Laryngitis Attacks All Ages With Varying Severity
A detailed medical overview explains laryngitis as inflammation of the larynx mucosa affecting all ages. It notes greater danger for children including risk of croup, triggers like wet feet and dust, and that adults suffer from overuse of the voice. Treatment combines local cleansing with physician guided sedative and astringent applications.
Opening courtship tale in Ma Gran place
Terence Corcoran woos Widow Healy in a tedious pursuit as she mocks his lack of resolve. He considers volunteering as a soldier after reading a newspaper pageant account. The widow disputes his pluck and warns him away while urging him to speak his mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Healy
Terence Corcoran
Magran Place
Terence
Hours of the Day and Ancient Timekeeping
The piece explains ancient time division into twelve daylight and twelve night hours adopted by Jews and Greeks from Babylonians. Rome marked hours with sundials from 293 BC and used public criers before water clocks. England varied in early time measurement with candle-based methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
L. Papirius Cursor
Temple of
Quirinus
England
New York American
Hungry Train Lunch Fails Five Children On Trip
An Atchison woman calculated a train lunch for three boys and two girls. She planned thirty ham sandwiches twenty bread and butter sandwiches forty cookies two glasses of jelly two dozen deviled eggs a four layer cake and three pies. From 8 am to 6 pm no crumbs remained two boys grew gaunt and two children died before the train reached its destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Atchison Globe
Brouthers Plays Prank on Birthday Party Night
The crowd roared as Dan Brouthers, Detroit's famed first baseman, staged a trick during a Saturday doubleheader. He pretended to be injured by a fly ball then quietly snuck to catch a train for a birthday party, only to be chased back by Charles Byrne. The gag backfired when Brouthers missed his train but received a candle cake at the game and a week of ribbing from fans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Brouthers
Detroit Nine
Brouthers
Charles H. Byrne
Nalion
Byrne
Depot
George Jean Nathan
Harper’s Weekly
The Careful Sentry Sheds Boots on Stable Duty
A young private on guard at C squad stables vanishes from sight until a rustle reveals him asleep in a straw pile with boots off. He explains he removed them to avoid waking the horses under the sergeant’s rounds, a response met with disbelief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The Widow's Dimples in Mourning
A beauty doctor recalls a widow who wants to hide her three dimples during mourning. He argues such a natural charm cannot be hidden and she admits it appears frivolous to smile with dimples in sorrow. The exchange highlights social expectations for widowed women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
The Swift Passage of Time in William Sturgis Wisdom
A New York architect reflects on time’s rapid march and aging vanity in a quotation about a barber shop remark heard by Russell Sturgis. The anecdote contrasts the old worker’s thoroughness with a younger barber, illustrating changing standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sturgis
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alex Smith
Axminster
Mohican
Burlington Brussels
Fixth
Brussels
Madras
W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
Baird’s
Baird
BE. C. Baird
Yamhill Electric CO
Telephone
Washington Star
Lowney
Lynn B. Ferguson
Apple
Chas. K. Spaulding Log. Co
United States National
Newberg
J. L. Hoskins
L. Parrett
J. C. Colcord
W. E. Crozer
The
ACME
Allen-Reynolds Hardware Co
Newberg, Or