Secret letter leads to cure and marriage promise
A girl writes to Dr. Pierce of Buffalo about symptoms and receives advice from the Favorite Prescription. The cure brings happiness and an upcoming June wedding. Proponents offer 500 dollars for any uncured case of leucorrhea or related conditions after fair trial. The medicine’s reputation spans thirty eight years.
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Cupid
Dr. Pierce
Tom
Doctor Pierce
Pierce
Love and War Entangle a Captain in Waterville
Captain John Stewart, sick with consumption risk, faces exile to New Mexico. Marjorie Madison, heiress, confesses her love and vows to accompany him, despite his pride and his injuries. The story follows their emotional struggle amid military duty and romance.
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Uie
Mitidraueh
Louisville
Noth
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Kentucky
Pullman
John Stewart
Fifth Infantry
Michigan National Guard
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Sears
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Arizona
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Oscura Mountains
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Paradise
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Church
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Blues
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Chicago Express
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Oscura
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Dr. Church
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Goodby
Fragment of Correggio painting linked to King of Lydia tale
The owner seeks to trace missing sections of a third of a Correggio attributed canvas. The back bears a seal and history: Queen Candaules and Gyges ring, part of a larger work once owned by Moore brothers, later sold through several hands to Mr. W. Jacobs in West Hill, Wandsworth.
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bLedovien Carrace
Candaules
Lydia
Gyges
Correggio
Moore
Anthony Lord Faversham
Frances King
John Bowater
John Long
Woolwich
New Tarogato From Budapest Aids Wagnerian Orchestra
Budapest introduces the tarogato a new musical instrument praised by its inventor and select musicians for Wagnerian use. The cor anglais often carries similar melodies as in Tristan und Isolde but tarogato offers better timbre for rapid passages. Dr Richter reportedly hailed its performance at Covent Garden this year.
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Budapest
Richter
Wondera
Covent Garden
London Chronicle
Longest Telephone Talk Across the Nation
In Omaha a man at his desk communicates daily with a Boston chief via a long distance telephone line. The conversation travels 1,400 miles with clear voice, using the instrument in steady daily use, described as the longest telephonic talk on record from Stories of Inventors by Russell Doubleday.
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Omaha
Neb
Boston
New England
Nebraska
Russell Doubleday
Russia's Striking Makeup And The Path Forward
The Boston Globe notes Russia blends educated European elites with a vast peasant mass driven by ignorance. It describes a dangerous balance between Oriental and medieval traits and questions how the nation might advance. It also mentions international arbitration as a possible remedy to avert a major modern catastrophe.
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Russia
Europe
Boston Globe
New Tracer Shell Demonstrated at Fort Riley
Fort Riley artillery units test a Semple tracer shell that ignites on discharge and lights the shell’s trajectory. It aids night range finding as the burning tracer forms comet-like paths and a bright flare at impact.
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Fort Riley
Junction City Union
Spots on the Sun Found by Santa Clara Observatory Director
Father Ricardo of Santa Clara College near San Jose reports three large sunspots, one larger than the earth, two even bigger, with the largest just below the sun's equator and the others above it. One small spot seems to be growing, and the observer expects further increases.
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Father Ricardo
Meteorological Observatory
Santa Clara College
San Jose
Cal
Kitchener’s Drill Infiltrates Spies In Suakin Tale
In Suakin veterans recall Lord Kitchener’s strict discipline. Two native men posing as workers were revealed as spies after mingling with British camp groups. Kitchener ordered them shot and buried in a hole large enough for two, a stark example of his methods. The tale appears in the Chicago Chronicle.
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Witeheber
India
Daaff
Egypt
Wipling
Kitchener
Iitchener
Chicago Chronicle
Dust as disease carrier prompts urban cleanliness reforms
Doctors worldwide link dust to various illnesses from heavy colds to tuberculosis. American Medicine urges dust free pavements and thorough street cleaning, including sprinkling and sterilized sweeping of theaters and churches, with frequent street flushing to protect city dwellers.
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New York
Indians In Politics.
Field and Stream notes that among Indian nations the Choctaws lead in political organization they operate a campaign committee and fund they publish literature in English and Choctaw and they win elections by modern methods over feast and speech campaigning.
High Priced London Real Estate Near Bank of England
The article notes London land near the Bank of England sells at 375 dollars per square foot or 16 250 000 dollars per acre. Prices taper toward the Strand then rise again in Bond Street to 175 dollars per square foot or over 7 500 000 dollars per acre.
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London
Bank of England
Strand
Bond Street
West End
Wounded in Naval Battles Warned by Surgeon Chief
Dr Suzuki, surgeon in chief of the Japanese navy, argues in the current war that the wounded should be laid on the firing side of ships, not the nonfiring side, because danger comes from fragments of bursting shells dispersing outward rather than the enemy’s direct fire.
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Suzuki
Niagara Plan Aims at Swiss Waterfall Power
Engineers propose tapping Lake Sils in the Engadine to release water down mountains, creating a waterfall that could develop 50 000 horsepower. Storage would keep water for periods, allowing the lake to resume its normal appearance during tourist season.
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Sils
Engadine
Woolless Sheep Imported for Hot States Use
The Department of Agriculture imported five woolless sheep—four ewes and a buck—from Barbados for use in extreme southern states. Woollessness helps mutton quality by reducing wool burden in hot dry districts.
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Department of Agriculture
Barbados
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