Radium Prospects in Medical Treatment Highlighted
The Technology Club in New York heard Dr. W J Morton discuss radium as a potential internal disease treatment. He showed a quinine solution exposed to radium that glows under X rays and suggested radiative therapy through the body. He noted radium’s promise for cancer and speculated spring waters owe curative powers to radium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Technology Club
New York
W. J. Morton
New York Postgraduate Medical School
Oregon
Europe
Linus 1
Linus II
Waddington
Baltic
White Star
C. Gutton
Hiram Maxim
Copper
Persistent but Futile Inventions Highlighted by British Inventor
The British Inventor notes many patents that fail to find demand such as self lighting cigarettes and cigars, and numerous window fasteners designed to stop outside thieves. It jokes about impractical machines like a coal hole weighing device and recalls the stubborn persistence of inventors despite lack of market appeal.
Lending a Hand in an Old Mutual Helpfulness Tale
A playful scene unfolds in a parlor as Miss Gordon and Mrs. Milburn share a domestic afternoon. The dialogue hints at social expectations and the light humor of hospitality as guests insist on helping with sewing and napkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Gordon
Mrs. Milburn
Indianapolis News
Napkin Hemming Lesson Painted by Quiet Charity
In a domestic scene from Youth's Companion, Mrs Milburn helps with napkins while Helen and the Gordons press for speed. Milburn trims, but discovers seven napkins consumed by careless sewing. Her calendar’s line about lending a hand speaks to misapplied rescue and gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrlburn
Helen
Mrs. Milburn
Mrs. Gordon
Milburn
Gordons
Barr Steals His Own Book at London Station
Robert Barr, visiting England, chased a book stall thief aboard a moving train at Euston. The thief grabbed a Barr novel but Barr, sprinting after, paid for it with his own money claiming authorship and dignity. The incident ends with Barr presenting the token of esteem to Dr. McKenzie as the train pulled away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Barr
England
Euston Station
London
Dr. McKenzie
McGill University
Liverpool
United States
Leslie
McKenzie
Barr
Mr. Barr
Mac
America
Openwork fashions and personal care tips in early 1900s
A column paints vogue for openwork lace in table linens and gowns. It offers child towel training, earbor removal via tweezers or electrolysis, and notes on posture, calm manners, and voluptuous silhouettes. It highlights Hull House Club plans and Kalamazoo civic roles, with anecdotes on neat darning and personal appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull House Woman’s Club of
Chicago
Full House
Joseph T. Bowen
Kalamazoo
Mich
Woman's Civic Improvement League
Hays
Adaptation and fashion notes shape a spring wardrobe
The article discusses using existing patterns from damask, crochet, china, and Oriental rugs for embroidery and cross stitch. It describes a cream and brown gown with brown taffeta strappings, a wide brim hat, and floral silk bands, plus trends in handkerchiefs, bracelets, and jet parasol handles as spring and summer styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Electricity as Medicine in Cancer Treatment
A Lancet report from London describes using high frequency alternating currents to drive drugs into diseased tissue. In 27 percent of cancer cases, treatment succeeded. The practitioner proposes strontium salts under cataphoresis as a potential universal cancer therapy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancet
London
Old Fashioned Marriage Announcements Highlight Fortunes
The piece notes eighteenth century marriage notices emphasizing brides fortunes. Examples cite James Coutts to Miss Peagrum with £30,000 and W Smith to Miss Ann Gardiner with £20,000. It cites Chambers Journal on Puerto Rico schooling and a claim about electric heat plant power sources. It ends with an ad for Dr Kline’s Grey Nerve Restorer offering a trial bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Coutts
Jeffny’s Square
Peagrum
Knightsbridge
W. Smith
Horse Guards
Ann Gardiner
Chanbers
Journal
American railroad travel and trip frequency
The piece notes that the average American makes twenty nine railroad trips per year. It compares trip length, and states the average American boards a train ten times more often than his English cousin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tha
Hall's Catarrh Cure touted as universal remedy
Readers told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh, a constitutional disease, by internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $1000 for any failure and promote testimonials from Toledo, Ohio. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and a note on a dig site at Presque Isle, Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
A. Caznzy & Co
Toledo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woomlen
Redfern
Indianapolis
Fichu
Puerto Rico
Kline
R.H. Kuixe
Arch St
Phila
American Railroad Travel
Presque Isle
Great
Brit
Allen’s
Olmsted
LeRoy
Samven
Ocean Grove
N. J
Signet Ring Co
Horton
Wilkesbarre
Onda
Charterhouse &Q
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Bouton
Columbus Ave
Drug & Chem. Corp
Una
Jonger
Boston
R.paxton CO
Pope Bldg
Mass
W.morris
Succese Daily
Gai
Epitichneue Baiudiestminonerme
Wimeoney
Sterling Roe
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