Diseases of wild beasts in captivity demand better diets
A Washington Star report quotes an animal importer describing widespread deaths of captive wild animals. Monkeys fall to consumption and pneumonia while herbivores die from inadequate tannin-rich food. alfalfa and prairie grasses are crucial for moose, antelope, deer, and sheep. He notes import routes via Germany and poor transit feeding.
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Washington Star
Europe
Germany
Amazon
Engagement Ends as He Enlists for China Fight
A terse broadcast notes the engagement is broken as he deserts to enlist in China. She condemns him as a coward while the rival outlet headlines the drama in terse terms.
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Young de Rocks
China
Chicago News
Deafness Cure Promised by Catarrh Treatment
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian Tube. It claims nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh deafness case not cured. Also promotes Cripple Creek gold yield estimate and various patent medicines and liniments.
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Hall
Nexey & Co
Toledo
Cripple Creek
Ayer's Hair Vigor Promises Thick Growth
An advertisement urges readers to use Ayer's Hair Vigor as the only genuine hair food. It claims hair will grow long and thick, become soft and glossy, regain color, and a clean healthy scalp will be maintained while shedding stops.
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Ayer
The Mission of Christ It Was to Teach God Is Love
Dr. Talmage expounds that the central attribute of God is love. He narrates how divine mercy moved God to send Christ to redeem a rebellious world, contrasting divine emotion with abstract doctrine and urging creed writers to foreground God’s loving nature.
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Christ
Washincton
D. C
John
Eichhorn
Thunderbolt
Heaven
Palestine
Earth
Long Island
New Jersey
Bruch
Schleiermacher
Best for the Bowels and Family Health Potions
An ad dense with patent medicines and almanac pitches. It touts Cascaners for bowel help at 10 cents, Grove’s Tasteless Chinitine for chills and fever, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tables for colds, Purseyless Dye refunds, Goose Grease for pains, and Ramon's Weather Almanac and Brown Manufacturing Co products. Also promotes almanacs and calendars for households and notes druggists stock.
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Ramon
al Service
Brown Manufacturing Co
Greeneville
Tenn
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Thousands
Endorsed as the best woman’s remedy with a long record of cures for female troubles. Cautions against dealers selling other medicines and urges readers to obtain Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
French Census 1899 births fall short of decade average
French census figures for 1899 show births at 847,627, about 10,000 below the decade average. Excess births over deaths stood at 31,394. Bertillon calls France akin to a man dying under chloroform. Germany now counts 55,090,000 inhabitants against France’s 38,000,900. Milliners in the North seek bright young women, preferring dry goods shops or stenography, but wages lure few. Indiana Federation of Labor passes a resolution to ban street railway conductors and motormen who abuse intoxicants.
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Omniscience
Bethlehem
Olivet
Pilate
Hell
Satan
Sin
Mercy
Godhard
Alexander the Great
Jerusalem
God
Alexander
Zion
Leander
Hellespont
Hero the Fair
Hellesponts
M. Bertillon
France
Germany
Bay Line Steamers Announce Semi Annual Change
Public notice announces the Bay Line steamers timing change for January 6 7. The Georgia will run a special Sunday trip January 6 from Portsmouth Norfolk and Old Point Comfort to Baltimore to connect with trains in Monumestil City. Regular schedules: Alabama from Portsmouth Norfolk and Old Point Comfort on Mon Wed Fri. Baltimore trips on Tue Thu Sat. Georgia from Portsmouth Norfolk Old Point Comfort Tue Thu Sat. Baltimore Mon Wed Fri. Descriptive pamphlets are available at railroad stations.
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Bay Line
Baltimore
Georgia
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Monumestil
Alabama
Norfol
Baltmore
Be natural and bashful in social conduct
The piece advises on social ease for men and women, balancing politeness with initiative. It comments on self consciousness, attire signals, and body language as telltales, noting that even in India a large population is engaged with missionary activity.
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Tongue Red
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Nice
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Monroe Drug Co
Unionville
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Congress
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Vanburer
Ind
Golem
Indiana Federation of Labor
Ibby’s
Libby
Ell & Libby
Chicago
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Withoy
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Nassau St
New York
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Chica
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Adroutin
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Texas
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B. Ain
Jesse Mak
Chales
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