Hidden Front Doors And Secret Passages In Homes
A quirked description explains a house’s front door as a guarded entry with optional openness and a side door key kept private. It details a passage to an anteroom, a sliding floor to a secret chamber, and a universally held belief that duplicates of the key exist within families. The note laments trust and secrecy about such access. Separately, a Tokyo plan mentions Japan establishing a steamship line to South America to obtain cheap wheat from Argentina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. W. Holmes
Argentina
Japan
South America
Joys of maternity a woman s best hopes realized
Mrs Potts of Hot Springs Ark recounts remedies for womb displacement and infertility and credits Lydia Pinkham s Vegetable Compound with restoring health and enabling her to bear a healthy child. The letter urges other women to seek Pinkham s guidance for pregnancy efforts and notes sterility in women is rare.
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Anna Potts
510 Park Avenue
Hot Springs
Ark
Pinkham
Lydia
Pink
Pinkbain
Lydia KE
World Travel by Easy Chair Through Stereoscopic Vision
A New York Underwood & Underwood system lets readers tour the world from home using stereoscopic photographs and a two eyed viewing method. The device creates real space perception and location awareness, aided by maps and guidebooks from scholars and travel writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Underwood & Underwood
Martinique
Fay
Normant
Uly
Mwe
Munch
New York University
Lougu
Jesse Lyman Huvibut
D. D
Palestine
D. J Ellison
James C. Wyher
Columbia University
Italy
Himes TH
Chicago University
Egypt
James Klealon
China
George Kenman
Act
The Egyptian Famine Monument Confirmed In Thebes Find
A Sehel island rock near Luxor preserves hieroglyphics claiming King Zoxer endured seven years of Nile drought and famine. The text notes many deaths before Khnum ended the scourge with a great inundation following the king’s prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thebes
Luxor
Egypt
Sehel
Zoxer
Nile
Khnum
New Use for Glass in Wound Dressing
A Baltimore American excerpt praises glass as a wound dressing by Dr. Aymard of Paris. Glass can be curved to fit a wound and allows viewing without removal, potentially replacing cloth and lint bandages. Aymard claims faster healing supported by experiments, suggesting broad medical adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aymard
Paris
Hutt
Stop Belching By Absorption New Method No Drugs
An old advertisement promises Mull's Anti Belch Wafers cure for stomach distress without drugs. It lists belching, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, fever, and headache as symptoms and claims the wafers digest undigested food odors, improve stomach lining, and aid digestion. Free samples offered with coupon. Regular price 50 cents per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mull
Spreran Orrer
Tris Orrer
Arrgar
Sold by all druggists five cents per box
Sold by all druggists, five cents per box, or sent by mail.
Relieving the Brain and the New Admonitions
An article notes that muscular work relieves brain fatigue by reducing irritation rather than physical rest. It contrasts quiet rooms with active labor and cites varied modern observations, including a hotel notice about assisting women with blouses and an old judge’s admonition about cemetery acts. It also mentions a Chaplin, Connecticut farmer who, at 73, married a widow despite a long reputation as a woman-hater and wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ross
Chaplin
Conn
Value of Cheerfulness in Sales and Homes at Castlemartyr
An essay on cheerful salesmanship likens it to spring awakening benefiting customers. It notes Irish Bay Homes reporting Castlemartyr residents, about 600 people, buying fee simple interests in their homes from the Earl of Shannon on favorable terms.
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Irish Bay Homes
Castlemartyr
County Cork
Eari of Shannon
Kidney trouble cured by Deans Kidney Pills, Parkersburg merchant says
W L Jackson of Parkersburg West Virginia reports twenty years of kidney pains and urinary problems. After doctors failed to help he used Deans Kidney Pills. Urine flow returned to normal, pain disappeared, and he has been cured eight years. He remains active at over seventy. Sold by Fonter Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Weat
Virginian
W.L. Jackson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Dean
Fonter-Milbu A Co
Buffalo N
Seed Farms in the United States Grow Seeds for Farmers and Gardens
The article notes over 600 seed farms in the United States dedicated to producing vegetable, field crop, and flower seeds for sale to farmers and gardeners. Some plantations are very large, spanning up to 1,000 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ulcers for thirty years cure by Cuticura at Gainesville
Mr. M. O. Moss of Gainesville Texas recounts thirty years of perbera and eruption relief after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. He says the remedy worked in six months and their first use brought improvement, hoping others may be spared misery. Austria-Hungary moves to expand its ship building industry.
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Peruna
Atlantic
Pacific
Remueritn
Eruna
Martman
Perona
Salem
Oregon
Hartman
Start of OreGon
Depantaeny
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
W. St. Lord
Cutioura
M. 0. Moss
Gainesville
Texas
Perbera
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Mrs. Potts
Tiff
Ohio
Atkina
E. Cc. ATKINS @ CO., Inc
Indianapolis
Chiago
Minneapolis
Baran
Dragon
Reatti
Atlanta
Soropte
Acca 04
Atkins
Eae Pw Gey As
Sieannen
Killa
A. Paxton Company
Beaton, Masa
Atents Chuaieti
Mipneete P
Dept
Washington,d
As Cara Ae i Aa Tod Bir Ats
Motu's Grain Tonto Co
Third Ave
Rock Island, I
Perota
Brooklyn Eagle
F. W. Diemer
ILC
Springfeld
Winchester
Austria-Hungary
Webster’s International
W. T. Harris
Commissioner of Education
St. Louis
Fieg
C. Merriamo
Springfield
Itnsm
W. L. Douglas
Wus
W.l.dos
Brockton
Mass
Douglas
W. L. Douglas Firona
Breas Shane
Bragny
Fall Bigley
Mapes
Pravento Bight
Neu
Bond
He M. Oreem
Amantert
St. Jacobs
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