Old Age Hygiene and Healthy Living Guidelines
The article contrasts infancy and old age, noting aging brings weaker heart and joints, greater disease risk, and slower recovery. It advises gradual lifestyle adjustments, steady routines, moderate work, simple digestible meals, adequate sleep, and continued social, mental engagement to maintain vitality. It also describes a patent twine holding and cutting device by Raymond D. Weakley for easier packaging.
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Nature
Device for Replacing Cars Patented by Ezra Showalter
The article describes a new car replacer device by Ezra Showalter of Ohio. It uses grooves to lift and shift the finlange of a wheel from the rail, transferring it to its position. The block fits over the rail without clamps and can be lifted by a switch iron, enabling a stalled car to be moved quickly. It also suits use in replaced railway cars.
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Andy. Rwine
Cutty
Raymond
Weakley
Missouri
Ezra’ Showalter
Ohio
Shawn
Medical Q and A Replies on Health and Remedies
A column features multiple reader queries on health issues including back and shoulder pain after indigestion, frequent nighttime nasal congestion, and ear noises with neuralgia. Advice emphasizes outdoor exercise, tonics, and cautious use of remedies, with cautions on dry heat for ear trouble and rheumatic chest pain.
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S.C. P
Montreal Herald
Song of the Skirt A Paris walk a sobbing chorus
A dated poem fragment portrays a Parisian woman walking in rain along Bond Street. She laments fashion’s strictures and women’s dress, criticizing the sweeping street grime and sweating gowns with recurring lines about dust, germs, and social decrees.
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Paris
Bond Street
A Corner on Cabbages and the Club's Romance
Higgins, the club joker, falls in love with Mabel Montgomery and competes with Bennington for her fortune. Montgomery tests them by giving Higgins a thousand dollars to invest, while Bennington secretly does the same. Higgins tricks Bennington into buying cabbages, a doomed investment that backfires when Milwaukee dealers corner the market, but the joke yields Miss Montgomery’s blessing and a wedding invitation.
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B. W. Cooley
Daily
Story Pub. Co
Higgins
Mabel Montgomery
Miss Montgomery
Richards
Idoliz
Montgomery
Bennington
Mabel
Higging
Bennington’s
Higgins and Bennington
Papa Montgomery
Vy Bennington
Mabie
Milwaukee
Liggins
Missi Montgomery
Waterworks Investments Across Major U S Cities
The article details public funds invested in waterworks across Manhattan The Bronx Brooklyn and other cities. It cites New York City water revenue at about four million dollars yearly and notes ongoing improvements and rising receipts in water supply.
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Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
New York County
Kings County
Chicago
Boston
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Newark
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Cleveland
New Orleans
Providence
New York
Bureau of Water
Rural Mail Carriers Use Uniform Wagons in Delivery
The rural carriers follow city rules and wear uniforms at their own cost. Each carries a special wagon marked U S Mail with a glass-fronted side door and pigeonholes to sort mail while traveling. Galvanized iron boxes on posts align with the wagon, and a signal system indicates whether mail is delivered or to be picked up.
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U. S
Pearv Gon’s Magazine
Sunday In England Obser ves Rest Day Traditions
English society observes a strict day of rest with suspended postal and theatre traffic during church hours. The king and queen uphold traditional religious ceremonies while most workers slow down or pause activities around royal residences.
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England
London
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