Dueling as a Lost Art and Its Absurd Advice
An Army and Navy Illustrated piece critiques a book praising dueling. It notes 65 duels spurred anonymous authors and mocks methods from Purdey locks to sideways stances, absurd risk estimates, and lavish coping tactics. It argues the essay defends dueling while parading discredited notions of honor and necessary violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Daniel O’connell
James Silk Buckingham
Byron
Childe Harold
Campaign Quip Sparks Chicago Tribune Mockery
A fragment quotes a campaign jab about “ten-centers” and a voter quip about forgetting to register, attributed to a Chicago Tribune exchange. The snippet highlights playful political theater and registration frustration in a city electoral context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis
Outfort
Chicago Tribune
Maywood Social Club scene and local notes
Local items report convalescent patients at a Dr Henson clinic, social club activities, a boxing draw between Gray and O Brien, and gratitude for Mason after a charity euchre. Mrs Inness plans to quit city dressmaking for home work, the Maywood choir, and a discussion on building a church school and library. The column also notes fashion advice on white wear for middle age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I'reda Gray
Maywood
Messrs. Gray
O'Brian
Librar
First M. E. Church Austin Announces Sunday Schedule
The First Methodist Church of Austin with Rev. A. M. White as pastor lists Sunday programs including 9:30 class meeting 10:30 morning sermon 12:00 Sunday school 3:30 Junior League 6:15 Epworth League 7:30 evening sermon. Wednesday 7:45 midweek prayer service. Morning sermon title The Lord Seeking a Dwelling Place evening In the Beginning God. All services in Library hall with Wednesday evengelistic effort led by the pastor. Corner of Ohio Street and Central Avenue. Special invitation to skeptics for Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. EB
Church of Austin
A. M. White
Epworth League
Library Hall
Ohio Street
Central Avenue
Oak Park W C T U Meeting On The Ideal Home
Mrs Chauncey J L Williams read a paper before Oak Park W C T U members at the reading rooms on Lake Street Friday January 20 at 3 p m The subject was The Ideal Home All ladies of Oak Park and vicinity invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey JL. Williams
Lake Street
Oak Park
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Quick Healing
Advertises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for eruptions, skin ailments, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, warts, cuts, burns, scalds, chapped hands, and chilblains. Claims best pile cure and pain relief with a 26 cent price. Sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller, druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P Miller
Laundry and music instruction offered in city ads
An assortment of personals ads promotes laundry service by Tomis at 203 N Park Ave and B Kellogg & Sweep at Park Ave and Ontario Street. Music instruction is available from Miss Jessie E Davis at 5435 Ohio Street. Also advertised are fresh meats, shellfish, and oysters from Kellogg & Sweep's market with Cicero phone 227.
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A. H. Loomis
N. Park Avenue
Jessie E. Davis
Ohio Street
Try Ouri
Kellogg & Sweep
Norway Enacts Youth Tobacco Sales Ban At Sixteen
A new Norwegian law prohibits selling tobacco to anyone under sixteen without adult consent. Tourists who offer cigarettes to youths face prosecution. Police may confiscate pipes cigars and cigarettes from youths who smoke publicly with fines ranging from two shillings to five pounds.
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Norway
Tremont 5 Cent Cigar and Roath’s Cheaper Horse Brushes
Smoke the Tremont 5 cent cigar advertised at 5638 Ohio street by Op. J. Roath. Roath's Feed Store also sells horse brushes cheaper than at the fair. Roath operates at 5638 Ohio street with telephone number 46. Hay and grain offered at the same address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Street
Op. J. Roath
HAY and Grain
Bavarian Project Produces Soaplike Fuel Bricks
In Bavaria officials describe a process turning solidified petroleum into soap like bricks by heating soda lye fat and oil for an hour then cooling. Sawdust or other combustible may be mixed to form brick shaped fuel with a smoky flame.
