Bound Advice on Cold Prevention for Theatergoers in Oxford
A father’s 17th century warning to his son about catching cold after theater attendance. He advises returning home to warm shelter and drinking sack or canary wine, warned by a near fatal cold from past experience. The article concludes with a Massachusetts note: annually 12,000 more deaths than births among native people.
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Oxford
Voyce
London Daily Chronicle
Massachusetts
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement by Arkansas Doctor
Dr Leland Williamson of Yorktown Ark extols Doan's Kidney Pills for backache kidney and urinary disorders. Four cases show relief from kidney disease malaria swamp fever and uric acid poisoning with pills aiding recovery. He notes a free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and lists prices and mailing details.
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Dean
Leland Williamson
Yorktown
Ark
Foster-Miceurn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Bayou Bartholomew
Arkansas River
Doan
Bear, Ark
Brown Eas
Wynne
Exyan
Tarry
Bright
Foster-Milburn Co
Butta'o
Fowl tuberculosis studied by UC researchers in California
Dr Archibald R Ward of the University of California reports tuberculosis is widespread in California poultry. He and the poultry station will study links to bovine and human TB and whether eggs carry the pathogen. Ward notes few eggs from TB hens and argues strict separation of diseased birds could eradicate the disease in three to four years.
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California
Archibald R. Ward
University of California Agricultural Department
San Francisco Chronicle
Animal Industries Department
Poultry Experiment Station
Ward
Duty of a Friend
A writer asks how to help friends see dangers they miss and whether silence is cruelty or care. He argues for direct, constructive influence rather than sharp rebuke, proposing self discovery through better goals and collective study of voice, costumes for the elderly, and economic recreations as wholesome reform methods.
Gazooks and Gazaboos on a Transatlantic Voyage
In a Kansas City Star excerpt Yale Dolan, a rich Philadelphia youth, chats with a stiff British passenger on a London to Liverpool journey. Humor turns on the slang gazook a gazaboo miscommunication as they sail and bond aboard the ship.
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Yale Dolan
Philadelphia
New York
London
Liverpool
America
Dolan
Heaven
Kansas City Star
Man’s Startup Windfalls After Shipwrecked Crew Buyout
A wrecked California waterfront lunchery owner recalls selling his shop to twelve shipwrecked sailors who paid four times its value, enabling his later prosperity. He notes the sailors’ money and appetite as decisive, then asks where similar opportunities might exist along the coast for quick lunch ventures.
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California
A Comrade of General Grant Pe-ru-na Catarrhal Tonic claims
An advertisement touts Peruna as a tonic for old age decline, claiming it corrects thickened mucous in the stomach and bowels, improves hearing, digestion, and overall vitality. Endorsements from F. Ky Mttie, Rev J M Parker, and W B Schnader praise restored hearing, vigor, and resistance to winter ailments.
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Mia
F. Ky Mttie
Volona
Yellow State Park
Yellow Stone National Park
J. M Parker
Utica
Perana
Omu
Jev
M. Parker
W. B. Schnader
Térre
Hill, Pm
Dad
Ember
Hartman
Beggar Simon Oppashic Dies in Austria at 71
Oppashic, a beggar without arms or legs, died in Austria aged seventy one. He traveled the dual empire in a pred chair begging for alms. In his home authorities found $150,000 in money and script and a ledger recording daily alms.
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Simon Oppashic
Austria
Simon
Three Living Comrades of General Grant From West Point
Benjamin F. Hawkes of Washington DC is named as one of the Three Living Comrades of General Grant in his cadet days at West Point. The note highlights Hawkes alongside two others as peers from the early life of the famed general.
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Washington, DC
General Grant
West Point
Famous Peruna endorsements from Washington and Wisconsin
A letter from Washington D C extols Peruna for catarrh and low spirits after trying other remedies. Testimonials from Isaac Brock in McLennan region praise Peruna for grippe relief and daily vigor. Mrs E West of Menasha Wisconsin credits Peruna with long term family use including stomach catarrh cure at age 87.
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Isaac Brock
E. West
Main Street
Menasha
Wis
Inland Nile lakes reclaimed by British to yield rich crops
Some of the Nile lakes, once dry salt plains that filled with alkali water in rain season, have been reclaimed by the British government. They are now valued at 200 to 300 dollars per acre and produce magnificent crops.
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Ld Nile
Hunt's Cure Declared Infallible Remedy Adverts
The ad proclaims Hunt's Cure as an infallible remedy for unbearable itching, priced at 50c per box and guaranteed. It also mentions French Canadians overrunning the eastern U S and driving the Irish from mills, with no political involvement.
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Hunt
United States
Giant gorilla on display at Hamburg museum
A six foot ten inch gorilla from the Cameroons West Africa is shown with its skeleton beside it in Hamburg's museum. The exhibit highlights the animal's enormous size and stretch of a nine foot three inch arm span.
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Cameroons
West Africa
Museum
Hamburg
Sleeping in Cars Breeds Serious Lung Risks
The notice warns that sleeping in autos can contract colds that may seriously affect the lungs and urges timely use of Tay lor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein as a cough medicine sold at druggists. It also cites adulterated foods costing Americans millions, praises Defiance Starch, notes engine drivers hear 570 signals on a Crewe to London run, and promotes Putnam Faceless Dyes while remarking on arguments and persuasion.
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Farnese and Carriage
Harves
Wogon
Niall
Taylor
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Peruna
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