Dr Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills Endorsed By Clinicians
A Milford physician and a local druggist voice strong endorsements for Dr Hobbs Sparague Kidney Pills as a cure for Bright's disease and kidney troubles. They cite patient recoveries, testimonial letters, and a case study of J J Kimball, urging readers to test the remedy.
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Guying
Hobbe
Hobbs
Mitewell
Hobbs Sparagus
L. O. Gale
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Delaware State Medical Society
Milford
Del
Hubbs Remedy Co
Chicago
J. J. Kimball
Bright
Dr. Hobbs Sparapus
Dr. Hobbs Sparagus
Hobbs Sparague
Robert Frame
M. D
Mr. Kimball
Dr. Hobbs Sparague
Health restoring pills claim cure for many ailments
Advertisement asserts remedies cure kidney troubles diabetes back pain sleeplessness rheumatism gout neuralgia nervousness and more. It pledges new energy blood and vigor with thousands already cured and promises to cure you. Endorsed by physicians druggists and patients. For sale by L O Gale in Mitchell South Dakota.
King’s View Blocked by Belgian Subject’s Ten Story Wall
A Belgian subject, M Vandendriesche, built a house in front of the king’s Ostend villa. After the king complained, workers tore down the house but rebuilt with bricks into a tall wall, eventually a 12 story fireproof edifice blocking the monarch’s view.
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Belgium
Nunes
M. Vandendriesche
Ostend
Iek
San Francisco Chronicle
His View of Our Women From Swami Vivekanenda Quote
Rev. Dr. F. E. Clark cites a New York Tribune quotation about American women. He describes unmarried women as old maids who join churches and become churchy fanatics under priestly influence. He says apart from this, Americans are good people and he felt loved in the United States.
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F. E. Clark
Swami Vivekanenda
America
New York Tribune
Would God My Lover Return From London Town
A lyric lament by Nors Hopper in which a speaker recalls a distant lover who came from London and kindled a country heart. The speaker laments absence, sorrow, and the pain of love as the beloved serves others and leaves, longing for reunion or justice from fate.
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Aume
London
Nors Hopper
Electric Bitters Sanctioned For Languor And Bilious Fevers
Electric Bitters is advertised as a year round remedy especially when languor, tiredness, and sluggish liver appear. It claims to counteract malarial poison, relieve headaches, indigestion, constipation, and dizziness. Sold by S. H. Scallin's drug store at 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle.
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S. H. Scallin
Strange Things at Sea and the Plumduff Cat Tale
A Portland era article recalls a cloud frog on the Iroquois and a famed Maltese cat aboard the Plumduff. Al Betts narrates the strange voyage as sailors claim the cat nursed herself in a rudder cavity and produced a feline family, surviving on fishbones. Carl Peters, founder of German East Africa, faces German government scrutiny despite praise from Harper's Weekly.
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Iroquois
Captain Taylor
Taylor
Portland
al Betts
Calcutta
Columbia
Timbertoes
Lascar
Ganges Og
Astoria
Custom House
Denny Curran
Denny
Scott Johnson
Oregonian
German East Africa
Carl Peters
Baltic Canal
Germany
England
Africa
London
Berlin
Harper’s Weekly
Money to Slice Up
A Boston woman tricked a clerk by cutting a bank bill into pieces in a Boston store. Her husband is a bank president in Newburyport and had given her a signed sheet from a national bank. She asked for scissors and attempted to pay, prompting the clerk to initially refuse before the scheme was explained.
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Boston
Newburyport
Boston Record
Supposed Regions in a Water-Only World Debate
A Kentucky lecturer argues about a water only region while critics from the Atlanta Constitution object loudly. The exchange captures a spirited scientific discussion from the era.
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Kentucky
Dress and the Man in American Life
A New York Tribune essay contrasts American men's clothing habits with English standards. It argues that American neglect of valet or personal grooming leads to a scrubbed appearance for the few who can afford style, while English elites maintain polished looks through servants and routines.
