Dr P D Carper to Visit Newton Saturday
An celebrated surgeon and specialist for chronic diseases will diagnose cases at the Churchill in Newton this Saturday July 24 1897. He claims the largest practice in the western states and offers free preliminary advice with treatment only if needed. He warns that medicines alone cannot achieve change and cites nerves digestion liver kidneys stomach and blood disorders among his targets.
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Chicago
Carper
Carpers
Tick Lowndes the King of the Fakirs Travel Debunker
Washington corresp. describes Tick Lowndes once known as the king of the fakirs who jostled crowds with a gold watch gimmick and claimed a globe trotter life. He recounts trades across Russia France South America Fiji and Mexico selling cosmetics soaps perfume beans and whitening tonics while noting opposition from authorities and locals.
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Tick Lowndes
Philelphia
Lowndes
Globe
Moses P. Handy
Tick
Pandora
Russia
Russian Empire
France
Boston
Cologne
Patagonia
South America
Fiji Islands
Washington Cor
New York Sun
Chasing the Lost Child by a Bloodhound on Weston Sands
A bloodhound and its master lead a detached woman to a missing boy along Weston super Mare sands. The dog follows a scent, bays through streets, and finally reunites boy with mother, the hunter and hunted ending as friends. The boy longs for the dog as a future possession.
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Weston super-Mare
Oxi
Ind
Hunter
Hunted
Nature's Cycle Path Fitted For Wheelin
Grace Wickham Curran writes in St. Nicholas about cycling along natural beach and shore paths from Cedar Point near Sandusky Bay to Cleveland, noting wind rain and wave shape the route as a long, miles wide cycle path. The piece praises the leisure ride along the southern Lake Erie shore as a summer delight.
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Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Cedar Point
Sandusky Bay
Cleveland
Grace Wickham Curran
St. Nicholas
Cost of foreign zoological gardens and local mentions
The report lists annual maintenance costs for major foreign zoos led by Berlin at 187 500 and Antwerp 136 800 with other cities such as Amsterdam London Cologne Rotterdam Hanover and Paris cited. It also notes Washington and Philadelphia parks at 50 000 each.
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Berlin
Antwerp
Amsterdam
London
Cologne
Rotterdam
Hanover
Paris
Washington
Philadelphia
Vigilant firemen save comrades amid deadly Chambers Street blaze
The New York Sun reports on firemen saved from a zero temperature cellar blaze on Chambers Street where about 40 men were rescued. A clear system keeps track of each company’s members, ensuring swift casualty tracing and rescue within chaotic conditions. The piece praises the department’s discipline and courage that prevent further losses.
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Fede
Chambers Street
Jones
Smith
Stith
New York Sun
Bone and sinew and the wages of war
An ironic jumble of quotations traces misunderstandings in wartime discourse. The prime minister seeks victory through sinews of war while a private secretary and foreign misinterpretations add unintended humor about bones, captions, and cables.
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Himelf
Harness and Pumping Equipment Headline
Short fragment lists Sadi in pumps, wells, windmills, tanks, towers, pipe, hose and related gear. It appears as a catalog heading or ad fragment from a historical news page. Entities include Wells and Windmills with generic equipment items.
The Chicago Record Reputation and Availability
Three opinions praise The Chicago Record as nearly the ideal daily journal. Quotations from Harrisburg, New York, and Evanston extol its newspaper quality and broad accessibility. Subscriptions are sold by newsdealers and postmasters at 182 Madison Street.
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America
Chicago Record
New York
Chicago
Prof
J. T. Hatfield
Evanston
Checago Record
Madison St
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D. Carfer
Newt
Churchill, Newton
P. D. Carper
Chicago, Ill
Tors
Harrows
Nature
Papa
Ethel
Philadelphia Times
Warwick
Midlands
Keats
Fanny Browne
Tyne
Newcastle
Nice
Raminguo
New York Times
Sorgh Om
Abdul Aniz
Abdul Aziz
Cultan
Turkey
Victoria
Cleveland Leader
Hargrave's
East Site Square
W. J. Yarham
Sadi
Wells
Axtell & Cox
Harrisburg
Cail
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