Destruction at the Pyramids Reported and Foot Binding in China
A London Times report notes damage at Dashoor near the Great Pyramid of Gheezeh with stones removed for a mosque. It also covers Chinese foot binding in Swatow, highlighting local opposition by Hakkas and the pain and dangers for girls and women.
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Egypt
Wak
Pyramids
Gheezeh
Sekkalah
Dashoor
Maydoon
M. Mariett
Great Pyramid
Sultan Hassan
Helowan
London Times
Mike Norwood
Swatow
China
Bwatow
Beery March Encounter at Landvogt’s Restaurant
Berlin paper details a March afternoon at Landvogt’s in the Linden where a Pomeranian Lieutenant of Landwehr Calgary and a Silesian student drank beer by the cow-swallow method. They consumed about sixty seven pints and forty four seiters plus two stirrup cups, paying 36s 4d for the session.
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Berlin
Landvogt
Landwehr Calgary
Gambrinus
German Post Card Exhibits Hers to Odyssey and Debate
At the Dusseldorf exhibition opening May 9 a member of the Rhenish and Westphalian Stenographic society showed a German post-card with Wyss’s translation of the first three books of Homer’s Odyssey and a long German Imperial parliament debate. The Odyssey extract has 11 000 words and the debate 22 000. all written in Grabsberg shorthand and viewable with the naked eye, equating to about nine pages of the London Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dusseldorf
Rhenish and Westphalian Stenographic Society
Wyss
Grabsberg
London Times
Kidney-Wort Tonic Promises Relief For Women Suffering
A dubious ad claims Kidney-Wort cures ailments in women including headaches backache and digestive issues. It promises renewed health and vigor as a tonic and renovator, urging readers to take a package to relieve various urinary and kidney related discomforts.
Irregular bowels cured by Hop Bitters. a Victorian note
Parents from Rochester New York announce a permanent cure for a dangerous bowel irregularity in their baby using Hop Bitters. The same column hints at health restored to the mother. An Irish Londoner quips to a bank officer about overdrawn funds, and a gambler’s warning on dice folly closes the fragment.
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Rochester
N. Y
London
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Madison
Indiana
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington, N. J
Cates
Richard Harte & CO
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C.O
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Maes
Sarsaparitsa
Stillingia
Mandrake
Yellow Dock
St.Anthony's
Aver
Ely
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
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W. W. Clough & Co
Merchant Tailors
East Main Cross St
Madison, Ind
Patana Wile Wises
Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer
Enquirer
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Faran & McLean, Publishers
Cincinnati, O
Sun
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Livery and Sale Stable
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Third Streets
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Schnabel
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Madison, Mnd
John Eraut
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E. G. May
Madison, ND
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ST. Louis
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Cassimeres
J. Schofield & Son
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Craig & Brother
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Great Central
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Ind
National Bank
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M.D
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Library of Universal Knowledge
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England
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Acme Library of Biography
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Smith
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Geo. H. Taylor
American Book Exchange
Apex
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New York
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Aondiaacs
Varias
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Erie
Adareen Wicghols, Shepard & CO
Battle Crock, Mich
the Bess
D. M. Osborne & CO
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Walter Scott
C. Vail’s
Jackman & Humphreys
West Main Cross St
Low 1St National Bank
Ienea ( Unning
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Soounion
Joan W. Linc
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Y 5Th Judicial Ct
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