Nation to hold vast summer war maneuvers in 12 locations
The War Department plans joint maneuvers involving regular troops and state militias with a $1,000,000 appropriation. Major-General Frederick D. Grant will command coast and inland campaigns from June to October at Pine Plains New York and other sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Fie
Congress
Ee Plains
N. Y
Chickamauga Park
Leon Springs
Texas
American Lake
Wash
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyo
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Riley
Kan
Atascadero Ranch
Cal
United States
Frederick D. Grant
Department of the East
General Grant
Baltimore
Boston
Washington, D. C
Pine Plains
Watertown
Grant
Pacific
Atlantic Seaboard
Fragmentary dinner party chatter and medical musings
A fragmentary newspaper clipping records diners at a party and a lingering discussion of a forged or humorous topic. The text shifts to references about a dinner, a curio, curious remarks, and a medical note about microbes and disease.
Coffee Dangers Lead to Postum Switch, Patient Recalls
A patient recalls early coffee exposure in childhood and subsequent nervous symptoms and insomnia. After trying Postum, a caffeine free drink from the Battle Creek firm, headaches and sleeplessness eased and coffee was abandoned. The letter emphasizes health concerns and a switch to Postum.
Landone Plans Radical School To Reform Child Culture
Dr. Leon El bert Landone announces a $100000 Hollywood residence project to establish a school aimed at advancing child culture as a path to human betterment. He outlines four evolutionary steps variation, crossing, selection and cultivation, calls artificial marriage a failure, and describes a four department program focusing on art therapy, spinal disease cure, sensory rehabilitation, and selective training of twelve children to educate freely. He notes prior settlement work and studies across major cities and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Leon Elbert Landone
Hollywood
Luther Burbank
Burbank
Stanford
Dr. Jordan
Stanford University
Landone
United States
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Padua
University of Paris
Herbert Spencer
Eccentric Recluse Leaves Roosevelt Ten Thousand Bequest
Boston report on a new will and two codicils for Benjamin Hadley an eccentric recluse found dead in Somerville last December. The documents propose a $10,000 bequest to President Roosevelt, with the remaining $490,000 to go to relatives if genuine.
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Roosevelt
Boston
Benjamin Hadley
Somerville
Roosevelt to Preside at International Congress on Tuberculosis
President Roosevelt agrees to preside over the International Congress on Tuberculosis to be held in Washington next October in a letter to Dr. Lawrence F. Flick of Philadelphia. Chicago moves to wind up its electric lighting business with City Electrician Carroll winding down the enterprise.
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Washington
D. C
Roosevelt
Lawrence F. Flick
Philadelphia
Chicago
City Electrician
Carrol
Chairman New Allotting Seats in Republican Convention
Chairman New assigns seats for the Republican National Convention in Chicago with 500 press seats and 1050 delegates and 1050 alternates. Each delegate gets an extra seat while 400 seats are reserved for distinguished visitors. Building capacity is 11 167.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New
Committee For
Prominent Figures Comment on War, Literature, and Race
Cardinal Logue warns Americans about a great army and navy. Hamilton Mabie writes an essay on the Short Story with no Bret Harte mention. Marquis Salfonji pens a prefatory tribute to the Japanese edition of Emile Zola's Paris. Senator Borah criticizes Brownsville testimony as racially charged.
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Cardinal Logue
Hamilton Mabie
Bret Harte
Marquis Salfonji
Emile Zola
Paris
Wheat and corn markets drift amid mixed spot activity
Across New York and Baltimore trading floors, wheat and corn show mixed spot readings with No. 2 red futures around 1.00 to 1.11 in different basings and steady oats. Butter, cheese, and eggs hold firm, while Chicago and Pittsburgh cattle and hog markets push higher on active demand with notable price gains for select classes.
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New York
Western Factory
State
Pennsylvania
Western First
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Izhk
Chicago
Pittsburg
Diverse naval training and scientific notes in brief
Three Chin Navy officers train aboard British cruisers with plans to expand the program. Parsons reports carbon experiments yield only trace diamond in residues. work not finished. Timber warts fetch high value for rarity. German sculpture exhibit in New York gains Emperors approval with $750,000 pledged. Nine railroads show 19 percent May earnings drop, 3 percent less than prior week. A battleship of 14,000 tons lists metal contents and costs. New York living costs rise 11 percent in a year.
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C. A. Parsons
William
Schott
Rheinhold Begas
New York
Cyclone Chases Traveler Through Merida Area Then Draws Bosque River Dry
A traveler recounts a cyclone near Clifton that surged across the Bosque River, lifting a tree onto a 500 foot water column. The storm drained the riverbed, carried debris aloft, and hurled the tree from the column several hundred yards away.
