Fried Onions and Digestion Ideals in Historic Society Notes
A historic essay extols fried onions as a cautionary example of indigestion while praising digestive aids like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. It condemns cheap cathartics, touts safe remedies, and links health to digestion. The piece also describes temperance society efforts funding hot coffee wagons for coaches and streetcar workers, supported by notable society women.
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Stuart
Richardson
United States
Canada
Temperance Society
Levi P. Morton
Wm. Astor
W. K. Vanderbilt
Unique Baltimore Will Bequest List Amazes Courts
Baltimore on February 12 reports the will of Annie George full of odd legacies. The document details items left to sister Minnie including a green and white silk dress and numerous fabric pieces, with other personal effects such as a heart shaped box containing scissors and a scratch pad.
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Baltimore
Annie George
Minnie George
Hamburg
Minnie
Carrie George
Coffee Wagons Aid Firemen In New York
A hot coffee cart run by the Church temperance society has operated for years in New York. It serves free coffee to firefighters after fires, using 20 gallon cans designed to stay hot for 24 hours. Fire chief Croker praises the effort as caring for the men.
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New York
Church Temperance Society
Croker
Fat nerves and Scott's Emulsion remedy claim
A science focused discussion describes nerves as fat nerve cores whose fat content allegedly drives nerve action. The article promotes Scott and Bowne Emulsion as feeding and strengthening nerves, touting its use for nervousness neuralgia and related conditions, with a free sample offer from the New York chemists.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Su
N.Y
Dowling’s second wife learns from old flame unions in brief ceremony
In New York on February 12, John W. Dowling married Mary Morrison, the woman he loved before his first marriage and who became his second wife after his first wife’s death. Morrison had forgiven Dowling years earlier, and the couple wed quietly at St. Ignatius Loyola, with Dowling’s children in their thoughts. The union followed a long, forgiveness-filled history of love, separation, and reconciliation.
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John W. Dowling
Dowling
Httle Dowlings
Mary HK. Morrison
Father Conway
St. Ignatius Loyola
Terrace Garden
Mary Morrison
New York
Goshen
N. Y
Anna Paisley
Miss Morrison
Savannah
Levter
Remarkable Salem tooth incident shocks dentists
In Salem Massachusetts Albert Penoyer carried a tooth in his lungs for 18 hours after a dental extraction. A snapped molar escaped grasp as he inhaled deeply and the tooth lodged in his lung. Doctors used X rays to locate it and the next morning Penoyer coughed up the tooth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Penoyer
Peneyer
Penoyer
Lawyer Ward's Wife Seeks Divorce Over Raw Food Diet
L A Ward, a lawyer and vegetarian theosophist, demanded his wife eat only raw fruit and nuts. She testified he forced her to reject cooked foods, causing her to become emaciated before friends secretly fed her.
Australian Gauges Hint at Unified Rail Standard
A discussion on connecting Australian rail lines notes multiple gauges across Queensland New South Wales Victoria and Western Australia. The four foot eight and a half inch gauge is seen as most economical and may become the standard for new lines, though travelers face five distinct trains and higher freight costs due to transfers.
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New York
Mark Twain
Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
Western Australia
Preacher Called His Congregation Assassins
Rev. Theodore J. Yost pastor at St. Pauls Lutheran church in Cumberland faces a council split. Seven of eight council members oppose him and demand resignation by May 1 if not voluntary by February 20. The dispute centers on leadership and former political references inflaming tensions within the church.
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Cumberland, Md
Theodore J. Yost
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Yost
Church Council
Fcb
Caesar
Brutus
Jesus
Gudas
Heiress Suit In Berlin Courts Over Betrothal
London dispatch reports Karl von Stuttenheim a retired lieutenant suing Miss Middleton an American heiress in Berlin courts for breach of promise of marriage. He claimed she accepted diamonds and gifts after betrothal. bailiffs seized jewels from the Indies family’s wardrobes.
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London
Karl von Stuttenheim
Miss Middleton
Rnch
Berlin
von Stuttenheim
New York
Indies
Amusements and Theatre Changes in London and New York
Alice Neilson plans grand opera career in London and will sing Sir Queen Alexandra on Friday. Biograph pictures attract big crowds, pleasing children most of all. Mam’selle Awkins quits Park stage Wednesday. Mary Green song lingers all winter. ivde Witch becomes manager overseeing Savoy plays and casts. Charles Frohman grants control of Savoy and its productions. Twitch writes for Mary Mannering and Maxine Elliott. The Empire closes with The Devil’s Daughter Wednesday. a new show opens Thursday.
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Alice Neilson
London
Miss Neilson
Queen Alexandra
Plucky School Children Put Out A Bad Blaze
In Woodbury New Jersey Feb 12 a Red Bank student named Bill Anthony class mates signaled a fire at Mr. Hunter's house. The pupils evacuated the school and helped Mrs. Hunter notice peril then carried water to slow the blaze. The schoolhouse burned to the ground with an estimated loss around 2500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodbury
N. J
Bill Anthony
Red Bank
Free to Ladies Free to Ladies
An ad offers a free full sized $5.90 package of Dr. Mary Lock's home treatment for female ailments. It promises a three course remedy mailed to the home from Chicago and urges any woman to write for the free trial without questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lock
U.S
New Geyser Found in Yellowstone Porcelain Basin
Maj John Pitcher reports the Yellowstone park ice crew observed a new volcanic display near Norris geyser basin named the Twentieth Century geyser. Located 139 feet east of Constant geyser, its crater measures 26% inches by 41 inches and eruptions last 3 to 11 minutes every 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes, with eruptions six times the volume of Constant.
