Beauty Is Blood Deep and the Liver’s Tone
An old promotional alert links beauty to clean blood and a lively liver. It promotes Casecret Cathartic candies as a quick natural remedy to purify blood, improve digestion, and prevent blemishes. The ad claims the product tones bowels, kills disease germs, and improves complexion, urging readers to buy or request a free sample from Sterling Remedy Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
Montreal
Can
New York
Omaha
State Medical Company
Neb
Perfume in Olden Times and Ancient Attitudes
A historical note on perfume use in ancient societies. Solon in Athens banned sale, Lycurgus laws expelled perfumers in Sparta, and Roman leaders restricted exports. Philosophers like Socrates warned against excess while festivals featured alabaster boxes and scented banquets. Slaves freshened halls with Babylonian perfumes.
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London Society
Solon
Athens
Julius Caesar
Lucinius
Sparta
Clearchus
Socrates
Cynrhus
Hercules
The Making of the Nation and Other Atlantic Pieces
The July Atlantic features Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton with The Making of the Nation, and E. L. Godkin on The Decline of Legislatures. Also included are John Sterling and the Sterling and Emerson Correspondence and other notable articles.
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Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
E. L. Godkin
the Nation
John Sterling
Sterling
Emerson
Barefoot Time and Summer Joy Across the Block
Whimsical verse from Cincinnati Commercial Tribune praising barefoot days and early morning wanderings, celebrating children enjoying dew soaked grass as summer nears. Mentions Kneipp cure advocates in a playful regional quip.
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Kneipp
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Grain-O New Grain Drink Supplants Coffee
Promote Grain-O as a coffee substitute for all ages with a rich mocha like color yet made from pure grains. Claims it suits delicate stomachs and costs 15 or 25 cents per package and is sold by all grocers. Ends with Goethe quote about life’s value.
No To Bao tobacco quit aid ad
Quack style tobacco cessation pitch promises easy, permanent quitting with No To Bao. Claims to make users energetic and vigorous and offers booklet and sample via Etekling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York. Judge tainting the scene with a slang end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etekling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Lake Erie
Lake Chautauqua
Niagara Falls
Thousand Islands
St. Lawrence River
Adirondacks
Lake George
New England
Boston
Great Lakes
Cleveland
Sandusky
Toledo
Detroit
Benton Harbor
Mt. Clemens
Mackinac
Michigan
St. Louis
Bio
Chinese Emperor’s English Lesson Ends In Mockery
The Chinese emperor, learning English, asked a visiting Taotai if he knew the language. The Taotai answered yes and faced a rapid flood of phrases. He bowed awkwardly, provoking the emperor to scold him for relying on a borrowed reputation and require study with an English book for years.
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China
North China Daily News
Liu
Nanking
Li Taotai
England
Taotai
Tack mystery ends as lights go out in Oaterville
In Oaterville a dweller and his wife search with two lamps for a missing tack to finish a curtain. After lighting is extinguished the wife, barefoot, takes three steps and discovers the tack at the third step, uttering a smothered cry. Washington Times reports.
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Louisa
Oaterville
Washington Times
Burglary Foiled as Jones Chases Thief by Candlelight
In a Pick Me Up item, Jones wakes to a noise, lights a candle, and catches a burglar fleeing with a full sack. The thief returns a sly quip, but Jones retrieves a silver candlestick before the intruder slips away, asking if anything else is forgotten.
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Jones
Fiello
Pick-Me-Up Dinner Silence Sparks Curiosity
A fragment hints at a dining scene with quoted exchanges about a decanter. The lines suggest a social setting where a person plans to have another drink after dinner, leaving readers to guess the broader context.
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised as foot comfort powder
Shake Into Your Shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease relieves painful swollen smarting feet and corn bunion sting. It makes tight shoes feel easy, cures sweating and callouses, and eases tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, 25c by mail, trial package free. Address Allen Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
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Allen
There Isn’t Any Argument Worth Speaking Of
A Washington Star quip captures a theatergoer greeting after the first act. The elder asks for the play’s argument and the manager replies there isn’t one worth speaking of at the moment, joking that such pauses occur on salary day.
