Etherizing a Horse and The Artificial Leg Boom
A Boston veterinary school may close due to lack of endowment while its large free clinic serves the poor by training students under Dr. Charles P. Lyman. The article details ether anesthesia in horse operations, humane care, and advances in American artificial legs, noting wartime and industrial demand and the shift from peg legs to modern designs.
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Harvard Veterinary School
Boston
New England
United States
Charles P. Lyman
School
Agricultural Department
Washington
America
Europe
Why Preachers Are Scarce
The Rev. Dr. Charles T. Thwing of Western Reserve University argues that fewer divinity students enter ministry due to commercial career appeal and shifting church roles. He cites doubts about church society, institutional clubs, and unsettled doctrinal beliefs from scientific advances over the last fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Thwing
Western Reserve University
Thwing
Cleveland
Chicago
Spanish Politeners in Wartime Travel Narrative
In a recent book Spanish Highways and Byways the author notes warm courtesy shown to her during tense postwar memories between Spain and her country. A San Lucar shopkeeper refused sale, guiding her to a better store and saying I do not take pay for pleasure madame.
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Spain
San Lucar
A Happy Village in Japan Wins Peace Prize Gift
In Hanke Japan a model village has gone 200 years without quarrel or crime. The government rewards the town with a $100 gift acknowledging the peace and prosperity earned by careful communal effort and shared civic virtue.
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Hanke
Japan
Where Was the Swindie in the London Tit Bits
Lionel Bertram Jones recalls his proposal to his wife Ethel four weeks into marriage. He accuses her of swindle while she hides guilt over the scene with bread dough and a carving knife, recalling the doorbell memory in a domestic vignette from London Tit Bits.
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Ethel
Lionel Bertram Jones
London
Submarine Cable and Bitters Era Marquee Health Claim
A historic note compares the first submarine cable laid across the English Channel with the early introduction of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The advertisement asserts the Bitters as a universal remedy for dyspepsia indigestion flatulency constipation biliousness nervousness and insomnia and urges sufferers to try it for renewed health and sleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English Channel
Hostetter
Pan-American Exposition Excursions by Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad will run low rate three day Pan-American Exposition excursions from Pittsburg to Buffalo each Tuesday during the months shown. Trains depart 9 00 a m arrive 5 35 p m. tickets $5 25 from Pittsburg $6 35 from West Brownsville $5 25 from Allegheny $6 90 from Conemaugh $4 15 from Brookville $2 80 from Franklin and proportional from intermediate points. Continuous passage only, no parlor or sleeping car use.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Thoresay
Weat
Brookville
Red Bank
Imperial Council Shrine excursion tickets to Kansas City
The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell excursion tickets from all stations for the Imperial Council Nobles of the Mystic Shrine meeting in Kansas City on June 11 and 12. Return by June 17, one fare plus $2, with rates and details at Ticket Agents.
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Imperial Council
Kansas City
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Old Life Insurance Plot and Senate Repartee
A broker relates a tale of two wealthy retirees who, after visiting several firms, fall prey to an actuary's manipulation aided by a doctor friend, netting the company a fortune while others lose. The piece shifts to a discussion of Spellbinders in campaigns and ends with a famed senate repartee between Ingalls and Dawes, likened to Conkling's quip to Thurman.
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Kith
Blank Dash Company
New York’ Sun
Senate
John J. Ingalls
Senator Hoar
Massachusetts
Mr. Dawes
Mr. Ingalls
Ingalls
Charles Sumner
Daniel Webster
Conkling
Thurman
When Li Bang Chang Grinned
The piece recounts a joke about Li Hung Chang and the American minister Conger discussing rain prayers, followed by aphorisms on educated women, a remark about thieves, and a note that the oldest artesian well was drilled at Lillers in the twelfth century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Li Bang Chang
China
Earl Li Hung Chang
Mr. Conger
Earl
Lillers
France
Abolition of the Ducking Stool Across the Country
The ducking stool or tumbrel was a chair set over a pond where women were chained and ducked multiple times. It appears in local histories and accounts, with Liverpool cited as not formally abolished until 1776 per The Gentleman's Magazine 1803.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay
Liverpool
Gentleman’s Magazine
London Graphic
Cure a Cold in One Day with Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund the purchase if it fails. Each box carries E. W. Grove's signature and is priced at 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Fertilizer and Farm Machinery Catalog Ad Offers Premium Gear
Two carloads of fertilizer including garden, potato, corn and grass formulas arrive, with Kraus Sulky Corn Worker noted as the hillside winner. Brookville Wagons Hoosier corn and grain drills, Deering mowers reapers and binders featured. Machines claim light running and long wear due to roller and bicycle ball bearings. Samples and prices available on request.
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Kraus
Brookville
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Imperial Council, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Philippines
Islands
Mahan & Lawson
Clawson
Water Street
Boyd
Anx
National Committee
State— Home Magazine
Chicago Post
Atchison Globe
Empfields
Bond
Spurr
Ruth S. Empfield
Philadelphia Street
Frank Douglass
Indiana
PENN
White Star Coffee
J. B. Younkins
Philadelphia
R.w.wehrle
Sor
B. I. Wehrle
Sapolio
Penn Run
G. E. Frantyz
Penn Mun, Pa
McFarland & Turner
I. McFarland, Smith & MacCartney
A. L. Smith
Clymer Manufacturing CO
Philadelphia St
Indiana, Pa
Brilhart
Stafford Press
Church
New Haven
Conn
Clannon
Lydick’s Grocery
Josiah Lydick
Griffith’s Wall Paper
China Stara
Sixth Street
the Jail
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