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New York Tribune
England
America
Ether Awakens Plants By Etherization Of Fall Exposure
A Danish experimenter reports that ether revives plants rather than sedating them, prompting early leafing and flowering when placed in airtight boxes and exposed to fumes for 24 to 96 hours. Willow, hyacinth, and lilac showed early blossoms, with lilacs showing notable success. Further work aims to refine the method for other plants. it is inexpensive and easy, with fire risk as the main danger.
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New York Times
The Artist In Sand Kioto And The Sand Picture
A Strand description visits Kioto with scenes of a dollmaker shop where girls craft life like puppets. Nearby a crowd gawks at a man painting colored sand into pictures on the ground using lamps for illumination. A girl carries a sleeping baby on her back as onlookers watch the sand art unfold.
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Kioto
Poker at the Capital and a Laughing Lesson in Music
A column recalls legendary big poker games like the Ochiltree incident where the Texan lamented losing fifty thousand dollars in one sitting with cash only two dollars and seventy five cents. The piece also jokes about Rossini and Wagner with a Gounod quip about a score drawn upside down and misread.
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Tom Ochiltree
Ochiltree
Fifteenth Street
Washington Cor
Philadelphia Press
Wagner
Gounod
Rossini
Opera Star Refuses Dental Bill After Gas Incident
An opera singer, under gas during a dental procedure, denies owing payment claiming a false pretense and larceny. The dentist counters while the patient asserts she was overcharged for high notes and entertainment, prompting a tense dispute before the singer realizes her fame and withdraws.
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Chicago Post
Nervous Years at the Press Club Ring Prank
A Washington Post anecdote recalls Mr Karl Decker presenting a departing British journalist with a ring from the Press club only for the guest to discover the ring was actually a bell. The Briton recounted the moment and noted Decker’s nervousness in delivering the gag.
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Press Club
Washington
Karl Decker
Soundso
The Value of Outdoor Air for Health
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that indoor air is polluted by exhaled breath while outdoor air is far purer, especially at height or away from cities. It urges ventilation and time outdoors as more effective for health than travel to warm climates.
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Florida
Nice
Philadelphia Ledger
Elaborate Scheme and the Worth of a Quarter
The Chicago Tribune quotes a dialogue about wishing for power to harm a man for a loan, arguing that moral restraint and self interest justify not striking him. The excerpt questions why someone scheming a scheme should suffer over a mere quarter.
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Chicago Tribune
Not an Accident and the Insurance Denial
A crutch bound man on crutches seeks payout for an accident policy after a fall on stairs. The company president disputes the claim, calling it not an accident and noting the man’s knowledge of a young woman’s father at home. The tale sits amid early 20th century confusions on language and presidents’ common professions.
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London
The Hill of Dreams Poem Excerpt by Fiona Macleod
A dramatic excerpt from Fiona Macleod’s The Hill of Dreams describes a woman with a dark soul and two lovers in her palm. It contrasts beauty with spiritual doom and ends with a bleak image of the doomed man returning to a cold sea grave.
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Fiona Macleod
Museum Cranks Try to Sell Alleged Relics to Curators
A London Tit-Bits account describes amateur collectors touting supposed royal or historic artifacts to museums. An old man pressed a false John dagger claim, another offered a Bacon writing table later deemed worthless, provoking a police‑escorted removal. Royal relics attract attention but many items prove rubbish.
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John
Prince Arthur
Hubert de Bourg
Francis Bacon
London
No Use For the Metric System
Cassier's Magazine argues against adopting the metric system stating three quarters of world commerce uses English measures and the inch and foot suffice for mechanical work. The piece warns of obsolete screw threads, gear teeth, patterns, and the need to translate tables into foreign measures. It asserts the cubic yard remains in civil engineering but rejects other metric units for mechanics.
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Europe
Cassier
Suppression Plan for Personal Crisis Reports
The Medical Society of Bern advances a plan to suppress press notices of personal crisis reports amid a surge of such accounts. It notes many epidemics of personal crisis reports arise from printed suggestions and prior practices hid deformed people in prisons to keep them out of sight.
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The
Medical Society of
Bern
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