Rhodes and Beit’s Meeting Sparks Shared Ambition
A reminiscence recalls Rhodes and Beit discussing dominance of the diamond output. Beit works late, planning to control the entire diamond trade before old age. They decide to join hands, contrasting Rhodes with Alfred Bell on arithmetic and fortune.
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Rhodes
Beit
Tin Pete
Nanal
Alfred Bell
Cecil Rhodes
Best
Kidney illness story from Mrs. Remnethe Myers Ironton Ohio
Mrs. Remnethe Myers of Ironton Ohio details five years of kidney trouble including swelling sleeplessness and fainting spells. She credits four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills with ending the pain bloating and weak state and notes the product sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Automobiles have horns statement follows.
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Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Samland as Uncle Sam ship name and other oddities
A collage of items notes the proposed single word for America with Samland suggested for a Red Star Line steamer to honor Uncle Sam and possibly redefine citizen identity. It also lists cures for Bright's disease from old remedies, social musings on wealth and beauty powders, archival notes on limited attorneys in 1554 Norfolk Suffolk Norwich, beliefs about stray cats, and a quip about critics.
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United States of America
Republic
Columbia
New Granada
South America
Samuel Whelpley
Fredonia
Euphonius
New York Mail
Usonia
U. S
America
International Mercantile Marine Company
Mississippi
Red Star Line
Samland
Uncle Sam
United States
Bright
Middle West
Southwest
Tip
James G. Blaine
N. Y. Press
Suffolk
Norfolk
Norwich
City of
California Fig Syrup Co
Hunt’s Cure and Lightning Oil Featured in Promoted Ads
An advertisement spread extols Hunt’s Cure claiming relief for itch eczema and ringworm with a guaranteed cure. It also markets Hunt’s Lightning Oil as aid for those earning their living and facing accidents, plus a brief note about Mrs Peton Fleming and Miss Henrietta Leavitt in astronomy tied to Lady Huggins and Sir William Huggins observatory.
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Hunt
Peton Fleming
Royal Astronomical Society
Henrietta Leavitt
Lady Huggins
Sir William Huggins
London
Royal Society
Sir William
Danish boatman Christian Langer dies at 83
Saved Many from Drowning. Five hundred persons saved from drowning in 48 years was the record achievement of Christian Langer, a Danish boatman, who has just died at Harboe, Jutland, aged 83.
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Christian Langer
Harboe
Jutland
Habits of Wild Bees and Various Insect Nests
A survey of wild bees notes five thousand species with diverse behaviors including Amazonian females, brood parasitism by cuckoo bees, and a leaf cutting tailoring bee that crafts nest linings from leaves.
Proper Covering
The saying notes a man need not know to enter when rain falls if he has a borrowed umbrella.
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Scarecrow
Fred Stone
Mr. Stone
James J. Corbett
George Fuller Golden
Billy Elmer
Castoria
Pape
Olet Lr
Samuel Pitconer
New York
Ww. L. Douglas
W.L Douglas
Douglas
John
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Rongies
Dept
Agetylene
Eisemann CO
Houston, Texas
Toby’s Practical Business Colleges
Waco
Texas
New York City
Incoporated School of Corr
Capital
Kerth Ave
Colby
McCane’s Detective Agency
Houston
Gaia
Bears
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Buchan
Standard- Gillett
N- Halsted St
Chicago
Fifth Avenue
Heaven
Harper's Magazine
Putnam
Cowper
Dodd
Pommel
All Y Towers
Patton-Worsham Drug CO
Dallas
Memphis
Tennessee
Cuero
A. B. Richards
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Winchester
Wintersmith’s
Home Drug
Arthur Peter & CO
General Agents
Louisville, Ky