Tombs of Spanish Royalty and Child Royals in Madrid Vaults
A London Tit Bits description of the Escurial burial complex, noting an octagonal marble chamber for kings and queens with ornate vault walls and six empty royal niches. It contrasts the children’s vault, called the place of the little angels, with white marble effigies. Also mentions Don Jaime II of Aragon's mummy on view in Palma Cathedral with a glass-topped coffin.
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Spain
London
Don Jamie II
Aragon
Palma
Majorca
Don Jamie
Jebb's Witty Dinner Exchange During Cambridge Dinner
In Jebb diaries a Cambridge dinner anecdote shows the Greek scholar, then Mr Jebb, quipping after a young woman asks if women die of a broken heart. He answers with a sharp line, suggesting other organs may be involved.
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Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Cambridge
Richard
Jebb
Professor Jebb
Three Cures of Eczema Told by a Woman
A woman recounts her brother suffering eczema for three summers and his cure after using Cuticura Ointment. She cites another Indiana case where her daughter’s friend child was cured completely by Cuticura Remedies, with lingering dates of Aug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1907.
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Indiana
No Cause for Alarm at Retail Fire Ruse
An excited citizen shouts that a department store is on fire. An officer asks for evidence and a shopper explains shoppers are escaping through revolving doors blocked by large hats. The scene ends with calm denial of an actual blaze.
First Visitor Declares Platform Too Stuffy
Two visitors discuss stepping onto a convention hall platform in Chicago Tribune style. one finds the car stuffy while the other, reading a newspaper, doubts the platform’s significance if the paper’s report is accurate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Posstuse Bolter
Chicago Tribune
Sports editor quotes Psalms and Da vid in tribute
A Chicago Tribune sports editor remarks on Be nots and bees, referencing the psalmist's age and comparing it to modern times. He notes in a witty vein that while the world has advanced since David's era, he still bets on David.
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Bishop
David
Chicago ‘Tribune
A Simple Safeguard in Buying Paint
A simple safeguard in buying paint materials is explained. The article warns of adulterated white leads containing chalk and barytes and promotes National Lead Company’s Dutch Boy Painter trademark as a purity guarantee. It invites readers to request free test equipment and a book from National Lead Company in New York.
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Bayer
National Lead Company
National
Woodbridge Building
New York
Wealthy Stranger Confesses From Pen to Profits
In a brief exchange a Wealthy Stranger recalls earning every farthing by writing. A Youth speculates a future as a novelist or dramatist, but the Stranger denies a sheep farm past in New Zealand.
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New Zealand
Pettit's Eye Salve Promoted for Eye Strain Relief
Worth Its Weight in Gold. Pettit's Eye Salve advertised as a tonic for eye strain and weak or watery eyes. Sold by Howard Bros. druggists in Buffalo New York.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
Rainy Mood Averts Disaster In Household Dialog
A playful exchange shows a milkman warning of rain as the housekeeper keeps her eyes on a bottle, illustrating a domestic scene from the Doston Transcript with light wit and social interaction.
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Kein
Doston Transcript
Catalog Notice for Fur and Gun Goods Sale
An advertisement for 10 N. W. Hide and Fur Co in Minneapolis promotes selling guns and traps cheaply and buying furs and hides. It also markets Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children at 25 cents per bottle and suggests a human figure equal in height to ten faces.
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N. W
Domestic servants in Germany face old age insurance rules
The article explains that low income workers including domestic servants must contribute to old age insurance. They receive weekly stamps and ecards from the post office, with Monday affixed stamps. Employers may pay or workers may cover half. Women paid daily get stamps at their residence. If a girl marries she may drop coverage and lose pension rights, while continuing insured workers receive 15 to 20 marks monthly from age 70.
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Germany
Practical farming notes and old world养 tips and tricks
A collection of rural guidance covering stock feeding, dairy upkeep, and crop practice. Includes advice on charcoal for flocks, kerosene use, nut trees, and pasture rotation, plus animal nutrition specifics for cattle and sheep and notes on dairy cow care and legal tuberculin testing. Also covers pigeon care, medicinal vegetables, and historical farming anecdotes.