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Washington Star
Colorado Springs via Burlington Route Rambles Night Train
Travel ad details a Chicago to Colorado Springs and Pueblo via Denver sleeping car service on the Burlington Route. Daily train from Chicago at 10 30 p m connects through Denver with arrangements at 211 Clark Street office.
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Colorado Springs
Burlington
Denver
Pueblo
Burlington Houte
Chicago
Clark St
Golf Joke From the New York Times
An old NYT quip notes golf resembles a butcher shop as both feature links and sausages. The witticism plays on the word link and the familiar sausage imagery.
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New York Times
Educate Your KRowels with Cascareta Candy Cathartic
A quip cites a German author and a product claim about relieving constipation, noting a money refund by druggists. The text reads like a dubious promotional line with a cautionary motto and nonsensical abbreviations.
Bulldog and Bull Fight Ends With Fatal Bull Wounding
Moncriff Florida dispatch describes a brutal pen battle between a bull and a large bulldog named Dick. The bull repeatedly charged, the dog inflicted and endured severe wounds, and finally the bull was shot by handlers. Dick bore a broken leg and lacerations yet remained undaunted. He was transported to Jacksonville and reported doing well.
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Moncriff Springs
Fla
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Jacksonville
Metal lath innovations and expanding lath growth
The article traces metal lathing from sheet-iron strips and perforated sheets to wire netting and expanded metal lathing. It notes patents, rising US sales above a million dollars annually, and the pursuit of greater stiffness with lighter metal, including machines that expand and corrugate sheets for stronger yet lighter lathes.
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United States
Governor Atkinson recounts convict camp visit in Cochran parlor tale
The governor narrated a story from his recent inspection of convict camps during his Hawkinsville Chautauqua trip. He described descending into coal mines with two guards, meeting a former acquaintance among the convicts who cried out, recognizing him as Bill Atkinson. The tale was shared with admirers in a Cochran hotel parlor.
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Governor Atkinson
Gov
Atkinson
Cochran
Hawkinsville
Bill Atkinson
Bill
Jackson
Argus
The Fork’s Nine Hundred Year Seduction Begins
A history traces the fork from its first known appearance in Europe about 900 years ago. In 995 a Venetian wedding produced a silver fork and gold spoon, inspiring noble families to adopt the utensil. By 1379 forks had reached France, and in 1608 a traveler brought it to England.
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Europe
Pietro Orsolo
Venice
Argila
Italy
France
England
Carrying Out the Rule in a Comical Exchange
A Boston Post excerpt depicts an excited wife informing a professor that the cook has fallen and broken her collar bone. The professor responds with a blunt order to discharge her, remarking that she was warned about further injuries.
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Boston Post
Barred from Russia Jew banker Adolph Kutner
Adolph Kutner, a prominent Californian and San Joaquin Valley banker, refused entry to Russia due to political and religious convictions. Immigrant from Russia fifty years ago, he built wealth in Fresno and other cities, funded the first schoolhouse in Fresno, chairs major commercial houses, and remains a leading donor to family relief while maintaining extensive bank holdings in multiple California towns.
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Dolph Kutner
Russia
Golden State
United States
California
San Francisco
Kutner
Fresno
San Joaquin Valley
Hanford
Selma
Fowler
Sanger
Madeira
Adolph Kutner
Europe
Germany
Gublen
Rock-cut churches of Lalibela and Karli across Asia
Remarkable rock cut churches in Lalibela Abyssinia show six structures carved in the twelfth century by five hundred workers under an Egyptian superintendent. The similar Bombay temple complex required forty years and forty thousand workers. Karli in India features another famed rock church considered a great Asian wonder.
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Abyssinia
India
Lalibela
Ciy
Bombay
Karli
Asia
A Curious Store In Bainbridge Ohio A Peculiar General Store
In Bainbridge Geauga County Ohio near Cleveland lies a curiously large country general store run by a hermitlike widower. He kept prices high after the Civil War hoping for a boom, refuses to discount, and still stocks goods long past their value. He airs the shop daily and offers to sell at his asking prices even for vintage calico bought in 1867.
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Chicago Tribune
Bainbridge
Geauga County
Ohio
Cleveland
Morris Brothers: Remarkable Hale Brothers 306 Years Old
Punxsutawney residents celebrate four Morris brothers totaling 306 years with James Madison 82 Theodore 78 C R B 76 and J B 70. They are farmers, Cumberland Presbyterian, Democrats and Populists, living in harmony with strong community esteem.
