Mummies and Morals in Early Morning Musings
The tale contrasts Pierre Loti’s Kayotian mummy collection with a lesson on athletic virtue. It notes servants’ superstition about the dead as Loti carries a gilded princess mummy upstairs, while a three year old joins the scene. It shifts to reflections on athletics shaping soldiers and social life, and ends with the call to rise early for vigor and discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre Loti
Lotte
Lati
Toften
Huntens
Cheep
Anya
Gases in Coke The Olivery Laliro Whuwa
A partial readable note argues gases in coke arise from guava decomposition during coking and from a thin coating of pure carbon on the coke surface. This coating protects the collector from air, accounting for durability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dukula Mali
Fragmentary Advice Poem Amid Moral Ode from 19th Century Text
The piece urges vigilance against vice and embraces temperate living. It emphasizes obedience, marital roles, and moral conduct as paths to virtue, duty, and inner approval. Individual names and specific events are absent, with a general exhortation tone throughout.
Milen Leaves Boater for Washington D C Inetweet
General Nelean A Milen departs Boater for Washington D C to make his future home in the latter city. The report also notes Roemer’s murder near Wabsute Minnesota by two unknown assailants and the 74 year old man’s wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelean A. Milen
Washington, D. C
St Ty
Ben Roemer
Wabsute
Minn
Mra
Edward Luteenburg
Joseph
Barnesboro
Association
New York
Court of Appeals of
Gay and Electricity Commission
Brown Hal
Ewell Farm
Maury County
Tennessee
Jake Kilrain
Puginlat
Kilrain
Ernest Roeber
Iowa Supreme Court
Des Moines
Violet Goold
Vere St. Leger Goold
Emma Levin
Monte Carlo
Laat Summer
Cannon
Republican Organization
Guilford County
North Carolina
New Garden
Greensboro
Tung Fuh Siang
Kansu
Tuby Fub
Boston Manufacturing Company
Wuakuiama
Mass
Obscure Fragments Highlight Millennial and Seed Ads
Fragmentary OCR combines a sociology prophecy about a perfected press with optimistic crop seed pitches and a comical employer note. Notable items mention Professor Elkin predicting a college edited press, Macaroni Wheat seed sales, and a Baltimore employer drafting a brief charity letter for a worker named Sam Harkins.
Whistling Goose Hoax Tricks Poultry Buyer
Two rogues con a poultry shop by placing a whistle bulb in geese. They sold a supposedly rare whistling goose to a professor and then sought buyers for more birds. The scheme expanded to a dozen fowls before the hoax was uncovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boeing
Grape Nuts Said To Boost Brain Work And Family Health
A woman writer praises Grape Nuts as ideal for brain power and for nourishing four children. She recounts morning appetite improvement, steady milk supply, and better energy for housework after adopting the cereal, noting a rapid sense of mental clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lam
Tnd
Alec
Lavy
Nisht
Activ
Elewry
India
Paramon
Fiat
Crna
Mick Head
Wellville
Judge Wills Endorses Dean's Kidney Pills for Kidney Ailments
The article records Judge Wills endorsing Dean's Kidney Pills as effective for kidney disorders backache and related ailments. He invites sufferers to write for questions and states the remedy is the best he has known. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiff & Reneroun
Judy
Cloverport
Wills
Dean
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
How Do They Get In Aboard the Boardwalk Dialogue
A Philadelphia physician recalls a Sunday Magazine piece about two Irish domestic workers in Atlantic City who debate how diseases enter the body. They mock a liver medicine ad while one asks how slugs supposedly penetrate the liver, reflecting humorous urban folklore rather than medical fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Norah
Woman's 55 Year Battle With Eczema Finds Relief
Tipton Iowa August 17 1907 Nelson R Burnett endorses a testimonial for Cuticura products. The writer describes lifelong itchy eczema that cover the body with red and white boils, severe pain, and inability to work, claiming eight months of use brought relief and eventual cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Bordwell
Nelson R. Burnett
Tipton, Ja
Tragic Streetcar Crash Shocks Town
A neighborly tragedy unfolds as a trolley rounds a corner striking a child and sending a town into mourning. Mary and her family cope with grief while the incident prompts reflections on life and death. a medical remedy advertisement appears among the fragmented text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Power of Deceiving and a Brooklyn Model tale
A fragment from a Sunday Magazine tale features a Brooklyn woman deceitful in one respect and Nora’s clever retort about the power of deceiving. The piece weaves dialogue with Irish overtones and a comic resolution as the characters discuss truthfulness and social airs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Dossessen & Hervant
Nora
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Early 20th Century Laxative Ad Promotes Figa Syrup
An ad praises a laxative blend of Syrup of Figa and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Co. as ethical and effective. It urges buying genuine manufactured product, sold by local druggists at fifty cents per bottle, highlighting public trust of the Well-Informed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senna
California Mig Syrup Co
Syrip
California Fig Syrup Co
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Tintic
Salt Lane City
Utah
Great Winter
Lisbon
Charles J. Romadka
Milwaukee
Evelyn Caine Romadka
Chicago
Joliet
John
Hopkirk
4 Mills
New York City
Fedala
W Mcers
Aoors
Alexander B. Hutt
People’s Bank
Portamouth
Charles O. Riehle
Kentucky
Oakland
Cal
Claude Brooks
Sidney Hernden
Kansas City
Bay
de Vree
Tierndon
Dane A. Deane
Charles McKay
Went Forks
Akashp
Kure
Peng
Stommel
Treagen
Mort Arthur
Ahone
Baliataedon
Bianwael
Feaproval Milllimairen
Racetrack Tolloward
Cleraymen
Androglatharn
Albany
N.Y
Sorghum
T Alwaya
Washington Star
Guarm Gore
Cheney & Co
F.J. Cheney
América
W. B. Elkin
University of Missouri
America
American Journal of Sociology
Department of Agriculture
Dakota
Penn
Neb
Kan
John A. Saber Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Creme
Baltimore
Darky
Sam
Sam Harkins
Inquirer
Eczema
Guthura
Globe Pharmaceutical Co
Dayton
Ohin
Mann
Hiver Rhelem
Jr Bobaher
S'Jacobs Oil
Dickums
Dar. Tink
Brown
Jove
the Centaur Company
Bears
Castoria
Carters
Levator
W.l.douglas
Sula Er
Eddonas
Kanervatet
Tertia
Poult
Paury Et
Oman
Meir
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