Sultan of Suluan Exile in Singapore
Washington telegram reports the Sultan of Sulu, with six wives and a retinue, has moved from his Philippine domain to Singapore due to a weakened throne and lack of male heirs. The exile follows American incursions and the ruler’s deteriorating health and pension and pearl-fisheries income remain in government hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suluan
United States
Sultan of
Sulu
Orient
Singapore
Straits Settlements
Washington Telegram
Chicago Chronicle
Remarkable cure story from Franksville on Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs. Louis Markison of Franksville Wisconsin was plagued by female weakness and related symptoms until trying Dodd's Kidney Pills. She reports improvement and full cure after continued use and praises the remedy as the best medicine she has known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franksville
Wis
Louis Markison
Mrs. Markison
Dodd
Spirituality Without Morality Counted As Empty Whistle
The quote argues that spirituality lacking ethical deeds is hollow and ineffective. It emphasizes the link between inner belief and outward action as essential to true virtue.
Orators and Oratory by Daniel P Baldwin
A reflective essay on true oratory stressing clear thought and passionate expression. It argues that heat of temperament, deep knowledge, and the ability to arouse audiences define the great speaker, citing Beecher, Burke, and Lincoln while lamenting commercialism's erosion of public eloquence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Indiana
Hamptons
Burke
Anna Dickinson
Frances E. Willard
Blaine
Webster
Gladstone
Phillips Brooks
Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
United States
Adams
Otis
Fisher Ames
Patrick Henry
Hamilton
Henry
Lincoln
Gettysburg
Rufus Choate
Wetster
Ingersoll
United Stats Senate
Calhoun
Seward
Sumner
Bisbe
Davis
Douglas
Carpenter
Morten
Thurman
Schultz
Conkling
Garfield
New England
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tacitus
Lipton the Cheese Trader who Became a World Renowned Grocer
An old Glasgow acquaintance recalls Tom Lipton starting as a green grocer in a modest street. An eye catching ad sold cheese by the pound with coins in slices, drawing huge trade and enduring the nickname Cheese Lipton. Lipton later opened decorated London grocery shops seen as his master stroke.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Glasgow
Tom Lipton
Tom
Eton
Thomas Lipton
Lipton
Green Grocer
London
New York Press
Why the Captain Declined
Franklin Matthews recalls a Cornell class reunion tale from Ithaca where a retired navy captain fires a cannon to surface a drowned youth. Multiple bodies rise. the captain refuses further firing saying he won’t oppose judgment day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Matthews
Cornell
Ithaca
Navy
New York Tribune
Miss Tessie Thistledown Sets Four Foot Three High Jump
Rival teams clash as Tessie Thistledown clears four feet three inches to set a record in a tight field day meet. A rival captain claims a foul after a spectator allegedly shouted mouse during the attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tessie Thistledown
Endorsements for Peruna from national figures
The article lauds Peruna as a universal catarrh remedy, claiming praise from Admiral Schley and other notable figures. It asserts widespread consumer trust, public testimonials, and that Peruna cures catarrh in all forms. It urges readers to request free literature from The Peruna Drug Mfg Co. in Columbus, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Schley
Peruna
Dmiral ‘Schley
Annals of Medicine
M'’f’g Co
Columbus
Ohio
New Airship Dumont Unveils 48 Meter Balloon Design
The 48 meter Santos Dumont airship No 10 features a 2010 cubic meter gas bag with a three compartment front and inner bags to preserve shape. It uses two independent 60 horsepower motors, a wood and steel framework, and four passenger baskets with two aeronauts aboard. Offered to the Ministry of War as a potential war asset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santos Dumont
M. Dumont
Ministry of War
Brazil
United States
Philadelphia
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim and Mercury Warning
An advertisement warns against mercury containing tonics for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and notes genuine product in Toledo with testimonials and pharmacist sales at 75 cents per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are promoted as the best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Young Blaine's Reason wedding cake quip from mother
The Boston Post recounts a childhood moment of James Blaine as a boy who studied wedding cakes with curiosity. He expressed that he would not share his future wedding cake with his mother because she had not sent him any of hers, a witty reply reflecting his early humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Blaine
James
Boston Post
Civil War conscription fraud and profiteering noted
General Miles recalled wartime scams where citizens sought to dodge drafts. A con artist offered $2 tips to evade the conscription, sending letters with $2 notes and a printed reply urging recipients to join the nearest volunteer regiment, as reported by the Boston Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. A. Miles
Boston Post
Local Reader Endorses Piso’s Cure for Consumption
Letter from John W. Henry of Fostoria Ohio dated October 4 1901 praises Piso s Cure for Consumption and reports good results he has experienced with the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Henry
Fostoria
Ohio
Travel costs for a trip to St Louis in 1890s dollars
A man asks if an 1894 dollar covers seller expenses to St Louis and back next year. The bureau of information chief says it comes close, noting eighteen hundred and ninety four dollars will do it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Bureau of Information
Chicago Tribune
Persees Cross Ball Blue Advertisement Note
A compact 8 cent reference notes a large Sox package and white clothes instruction for enduring cleanliness with Cross Ball Blue.
