A Cure for Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble
A brief notice from Bridgeport Washington reports a new remedy called Dodds Kidney Pills. It touts a dramatic cure for rheumatism and kidney trouble as proven by Mr Jobe Higgins who credits the medicine with restoring his health and urges friends to try it.
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Bridgeport
Wash
Douglas County
Jobo Higgins
Dod
Scone
Diright
Sitoeys Dean
Tobors
Cme
Guilie
United States
Foster Milbero Co
Buffalo
M. D
One Dante of Drunkenness
Dr. David Paulson, a Chicago nerve specialist, claims excess drunkenness in young men is caused by highly spiced foods and peppers, with tobacco and cigarette use also noted. The note mentions travel options and rates for Texas and return via Kansas City Southern, with dates and agent contact details.
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Dante
David Paulson
Chicago
Tobhle Alea
Toward Modern Power Then Back to Mules
A narrator laments the reliance on an old mule drawn system while noting a plant using eighty horsepower for actual operations. The director bursts in, suggesting eighty horsepower is excessive and proposes returning to mules for the task. The exchange reflects tension between outdated and new power sources.
A Stroke of Lightning Soldier Recalls Shock Experience
A battlefield recollection describes a Lightning strike in South Africa as Lieut Col Porter RBMC details his sensory memory. He felt a circular pink flash strike the head and brow, fell from his horse, and endured days of scalp and neck pain with a peculiar sulfurlike taste in the mouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Porter
RB. A.M. C
South Africa
Some Musical Monarchs of Great Fame
The piece surveys monarchs famed for music, noting James II of Bootland excelled in vocal and instrumental arts, Frederick the Great of Prosela as a prolific composer and flute player, a czar renowned for singing, and King Edward's royal support for music including founding the Royal College of Music as Prince of Wales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James II
Bootland
Frederick the Great
Prosela
Edward
Addison
Prince of Wales
Royal College of Music
Naturalist notes ant toilet rituals and amusing bear tale
A naturalist describes ants washing each other with elaborate ablutions and a companion acting as a maid amid intense satisfaction. An army officer recalls a humorous bear encounter where a mother bear disciplines a cub after a long shot, her ears boxed and roll of the ridge frames the scene.
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Hunter
Zola’s Early Education and Self-Taught Path
The note states Emile Zola had little formal schooling, reportedly not learning to read until age eight, and became largely self-educated aided by a mother who showed indifference to schooling. It also mentions coal near Bonn, Germany, describing paper coal as lignite that spills naturally in films.
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Zola
Emile Zola
Germany
Bonn
Salesman charged with leading double life
Omaha traveling salesman Charles Payne is accused in St Joseph Missouri of visiting two houses in one night and leading a double life as a burglar. Police found two marked coins on him and he refused to identify himself claiming origin from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Payne had been jailed over a week and confessed to burglary to support his wife and child. Mrs Payne plans to stay with him and support their baby while police search for the missing husband and further inquiries proceed.
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Charlies Payne
Omaha
St. Joseph
Payne
Pittsburg
Frane
Charles Payne
Hia
New York Press
Where He Was Black a Tennessee Camp Meeting Tale
Bishop Vincent of the Methodist church recounts a Tennessee mountains summer spent with negro campers. A surprise camp meeting recognition led to audience admiration and a speaker’s platform moment. The master of ceremonies declared the bishop, though pale of face, is black at heart.
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Vincent
Methodist Church
Chautauqua Circle
Tennessee
Detroit Man Chosen Head of Street Railway Association
Jere C. Hutching, president of the Detroit United Railway, has been elected president of the American Street Railway Association. A native of Louisiana, he is a civil and constructing engineer with years of southern heavy railway work. He came to Detroit five years ago to reorganize the city system, and with R. T. Wilson of New York and Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland has built a model street railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jere C. Hutching
Detroit United Railway
American Street Railway Association
Louisiana
South
Detroit
R. T. Wilson
New York
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Bucking Poisonous Wounds and France’s Population Tale
The article notes ancient and African practices of sucking snake bite wounds as an immediate remedy and cites Cato’s expedition using native charmers to treat bites. It then cites 1900 French statistics showing deaths surpassing births for the fourth time in eleven years, signaling a demographic issue.
