Electricity as Curative Surges in Medical Use
The article notes electricity shifting from a quack remedy to a medical tool with physiological effects. It highlights Dr Labordie's ionization treatment for sciatica using sodium hyposulphite and a sulfur oxide mechanism, reporting marked mobility return after ten sessions. It also covers Pasteur Institute experiments by Dr Cohendy showing sterile incubator eggs yield germless chickens, while conventional reared chicks acquire microbes.
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Labordie
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Doctor Cohendy
Metchnikoff
Boston School Health Reform Prompts New Plans
Physicians report 65 percent of Boston public school children are physically defective. Nurses have corrected defects and meditated baths for skin conditions are proposed. Emphasis shifts to school clinics and parent teacher cooperation with calls to reduce competitive work and adjust promotions to fit actual mental capacity.
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Boston
Boston Globe
Chicago News notes gold brick hoax luring buyers
The Chicago News reports men seeking real gold bricks are duped by imitation bricks offered for sale. Real gold valued at 500 million in 1911 would require a 25 thousand dollar stake, while fake gold bricks sell for about 3 dollars.
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Chicago News
Pedestrian safety demand sparks call for strict car laws
Nine people were killed in January and nearly forty maimed by automobiles in New York streets. The piece argues that every city must enforce strict laws to protect pedestrians and shift the burden of care onto drivers, resisting the toll exacted by speed and carelessness.
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New York
Musical masters' ages contrast with Vera’s long life
The article notes many composers dying young from Schubert to Schuman, ages ranging from 31 to 46, while comparing them to Vera who lived into her nineties, suggesting music’s life-shortening myth against a long-lived exception.
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Schubert
Mozart
Bellini
Bizet
Carmen
Purcell
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Weber
Schuman
Vera
Russia Threatens Retaliation Over Sewing Machines
The article reports Russia pledging to retaliate by halting imports of American sewing machines. It notes the impact on U S suppliers and mentions that U S consumers rely on Russian caviar, sourced from San Dusky Ohio.
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Russia
Sandusky
Ohio
Women Proposed to Lead Social Reform Idea
A Boston social scientist urges women to make proposals, arguing it will test the remaining male chivalry in these promiscuous times and push forward reform. The remark frames gender roles and social expectations in a provocative public stance.
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Boston
German Imperator to dwarf all ocean liners at 900 feet
Berlin reports a new Hamburg-American liner named Imperator will loom 900 feet long and about 60,000 tons. It will outsize the Titanic and Mauretania with a quarter mile promenade deck, luxury halls, a Ritz-Carlton restaurant, a Toomy swimming pool, and turbine power.
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Berlin
Goliath
Imperator
Elbe
Kerns
Kern
Cologne
Tietz
Mauretania
Spree
Onve
Electric Rail Seen As Key To Steel and Rail Comfort
Plan centers on a new open hearth steel rail finished by an electrical process. United States Steel Corp leads the effort with railroad presidents at a recent conference pressing for a durable, wear resistant rail. If the electric process fails, reforms include heavier rails or longer lasting, costlier rails and careful end-cutting to avoid defects.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Chicago Woman Testifies About Hats and Gambling Losses
Mrs. David O Keefe told the court her husband wasted all his money on gambling. She displayed a 69 cent hat she wore five years and a $3 cent that served three years, as she testified. O Keefe was held.
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Chicago
David O'Keefe
O'Keefe
Bachelors as Prizes At Card Party Series
Chicago event offers four handsome bachelors as prizes for winning a series of card parties for unmarrieds from Car Nation Lodge K. One bachelor is set as booby prize.
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Chicago
Carnation Lodge K
Girl Stops Wedding In Centralia Drama
In Centralia Washington a wedding near Tono ends abruptly when Mina Erickson refuses to marry Charles I Caldwell just as the Rev Robert Reid is about to pronounce them man and wife. The bride’s mother opposed the match and feigned attempted poisoning after learning of the ruse, prompting the bride to call off the ceremony.
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Centralia
Wash
Charles I. Caldwell
Mina Erickson
Tono
Robert Reid
Puget Sound
Reid
Death by own action noted in Indiana horse incident
Dr. Charles Pangburn, a Jeffersonville veterinarian, described the death of a pain maddened horse as death by own action after it bolted toward and sank in the swollen Fourteen Mile creek. The animal had been treated for a severe ailment for several days and plunged into the stream as the vet watched.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Charles Pangburn
Fourteen Mile Creek
Pangbini
Man chokes dog to death after attack in New York
Edmund Lith, 67, struggled with a dog that had bitten him in the face arms and body and killed the animal by choking it.
