The Monaco Murderer and the Curse of a Tiny Kingdom
A translated tale depicts Monaco as a fragile realm ruled by a kinglet with a 60 man army and a gambling tax, facing a murder verdict. Faced with costs of execution, they pivot to Italian aid then imprisonment, finally pensioning the prisoner who shops at the casino and lives modestly, avoiding harsher fates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Bernstein
New York Post
Mediterranean Sea
France
Italy
Monaco
Europe
Crar
Kinler
Jesse
Women in Korea and gender roles in public life
Report from Korea describes women largely excluded from public social spaces called playhouses where men drink smoke and dance. even Christian husbands and their wives face strong social limits. It recounts a missionary tale of a wife traveling without her husband and a father forbidding letters showing strict gender norms. A closing remark notes a young woman rejecting a widower’s proposal and a proverb about argument and betting.
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Korea
Fusan
New York
Munyons Cures Promised For Colds and More
An old advertisement extols Munyons cures for colds of head lungs and bones plus remedies for pneumonia diphtheria dyspepsia cough kidney and other ailments. It claims rapid relief within hours to days and offers free health guides for mothers. Products marketed by Munyons in New York and Philadelphia.
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Timyon
Manyos
Unyon
Menyon
Enyom
Munyen
New York
Philadelphis
What's the Use of Anything on Blue Monday
A reflective fragment references life as trouble and a bleak mood labeled Blue Monday. The piece muses on futility, frail friendships, and the looming Reaper’s sickle as the day-to-day weight weighs on existence.
Ex-Chicago City Treasurer Warns Youths to Shun Public Service
Adam Ortselfen, former city treasurer of Chicago, urges young men to avoid entering public service citing no future, low pay, job insecurity, and misaligned values with modern business. He says the two years in office left him glad to be private and warns the path builds only regulatory hardship and public scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Treasurce
Chicago
Adam Ortselfen
Ortselfen
Anya
Public Service Versus Private Sector Career Advice
The Chicago News argues public employees face limited promotion and little payoff over long careers. It notes widespread inflexibility, few future prospects, and urges youths toward private sector opportunities with broader prospects and better rewards.
Man Builds Home Over Wife's Grave in Georgia
Col Elijah De Board of Glamer county Georgia is said to be the only man in the United States living with his grave beneath his home. After his wife’s death he became reclusive and built a small octagonal stone house on the gravesite. An inscription reads One in life and one in death. The grave lies in the right corner with a private space for himself nearby.
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Col
Eljah de Board
Glamer County
Georgia
United States
Hia
Solemn tomblike house keeper guards quiet retreat
Around the windows flowers are planted and an aged patriarch spends days beautifying the surroundings of his strange home. On her death anniversary a funeral is repeated with a local pastor, while the colonel refuses to leave his solitary abode and wishes to spend his remaining days there.
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New York Herald
Sarah Bernhardt the Unusual Artist and Athlete
New York Press notes Sarah Bernhardt as unusually versatile and dominant in Paris theater. She excels as actress sculptor painter and writer and even as a bicyclist paddler and fisher. Her rise followed a wage dispute at the Comedie Francaise and Odeon success leading to top standing in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Bernhardt
Paris
Lawn Tennia
Whitman
Larned
Natalie
Sitle
Comedie Francaise
Odeon
Ashe
New York Press
Dr King's New Discovery Heals Coughs and Colds
Desperate lung disease cases in Armonk and a niece with consumption are reported to have been treated with Dr King's New Discovery. The advertisement claims it to be infallible for coughs and colds, with 50 cent trial bottles and one dollar sizes guaranteed by J. Bauman & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notle
Mia
W. K. Haviland
Armonk
Dr King
Alec
Ehere
J. Bauman & Co
Asthma relief claims from Maude Dickens letter
A Kansas reader Maude Dickens reports eight years of asthma with multiple recent attacks, claiming Foley's Honey and Tar gave immediate relief. The fragment also includes mixed typos and an unrelated adage about judging character by behavior under scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Maude Dickens
Parsons, Kans
Foley
Ako
E. A. Horn
It Cures with Burdock Blood Bitters claims
The advertisement asserts TAR 1IONEY CURES without qualifiers and guarantees health benefits. It touts Burdock Blood Bitters as purifying and invigorating, urging use for perfect health and noting legal action in secular cases at the Supreme Court context.
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Rasval
Pelaoner
Reigner
Militater of Justice
Dovion
Glover
Women IN
THE
Usk
News
Ahr
Colonel de Board
Ae Foed
Regul
Bears
Castoria
Hlcers
Ndera
Calman
Anpreme Court of the United Sates
ES Seine
Naftalan
George Leiser
Berlin
Ezy Trees
Fort Wayne Drug CO
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sele
Pinkirar
Bree
Lego
Kesh
Owan
Oshkosh Gas Light Company
Nereby
Perth
Oshkosh
J. L. Clark
Isarin
Oubkoah
Wis
Wia
Lavacey
Andres
High Street
Agora
Krippene Hdw
Mais
PYM
Nervita Medical Co
Clinton and
Jackson Streets
Ill
J. F. W. Schmidt
Eagle Drug Store
Main St
Oshkosh, Wie
Thielen
Joan Thieleu
Washington Street
Oshkosh Paint CO
Oobkeuk
Wie
Mecetelel
Pleasant Home Land
Main Street
Weisbrod
Optician
Bain St
Oehet
Kemper Ens Sve
de Cigne
Pautobe
Main Atreet
Everowhers
Eastman
Cit
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