Odd Facts From a Fragmented News Clip
A collection of curious notes: peat storage for Swedish railway engines, Greenland fee fields, and horses with keen musical susceptibility. It mentions atmospheric depth, ocean diving rates, hair growth with temperature, pedestrian danger, Corfu paper shipments, and various pearls. Also listed are Irish land holdings, Tibet wireless plans, electrical books in Congress, spoon tricks, a huge drill, and a timber pile cutting record.
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Sweden
Greenland
Treland
Tibet
Diary of Congress
Washington
Pennsylvania
Stanton Sells Silent Centrifugal Gun to Britain
Mrs. Kathryn M. Stanton, sponsor of the centrifugal gun, returned aboard the Tuscania after selling the silent, powderless weapon to the British government. She financed the model, supervised its construction, and the United States did not buy the invention.
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Kathryn M. Stanton
What He Had Done.
A sharp exchange between a sarcastic woman and a husky hobo unfolds as she questions his efforts while he admits to finishing a thirty day stint, prompting a tense social interaction about work and dignity.
Prisoners Trial in Caesarea Paul Before Felix
In Caesarea Paul faces Judge Felix with Tertullus and Sanhedrin witnesses as accusers. Paul defends his case denying insurrection and heresy while affirming his Jewish faith and belief in Jesus as Messiah. Felix delays ruling, granting liberty and visits from Luke and Philip as he awaits a decision. Drusilla, Felix’s young wife, is noted and linked to Herod connections.
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Paul
Jerusalem
Caesarea
Judean
Felix
Tertullus
Nero
Rome
Finover
Pelix
James
Jesus
Philip
Evangelist
Cornelius
Iesarea
Luke
Drusilla
Christ
Herod Agrippa I
Herod II
Vesuvius
Money-Making Scheme Proposal Involving a Battleship
A dialogue presents a plan to own a battleship and anchor it at Newport to lease it to fashionable people for dances, exposing an unusual money making scheme. The exchange hints at improvised ventures and the social appeal of a grand asset.
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Newport
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad Offer Free Trial
Red pimples and irritated scalp are claimed to improve with Cuticura Soap for cleansing and Cuticura Ointment for soothing. The ad promises faster safer skin relief for burns crusts scales and disfigurement and offers free samples by mail with a booklet from Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
A Mere Hillock Melodrama on Stage Decline
A vivid note laments the stage's decline as melodrama fades under cinema. The author argues that even the finest stage acting cannot exceed a limited reach, comparing the impact of movies to stage breadth and grandeur.
Castoria Reminder and Market Comment From Old Ad Copy
A historical ad note urges mothers to examine Castoria bottles for the Karl Thiel signature and notes 30 years of use. The fragment includes a dialogue about market chatter and an aim to visit a cafe for a couple of hours.
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Karl Thiel
Fletcher
Sime
What the Doctor Knows About Kidney Health
The article stresses kidney health's importance for total well being and warns that Bright's Disease causes many deaths. It promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy, touting its healing effects and availability in two bottle sizes with a sample offer by mail.
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New York
Dr. Elmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Ady
The Style of It Read My Palm Scene
A fragment quotes a character asking for palm reading with a snappy retort about a chosen future. The dialogue hints at fate and self-determination amid a playful exchange.
Remarkable Letter From Washington Druggist Promotes Elixir Babek
A Washington druggist claims in a letter that in five months he sold 8 600 bottles of KMxir Babek for malaria chilla fever and malaria like illnesses. Geory Evans reports customer praise and offers elixir Babok at 60 cents through druggists or parcel post from Kloczewaki Co Washington. The text includes stray phrases and unrelated figures about rabbits and exports from New Zealand.
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Washington
Geory Evans
N. W
Washington, D
Parcela Post
Kloczewaki & Co
T. Ls
Also Mentioned on This Page
Paris
Alguee
Peorka
Corville Eect
Somme
Oaterpoon
Corfu
Peralasro
Hays
England
International Sunday School
Bellurg
Moody Dible Institute
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Douglas
Douglie
Mt Boca
W. L. Douglas
Zoo
Douglas Stoe
Brockton
Masa
Bae
Chattanooga
Shattanooga
New Zealand
Wager
Linime Gilbert Bros. & CO
Baltimore
Thacher Medicine Co
Tenn
Eczem
A. B. Richards Medicine Co
Sherman
Tex
Williams Mfa. CO
Lémnlina Nee “Rouah
W.N.U
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