Worn Out After She Cooked in Cincinnati
Mrs Christ Petroff of 318 W Liberty St Cincinnati testifies to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills easing her year long nervous troubles back pain and inability to do housework. She reports stronger after a second course and credits the medicine with enabling her to carry a 19 month old son and urges others to try it.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Soli
Mrs. Christ. Petroff
W. Liberty St
Pride Isn't Everything in Clementine Dill’s Choice
In a Mississippi setting Miss Emily Dill forgives Captain Ebenezer Landers to unite Clementine Dill and Jerry Landers. Jerry leaves town but returns with love replacing pride as the key to family happiness, while Emily reconciles with her niece.
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Clementine Dill
Miss Emily
Clementine
Jerry Landers
Emily
Emily Dill
Ebenezer Landers
Landers
Fate
Augusta Barnes
Dill House
Augusta
Qlem
Gussie
Clem
Miss Dill
Jake Harry
Betsy
Captain
Jerry
Emilly
Clemmie
Nand
Ebenezer
City of Chungking Described as Veritable Beehive
W L Hall in Asia Magazine depicts Chungking as a crowded, damp, foggy city of six hundred thousand on rock with poor drainage. The narrator travels from crowded streets to a river craft amid drizzling rain and squalid markets.
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Chungking
W. L. Hall
Asia Magazine
Royal poets Henry VIII and James I highlighted in Bodleian
The Bodleian Library supplements its Quarterly Record by publishing five poems by James I printed from manuscripts in Fell type. The note praises Henry VIII as a royal poet and James I as the more prolific writer, urging a complete edition of the kingly verse.
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Henry VIII
James I
Bodleian Library
Saturday Review
Suttee Abolished in India After Century of Practice
The British abolished suttee in 1829 but reports say the ritual still occurs occasionally. The custom saw wives die on their husbands funeral pyres, once widespread across India with Bengal recording 700 deaths in a single year at its peak.
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India
Bengal
Healthful theory cited at boarding house table
A boarding house keeper cites a magazine article claiming two thirds of humanity's diseases come from overeating. A scanty-haired bachelor nods, noting months have passed without anyone falling ill at the establishment.
Byron's Bygone Literary Talent and Tragedy
In Byron, two authors and a singer rise from a town famed for its lineage. Linnet Leslie earns a magazine credit through Uncle Sidney, then loses faith in writing after her mother’s pressure and her fatherly school principal comforts her, stressing that greatness lies in character.
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Byron
Lucy
Williama
Phyllis Benson
Phyllis
Boston
Mattie Mathers
Mattie
Gwendolin
Mrs. Mathers
Gwen
Linnet
Sidney
Linnet Leslie
Gwendolin Mathers
Byron Hill School
Nancy Leslie
Leslie
Centenarian Prefers Not to Share Longevity Rules
A hundred year old man declines to reveal secrets of his long life. He says age does not make him a longevity expert and avoids giving hard fast rules. A photographer will still capture the rare octogenarian figure.
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W. H. Scholl
Exide Batteries
Ford
Chevrolet
Dort
Overland
Buick
Studebaker
Hudson
Dodge
Burton’s Battery Station
P.D. Q
W. J. Hamilton Drug CO
King’s Flower Garden
King’s Garden
N. BR
H. C. McKee
Telephone
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
China
Royal English Poets
Agnes G. Brogan
Western Newspaper Union
Hanger Motor Co
N. E
Opera House
N. Main Street
Lemuel Buis
Forst
Singer Shop
Vincennes St
Haseman & Odelino
Poe & Johnson
New Union Lumber Co
H. A. Walters
John Flynn
Depot St
Sullivan
New Conklin Fountain
City Hall
D” St. N
Dobin Ablen
West Linton
Wimdow
Linton and
Marco Road
West Island School House
Jesse Abram
Johnson’s
F. Chapman
Prince
First St. N. E
Lizzie Davis
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