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E. PF
Merida
Waco
Clifton
Judge questions wife abuse suit as plaintiff admits ignorance
The Indianapolis News reports a court scene where a plaintiff accused his wife of cruel treatment. The judge asks where the couple met, and the man replies he never met her, she merely overtook him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Disturbance Leads to Brief Confrontation With Officer
A bibulous man causes a street disturbance when an officer orders him to the station. The man resists, offering a string of half phrases before finally saying he cannot go, while the officer insists on escort. The moment reflects a comic clash captured in a 19th century vignette.
Mose and the hawgs alarm a Texas survey camp
In Eastern Texas a dorky cook named Mose complained to the survey party about razor back hogs roaming their camp. A ravenous band raided the cook tent eating edible and inedible items, prompting Mose to exclaim that the hogs surely are hawgs in a colorful rural outburst.
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Mose
Texas
Wal
Philadelphia Ledger
Quinine Product Promises Higher Cinchona Edge
The description claims Cinchona Bark yields more active quinine in Grove's TasteLess Cuitt Toxic than standard quinine. It argues that processing loses potent parts like white flour loses nutrients, asserting this prep contains more valuable properties. The ad notes a 40 year claim and price at 50c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nine
Grove
Soc
Dialog Excerpt Reflects Social Irony Between Women
A fragment shows Miss Fuller debating with a blase Chappie about society. Miss Fuller counters by noting many empty aspects in social life, revealing a sharp social critique in a concise exchange.
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Chappie
Blase
Miss Fuller
Great Nerve Restorer cures Fits and Nervous Ailments
An advertisement claims Dr. H R Kline offers a permanent cure for fits and St Vitus Dance with Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. It promotes a $2 trial bottle and free treatise from 931 Arch St Philadelphia Pa. Also mentions Hicks Capucline for headache relief and a Shanghai exhibition proposal for 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vitus
Cure for Itch Breakout and Relief by Cuticura
A man from Concord New Hampshire recounts a severe two month skin eruption with itching and swelling below the knees. After using several remedies he applied Cuticura and immediately relieved the itch and reduced swelling enabling him to wear shoes again.
Seven Years of Kidney Pain Ends with Dean's Pills
All Suffering MS. Meanes of Front St Maysville Kentucky describes seven years of kidney pain bearing down hips dull headaches and dizzy spells with dropsy swelling in feet and ankles. After using Dean's Kidney Pills she was completely cured. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Front St
Maysville
Dean
Foster-Milburo Co
Buffalo, N. Y
The Palmistry Debate and Faith in Fortune
A skeptical voice rejects palmistry as absurd and physiologists as correct about palm lines. The piece notes science cannot dampen a woman's hopeful belief in better fortunes and the lingering fear that past sorrows overshadow future happiness.
Church Trade Debate Provokes Lively Exchange
In a talking point between the Rev. Mr. Goodman and merchant Main chantz, the exchange notes that some people cannot appreciate religion's value or grasp how to catch the church trade. The remark highlights tension between faith and commerce.
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Goodman
Mainchantz
Helpful Advice From Mrs Pinkham Letter Guide
A promotional appeal urges women to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice on private illnesses. It touts her long experience and the helpful letters from grateful readers as proof of her guidance.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advert
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown Pa reports relief from organic disturbance and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites a thirty year history of the remedy claiming cures for displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities backache and digestive issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marconi and the toll of fame on a frail figure
The Washington Star recounts a conversation about Marconi’s long hours and thin appearance, contrasted with Libertini’s fame and the joke that his many medals would require a larger waistline to wear. The tale uses light humor to question the price of genius and public acclaim.
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Marconi
Sydn
Trans- Ag
Libertini
Mr. Marconi
Washington Star
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Ion
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Enghir
Tdrug
Urret
the Monitor
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Standard Grove
Roxzakis
Mythe
Marco
Whistler
William M. Chase
Jimmy Whistler
Hoston Herald
Gonadelphia
Iphia Inquirer
Eats
Strum Co
Pacific Coast
Telegraph
Senator Borah
Senate
Brownsville
Seuilimercian
Colum
Odds and
W. Roderick Dorsey
Shanghai
China Association
Cutiura
George B. Farley
South State St
Concord
N. H
Australia
British Isles
Germany
England
I. Green
Atlanta
Omer Srey
New Fork City
Mother Gray
MCAT
Ondon
Charterhouse Sq
R. Towns & Co
Bydney India
Ciaa
PR Rooms
Japan
Raya
Serra
VU. Rotier E Chem. Corp
Bole Props
A . Cuticura
Paxton Toilet CO
Mass
Paxtine
Antsep Tre
E. Harrison
N. Howard St
Amare
Rene
Sla
Washington, D.C
Schwarts
Phita
Fee As
Ek Eae
Tial Mass
U.S.A
Ield Co
Beouktan
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