Reach the Spot Kidney Pills Promote Kidney Health
A 1900s era advertisement touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for back pain rheumatism and fatigue claiming quick relief for kidney trouble. It cites a user Chas Blerbach of Erie Pennsylvania and notes a six year testimonial while offering mail trial and pharmacy availability. Also mentions Paris budget 1804 and seed promotions from John A Salser Seed Co. plus brief notes on American exports imports duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Chas, Blerbach
Chestnut St
Erie
Dods
Blerback
United States
Foxtor-Mlburn Co
Buffalo
Tibetan New Year Ceremonies and Lama Rule in Lassa
February 1% marks New Year in Tibet. A lama becomes ruler by auction, imposes heavy fines for profit, and visits homes in Lassa to collect taxes forcing the poor to flee. Priests arrive for religious rites culminating in selecting a human scapegoat for the festival, painted half black half white, beaten, and expelled from Lassa for a year.
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Tibet
Rok
Debung
Laxua
Lassa
Magpie nest inquiry sparks debate on conscience and shelter
A discussion investigates why magpies build twig domes over nests, suggesting possible symbolic acts of guilt rather than shelter. The piece ties the behavior to other notes on patchouli perfume origins and includes reader letters praising Dodd's Kidney Pills as spring medicine.
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Dodd
Mrs. Harty
Novel method to trap pumas and a foot ease ad
A Brazilian Amazon tribe uses leaves soaked in a cum tree preparation to blind a puma that is lured with a tethered pig or goat. The creature, coated in gummy leaves, is captured with torches and ropes and paraded to the village. The ad then shifts to Allen's Foot-Ease. Loss comparisons show French and German forces suffering higher losses in later battles.
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Amazon
Prize for new tattooing pigment for pigs in Germany
An agricultural society in Germany offers two prizes of 125 dollars each for a pigment suitable for tattooing black-eared pigs. White-eared pig tattoos are common but dark ear pigments fail. An extra 25 dollars is awarded for each year the tattoo lasts beyond the first year.
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Germany
Sothern’s Dressing Room Visitor Is His Quiet Kraft
In Cincinnati, B J Sothern’s dressing room hosted a nervous guest during a hush moment. A dignified colored man entered thrice to warn of progress and say God’s pity, then revealed he was the actor’s dresser Lewis. The guest fled, dazed, as the dresser explained his cue duties.
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B. J. Sothern
Cincinnati
Mr. Sothern
Sothern
Lewis
Sinarapan: Luzon’s Smallest Fish Described by Natives and Scientists
In Luzon Philippines a tiny backboned fish called sinarapan or einarapan is noted as the smallest fish in the world. The native Bicols use a fine cloth net to harvest thousands at once. They are dried in the sun and eaten as a delicacy without cooking, preserving their distinctive taste.
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Bubi
Luzon
Philippines
Einarapan
Iake
Sinarapan
London
First Use of Alphabet Origin Explained
Henry Smith Williams discusses the invention of the alphabet attributing primary credit to Phoenicians with Persians borrowing later. He notes Phoenician use predates Persian adaptation, and that copying rather than inventing has shaped alphabet development, though evidence of Phoenician origins is traditional rather than demonstrative.
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Cyrus the Great
Henry Smith Williama
Harper's Magazine
Poison in Daily Foods Sparks Medical Congress Debate
At a Madrid congress of medicine Dr Browardel of Paris warned of dangers from antiseptics in daily foods like wine beer milk and preserved fruits. He argued preservatives are used in larger quantities than claimed and daily intake poisons the human body, urging international action and calling the practice poisoning rather than adulteration.
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Madrid
Browardel
Paris
Brouardel
Brokers of Wall Street Wall street brokers versus bookmakers
The piece argues brokers rule the market, with 1,100 Stock Exchange members and 1,452 partners earning under 20,000 a year each. It notes $42.5 million yearly in salaries and office rents paid by customers to sustain brokers who influence stock directions, per the New York Press.
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Wall Street
Creme de la Creme
Finance
The
Stock Exchange
Exchange
New York Press
Miss Hapgood Escapes Operation With Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Miss Hapgood credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with saving her from surgery after four years of salpingitis and ovarian inflammation. She describes severe weakness, sunken eyes, and emaciation before relief in five months, urging others to seek treatment rather than risk operation.
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Miss Hapgood
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Lars Tlarcoop
Sandwich
Windsor
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Parte
John A. Salser
la Crosse
Wismall
Wisconsin
W. N. WU
Ram
Oeean Thompson
India
Java
Malacca Peninsula
Cakol Island
Singapore
Lowndes
Mia
Flc
Allen
Naila Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Sedan
Solpste
Brokers of
Ali
forte_hess
Boston
Angarugrinte
Paxtine
Paxton CO
Pope Bidy
Borton
Mama
Schwarz & Heinecke
Bowth St
Salt Lake City
Gaia
Frompé Tekarne
Mail Ogden Assay Co
Fonapiee All Simpign Fet
Ftee Consultast
DRS. Shores & Shores, S
Pasiente
Tae Hood
Syermaorrome
Samioto
Salt Care City
Sta
W. Douglas
Tai
Lise
USA
Unitarian
A. E. Howard
Warren Ave
Masa
Cevaine Elgin
Walthaes
Walter Tiga
Free Homestead
Western
Canada
Lend Corpur
Davies
Room & Dun
Bighard E
Evans
J. W. Currie
Third South St
Utak
Clint Pirate
Se. S. C
Satiate Tity
Utah
Phe Joa
Balt Ennis
Wit
B. C. Morris Floral CO
W.N. U
Salt Lake
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