Laxatives and Inks in Everyday Use From a Medical Review
The article extols syrup of figs as a safe laxative containing senna and valued by families and physicians. It notes senna’s proven efficacy and safety, cites Bartholow, and contrasts with other laxatives. It then shifts to coal tar products, describing useful derivatives, coal rat byproducts, and the durability of carbon-based inks versus iron-tannin inks.
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Bartholow
California Syrup Company
American Review
Snower
India
San Francisco's Big Show opens January 1 at Golden Gate Park
The California Midwinter International Exposition gates open January 1 with palms and flowers. Once seen as a sideshow to the Columbian exposition it has grown into a magnitude far beyond expectations, with over seventy buildings occupying 160 acres in Golden Gate Park.
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Golden Gate Park
French storekeeper touts Boschee’s German Syrup cure
Regis Leblanc of Notre Dame de Stanbridge Quebec cured of a severe lung congestion by Boschee’s German Syrup. He reports selling many bottles on his personal recommendation and offers to share his full experience directly. He asserts the medicine is thorough and effective.
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Notre Dame de Stanbridge
Quebec
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Worldwide Presidential Pay and Terms Snapshot
An overview notes varied executive pay and terms: Argentina mandates a six year term with a $36.6 salary. France offers a seven year term with a $120,000 salary plus house and allowances. Switzerland selects a president from seven federal councillors serving one year with a $2,700 salary and one year gap before re election. Mexico pays $49,977 annually for a four year term with possible re election after constitutional changes under General Diaz.
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Mexico
General Dias
The Revenge Recital and a Clever Electric Clock
The excerpt notes Tennyson’s 1878 79 publication of The Revenge and a public evocation at Eaton Square where he joked about payment. It also describes Argonaut T F Hudson, a Maryland convict who built an electric clock with a semicircular dial a stationary second hand and dual minute hands praised as a horological oddity.
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Tennyson
Eaton Square
Spain
Cracs
T. F. Hudson
Maryland Penitentiary
Hudson
Lake Geneva Drainage From Glacial Sediment
Glacial mud from the Rhone has dried eleven miles of the head of Lake Geneva. The lakes of Switzerland act as settling beds for glacier debris, with a gray river entering at the upper end and a blue river exiting at the far end.
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Switzerland
Lake Geneva
Rhone
Standings shifting as Cape Town dispatch reports Matabele actions
A wireless from Cape Town says Major Fortes reports his column safe after several brushes with the Matabele and victories in every encounter. Balawayo natives claim Captain Wilson with thirty five men, long missing, survived a Matabele clash. Lobengula’s forces are pushed back beyond the Shanghai River on December 4. Premier Rhodes says natives grow in numbers and Matabeles move into small kraals while Fortes defeats the Matabele in successive engagements.
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Major Fortes
Balawayo
Wilson
Lobengula
Shanghai River
Rhodes
Fortes Hae
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