Birthplace of Gin Rickey, Famous Throughout the World
The legendary Shoemaker’s saloon in Washington near Willard’s Hotel fades into history as a lunch hour venue for government clerks. Once a magnet for officers, lawmakers, and Cabinet members, it closed after Prohibition forced a drinkless era. The gin rickey, born there via Colonel Joe Rickey, became a national icon.
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Shoemaker's
New York Herald
Shoemaker’s
United States
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Navy
Senate
House
Cabinet
E Street Widins
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth
Willard
Congress
Joe” Rickey
Rickey
Colonel Rickey
Free zone corn remover claim spread by Cinci man
A Cincinnati inventor touts free zone as a cheap instant corn remover. A few drops dry quickly and pull the corn out with the root without pain. The ad urges readers to try it to prevent infection and serious foot issues.
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Father
Germany's Kultur Questioned as Borrowed Legacy
A militant critique argues that German culture is a borrowed facsimade, citing Beethoven as a symbol of a nation that has injured its past and failed to produce world‑class artists since. It contrasts German achievements with those of Russia, France, Italy, and Britain, denouncing Berlin’s architecture and accusing Germany of propaganda through foreign student exchange and university openness.
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Herbert Friedenwald
Leipsic
Imperial and Royal Department of Public Instruction
Austria-Hungary
Beethoven
Vilage
Belgium
Louvain
Germany
Godowsky
Harold Bauer
Sloomfield-Zeisler
Carreno
Sembrich
Schumann-Meink
Gluck
Galli-Curei
Caruso
Scotti
Mary Garden
Homer and Farrar
Isadora
Duncan
Pavlova
Lopokova
Mordkin
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
Genee
Rembrandt
Michelangelo
da Vine
Raphael
Titian
Rubens
van Dyke
Velasquez
Berlin
Goethe
Paris
Moliere
Voltaire
Diderot
Alexander von Humboldt
Shakespeare
France
Russia
England
Tolstoy
Galileo
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Lavoissies
Dalton
Mendeleeff
Becquerel
Madame Curie
Lord Lister
Pasteur
Morton
Otto
Daimler
Panhard
Marco Polo
Vasco de Gama
Francis Drake
Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
America
Anuric Promises Relief for Kidney Ailments in Texas Data
Advertisement for Dr. Pierce's Anuric tablets touts relief from rheumatism sciatica and kidney trouble. Claims offer warning signals dizziness backache urinary irregularity and painful twinges. Endorsed by A J Miller from Texas and promotes trial package by mail with Buffalo institute address.
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Texas
Pierge
W. M. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Jacksboro
A. J. Miller
Glacier National Park A Kaleidoscope Of Ancient Rocks
Glacier National Park presents a vivid display of Algonkian rock formed by ancient tectonics and reshaped by glaciers. The landscape features multicolored shales limestones and diorite bands across sweeping cirques valleys and monumental peaks, with snow and ice still lingering on higher slopes.
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Glacier National Park
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Colorado
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