Asa's Excessive Appetite and the Body's Capacity For Food
Extract from the Sioux County Bee discusses how a hearty appetite belies health risks. It argues excessive consumption taxes digestion and excretion, especially with sedentary life, and links affluent lifestyles to earlier health decline. Dr. Charles W Purdy notes modern temptations accelerate wear on the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asa
New England
Charles“ W_ Purdy
M.D
North American Review
Anger and Eggs Link Deaths, Says Beaton Story
A Boston observer recalls multiple deaths linked to anger and egg consumption. He notes a wife dying after a dinner with soft scrambled eggs, a boy dying after breakfast eggs following a quarrel, and another case where five eggs at a table preceded a fatal outcome. He urges logic to explain the chain of cause and effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. I. Stewart
Boston
Connecticut
Miuch
Beacon Hill
Wnine
St. Louis Republic
Wrecked on Bustos Shoals and a Christmas Secret
A young man debates impressing a girl with poetry while stranded at Bustos Shoals. His friend warns against wrong punctuation. The Washington Star notes a church historian claim about Christmas celebrations being secretly saved by Papa Telesphores, dying in AD.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bustos Shoals
Boston
Washington
Papa Telesphores
Feet And Character Readings From Foot Signs
A jammed collection of antiquated notes on chiromancy and chiropody links foot markings to temperament and ability, noting instep strength, heel shape, toe length, and curves as signs of character. It pairs with a short humorous vignette about a man giving up smoking for love, revealed by his wife’s friend’s confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trilby
Philadelphia ‘Times
Harad
Pearson's Weekly
Electric protection of safes described for vaults and cabinets
The article explains a system placing money and valuables inside a cabinet or vault with an electric alarm. Metal strips detect tampering and a time lock prevents opening until disconnecting from the alarm. A steel alarm box under a hood resists tampering and heavy lag bolts delay entry, triggering warnings if disturbed.
Pigeon Race Prize Purses Victory in France Event
In France pigeons are valued messengers in war and peacetime. The ministry of war offered a prize for a race from Perigneux to Paris. A total of 2 746 birds entered. The winner completed the 260 mile course in 7 hours 34 minutes at an average over 34 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Ministry of War
Perigneux
Paris
Milk Gift and a Stranger Aboard a Snowbound Train
A winter journey stalls near a snowy Baltimore stop. A quiet gentleman shares a glass of milk with a little girl and later tells tales to her beside the car when revealed as Professor Francis J. Child. Years later the child writes stories, keeping the memory as a cherished memento of generous conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starr
Professor Child
Ngton
Hones
Washington
Madai
Baltimore
Francis J. Child
Ariontie
Antiquity of Soap Tracing Ancient Soap Making
The article traces soap history from Gauls using ash and fat over 2000 years ago to Pompeii finds and Pliny the Elder. It notes early Italian and Spanish soap factories and Phonician transfer to France by about 750 A D with Marseille as an early hub, plus a mixed historical record of early substitutes and price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malachi
Pompeii
Pliny the Elder
Italy
Spain
Phonicians
France
Marseilles
Notice to Settle and Local Notices Across Towns
Notice to settle debts for Dunham and Kellar and other creditors from Rock Valley Iowa to Sheldon Primghar and Doon. Auction sales, loans, role of agents, new store moves, farm finance offers, and fresh produce prices listed with names and places including Dusan Kennan J D Vigarnon E Enprence W Wright W J Bilzerton Tins Bre WW Reynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunham & Kellar
Dusan & Kennan
Sheldon
Wright, Primghar
W. J. Bilzerton
Reynolds
Market Gardner
Doon
Rock Valley
Marblehead
Subscriptions and Job Ad for Perfection Poultry Mix
Our clubbing offer lists subscription prices for multiple newspapers including Sioux City Journal Cincinnati Inquirer New York Weekly Tribune and Detroit Free Press with varied rates. Also an employment notice seeks a man to introduce Perfection Poultry Mixture nationwide offering $10 weekly and requesting stamped applications to Perfection Manufacturing Company Parsons Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City Journal
Cincinnati Inquirer
Town State Register
New York Weekly Tribune
Toledo Weekly Blade
Chicago Weekly
Inter-Ocean
Sioux City Weekly ‘Tribune
Detroit Free Press
Northwestern Catholic
Wallace's Starmer
Northwestern Agriculturist
Womankind
iParm News
Louis Republic
Perfection Manufacturing Company
Parsons, Kan
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Bee Rock Valley
Iowa
Hurd, Ediver and Proprietor
Ee Terr
Anger and
Haskell
Bobby
Mr. Cop
Tesynkerts
Dr. Wards Liniment
Ray Enns
J. D. Vigarnon
W. Lavithop
Virarius
the Gem
C. G. Reiniger
G. B. Sxyver
Towa
G.C. C
J. W. Mak
B. Pldridge
Owa
P. McKellar & Son
Maher
Rock’ Valley, Iowa
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