The Sufferings of the Dyspeptic
A period advertisement-like piece argues liver trouble causes most indigestion and promotes Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills and Ointment. It includes testimonials from C D Bennett and Wm G Purdy claiming relief and renewed health after use. Pills priced 25 cents a box with orders via Edmanson Bates & Co Toronto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chase
C.D. Bennett
Maple Grove, Megantic Co
Que
Dr. Chase
Edmanson, Bates & Co
Toronto
Signs of Future Wealth
A witty exchange in the Chicago Record-Herald notes a son-in-law who married in his bride’s graduation gown and then demanded payment equal to the outfit’s cost if the ceremony had waited until fall. The dialogue pokes at money values and marriage timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sor
Chicago Tribune
Reward offer and medical cures ad couple
An advertisement promises a hundred dollar reward for any cane of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's pills. Miscellaneous clippings include a policeman stopping a pedestrian, a death prevention note, and a joke about teachers named Brown and Davis.
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Hall
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds and a Seaside Engagement
A seaside hotel scene unfolds with a young man confessing he works as a shopwalker at Catchem & Skinem's emporium to a beautiful heiress. The pair discuss engagement and honesty as the judge comments on the matter.
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Catchem & Skinem
Victoria Falls power strength could meet Rhodesia Transvaal needs
Victoria Falls engineers claim the hydroelectric potential could supply all Rhodesia and the Transvaal. A fashion note states frock coats fade from London style to clerks and floor walkers. A Columbia student faces three months in jail for a fatal automobile incident in Germany. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are advertised with Mandrake and Dandelion as liver kidney tonics. Roman road mileage from Pertinax shows ancient pedometer use.
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Victoria Falls
Rhodesia
Transvaal
Columbia
Germany
Itch Cure Promises Quick Relief for Humans and Animals
An advertisement touts Wolford's Sanitary Lotion as curing all forms of contagious itch in 30 minutes for humans and animals. It also promotes Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial as the best remedy for dysentery diarrhea and seasickness. A Spanish honor is described for the captain of the West Point for rescuing Capt. Kindelan. Parents are urged to keep the product for teething children.
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Thomas
Wolford
West Point
Kindelan
Four Nations Back Permanent Arbitration Court Plan
Britain, France, Germany and the United States have agreed on a scheme for a permanent court of arbitration. A doctor patient joke notes concerns about a doctor’s bill after a pockethand gesture.
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Britain
France
Germany
United States
Inducing a Fashionable Practice Tronchin's Walking Idea
The Westminster Gazette notes Dr Tronchin of Voltaire Rousseau fame as the inventor of walking in France. He prompted elites to take constitutional strolls, giving the practice its name and specialized dress, while the common class historically walked by necessity.
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Tronchin
Voltaire
Rousseau
Diderot
France
Westminster Gazette
Young Bishop Talbot Gives One Dollar For Cathedral
A tramp asks aid from bishops at St Paul meeting. the youngest bishop Talbot leans in, speaks earnestly, and hands over a dollar for a new cathedral at Laramie. The exchange ends with the tramp receiving the money and departing.
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Bishop Talbot
St. Paul
Laramie
Man Attributes Injury Cure to Minard's Liniment
Henry Elliott of Sherbrooke Nova Scotia inspector and superintendent of bronze construction says a bottle of Minard's Liniment cured a very severe leg sprain from a fall while building a bridge at Doherty Creek Cumberland County.
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Henry Elliott, Esq
Sherbrooke, N.S
Brnnze Construction
Nova Scotia
Minard
Doherty Creek
Cumberland Co
Marseille Riot Leader Hailed by Home Village Crowd
Marcelin Albert, folk-hero of southern France wine growers riots, returns to his native village to a hostile reception. Across France schoolboys now shorn of hair as fashion and a string of unrelated items fill the column.
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Marcelin Albert
France
Captain Mattson dives to save Flora from sinking in Atlantic
Hartlepool’s Ivor Mattson on the Swedish barque Flora fashioned a 16 foot diving bag from sail cloth to inspect and seal two hull leaks after heavy seas. He descended in the improvised suit, harrowing encounters with a shark, and his crew aided repairs while the ship neared Cape Town.
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Hartlepool
South Atlantic
Mattson
Flora
Cape Town
Concrete Houses Burnproof and Fire Safe
The Cement Age reports that fully reinforced concrete homes can be built today with only doors and window frames as non concrete parts. Such houses are described as entirely burnable from within yet practically unburnable from the outside.
Clannish Scots Draw Attention in London Standard
The London Standard declares the Scottish race as highly clannish, omnipresent, pertinacious, and instinctively coherent, contrasting it with other groups in a striking cultural note.
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London Standard
Remarkable Memory Feats By Historical Figures
The piece highlights Seneca the tutor of Nero who could repeat 2,000 words exactly after hearing them. It notes Pope’s rapid recall of passages that struck him during reading. Leyden the Scottish poet is praised for memory, credited with repeating an act of parliament or a long legal document after hearing it once.
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Seneca
Nero
Pope
Leyden
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Cene
Brown
Davis
Catholic Standard and Times
Ayer
London
Pertinax
Chalkley
Nankin
Russia
a_ social revolutionary congress
Exconvicts
Vladivostok
Australia
Ella
Holland
Orne
Dottie
En Jorgpé Greeds
Vicera
F. Young
P.df
Springfield
Daze
Yometree Fly Oy Ag Wynes Co
Wee Mutiona! Drug & Chumiva/ Os
Winnipeg
Oniguy
Shark
Stey
Oshawa
Oshawa Montival
Ottawa
Gombault
Patna
Co Wista
Lawrence- Wilteme Co
Ont
Will Pads
Flilea
Mooney’s
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