Deserved Fame and Dietary Advice Appear in Fragmented Notice
Fragmented text recounts mentions of undeserved fame and a nurse or teacher exchange. It includes reference to babies and constipation remedies with Baby's Own Tablets from Dr Williams Medicine Co. The note also touches on farm life, cattle medicine, and a humorous exchange about buckwheat pancakes with a landlady in a Cleveland context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alwaya
Mrothers
Mary Pollock
Dow
Daby
Dr. Williams Meuicine
Anger and its deadly calm in ancient and modern times
A fragmented essay warns anger is dangerous and can cause death by act or fever. It cites Nerva, Paul II, Farnese, Valentinian, John Hunter, and Badda woski as examples. It notes milk toxicity from maternal rage and urges restraint, tempering, and self inspection. A mother teaches a girl to see herself in a mirror after temper outbursts. Marion Ainsworth White reflects Chicago Tribune on self control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valentinien
John Hunter
St. George's Hospital
Badda Woski
Marion Ainsworth White
Chicago! Tribune
Plague Stones Reminders of Great Pestilence in England
A Derby cross known as Headless Cross marks the Plague Year amid stories of markets, famine prevention, and exchanges on a plague stone. The piece recounts how towns like Derby and Alford used stones at market to trade food and money during outbreaks, with inscriptions noting the 1666 pestilence and the Society of Natives aiding widows and orphans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Madon
Dhurhwarden
Derby Arboretum
Friar Gate
Derby
Market
Hutton
London
Cros
Society of Natives
Tobby House
Alford
Inshire
Miles
American Patron Helped Munkacsy Rise to Fame
An American gentleman from Philadelphia, patron of Michael Munkacsy known for Christ Before Pilate, discovered the young Hungarian painter in Dusseldorf. He acquired a painting, brought it to Paris, and submitted it to the salon where it gained immediate attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munkacsy
Michael Munkacsy
Christ
Pilate
Philadelphia
Dusseldorf
Paris
Recollections and Snippets From a Humorous Exchange
A collage of exchanges touches on earrings and pierced ears with a joke about paying back on one’s own coin. A husband and wife banter over a letter and a postscript while a farmer and youth joke about milking a cow. A quip about memory as paradise closes the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Skremer
Misa Sharpe
Des
Untitled fragmentary ad copy and notes
Fragmentary OCR text includes a sales pitch for liniment products, cough syrup and a glossy book offer by Co. Limited of Paris. It references domestic remedies, a “peddler” driving into someone named Sue Florence, and mentions Belgium. The readability is poor with many garbled phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue
Tine Co. Limited
Paria
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Trons Stier
Teddy
North Windward
Aea
Ikea Ste
Delian News
J. Cheney
Hase
Zeitzog
Thomias
John
Alcumol CC
Seatactacs
Euddea
Nerva
Pauiln
Caroline
Alessandro Farnese
Holloway
Gabriel
Mr. de Style
Goethe
Risout Aloha
Fithout Alcobo
Consapaton
Italy
Shrine
Ark
Maine
Lisl
Oshawa
Rennes
Lea
Ineshaha
Ottaweet
Bichter
Oharch
T. G. McMullen
Healtheul and
Beautieus
Boussela
Belgium
Lang
Prychine
Reyawee
T.A. Slocum, Limited
King St. W
Toronto
Beecham’s
Thomes
Johnson
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