Rural mortality study shows urban advantage in cities
The Department of Commerce releases life tables from 1890 1901 and 1910 showing higher mortality for men than women and the rural districts enjoying lower death rates across most ages Infants born in 1910 show improved life expectancy versus 1890 and 1901 Rural life fares better than urban life in both 1901 and 1910 with narrowing rural advantage by 1910 International life tables for Australia Denmark England France Germany Holland India Italy Japan Norway Sweden and Switzerland allow cross country life expectancy comparisons Norway records the lowest mortality at birth about 81 males and 67 females versus 127 and 108 respectively in the United States
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Bureau
Rex
Australia
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Holland
India
Italy
Japan
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
United States
Greek Toys in the British Museum Come Alive for Four London Children
In the terra cotta room, a father and four children discover 2000 year old Greek toys from Athens and Corinth. The scene unfolds with wonder as the kids compare tops dolls and tiny dollhouse chairs to modern playthings, imagining ancient children as peers.
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London
British Museum
Athens
Corinth
Knidos
Naucratis
Cyrenaica
Bulgarias Invites Americans to Build Industry at Varna
Bulgarian Interior Minister Alexander Radoloff told a correspondent that Varna on the Black Sea offers Americans a major opportunity to build shipyards grain elevators and harbor improvements and to establish canning sugar fishing forest and mining enterprises. He said large profits await Americans in canning fish beef fruits and vegetables and noted Bulgarias forest and pulp resources. The government will grant concessions to responsible US investors and engineers to develop natural resources.
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Varna
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Danube
Radcloff
United States
Freeland pest house stolen again
Freeland, Pennsylvania reports the pest house has been taken for a second time. A prior thief dismantled a home and used its timbers for a bungalow despite smallpox fears. this time only the foundation remains after thieves carried off the building.
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Freeland
Repair Bridge to Aid Stork Near Darby Creek
Dr. Robert T. Elmer of Wayne received a farmer’s call that the stork hovered near the Newton Square area. With neighbor and Delaware County permission, and the bridge over Darby Creek opened at his risk, planks were laid so the doctor could reach his patient in time for the birth.
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Philadelphia
Robert T. Elmer
Wayne
Newton Square
Darby Creek
Delaware County
Elmer
Nebraskans face taxes and fires across the state
Fire Chief Hoofer suspects an incendiary origin after a garret blaze at the Friend hotel. The three story building sustained limited damage. oil-soaked carpets and blankets were found in the garret. Other items include school tax oath proposals, pig curiosity about corn mash, wireless station installs, sugar thefts, and local civic efforts in Oshkosh, Lincoln, and Scottsbluff.
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Friend Hotel
Hoofer
Britton
Nebraska
Chadron
Coudersport
France
Germany
Spain
Norway
South America
T. L. Miskimen
Alliance
Auburn
Clancy
The
Red Cross
Hall County
Montana
Garrison Poland China Pig Club
Butler County
David City
I. O. O. F. Temple
Seward
Oshkosh
Loetto
Mayor Havens
Lowell
Gibbon
Nebraska Penitentiary
Warden Fenton
Jefferson City
State Normal Colleges
Columbia
Chicago
Northwestern
Daily Press
Board of Education of State Normal Schools
State House
Lincoln
Congress
Irene C. Buell
Ashland
Amsberry
A. K. Gault
St. Peter, Minn
W. D. Shaal
Springfield
Shaal
Benkelman
Ravenna
Pierce Oxley
Cambridge
Fillmore County
J. K. Hart
State Department of Commerce and Labor
Homer State Bank
Homer
Hubbard
Frank Sampson
Western
Island Without Artists
A colonial tale explains Arab taboo forbidding living depictions and how a French captive forced into painting on the Bey’s palace wall became an unlikely artist. The incident ends with the shoemaker freed after producing crude yet valued pictures.
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Willard Price
Constantine
Algeria
Eli Hadj Ahmed
Wireless music sparks risk of unintended tunes across waves
The piece notes a failed Strauss transmission to New York where a soloist was to accompany, but ragtime from another subscriber leaked through. It warns wireless music could disrupt churches and dance halls if future transmissions blend with unintended pieces.
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New York
Richard Strauss
New York Herald
Sunday Cabinet Meeting Highlights Irish Question
British cabinet held a Sunday meeting to discuss a phase of the Irish question. The note recalls historic Sunday cabinets such as Pitt’s bed bound meeting with the Duke of Newcastle and a grotesque scene noted by Walpole.
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Downing Street
Charles I
Scotland
Pitt
Hayes
Duke of Newcastle
Walpole
Christian Science Monitor
Job’s Taken Shown By Two Girls Outside Office Building
Two young women in downtown Chicago consult want ads at a large office building. The elder hands her paper to the younger, adjusts her earrings and hat, then enters. A few minutes later she exits saying the job is taken, reaffirms her appearance, and the pair walk away down La Salle Street.
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Newntown
la Salle Street
Chicago Journal
Reading with Rapidity and Focus
The excerpt advises acquiring a habit of severe attention to a text to keep the mind on the objective. It warns that without this discipline and prior knowledge, rapid reading leads to more errors and wandering of thought. Sydney Smith emphasizes deliberate, informed pace.
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Sydney ‘Smith
Beneficial Joke and a Fresh Tabletop Digestion Aid
A Boston Transcript quip recalls a wise man advising occasional meals with newlyweds. The wife serves a dish she prepares and accompanies it with a tablet claimed to aid digestion. The joke remains playful and lighthearted.
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Boston Transcript
Taunton Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Mrs De SiuviA of Taunton Massachusetts says persistent back and leg pains kept her bedridden for a week each month until she tried Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She reports renewed strength enabling laundry work and house chores and urges others with similar troubles to use the remedy.
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Taunton
Mass
Lydia
E. .Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. de Siuvia
Grant St
Movies and Roads Transform Mountain Life
Celia Harris notes in the Outlook that televised or theater screenings drew valley residents to towns, changing work patterns. She suggests roads now link markets and services, not just routes to entertainment, and jokes that mountain men avoid roadbuilding when roads only lead to dentists and markets.
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Celia Harris
You Should Have the Best Medicine Swamp Root Ad
A vintage advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root claiming it cures kidney liver and bladder ailments and neutralizes uric acid. It offers a sample bottle by parcel post from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY with ten cents and mentions large and medium bottles available at drug stores.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Jud Tunkins on men who watch and don’t help
Jud Tunkins compares some men to thermometers who stay content to observe events without taking action to improve things. He critiques passive behavior and urges more active help.
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Jud Tunkins
Bayer Introduces Aspirin in 1900 Ad Claims
An old advertisement touts Bayer as maker of world famous Aspirin “as prescribed by physicians for over twenty one years.” It urges asking for Bayer Tablets of Aspirin and notes the name stamped on each tablet and package for protection against imitation. The piece also includes a separate, crude joke about a man proposing marriage.
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Bayer
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