Electric belt replaces mustard plaster in medical lore
The article humorously compares the electric belt to the mustard plaster from early republic days. It notes the plaster’s painful, invasive history, typically applied by a wife, and contrasts it with a modern electric belt that provides relief without dragging the sufferer into harsher ordeals. The belt attaches to a meter, records consumption, and delivers calming relief as the patient rests, avoiding the plaster’s dramatic, even lethal, imagery.
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Republic
Man
Tuberculosis and Early Warning Signs
The article explains that tuberculosis is a lung disease caused by a germ, which healthy bodies may resist but weak bodies struggle to fight. Early symptoms include a lingering cough, weight loss, fever, night sweats, and coughing up blood, with advice to seek a physician rather than rely on patent medicines or unproven cures.
The Woods Unknown grave under the Georgia pines
A poem laments an unknown soldier buried in a pine grave beneath Southern skies. It contrasts unmarked graves with the comfort of nature and divine hush. The speaker imagines the unknown dead hearing distant Northern odes and waves as cedars sway softly.
Poppers and Puddings From a Mother's Cook Book
A vintage collection of home dessert and sauce recipes includes Popped Corn Pudding Peach Whip and Velvet Sherbet plus Crisps, Cucumber Sauce, Cherry Sherbet and Cheese Cakes. The playful text blends steps for freezing, beating eggs, and baking with lemon, vanilla and fruit flavors.
Dream Symbolism and Freud in Night Visions Explained
A column explores what last night’s dreams may signify, focusing on encounters with actors and actresses as favorable omens or obstacles. It discusses Freud’s theory that dreams fulfill unconscious wishes, noting infantile wishes supplant conscious desires and dominate dream content, with brief asides on dream meanings and economic reflections.
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Freud
Giants eye Shinante as top Giants prospect
Jesse Trickett notes Waterbury pitcher Shi fanit as the one major league prospect not yet on the Giants radar. Burkell aims to add Shinante’s name to the list of Giants youngsters, with several young arms farmed out to the Eastern League and others in development.
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Glants
Shifanit
Waterbury
Ti Burchell
Giants
Bastern Teague
Hyi
Burkett
Shinante
Baseball Notes From A Tumultuous Season Outlook
The Canadian athletic commission limits boxing to ten rounds as managers and players move between teams. Notable items include Rockford to New York Nationals sales, Tulsa Wester league star to St Louis Browne, and Kansas City signing Dick Smith and Earl Brown. Reports touch Cubs, White Sox, Cardinals, and Red Sox moves, with many players changing teams or joining spring rosters.
Nick Altrock vows to never quit the diamond
The old catcher pitcher Nick Altrock vows he will not quit baseball despite age and fatigue. He jokes about limits and says he may coach someday, though daylight reading fails him as lines blur from aging.
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Nick Altrock
Washington
Yale Will Train in South for Easter Camp
Yale baseball coach Billy Lauder plans to take the squad south during Easter vacation for intensive baseball preparation. If approved, the team will remain in a single location for one to two weeks without games or public competition. Any feasible scrimmages would be arranged with major league teams.
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Billy Lauder
Yale
Polo Grounds
Hue
Big Hiagne
Baseball in Antipodes Sees Busy NSW Season and UC Tour
Indications point to a lively winter season for the New South Wales Baseball Association with forty teams competing. About twenty five University of California students will tour Australia, likely playing exhibition games that let local experts test their wit against American amateurs and compare play standards.
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New South Wales Baseball Association
University of California
Australia
Strunk to Retire From Baseball After Season
Strunk likely ends major league career after this season as speed declines and weight increases. Philadelphia fans recall his early Philadelphia roots and the long popular outfield presence with the Athletics.
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Strunk
Philadelphia
Meek
Federal League Blamed for Players’ Betrayal
Del Howard of the Oakland Coast League cites recent Federal League behavior as reason for players drifting away. He notes many ex Federal leaguers now populate the outlaw circuit, arguing this proves issues were not isolated.
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Junging Denny
del Howard
Oakland Cint
Irilersinn
Cony Cravath Sets Hitting Records with Philadelphia
Cony Cravath, manager of the Philadelphia National stars, set a remarkable hitting record during his 17 years in the league. In Los Angeles in 1903 he hit 218 home runs, 179 triples and THU doubles, marking a standout achievement in the sport's early era.
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Phillies
Cony Cravath
Philadelphia
Trary Ton
Los Angeles
Six Clubs Hold Lead In National League This Year
Six clubs have held the lead at various times in the National League this year including the Pirates Dodgers Reds Phillies and Cubs with multiple holds noted as the season progressed across opposing towns and venues.
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Dedgers
Reds
Phils
Haves
Cube
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