Great Minds to Madness and the Demi-Fous
A survey of Prof Grasset s demi-fous reveals that many great men show varying insanity brands from erotomania to megalomania and monomania The article notes Tolstoi Socrates Pascal Comte and others as examples and argues genius often carries a streak of insanity with both potential dangers and creative impulse.
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Grasset
Prof. Grasset
New York Sunday World
Prof
Tolstoi
Manila
Tolstoil
Dr. Berce
Ossip Lourie
Socrates
Athens
Pascal
Auguste Comte
d’Enghein
Walter Scott
Gorki
Guy de Maupassant
Paul Bourget
Villemain
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Gerard de Nerval
Tuileries
Sheba
Palais Royal
Paris
Man with an Eight-Day Beard Tries Music Box
A man with an odd eight day beard enters a small eatery buys a roast beef sandwich after his coin fails to feed a music box. He tells the cashier to look for repayment from the machine and then leaves.
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New York Press
Wiped England Off The Map Dinner Tale From Bolivia
An Indianapolis News excerpt claims a British ambassador’s dinner in Bolivia led to maps showing Bolivia with more ocean and Britain sunk beneath the waves. Bolivian authorities allegedly ordered new maps and school atlases reflecting the whim, claiming Bolivia’s superiority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolivia
England
Frank Roberson
Britain
British Isles
Great Britain
Indianapolis News
Early dental ice freezing system and its decline
The article traces the first use of ice in dental operations known as the freezing system. It notes its origin in America, later adoption in provincial towns, and abandonment in London and major cities. It contrasts early ice packs with modern cold air methods offering less pain and better efficiency.
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C. H. Stratton Loan CO
Sullivan
Indiana
Long & Warren
London
America
Barsain Bulletin Ladies Sunbonnets on Sale
Local notice advertises Barsain Bulletin sale items including ladies sunbonnets priced at 15 cents and 25 cents with multiple styles offered for a limited time.
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Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Tery
Frank M. Douthitt
South Side Square
Graased
Pope
Baudelaire
Alfred de Musset
Cafe de la Regence
de Musset
Napoleon
Balzac
Ways
Swift
Edgar Allan Poe
Haller
Newton
Beethoven
Henry S. Atkins
St. Louis Asylum For the
Atkins
Moody
Ice
Barsain Bulletin
Ladies’ Union
Eoe
van Buren
Furniure
Acker
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