Care of the Aged Highlights Cold Risk and Diet
The article stresses filial piety through protecting aging parents from illness. It explains aging bodies lose resilience, making them vulnerable to colds, chills, and congestions, with digestion and bowels impaired. It cites Prof. H. C. Wood on exposure dangers and advises buckskin clothing, avoiding wind, and favoring milk and lean meat for the elderly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil
Dineas
Anchises
H. C. Wood
M. D
Medical and Surgical Reporter
When Home Recipes Turn Into Oddities
A newly married couple named Callboard settle in a flat. The wife introduces a bizarre, comic array of home remedies and “prescriptions” for foods and pastries, contrasting them with memories of the old home. The scene ends twenty three years later with no one recalling the doughnuts of the grandmother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen
Jane
Charley
Burdette
Trading in Alaska at the Nuchuck trader store
A traveler describes Alaska trading where mink skins bring two silver 10 cent pieces each, and a special church box holds every tenth skin payment. Fox and sea otter skins follow with varied prices, four piles of ten dollars per otter skin, then bartering exchanges for goods after settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Nuchuck
Meerschaum Smoking Pipes and Amber Trade Facts
The Milwaukee Sentinel describes meerschaum pipe preparation including soaking, carving, boiling in wax and sperm, and waxing for color. It notes amber varieties yellow and black, prices for short pieces, costs for ornamented holders, origin in the Baltic and North Sea, and ambrette as a gum imitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee Sentinel
North Sea
Baltic
Prussia
Slumber Tales and a Nurse’s Fearsome Lie
A nurse terrifies a child with a bear under the bed tale and a burglar under the bed warning. The mistress confronts the nurse’s deception and admonishes she is unfit to care for children teaching a harsh lesson about fear and truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie
Edward Atkinson on Profits in the Century era
Edward Atkinson argues from extensive inquiry that 10 percent is the maximum profit margin on all production in the country. He contends that more than 90 percent of each year's product goes to workers, with the saved capital mainly accruing to working people, moderate earners, and the rich taking a smaller share. The Century supports this view, noting the small profit margins needed to attract capital.
An African Letter Describing Jebu Symbolic Message
An English anthropologist describes eight Jebu symbol letters. A message from a native prince to his brother uses six cowries oriented together with a feather quill to convey a request to draw near and to come immediately. It ends with a proverb about wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bloxam
Jebu
West Africa
Travers the stuttering broker and his quick wits
A portrait of Travers famed for stuttering and sharp humor. He playfully mocks colleagues and editors with rapid retorts about ostentatious riches, size, and manners, while teaching a Baltimore friend that his speech pattern can still offer clever one liners amid city crowds and high society banter.
The Hard Lot of Russian Recruits
An observer recalls a park drill where conscripts endure brutal punishments. A drill master strikes several faces, a corporal assaults a frail Jewish recruit, and another squad member stomps toes with iron shod boots. The scene is filled with shocks and cries as harsh abuse continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oilessa
Wax on Key Foils Home Invasion Plot
A Boston man found wax clogging his keyhole after returning home. Police planned a night watch to catch thieves who left a key impression, but the governess later revealed caramel sticky residue had transferred to the key. The waxy coating remained in the lock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New York Sun
Natural gas hints spark wary farmer exchange
A speculator offers $100 an acre for signs of natural gas on a Ohio farm. The farmer declines, citing ongoing oil drilling in a swamp area and a coal bed near the barn. The exchange, recounted in Hall Street News, underscores early wildcat speculation and the limits of time for gas ventures.
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Ohio
Hall Street News
Indolent Liver Cured By Stomach Bitters Demonstrations
An indolent liver prompts a call to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The tonic stimulates activity, easing right side discomfort, nausea, tongue fur, indigestion, and headaches. It claims safe, superior relief to calomel and purgatives and notes fever, ague, and rheumatism cures. Includes assorted aphorisms and local notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hostetter
Blood Is the Life Dr Pierce's Discovery Says Cure All
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for all humors from pimples to scrofula and blood poisoning. It claims to purify blood, invigorate, and treat consumption and weak lungs, with relief for liver complaints and indigestion. The piece ends with a quip about cats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Golden Medical
Chicago Sioux City and Yankton Rail Line Opens
New through route between Chicago and Sioux City via Sioux City to Manilla and Council Bluffs to connect with the Chicago division. Pullman Sleepers to run through without change, offering improved service and faster travel for Eastern Southern Central Dakota Nebraska Central Iowa and Northern Illinois. An inserted product ad promises tonics and skin remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sioux City
Yankton
Chcago, McUwaukee and St. Paul Raiway Company
Manilla
Chicago and Council Bluffs
Pullman
Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
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Edward Atkinson
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New York
Wall Street
Philadelphia Times
Austin Fanny
British Medical Association
Detroit Free Press
Sioux Falls
Dakota Bell
Terre Haute
Champaign County
Charles F. Powell
St. Jacobs
Arthur Shurtleff
Parker, Dakota
Dr. Harter
Hazard, Hazard& Co
Hood
Snyder
Pottsville
Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Masa
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Isaac Thompson
Aellit
Radway
Druggiats
Radway & CO
N.X
Dr. Radway
Richmond
C. K.curten
U. S
Fitzgerald & Powell
Indianapolis
Ind
Brewster
Holly, Mich
Combination Hat Rack CO
Elm St
New York City
National Publishing Co
Lakeside Bldg
Warren
Warren Feataerbone Company
Three Oaks
Mich
Grannan
Sureau
Arcade
Cincinnati
Mites Ld Sevestyla
Pensions
Chase
Ams
Tris
Dee, Cuaicrzap Co
Anx
Harrisburg, Polnnett Co
Jonesboro, Craighead Co
Dee, Craighead Co
Atk. Jno
B. Wilson
Xorg
Home and Farm
Louisville
Humane Remedy Coo
Ferry St
Lafayette
Indiana
France
Rosa Bonheur
M. W. Dunham
Wayne, DuPage Co
Hlinois
Bray
A. J. Towel
Procter & Gamble
Randolph St
Lord & Thomas. Thomas
Dea
Wizard Oil’ Company
Fouth
Enlivane
ST. Louis
Kate
MG. CO
Cleveland
Bure Zlles Kidder
Stet Arig
Mags
Arriné Fo Pik Asd
Chichester
Chichester Chemical
Deugelsis Everswher
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