Risking Their Lives. Paris Lette Tells of Leprosy Apostles
Bernard O Reilly recounts missionaries and nobles who cared for lepers across history. He highlights Knights of St Lazarus, Saint John Hospitallers, and Jesuit efforts from Jerusalem to Madagascar where hospitals and asylums offered light to outcasts.
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Damien de Veuster
Europe
Jerusalem
Knights Hospitalers of
St. John
Knights of St. Lazarus
Pers
Christ
Isalah
St. Lazarus
Chriat
Paris
St. Lazare
France
Palestine
Christendom
Asia
Africa
Oceania
Viarcco de Garin
Columbus
Dot Pagdne
Molaniniestaria
Les Missions Catholiques
Trinidad
Japan
Io China
Iidia
Molokai
West Pacifice
Hove
Atairs
Io France
Madagascar
Lyons
Sea Missions
Prance
Psoc
Bea
Ser Penit
Ambonloutara
Ambativaraka
Bernard O' Reilly
Aris
Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder Endorsed by Cooks
Forty years of purity affirmation. Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder is hailed by the United Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association of the United States as the most perfect baking powder for quick rise and fine cakes. It is praised for being free from ammonia lime or alum and widely recommended in hotels restaurants clubs and private homes.
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Dr. Price
Money and Meals Schemes at Yale College Described
The piece recounts a student ledgers and meal clubs at Yale, detailing board sharing with a Lindslady and weekly sums to cover meals. It notes monitors tracking attendance, plus editors’ pay scales from Literary Magazine and college publications. It mentions Yale Banner and New Haven News.
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Leial
Reeltabot
Penerntiie
Pave
Record and Courant
Yale
New Haven Nowa
Mastiff Tobacco Ad From Richmond Virginia
An advertisement for Mastiff tobacco by J Thrace Tobacco Co of Richmond Virginia touts a pure plug that does not bite the tongue and is free from foreign mixture. It claims greater solid comfort in one package than appears in many others, packed in can vas pouches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
J. Thrace Tobacco Co
Richmond
Unclear medical advice on liver oil and consumption risks
The fragment discusses liver oil as a remedy and warns against consumption dangers related to thinness and consumption fears. It mentions sending a book on careful living and anemia, with references to a supplier and vague health claims. The text is garbled with misspellings and unclear origins.
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Seow
Carheul
Pasteur and Vermeuil Debate Disease Between Man and Beast
A 19th century discussion describes Pasteur's theories and M Vermeuils stance on tetanus, claiming a virulent disease can transfer from horses to humans and may be cured in Dominalist subjects. Warns horse owners to isolate and bury deceased animals carefully if illness strikes.
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M. Pasteur
M. Vermeutl
Verneuil
M. Vernenil
Hin
M. Vemenis
Military education for draft officers in various stations
The article describes thorough military education with nine antitary echoes at several places. It notes age based entry, exams, and progression to corps without formality, plus advanced studies at Berlin War Academy for lieutenants and captains. It also mentions schools for artillery, marksman, and other war services, and railroad station committees ready for mobilization.
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Pretedor
Koln
Waalidstadt
Koneborg
Poe
Oratienstein
Lichtorfol
Deewlen Amd Vanich
Eeor
Drea
Berlin
War Academy
Lentenante
Captaina
Sefele
Artillery
Markemaneliy Cite
Elding
Ami Rileed
The Doctor's Fee and a Train Snore Tale
A noted late doctor on the Michigan Central trips often, while en route to Marshall, Mich, slept loudly enough to rouse fellow passengers. Conductor Harris woke him during an approach to Marshall and teased that his snoring aided a would be attacker, prompting the doctor to relocate to another car. The anecdote blends travel mishap with a comic exchange on a sleepy journey.
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Janie A. Hahn
Michigan Central Road
Chicago
Marshall
Mich
Hank” Harris
Harris
Maria
Stone Fights in Corea Attract Public Amusement
In Seoul's eastern districts stone fights replace kite flying as the chief pastime. Mobs of fifty to a hundred clash with clay and wooden clubs, shields of cloaks raised, amid cheers from spectators. Villages along the river engage in ongoing feuds, with sudden flips in fortune and occasional fatalities reported.
