Curious Native Servants Take Commands Literally
A Boston Transcript note recounts tales of Indian servants who take orders too literally. A general’s bath at a fixed hour leads to a servant delivering bath during gunfire. Another unknown soldier’s servant wakes him at half past six, though the master did not rise. A teasing boarding house tale closes with a Whittier poem warning a cunning girl that she may be laughed at in later years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Roberts
Campaten
India
Sahib
Evan
John G. Whittier
Boston Transcript
Practical Hygiene Warns Tuberculosis Patients Need Outdoor Rest
The article cites Dr. Norman Bridge in JAMA stressing hygiene to strengthen tuberculosis patients. It urges rest, outdoor life, good air, proper nutrition, and avoidance of overreliance on drugs, arguing that these factors boost the body's resistance and reduce mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Norman Bridge
Charity Organiation Logicity of
New York
Jeaned
Venice
Lao
Callid Romodina
Bang
What He Wanted and the Advice That Fades
A muddled excerpt discusses counteracting vice through reform of life and health, referencing a mother’s journal and a dissipated youth. The passage hints at a physician's moral guidance and the futility of certain aims, with fragmented phrases about habits and self-control.
New Rubber Tree Found in Madageswar Island
A report notes discovery of a new rubber tree in Madageswar near Amboya. The Pirahazo tree reaches over forty feet, grows in croves in the island’s northwest, and yields caputehone juice that boils to 89 percent quality. Traders market it in Soo Lola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madageswar
Amboya
Soolola
No Tongue Can Tell Suffering Ends After Treatment
Mrs A Etson of Belle Vue Michigan recounts five years of severe itching and bleeding eczema. After failed doctors and medicines she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, feeling relief after the first bath and application and becoming well. The note accompanies a broader description of Alaska’s primeval forests and forest types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Etson
Bellevue
Mich
Women’s Neglect Sufferings and Health Remedies
A troubled column questions how many women are truly well as it critiques neglect and chronic illness. It mentions Lydia DB. Pinkhem’s compound as a supposed restorative and warns readers about persistent fatigue and unseen ailments affecting women.
Miss Kate McDonald Endorses Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
An appeal to women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for uterine trouble and nervous symptoms. Mrs Kate McDonald of Woodbridge, Ontario, testifies to dramatic relief, urging others to obtain the remedy and write for free services in Lynn, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia B. Pinkham
Kate McDonald
Woodbridge, Ltd
Pinkham
Lydia
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Astoria
Pilsbury
Pillsbury Purity
Tallabuay Wasmburn Flour Mi'r. CO. Ltd
Minneapslie
Maren
Lisdine
Clark
Asie Eaguaie
Francis G. Lume
Price
Suwanaere Neldon-Judaon Drug Co
General Agents
Salt Lake City
Utah
ST. Mark's Hospital
Galt Lake City
Great Western Iron
UTAB
Lowell
Elville
Raf
Alaska
Boarth
Lydia DB
Pinkhem
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A. J. Tower CO
Boston
U.S
Tower Canadian
Toronto
St.Jacobi Oi
Petco
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Tralt Lane Guy
Uran
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Patheraatenetion
Mirra Ilstinent
Rockon
Maas
Dourlan
W. Te Dourlas
Doug Siddsies
Mint Troat
W. L.dong
Douglas
Ilustratet
W.L Douglas
Bricktud
Mass
Matti
Drigging
Howard £. Burton
Pertwas Bateaa
Jule Wlet
Willey Calas
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