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Porcelain Basin
Norris Geyser
Norris Basin
One-eyed Riley Cowboy and Bronco Buster Dies in Phoenix
William Riley known across the territory as One-eyed Riley dies after a fall from a horse while roping a steer. A famed regional tournament star, he lived in Phoenix for years but never spoke of family, leaving no known origins.
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Phoenx
Ariz
William Riley
Riley
Soothing Syrup for Teething Children Sold Worldwide
An old advertisement promotes Wittiows soothing syrup for teething children, claiming it calms pain, softens gums, and cures wind colic. It lists price at twenty five cents per bottle and offers free illustrated booklets via the Chicago and North Western Railway for travelers, with catalog items priced in cents including maps and regional guides.
Recovery progress reported for Lawrence Gildersleeve
Lawrence Gildersleeve son of a Huntington coal merchant, once paralyzed from a broken neck after a football rush, shows steady improvement since Christmas. Doctors note the fracture at the fourth vertebra appears to be healing and he now moves limbs, can turn his head, and sit up.
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New York
Lawrence Gildersleeve
Huntington
L. 1
Gildcersleeve
W. B. Gibson
Gildersleeve
Rival Quarrel Ends in Lifesaving Rescue at Lake
Tru man Hager saved his sworn foe William Savacool from drowning after Savacool fell through ice on Fotter lake. Five years earlier the two quarreled over a woman who married another man, their feud leading to frequent clashes. Hager hauled Savacool from the water and rushed him to a nearby house for thawing.
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Middletown
N. Y
Truman Hager
William, Savacool
Savacool
Fotter Lake
Hager
Rescuing Pledge Ends with Firm Refusal to Shake Hands
Slager thanked Hager for saving his life and proposed a handshake to bury the dispute. Hager declined, declaring it his duty to save a life but no power could make him shake hands with a man he called a scoundrel.
Senate panel aims at tariff and tax cuts balance
Washington February 12 Senate committee notes no general tariff revision but plans about 66 million dollars in war tax cuts. The program also foresees tariff reductions on sugar and tobacco from Cuba by at least 5 percent and possibly 30 percent, as Ways and Means fights revenue issues.
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Washington
Cuba
Senate
House
Why All Coughs Are Dangerous
An old health advertorial claims coughs stem from irritation of the air passages and urge readers to use HYOMEL a dry air germicide sold by The R. T. Booth Co. It promotes inhalation therapy to prevent bronchitis pneumonia and consumption with trial outfits and mail order offers from Ti haca New York.
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United States Health Reports
Ite
R. T. Booth Co
Tihaca
N. Y
Notice of liquor license application in Center Township Indiana
Joseph Michaelis gives notice to Seventh ward voters of Center township that he will apply at the Marion county Board of Commissioners May term 1902 for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons and allow consumption on the premises. The business is at No. 241 Delaware Street, first floor, a fronting west room in a two story brick building, 452-12 feet south of the northwest corner of square 38, Indianapolis Indiana.
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Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Mourion County
Indiana
Delaware St
Delaware-st
Square 38
Indianapolis
Marion County
Joseph Michaelis
Tenth Ward
Board of County Commissioners
McCarty
S. Delaware St
H. W. Kurz
Parker seeks license to sell liquor in Indianapolis ward six
Voters in Sixth ward Center township authorize Robert Parker to apply to Marion county Board of Commissioners at the March 1902 term for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in any quantity with on premises drinking allowed on Indiana Avenue first floor of a two story brick building on lots 9 and 10 Ray's subdivision square 1 city Indianapolis Center township Marion county Indiana known as No 527 Indiana Ave ward 6.
Voters seek license for intoxicants and pool at Center Township
In Marion county Indiana Robert Sloan announces intent to apply to the Board of County Commissioners at the March term 190 for a license to sell spiritous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking allowed. The business is located on Senare ave west facing room on first floor in a two story brick building on lot 2 in McKernan’s subdivision of block 28 Drake’s addition in Indianapolis ward 3. Sloan also seeks pool table privileges in the same room.
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Third Ward
Center Township
Marion County
Indiana
Board of County Commissioners
Senare Are
McKernan
Drake
Indianapolis
Senate Ave
Robert Sloan
Liquor license sought in Indianapolis ward one
The voter of the First ward Center township applies to Marion county Board of Commissioners at the March term 1862 for a license to sell intoxicating malt and spiritous liquor in less than five gallons with on premises drinking. The business location is 1028 E Nineteenth St a first floor room fronting south in a two story frame building Lot 1 Block 9 S A Fletcher jr os north east addition Indianapolis. The notice includes a request for pool table privileges in the same room. GEO W HAGECORN.
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First Ward
Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
Indiana
Nineteenth St
Samuel Gelman seeks liquor license for Indianapolis ward
Voters in the Eighth ward Center will apply to the Board of county commissioners at the March term 1882 for a license to sell spirituous vinous malt and intoxicating liquors in less quantities than five gallons with on premises consumption. Property at 2302 E Washington St room fronting south northeast corner Washington St Beville Ave two story brick building Pickens Loftin addition Center Township Marion County Indiana.
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Eighth Ward
Center Township
Marion County
Indiana
Board of
County Commissioners
Washington St
Beville-aye
Picken & Loftin
E. Washington St
Indianapolis
Samuel Gelman
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