Irene Hunter Reflects on Art and Thought in Evening Post
Irene Louise Hunter notes in the Saturday Evening Post the delight in culture. She lists philosophers poets and dramatists including Hegel Socrates Kant Rossetti Maeterlinck Pinero Shaw Wilde and Hauptmann as central to her intellectual leisure and dinner conversations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hauptmann
Maeterlinck
Pinero
Shaw
Wilde
Irene Louise Hunter
Saturday Evening Post
Doctor Ma'am Pike and the West's 19th Century Healers
An aged healer known as Ma’am Pike uses bloodletting and purgatory poultices to treat sick western settlers. Her harsh methods clash with educated physicians who have moved east, as locals recall her formidable yet controversial remedies and their dubious effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pike
Am Pike
Lewis
Ma'am Pike
Hiram Lewis
Ma'am Pike’s folk medicine trial amid village doubts
In a rural tale from Youth's Companion, Ma'am Pike uses feathers, hot baths, salve, pills, and a charm on a sick man. A new physician exposes her quack remedies as colic misdiagnosis, prompting her departure and warnings about town doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tooster
Pike
Dooley on the power of printers ink
Mr Dooley asserts printers ink can shape nations from Pekin to Halstead Street. He warns it can ruin reputations or crown a hero, saying the hand that rocks the fountain pen rules the world and citing Mulligan as a fearsome local figure when sober. He prays writers temper red ink and avoid harming others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Dooley
Christendom
Ching
Hannigan
Morrah
Pekin
Halstead Shtreet
Pope
Kelly
Lev'lin
Mulligan
Martin
Electric traction offers continuous torque for railroads
Sir W. H. Preece notes electric traction delivers continuous torque on the shaft, providing constant rail bite and reduced slip on greasy rails. He adds electric systems allow maximum torque to accelerate trains faster, a benefit in city lines with frequent stops and short distances between stations.
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W. H. Preece
Notable Diverse 19th Century Crime And Corporate Notices
A long list of varied items including a death penalty in Louisiana, a student stealing to further schooling, marriage annulment actions, corporate incorporations in Columbus and receiver appointments in New York, multiple murders and trials, ambassadorial travel, resignations from New York's court, disinterment plans, railway safety resolutions, executions in Luzerne County, larceny arrests, postal arrests, embezzlement indictments, funeral industry pricing disputes, a kidnapping case, railroad car orders, church convention notes, endowment pledges, bank receiverships, and troop movements between San Antonio and El Paso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Breeland
Joe Everette
Avery Blunt
Amite
Chicago University
Benjamin Louis
Edmund K. Stalle
Carl H. Hanna
Ohio Home Telephone Company
Columbus
United States Telephone Company
Will Harris
Los Angeles
Highland Park
Minnie Grube
Cleveland
John Sherry
Solomon Brothers
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Charles N. Furbish
River Drive
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
Sarah L
Walker, Minn
Gertrude Jerome Leavitt
Short Hills
N. J
Charles S. Francis
Troy
United States
Austria- Hungary
Francis
George Washington
Bremen
William J. Gaynor
New York City
Appelate
Supreme Court
John F. Kerrigan
Potter's Field
Charleston
S. C
National Assace of Signal Engineers
Louisville
Thomas Willis
Stanley Nazarko
Luzerne County
Wilkes-Barre
Margaret Landers
Lynn
Boston
Edward Singer
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Noland C. Gertner
Kingston
Cincinnati
Omis Evans
Muskogee
Great Northern Railroad
Pressed Steel Car Company
Pittsburg
The
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Grace Church
Providence
Wooster University
Schofield
First National Bank
Mineral Point
Wis
San Antonio
el Paso
Aviation disasters and political unrest span wide Europe
Reported incidents include Aeronaut Richter's fall in France leaving him with a fractured thigh and eye loss, a Rome general strike led by Ferrer sympathizers attacking reactionism and the Vatican, and naval and aviation actions from Canada to Germany. Emperor William discussed Wright's flight near Potsdam as Count Bernstorff plans a US voyage, while Sweden faces upheaval over bomb outrages and Nicaragua ignites protests against Zelaya.
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Juvisy
France
Aeronaut
Richter
Monitor
Rome
Ferrer
Vatican
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Liverpool
Cape Chatte
Emperor William
Orville Wright
Potsdam
Germany
Count Bernstorff
United States
Sweden
Martin Ekenburg
London
Great Britain
Dover
England
Prince of Wales
Hall Caine
Dr Miles Nervine Sleep Aid Ad Claims Restful Sleep
An advertisement extols Dr Miles Nervine as a non narcotic remedy that quiets irritated nerves and restores sleep. It includes a testimonial from Mrs Y Scott of English Indiana describing relief after using the product and notes the druggist will refund the first bottle if no benefit. The Miles Medical Co lists Elkhart Indiana as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Y Scott
Ind
Dr. Miles
Nerv- Inc
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Hair Famine Predicted by Hair Price Surge in Limoges
Hair prices in Limoges soar from £2 to £4 10s per kilo as hat demand grows. Younger French peasant girls guard their tresses, raising market tension. Hair dealers struggle to meet demand, prompting warnings to buyers to stock up to avoid famine prices.
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Limoges
Chesapeake Line Steamers Sail from Baltimore to Virginia
Chesapeake Steamer Company operates elegant passenger steamers Columbia and Augusta on the Chesapeake Line from Baltimore to Old Point Comfort and Norfolk, Va. Steamers depart Baltimore daily at 6 30 P M except Sunday and leave Old Point Comfort at 6 00 A M and Norfolk at 7 00 A M with connections to rail lines to all southern points.
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Chesapeake Steamship Company
Chesapeake Line
Columbia
Augusta
Old Point Comfort
Norfolk, Va
Baltimore
Norfolk
West Point
O. M
Richmond
Gloucester Point
Clement’s
Clay Bank
Allmond’s
Light Street
City
Baltimore Street
Arthur W. Robson
T. H. Diener & Co
J. H. Eager
N. Charles Street
General
Light and
Lee Streets
Key Compton
T. H. McDaniel
New York
Attani
Allenile Ho'el
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Planters National Bank
Main Sts
Richmond, Va
Capital
LE. Mumford
Sands Smith
S. P. Nottingham, Caan
L. E. Mumford Banking Co
State
Literia
Journal
Mathews Journal
the Mathews Journal
Rural Supply CO
Hegel
Socrates
Profesor James
Kant
Aristotle
Mrs. Wharton
Emory Pottle
Arnold
Pater
Demo
Rena
D. “G. Rossetti
Doctor Ma'am Pike
Fr Bey
J. A. Atwood
Stillman Valley
Justice the Peace
Eet
Ir. Dooley
Roosevelt
Nairobi
British East Africa
Revolutionary Movement
Nicaragua
General Estrada
Zelaya
Paris
M. S. Foster
Libey Bros’ Mathews
C. H. VA
RE River Line
West Lee
Old Virginia Mountain
Eera
Prom
Geo. W. Wright
SON Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Light St
Mad
A. M. Marchant
Journal Building
Leslie C. Garnett
Mathews
Will Warts
Glouces
Frank T. Clark
Randolph Sts
Virginia
Old Dominion Steamship Co
Gloucester Counties
Norfolk, Co’s
North St
Norfolk, Bay Line
Old Point
East River
Philpot
Williams
Hicks
Diggs
Auburn
Dixondale
Severn River Severn
Ports
North
Ry Ae Ae
Norfolk, Co
Philphot
Hick
Digg
Ware River
Roane
Smith
Slockley
O. D
James River
Berkeley
Brandon
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