FAMOUS PASTERS The Simple Diet Across Ages and Heroes
A historical survey of extreme fasting claims from 1719 to 1980, detailing cases of long abstinence from food. It cites Thomas Wood’s shift to sea pudding, John Brown’s coal-mine sustenance, Liege miners surviving on water, and various European and American anecdotes. The piece notes health changes, testaments by clergymen, doctors, and others, and mentions the 1980 Dr Tanner fast of forty days as a commercial venture.
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Forbes Winstow
Pall Mall Gazette
Thomas Wood
Woolf
Fastern
John Brown
Ayrshire
Liege
Elizabeth Woodcock
Cecilia Steers
Pr. Willan
Henry Welby
Lie
Annals of
Physic
Alexander Benedictus
Venice
France
Louis the Pious
Albertus Masnus
Cologne
Demeritus
Raulio
Medical Gazette
Ricci
Turin
British Museum
Jane Hodges
Sloan
Lancashire
Ellen Sandworth
Tanner
Kiss craze among Chicago youth shocks railroad man
A Chicago railroad man and a Chicago reporter both say that it is becoming fashionable for young men of the city to kiss each other vigorously when they part for any length of time and when they meet again. The railroad man says it makes him sick to see the fools.
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Kansas City Times
Chicago
Wal Ydt
Rexxen Manoractiate Co
Smithfield St
Pittsburg
Chinese Palmistry And Orient Philosophy Fascinate City
Lam Lam a Pearl Street palm reader explains palmistry in Chinese culture. He says lines on the left hand for men and right hand for women reveal fate, fortune, misfortune, and potential greatness, noting stars that govern life and suggesting palm complexity signals genius or turmoil.
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Lam Lam
Pearl Street
Lam
Stop Gai ng Them Old Maids and Mothers in Law
A Dated Gazette letter defends old maids and mother in law figures from petty jokes. It condemns belittling clever women and notes the sorrow behind a prim exterior. The author urges empathy, jokes about in laws, and the unexpected value they bring to families.
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Garrisburg
Ian
Funny Boy
Funny Man
Astonishin Iowa Supreme Court Contempt Case
A Western lawyer, famed for intellect and recklessness, disrupts Iowa Supreme Court by claiming he will pay the justices five dollars if they rule for the defendant. Chief Justice Miller collapses with anger before ordering removal. Court rules punishment beyond its power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Supremes
Tchicago News
Miller
Supreme Bench
Accidental Discovery of the Shot Tower Process
New York readers learn how shot is made at a city tower. Mr. C. C. Tracy describes the ascent to the 185 foot second landing, the molten lead, arsenic alloying, temper pots, sieving and sorting, and final polishing and bagging. He notes some exposure to fumes but reports generally healthy workers and details the production flow from pig lead to finished shot.
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N.Y
Mr. Tracy
Tracy
Omaha
Newark
Mr Tracy
When Lord Clive Was at Whist Fortnightly Review
Lord Clive played whist when a field force commander Major Ford sent a letter with important intelligence. He did not interrupt the game, but penned in pencil a plan to order action forthwith and promising to send the official order by tomorrow.
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Lord Clive
Whist- T
Major Ford
Ford
The Wanderer of Snow Mountains and the Cavern of Gold
A Wyoming hunter recalls Arthur Bethanny, known as The Wanderer, who found a cavern rich with gold and gems in a Snow mountains expedition. He perished after a brutal winter, his fevered tale of wealth and madness emerging from the mountains.
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Laramie
Great National Park
Snow Mountains
Ali Baba
Arthur Bethamny
Pennsylvania
Great West
St. Louis
Wyoming
Big Horn Basin
Clarke Fork
Yellowstone
Bethanny
Rothschilds
A Musical Bird Delights in Wagner and Friends
A German woman at Belvedere House owns a pigeon that adores piano tunes and Wag ner operas. The bird kisses its mistress on wake and then dances atop the piano while the mistress sings, preferring Wagner and Gounod over Verdi, with a mortuary effect when tunes displease it.
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Wagoner
M. Y. Mail and Express
Belvedere House
Tanenhauser
Airo
Rossini
A Royal Retreat amid Corean Mountains and Dancing Girls
A San Francisco Chronicle account of a royal excursion to Corean mountain fortress terrain. The party climbs through a tortuous pass, views high peaks and waterfalls, attends a Buddhist temple with priests and music, and meets palace dancing girls. One traveler is injured descending a rough sand ridge.
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Scout Cor
San Francisco Chronicle
Corea
Phice
St. Paul's
Bon Marche Concert Draws Thousands in Paris Store Halls
The Bon Marche shop in Paris hosted a concert by its band of 250 men and women. Eminent artist M Faure of the Grand Opera sang among the lineup. Seven thousand people attended the event in the store's vast halls.
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Paris
M. Faure
Grand Opera
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Ciinese Palmistry
Texas
Jas
Trask
Avery
Omaha Medical
Westing
Reliable Medical Institute
Mahiog Eee
Mele
Northwestern Conservatory
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