Free Medical Diagnosis Offered By Munyon’s Clinic
A fragmented clipping advertises free medical examination blanks for home mailing and diagnosis by Munyon’s doctors, promising no obligation and prompt results. It includes a Philadelphia address and urges immediate submission for a thorough, free evaluation.
Nathan Thorpe's Examination for a Maine School Job
A seventeen year old, tall farm youth seeks the Swamp Hollow teaching post in Farmingdale Maine. Supervisor Daggett conducts an improvised barn exam while Captain Daggett insists on practical measurement methods. Nathan’s clever use of geometry earns him a certificate after pressure from the captain and a softened stance from the supervisor.
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Swamp Hollow
Nathan Thorpe
Mr. Thorpe
Nathan
Farmingdale
Millett
Jeff Baggett
Jeti
Dan'n Daossett
Jet
Aary
Walnut Hill Academy
Jeff
Aszetl
Greenleaf
Daegett
Cartin
Natthan
Daggett
Jef Dagegett
Mr. Millett
Maine
Thorpe
Editor probes silver half dollar and certificates claims
A Kansas editor asks an informant to confirm rumors about the head designs on new silver coins and future certificates. The exchange touches Lincoln on a half dollar, Cleveland on a ten dollar note, and Grant on a fifty dollar bill, ending with a lighthearted farewell.
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Kansas
Lincoln
Cleveland
Grant
Goodby
Kansas City Journal
German marriages decline from 1007 to 1998
Official statistics show a decrease in marriages in Germany from 213,000 in 1907 to 302,000 in 1998. The fragment also references a London humor line about a factory and double blanks.
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London
Germany
Coffee to Postum Switch Helps Telegraph Worker
A 12 year telegraph clerk recounts relief after quitting coffee and tobacco and switching to Postum. He notes immediate health improvement, regains appetite, and says he can eat anything now. Letter promotes Postum with testimonial tone and claims of digestion benefits.
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Wellvilla
Animals Suffer From Extreme Heat Says Nature Lover
In extreme heat both humans and wildlife suffer. Fish seek shade and deeper waters to survive heat stressed ponds and streams, birds long for cool baths, domestic fowls pant for water, cows seek shade and shaded pools, and horses and dogs endure the heat as well according to a New York sun report.
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New York Sun
Southern chivalry lingers in Florida bill on road conduct
The Chicago Post notes that a Florida Senate bill requires chauffeurs to stop and pull aside when meeting other vehicles and to assist a lady or child if the team is driven by men, along with the animals involved.
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Chicago Post
Florida
Titian’s House in Pieve and Titian Portraits in Church
Fragmentary account describes Titian related sights in Pieve del at Titian studio and village relics. It notes English visitors, a church with two Titian paintings and Vecellio family presence, and a later plague death in Venice with a move toward home. The text shifts to an advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound, praising its use for women’s health.
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Pieve
Tiziano
Titian
al ‘Progresso
Venice
Ore
Titisa
Noah
Lydia B. Pinkham
Pink
Maa
Lazargt. Helane
Nash
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Axel Orbs
Wit of the Youngsters in a Naughty Moment
A minister admonishes a child to imitate good behavior while the boy retorts in playful slang. Neighbors inquire about a mother’s health as a 4 year old glimpses a shooting star and humorously predicts trouble in heaven. A mother nostalgically laments lost youth as a 5 year old child suggestively pivots to discipline and supper.
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Tommy
Huht
Edward
Red
Bessie
Museum adds Native American exhibits for Hudson Fulton event
The American Museum of Natural History expands its Hudson Fulton exhibition with a life-size Iroquoian hut group by William Orchard and a large Iroquois Bilger collection. Highlights include silversmith works, copper and brass artifacts, stone tool progression, ceremonial masks, Trannot pottery, war and hunt implements, and human bones from Manhattan graves with oyster shell ceremonial surrounds.
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American Museum of Natural History
Hudson-Fulton
William ©. Orchard
Department of Anthropology
New York Tribune
M. R. Harrington
Trannots
Manhattan Island
Stage Manager Questions Actor’s Readiness
The stage manager asks if the actor will perform his part in the third scene. The fatherly actor has reportedly rehearsed night and day, prompting expectation of a strong showing.
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Hemeuher
Bangs
Boston Transcript
Woman Inquires After Cromwell Skull At Museums
A woman visited the British Museum and asked a attendant if they own a skull of Oliver Cromwell. The attendant replied they do not have one though she noted a fine skull in Oxford. The exchange appears in Woman's Life.
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British Museum
Cromwell
Oliver
Odal” ‘Gle
Oxford
Woman Recovers From Back Pain After Kidney Pills
Mrs. Bennett of Gardiner Maine says she suffered four months in bed with back pain dizziness headache and bladder inflammation. After taking Deans Kidney Pills for three months she was completely cured and the trouble has not returned. Sold by all dealers. 0 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y. Japanese teach Western music in Chinese schools including Shanghai based Chinese Girls School teachers recently impressed American guests with their skill on the violin and piano.
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Bennett
Fountain St
Gardiner
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Shanghai
Memoirs of Dan Rice Clown of Our Daddies
A book review notes Memoirs of Dan Rice by Maria Ward Brown promises roaring humor and caustic sketches from the Civil War era. It describes 500 pages of jests songs anecdotes and witty sayings from the sawdust arena and notes postpaid price of 1.90 from Book Publishing House New York. It also mentions a China Gazette tidbit about a Chinese family naming heirs Theodore Roosevelt Chung and William Taft on an island in the Yuba River.
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Dan Rice
Dan Filed
Maria Ward Brown
Dan “Rice
Will
Leonard Street
New York
China ‘Gazette
Lucy
Chung
Yuba River
Theodore ‘Roosevelt Chung
William Taft
Theodore
William ‘Bart
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