Prodigal Son Speech Fragments From A Dated Note
Fragmentary OCR presents a dialogue where a son defers insight to his father, muttering about eating and the times in a colloquial bell. The readable text shows a domestic exchange with incomplete phrasing and quotation marks.
Snake Lair Found in Half-Century Old Mine Shaft
Dewitt Vanarsdall reports a Salt Spring fluor spar mine entry cut into a cliff fifty feet below an old shaft sunk fifty years earlier. The shaft bottom held vipers moccasins copperheads blacksnakes and other venomous snakes. They killed the snakes after a lively fight revealing they had fallen in and could not escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt Vanarsdall
Jack Chinn
Salt Spring
Harrodsburg
Private Car Club Becomes Gatekeeper of Millionaire Social Circles
The Private Car Club, an exclusive assemblage of New York area billionaires and summer residents along the New York New Haven Hartford line, travels in two club cars each morning attached to the Greenwich express reaching Grand Central. After the crowd clears, sixty prominent figures in business, law, and finance step off, including William Rockefeller and Samuel Truesdale, signaling the club’s elite status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Greenwich Express
Grand Central Station
William Rockefeller
Samuel Truesdale
Lionel
Richard Sutro
William H. McCord
James McCutcheon
William H. Newman
Stamford
Conn
New York Telegram
Chicago Tribune
From Oklahoma to Aeschylus on the no fence law
An editor invokes classical authorities in a brief address on the no fence law. References span Aeschylus Xenophon Aristotle Plutarch Cicero Socrates Lucretius to illustrate the point and frame the argument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far West
Aeschylus
Cleanthes
Zeus
Xenophon
Aristotle
Plutarch
Delphi
Cicero
Socrates
Lucretius
Stranger Asks Large Donation From College President
A satirical exchange in Harper’s Bazaar features a Stranger requesting one hundred thousand dollars from a college president. The witty dialog highlights a clash of nerve and status between an implausible donor and an established figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stranger Eeams College
Harper’s. Bazar
Manager boasts about chorus girl engagements
In a terse note from Tows Topics, a manager is quoted claiming he engaged forty chorus girls in twenty weeks, while adding he is quick at figures. The remark reflects a boastful, perhaps dubious claim about staffing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sant
Big Four Route Tickets On Sale To Indian Territory Interests
Hunters tickets with Jong return limit and liberal stop over privileges go on sale October 1 for many points in Louisiana Missouri Wisconsin Michigan Upper Peninsula via the Big Four Route. Take advantage of low rates and long return limit. For details call Big Four Route agents or write the undersigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Territory
Louisiana
Missouri
Wisconsin
Michigan
Young Lawyer Outwits Sir Edward Clarke
A lighthearted note from the Omaha Bee recalls a young lawyer who thwarted Sir Edward Clarke by claiming exhaustion after listening to the famed barrister all day. Clarke requested a postponement for a case due to fatigue, and the junior lawyer followed with his own postponement claim. The court asked for the reason, and the reply amused: he too had been listening to Clarke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Edward Clarke
Edward
Omaha Bee
Hotel Rates at St Louis World’s Fair 1904 Pamphlet
Official pamphlet lists hotel accommodations and rates for the Universal Exposition of 1904. For copies, contact E A Ford General Passenger Agent Pennsylvania Vandalia Lines Pittsburgh Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Ford
Pennsylvania- Vandalia Lines
Pittsburg
Excursion Tickets to Kansas City for American Royal Show
Excursion tickets to Kansas City for the American Royal Live Stock Show will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines from October 16 to 20. For details contact the local agent of Pennsylvania Lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Pennsylvania Lines
Hetty Green Quips Over Dog License Dispute
Hetty Green tells the court she has a New York license for her dog Dewey but is reminded a Jersey license is needed. She quips that a dog is worth more than a law, barks louder for you and costs less, sparking a colorful exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hetty Green
Dewey
New York
Jersey
New York Times
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