figures.
Canadian Pacific plans Windsor Station expansions
Mr. I. G. Ogden, fourth vice president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, declares a bright commercial outlook and rising earnings across railways. To handle growing traffic at Montreal, the company will double passenger handling capacity at Windsor Station and has purchased land to extend freight yards in the East End.
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I. G. Ogden
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Canadian Pacific
Windsor
East End
El Dorado of the Amazon
Travel Magazine describes the Amazon foothill region as a future treasure chest with perfect growth for coffee sugar cocoa and bananas. It cites rich gold fields along Cordillera Real river gravels and notes access troubles but predicts eventual exploitation with machinery and brave effort.
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Great
Amazon Plain
Atlantic Seaboard
Cordillera Real
Peru
Bolivia
Travel Magazine
Ancient Bells Across Europe and Moscow’s Famous Bell
The article surveys ancient bells in Scotland Ireland and Wales noting quadrangular forms forged from hammered iron plates. It highlights St Gall St Patrick Belfast and curfew bells and explains bell ringing spread in England. It details Moscow’s great bell cast 1733 its dimensions and the Big Ben bell in London, noting its crack.
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Scotland
Ireland
Wales
St. Gall
Switzerland
St. Patrick
Belfast
England
Calixtus III
King’s College
Cambridge
White
Moscow
Nicholas
London Globe
Poynter Celebrates 73rd Birthday and Israel in Egypt
Sir Edward Poynter, president of the Royal Academy, recently marked his 73rd birthday. He rose to prominence with Israel in Egypt, a painting born from a sketch club scene about Work. An engineer critic challenged the weight depicted, leading Poynter to add more slaves and the engineer purchased the picture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Poynter
Royal Academy
John Millais
Israel
Egypt
Poynter
Lengthy incumbencies noted in Old Country parishes
The Westminster Gazette cites long living tenures in England with Rev Wriothesley Wingfield of Gulval in Cornwall Rev Henry Bigot of Brindle and Rochdale and Rev Potter Cole lord of Woolfordsworthy Wiltshire rector of Hawkesbury Gloucestershire All served 60 to 73 years in post with notable absence from parish during tenure.
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W. Wriothesley Wingfield
Gulval
Cornwall
Eng
Henry Bigot
Wingfield
Brindle
Rochdale
Potter Cole
Woolfordsworthy
Wiltshire
Hawkesbury
Gloucester
Cole
Westminster Gazette
Selous Makes Mark in Africa After Elephants and Adventures
Selous, at nineteen, joined Roosevelt on an African hunt with £400 capital. He sought Lobengula’s permission to shoot elephants and the Matabele king, mockingly, told him to hunt antelopes. The boy obtained the permit and spent over thirty years among Africa’s big game, reaching his hundredth elephant long ago.
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Mr. Selous
Mr. Roosevelt
Selous
Postal "doctors" mend damaged mail at St Martin’s le Grand
Four senior sorters perform the duty of doctoring letters and packages that arrive in poor condition. In the sorting room they repair items ranging from coins and banknotes to stamps medicines oils and poisons, preserving the integrity of mail.
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St. Martin’s le Grand
Comfort for mothers health for children tablets ad
Comfort for mothers health for children Baby's Own Tablets claim to cure indigestion colic constipation diarrhoea and teething troubles while destroying worms and aiding against croup. The Ad notes no poisons or narcotics and safe for newborns with a testimonial from Mrs. C L Manery of Leamington Ontario. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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C. L. Manery
Leamington
Ont
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ancient Medical College and early healing arts
The article argues that medical practice and medical education flourished earlier than Greek history suggests. It cites abundant physicians in Egypt circa 1500 BC and evidence of a medical college in Borsippa near Babylon before that era.
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Hippocrates
Greece
Egypt
Borsppa
Babylon
The Duchess of Abercorn Runs Ireland Dairy Network
The Duchess of Abercorn owns a model dairy in Ireland run as a business concern. From this operation she supplies several large Belfast firms with butter and ce Galu.
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Duchess of Abercorn
Ireland
Belfast
Oldest Paleolithic Art Reveals Early Man and Hairy Elephant
A cave man in southern France carved on ivory tusk fragments, depicting a hairy elephant. Discovered by Lartet, the fragment is presented as perhaps the oldest human record, showing humans contemporaneous with the extinct mammal and predating Egypt’s civilization.
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France
Lartet
Siberia
Europe
Valley of the Nile
Egypt
Lippincott’s
Shy on the Son in Yorkshire Appeal
An elderly Yorkshire farmer doubts voting for Lim's son after being asked if he knows the candidate's father. He notes he trusts the father but fears the son's character, saying not every copper has a cuff like hers, reflecting local skepticism.
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Lim
Mercury
Danish Nursing Student Oversleeps After Alarm
A Danish girl newly arrived for a nursing course in the United States complains to a friend that she overslept. She says she set the alarm clock but still slept, wondering why it happened.
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Washington Star
Quiet Suburban Cemetery Quietly Recalls a Joke
In a humor panel, a character named Gayboy quits horses and drinking and settles in a quiet suburban spot. The punchline reveals the chosen place is the cemetery, delivering an ironic twist in a concise illustrated bits item.
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Gayboy
Kind Hearted During Africa Trip Allegation
A London Opinion cartoon caption quotes a military major recalling an African assignment. The humor hinges on the remark that locals were kindness toward dinner, framing a colonial stereotype in a terse exchange. The text plays on irony about cultural encounters.
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Londes
Tramp in Lunch Parlor Tests Nerve and Taste
A tramp enters a fashionable lunch parlor and sit s at a table. He pockets sugar and biscuits, asks for Welsh rabbit and orders the left hind foot for luck. The waiter answers with mock formality and the scene ends as the tramp vanishes.
Doctor Promises Moderate Diet During Convalescence
A convalescing patient is promised future meals but warned to keep appetite in check. The next day a nurse serves tapioca pudding and the doctor insists all activities be in proportion. Hours later the patient requests a postage stamp to read, despite hunger.
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Wall Street Ways
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New York Sun
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THE
Amazon
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Kinrade
Attorney-General’s Department
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Mother Graves
Mars
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Carbon Oil Works, Ltd
Winnipeg
Canada
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Hydrotele
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Young Pbf
Sermpfield
Mass
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Comadian
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