Swindler Gustavo Roselli Paroled After Charitable Fraud Rise
A historical note outlines Gustavo Roselli, a disabled man who built and funded charitable homes in several Italian cities after a massive fraud that lasted fifteen years. He was celebrated by crowds when imprisoned, later pardoned after fifteen years in a dungeon. The item shifts to a medicinal advertisement for Hamburg Breast Tea and Koenig remedies, urging readers to purchase and follow a treatment plan with dietary and lifestyle steps.
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tHsciples
Gustavo Roselli
Mary
Rome
August Roétule
Hamburg
August Koenig
Innes
St Jacobs
August Koenle
Relic of Glorious Memory at Constantinople
A Greek memorial tripod made from Pars Persian cups and Persian armor bears the names of cities whose soldiers fell at Platea. The artifact, a national relic, endures longer than state deeds and is housed in Constantinople.
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Platea
Constantinople
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Testimonials
A collection of letters from women in New York and Minnesota praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for easing womb troubles irregular menstruation nervous symptoms and fatigue. The letters claim restored health increased energy and ability to work with recommendations to avoid substitutes and to trust the medicine's cures was broadly endorsed by many signatories.
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Dean
Lydian &. Pinkham
Lydia FE
9Th Ave
New York City
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Amanda T. Petterson
Gox
Atwater
Minn
Prixnas
Amd
Lydia
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lyna
Mase
White elephants described as lighter hue with pink eyes
A peculiar description notes a white elephant being not truly white but lighter than standard, with pink eyes and yellow irises. The creature reportedly has light brownish red hide and red hair, forming a striking but nontraditional appearance.
Blockade Runner Tale From Civil War Echoes
London Memoir recalls a British blockade runner during the American Civil War. Sir William Allan, chief engineer, describes a harrowing after a successful first run up the Savannah River, a second voyage in darkness, a Federal cruiser suddenly alert, a pistol at his head, and the strange moment when the enemy engineer claimed kinship and lowered the weapon before fortune shifted.
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Perte
William Allan
London
Sir Willam
Savannah
William
Young Lilias Haggard Publishes First Romance
Nine year old Lilias Haggard, youngest daughter of Rider Haggard, has completed a romance, showing influences of her father's famous works. An at home gathering at Hail Ditchingham featured Mrs. Haggard, elder daughter in white silk, Dal Ile soon to be married, and Lilias, with Rider Haggard himself. A guest, Mrs. Mageard’s brother, is Consul in New Caledonia and the model for Captain Good. Haggard, tall and bone-limbed, guided friends through the hothouses admiring orchids and flowers, a hobby he favors over literature or art.
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Lilias Haggard
Rider Haggard
Myearold Lilias
Philadelpha Inquirer
Hageard
Hail Ditchingham
Neland
Hazgard
Sue
Dal Ile
Lillas
Mageard
New Caledonia
Captain Good
King Solomon's Mines
Colorado Celery Exports Grow to Eastern Markets
Colorado celery has become a major export, growing from a small operation to a large industry. In three years shipping east was rare, then nearly the entire crop was sent east. This season could top all, with about twenty five cars shipped already and an estimated total of forty cars. Each car may average 24,000 pounds, totaling about 960,000 pounds for export trade.
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Colorado
The Father's Hand Poem Fragment
A child in darkness conveys fear and seeking comfort from a father’s hand. The piece muses on longing, reassurance, and an unclear path toward understanding life, faith, and loss as the mother and father figures loom in memory. The imagery shifts through storms, shadows, and distant clues of guidance.
Peruna Promoted by Noted American Statesman
Louis E. Johnson son of a former Maryland senator and U S minister to England endorses Peruna for catarrh. The ad claims catarrh infects body secretions and offers Peruna as a radical cure, inviting readers to request Dr Hartman’s free book and personal medical advice at The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
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Louis E. Johnson
Regerdy Johnson
United States
Maryland
President Johnson
England
F. Street
N. W
Johnson
Thartman
Peruna Rug Manufacturing Co
Cofurbus
Obie
Hartman
Dre. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Tibet’s Mysterious City via Das Visit 1882
A fragmentary Victorian clipping notes Sarat Chandra Das’s 1882 description of Lhasa’s layout, Potala, gilded domes, blue roofs, and fluttering rags in the streets, painting a vivid, if partial, image of the sacred Tibetan capital.
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Tibet
Sarat Chandra Das
India
Shaeca
Potala
Enterprising Manager Likely Signs Vaudeville Offer
A quirky, garbled scene shows a manager and a chief discussing a mysterious vaudeville offer. The manager avoids direct contact while the axebief—an oversized figure—muses over the potential deal, hinting at a humorous, if muddled, exchange.
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Sir William Allan
Agria
Hen Lewis
Rotuins
Lancashire
Tyldesley
Scott
Putnam
Devory
New York
Bat ! Lake
Laimants
Washington
Tediok
W. ON
U. Salt Lake
Congth
Clare
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