Dufferin Co Miracle Saved by Pink Pills for Pale People
A Mono Township family credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with saving 12 year old Ernest Duke after three doctors deemed the case hopeless. The mother and neighbors recount a rapid recovery from grippe complications enabling Ernest to return to school. Local druggists report strong sales and endorse the pills as a blood builder and nerve restorer.
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Post
Dufferin Post
Orangeville
Edmund Burke
Mono
George Hewitt
Meno Mills
Williams
Hewitt
Banner
Wm. Duke
Mrs. Duke
Ernest
Toronto
Stevenson
Duke
Ernest Duke
Thomas Stevenson
Dr. Williams
A. Turner
J.R. Dodds
Audacious historical wagers span centuries and nations
A survey of famous bets recounts Asctepiades who avoided illness through luck, the 1634 Palmes millet wager and its ruinous payoff, the Count de Saillant’s gallop bet, Bulliot’s grand rain gamble that collapsed, and Lord Mansfield and Chevalier d’Eon cases shaping rights to bets before Betting Acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asctepiades
Dole
France
Palmes
Count de Saillant
Prince de Conde
St Denis
Chantilly
Versailles
Bulliot
St. Gervais
St. Swithin
Saint Gervais
England
Lord Mansfield
Lord March
Paris
Louis XV
John Sloman
Kent
Tom
Canterbury
Rochester
Maidstone
Canterbury House
Sloman
Sittingbourne
Visit to Kimberley Diamonds Reveals Giant Underground Mines
Howard Hazell recounts a tour of De Beers controlled Kimberley mines, describing the underground galleries, heat and fumes, the giant open holes, and the sorting of blue earth and rough diamonds. He notes diamonds rarity and prices per carat, and the vivid contrast of surface town life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Hazell
South Africa
de Beers Company
Hell
Remarkable rescue aboard the British Prince at sea
The British Prince fought fierce gales from Gibraltar to Sandy Hook and recovered a boatswain swept overboard. Captain Innis steered by a star to reach him, pulling him aboard after a dramatic overboard rescue. Hot drinks revived the man and he survived unharmed.
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New York
Clark Russell
Mediterranean Arts
Straits of Gibraltar
North Atlantic
St. Michael’s
Azores
Sandy Hook
Innis
Charles Lastadins
Thomas Jones
Mr. Jones
Coney Island
Fragmented chapter reflects on romance and reading choice
A narrator and wife discuss reading, romance, and marriage amid musings on happiness and meaning. The exchange probes whether romance survives or devolves after marriage, contrasting intellectual questions with practical life and contentment.
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Gregory
Beeaing
Trifie
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A Dufferin CO
Ernest Buke
United States
Romance of
Mandstone
Kimberley
Bensath
Mim
Leigh
General Butler
Massachusetts
Springfield
Ce Butler
007
Torn
Marriag
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