Beware of bogus stones warn by Mac Iver Percival
The New York Sun cautions buyers against imitation gems often sold to travelers in the east and elsewhere. Fake stones are usually soft glass or glass pastes. doublets and triplets hide base material with cemented layers. Soak suspect stones or test hardness to expose fakes and avoid risky purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mac Iver Percival
New York Sun
East
Ceylon
Anne A. T. Craig
Percival Chubb
Peter Dykema
Ethical Culture School
New York City
The
Putnams
Ethical Society
St. Louis
Pawn Ticket Confounds Drugstore Clerk Over Gold Watch
A druggist balks at a pawn ticket reading for a gold watch. The note asks for otherwise scarce ordinary ingredients while the clerk asserts his stock is complete for a first-class pharmacy. The unusual request highlights a puzzling item in a routine shop transaction.
Theosophical Path September issues features Jesuit breadth
The September Theosophical Path from Point Loma editors highlights multiple scholarly articles on religion philosophy and science. Notable pieces include works by Van Pelt Siren Darrow Edge Fussell Morris Neresheimer and Terhune plus extensive book notices from Little Brown Harper and Putnam on history biology and drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theosophical Path
Point Loma
Cal
Katherine Tingley
Theosophical Movement
Gertrude W. van Pelt
Greece
Oswald Siren
University of Stockholm
F. 8. Darrow
Harv
H. T. Edge
M. A
H. Alexander Fussell
F. J. Dick
C. E
E. A. Neresheimer
Kenneth Morris
Japan
Little, Brown & Co
Napoleon III
Baron D’ambes
Fannie Merritt Farmer
Boston Cooking School
Jeremiah Curtin
Winnifred Fales
Mary E. Northend
William H. Dooley
Lacy Collison-Morley
Emile Olliver
Academie Francaise
America
H. Addington Bruce
John Hancock
Lorenzo Sears
Richard Coeur de Lion
Maud M. Holbach
Napoleon
G. L. de St. M. Watson
St. Helena
Italian Lakes
Edgecumbe Staley
Gabriel Tarde
Modern Criminal Science
Edward Jenks
Andrew Stephenson
Fox Terrier Bosco Wrecks Nightlife at Madison and Western
A Chicago fox terrier named Bosco roams from saloon to saloon near Madison and Western every night. He drinks beer, has lunch, staggers home after 1 am, and fights other dogs, ignoring family pleas and Salvation Army efforts to reform him. He remains unowned and notorious in local dog circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Payson
Terhune
William C. DeMille
W. B. King
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Indianapolis
Albert Payson Terhune
David Belasco
Jim Blake
Standish
Reform
House of Representatives
Blake
Wanda Kelly
Onor
Anda
Chicago
Bosco
Western Avenue
Madison Street
Salvation Army
Eye pictures murderer in Moore family massacre
Council Bluffs Iowa detective C M Brown says investigators have a photograph of the killer from the retina of the Stillingers sister’s eye, taken during the Moore family and two guests murder. The witness was the only awake during the attack. Brown says the image shows a stout man with broad shoulders and a long torso, noting the killer wore a mask and apron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
C. M. Brown
Villisca
J. B. Moore
Stillingers
Moores
Brown
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United States
Cas
Jence
DR. CG. S. Lincoln
Joske’s
Alamo Plaza
Conroy
San Antonio
Texas
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Charles Francis Saunders
New Mexico
Arizona
Spain
Mexico
Saunders
Etienne Burnet
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Elie Metchnikoff
Metchnikoff
Monsieur Metchnikoff
Burnet
M. Burnet
Harper & Brothers
George B. Davis
Woodrow Wilson
Howard Pyle
Frederic Remington
H. C. Christy
F. C. Yohn
Holman Day
Maine
King Spruce
Red Lane
Harpers
Mr. Day
New Brunswick
Attegate
Dave Rai
Vetal Beaulieu
Roi
Beaulieu
Evangeline
Norman Aldrich
Pere Leclair
Geaulieu
Acadians
Louis Blais
Clifford
Aldrich
Father Leclair
Blais
Anaxagoras Billedeaux
Thegate
Day
Boston
Richard Grant White
William P. Trent
Columbia University
Benjamin Wells
John B. Henneman
University of the South
Cambridge
Furness
House of Goupil & Co
Wature’s
Doctor Pierce
Pierce
C. W. Pawzey
Millville
Calif
C. W. Panzzy, Esq
Dr. Pierce
Clarke
S. Alamo ST
National Painless Dentists
West Commerce Street
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