Water and Life and Etruria in a Jasper snippet
The article discusses water's central role in life, its temperature limits, and planetary implications from Professor Lowell. It adds notes on Etruscans shaping Rome, with cemeteries revealing lost history and their earlier dominion across Italy before Gauls Greeks and Romans reduced their reach.
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Prof
Lowell
Earth
Mars
Rome
Etruria
Italy
Apennines
Tiber
Mediterranean
Icelanders Said To Be The Longest Lived People
The article argues Iceland inhabitants are the longest lived globally and notes arctic travel tales about grip or premonia germs. It suggests these medical fears cannot thrive in the frozen north, or only do so in a subdued, joyless way, and imagines shipping these twin evils away northward to improve world happiness.
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Iceland
Arctic
North
North Pole
Falan
Sabine Lake canal opens new deep waterways route
One of the new waterways from which great things may be expected is the Sabine Lake canal, 15 miles long, linking the Sabine and Teches rivers and creating a route to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic via Sabine Lake between Louisiana and Texas. The first shipment, lumber bound for England, has already passed through. The canal demonstrates the potential of developing deep waterways to expand home and foreign trade through cheaper, easier transportation.
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Sabine Lake
Sabine
Teches
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Louisiana
Texas
England
Claridge's Hotel to Mark Centenary in London
The famed London hotel Claridge's, opened in early 1808 as Mivart's by founder Mivart, is set to celebrate its centenary. Mivart introduced a bathroom for guests, a claim highlighted in advertisements of the era, and in 1850 the business passed to Mr and Mrs Claridge, a butler and housekeeper in a ducal household.
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Claridge’s
London
Mivart's
M. Mivart
Mivart
Ivart
Andra
Claridge
Wally the Finn Sailor and the Veiled Atonement
A first mate recalls Vladmir Hjalmir known as Wally, a silent Russian Finn aboard a ship bound for the China Sea. Conversation reveals his past, the sinking of Petropavlovsk, a torpedoed vessel, and a doomed journey shaped by social class, loyalty, and the haunting memory of hundreds lost at sea. The narrator notes Wally’s grim reflections and the shipboard tension as they survive the catastrophe.
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Vladmir Hjalmir
Wally
Vladivestok
Petropavlovsk
Janson
Scene note stars injury in theater prop mishap
A press note reports the leading actor sprained an ankle after slipping on a painted prop tied to the second act. The Scenic Artist comment suggests the mishap involved a handout prop and the stagehands.
Choice of Demise Tragedy Strikes Town
A neighbor boy dies in a trolley accident as a swiftly moving car hits him after he crosses the street. The town mourns. Mary, a child observer, expresses a fearful wish that her death be by disease rather than by damage.
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Ery
Aema
Mary
Cutiura Cured Genial Tipton Man From Eczema
A Tipton Iowan man born with eczema describes a long tormenting condition lasting 65 years until using Cutiura products. He reports red and white blisters and severe itching that prevented work, then states he was cured after eight months of Cutiura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills. A neighbor attests to the testimonial’s truth and Bordwell’s condition.
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Hale Bordwell
Tipton
Bordwell
Nelson R. Burnett
St Patrick Rooster Feat in Washington Market
A Patrick Rooster joke from the New York Press features a quarrel between a customer and a poultryman. The punchline notes the fowl would not crow due to its supposed missing lungs, prompting the customer to joke about adding lungs next time.
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A &J. Patrick
Washington
St. Patrick
New York Press
Backache ad for Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A vintage medical advertisement praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for uterine and back pain. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Will Young of Rockland Maine and Mrs. Augustus Lyon of East Earl describing relief from backache, side pain, and loss of appetite after using the product. It asserts decades of use and claims the remedy cures many female ailments.
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Will Young
Columbia Ave
Rockland
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
East Earl
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Deriafon
Hell
Iast
Europe
Tormenta
Cutiura
Oman
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