Prison Island of Fernando de Noronha Describes Convict System
The article describes Fernando de Noronha as a penal island with about 1 800 convicts under guard by 60 soldiers. Convicts farm, fish, and craft in workshops while government stores supply food and clothing. Children attend convict-led schools, and a military school educates convict sons. authorities banish misbehaving felons to a nearby uninhabited islet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernambuco
Fernando
Chambers’ Journal
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills Offer Laxative and Alterative
A Louisville Western Recorder notice highlights Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a stomach acting remedy that clears intestinal excreta while preserving active ingredients. It notes the product as the result of expert study and frames a Bishop Barrington handwritten letter as courteous, with a copy by an amanuensis for readability.
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Parmelee
Bishop Barrington
Louisville Western Recorder
Foot Elm remedy praised for Canadian Contingent care
The Express Office reported two large tins of Foot Elm ordered for the Canadian Contingent for South Africa. Soldiers suffer blistered feet on long marches and the remedy is credited with easing misery. Storr & Jury of Bowmanville, Ont. are applauded for supplying this valued product praised by Canadians per the Montreal Star.
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Express
South Africa
Messrs. Storr & Jury
Bowmanville
Ont
Montreal Star
Fragments of Crime and Curiosities in Old Newspapers
A seedy man pockets a banker’s pocketbook in a Chicago scene while a Paris museum showcases emerald colored diamonds. The Galveston News notes debt distress, and Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills promise thorough cleansing with broad endorsements.
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Museum of Natural History
Paris
Dresden
Galveston
Cancer Attacks the Middle Aged Men and Women
An advertisement urges mid life adults to seek early cancer treatment. It claims cancer is common after age 40, warns about lumps and growths, and touts a constitutional remedy said to attack cancer at its origin. The notice cites cases cured in Canada and directs readers to Iveyville, Ontario.
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Welch
Canada
Ivey
Ville
Laughing Gas You Yonson In Denver
A clipped dialect piece recounts You Yonson traveling to Denver by train with comic mispronunciations and fast talk. The narrator recalls past trips and the quick comings and goings of the Burlington route and rail travel.
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Denver
Burlington
Public Office as Public Trust in a Troubled Town
Citizens recount a chaotic election where a winner is blocked by a still occupying former mayor. They accuse fraud and jail break attempts to influence votes and deride the Australian ballot system. A new town is created to please disappointed office seekers.
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Milburn
R. J. Arnold
Woodstock
N.B
An India Rubber Desk and a Slum Encounter
A humorous note on a flexible desk for organizing tasks contrasts with a Mulberry Bend street scene where a boy asks about sermon material. A street interviewer mentions risk and the lure of literature as a boy boasts of a sister in a bookbindery and a father in a jet office, linking work and aspiration.
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Mulberry Bend
Assessor Boils Cunning Assessor to Kreesus’ Wife
In a terse exchange, a wife questions the value of her husband as the assessor is asked to estimate his worth. She quips that his stunts might merit payment from the city rather than assessment.
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Kreesus
Fou
Hevald
Autocrat’s Slang Mention of Finnish Vision
The czar of Russia at the western boundary of Colneth gazes toward the fields and quips about envisioning his Finnish future while observing peasants at work.
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Autocrat
Russia
Qlonetz
A Definition Tommy Pop What Is a Necessary Evil
The Philadelphia Record notes a playful yet pointed line: a necessary evil often valued enough to resist abolition, as Tommy-Pop explains amid local whimsy and cultural shorthand.
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Tommy
Philadelphia Record
Secret Samaria Prescription Promises a Peaceful Home
A reader shares a tale of using the Samaria Prescription to curb a husband's drinking, noting she dosed his coffee and meals with the remedy, observed improvements, and planned refills to prevent relapse. The letter also recounts a separate brief anecdote about a shy suitor and a clever shoe-tying gesture.
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Samaria
Chad
Corre Tg
The
Samaria Remedy Co
Jordan Street
Toronto
Two New Englanders in Tennessee Mining Scheme
The passage depicts two Yankee Republicans running a Tennessee mining operation employing many African Americans and recounts a crude racial remark about “making a nigger june.” It also includes an advertisement for Holoway's Corn Cure and a melodramatic fictional exchange about marriage, wealth, and a father’s approval.
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Tennessee
Waal
Marital Status and Habits Linked to Longevity
The quote notes that married people live longer than unmarried, temperate and industrious individuals longer than gluttonous and idle, and civilized nations longer than uncivilized. It suggests social and personal discipline correlates with greater longevity across individuals and societies.
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Hamiota Herald
Hamiota
Man
Fernando DE Noronha
Thomas H. Worter
Lower
Ireland
P. Q
Thomas
Europe
J. D. O'Brien
Princess St
Winnipeg
P. O
Bankers and Brokers
Merchants’ Bank OF Canada
Union Bank OF Canada
Manitoba
West
Yialburn
Chicago
New
Washington Devens
Politica In
Rillwitte
Daily Press
Philadelphia
Cally
BABYS
N.A
Holoway
Harry
Parr Ao
Ckshutt Plow Co
G. W. Donald
R. A. Lister & Co., Ltd
King St
Dominion Lands
H. Sproule & Company
Main St
Northwest
Toronto Type Foundry CO. , Limited
Northwestern Branch
Owen Street
National Life Assurance CO. OF Canada
Eddy
Peop
Doan
Thomas Ash
Renfrew
Tam
Dean
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