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Bavaria
Miller's Drug Store Ad in Oak Park
Miller's Drug Store at 206 Lake Street promotes Home Bakery bread and a range of remedies including Miller's Columbian Cough Syrup and Cold Capsules for coughs and colds with a general grocer mention for the bread and photo supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller's Drug Store
Miller’s
Lake Street
BISMARCK''S IRON NERVE AND HEALTH CLAIMS
An ad extols Dr King''s New Life Pills as boosting brain and body power. It notes 25 cent price at local drug stores and promotes wellness as key to success while promoting land reclamation projects in North Germany near Frisian islands under Prussian supervision.
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Dr. King
Traill & Cooling’s
Chas. P. Miller’s
North
Germany
North Sea
The
Netherlands
Learning a Foreign Language Through a Cold
Miss Gertrude wakes with red eyes and a swollen nose claiming a cold. She jokes that the nasal sound in French improves with illness, demonstrating a humorous belief in bodily affliction aiding language mastery.
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Gertrude
Tray Beong
Heat and Cold on the Moon
Prof. F. W. Very reports new experiments on lunar temperatures. He states that lunar rocks outside the polar regions glow in sunlight with temperatures above boiling water, while the night drops near absolute zero, creating a desert of extreme heat and cold every fortnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Very
Fish in Hudson Bay Builds Nest with Pebbles
Four fish found in Hudson Bay exhibit nest building by carrying pebbles in their mouths and dropping them in a regular pattern on a shallow bottom. The behavior mirrors known nest construction in some fish species and suggests deliberate territorial or reproductive activity.
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Hudson Bay
The Club Woman At Pike's Peak Visit
The Club Woman recounts a party of women touring Pike's Peak guided by a knee breeched youth who yells boulder and stream names. Asked why the Lion's Mouth exists he replies he does not know, only that his job is to holler the names as they near the summit.
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Pike’s Peak
Story of a Slave Becomes Free Through Bitters Aid
George D. Williams of Manchester Michigan recounts his wife’s long illness and paralysis relief after using two bottles of Elec tric Bitters. The ad touts the remedy as a cure for female diseases nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches backaches fainting and dizzy spells. Each bottle guaranteed priced at 60 cents sold by Traill Cooling and Chas P
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George D. Williams
Manchester
Mich
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P. Miller
Butterfly remark sparks dressing room ructions in Pick-Me-Up
A playful remark about a butterfly called an elated lady triggers giggles as a woman ages herself to 30. Her friend notes the butterfly name while the dressing room scene erupts in mild ructions, hinting at social friction within the scene.
The Constitution Promotes Weekly Alliance With The Weekly Constitution
Atlanta publication touts joint subscriptions with The Weekly Constitution claiming the larger circulation of the western hemisphere. It highlights Spain era reporting, staff writers like Joel Chandler Harris, and agricultural pages led by Colonel R J Redding. It invites readers to adopt county papers and sample copies.
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Constitution
Atlanta
Hemisphere
George P. Rowell
Newspaper
Directory
United States
Spain
Tampa
Cuba
Santiago
Caribbean Sea
Washington
Capitol
Dewey
Manila
Bagley
Cervera
Porto Rico
Morro Castle
Havana
R. J. Redding
Georgia Experiment Farm
William King
The
Joel Chandler Harris
Frank L. Stanton
Wallace P. Reed
Bill Arp
Sarge Plunkett
Betsy Hamilton
Dr. Talmage
Clark Howell
W. A. Hemphill
Virginia
Texas
South
Russian Ambassador Purchases Medival Marble Bust
Dmitri Schevitch the Russian ambassador in Madrid, famed collector, has acquired a medieval marble bust known as Christ with the Blue Eyes from a village church near Valladolid. The eyes appear to be rock crystal and the piece is believed Italian from the early Renaissance era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dmitri Schevitch
Madrid
Valladolid
First American coal fields found in Richmond in 1750
The earliest coal fields discovered in America were bituminous deposits at Richmond Virginia dating to 1750. This declares the historical milestone with geographic and temporal precision.
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America
Richmond
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