Legislature Eyes State Exams for Optometry
Texas and 26 other states will be urged to pass laws requiring state examinations for optical practitioners. Texas Optical association leaders, led by H. C. Reese, push for accreditation, pledging to protect the public from untrained eyeglass sellers and dangerous patent drops.
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Texas
America
Phineas T. Barnum
H. C. Reese
Texas Optical Association
Dallas
Reese
Rees
Department of Physics
Columbia University
United States
Texas Optometrists
Charles I’. Prestice
M. E
New York
Eczema sufferer touts Saxo Salve relief in Shelbyville
A Shelbyville man, A Pritchet, credits Saxo Salve with curing years of eczema after a few applications. The ad copy claims the remedy soothes, heals, and softens skin for various eruptions and offers a money back guarantee via A M Fischer, a San Antonio druggist.
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A. Pritchet
Shelbyville
Ill
A. M. Fischer
Antonio
Japan’s Navy Expansion and New Dreadnought Plans
The fleet now comprises 62 vessels totaling 450 566 tons with eleven more under construction or contracted. Kawachi and Settsu of 20 800 tons are nearing completion, and a third super-dreadnought of 30 000 tons is planned for 1915. Additional projects include four first class cruisers of 27 500 tons, three third class cruisers of 4950 tons, a 700 ton gunboat, two 1200 ton destroyers and one submarine.
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Additi
Kawachi
Settsu
Whisenant Prescriptions at 117 E Houston St
Prescriptions filled by Whisenant located at 117 East Houston Street. Phone number 3587 listed for pharmacy services.
Mighty Waterfalls and their Power Across the World
The article explains how falling water powers turbines and generates electricity, comparing major falls like Victoria, Iguassu, and Niagara. It notesVictoria Falls near Rhodesia as the largest by power and discusses Congo and Nile rapids, European falls, and future plants such as Porjus in Sweden and Rjukan in Norway with planned capacities up to 300,000 horsepower.
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Niagara
Victoria Falls
Iguassu River
Victoria
Zambesi River
Rhodesia
Livingstone
Iguassu
Europe
Victoria Falls Power Company
South America
Parana
Iguassu Fall
Scandinavia
Germany
Asia
Zambesi
Africa
North America
Congo
Stanley
Stanley Pool
Lower Nile
Egypt
Nile
Upper Nile
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Ripon
Rhine
Schaffhausen
Bjaken
Mann-Els
Telemarken
Rjaken
Sweden
Trollhatta
Rjuken
Norway
Lofoden
Porjus
Lapland
Portus
Tuberculosis Medicine Saved This Man's Life
A patient from Philo Pennsylvania credits Eckman's Alterative with curing a severe abscessed lung after pneumonia and claims three years of recovered health. The ad promotes the medicine for bronchitis asthma hay fever throat and lung troubles and invites readers to request literature and contact Eckman Laboratories in Phile Pa.
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Eckman
Philo. Pa
Reilly
Fischer’s
Fischer’s Drug Store
Eckman Laboratories
Phile
Curious Swiss School Mystery Ends With Alarmed Conscience
An inspector visits a village school in Suhr Switzerland and finds an elderly teacher asleep as children sneak off. The inspector waits and falls asleep on a bench. The concierge locks up the asleep inspector who later awakens to a startled confrontation.
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Suhr
Switzerland
Conscierge
Prescriptions Filled By Whisenant at 117 E Houston
Local drug counter Whisenant reports its prescriptions filled at 117 East Houston Street. Contact via phones 3537 for patient pickups and orders.
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Whisenant
Houston
Sultan Sends Personal Message to London Daily Express
The sultan of Turkey issues a personal cable to the London Daily Express asserting confidence in the patriotism of his subjects who he calls his children. He expresses future security and friendly sentiment toward all powers, especially England, whose king-emperor presides over many Muslim subjects he regards as khalifa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
London Daily Express
England
Twenty Questions on College Knowledge from Owen Johnson
Johnson laments college men lack general knowledge and culture. He notes colleges act as social clearing houses with crammed exam facts. He cites his Stover at Yale with forty questions and now proposes a new list for students and grads to answer.
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New Zealand
Germany
Rembrandt
Franz Hals
Spinoza
Holman Hunt
Ambrose Thomas
Zorn
Bossut
Tschaikowsky
Jehovah
Goya
Bjjornson
Strindberg
Savonarola
Durer
Cavour
Winslow Homer
James Young Simpson
Mistral
Cellini
Garrick
Abbe Prevost
Engels
Stover
Yale
Johnson
Leoncavallo
Verdi
Dostoiefski
Bastien
le Page
Renan
Owen Johnson
France
England
Hot Springs Liver Buttons Promote San Antonio Sales
Odorless patent remedy advertised in mid 20th century style claims to ease constipation liver issues and general toxin removal. Promotes availability in San Antonio area drug stores and Hot Springs distribution with a 25 cent box and free sample offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
San Antonio
Hot Caringe Chemical Co
Hot Springa
Johnson’s Twenty Questions and Westmount Civic Model
The piece discusses Johnson’s social questions likening American colleges to social clearing houses and previews hisUpcoming articles on “social usurpation” at Harvard Yale and Princeton. It also profiles Westmount’s cooperative civic group with doctors engineers and lawyers enforcing unwritten rules keeping streets clean and snow shoveling contracted for a $2 lot assessment in 1911.
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Westmount
The
Improvement Association
Weste Mount
Build a Model Town Westmount Plan in Columbia Missouri
A Columbia dispatch highlights Westmount a residence district in Columbia where University of Missouri professionals plan a cooperative community. Deed clauses require setbacks of sixty feet from streets fifteen feet from side lines and six feet from rear, a single dwelling two stories high and minimum cost of two thousand dollars.
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Columbia
Westmount
University of Missouri
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Sultan OF
Washer’s Boys’ Store News
Washer’s
Glenroy
Zac, Cluett, Peabody & Company
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