St Valentine headless legends and a guide to cures
In a mosaic of curious notices and advertisements, the piece references St. Valentine’s Day as a time for appeals to those who have lost heads since ancient persecution and promotes various patent medicines and remedies. It also notes arrests of swindlers, a claim about Earth's density experiments, and a quirky anecdote about English coinage. It closes with a sensational profile of Russia's wealthiest man and his austere daily routine.
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St. Valentine
St. Valentine's
Invelope Records Tamper Attempts, Inventor Says
An American inventor unveils an envelope that detects tampering. The device uses a chemical coating that reveals a warning by displaying the words Attempt to own when dampened or penetrated. Proponents believe it will deter inquisitive readers from attempting to access its contents.
Built Over. Grape Nuts Restores Health, Reading Case States
A Reading Pennsylvania club treasurer credits Grape Nuts with curing a five year bowel trouble after a year of use. He stopped medicines and now eats Grape Nuts for breakfast and dinner, claiming dramatic health recovery. Details available by mail. Battle Creek, Michigan, named as the production source.
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Reading
Treas
Droge
Pustum Co
Battle Cronk
Mich
Draping Bay Windows For Elegant Room Nooks
Bay windows offer interior decor potential yet challenge light and heft. A dignified treatment shown uses bottle green silk velour valance with metal galloon, looped high curtains, and a bottle green mohair plush seat for comfort. Cretonne in cream with flowered patterns complements bedding in bedrooms, with ruffled bobbinet sath curtains to keep light fresh. An Empire style option features walmon pink damask with black velvet appliques and velour seat, suitable for a reception room.
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N. Y. Herald
Western Canada homestead yields praised in letters
A letter from Tom Stirling in Alberta to M. Pickrell extols Western Canada as a near free home land with mild winters and rich crops. He cites oat yields of 80 bushels per acre near Kimonton, 110 bushels near St. Albert, and strong profits from farming and stock raising. He notes a large beet sugar factory at Raymond and suggests Edmonton, Lacombe, Wetaskiwin, and Lethbridge districts as prime areas for settlers.
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Canada
Tom Stirling
Alberta
Free Homestead Lands
M. Pickrell
Beechwood
Anys
Western Canada
Terra Firma
Kimonton
St. Albert
Edmonton
Raymond
Lethbridge
Lacombe
Wetaskiwin
Ponoka
Queen of the Desert land yacht and strange animal tale
A land yacht named Queen of the Desert is described near Cleveland conceived to speed travel over a dried lake bed. It measures about thirteen feet, carries a large sail, and can reach fifty miles per hour though trials were imperfect. A tavern tale recounts a two-headed owl from Deep Hollow shot after a fight over a ground mouse. Also noted are Cologne Roman tombstone discoveries showing a Roman knight depicted at ease on a horse with ornate trappings unarmored.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Rosamont Station
Pennsylvania
Zach Chandler
Turk’s Hill
Chandler
Ifeless
New York World
Cologne
Aslayo
Skeleton Unearthed From Old Deansgate Cottage Grave
Fragments of a man’s skeleton were found under flagstones in a Manchester cottage on Wood Street, dating back nearly a century. The skull shows a fracture, and the site recalls Wood Street’s historical crime activity.
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Wood Street
Deansgate
Manchester
England
Lydia Pinkham Herb Remedy Praised by Detroit Woman
A Detroit woman Miss Guila Gannon writes she suffered months with weakness and pain and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her in six weeks. The letter, dated at 359 Jones Street, Michigan, claims many similar testimonies and urges other women to seek the remedy.
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Lydia EB
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Guila Gannon
Jones St
Detroit
Amateur Art Association
Lydia
Bound to Have His Cigar King Edward Limited to Five Daily
King Edward is restricted by physicians to five cigars per day due to his long habit of smoking. A historical anecdote recalls Lord Derby once joking that tobacco should be burned in the stables, a notion the prince privately tried after dinner, seeking a discreet space for his postprandial cigar.
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Edward
Lord Derby
Government Herd Reindeer Plans and Dairy Trade Notes
Government herd of reindeer in Alaska about 10 000 animals with 18 more contracted in Siberia to boost food and draft supplies for natives. Putnam faceless dyes touted for bright fast colors. Disease traced to cattle. tuberculosis spread after Schleswig Holsteins import with a government commission testing 144 000 cattle found one infected.
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Alaska
Siberia
Denmark
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Mother Gray
New York
Cagnostros
Casanovas
New York Tribune
Cheney &Co
Toledo
Chenay
West & Truax
Dios Walding
Rinan & Marvin
Yale
Chin
Visil
Mail
Geodetic Survey
Washington
Les. Gen. Fitzhugh Sen
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
National Capitol
Natal
Transvaal
Paul Kruger
Atkins
Atkion
Russia
Nikola Tereatchenko
Moscow
Manitoba
States
Tve
United States
J. W. O'Ren
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn, Dam
Lehigh County
Cuskoo
Putnam
Salt Lake
Estern
Jeantuls
Duhiting
Courchen
Rhode Rue
Taylor
East Lake City
Utah
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