Kaiser Wilhelm's costly royal life exposes pay gap
The New York Sunday World reports Kaiser Wilhelm II as German Emperor and King of Prussia is underpaid despite a multi-million annual income. It contrasts his $650,000 plus nearly $4,000,000 salaries with lavish upkeep including fifty-two castles, fleets of uniforms, and a heavy retinue, while noting other monarchs' larger allowances and revenues.
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Prussia
Kaiser Wilhelm
Ead
Berlin
Hanover
Passel
Wilhelm Hilderbrand
Landner
Oness Oppenheim
Henckel von Donrsgard
Forign
Europe
Russia
State Treasury
House of Romanoff
Italy
Greece
Great Britain
France
United States
New York Sunday World
Insured by Weight A Review of Pound Per Pound Policies
A look back at unusual life insurance deals based on body weight. Examples include Smaun Sing Hpop, a 34 inch Burmese midget insured at Lloyds for 20000 dollars at 1000 per 16 ounces, and John Locke Rowe who accepted a policy at 100 dollars a pound. The piece notes persistent agents, odd outcomes, and legal questions raised by these weight based contracts.
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Smaun Sing Hpop
London
Land of the Free
Lloyds
Smaun
John Locke Rowe
Boston
Rowe
Mertinet
Bertinet
Great poet says poem meant for magazine not book collection
A delegation of admirers asks what the poem meant. The poet replies he did not intend any hidden meaning and wrote it for a monthly magazine, not a book collection.
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Louisville Courier- Journal
Everything Else Yeast and the Sun at Sea
A Yonkers Statesman feature blends nautical imagery with light dialogue about mornings at sea. The piece contrasts the speaker's wonder with a skeptical shrug from Crimsonbeak as they muse on sights beyond routine days at harbor.
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Crimsonbeak
Yonkers Statesman
Feast of the Garlands and Global Marriage Markets
A survey describes the feast of the garlands in remote Swiss cantons and similar marriage markets in Belgium Tunisia and England. It notes maidens sing dance exchange flower garlands and lanterns signal proposals and rejections amid rival customs. London’s chief rabbi is Dr Herrmann Adler and the position is funded by congregational donations.
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Beaussine i
Belgium
Bach
Tunis
England
St. Martha's Hill
Surrey
Pearson's Weekly
London
London Times
Herrmann Adler
Arabian Nights and The Book of the Thousand and One Nights
The Arabian Nights is a vast collection of tales in Arabic literature titled The Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Antoine Galland brought the work to Europe between 1704 and 1717 after obtaining a manuscript and supplementing it with stories from traveling tellers.
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Europe
Antoine Galland
A Modern Romance and Family Objections
A modern romance faces a persistent hurdle as family objections hinder marriage plans. The suitor asserts a real man can overcome issues while the wife resists divorce, reflecting social expectations around union and separation.
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Pittsburg Post
Grape-Nuts Nourishes Mother and Child Says Letter
A reader testifies that Grape-Nuts helped her regain strength after birth and enabled her to nurse her four month old baby. She notes the cereal’s whole wheat and barley composition and its role in brain and nerve development. The letter is part of a recurring series by Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan praising the product.
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Asa
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Cleaning Piano Keys with Chalk and Oil Technique
A New York Press note advises cleaning ivory piano keys by mixing prepared white chalk with a dash of sweet oil and sal volatile into a paste. The paste is rubbed on with chamois skin and allowed to dry for whitening and brightening the keys.
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New York Press
Milk Cure Named Fashionable Beauty Practice
A beauty trend in fashionable society promotes the milk cure for skin care. Women apply milk to the face with soft linen at night, let it dry, then wash in milk each morning, avoiding sap. Regular milk cleansing is said to guard against sunburn.
Freshening a Linen Frock with Colored Bands
A linen frock or coat suit shrinks and can be lengthened by adding colored linen bands. This season attire features plain bands or white with soutache braiding running to the hem. Favorite combos include yellow on white, or pink and blue with matching hems.
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New York
How to Keen Water Cold
A Woman's Home Companion writer suggests a method to keep ice water cold in a common pitcher. Place a half inch layer of cotton between two sheets of thick brown paper around the pitcher to form a crown shaped like a stovepipe hat. Sew or paste ends to exclude air and place over an ice filled pitcher to extend cold water retention after ice melts.