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Hale
Punxsutawney
Morris Brothers
James Madison
Northampton County
Theodore
J. M
Jefferson County
Lhe
J. B
A Visit to Tolstoi
A brief, aristocratic vignette describes visiting Tolstoy as guests being tolerated rather than invited. The narrator notes the family’s comfortable living, the restraint of removing outer wraps only in the anteroom, a man awaiting to collect them, and a son playing quietly on the piano as they enter and bow.
Rock-cut church features in Knaresborough Yorkshire
A description notes a nave 124 feet long and 45 feet wide with 46 feet height, aisles flanked by octagonal pillars. Elephants adorn pillar capitals with kneeling figures of divinities, thirty eight columns, and the grand iron pillar with sixteen sides. The entire chapel is hewn from solid rock, a rare spectacle in England at Knaresborough.
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Knaresborough
Yorkshire
England
UK Tobacco Use Trails Behind Continental Smokers
The article notes yearly tobacco consumption rising in Britain but lagging behind neighbors. It lists Hungary? Actually Holland leads with 100 ounces per person annually, Belgium 180 ounces, Turkey 70, United States 60, with Germany France Spain Italy nearby, and the United Kingdom comparatively low.
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United Kingdom
Holland
Turkey
United States
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Hens Used to Hatch Fish in China
A report describes using hens to hatch fish by placing spawn in sealed egg shells. The hen nests over the shells, nurturing them with maternal care. After several days the shells are removed and the hatched life is transferred to a swallow pool for growth.
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China
Cordial Russian official greets travelers in Moscow room
The narrator describes a meeting with Telstoi who welcomes the party in Russia. Telstoi asks about origins, notes their Berlin studies, and expresses curiosity about foreigners. He appears tall, stooped, wearing peasant dress, with a long beard and fine eyes, and he remarks he does not consider himself a perfect Christian.
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Telstoi
Russia
Berlin
Costly Tiny Boat From A Single Pearl
A Turin jeweler crafts a miniature boat from a single pearl with a gilded sail and diamond studding. The hull is finely formed, the binnacle light a ruby, rudder emerald, and ivory slab keel. Weighing under an ounce, it reportedly cost $5,000 while electric taxi ventures back Loacon expand.
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Turin
Italy
At the head of the class comment from a Providence lawyer
A story from Youth's Companion about a Providence lawyer who bristles at his son being next to the head of the class. The son returns to college with renewed effort and rises to the top, prompting the father to quip that Brown University would agree with the outcome.
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Providence
Brown University
External Change and Quick Tempers Debate
A brief dialogue questions whether blondes or brunettes have quicker tempers. Brobson claims it is a disputed issue, Craik remarks his wife has been both, and he sees no difference in temperament.
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Brobson
Craik
Every man is his own ancestor and heir quote
A philosophical line by Dr. H. F. Hedge stating that each person creates their future while inheriting their past, underscoring personal responsibility and self-determination.
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H. F. Hedge
Incident at City Hospital Prompt Medical Haste
A brief hospital scene describes a rushed hour, a pale patient, and a hasty examination as responders attend to the stretcher case. The fragment suggests an emergent medical incident unfolding in the city hospital setting.
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Wera
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THE
Tolsto
Tmimself
Tobsacco
Loacon
Mademoiselle
Journal Amusant
Lydia Ey Pinkham
Lydia I. Pinkham
Agnes Tracy
Valley City
N. D
Charles EK
Philadelphia
National Mining and Milling Co
Baltimore
Omee
Oor Sprelal
L. N. Mead Cycle CO
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Oireniarato
E. Goettsche
Mfr
Milwaukee Ave
Harmesa
Writeros Chemical Co
Broadie
John W. Morris
Washington, D.C
Pension Bureau
Luis Callally Llo
Aires
W.h.grban
Adenia
Van
Rog
Thompson
VIA
McCormick
Big Four
Cincinnati
Nebraska
P. S. Busiis
Evans Chemical Cincinnati
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Patentington, D.C
L. Deane
Prin
Pat
OmMve
Manhattan Beach Hotel
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