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Seoul
Old wedding customs and parliamentary quips cited
In England a ring and button fortune telling wedding fate. the ring signals a next bride, the button an old maid, the tag a magical toast. A 300 year old parliamentary anecdote shows Lord Bacon’s era if speakers answer Queen Elizabeth with wit about seven weeks of sessions.
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England
Mghuselis
Lord Bacon
Popham
House of Commons
Queen Elizabeth
House of Commors
Dist Wie Neat Colloquy on Teaching Career
A light tone note praising a teacher’s career with playful misspellings and quirky phrasing. Mentions Birches and beet stroke, reflecting a local, informal bulletin style from a Burlington Free Pro context. No clear dates or participants beyond the speaker.
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Burlington
Not Very Far A Distance Measured By Grief
A speaker reflects on death and longing as a beloved seems near in memory yet remains distant. Refrains echo that the departed have not journeyed far, yet grief measures a distance beyond physical space, as dream-revived loved ones return while the heart holds its own laws.
Thermo magnetic generator proposed by Menges of The Hague
An Arkansaw Traveler note reports M. Menges developing a thermo magnetic device to convert heat to electricity. It builds on Edison style pyro magnetic ideas, claiming automatic heating and cooling changes and temperature independent armature cores as key advantages.
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M. Menges
The
Hague
Edison
Arkansaw Traveler
Signal systems at sea and distress communications urged
Tear Admiral Colomb notes defective signaling in the channel citing a disaster and explains the Board of Trade bans mercantile ships from naval signal speech. He urges a universal distress signal that attracts attention and conveys the nature of the danger, as discussed in Chambers Journal.
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Colomb
Board of Trade
Mercantile Marine
Chambers’ Journal
Kalamazoo Youth Aims for Twelve-String Guitar Revival
A Kalamazoo young man has built a nine-string guitar and claims it improves the traditional instrument. He is now designing a twelve-string model and expects charming results from the new approach, according to the Chicago Times.
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Kalamazoo
Chicago Times
St Jacobs Oil Cited By Several For Rheumatic Pain Relief
A string of readers from Brooklyn to Perryopolis praise St Jacobs Oil for quick relief of rheumatic and rheumatic related pains. Testimonials describe recovery from swollen joints and back pain after internal and topical use, with one man noting renewed mobility after years of stiffness.
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Pate
T. J. Murphy
Debevelie Pt
Brooklyn
S. V
St Jacobs Owl
Mies Cliru Alcott
Mahwah
N.L
St. Jacobs
St. Ja Pols
A. H. Cunningham
Perryopolis
Fayette County
Common Ailments and Remedies Promoted in Advertisements
An 1890s style ad discussion touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a fix for nervousness indigestion and general debility, claims it nourishes the system and prevents illness. It also mentions Brown's Bronchial Troches for coughs and throat disorders and notes the eyes as windows of the soul when pain is present.
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Brown
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Promises Women’S Health
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a legitimate nonalcoholic tonic for women. It claims to restore health and vigor, cure functional irregularities and uterine issues, and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfying.
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Coram
Harpers
Stone
Corea
Boston Herald
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Porter
India
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London
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August Flower
A. M. Weed
Bellefontaine St
Indianapolis
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Toledo
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Gleason
Hall
Teaener
Oregon
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Quimby Hovse
Pacific Coast
Quimby & Edwards
T. A. Blecem
Nerth Caroina
Lot
Bellamy
North Carolina
St Jacous
Muadling
Childres
Foe
Saxony
Wrige
Smith’s Cash Store
San Francisco
Cal
California Street
San Frandisen
Winter & Harper
Morrison Street
Lock Stark Bros
Louisiana
SUNY
P. Harold Havas
M.D
Buffalo,n.y
Judson
Dynamite & Powder CO
California ST
J. McCraken & CO
LV Floche Harbor
Portland
Golden Gate
Hale
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Portland Seed Co
F. W. Miller
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Eeese
Mountain Budster
the Prince
Closset & Devers
Po Morphine
HABIT
Sure Cure
Frazer Axle
Mr Tently
Tye Evans
Erick Sree
F. L. Posson
D. M. ‘Ferry
Osson
Moore
Remedy
Samuel Wilson
Mechanicsville
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NEV
Colu
Cole
Ries
Mopurdar
A. W
Alila
Vhristi Second
E. Chu
Sunda
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Sarrow
Dw Ferries
Cour and Milwauki
E. P. Rogee
Ross
Rosenthal
Dean
Dee
March
Dea
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