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New York
Edmund Lith
Army Auto Trucks Back Louisville Expedition
Captain Alexander Elliott Williams and a small party arrived in Louisville after an all day run from Magnolia Kentucky in army efficiency tests. The group includes Captains Williams and Hegeman, W C Sterling of New York and four mechanics. They traveled from Bowling Green to Magnolia halted overnight then continued via Jeffersonville and Fort Benjamin Harrison toward Indianapolis. Williams says motor trucks are more economical for army supplies than wagons. He departed Washington February 8 heading to Louisville via Richmond Raleigh Charleston Atlanta Chattanooga Nashville and will turn east from Indianapolis.
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Louisville
Alexander Elliott Williams
Magnolia
Williams
H. A. Hegeman
Atlanta
W. C. Sterling
New York
Bowling Green
Ohio River
Jeffersonville
Ind
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Washington
Richumond
Raleigh
Charleston
Chattanooga
Nashville
Jie
Molasses Dust Layer Trial Aims at Cheap Road Cover
Washington reports the bureau of good roads is testing a road covering made from a cheap mix of molasses lime water and dust near the capital. The project seeks a low cost alternative for road surfaces for widespread use.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Good Roads
Grizzly Bear Dance Prompts Court Action
Minneapolis official demonstrates the grizzly bear dance in Municipal court to illustrate the behavior leading to two arrests for dancing in a local hall. Judge C L Smith rules the act disorderly and bans the two girls from dance halls with future reporting to the police matron.
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Minneapolis
W. G. Compton
C. L. Smith
San Francisco
Pat Crowe Arrested For Drink Habit Treatment In Chicago
Pat Crowe of Cudahy known for kidnaping was fined one dollar and sent to Bridewell hospital for drink habit treatment by Judge Rooney. The ex outlaw appeared in a pitiable condition.
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Pat Crowe
Chicago
Cudahy
Bridewell Hospital
Rooney
Americans Flock to Canada for Rich Western Lands
A House Committee report highlights Western Canada as an appealing homestead option with a three year allotment and lenient rules. Settler letters praise Southern Alberta for moisture, soil, water, and climate and compare it favorably to Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Canadian agents offer literature and low rate certificates as daily excursions continue.
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House Committee
Washington
Canada
Western
Warner
Alberta
Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Fooling the Lord in a Five-Year-Old Prank
A five year old asks if God knows his actions before he does them. His mother affirms. He then plans to go upstairs, put on pajamas, say prayers, and get into bed, declaring tonight God will be fooled because he won’t say his prayers. The quip appears in the St. Louis Republic.
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St. Louis Republic
Frost and the beautiful blonde wed for his wealth woes
A wry but likely fake tale notes a rich older man with valvular trouble marrying a glamorous young woman driven by romance or money amid a winter backdrop. The piece Playfully recalls the proverb faint heart never won fair lady while hinting at motives behind the match.
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Frost
Snow
Comparative Values in Tart Wit
A witty exchange about a wife’s talent with pastry and speech. The remarks compare tart retorts to pie and suggest prowess in dessert making and verbal cleverness. The quip ties domestic craft to expressive skill, highlighting playful gendered humor.
Truth About Bluing Inexpensive Red Cross Brand
A short ad advises avoiding Uquid bluing as weak and costly. It praises Red Cross Ball Bluing for true blue effect and whitening laundry. The caller should ask their grocer for it.
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RED Cross
The New Wife and a Witty Exchange
A playful dialogue unfolds with a husband asking his new wife to sew on a button before leaving. The wife suggests the cook May might help, then notes the husband married a typewriter not a sewing machine. She adds a coy line about vowels causing a man’s downfall.
Change of life a critical period for women
The article warns that the change of life brings anxiety and various symptoms signaling the body needs help. It describes risks such as apoplexy cancers and tumors and lists signs like hot flashes headaches dizziness and nervous distress. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is advertised as restoring strength and aiding the nervous system during this period.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Remedy Aids St Anne Woman
A St Anne Illinois reader describes severe menstrual and related ailments. After two months on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports swelling relief pain elimination and renewed strength enabling most housework. She endorses the medicine for others.
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St. Anne
Lydia E. Pinkam
Mrs. Este
A Gilispre
R.F.D
St. Anne, Ilinois
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