Tokyo bath houses offer baths for a cent
In Tokio the city hosts 800 public bath houses where residents can bathe, hot or cold, for a single cent.
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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1901
Page
7
World to End This Year Prompts Cures Claim
A world ending prediction is linked to a sales pitch for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia indigestion constipation and liver and kidney troubles. The piece notes Phoenix Arizona's growth from sage brush desert to a 25 000 population with $10 000 000 property value due to irrigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Salt River Valley
San Francisco
Arizona
Oxidine Offered For Malaria Fues As A Cautionary Note
A notice describes using OXIDINE to treat malaria chills and fevers. It also includes a calculation by Stokes stating a water droplet one thousandth inch in diameter would fall in still air at over an inch and a half per second, while a tenth that size would descend over an inch per minute.
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Stokes
Garfield Headache Powders Promises Medical Cure
An advertisement touts Garfield Headache Powders as a cure for headaches and nervous conditions claiming no systemic disturbance. It also promotes a paid recruitment plan offering $25 weekly to teachers and men to join a “very popular secret society” in Houston Texas.
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G. M. Cross
Houston
Texas
Old Reliable Eye Water and Patent Remedies Ad
A 1900 advertisement mix touts Dickey's Eye-Water for sore eyes and granulated lids, praises Oxidine, Piso's Cure for Consumption, and a mirror proverb. It features Mrs. Belns of Norwich New York and a dated testimonial.
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Dickey
Thos. RK. Belns
Maple Street
Norwich, N. Y
Evils of Eating Alone and Loneliness
A Lancet quoted essay argues that delaying marriage increases dyspepsia among middle class men and that eating alone harms digestion. It contrasts solitary meals with social dining and notes loneliness in big cities leads to poor nourishment and health risks.
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Devil
London
Tris
Oak stump fired as a cannon in Alabama home
In Birmingham Coroner Paris residence was damaged when a cut oak stump fired by dynamite shot at the house. A negro worker bored a hole in a 2 inch stump, placed dynamite, and the heart of the stump shot forward like a cannon ball boring a large hole through the wall. No one was hurt.
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Birmingham
Paris
BirmiEeham
Rir Ya
Ala
Paris Place
Atlanta News
Monkey-Faced Owls Found Near Red Bud Illinois
Two of the three owls, about two months old, resemble monkeys with large eyes and a low beak, lacking their usual hoot. Found near Red Bud and taken from a woods nest by George Carpenter, they are kept by Phil Offerding in this city.
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Red Bud
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Phil Offerding
George Carpenter
Kidney Cure Praised by Wright in Clarksdale Miss
J H Wright reports kidney troubles improved after using Smiths Sure Kidney Cure and plans to seek a better job. His wife also shows improvement after a short period of treatment. He paid 50 cents and confirms strong personal benefit.Advertisements for patent medicines and humorous quips accompany the letter.
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Bright
Sid
Smith
J. H. Wright
Clarksdale
Miss
Juiceless Advertising and Odd Promises
A mock collection of old ad lines touting cures for malaria chills and fever with a druggist prompt, a railroad map engraving, and a note that exported butter will spread abroad.
Franklin’s Tomb Maintained As Simple Memorial
The Christchurch Vestry of Philadelphia responds to memorial suggestions for Benjamin Franklin’s grave, stating the final resting place should remain simple as Franklin himself dictated in his will. The church has upheld a long standing policy to keep the site in its historic condition.
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Christchurch
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
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