Women urged to avoid surgery with Pinkham's remedy
A health column notes rising operations on women for womb and ovarian troubles. It cites common symptoms and claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures womb issues, ovarian inflammation, and nervous distress, urging women to write for free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Ealing
Luella Adams
Colonnade
Seattle
Wash
Mrs. Pinkham
New England States
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Adams
Lydia
Pinkham
Prayer Fails to Quiet 5 Year Old at Bedtime
A Methodist minister hides at the door as his five year old son Frank recites a humorous bedtime prayer. The child asks blessings for family and himself, interjecting a joke about mispronounced lines. The family ends the night with the child tucked in, smiling and sleepy.
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Frank
Tord
Papa
Mamma
Mamie
Uncle Frank
Columbus Dispatch
Poet Pours Forth His Soul in Moonrise Prose
A London Answers passage extols a descriptive writer who crafts a flowery account of Selene’s ascent. The prose details the moonlit scene as cloud mountains glow, stars dim, and the night queen sails her royal chariot across a vast nocturnal sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selene
London
Fighting Shows Race in Sayings of Nations
A police officer comments on trait traits during a fight, describing English, Scottish, Irish, German, and American approaches. He contrasts British bluffing, Scottish caution, Irish crowd appeal, German neatness, and American eagerness to start fighting. The quotation is attributed to the New York Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
Evolution of Boulevard and Esplanade in Military Terms
The piece traces boulevard and esplanade origins from fortifications with a bulwark and glacis. It notes 200 years ago a boulevard described as the space between citadel glacis and town, later widening to pleasant promenades. Esplanade is linked to smoothing or leveling paths from Latin explapare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotgrave
Patience and Faith in Work, a George McDonald Adage
A compact moral reflection urges steady diligence and steadfast patience. It encourages not rushing progress but trusting divine timing and remaining charitable as patience matures. The speaker cites God as a support, urging belief that effort will eventually weave a larger, celestial result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McDonald
Teeth extraction by thumb and finger skill
A dentist style note explains a method for pulling teeth with one hand and fast extraction possible after practice. A city man and country cousin tour a museum and joke about ancient Egyptian coins. A magistrate mocks a man who shot at him in Bow Street court. A Philadelphia motorman addresses a female passenger as teddy and the conductor apologizes for the error.
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Musem
Reub
Bow Street
Patrick Lane
Joseph Kavanagh
Strand
Philadelpha
Teddy
Douglas Kanesabam Seels
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Dottens
Otter
W. L. Douglas Strong
Man
Brass
Bavino
Downer
W.J. Douglas
Family man at Kansas fair longs for elk exhibit
A Kansas country fair tale ends with a joke as a man appeals to an elk exhibitor for entry to share with his wife and seventeen children. The keeper responds with a quip about wringing the elk out to let the family in, highlighting rural humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Mr. Roosevelt
Floating Gardens and River Islands Worldwide
The article notes the fame of Mexico’s floating gardens once crowded with tropical plants and bright flowers, then shifts to South American riverine floating islands carrying numerous wildlife. It reports Buenos Aires zoological gardens receiving about fifty new tropical species rescued from passing islands on the Rio de la Plata.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
South America
Zoological Gardens
Buenos Ayres
Rio de la Plata
Epitaph of Susannah Barford 1652 Mystery
An old London churchyard features a memorial for Susannah Barford who died in 1652 aged 10 years and 18 weeks. The inscription is a garbled verse likening her life to a short dramatic tragedy with phrases about waking and passing to heaven.
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London
Susannah Barford
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