Secrets of the Body Inspire a Medical Century's Rise
A Zu p er's Weekly essay reflects on how medicine’s advance challenges traditional authority. It argues surgeons and scientists gain prestige, wealth flows into medical education, and eventually life extension could become the primary mission of colleges and universities. The piece envisions doctors shaping society as industry and law influence do.
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Mankind
Rhan
Nand
Millona
Senata
Zurper
Whirlers and the origin of a stocking tale
A college professor recounts how the term whirlers arose from a haberdasher’s mispricing of stockings without feet. A teamster requested whirlers, the shopkeeper cut feet from stockings, and the price rose to six tenths of a dollar. The tale claims whirlers became the name for stockings without feet.
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New York Tribune
Animals intoxicated by palm juice in Indian wildlife
An 19th century note describes elephants, sloth bears, bats, and palm civets in India becoming wildly drunk from juice of the ungann palm. It recounts elephants staggering, bears slipping from trees, and bats flocking to drink, portraying palm fermentation as a danger to wildlife.
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India
Death tale and odd pet habit from a London Times note
A reminiscence of Max O'Rell in Australia recalls a near death by a death adder after a restless night in a bush inn. He then searched for his walking stick, finally finding it among bedclothes after a long, nervous hunt. A separate item reports a Pomeranian that habitually wipes its nose on flannel before every bite of bread and milk, avoiding bread with gravy.
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Australia
Max O'Rell
London Times
Set Him to Thinking in Sensitive Exchange
A fragment from Brown ing's Monthly depicts two people walking and discussing rejection. She laments the hurt of being rejected by a woman and he feigns sympathy as he contemplates the act. Their exchange reveals the strain and ambiguity in their relationship as distance grows.
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Browning
Monthly
Fragments From Historic Papers On Quarrels And Odd Notes
A garbled collage of dialogue about engagements and quarrels cites the Philadelphia Press and Chicago Tribune lines. It includes a minor exchange on who is at fault and a joke about hands and tying a tin can to a dog’s tail. A stray line mentions degrees and a cryptic wax remark with degrees.
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Tommy
Chicago Tribune
Nickel Plate trains offer comfort and low rates
For comfort, good service and low rates patronize the Nickel Plate road. Good road bed and first class dining car service with railway meals on the American club plan priced from 3k to 1. Three through trains daily in each direction. Rates are the lowest with no excess fare. Chicago City Ticket office 117 Adams St. Depot La Salle St. Station corner Van Buren and La Salle Sts on the Elevated Loop.
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Chicago
District Court Notice in Hardin County Case
Robert Simpson sues Mary Lightner and John Lightner plus unknown heirs and representatives to reform and perfect a land patent for 123 acres in Hardin county. Notice seeks title improvement and equitable relief with a September 1 1903 filing. a court action to be heard October 11 1903 in Eldora.
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Fur Hardin County
Robert Simpson
Mary Lightner
John Lightner
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District Court
Lardin County
Uwi
Rovert Simpson
Wersanry
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Eldora
Laws
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Eldora Herald
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World and US atlas offered by The Herald
Front page features flags of nations, maps of Iowa and the United States, circular hemispheric maps, and a section of state capitals with population and area data. A home atlas perfect for hanging, priced at $1.00 and available only at The Herald office with a supply on hand.
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Iowa
United States
Herald
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