Beards cancer theory linked to enzymes and enantiomorphs
The article surveys Beard and collaborators arguing cancer involves enantiomorph compounds and a specific ferment, trypsin, that digests cancerous tissue. It cites Pasteur, Duclaux, Van t Hoff, and Emil Fischer, notes limited cures via injections, and highlights Dr Saleeby's additional supporting data, urging further work before clinical use. The tone reflects early 20th century medical speculation on biochemistry and cancer treatment.
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Huxley
Royal Society
Beard
Petry
Saleeby
America
True Lovers Treasury offers famed romance selections
The True Lovers Treasury by Carrie Thompson Lowell presents selections from classic authors like Pater Saxe Morris McGaffey Boccaccio and Mrs Jameson. Dana Estes and Co publish the $1.50 volume with good half tone reproductions of famous paintings and a white and gold binding.
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Dana Estes & Co
Carrie Thompson Lowell
Punch
Perpetual Loose-Leaf Nelsons Encyclopedia Unveiled
The article describes a new edition of Nelsons Encyclopedia using a patent locking device that lets readers remove and replace pages without changing the twelve volume set. A permanent revision staff will add new articles and update content, ensuring the encyclopedia evolves with world events while preserving its original appearance.
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Henice
French Historical Sources La France Monarchique Reviewed
Book review of La France Monarchique edited by George H Powell and Oswald B Powell presenting mid twelfth to 1830 texts from Villehardouin Joinville Froissart and others with modern French introductions and biographies. Notes praise the scholarly editing and value for readers of French history despite recognizing biases in source memoirs and chronicles.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard University
George H. Powell
Oswald B. Powell
la France Monarchique
Geoffroi de Villehardouin
Jean the Sire de Joinville
Jean Froissart
Olivier de la Marche
Philippe de Comines
Estienne Pasquier
Rapine
de la Rochefoucauld
Mme. de Motteville
Marquis de Sévigné
Mme. de Caylus
Mme. de Staél
Voltaire
Comte de Ségur
Guizot
Duray
Messrs
Powell
Bibliothéque Nationale
Railways in China and the Woosung line saga
The article reviews Percy Yorace Kent's Railway Enterprise in China, detailing the Woosung railroad's origin in the 1860s, the 1876 opening craze, subsequent shutdown, and eventual Chinese government takeover. It notes the line’s decline, repurposing of equipment to Formosa, and a temple built on Shanghai Station's site.
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Percy Yorace Kent
China
Longmans, Green & Co
Celestial Empire
Shanghai
Woosung
Woosung Railroad Company
England
Formosa
Shanghai Station
Kent
New June by Henry Newbolt a Historical Romance
Special Cable from London reports Henry Newbolt finished a new historical romance titled The New June about the end of Richard II's reign. It will appear in Blackwood's serially with no American publisher yet chosen. The tale centers on Duke Surrey and a Carthusian monastery founder in Yorkshire.
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New York Times
Ondon
Henry Newbolt
Salisbury
Blackwood
Richard II
Shakespeare
Newbolt
Surrey
Richard
Yorkshire
Coleridge
Winchester
J. G Swaith
Snaith
Broke
Covenden
Emmy Lou Author Reports Six Army Post Tales
Letitia Letitia is a child amid army life in six stories at an army post. George Madden Martin portrays a vain officer father and flirtatious mother amid matrimonial strife and class divisions among officers and soldiers.
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Letitia
George Madden Martin
Emmy Lou
Frederick Dorr Steele
New York
the McClure Company
Wetitia
West Point
Northwestern Fights and Fighters review notes vivid fighter accounts
A review praises Cyrus Towns and Brady for Northwestern Fights and Fighters, noting many pages are personal accounts by the fighters. The work offers a vivid picture of an early boxing era, with Brady contributing a passionate, patriotic section and detailed maps and frustrations in the volume published by McClure & Co.
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Northwestern
Cyrus Towns
Brady
New York
McClure & Co
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