Health of the Japanese and their hygiene practices
The article argues that Japan leads in public health through compulsory vaccination and hygienic living. It attributes Japan's health to fresh air, sunshine, and open, bedless homes, claiming these factors reduce tuberculosis and pneumonia and noting Western hygiene reforms lag behind. It emphasizes indigenous cultural practices as the foundation of civilization and health compared with America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of Health
Cigar Betting Test Ends With Sufferer Quitting
A New York downtown dealer recounts a customer who boasted of smoking twenty cigars daily. In a bet, a Havana Colorado Madura was lit and smoked in quick consecutive puffs, but within minutes the man faltered, stopped, and walked away, later admitting the idea of tobacco sickened him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Havana
Colorado
Madura
Bean
Ike
New York Press
Burro Guide in Desert Water Search Story
A burro guides two prospectors through the Mohave Desert to a life saving water spring. After Peterson strays and chaos ensues, the exhausted Kelley follows footprints and reunites with the loyal burro which leads them to a spring. The tale highlights the animal’s keen scent for water and endurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Desert
Arthur J. Burdick
Mystic Mid
Peterson
Kelley
Great Mohave Desert
Oaulsy
Oasis
Kelsey
Origin of Hoodlum Became Common Slang in 1872 Case
In Redwood City a gang taunted Hood Lammix from San Francisco during a picnic, vandalizing property and shooting a rancher’s hearse. The sheriff jailed several youths, and the justice warned locals to keep out Hood Lammix and his gang, giving rise to the term hoodlum as noted by the New York Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redwood City
San Francisco
Wax
Hood Lammix
San Marco
Justice of the Peace
Redwood
Hood Lummix
Hood
New York Herald
Life’s Rough Way and the Dream Beyond
A fragmented verse and storytelling column mix dreamlike musings on future paths, roses, and warn shadows with references to mercy and joy. The tone shifts to a joke about prayer and a rural dialect anecdote involving Mose and Marie Jenkins, concluding with a humorous note about sending a chicken.
Cure Your Kidneys and Other Household Remedies Ad
A collection of ad copy touts Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney and backache relief, Allen's Foot Ease for tired feet, and Defiance Cold Water Starch with claims of superior 16 oz packages. Includes testimonials and price notes, urging readers to buy locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Life in Barbadoes A vivid West India portrait
The piece paints Barbadoes as densely populated with about 200,000 residents on 160 square miles, detailing wages, diet, and labor such as diving for coins, the old Dutch windmill, and the sugar trade. It notes migration hopes, tourist interactions, crafts, and the lively Bridgetown streets with industrious locals despite poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbadoes
Bridgetown
New Troes
Island
United States
England
West Indies
Royal Mail Steamship Company
America
An Effective Bit of Furniture for a White Room
A white enameled settee with a high back and curved carvings is offered as a practical yet decorative piece. It includes a removable shoe box hidden beneath the seat and pale cushions to match the room’s dominant color, fitting neatly into a corner for usefulness and style.
Reed fish exhibition fascinates Bar Attle curio crowd
A strange specimen displayed at a waterfront shop, described as half animal and half vegetable life. The six foot reed fish grows from water and stands erect in salt pools. Caught on Hood Canal last week by a tugboat man with a salmon hook and displayed as an oddity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barattle
Hood Canal
Irgsaint Berea Career and Output Highlighted
Mrs. Ella W. Peattle recounts Vornes rrenuss ingraiam a thirty four year career producing 600 novels averaging 70 000 words each plus 400 novelets and numerous plays and verse. He led an adventurous life as a Confederate soldier and later a soldier of fortune worldwide yet earned about 10 000 dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vornes Rrenuss Ingraiam
Ella W. Peattle
Soldier of the Confederacy
Soldier of Fortune
Grape-Nuts Food Promoted For Convalescence
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as safe nourishment during illness and convalescence. A patient recovering from typhoid fever testifies that the product, pre digested and easily digestible, restored strength, improved digestion, and allowed return to normal activities. The ad claims grape sugar in the starch and urges a 10 day trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Beware of Catarrh Remedies Containing Mercury
A fragment claims many products for catarrh cure contain mercury and are unsafe. It mentions Catarrh Cure by Uhaney & Co of Toledo Ohio as dangerous. Also references a Countess of Yarmouth and an expected birth in Creston Pa with the Thaw family, noting a return to England for Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall
Goa
Uhaney & Co
Tledo
Cary
Countess of
Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Pittsburg
Creston
Thaw
United States
England
Mrs. E M De Long finds relief from rheumatism with Williams Pink Pills
Mrs E M De Long of 160 West Broadway Council Bluffs Iowa describes severe rheumatic pain in joints during 1896. After trying doctors with no relief she credits Williams Pink Pills for curing her and urges others to try them. She claims the pills build blood and strengthen nerves, aiding conditions from sciatica to anemia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. de Long
West Broadway
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Williams
Dr. Williams
Pink Pilla
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Avdight
Henry
Cape
Liverpool
Mercury
Daniel Toda
India
Sali
Mose
Dean
D. Hunter
Wyllie Ave
Emya
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Antia Ukely
Trinidad
Jamaica
Downs
Nature
Irgsaint Berea
Avin
Benalbla
Sri Sta Sass
A. J. Tower CO
Boston
A. ‘Tower Canadian Co., Limited
Toronto
Canada
Western Canada
Khem
Ay Siumwa
Genta
Ay Po
Tan Gaerne
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