Peculiar occupation snake farming in Australia documented
A Victorian era piece describes a snake farming operation near Sydney where snakes frogs and toads are bred. the author details capture methods milking venom for antidotes and the handling of highly dangerous venom for medical use. It notes snakes are sold to taxidermists or zoos after milking and that the site houses hundreds of reptiles in bags or mesh enclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anatealla
Sydney Board of Health
Sydney Health Department
Zoological Gardens
Wit and Wisdom From Youngsters Delights and Dilemmas
A collection of child anecdotes and quips. Margie values her doll for not interrupting. A minister's wife overhears a boy threaten hens on Sunday. Lola misdefines climate as toste. Joe jokes about tailing a dog. Walter eats crusts while his father recalls liking them. Wilbur argues jelly stays on bread because it is nervous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola
Joe
Walter
Master Walter
Wilbur
Professor Bellig Describes Birth Of The Telephone
Professor Alexander Graham Bellig recounts his lecture on how the telephone emerged from efforts to teach the deaf to speak. He recalls using a dead man's ear as a model and claiming the device would translate vibrations into audible speech. He emphasizes the ear as his guide, not electricity, in inventing the telephone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Graham Bellig
Demands of courtship and new factory in Bellefonte
A man expects his future wife to be an expert kitchen mechanic in the parlor. A company is formed at Bellefonte Pennsylvania to manufacture brick using furnace slag as the chief ingredient. California’s gold output for the year 1907 fell by 2,004,524 dollars from 1906 while silver production dropped by 66,182 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jhia
Bellefonte
California
Europe
Philadelphia
Becuse
New York
London
Crete
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Maine
Virginia
Maryland
Arkansas
New Jersey
Hall's Catarrh Cure ad and assorted notes
An assortment of vintage ads and tidbits including Hall's Catarrh Cure with a reward offer and testimonial, pricing, and retailer details. Also mentions electric irons, steam generation on ships, yogurt in Bulgarian diet, tea as a germicide, US electric rail mileage, posture cues, bronchial troches, and a provocative quote about women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Piles Cured In 6 To 14 Days With Pazo Ointment
Advertises PAZO ointment claiming a cure for itching bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days. Mentions satisfaction guarantee or money back and includes a note about appearances of a rich girl with fiery red hair as a sign noted by acquaintances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fioe
Bromo Quinine Ad Praises Cure in One Day
An old advertisement promotes Bromo Quinine laxative with a claim of curing a cold in one day and features a signature by B. W. Grove. The copy stresses broad use “the World over” and prices the product at 25 cents. It ties marriage wisdom to self governance in a second tagline about an ideal woman as a pipe dream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Grove
Miss Ann Pearsons
Northfield
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Garfield Tea Co. promotes laxative tea from Brooklyn
An advertisement touts Natural laxative Garfield Tea aiding constipation and organ regulation with samples offered on request. Garfield Tea Co. based in Brooklyn, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield Tea
Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fragmentary 19th Century NOTES on Advertisements and Phrases
A garbled OCR listing mixed items includes references to a week long CASCARETS treatment a world selling spree boxes brands of love cannibal imagery exports to Japan rising fivefold and remarks on female modesty and Charles II supporting women on stage in England in 1662.
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Charles II
England
Nightgown Design Aids Bedridden Patients And Hospitals
A Philadelphia woman creates a back opening nightgown for hospital use or bedridden patients. The piece suggests practical medical apparel and reflects broader takes on health, fashion, and social norms from the era.
Western Canada praised by Maidstone farmer in 1907 letter
George E. Hunt describes first year in Western Canada near Maidstone. He notes mild start to winter, strong crops, wheat at $1.10 a bushel, oats about 35 cents, barley 50 cents, flax 90 cents to $1. He highlights black loam soil, abundant water, cattle market demand, and growing creameries. He advises investing $500 to $1,000 in cattle and emphasizes rail transport and favorable conditions for homesteaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George BE. Hunt
Maidstone
Michigan
Edmonton
Swift & Co
Western Canada
Roosevelt urges Panama canal plan as safe and feasible
President Roosevelt transmits a report from engineers who visited the canal zone with Taft affirming the lock canal plan is safe and practical. They recommend reducing Gatun dam height by twenty feet and say all dam and lock structures are reliable, with sea level plans deemed costly and unnecessary.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Roosevelt
Congress
Canal Zone
Taft
Gatun
United States
Fairbanks Plan World Trip After Congress Adjourns
Vice President and Mrs Fairbanks consider a global voyage soon after Congress adjourns. They likely sail from San Francisco visiting Hawaii the Philippine Islands China and Japan and return via Europe.
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Washington
Fairbanks
Congress
San Francisco
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
China
Japan
Europe
Explosion at Gehr fing Coal Mine No 18 in Bentom NL
A second blast hit Gehr fing Coal Company No 18 mine SE of Bentom, deeper and harsher than the prior blast that entombed four shot firers. Rescuers found the shaft on fire and withdrew. The last explosion wrecked the mine and sealed it. recovery of bodies is unlikely.
