Autocrat Doctor Known for Unorthodox Healed Boy and Air
A tale recalls Dr X a country healer famed for strict orders and bold cures. He saved a boy with a heat iron to burst a throat abscess and later forced fresh air by smashing window panes to aid recovery. The doctor’s decisive methods and intelligence contrasted with resistant caregivers.
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Backache Tied to Kidney Trouble Warns Readers
An advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for backache and kidney issues. A Texas resident, J A Haywood of Lufkin, recalls back pain from a sawmill job, urine problems, and gravel attacks that subsided after using the product.
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Lufkin
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Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Fragmented OCR Dialogue Across Railroads and Society
An OCR fragment surveys attitudes toward railroads and power in Washington, noting lawmakers avoided rail pass perks while presidents of railroads held influence. It weaves in literary humor from Tit-Bits and Tit-Bits style quotes about wealth, estate owners, and social manners.
Grape-Nuts Promised Sleep Aid and Digestive Relief
A reader testimonial claims Grape-Nuts improves sleep by promoting calm nights and alert days. The writer describes relief from indigestion vomiting and bloating after switching from potatoes and meat, noting improved stomach strength in a mother and overall brain and nerve restoration with a good night’s sleep. The ad cites Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan with the slogan there’s a reason.
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Contented landowners of the White River country
A writer extols smallholders from Newport Arkansas to Carthage Missouri as the most contented people in the United States. They live under self rule, with abundant natural wealth from soil forests and minerals, and face change as railroads bring new money and potential emigration. The piece ends with a humorous aside about John G Carlisle and the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court
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French State Monopolies Rise in Finance Policy
In France state monopolies gain favor as a tool to raise revenue at private expense. A deputies’ committee, chaired by the foreign minister of finance, will study potential monopolies in sugar and petroleum refining, alcohol rectification, and insurance.
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When Pope Pius Receives
Visitors to the pope must appear in full evening dress for morning audiences around 11 o'clock. The outer office resembles a New York law firm with a pleasant secretary in secular attire. The audience is simple and not awe inspiring. visitors must kneel and kiss the pope's hand.
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Pope Pius
New York
X Rays Lead to Closure of Ringworm Ward
X rays have proven so effective in treating ringworm among children that the Metropolitan Asylums Board in London can discontinue one of the two institutions reserved for such cases. The success reflects a major advance in radiographic therapy and reduces the need for additional hospital beds.
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Growth of native Western-style schools in Foochow
In Foochow a rapid spread of western style education has produced about 40 native schools modeled after foreign missions. The city, home to 600000 residents, now hosts roughly 2000 students. Posters advertise new openings weekly as schools emerge across the locale.
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China
Foochow
Ancient Somerset mines yield well preserved young woman's body
In Priddy Jead mines Somersetshire England a young woman's remains lie 16 to 17 feet beneath a waterlogged slit. hair remains in its original braid. Found with the corpse are five large blue and green glass beads.
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Somersetshire
England
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