Million Bottles Given Free by Dr King’s Discovery
Proprietors of Dr King's New Discovery have given away over ten million trial bottles to aid the needy. The medicine is claimed to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung diseases. Free trial bottles are available from Train Cooling and Chas P Miller druggists with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and 1.00, guaranteed or money refunded.
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Dr. King
Chas. P. Miller
Express
Mackintosh
Davis
Sears, Roebuck & CQ
Chigaco, Ill
Sears
Rosbeck Fe
Sears, Roebuck & CO. (Inc
Chicago
Ill Beare, Reehu, & Co
Your Home Merchants Are Reliable and Worthy of Patronage
A concise shop note praising local merchants as dependable and deserving of customer support, urging continued patronage and trust in their goods and services.
Two Ancient Arabian Wells and Joseph's Well in Cairo
The piece describes a northwestern Arabian well with a five foot diameter and near two hundred foot depth, said to be dug by early Islamites. It also details Joseph's Well in Cairo with vertical shafts totaling 295 feet, a chamber, spiral passageway, and lifting machinery, attributed by some to Saladin.
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Arabia
Ita
Joseph
Egypt
Saladin
London in 1784 highwaymen and brass knockers cited
The 1784 book A Picture of London by M. La Combe claims highroads around London were filled with armed highwaymen and footpads, notes thefts of brass door knockers, mail arrivals were irregular, and critiques English society noting spites of rapacity, foreigners, and social changes including bold women and counterfeiters.
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M. la Combe
London
Gentleman's Magazine
First Japanese Woman Applies for Naturalization in U S
The New York Tribune reports Miss Mine Harada, a 36 year old unmarried Japanese woman, as the first to seek naturalization papers in the United States. She signed her name clearly, gave Tokio as her birthplace, and required an interpreter for the oath. She has lived in this country six years.
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Japan
New York Tribune
Samuel D. Edick
United States Circuit Court
Federal Building
Mine Harada
Tokio
Auction Finds at Stevens Rooms Civilian Curiosities
A collection from British New Guinea antiquities and relics drew bids at Stevens Auction Rooms Covent Garden London. A bronze head of an ancient Benin king sold for £18 7s 6d a mummy of an Egyptian princess in an elaborate coffin went for seven guineas native skulls with notched designs averaged 30s8d each and carved charms worn in combat brought five guineas.
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British New Guinea
Stevens’ Auction Rooms
Covent Garden
London
Benin
Curious wedding revelry shocks County Armagh crowd
An 80 year old bridegroom and a 28 year old bride in County Armagh Ireland were the focus of a wedding celebration that ended in mischief. The crowd tossed the elderly groom into a flax pond and set the bride’s clothing on fire. The bride’s condition is reported as critical.
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County Armagh
Ireland
Coal price offer and colonial medical testimonial
GB Patrick advertises winter coal supplies with volume discounts and carload options from Austin Avenue and Lake Street. A Bechuanaland military note praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy used by Capt. C. G. Dennison and his troops, sold by Trail and Cooling.
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Co. B. Patrick
Austin’ Avenue
Lake Street
Austin 1652
Africa
C. G. Dennison
Galishe
Vryburg
Bechuanaland
Chamberlain
Trail
Home Made Philosophy and the Price of Civilized Life
A satirical monologue criticizes pretended piety and social pretensions. The speaker laments gullible readers and wasted lives while mocking civic and national hypocrisy. He questions civilization, liberty, and the pull of wealth, warning against blind worship of flag and church.
Dwarfs and Dwarfs in Royal Courts Through History
The article recounts historic dwarfs linked to monarchs and nobles. It notes Mary Tudor and John Jervis admired as tiny figures, with figures like Canopus Andromeda Ladislas and Sir Jeffery Hudson noted for service, wit, or royal favor. It mentions Gibson, a dwarf artist, and Hudson’s knightly presentation in a pie.
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Mary Tudor
John Jervis
Marcus Antonius
Sisyphus
Julia
Augustus
Canopus
Andromeda
Christian II
Denmark
Poland
Ladislas the Short
Charles II
Richard Gibson
Anne Shepherd
Gibson
Henrietta Maria
Jeffery Hudson
France
Memory and desire quote on memory and failure
A reflective musing contrasts memory with regret and the fate of those who fail to obtain their wishes. It notes that those with great memory may remember things they'd rather forget and imagines a world where all who fail to achieve their desires perish.
Reflections Of A Widower In A Streetcar
A widower muses on aging vanity in a crowded streetcar. He jokes about teeth hair and wasteful trousers while noting a younger woman offering him a seat and a 35 year old Miss Rinkill. He ponders changing tailors and face massages.
Gems from Joubert
A concise meditation on human limits and pleasures. It asserts that our incapacities irritate us and that youth and experience define a person. It notes that fearing pleasure is nobler than despising it and suggests love reduces self pity while joy fades with age.
Scented Water for the Table and Finger Bowls
A society trend favors scented water in finger bowls to accompany dining. Odor must be very faint with verbena leaf or perfume tablets as alternatives. If flowers adorn the table the finger bowl aroma should match the flower’s fragrance.
Electric Bitters Revive Run-Down Idaville Man
Brave men fall to stomach liver and kidney troubles and fatigue yet Electric Bitters offer relief says J W Gardner of Idaville Indiana He reports renewed strength appetite and vitality after using the remedy priced at 50 cents with guarantees and available at local drug stores Traill Cooling and Chas P Miller.
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J. W. Gardner
Idaville
Ind
Traill & Cooling’s
Chas. P. Miller's
Chamberlain's Pain Balm Attracts Martyr of Relief
Adolph L Millett of Manchester New Hampshire reports nine years of shoulder pain ended by one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm after trying many doctors and medicines. Traill and Cooling Drugists offer the remedy.
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Chamberlain
Adolph L. Millett
Manchester
N. H
Traill & Cooling
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