Kechil the Java child worker in tea estate labor
In Batavia Kechil, six, tiny and pale, endures forced labor on a tea estate as part of a system of colonial exploitation. Her father and family face a double standard of justice while Indische reformers push for education and equality in Java’s harsh labor economy.
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Batavia
Java
Kechil
Sina
Wien Kechil
Bastwa
Curiete
Europe
Amer
Lina
Jav- Atese
Dufch
Far East
Usder
Akiltet
Holland
Count van der Hoach
The Woman Who Played Cyrano In A Clever Tale
A plain woman, clever and adept at manipulation, engages with an aging brilliant author through exchanged letters. Her friend helps craft the deceit as the author flirts and is manipulated into a faux romance. In the end a dramatic truth is demanded and the lesson is that all the world is not the stage.
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Ther
Aaid
The Woman Who Talked Well and the Talkative Guest
A story recounts a dinner party where a guest, famed for talk, dominates conversation. Friends discuss her captivating speech and the host’s insistence on choosing a quieter companion, suggesting people prefer like minds in social settings.
Strathcona's Tie to Scotland and Distant Lands
Fragmented excerpts describe Strathcona linked to Colonsay and the Mall of Kintyre, with naval travel and storms along Scotland, plus a curious note on soldiers wearing hats with peacock feather decorations. The passage also includes musings on normalcy, imagination, and endurance, and a comparison of Canada’s footprint to Europe.
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Strathcona
Scotland
Lord Strathcona
Colonsay
Mall of Kintyre
Torrans
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound praised by women
A reader from Chicago thanks Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for alleviating headaches and digestive problems, saying doctors’ pills failed and an operation was once advised. A Dayton reader credited it with relieving side pains and avoiding surgery, urging others to seek advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jpster
Lydia Pinkham
M. R. Kanscmien
N. Paulina Street
Ilinois
Dayton
Ohio
Sherer
Cass
Deyton
Lydia E. Pinham
Automobile salvage claim in muddled ad copy
An obscure ad fragment promises a device by Dr Pierce called Peasant Pellette, claimed to regulate and invigorate stomach, leerwn lewels, sugar-cuat ting grapules. It mentions a man exiting a car from mud and offers guidance on extracting it, dated about four years ago.
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Pierce
Adv
Very Different Were the fish biting on your country tip
A playful exchange contrasts fishing luck with dog behavior in a concise vignette.
Bath therapies touted by a physician for invigoration
A physician endorses baths as a tonic using Epsom or Carlsbad salts, preferably the former, no more than twice weekly. Use one ounce of salt in a pint of warm water for a spa bath, or a larger bath with a pint of warm water. Purchase salts at wholesale druggists. typical price is four cents per pound. The warm salt water is said to purify impurities through the skin pores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Indiache
Java Express
Handoeng
H. C. Kakebeeke
Java
United States
Express
Kecbil
Sina
Indische Party
Kakebeeke
Indiselie Party
Kiakebenke
Epsom
Carlsbad Salta
Postum
Battie Creek
Abstract of a curios courtly tale and stray dialogue
A fragmentary scene recalls Fonater Joseph and a Weradleeten talk about a pill and faith. Ahostlike dialogue features Sir butting in about duties and a maudlin moment at a wife's dressing table, ending with a cryptic question about a powder and fate in a domestic setting.
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Joseph FE Iussell
Weradleeten
Setutter
Raneell
Upward Start After Changing from Coffee to Postum
Tennessee woman shares a health improvement after switching from coffee to Postum. She suffered stomach pain, nerves, and weakness from coffee, then felt strengthened after a cup of Postum. She reports lasting benefits, choosing Postum over coffee.
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Walter Williams
Ll.d
Free Holland's Slave Islands
Oborear
Steve
Netherlands” East Indies
Borneo
Sumatra
Celebes
Sterner
Horneo
Horne
Timor
East Indies
Kechis
Jose
Daskam
Jon
Cyrano
Delaswin
Tlonor
Varty
Ktoven
Eurry
Apar
Canada
Werope
Great lHritem
Irvine
Tad
Mr Smith
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