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Africa
Cato
African
Couttt
France
Maude Adams Health Declines. May Skip Current Season
Reports say popular stage star Maude Adams is in poor health and will likely not act this season. Details on her condition have circulated amid public concern about her movements and well being.
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Mies Maude Adams
Maude Adame Rumored Travels and Health Decline
Maude Adame, also known as Maude Kiskaden, has reportedly left England aboard the Kron Pring Wil and been located in London Paris the Adirondacks and a Long Island summer home within the past week. Her health is described as seriously impaired and she is not expected to perform on stage next season despite uncertainty from sources.
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England
Maude Kiskaden
Mme Adama
London
Paris
Adirondacks
Long Island
Harben's Northern Georgia lodging tale shocks reader
Will N Harben on a mountain retreat finds shelter in a cabin with four beds and no curtains. After a cheerful fire the host guides him to a spring and returns to a darkened cabin. They sleep in the same bed and dawn reveals the mountaineer waking to suggest waking the women for breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will N. Harben
North Georgia
The One Thing Needful in London Sunday Talks
A West End Sunday Bible class for servants questioned what first thing makes people happy, noting Hope and Charity are good but happiness needs a basic aim. A girl quipped that husbands may be the answer. Also cited India trade data and Scottish pasture figures.
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West End
London
Dissection Forbidden in Massachusetts Schools
Massachusetts schools have banned dissection of enmiere by law. The statute prohibits the practice, outlining compliance requirements for teachers and districts and signaling the state’s stance on humane treatment of anatomy education tools.
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Massachusetts
France
Sweden
Ireland
Belfast
Russia
Delayed Berries at the Cape and Odd Notices
A collage of brief items notes woolly omnibuses at the Cape shuttling to docks with old Fifth Avenue imagery, Nor man arches saved from St. Mary Church in Chatham, a shoe advertisement, a Kongo railway contract with $5 million capital, and varied tidbits on Fort Meiga, coal imports at Valletta, and travel prompts.
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Cape
Poultney Bigelow
Waody
Fifth Avenue
Indiana
of & Wens
Hudson River
Upper Rouge
Kongo
Ostrich Farming to Start on Riviera News Note
A Riviera project plans an experimental ostrich farm with twenty birds recently arriving at Nice. If acclimated, farming to be pursued as a new venture alongside goods like Defiance starch and other grocery items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riviera
Nice
Very Low Colonists' Rates Offer Calfornia Trips
The Missouri Facile Railway and Iron Mountain Route announce one way Colonists and Settlers tickets to California and North Pacific Coast points, plus Missouri Arkansas Indian and Oklahoma Territories Louisiana and Texas. Tickets valid first and third Tuesdays October 1st to April 2nd at half standard first class fare plus $2.00. For details contact nearest agent or H OC Townsend, C P T Agent St Louis. London companies initiate writs against smallpox but vaccination remains advised.
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Missouri Facile Railway
Iron Mountain
California
North Pacific Coast
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Louisiane
Texas
H. OC
Townsend
St. Louis
Fragmented OCR Note on City Customs and Manners
Fragmented text discusses social conduct and rules about marriage and propriety, mentions an orphan, and includes garbled references to guilds and municipal officials in London since 1277. It cites rituals of city livery and cloth distributions, with unclear person names and dates, but hints at historical civic practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jord Chan
Wheres Redyard Ping-Pong Tournament in London Arena
A fragmented clippings page notes a ping-pong tournament at the Aquarum in London with able-bodied men contending for championships. It references table tennis dynamics, mentions other games and societal notes, and cites various quotes and ads from the era.
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Aquarum
London
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Southern Railway
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