King Edward and World Faiths by Regional Populations
A historical tally lists global populations by region and major religions. Asia dominates with over 300 million in subjects, America 500,000, Africa 48 million, Australasia 5 million, Europe 42 million. Hindu 206 million, Mohammedans 94 million, Christians 58 million, Buddhists 32 million, and others 23 million.
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Edward
England
Asia
America
Africa
Australasia
Europe
Golden Medical Discovery Promoted For Digestive Ailments
The article describes Dr. Pierce of Buffalo promoting Golden Medical Discovery made with glycerine and native medicinal roots. It claims benefits for weak stomach indigestion bilious liver and catarrhal throat and bronchial diseases and warns it cannot cure advanced consumption. It invites readers to request a card or letter offer.
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Golden Medical Discovery
Pierce
Ingredijenra
Prin
League
Rckterta Wearners
Lorse
B. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Differnce
Skunks Dig Up Potatoes In Harrie Till Farm Field
Bangor dispatch reports two brothers owning a Harrie Till farm in Missouri who found potatoes missing each morning. A night watch revealed skunks were the culprits, tunneling beneath potato hills to raid the crop and leaving heaps on the ground.
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Bangor
New York Tribune
Harrie Till
Unknown Rich Youth Spends Fortune on Autocar Aid
A historic note recalls a youth who inherited vast wealth at birth and spent lavishly on cars and charity. The text mentions buying 20 autocar vehicles to aid a friend, covering repair bills for a year, before exhausting his fortune.
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Chicago Tribune
Cure for severe scalp eczema praised by patient
A Philadelphia man recounts a long battle with itching and skin eruptions starting around 1900. After failing medical treatment, he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, with pills, baths, and topical application leading to full improvement and relief.
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Cuticura
Hades
Erie
Wm. H. Gray
Mt. Vernon &J
Philadelphia
Preacher Calls for Newsroom Coverage and Sunday Work Abolition
A prominent churchman orders papers to dispatch reporters for next Sunday's sermon promising a strong message. A side exchange mocks selling expensive deluxe editions of a book, with a sharp reply denying interest.
Catarrh Cure Claim and Political Jokes in Ad Snippet
An OCR fragment touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy and promises $100 reward for proof of failure. It also includes an internal medicine pitch, a testimonial request, and stray lines about a political candidate with a joke. The text ends with a claim about piles cured in six to fourteen days.
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Ben
Hal
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Roosevelt Defends Panama Canal Work In Special Message
President Roosevelt sent a lengthy illustrated message to Congress praising the Panama Canal project. He rebukes foreign and American critics, details sanitation, labor, and engineering progress, and explains labor plans including continued use of Chinese workers and West Indian labor.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Canal Commission
America
Culebra
Panama
Colon
United States
Colea
Rizey
Isthmian Canal Commission
Shonts
Stevens
Isr. Gorgas
Bishop
Ripley
Jackson Smith
Bierd
Rogers
Nicaragua
Cal
Hat Chasers: A Day in the Life of Professional Hat Seekers
A new occupation emerges as professional hat chasers stalk windy streets. They pounce when hats are swooped off by the wind, brush them clean with a concealed device, and return them for a nickel or dime. Earnings range from $1 to $3 daily, weather dependent. Some hawk string hat guards at ten cents each.
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la Boca Dama
Gatun Dam
Culebra
Dama
Gatun
Locke
Isthmus
Masonic Temple
Old Boreas
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Noted Col. Cosgrove Quoting Scripture in Court
Col. John Cosgrove later a congressman from Boonville district distinguished as an advocate before a jury. He defended a client accused of a crime and exclaimed that the State’s attorney could not command the sun to stand still as Daniel did. Judge James W. Draffen objected to the misquote. Cosgrove then corrected it to Solomon. The remark went unchallenged.
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John Cosgrove
Boonville
Col
Cosgrove
Daniel
James W. Draffen
James E. Hazell
Col. Cosgrove
Solomon
Kansas City Star
Allcock's Plaster Proved Quick Pain Remedy
Many pains originate from focal issues like a back crick or rheumatic twinges. Allcock's Plaster, famed globally for sixty years, offers rapid, clean, cheap relief without stopping work. It is presented as the safest and most certain treatment for various pains arising from colds.
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Allcock
Hog and Rooster Worth Noted in Kansas City Paper
A Kansas City paper notes a hog valued at $2000 and a rooster at $800. The joke suggests barnyard pets benefit from saving, reflecting light on thrift in rural life.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Washington Post
Rubber Stamps and Self Inking Daters For Order
Advertising local stamp shop offers rubber stamps self inking daters ink pads and sealings. Catalogs available from Lock Box 219 Port Wayne Indiana with seed for mail order requests.
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Bez
Port Wayne
Indiana
Leck Bez
Heating arrangements in your fat dialogue snippet
Dialogue exchange between Ruggles and Ramage hints at basement mitigating circumstances but lacks definite arrangements or facts. The fragment reads as a private, uncertain discussion about heating and basement conditions with no clear outcome or actions recorded.
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Ruggles
Hoodlum Threw Stone at Japanese Boy in Schoolyard
A hoodlum hurled a stone at a Japanese boy. The brown skinned child warned he would tell Mr Roocyfel if the abuse continued.
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Mie
One Day Cold Cure Ad Claims Druggist Refund
Advertises LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets for a rapid cold cure with a money back guarantee by Drugginrs. Mentions Dr W Grove’s signature on each box and a 25 cent price. Includes odd statistics from the Massachusetts bureau of statistics on lawyers physicians and clergymen. Ends with a line about Winslow’s Sore and a remark on the lion’s affection.
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W.grove
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
The Bald Head Joke Sparks Fashioning of Baldness
A Boston Herald tirade muses that hair loss could become a global fashion, arguing six or so causes of hair fall could drive people to embrace baldness. The piece jokes about enforcing a style that makes bald heads the admired ideal and notes potential initial resistance from civilized nations.
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Boston Herald
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