Radium Creates Gems From Corundum in Lab Breakthrough
Artificial gems such as rubies sapphires and Oriental emeralds may be produced by treating corundum with radium and electric furnaces. French experiments show color changes and value shifts with lab grown crystals rivaling natural stones. Production tricks include controlled crystallization and rotating crucibles for symmetry. The market impact could see lab grown gems dominate the future.
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Robert Franklin
Technical World Magazine
French Academy of Sciences
Bardass
Bardais
Paris
France
North Carolina
Massachusetts
Nature
Serpent Cure Scam In Paris Ends In Forgery
A gypsy woman asks a Paris doctor to visit her ill daughter near Place Pierriere. She pays in advance with a fake $100 note and releases snakes as a ruse, allowing her to vanish with the doctor's money. The tale highlights a clever deception and a forged payment.
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Paris
Place Pierriere
Save the Children Mothers Use Baby's Own Tablets
Mothers stock a box of Baby's Own Tablets to guard children during hot months. They claim to prevent or cure stomach troubles, cholera infantum and diarrhoea with no opiate or harmful drug, backed by a government analyst. Public plea to buy from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario for 25 cents a box.
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Geo. Mineault, Jr
Mont Louis
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
A School Strike in East Indian Mission Context
A pupil mutiny at a mission school follows the departure of a head teacher Miss Smail. The students refuse to remain, but a deputation of fathers and elders apologizes and the school reopens with formal ceremonies. Dux delivers apology and the class resumes with improved behavior briefly lasting.
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Anne H. Small
Suwarta
Missie Bai
Ottawa Resident Finds Relief in Peruna
A Ottawa resident writes that after a year of hardship and irregular meals Peruna restored strength with eight bottles. New York druggist A O Harding receives 25 year Medal of Honor in Odd Fellowship and notes Peruna boosts his trade and serves as a household remedy for all forms of catarrh.
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R. Rene ST
Mother Graves Worm Ex terminator advertised as a remedy
If children are restless during sleep and show poor appetite pale countenance and nose picking, worms are blamed. The ad claims Mother Graves Worm Ex terminator removes pests and relieves little sufferers. A cited anecdote mentions a young wife praising a new hat and a Milliner titled poem joke.
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Wellss
John Darke's Sojourn in the Cotteswolds: a Riveting Pain Portrait
In a Western England cottage a man named George suffers from rheumatic pain. His wife warns him not to lift his arm, but he resists, insisting he is terribly hurt and will heave it again, prompting loud cries and a shared domestic tension.
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England
George
Maister John
Garge
Medicine of the masses extends its virtues worldwide
Mrs Chatter asks if he is well informed and the husband replies his wife tells him everything. Its Power Grows With Age notes how many so called panaceas have faded since Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil began. Yet it remains widely praised doing more good to humanity than many vaunted preparations.
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Mrs. Chatter
Chatter
Thomas
Quarrel and Quips Bring Odd Moments to Classroom
A husband and wife spar over bargains while a classroom cutline features a jokey remark about wart removal and self-reliance. A teacher questions Johnny about iron discovery and the boy claims his father said he “smelt it,” yielding a dry punch line from the pupil.
Why We Sleep and The Role Of Light In Rest
A concise discussion explains that sleep aligns with light due to vision. Eyeed creatures pattern life into waking and resting phases, while blind deep-sea organisms lack regular rest. Light availability drives activity, and darkness triggers rest, with plants growing by day and resting at night.
Free home health treatment trial offer from Mrs Summers
Women in poor health are invited to request a free post paid trial of a home treatment accompanied by an informative booklet. The offer promises prompt replies and uses plain wrappers for privacy. The sender is Mrs. M Summers of Windsor, Ontario.
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M. Summers
Windsor
Ont
Parmelee and Weaver Ads Highlight Health Tips and Silly Sights
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century page shows spoof and real patent medicine style pitches. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills promise to aid digestion and restore health after heavy meals while Weaver's Serate and Syrup claim to purify the blood. A shop ad mentions a glass rolling pin and a humorous dog bite gag.
Snips and Snaps Excerpt Reflections and Humorous Maxims
A compact collection of aphorisms and vignettes on happiness rumor marriage skill pride and danger. The notes contrast virtue with folly praising simple bread over sermons and cautioning vanity while suggesting modest effort earns lasting friendship. The tone mirrors a late era moralizing social column.
Gossip and remedies in a bygone column
A fragment from a gossip column mocks domestic tensions and jokes about a husband. It pivots to a medical advertisement for Dr J D Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial claiming quick relief from dysentery cholera morbus and inflammatory bowel issues, noting summer prevalence and the need to contact men of affairs for influence.
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J. D. Kellogg
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