Saint Teresa of Santa Ana Healer Believed to Cause Outbreak
Seettle i fete by Santa Teresa, revered Mexican healer in Chihuahua and Sonora, is linked to a Yaqui outbreak. The 27 year old woman claims divine communion and healing powers after a trance in which she learned biblical teachings. She reportedly cured a paralytic and hypnotized Captain Ruiz restoring his leg function.
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Santa Teresa
Chihuahua
Sonora
Sinaloa
Republic of Mexico
Teresa
Ruiz
Mexico
Lobelia Dill Missed Friday Fish Dinner For Church Sleep
Lobelia Dill wakes to a distorted weekafter the fishman skips Friday and a misread alarm causes her to miss church. She panics over the lost day while juggling jam beans and Peter Piper as Mercy Drinkwater and neighbors observe the rare lapse in the long line of punctual Dills. The scene ends with the pool of guilt as Dill kin recall the family’s Sunday reputations.
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Lobelia Dill
Lobelia
Gabriel
Bial Blessop
Bial Blossop
Dili
Bill Blossop
Peter Piper
Peter
Little Dill
Mercy Drinkwater
Quinn's
Mercy
Piper
Lobela Dill
Dilis
LobeHa
YobeHa Dill
Dill
F. Nonore
Dill Girl Keeps Faith Amid Gossip and Shame
Lobella Dill endures public scorn from village gossips over a missed church meeting. She suffers marital and moral pressure but finds solace in church bells and a clear conscience as she hurries to Sab bath day services.
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Lobella Dilt
Lebella Dill
Lobela
Dill
Quinn
Lobella
Christian Endeavor World
Short Fashions Signal Fall Style Trends
Short elbows sleeves appear on costly outfits of thin fabric. Colored underwear falls from fashion as a desirable change. The season promises a stupendous purple fall with beaded passementerie girdles and bretelles. Embroidery and appliques enhance textiles over braid trimming. Bargains on short silk lengths for full shirt waists abound. Bright colors replace pale tints for seaside and fall waists. Narrow black velvet ribbon threads panels and guimpes on elaborate toilettes.
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Berthas
Bretelles
Pointed Paragraphs on Life and Work
A compact quip collection ponders risk management and life. It contrasts male organization with female management and notes rules changing with time. It suggests slow business but rapid compound growth and the folly of not meeting one's best effort. Love and locksmiths are joked about with marriage as common.
New Torpedo Boat Bailey Set for Aug 21 Launch
A New York girl will christen the torpedo boat Bailey on the Harlem river on August 21. Miss Bailey, granddaughter of the late Rear-Admiral Bailey, is twenty years old and described as bright and pretty.
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New York
Bailey
Harlem River
Miss Bailey
Cooking School Notes on Croquettes and Custards
Cooking school ideas explain fat temperature for croquettes and frying tests. A one part salt to three parts ice mix controls freezing for cream or water ice. Custards differ: cooked will coat a spoon, baked will not cling. Frying test uses bread in hot fat to gauge readiness.
Wit and whimsy in late 19th century quips
A collection of short jokes and quips: a man asks why borrow five shillings from Blibbs. another notes he is flush yet anticipates a demand. An old gentleman questions courting. a young man fears too much attention. A joke on a fiancee and a curious pen-wiper worn to church.
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Blibbs
Jack
Tom
Young Blank
Chicago News
Margaret's Objection in Puck Verse
A short verse by Frank Swain Bailey from Puck features Margaret the maid and a gallant driver debating a self powered ride. The driver explains the lever wheel and steering while Margaret doubts its evening suitability. The exchange ends with Margaret remaining unimpressed and wary of the device.
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Margaret
Frank Swain Bailey
Puck
I’d choose you over Golconda and all wealth
The speaker asserts that even Golconda’s mines would be worthless without his true love. He proclaims his wife is priceless, richer than any jewel, and that no beauty or fortune compares to her. The poem emphasizes devotion and the primacy of love over wealth.
Oregon Postmistress Miss May Caldwell of Carl ton
Miss May Caldwell, postmistress at Carlton Oregon born June 22 1874 in California Missouri lives with her mother and is the family’s mainstay. She rose from a quiet life to serve the office after a notable contest in February 1898 and has earned wide popularity and community approval.
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Miss May Caldwell
Carlton
Ore
California
Miss Caldwell
Lfe
Modish Lingerie Trends In Fall Robes D Nuit
A fashion overview notes yokes and lace boleros on fall robes d nuit with reduced sleeve sizes and detachable night gown fronts for laundering. It highlights square yokes, jabots, Swiss embroidery, waistline corset covers, straight inserting, knee flounces on underskirts, and new hip line conformity, with sheath skirts and slim waists driving new underlinen shapes. Hamilton Clark of Chauncey Ga credits DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for curing itching piles after twenty years, warning against counterfeit products.
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Hamilton Clark
Chauncey
DeWitt
Styles for Little Ones in Fashionable Children's Dresses
The three little maids model current children's fashions with crepe chalice and dotted foulard outfits. Center dress features two sun-plaited ruffles, leaf-green print, square bodice and guimpe with fine lawn tucks. The smallest girl wears a French batiste slip with embroidered yoke and a scarlet India silk bonnet.
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Bottie Green
Magnificent Jewelry Pieces Owned by New York Elite
Description details Mrs George Gould and others with luxury jewelry. Mentions ropes of pearls and diamonds, solitaire rubies claimed as finest, Roman gold combs, diamond tiaras, and pearl necklaces worn in various elegant arrangements. Includes Mrs William Astor and Mrs John Jacob Astor among noted owners.
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George Vanderbilt
Webb
Robert Goele
William Astor
John Jacob Astor
Dixie Girls in White and Southern Summer Resorts
Southern ladies at northern resorts wear white gowns with meticulous hand needlework. An elegant but costly fashion arises from minute tucks and shirts on muslin waists, commissions providing a livelihoods for old Southern families in poverty. The craft emphasizes cleanliness and individual handiwork, avoiding wholesale competition and highlighting Southern form and social display.
This Is the Wonderful Gypsy Schroda
A testimonial proclaims the Wonderful Gypsy Schroda cured rheumatism after ten years of illness and walking difficulties. The unnamed speaker praises her healing influence and urges others to visit the practitioner at a location described as Wyandotte barber atop Massachusetts Lane.
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Schroda
Massachusetts
Rex
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