New French Disease and the Army Medical Response
The Paris Figaro editorial describes a wartime neurotic condition called the new French disease. It notes patients become mute deaf blind or paralyzed with headaches and that injections and interviews cure many. Treatments include cold water therapy solitary fasting and the Babrinski method with electric shocks.
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St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Paris Figaro
Army Medical
Assizes
Figdre
Message From Mars at Don Ton Park Tonight
Albert Taylor stars as a hard hearted young man in a stock company production of A Message From Mars at Don Ton Park. Leon Bostwick plays The Messenger as the comedy blends with moral drama and uses striking electrical effects and scenery for tonight through Tuesday performances.
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Pavlova
Imperial Russian Ballet
Girand Opera House
Portici
Moving Pictures
Pavlowa
Europe
Masanielle
Fenella
J. R. Burke
the Grand
Burke
New York
Emma Bunting
Tess
San Antonio
Grand Opera House
Tess of
Miss Bunting
Albert Taylor Stock Company
Mars
Don Ton Park
Charles Dickens
Scrooge
Asmodeous
LeSage
Albert Taylor
Leon Bostwick
Woodcraft in Cities and urban adaptation
Florida Metropolis editor cites Ernest Thompson Seton to define woodcraft as adapting to environment. The piece argues city men should study surroundings and become resourceful, noting city folk settle too easily into routine.
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Florida
Ernest Thompson-Seton
Message From Mars at Don Ton Park starring Frank C. Hk elton
Frank C. Hk elton appears with the Albert Taylor Stock Co at Don Ton Park in a production titled A Message From Mars. The show blends science fiction and stage comedy for a local amusement venue.
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Frank C.hkelton
Albert, Taylor Stock CO
Don- Ton Park
Mars
Citycraft in Action How to Observe Your Town
The passage urges residents to note block by block details from stores and trees to street paving and waste disposal. It poses practical questions about municipal design and safety and invites readers to observe daily urban life as a detective would study a landscape.
Pipe Start Fire In Monticello Home
A pipe left in a coat pocket ignited a fire in Neal Johnson's room in Monticello Indiana. Johnson awoke to dense smoke and, unable to use the stairs, jumped from a second story window suffering a broken rib. Furniture in two rooms was damaged.
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Monticello
Ind
Neal Johnson
Johnson
Virginia Claims First Theater in North America
In Williamsburg during 1718 the first known acted drama in North America likely occurred with a public theater housed there. Governor Spottiswood's diary notes eight assemblymen declined his birthday entertainment and play. Virginia’s early theater scene reflects English cultural transplant and colonial elite society.
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Williamsburg
Virginia
North America
Mary Caroline Crawford
Spottiswood
House of Assembly
House of Burgesses
Daly
America
Graham
Hugh Jones
London
Jones
New England
England
Bancroft
and Cooke
Hunt Sea Elephants Off Fairhaven In Antarctic Quest
Captain Benjamin D. Cleveland plans to sail the old whaling bark Charles W. Morgan for the Antarctic Ocean in search of sea elephants whose oil is valuable for war munitions. The aging vessel, launched in 1841, is being prepared after two years ashore, with painting underway as she nears sea readiness.
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Fairhaven
Benjamin D. Cleveland
Charles W. Morgan
Antarctic
Morgan
Vintage wood ship to sail again with oddities aboard
Captain Cleve land boasts a seaworthy vessel built from oak and locust, its windlass a rare wooden relic. The ship carries a brick oven, two 180 gallon kettles, and a swinging captain’s bed that adjusts with ship movement. The hull bears sunbaked cracks yet promises renewal.
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Fairhaven
Cleveland
Biplane Drops Into Outfield Delights Town Ball Game
A bush league manager barely survives after a biplane hovers over the park and crashes into the outfield during a game. The official jokes about collecting a quarter as the game resumes, illustrating small town grit and humor in crisis.
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New York Times
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Peg O’ the Ring
WM. S. Hart
Apostle of
Fairy
Rosco
Arbuckle the
Theda Bara
Portics
GRAND
Taylor Stock Company
Alma Clark
Albert Taylor Stock CO
Don-Ton Park
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Marie Williams
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Seuss
Rupert Hughes
Grace Miller White
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Seasons Society
Impact
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Globe Theater
Stoge CO
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