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Bentom
Gehrfing Coal Company
Pap Johnson Kills Mrs Switzer Then Dies In Suicide
In Lawrence Kansas a man known as Pap Johnson, a notorious saloon keeper, shot and killed Mrs Francis Switzer at her home in the bottoms and then killed himself. No motive has been established. Johnson had been living at the Switzer residence.
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Lawrence
Kans
Johnson
Ani
Licit
Francis Switzer
Switzer
Bottoms
Nebraska Notes Highlight Transfers and Local Incidents
Nebraska notes report G A Drew will move from Seward to Fremont to oversee the line there with Bruce Brown moving to Seward from Cambridge to fill the vacancy. Other items include Edleman resigning in Beatrice, Wing’s death in Falls City, a Blue Hill implement deal, a Beaufort divorce suit, a custody claim, a jail term for horse thief Jack Smith, and library planning in Fairbury with a $12,500 project cost.
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G. A. Drew
Nebraska Telephone Company
Seward
Fremont
Bruce Brown
Central City
Drew
W. W. Edleman
Rock Island
Beatrice
Marseilles
Arthur Wing
Fred Farrington
Falls City
T. A. Bentz
A. F. Silebrass
Bentz
Blue Hill
A. D. Baker
Blue Oil
Bloomington
Lkely
Shelby Hamilton
Lyric Theater
T Beatrice
Andrew J. Snyder
Barara Ptak
Emil Ptak
Plattsnouth
Canon H. B. Burgess
R. @. Allen
J. M. Lash
Allerton
Wiliam Allen
John Kiffin
West Beatrice
Insurnce
Carnegie Library
Fairbury
Jack Smith
Fenton
Burns
Waverly
Neb
Mitchelmore
Mitchelmore & Bobbitt
Howard
Bobbitt & Burns
Mary Getz
L. W. Getz
E. F. Pizler
Burlington
Benkleman
McCook
War Budget Battle grips House as pacts are rejected
In Washington the House forces a battle over the executive appropriation bill. Speakers wield the gavel firmly while party lines vanish and amendments to pay rises for the president, vice president, speaker, judiciary and top state officials are rejected. The session lasts hours, ends with a conference request, and prompts a night meeting on sundry civil items.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senat
Congress
Secret Service
House
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Townsend
Michigan
Colonel Hepburn
Iowa
Knowland
Canfors
Sherman
Adamson
Georgia
Bryan
New York
Chicago shippers Protest ICC Rate Cut in Missouri River Case
Chicago wholesale houses oppose a proposed rate reduction for freight from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri River. They warn Kansas City St. Joseph and Omaha would gain 3 to 9 cents per hundred in lower rates, challenging the interstate commerce commission hearing.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri River
Atlantic Seaboard
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Omaha
Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II Runs Aground in Fog Near Gedney Channel
In dense fog the Kaiser Wilhelm II from Bremen ran aground at the Gedney channel edge while steering into New York harbor. About 1,000 passengers were aboard. no damage was reported as the vessel sat on mud and sand until a successful refloat in the afternoon.
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New York
New York Harbor
Bremen
Gedney Channel
Queen Liliuokalani Sued by Hawaii Doctor Over Bill
Ex queen Liliuokalani now Mrs Lidia Dominis is sued in district supreme court by Dr Charles H English to recover 11600 alleging breach of contract for medical services. English says he accompanied the former sovereign to Hawaii as private physician under a $300 monthly plan plus expenses and a bonus, which was allegedly not paid.
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Washington
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Lydia Dominis
District Supreme Court
Chas. H. English
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Dolly
Small Margie
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Watoine
Kinnan & Mirry
Olesale Druggists
O. Hall
Hail
John News & Son
Mass
Cascarets
Jon Boxes
Dodds
LaToya Lar
America
Troy
Athens
Utica
Alexandria
Rome
Carthage
Mabel
Missionary Societies
Minneapolis, Minn
Salzer
Salzer Seed CO
Bex CW la Creese
Wis
Carters
Carters TivFa
PHL
W.l.douglas
Speuubictia Reece
W. L. Douglas
Spark St
Brockton
Masa
Government of
Canada
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
W. V. Bennett
New York Life Building
Aezgle
Elie
Putnam
Western
York, Nebr
Tartar
Kansas Town
Nebraska
Frank Ingmire
Huntley
A. A. Lembach
Hastings
Methodist Episcopal Church
G. P. Trites
Senate
McCumber
North Dakota
Ssnator Hepburn
Forest Service
Aldrich
Secretary of Agriculture
Panama
Columbia
Colo
Peru
Governement
Puget Sound
Bremerton Navy Yards
Pacific Coast
Queen Lil
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