Peasant Family Faces Hard Times and Hint of Healing
A coastal Finistere family of four endures poverty with a sick child whose health improves after exposure to peat bogs and rough treatment. An old country physician notes the boy’s condition as his health seems to brighten. In separate note, a New York piece touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a universal cure, claiming relief from backache and kidney related ailments, with broad testimonials.
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Finistere
Mox
Fis Akin
Parla
New York
Hymns of a High Number Rule Prevails in Monte Carlo Church
A fragmented report notes a peculiar rule at the English Church in Monte Carlo where no hymn with fewer than thirty notes is sung. An account describes a Sunday surge over the last hymn and a subsequent decline in worshipers, reflecting local church customs and reactions. The piece also mentions Chinese interest in small novelty goods like hand mirrors and beads.
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Monte Carlo
Monte
Society of the Principality
Otheir
Iave
Postum Aimed At Mothers In Place Of Coffee
A mother testifies that Postum replaced coffee, improved milk flow, and alleviated dizziness, heart pain, and sour stomach for herself and her seven month old baby. She states coffee harmed health and Postum proved best, noting husband also quit coffee. Battle Creek firm cited.
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Rom
Postum
Post
Max
Im Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Tenem
Portable Merry Co Nounn Coca Lights the Children
Fragmentary OCR text describes portable merry items and a scene around Philadelphia with a notable front arrangement. The passage includes garbled phrases about a roving activity and a device fixed in the front, mentioning an instant hit and sloping ground.
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Portable Merry.co
Coca
Philadelphia
New Street Musical Toy Spins for Tots on Penny Pennyroyal
A crude hand crank machine allows children to be whetted by music as they ride it along streets. The device, popular with youngsters, will be produced on a larger scale with royalties similar to hand organ practices. A counting stile records riders to ensure fair profit division.
Maple tree trunk carved into trousers and jacket
A Van Buren street wholesaler received from an Akron customer a carved maple tree trunk section shaped as trousers and a close fitting jacket. The pieces, about as long as a man six feet tall, came from a tree found near the customer’s farm while exploring woods weeks earlier. The customer had the trunk shipped to the Chicago firm.
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van Buren Street
Akron
Ohio
Carlo
Wille
Eoon
Chicago
Chicago News
Real Water Finder Dowsing Rods in England
A fragment notes the divining rod or dowsing rod as it is called in England. The passage hints at uses or beliefs surrounding the tool for locating water, reflecting historical interest in water fortune telling methods.
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England
Fragmentary OCR on a wandering subject and epidemics
The readable text reflects long running fascination and fear around a mysterious subject spanning 250 years. It mentions epidemics of interest and periods with little news, references to water drawing using sticks, and vague notes on agriculture and societal impact.
Potatoes Yield Gold Worth Cropland near London
A London area farmer grew Eldorado potatoes that yielded profits exceeding their weight in gold. From one pound of seed he produced 3 633 tubers with many sold at 20 dollars each, turning a modest crop into striking earnings.
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London
England
Ox Hitched to Sleigh Novel Spectacle Stuns Streets
A curious winter scene drew crowds as a dog and ox hitched to a sleigh created a striking spectacle. The driver guided the odd pair through the snowy street, surprising passersby and offering a quirky glimpse of local whimsy.
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Itetrlet
Playhouses of the Past in Bath Highlight Quin and Irving
Sir Henry Irving depicted the stage era of James Quin during a Bath memorial address. Quin, a veteran actor of forty-five years, lived in Bath after 1751 retirement and clashed with Garrick’s reform. Irving recalled riotous audiences, swordplay to save a life, and Quin’s wit and generosity including aiding James Thomson in debt.
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Sir Henry Irving
Bath
England
James Quin
Quin
David Garrick
Mr. Irving
Wich
Whale Fights Pacific Mail Liner near Acapulco
The Acapulco from Panama met a whale off San Blas while near Acapulco. The whale rose and challenged the steamer, grazing the hull and striking under the stern before a rapid propeller blows drove it away. Chief Officer Bailey urged sailors to let sleeping whales be.
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Pacific Mail Company
Acapulco
Panama
San Blas
Bailey
San Francisco
Nogi delivers Meiji era tribute at Port Arthur vigil
General Nogi Kiten spoke at a Shinto service honoring fallen Third Army officers and soldiers from Kwantung Peninsula actions. He praised their courage, noted days since landing, and prayed for purification as royal commands from the emperor were cited.
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Port Arthur
Nogi
Meiji
Nogi Kiten
Kwanting
Parson Bradley of Westbook Maine and His Wit
A history of the Reverend Caleb Bradley longtime pastor of the First Parish Church of Westbook Maine later part of Portland. Born 1772 in Dracut Massachusetts, he traveled the road to Stroudwater Bradley's Corner. A tale recalls his blunt humor when two gamblers returned money he joked that gambling pays better than preaching and asked why they did not play longer.
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Caleb Bradley
Westbook
Portland
Parson Bradley
Dracut
Mass
Maine
Harvard
Stroudwater
Bradley
Uncle John Berry and the Holderness Meetings
Preference of Uncle John recounts tales of the old Holderness resident known as Uncle John Berry. At the Holderness Meeting House a visiting pastor led services joined by parish members including Mr and Mrs Smith. Uncle John especially jealously watched Mrs Smiths singing while a joke about paying for bringing the minister sparked his wry remark.
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John” Berry
Holderness
Smith
Poston Herald
Landing of the Pilgrims on the New England Shore
A reflective verse fragment recalls the Pilgrims arriving on a wild New England coast. The scene portrays breaking waves, towering pines, and a sacred welcome as exile settlers seek freedom to worship. Voice of Mrs. Heman conveys reverence for homeland and divine liberty.
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New England
Health camp for consumptives in Indio California
A New York paper notes Mr N M Nelson’s health camp for consumptives near Indio in Southern California. The desert valley site provides free land water and work to convalescents with low costs for shelter meals and rent. Alcohol and tuberculosis are discussed by Dr. Knopf with warnings on alcohol’s harm and advice on avoiding risk groups.
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New York
Nelson
California
Indio
Consimp Uves
S. A. Knopf
That Tired Feeling and Its Restorative Regimen
The article defines lethargy from overeating or habitual intoxication as distinct from fatigue due to work. It notes sufferers often refuse activity, claims rest cannot cure lassitude, and recommends gradual exercise and dietary regulation. It cites many chronic invalids whose conditions arise from this cause, suggesting simple diet and outdoor activity as a path to restored usefulness.
Copper salt water treatment eyed for purity and disinfection
A USA Agricultural Department physician notes tiny amounts of copper sulfate can curb algae and kill typhoid and cholera germs in lakes ponds and reservoirs but warns water may be neutralized by impurities. He favors filtration and boiling over chemical treatment, citing Pasteur filters as best though coal and gravel filters remain inadequate.
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United States Agricultural Department
Warning Against Tight Corsets In Nature Abhors A Vacuum
A medical quotation cautions that the body contains no unoccupied space and compressing any part disrupts natural processes. Dr C E Hastings notes that shrinking organs causes them to diminish or crowd, interrupting nature's functions.
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Nature
C. E. Hastings, M. D
Simple Dishes and Coconut Cream Substitutes
Simple breakfast ideas include slow baked toast slices in oil to a golden crisp. Coconut cream is made from ground fresh coconut with hot water, strained, and used as milk substitute for puddings and sauces, served with grains or rice. A strawberry eggnog mixes egg yolk and white with sugar lemon jelly and strawberry jelly for a festive drink, with meringue on top.
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Stein
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Gor
Iowa
Knopf
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