Science and Industry Notes From a Historical Column
The article surveys varied topics from medicine and nutrition to early radiology notes. It cites X rays’ bacteria-killing potential, disinfectants at the Myglente institute, and fatiguing effects on animal blood. It mentions harmful plant poisons in India and nutritional uses of oyster shell for children. It also records Helmholtz medal details and Virchow’s rank among scientists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myglente Institute of Muniely
Kansas City
India
Vrof
Virchow
Royal Academy of Leriin Fine
Helmholtz
Herr Virch
Primitive tobacco scenes on a Puerto Rican island
A narrator describes a Puerto Rican market with makeshift tobacco contraptions, cheap cigars, and bold chewing tobacco sold by aLine tables. It notes smoking is common among natives, women largely abstain, and a street scene shows a heavyset Black woman smoking a large cigar while enduring poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Ponce
Hus Per's Weekly
Porto Rico
Violet Perfume Trends and Fragrance Details
A scented tour through violet usage in fashion and beauty. The piece notes violet perfumes, powders, sachets, gloves, and wardrobe accents, describing a New York perfumer's skill in mimicking Parma violet. It blends fashion guidance with consumer notes and small recipes for cakes and creams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evers
New York
Parma
Vic Artificia
Herald
Palmists Revenge: Laska’s Vengeful Palm Reading
A New York palmist named Laska creates a stir in cultured circles. In New Orleans he once humbly exposed a skeptic who doubted palmistry in public. Laska read the skeptic’s palm, reacted with agitation, and left smiling, having his subtle revenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Laska
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Loska
Cake Walkers in Chicago Factory of Cakes and Veiled Slavery
Chicago Chronicle reports on a cake walk production scene in a downtown restaurant where about 20 colored men, employed as wafters, wear stained white uniforms and perform a ceremonial cake walk after lunch. The piece also notes a sensational automobile incident on Fourteenth Street and a fatality in Beatty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Chronicle
State Street
Mixed Miscellany From A Noisy Page Incoherent
Fragmented notes report varied items from a divorce filing in Oregon to a Milwaukee church turned beer garden and a Boston man jailed for streetcar fare disputes. Other entries claim hotel names in Sharpsburg, employment figures in the United States, teeth replacements, city land area figures, a child funeral with a coffin scene, a ranch in Texas, and a wedding trunk innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Milwaukee
Boston
Sharpsburg
Woodhouse
United States
Julie Spence
Claiborne County
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Philadelphia
Portugal
Chicago Ag
Texas
Jacdes
A Treasury Thief and Other Oddities From Aged Dispatches
A Treasury Thief recounts a Meek case and a Washington theft involving a bag of currency, with high priced lawyers and political echoes. Also described is a patriotic Washington birthday luncheon scene and a peculiar recipe for beef marrow pomade from a home magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of the United Staten
Treasury
Waelington
Aa Meek
Washington
Picion
Pleye
Saratoga
Mexardris
Lew George Bliss
New York
Bank
Camebuc
Bitles
Chicago Post
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U. 8
Senate
Congres Governing
Governa
Bute
Mersbal
Jeanorer
Auanier
Amayo” Supreme Judeon—I. Pk
Shoup
Poole Wro
Mort Patria
Bartiatt
Jox
Perrault
Ouoningham
Ivan
Stockslage
Hayley
Custer County
Alates Hipper
W. Oxborn
J. G. Flaonelt
Ssi
Tiga. Rowlew
George E. Keres
Rant
Tolan
Bemuel Lelen
Phos. Moffart
Wall Carl Lage
Margaret Keenin
Leon E. Calhoun
Sero Ta Ebbert
Socretie
Custre Lodge
Challis
William Krawbury
Geo. Sewell
Lear Reareau
Lunt
MSN
MAY
Paul N.G
Mounier
Secruary
TJ. Paul, Sorthe
America
Schermerhorn
Venerable Council
Rogers
Cterk
Congregational Church
Divine
Congregational
Ghali
Guy Foster
J.S. Meyer
U.S
Challis, SpaHo
Chris
Morler
Bat
S. I. Rogers
Physee N ‘and
Suranon
Challis, Idaho
R. A. Pierce
W. T. Reeves
Pocatello
Idaho
Beardsley
Challis,idaho
Salmon River
E. R. Kiris
Ir Pod
Williams
Frankie Hathaway
Sixteenth Street
Holland
Mich
Leon
Idaho Furniture CO
Mstical
Robinson Bar
K. D. Williams
Science and Industry
Violet
Garelle
Detroit Pree Press
Dioginnat Commercial Tribune
Bostom Globe
Scoffer
Fourteenth Street
Beatty
Washingon
Wiskington
Nestle G. Coleman
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