Print-room gifts enrich British Museum etchings
The Manchester Guardian notes the British Museum print-room gains a donation of original etchings for Wagner operas and other musical works from a Spanish collector. The report also cites varied advertisements and medical claims from the era, including dye products and cough syrups.
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Manchester Guardian
British Museum
London critic lambasts Kipling verse as unreadable
A London writer, irritated by the need to search Kipling’s latest lines for sense, calls the poem Reomé an attempt to translate four intelligible units of prose into fourteen unintelligible parts of verse.
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Kipling
London
Local Patent Remedy Promises Cure for Digestive Ailments
The advertisement touts Homebatter’s Stomach Bitters as a fifty year old remedy with a claimed track record of curing dyspepsia indiges tion constipation and melancholia. No documented failures are noted and the product is asserted to have never harmed a user with a full trial.
Whipped for Not Smoking In Plague England
An old column recalls how during the great plague in England a tobacconist’s house escaped illness because no one there smoked. It notes a remembered tale of a boyhood whipping at Eton for not smoking and contrasts with a scene at the Fifth Avenue Hotel where Arthur Pue Gorman is amused by a street urchin asking for change.
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Korea
Prc
England
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Tom Rogers
Yeoman Beadle
Eton
United States
Arthur Pue Gorman
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Fifth Avenue Hotel
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New York
E.'T. Bellock
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Bear Cree
Innelke
Wits
Fragmentary verse fragment with mercy themes
Partial OCR shows archaic phrasing about mercy and heaven with scattered words like gleam of heaven and portion of God's leaven, but the text is garbled and difficult to interpret as a coherent news item or event.
Tobe Johnson's Baby and the Bear Creek Trials
A rough frontier tale follows Tobe Johnson in Bear Creek as he struggles with loss after his wife dies leaving a baby. He fights temptation from gambling dens, faces community hostility, and finds resolve when his child awakens anew sense of purpose.
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Bear Creek
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Tobe Jam
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Authority and Pay of Admorism in Naval Ranks
Indianapolis Nowa reports naval pay scales with an admiral receiving 13500 dollars regardless of duty. The first nine rear admirals at sea earn 7600, on shore 6975. The second nine earn 5500 at sea and 4675 on shore.
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Nowa
Ragtime Tops Classical in St Louis Concert Circles
Mrs James L Blair of St Louis stirred musical circles by reading a paper before the Congregational club claiming rag time music in the city is more popular than classical and that the public has shown little appreciation for higher quality music.
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James L. Blair
St. Louis
Goats Greet Forest Shrubs in Green Dilemma
Fragmentary text shows goats impacting forests with persistent grazing. References to Bromo Quinine tablets and odd phrases appear, but the readable core notes goats preventing tree growth, especially on bolm oak, which remains shrunk to shrub height under grazing.
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