Rain Prophet Preacher Builds Ark as Flood Fears Rise
In Houston Texas the colored preacher Mirjah the prophet has warned of a long flood season and urged his followers to build covered boats. Rain has fallen daily for forty four days, and he has erected an ark inside his church as a sign of faith. In London Lo Feng Lu, a Chinese minister, translated Blackstone into Chinese and finished The One Hundred Greatest Men in the Western World. He aims to found a public library in his hometown and provide a full translation of Shakespeare.
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Butide Art
K. Smith
Houston
Tex
Lo Feng Lu
London
Blackstone
Low Rate Excursions And Patent Medicine Advertisements
An old newspaper page fragment offers low rate excursion tickets via Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain lines to western regions with specific sale dates in 1900, plus various agent contacts. The page also teems with patent medicine ads and dubious remedies from Ray’s Eureka Ointment to Castarets, Putnam Dyes and other sensational claims, plus miscellaneous quotes and notes.
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Missouri Paco Hy
Iron Moantala
Bouthrast
Ines
H. C. Townsend
St. Louis
Missouri
Bells At The Steeple And A Train In Mourning
A fragmentary poem from Dublin University Magazine blends bells from a steeple with a train passage. It mourns death and life, urging solace in faith as verses echo about farewell and the afterlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving
Dublin University Magsstne
Quiet Doctor Weds Widow After Night of Danger
A successful young physician in a north side Chicago apartment building forges a bond with Mrs. Traine, a widowed pianist supporting her invalid mother. After thwarting a burglar and aiding her family, he proposes, asking to be paid not with money but with marriage.
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Jack Wintera
Chan
John Redmond
Jack
Tack
Mra. Traine
Mrs. Traine
Swat
Mia
Traine Heralt
Tmamma
Traine
Mra Traine
Mrs. Tralne
Chicago Tribune
Japan Allows Foreign Ownership of Key Railways
The Japanese government has granted permission for foreigners to become owners of shares in Japanese railways. Previous treaties and company by laws limited foreign ownership or restricted tenure to Japanese subjects. The move aims to introduce foreign capital by allowing ownership in principal railways, following months of applications to lift these restrictions.
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Enco
Peincipal Railways
A. Bellamy Browe
Chicago
Railroads cause four times as many wartime deaths
The Army and Navy Journal presents statistics comparing U S railroad fatalities with casualties in the Philippines. The analysis indicates railroading risk levels are about four times higher, based on data from the past year and an army of around 8 000 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Journal Bringy
United States
Philippines
Unclear: La Teste Buch unveiling of Dr Hameau statue note
Fragmentary text describes a formal gathering with attendees in shirtwaist attire at a beach party and a separate note about the unveiling of a statue of Dr. Jean Hameau in La Teste Buch, France, once a medical pioneer who studied viruses in 1836 and foreshadowed Pasteur.
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la Teste Buch
France
Jean Hameau
Pasteur
Forty-Eight Hour Sabbath Decree Bans Weekend Piano
President Kruger once ruled Johanneshire must have two rest days weekly. He issued a decree banning piano playing on Friday and Saturday to preserve the Sabbath observance.
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Kruger
Johanneshire
Japanese diplomat Takahita named new US minister
Koigora Takahita, a longtime Japanese diplomat and Tokyo University graduate, becomes minister to the United States. He has served 25 years in diplomacy and held posts in Holland and Italy.
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Koigora Takahita
United States
Tokio University
Holland
Italy
Mothers Should Guide Girls Through Life Changes
A practical salute to maternal influence on a daughter's growth from girlhood to womanhood. It praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as aid during puberty and lists example letters from Miss Good and Miss Prant praising the medicine's life altering effects on irregular periods, vigor, and happiness.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Good
Jenruary
Dean Man
Prokuast
Lydia
Pinkham
Mias Prant
Goon
Cor
20Th Avenue
Yestar Way
Seattle
Waah
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Jefferson Medical College
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Ervin
Kuprens
Prescription Pharmagal CO
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U. Kansas City
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