Bird dogs history and origins traced to 1800
The article notes bird dogs have existed for about 300 to 400 years with early trainers such as the Duke of Northumberland. It mentions the Duke of Gordon founding the Gordon setter around 1800, marking the emergence of a distinct breed.
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Duke of Northumberland
Gordon
Duke of Gordon
New York American
All in the Family Scene Ends in Tense Moment
Mr Jagway awakens to his wife rifling his trouser pockets. She warns she will report if she finds nothing, sparking a tense implied dispute while he waits for the confrontation to unfold.
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Mr. Jagway
Grape-Nuts Nourishes Mother and Child, Says Testimony
A reader shares how Grape-Nuts helped a mother regain health after childbirth enabling nursing and daily work. The cereal made from whole wheat and barley provides brain and nerve nourishment through its minerals, with a note on phosphorus and potash content.
Gradual milk change for calves and horse care tips
Feed calves by gradually withholding milk each day while adding skim milk equal to the withheld amount. Use linseed or oil meal to replace fat, stir into milk when needed, and consider jelly form. For horses, grass should be given in small doses, pasture is best, shelter at night, and keep stalls clean. A sore neck from ill fitting collars follows poor harness fit. Continuous feeding requires frequent light meals due to small horse stomachs.
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Prof
Thomas Shaw
Machinery replaces slate picking in Pennsylvania mines
Technical World Magazine reports a shift in Pennsylvania coal mines where 24 000 fresker boys currently pick slate by hand. The Delaware and Hudson Coal Company has installed a mechanical slate picker at Wilkesbarre, successfully replacing 300 boys in that plant and likely to roll out to other mines.
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Pennsylvania
Technical World Magazine
Pensylvania
Cellieries
Delaware & Hudson Coal Company
Wilkesbarre
T.clue
Texas Clergyman Endorses Kidney Pills
Rev G M Gray of Whitesboro Texas testifies that four years of lumbago pain ceased after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He notes the relief came quickly and offers his name publicly to help others with kidney trouble. 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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G. M. Gray
Whitesboro
Tex
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Ransom's Reformation in a Southern Town
A colored boy named Ransom Blake, once in petty trouble, serves a short penitentiary term to learn a trade. On returning home a white acquaintance asks about his work. He replies he was placed in a shoe shop making pasteboard enter shoes for soles, claiming they taught him honesty.
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Ransom Blake
Ranse
Free Sample of Allen's Foot-Ease Sold Locally
Readers in Le Roy N Y can request a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder by writing to Allen S Olmsted for relief of tired and sweating feet. The product claims to ease hot swollen feet and help shoes fit, and is advertised as a cure for corns and bunions with sales through all druggists and shoe stores at 25 cents.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
One Woman's Wisdom Bargain Hat Exchange
A humorous exchange between Mrs Newed and Mrs Oldwed reveals a wife buying a hat for 98 cents. Oldwed fears her husband would expect continued bargain purchases, while Newed questions any notion of foolishness for a cheap hat.
Towne Scheme With Husband And Wife In Hidden Plan
A playful exchange hints at a clever ruse where Browne plans to have his wife draft a scheme herself, then believe it is her own idea, a quip cited by the Philadelphia Press.
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Towne
Browne
Phiadelphia Press
Cambridge Plans One-Year Study and Travel Privilege for Teachers
Cambridge Massachusetts offers public school teachers a one year privilege for study and travel. A teacher receives a partial salary during the leave and maintains regular post tenure benefits.
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Cambridge
Mass
Loyal Home Keepers Find Aid in Pinkham’s Remedy
Thousands of American women suffer in silence from female troubles. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, praised by Mrs. Ellsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs. Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania, claims to have helped many regain strength to perform daily work. For thirty years it has been marketed as a standard remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and various aches and pains. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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F. Ellsworth
Mayville
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
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