Little Folk of New York: Piano Prodigy Michael Zadora
Ten year old Michael Zadora, son of a New York music teacher, began piano lessons after age three and now performs works by Chopin Liszt and Mozart. Praised by Paderewski and Slivinski, he remains a playful boy more attached to his bicycle than his piano, seeking to explain why others cannot match his skill.
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Michael Zadora
New York
Chopin
Liszt
Rummel
Fifth Avenue Hall
Weber
Mozart
Paderewski
Slivinski
Michael
New York World
Wax doll romance of show and use ends in ruin
A Pall Mall Magazine poem tells of two dolls, one wax and one wood, living as pair on a shelf. Their roles as look and wear clash when abandoned in the sun, causing damage to the wax figure while the wooden one remains sturdy.
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Pall Mall Magazine
Princess on a boat and a magnetic paper arrow trick
A Little English princess proclaims she is not a little lady yet. A Philadelphia Press note explains a glass and arrow illusion that demonstrates static electricity by rubbing a glass. A rhyming verse features a boy joking about his age being 9 when upright and 6 when inverted.
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London
Philadelphia Press
King Lo Bengula’s Power Doubted After War Outcome
The New York Sun reports on Lo Bengula, noting his selective tolerance of missionaries, his claimed rainmaking and harvest control, and his reluctance to aid education or missionaries. His people forced him into war, leading to a crushing defeat that shattered belief in his invincibility and severed his chance to be king again.
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Carnegie
Lobengula
Europe
New York Sun
Blood Purifying Medicines and New York Crowd
A collection of ad copy and short notices including Hood’s Sarsaparilla claims, New York crowd observations, a case report by Dr. J. T. Marlow on Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy saving a baby, and multiple vendor endorsements with local sales points in Indiana Blairsville Homer City Marion Center.
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Dick Crawford
Chamberlain
J. T. Marlow
M. D
Tamaroa
Daugherty Bros
Indiana
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
W. A Moore
Homer City
R. Nn. Parks
Marion Center
W. H. Nelson
Kingsville
Mr. Nelson
Training, competition, and the cost to youth
A stake on education’s drill rests in endurance and future promise. The piece warns that intensive training may strain adolescent minds, leading to later lethargy as real work begins. It cites a remark about storing energy and notes western states could hold the US population, Texas joked as world capacity.
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Quarterly Review
United States
Texas
SoUTH AMERICAN NERVINE Promises Quick Nervous Relief
An advertisement touts SoUTH AMERICAN NERVINE as curing Nervous Prostration Nervousness and Nervous Dyspepsia in a day. It urges readers not to scorn patent medicines and promotes a trial bottle for 15 cents, sold by Herrick Bros. Druggists in Indiana Pennsylvania.
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Herrick Bros
Indiana
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Legion
Hood
Island of
Manhattan
Wall Street
Post Office
New York Tribune
Canton
Conn
Castile
Herr Knausten
Chili
Buenos Ayres
Niagara Falls
Racine
Pitcher’s Castoria
Jas. A. White
Gilbert Bro’s
Indiana, PA
Gro. W. Ginsbert
Bruce Smith
Clawson House
Water Street
Indiana Progress
the Reliable Family Newspaper
Indiana County
OUR
Progress
New York Weekly Tribune
Progress and
Pittsb Commercial Gazette
Pittsburgany Times
the Presbyterian
New Banner
United Presbyterian
New United Presbyterian
Progress and Farm Journal
the Progress
G. W. McKinsey
Kokomo
Ind
Dr. Miles
G. W. McKinsey, P. M
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Xotar
Frank Garman
Propr
Philadelphia St
China
Japan
Bovard, Rose & Co
Fifth Ave
Pittsburg, Pa
Vitalis Tinton
Vitalis
Ee Rapid
Wa Wisnen
Raph Hk
P. Harrison
the Atlantic Refining Company
Pittsbourgh Department
Pittsburgh, Pa
Standard Oil Company
Indianva
J. F. Barnes
Soctos
R. M. Crawford
Dr.Miles
Swan & Simpson
Insurance Agency
John L. Paul
PhiladelphIa Street
J. T. Boucher
Indiana, Penn’a
TY B.roof
Havana
PENNA
West
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