Ancient buried village unearthed near Tombstone by Frank Erwin
In southern Arizona near Tombstone Frank Erwin uncovered a shallow site three miles from his ranch while digging an irrigation ditch. He found a wall and hundreds of well preserved bones including an intact skeleton. A stone slab bore figures of men birds and animals and relics will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Frank’ Co
Erwin
Dae “Piiles
Rout
Cochise
Father Niza
Negré Estevantels
Culiacan
Sonora
Tahiri
Tucson
Arizona
Goress
Will
Smithsonian Institution
Byronesque Retort Sparks Literary Feud In Fragment
A stray draft recounts Byron defending his work on English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. He muses that critics will soon regret provoking him and claims his feigned injury enables sharper barbs in print.
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Byron
Bitter Creek
Woman Recovers From Severe Scalp Ailment Using Cuticura
Mrs. Lilissa Brown of Ost. te. 1900 describes a years long scalp disease with itching burning and blood on combs. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as directed for weeks the symptoms cleared with only a slight recurrence eighteen months later and no further scalp trouble.
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Beasimonia
Oles
Mima Lilissa Brown
Biverty
French Surgeon Hides Fee In Patient After Surgery
A Paris surgeon allegedly stitched a patient after appendicitis and hid the fee inside the abdomen. The tale, circulated by a St. Louis Republic correspondent, claims the patient paid a $1,000 check before anesthesia, later finding the fee in the wound. The anecdote has sparked chatter in medical circles.
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Sarah Hen
Ealle
Paris
St. Louta Republic
Yale Princeton game remembered in a passer-by’s bulletin
A fallen man is helped up on a city street after a Yale Princeton game. He learns Princeton won from a passer-by who cites a bulletin board posting and insists the game had been decided earlier. The exchange highlights the dated reference to the match.
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Yale Princeton
Yaie
Linpineatt
Trade in Human Hair Growing Demands in German Cities
Fashion drives a booming human hair trade in Germany with rising imports and exports. Germany’s hair shipments reached 1124 metric tons in 1904, valued at 2204.6 pounds per ton, while 254 tons were exported in 1902. Imports from China rose to 38.7 tons in 1904 and 12.6 tons from Austria the same year. Chinese hair remains cheapest and most abundant. processing for wig use is complex and bleaching and dyeing are common.
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Germany
China
Austria
Hale
Ching
Noted jurist argues perjury harms poor in trials
Samuel Untermyer dismissed as unjust the bias against the poor in criminal trials. He told the Social and Political Science Academy in Philadelphia that perjury is widespread and rarely punished, and that false testimony is most common where defendants cannot offer bail or adequate counsel.
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Samuel Untermyer
New York
Social and Political Science Academy
Philadelphia
Undermeyer
Racing and Sport Gossip From A Bustling Sporting Page
Albertos Terrazas and MM W Ravage prep for race campaigns as top pacers, with Jay Patel hailed as a 2:14 peer and William Frar in Lafayette backing Ban Patch line. Linevarel defeats Princeton in a recent match, while Shrubb plans vaudeville spring appearances and a new running machine.
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Albertos Terrazas
Mexico
Lesean
Linevarel
Princeton
Marvard
Scientists Discuka Many Thorne and the Halley Comet
A transcription of a crowded science conference discussing Halley’s Comet, nonmagnetic ship Carnegie, and astronomical theories. Dr George Yale of Carnegie Institute in Pasadena presents comet risk analyses while A Bauer outlines future ship cruise trajectories. Charles B Davenport notes hereditary influence experiments and Paul Tauptman reinterprets biblical history through ancient alphabets.
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Xesalem
Philadetotia
Halley
Carnegie
Ceordy KB
Yale
Pascidella
Cal
A. Bauer
Oveat Versi
Ly 2
Desrees
Charles B. Daven
Pert
Pasidenm
Paul Tauptman
Johns Hopkins
Goliath
Datht
Davi
Papen Reports Kinute of Like Discovery by Dr Deven
Cable from Paris cites Dr Deven describing cyrolysine a new substance for testing by American physicians via Paris embassy. He claims it could extend life by 15 to 20 years and may cure respiratory and digestive diseases and skin cancer. The agent consists of calloids from alcohol ferments, enhacing phagocyte activity to destroy poisons.
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Deven
Paris
Tre
Pak
R.V. Pierce
Pres
Buffalo, N.Y
Debate Over Ancient Nippur Tablet and Flood Story
Prof A Barton of Bryn Mawr challenged Hilprecht's claim that a tablet from Nippur supplies the oldest written flood account. Ward questioned dating and accused the translation of being largely imaginative while Hilprecht defended its antiquity and Biblical parallels.
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American Oriental Society
Haltinoere
A. Barton
Bryn Mawr
Hilprecht
University of Pennsylvania
Nippur
Hiltprecht
Barton
Nineveh
Thilprecht
Per
William H. Ward
Munyons Paw-Paw Pills Offered Free Pack
A Munyon advertisement promises free packages of Paw-Paw Pills and extols their benefits for digestion stomach and liver complaints. The copy claims the pills provide a speedy cure for constipation indigestion jaundice biliousness and more and notes they are made from Paw-Paw juice. The firm Richmond offered by Munyon's Homeopathic Co located at 5th and Jefferson Streets Philadelphia.
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Munyon
Munyor
Munyon’s Homolopathic Home Remedy Co
Jeferson
Philadelphia
John and the Franchise a Woman Suffrage Lecturer Insight
A woman suffrage lecturer in England argues that her lack of vote contrasts with her groom who can vote. She jokes that even if she urged him to vote, he would respond with a polite misperception. The exchange frames debates on suffrage and alignment with reformers.
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John
England
Doan’s Kidney Pills Prove Helpful Says Mrs McFadden
Doan’s Kidney Pills helped Mrs. M. McFadden of Town City, Jaws, after years of backaches and weakness that left her bedridden while doctors reportedly failed to help. The testimonial urges readers to “Remember the name” and notes 60 cents a box from Foster-Milburn Co. The notice blends other ad copy about a Georgia Bay summer resort and a Chicago loan firm.
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Doan
M. McFadden
Town City
Jaws
lDuen
Gale
Foster-Milpurn Co
Wuffaly
X.Y
Misheard Speech Narrows on Lodges and Councils
Readable dialogue shows a woman asking about her husband’s lodge affiliations. The reply lists ten lodge memberships, four lodges and two councils. The quip notes a “jodge meeting” where he tends to stay, illustrating the humor of mispronounced terms.
Partionaries Up to Date on Language Slang
A professor discusses keeping up with new words in dictionaries noting slang terms like rubberneck stunt tank up and fan and mentions many more and the spread of terminology into everyday use. He cites examples such as tomato and potato between words and terms for a baseball fan. A writer also reflects on a young girl wondering about marriage as she grows older.
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Times
Men of Science
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