Ancient Roman seasoning and culinary excesses recount
The piece surveys Roman dining culture and medicine mingled with food, noting lavish banquets, medicinal menus, and extravagant dishes. It cites Julius Caesar’s lampreys and emperors’ feasts, then shifts to a Korea Korea royal tooth incident and a brief history of early motor cars from Daimler to 1894, framing long arcs of luxury and invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Cesar
Hortenslug
Europe
Kansas City Star
Harvard Window Proposed In Southwark Church Memorial
London Standard reports American residents in London seek to honor John Harvard founder of Harvard College with a memorial window at St Saviour’s, Southwark. Evidence links Harvard to Southwark via baptism entry dated November 26, 1607 and local family ties including his father Robert Harvard’s meat purveying and his mother’s tavern connections. Harvard studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at age about 20 married Anne Sadler before moving to New England where he became a townsman of Charlestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
John Harvard
Massachusetta College
St. Sayiour’s
Southwark
Harvard
Bouthwark
Boar's Head Court
London Bridge
Rendle
Eugene Southwark
John Aryard
Emmanuel College
Cambridge
Queen's Head
John Huigon
Ellefson
David Rowley
Appling
Emmanuel
Anne Sadler
New England
Charlestown
London Standard
Peary’s 1905 Plan to Reach the Pole
R. E. Peary outlines his July 1905 plan to steam north from a coal depot at Tah and Cape Sabine, load Eskimos and provisions, and push north to Grant Land. He aims to winter there, begin a sled journey in February, and reach the pole, seeking scientific, geographic prestige and national pride for the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peary
Harry
Tah
Cape Sabine
Grant Land
Polar
R. E. Peary
Harper's Weekly
Deathiest Atoms In There are Some People
There are readers who think £82,000 an ounce suffices for any purchase and prices for radium rise with demand. Bohemian pitchblende mining faces government restrictions already affecting supply. A specimen of radium with 1,800,000 activity draws eight feet of electroscope response, yet owners refuse to loan it for less than £100 for doctors, preferring £51 for a loan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isdiam
Bohemia
Pall Mall Gazatte
Henry Ward Beecher
New York
Brooklyn
Woot Harmon & Co
United States
Howe Comments On Expensive Education At Harvard
Ala Stadia, Mrs Julia Ward Howe author of The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, who earned LL D recently, listened to a woman's complaint that a Harvard education costs much. Howe quips that often the costlier education is the least valuable, recounting a breakfast remark by a father to his son about tuition. The son replies he does not study hard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Ward Howe
Hyman
Republic
Harvard
Local Health Cure Claims with Electric Bitters Use
Conversion notice from Wake Ark man claims 12 years of jaundice cured after two years of illness by Electric Bitters. Ads promote liver and kidney relief, with 50 cent price and multiple Indiana Pa distributors. Also lists a 120 acre West Mahoning farm for 50 per acre, buckwheat purchase offer, red brick yard sale near Taylorsville, a new six room Indiana Pa dwelling, and sale of old papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev. Inc
Cox
Wake, Ark
Daugherty Bros
Indiana
Sickenberger & Co
Homer City
L. N. Park
Marion Center
West Mahoning Township
Swickaburg
Belek
R. Lb. Ferrier
Taylorsville
West Water Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Korea
Seoul
Flrst
Herr Daimler
Tandon East
Sweenick & Wilson
J.D. Johnston
Blacklick
Johnston
Mary A
Robinson
T. L. Edwards
The
Reliance Life Insurance Company
Pittsburg
Farmers’ Bank
Grant, Postoffice, PA
Timothy
Brookville
Frank Douglass
PENNA
Just
Indiana Hardware Company, Ltd
First National Bank
Edward Rowe
Indiana, Pa
Tribune Farmer
National Illustrated Agricultural Weekly
U Will
NEW York Tribune Farmer
Tribune
New York City
Indiana Progress
Clymer Manufacturing Co
Aaguis St
Lockard
Indiana County
M. Lockard
Penn’a
Vogel Bros
Sixth Street
Court House
John F. Steving
Sutton
Philadelphia Street
California
Bolivar Foundry and Machine Co
Bolivar, Pa
T. A. Gilbert
Marshall
Frank Runzo
Hia Hue
Philadelphia St
Morrience Banxine G
Fourth Ave
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!