Burning sugar yields powerful antiseptic gas study
Prof Thrilert of the Pastir Institute Paris shows burning five grams of sugar under a glass bell creates formic acetylene hydrogen, a strong antiseptic gas. In tests with typhus tuberculosis cholera and smallpox microbes, all died within half an hour. Odor from putrified meat or rotten eggs vanishes in a closed vessel.
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Pastir Institute
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Mrs Ward condemns marrying down to uplift a degraded man
Mrs. Humphry Ward, during her American visit, condemned marriages in which a woman weds a degraded man to uplift him. She recalled a painter who visited a dissipated friend and overheard the man declare he would marry Miss Blank, a "sweet girl," then drag her down to his level.
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New York
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Signature of E. W. Grove Promotes Bromine Quinine Remedy
Advertisement claims a single Bromo Quinine laxative syrup by E. W. Grove cures a cold in one day. Marketed worldwide, priced at 25 cents.
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Unfortunate Man Pleads Rheumatiz in Court
A battered disreputable man faces the judge and, when asked for the complaint, declares rheumatiz as his reason. The line is delivered in a dry courtroom vignette from the Chicago Tribune.
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Rheumatiz
Chicago Tribune
Hide and Fur Co Catalog Ad
Minneapolis firm advertises a catalog for guns traps and hunting gear. They invite buyers to purchase cheap firearms and traps while also buying furs and hides. The notice cites 108 N. W. Hide and Fur Co. in Minneapolis.
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Money is easy in Wall Street quoted by Ostend Pa
Dialogue notes that money is easy for hard pressed readers only when sourced from easy targets. It contrasts Ostend Pa hearing easy money with a parent explaining that those who control funds are not easily reached. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup ad promotes teething relief and wind colic cure in one bottle.
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Wall Street
Zeal for Learning in Ireland and Dublin Library Gap
An Irish question of access to a great public library for students teachers and the public is pressing. Dublin lacks a central city library. Trinity College and the National Library of Ireland strain for space with limited funds and staff. The National Library operates on 6250 dollars annually with crowded reading rooms and high demand.
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Tolstoy on living sovereigns in a humane letter
Tolstoy writes that current sovereigns are instigators of violence and massacres yet are below moral standards. He describes them as unfortunate and pitiable, argues against rising indignation, and says humanity should neither combat nor condemn them. The letter promotes pity over anger.
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Canal Commission Reports Big Ditch Progress and Costs
The canal project near completion shows total cost to date at 120 million 964 thousand 468 dollars with 43 thousand workers on average. Death rate fell to 18.32 per thousand due to improved sanitation and 929 hospital deaths among 27,523 treated.
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Practical farming tips for better yields and markets
Long list of agricultural guidance covers breeding stock, fruit branding, weed control, forage and alfalfa planting, beef prices, and seed testing. Notes how to graft old trees, select stout horses, feed poultry, and improve ground with plastics of waste. Describes Iowa farmers shipping cattle to England and a Missouri seed testing lab opening for quality and germination tests.
Managing Young Chicks at Maine Experiment Station
At 9 to 10 weeks old the cockerels are separated from hens and placed in empty brooder houses, 100 birds per house with a front yard about twelve feet square. They receive porridge in V shaped troughs daily for about two to three weeks, using a mix of corn meal middlings linseed meal beef scrap and water. Feeding lasts thirty minutes then troughs are cleaned. Yards stay clean by covering with sand straw or hay.
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Maine
Salting and Milk Handling in Farm Dairy Practice
Farmers should attend district institutes or state short courses to improve buttermaking and achieve higher butter prices. Creameries demand sweet cream and rapid cooling. use cold water or ice for cream can cooling to about 50 degrees. A dairy with fourteen shorthorn cows shows how illness and feeding changes affect milk quality. avoid sudden diet changes and cull sick cows. Newspapers wrapped around milk cans help keep contents cool en route to the creamery.
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District Institute
State Experiment Station
Value of skim milk and low fat milks in nutrition
The Medical Record argues that fat content does not determine milk value. skim milk and thin milk provide essential proteins and are well suited for those with digestive issues. It cites experiments with growing animals showing lean milks may promote flesh formation and reduce gastro‑intestinal disorders, promoting waste products as valued foods.
Millionaire Pedro Alvarado’s Charity Floods Mexico
Pedro Alvarado of Parral, a former miner turned multi million heir to the Palmillo mine wealth, distributed about 2 million dollars to help over 3000 impoverished Mexican families with clothes food rent medicines and other essentials. He has funded fifty churches and over one hundred schools in eight years and is said to be worth 100 to 200 million dollars with a history of several large charity gifts.
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Parral
Mexico
Palmillo
Inflammatory Rheumatism Case Promotes Cuticura
A Stamford Connecticut woman describes severe inflammatory rheumatism four years earlier with skin peeling hair loss and bed sores. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment relief began and hair and complexion improved. The letter cites marks on back and notes dramatic recovery following treatment.
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Lavina J. Henderson
Broad St
Stamford
Conn
Misplaced Confidence in Chicago Name Snoodle
A visitor at a household asks for a man named Snoodle and learns the resident says “My name is Snoodle.” The stranger admits he lost a $5 bet that no one with that name would acknowledge it, turning away after the exchange.
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Snoodle
Chicago Tribune
Piles Cured in Days Promise by Pazo Ointment
An advertisement promises cure for itching bleeding protruding piles in six to fourteen days or money back. The claim targets sufferers of hemorrhoids and guarantees results with Pazo Ointment.
Nero’s Fiddle Claim Amid Rome Fire Debate
Nero offered a defense noting his music aimed to rouse palace inmates and guide them outside without arousing suspicion. Historians, inclined to view Nero negatively, refused to revise the common judgment that he caused or mismanaged the disaster.
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Nero
Rome
Chicago Tribune
Deafness cured only by constitutional remedies says ad
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers $100 for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Not His Fault
A humorous Detroit Free Press line exchanges between Tom and Dick about staying on the water wagon, noting Dick fell off when reaching high places.
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Tom
Detroit Free Press
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