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Woman's Home Companion
Decorative Portiere and Simple Bakes From Household Page
A household guide lists steps to make a portiere with serge or linen, including hemming, fringe, and a bold outlined design dyed in colors. It then offers a rope tassel setup and moth protection, plus recipes for Kisses, Coffee Cake, Philadelphia Vanilla Ice Cream, Boiled Rice, and serving ideas.
Winnipeg Growth Hints at Future Prosperity and Industrial Rise
The piece notes Winnipeg’s rapid growth as Canada’s fourth largest manufacturing city, comparing its trajectory to St. Louis and Chicago. It cites population rising from 48,411 in 1902 to 118,000, while assessed property and bank clearings surged dramatically by 1907. It then shifts to a Cortelyou speech about hammer makers, featuring a New York craftsman who insists he makes the best hammers in the United States after 28 years’ work.
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Winnipeg
Canada
St. Louis
Chicago
Manitoba
Utica
United States
Simple safeguards in buying paint and white lead
An advisory on avoiding adulterated white lead with chalk and barytes. It promotes National Lead Company and the Dutch Boy trademark as guarantees of purity and unity, offering a free painting test book and equipment. The quoted Louisville Courier Journal dialogue contrasts marital trouble with pretense.
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National Lead Company
Woodbridge Bldg
New York
Overtook Him in Court Tale
A husband testifies of cruel treatment by his wife. The judge questions where they met, and the man replies humorously that he never met her, she just overtook him. The anecdote uses light, domestic courtroom humor to close the case.
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Frouble
Cured by Terrenine andSoap Claim From Atlanta Man
HCZEMA CURED J B Maxwell of Atlanta Georgia says he suffered agony with a severe case of eczema then found relief after using Terrenine and soap. He reports complete cure and praises the remedy. The ad notes Terrenine and Soap available from druggists or by mail for 50c and 25c respectively from J T Suartring Savannah GA.
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J. B. Maxwell
Atlanta
J. T. Suartring
Dept. A
Savannah
Three Cures of Eczema by Cuticura Remedies
A mother recounts her brother’s three summers of eczema and his complete recovery after using Cuticura Ointment. She notes a Michigan reader’s granddaughter and another child also cured, with sustained relief after the Cuticura treatments.
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Indiana
Mra. Miller
Mia
Sarah E. Lusk
Coldwater
Mich
Books on the Requirements of Modern Life Questioned
A Louisville Courier Journal quip contrasts a proposed book set about the requirements of modern life with a skeptical view that those requirements are simply advertising and push. The exchange frames consumer culture as the modern condition.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Courageous Women Face Daily Aches and Burdens
In homes across the region women endure pains and fatigue while tending families. The text calls for help to ease daily struggles and support those who sacrifice for others, highlighting silent suffering and the need for relief.
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Anne
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound endorsee letters
Mrs F Ellsworth of Ayville New York and Mrs W P Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad notes thirty years of use and claims cures for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities eye pains backache and nervous prostration with an invitation to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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F. Ellsworth
Ayville
N. Y
W.P. Boyd
Beaver Falls
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lever
Lydia
Pinkham
Early Bird Learns Banking From Punctual Son
The gilded youth enters his father's bank to study the business. The banker notes the son arrives at 9 sharp, and the youth jokes he could be earlier since their club closes at 6. Washington Herald.
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Washington Herald
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Bishops Counted In The News
The paper notes Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to cure constitutional disease with internal use and offers a $100 reward for any failure. It lists bishops: Episcopal 85 in US plus in several countries, Methodist Episcopal 19, and Methodist Episcopal South 11. Also mentions A. H. Green's Sons in Atlanta as dropay specialists and a 1908 proposition joke.
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Gasteces
Thati Velar
Medi Fraternity
Hall
Addrem F. J. Cureney & Co
Toledo
A. H. Green’s Sons
Atlanta, Ga
Iberal
Clergyman recounts relief from lumbago with Pain Pills
Rev G M Gray of Whitesboro Texas testifies Pain Pills gave relief after four years of misery from lumbago. He urges others to try the remedy and permits publication of his experience. Advert says Foster Milburn Co Buffalo distributes the product. Electric tramway plans in Holland receive government concession for Amsterdam to Wormerveer route.
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G. M. Gray
Whitesboro
Texa
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Nts & Box
Holland
Lis Gran
Amsterdam
North Holland
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