Beckenham Mirrors Boy Behavior Stunt Ends
Beckenham England claims best behaved boys after 20 years of resisting stone throwing at a road mirror for drivers. The city has removed the mirror. A separate note mentions a woman learning her gown fit from another woman.
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Beckenham
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Phillips Milk of Magnesia Aids Digestion
A milk of magnesia product offers quick relief from gas and sour stomachs by neutralizing stomach acid and calming digestive organs. It markets as safe for children and links relief to pleasant tasting formula, urging use when coated tongue or fetid breath signals need of a sweetener.
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Phillips
Great Results From Lydia E Pinkham Compound
A Brainerd Minnesota reader reports Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improved her health during the Change of Life. She describes nervousness and weakness before using it and credits the tonic with restoring strength for household duties.
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Lydia
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Jim Nate
Brainerd
Minnesota
Corn as Nation’s Crown and Its Great States
A historical reflection on corn as a national treasure. Governor Oglesby’s Illinois tribute frames maize as a defining American fruit of soil and spirit, praising its cultural and economic heft while noting Iowa and Nebraska lead production. It cites exact acreages, bushels, and value, and connects corn to myth, history, and regional pride.
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Richard J. Oglesby
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Keepers At London Zoo Treat King Cobra And Hamadryad
Keepers at the London Zoo conduct routine medical checks on a king cobra and its hamadryad. The cobra is restrained with a snake stick and swabbed with antiseptic as part of standard care. The hamadryad has a grille over its inspection window to prevent aggressive leaps at staff.
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Hamadryad
London
Friendship's Elements in Emerson's View
A brief note cites Emerson’s claim that friendship rests on truth and tenderness as two essential, equal elements, with no implied priority or justification for one to precede the other.
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Emerson
Not Family English Walnut Origin Not England
The English walnut is not native to England. It originates from the mountains of Greece, and from Persia and Afghanistan.
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England
Greece
Persia
Afghanistan
Woman Appeals Over Voodoo Hair Curse in Lynchburg Court
A young colored woman in Lynchburg Virginia faced a voodoo mystery after a colored man allegedly cut her hair and claimed the hair was placed under a dying tree to kill her. She filed charges but withdrew when she learned the tree would not die and the effect ceased.
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Lynchburg
Boy Stranded at Sea Is Fined in Court Tale
East Boston youth Arthur Bickford fourteen recounted being blown out to sea and paddling a row boat toward Gov ernor's Island before a towboat and yacht crew rescued him. He admitted stealing the row boat and was fined fifteen dollars with two dollar weekly payments.
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Second District Court
Arthur Bickford
Boston
Hingham Harbor
George Berry
Yacht Club
Crow Point
Bickford
Foster Trainer
Greg Goose
Edward B. Pratt
East Boston
Poor mother burns infant over milk debt in Los Angeles
Mrs Josephine Valente nineteen confessed to killing eight month old Dominick Valente by setting fire to his go cart after saying she could not afford milk for him and owed a three week bill. Her husband Sabinto said he gave nine dollars for groceries and detectives noted a new three hundred seventy five dollar life insurance on the child.
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Los Angeles
Josephine Valente
Dominick
Frank Condaffer
Budapest suicide attempts rise amid postwar hardships
The report shows 583 of 1,901 attempts in Budapest succeeded, a female dominated pattern with about 148 women per 100 men. Since the war, suicide attempts remain very high due to widespread poverty among once wealthy families.
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Budapest
Boy Dies After Being Called a Sissy in Paterson Fight
Fifteen-year-old John Nolan of Paterson New Jersey died after a fight with Louis Torvello sixteen who allegedly called him a sissy for wearing his mother's graduation wrist watch. Two companions faced open complaints as police investigate the case.
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New York
John Nolan
Paterson
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Torvello
Safety Pin Causes Death of Bay Shore Infant
A safety pin lodged in the throat six months ago has caused the death of year-old Frank Page Jr. of Bay Shore New York.
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Bay Shore
N. Y
Frank Page, Jr
Flying Stone Kills Lakota Pioneer Farmer
Siren Jangen, a Lakota, was killed when a fragment of a grindstone pierced his heart at his farm. The accident occurred near Lakota, North Dakota, leaving local residents shocked by the sudden tragedy.
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Siren Jangen
Wrong number crowds polite courtesy in comic quip
An exchange about politeness warms to humor as a telephone operator thanks the caller yet provides an incorrect number prompting a lighthearted reaction about mixed emotions.
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