Modern Beauty Practices From Ancient Rome
A Washington Star item contrasts ancient and modern beauty cultures. It describes Roman daily grooming by slaves with pumice, ass milk, snail ashes, honey, swan fat, and special unguents, plus cosmetics and perfumes, ending with a gold mirror. It then shifts to a Carnegie quote about egg baskets.
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Poppina
Agrippina
Rome
Corsica
Indy
Brutus
Cato
Utica
Washington Star
Hewitt Gruet Comedic Exchange At Jewett
Quoted banter from the New York Times shows Hewitt and Jewett exchanging quips about persistence and leaving someone cold. The exchange captures a playful back and forth on the difficulty of parting ways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewett
New York Times
Milk Question Sparks Odd Exchange at Posten Port
In Posten Port a wife corrects her husband asking if milk is sterilized. She explains it is not sterilized but water cured, yielding a quirky domestic oddity.
Perpetual Motion Inventor Crafts Cyclone Device
In the valley of the Big Sunflower river Henry Plumshaw the inventor devised a cyclone powered by a belt around a funnel cyclone top of a fifty foot well. He connected a dynamo and wiring to run machinery and lights in the region powered by the cyclone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Plumshaw
Plymahaw
Plumshaw
Niagara
H. V. Marrip
Harper's Magazine
Domestic Experience Ends With Cook Leaving Over Traditions
A Detroit Free Press item quotes a housekeeper lamenting the dismissal of a cook who left after a dispute over entertaining. The cook, Ella, complained that the household did not host enough teas or receptions and later sent a card saying she found a more stylish place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella
Detroit Free Press
Three Rules For Fishing From A London Pastor
A brief anecdote recalls Rev. Mark Guy Pearse observing an old man fishing. The elder explains three rules: stay unseen, stay unseen, stay unseen, to catch trout. The piece shifts to quips about Miss Blank and a poor social shift, then a child and father exchange about drowning rescues and unanswerable questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Guy Pearse
London
Not One of His Traits
A brief exchange features Slopay challenging a Darwinian stance while Bigs Taller argues dust origins. The Philadelphia Press quotes a debate style exchange on belief and creation with sharp, dry repartee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slopay
Bigs
Philadelphia Press
Misunderstood Borrowell Loan Tug Turns into Exchange
In Philadelphia Record dialogue between Borrowell and Wigwag reveals a short exchange over a dollar loan from the previous week. The light repartee hints at lingering tensions and casual lending rituals in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Record
Feeding and care of hogs from the agriculture department
The article stresses feeding clean wholesome slop and avoiding stale or dirty water. It warns against hogs drinking mud water, urges fresh water with proper troughs, warns that corn should be fed sparingly with grasses, and advises separating well and sick hogs to prevent cholera. It endorses Chloro-Napthaleum as a disinfectant and emphasizes bedding cleanliness and thorough disinfection. It cites Iowa State Board of Health data on hog cholera and promotes prevention through cleanliness, lime, and disinfection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Board of Health
The Volcano's Deadly Work Explains Martinique Disaster
Prof Charles Morris presents an extensive 600 page study detailing the fall of Pompeii scale of Martiqu e disaster and its devastation. The work claims to surpass Pompeii in scope with photos from before and after. Agents are sought with lucrative terms and a ready-to-sell outfit offered by Clairk & Co at 2228 4th St Philadelphia.
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Pompeii
St. Peirre
Charles Morris
L. L D
Martinique
Inereta
Mortis
Outfit
Jqlark & CO
4Th ST
Philadelphia
T. Dewitt Talmage
Bbie Bon
Frank Dewitt Talmage
Christian Herald
Talmage
Clark & Co
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Aberdeen
Ohio
Hot Springs
Ark
W. T. Timmons
Waxahatchie
Tex
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Texas
F. Ballantyne
Ballantyne & McDonough
Savannah
Lippman Brothers, Proprietere
Savannah, GA
Wenchester
Winchester
Belles OF
Old Rome
Carnegie
Hewitt—Gruet
Boston
P. M. Whitman
7Th St
Augusta
Renson
Miss Blank
Chicago Post
U S
Washington,d.c
Georgia State Educational Association
Tybee
Central of Georgia Railway
of Georgia
Waa Rolla
Marlin
Wrightsville & Tennille R.R
Apa
Lepty
P. m
Ubil Lo
Tennille
Peacocks Harrison Lonovan
Wrightaville
Meadowa Lovett
Bruton Condor
Dublin
Alutohings
Springhaven
Dexter
Aloorna
Chester Yonkers
Hirst Class Central of Georgia Ry
F. Daley
M. V. Mahoney
Luckie Hawkineville
Uneeda
Ita
Kentucky Utalty
Kentucky University
Lexington
Rim Baal
Donne Steele
Hank
Arithe
Rhearh
Sandersville High School
John Gibson
B. L
Revenewers
University of Ga
Mercer
Emory
University of Nashville
Nashville
Sandersvillbe, Ga
A. Werman
Baltimore
New York
Moises Center
Werman
Broadway
International Rural Clinic
LA Salle Ave
Chicago
Ill
Lombard Iron Works & Supply CO
Georgia
Ublisher
SULAS
T. Satisfaction
Kx & Ie
Euner
Pea
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