Simpler Foods and Diet Reform Provokes Debate
An article argues for simpler manufactured foods and warns against nutritionally weak baby foods and sugar rich breads. It cites nutritionists, critiques predigested carbohydrates, and discusses the public health role of professionals in shaping dietary standards. It also touches on crime disease theory, social elites in New York, and a Schenectady mayor’s stance on funding music education versus street ragtime.
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Bchenectady
Remarkable Rescue of Miner From Burning Revenue Mine
Lawrence Withrow, a pumpman at the Revenue mine near Ouray Colorado, survived some twelve hours alone underground as a shaft fire raged and gas filled tunnels. He penned a farewell note and will on a board, secured it behind a telephon e box, and, after a perilous crawl through smoke and water, was found unconscious yet alive by fellow workers.
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Withrow
Echo
No Food for Nine Days Drives Seaman to Raving Maniac
San Francisco reports a seaman, Robert Anderson, lapsed into madness after nine days without food or water aboard the bark Amy Turner. He disappeared from the hold, was presumed dead or missing, then allegedly appeared aboard exhausted and ghostlike. On recovery he raved wildly and was committed to insanity commissioners for examination.
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San Francisco
Robert Anderson
Amy Turner
Hilo
Anderson
St Wast
Warland
Spinster Turns Drummer in Fifty-Three-Year-Old Canvass Tale
Miss Serepta Pratt at eighty seven joins a Philadelphia firm as a saleswoman for shears. She sold five pairs in an hour, has delivered about one hundred orders across vast territory, and shows famed vigor from walking. Her prior work as a talloress aids her sales pitch, and she is said to be the oldest canvasser in the United States, with health and resolve to reach a hundred. The other vignette notes Joseph Knight, who survived ten years without eating by tube feeding after an 1839 detergent incident, while continuing to smoke until his death at Kingston around age forty.
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Middletown
Serepta Pratt
Walton
Philadelphia
Mine Pratt
Pratt
Miss Pratt
Misa Pratt
United States
London
Kingston
Joseph Knight
Eliba
Gosport
England
Prince of Wales
Sir George Taubman Goldie
K. C. M GF
Ros
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Society
African Association
Raleigh
H. Llewellyn Goodwin
Royal Geograph Seal Society
Ordnary
Voliva Replaces Dowle to Lead Zion City Revival
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, a 36 year old Hoosier, ascetic and disciplined, ousts John Alexander Dowle to take charge of Zion City. Born 1870 in Newton Indiana, Voliva preached from 16, married Mollie Steele in 1891, studied at Butler and Hiram colleges, and served Dowle’s church before a seven year odyssey including Australia. He aims to stabilize finances and build a prosperous American municipality.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowle
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion City
Dowle
Voliva
Mexico
Zion
Newton
Ind
Linden
Miron College
Mollie Steele
Palestine
Miss Steele
Irvington
Butler College
Hiram College
Ohio
Ruth
Cincinnati
Australia
Pr. Voliva
Mauve Discovered by Him in Chemistry History
London recalls the druggist chemist Dr. W. H. Perkin who at eighteen sparked the mauve dye era two years ago. The dye and coal tar color line, the Perkin fund, and a portrait in his honor mark a Jubilee of aniline dyes. Perkin, son of a builder, rose from Royal College of Chemistry to fame with his successor industry.
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London
W. H. Perkin
Chemo Society
Perkin Research Fund
England
Perkins
Royal College of Chemistry
Hoffman
Alexandra
Perkin
Harrow
Royal Geographical Society Admits 28YearOld Goodwin
Kansas City official Hewellyn Goodwin becomes a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, joining Dr. Edwin H. Heath and Col. J. Gardiner Stowe in a distinguished roster. The piece outlines the society’s history, privileges, and global influence, noting its royal patrons and extensive travel resources.
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Kanauy City
Royal Geographical Society
Edwin H. Heath
Kangus City
Kas
J. Gardiner Stowe
United States
Capetown
Outh Africa
Hewellyn Good
Goodwin
Seation
Cal. Stowe
Heath
Kansas City
Swift & Co., Packers
Burlington
Kan
Col Stowe
Royal Geographian Society
Largest Life Policy Owned by World’s Heaviest Insured Man
Mr. L Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia holds the largest life policy totaling 2,000,000 in Mutual Insurance Company. He began with 200,000 at 34, added 100,000 and 500,000 at 26, then 1,000,000 and 200,000 at 41, maintaining 2,000,000 with an annual premium around 3,238.
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L. Rodman Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Mutual
New German Leader Emerges as Era of Buelow Ends
Berlin reports aging Chancellor Count von Buelow nearing retirement amid opposition. Prince Hohenlohe Langenburg, born September 1, 1863, now seen as likely successor. regent of Saxe Coburg and Gotha previously. He married Princess Alexandra in 1896 and received the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath in 1897. Diplomatic blows in Morocco and colonial policy blamed for the anticipated change.
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Berlin
Count von Buelow
German Empire
Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Saxe Cobnrg and
Gotha
Alexandra
Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Edward
England
Bath
Ernest William Frederic Charles Maxmillan
Prince
Cont von Buelow
Same Old Story in a Dental Joke
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News presents a light exchange about a toothache. Mrs. Jones jokes that the ache belongs to her husband, not herself, turning toward a humorous dental quip rather than a serious report.
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Bitte
Suspend Judgment Echoes in Chicago Station Tale
Chicago Journal reports a puzzling incident where four women chose a separate cell in a vole station rather than accompany their husband. The paper notes the need to withhold judgment until the husband’s account is available for comparison.
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Chicago
Chicago Journal
Pulpwood 1905 pulp firm returns show rising wood use
Data from 159 firms managing 232 mills reports over 3.9 million cords of wood used in 1905. Sulphite accounts for 1.528 million cords, toda 420 thousand, ground wood 1.068 million. Total pulp output reaches 1.993 million tons, with 1909 census indicating 1.986 million cords consumed, signaling a sharp forest impact from the pulp industry.
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