Anna Gray Praises Western Canada Home and Prairie Life
Miss Anna Gray writes from Didsbury Alberta describing the climate social and religious life. She notes four churches a new Evangelical church cost 2500 dollars and a strong sense of community. She mentions over one hundred thousand Americans in Western Canada with 60000 more expected to settle this year and recounts a two month western sojourn before returning to Michigan.
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Anna Gray
Wester Canada
Anna
Gray
Michigan
Western Canada
Brown City
Mich
Haginer
Alberta
Mike Gray
Didabury
Alloria
Western Prairie
Prairies
Didsbury
Baptist
Presbyterian
Evangelical
Antimony Decline Noted In Medical Practice
Medical science has largely discarded antimony, once common in tartar emetic. A historic table links elements like nitrogen and arsenic through a universal substance idea. The piece notes early uses before chloroform and warns mothers about washing baby clothes with certain powders. Col Henry C Branch, born 1827 in Virginia, died near Lexington, Missouri, and boasted ancestry to the Harrison family and Pocahontas.
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Sir Lauder Brunton
Henry C. Branch
Lexington
Harrison
United States
Virginia
Missouri
Kansas City
Journal
Vanity of Guinea Fowls In Mirror Comes to Light
A young man keeps two guineas as garden pets. Wings clipped, they stay in an outhouse with a mirror, viewing their reflections for hours. The owner suspects the mirror hypnotizes them. they must be carried out and shut in again. Other items mention Putnam Fadeless Dyes and a dental electric treatment claim from Munich.
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Philadelphia
N. W. Samo
Ocnen Grove
Gay dancer of Vienna mistress of the czar
The World reports that Mathilda Kachesinska, a Polish dancer from the Imperial Russian Marte theater, attracted the czar’s affection for over a decade. She arrived in Vienna with a retinue, secured royal apartments, and was to become a life member of the Vienna Opera, with a plan to share prima ballerina assoluta status. The czarina, once supportive, faced a chilling truth as the czar sought heavenly blessings through a sacrifice and a son.
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Imperial Opera
Vienna
Mathilda Kachesinska
Obuchow
Tegat
Bock
Imperial Russian Marte Theater
St. Petersburg
Kachesinska
Ter
Dhe
Alix of
Howse
Mathilda Kachestuska
Carina
Mathilda
Viennak
Vienna Opera
Assoluta
Sironi
Blessed Letter B and the Beatitudes of Beans and Beasts
A London Chronicle correspondent muses on the letter b as a source of good and bad words. The writer lists foods and blessings beginning with b such as bread beef beer bacon beans broccoli and butter and contrasts them with dreary words like damp dark dismal dirty and despairing. The piece playfully ponders whether letters correlate with moral or material fortune.
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Blige
Lonitou Chronicle
Diamond jewels dazzle at Timperial tea for Misa Kechesinska
Mathilda Kechesinska hosts a grand Timperial tea, inviting 100 guests with her own silver and china from Saint Petersburg. Misa Kechesinska displays unmatched diamonds, including a chain-link necklace, a plastron, a tiara, and large earrings, at a Concordia journalists’ ball, with a dazzling array of brooches, combs, bracelets, and a waistband set with Ural diamonds.
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Mathilda Kechesinska
St. Petersburg
Misa Kechesinska
Concordia Tall
Portugal King Fights Bull In Bold Court Feat
Prominent royal tastes include sport and bravery. As Duke of Braganza, the king once entered a bull ring unpadded and incognito to face a bull. He slipped but sprang over a barricade as the enraged bull charged, shattering the woodwork with its horn.
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Portugal
Braganza
Spain
Bandéerillo
Museum Rats Collection Displays Wide Range of Species
National museum in Washington showcases a vast rat collection donated by Maj. Edgar A. Mearns. The exhibit includes water rats mountain rats Held rats tree rats ship rats factory rats cave rats and common rats. It also features tropical arctic Sumatra Philippines edible rats from China East Indies musk rats skunks chipmunks squirrels minks raccoons opossums and many varieties of mice.
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National Museum At
Washington
Edgar A. Mearns
Medical Department of the Army
Sumatra
Philippines
China
East Indies
Minor incident over bag during southern hotel stay
A New England man arrived in a southern city and faced hostile treatment from Black hotel staff who demanded his bag. After a struggle, the bag was torn free and became the focal point of the dispute as a husky worker declared he would keep the money, not caring who took the bag.
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New England
Emperor William inherits Duke Nicolaus wealth in Silesia
Kaiser's revenues rise by about 500000 marks as Emperor William is named chief heir to Duke Nicolaus with extensive Silesian possessions. Montana tribute notes Jane Dates, Montara pioneer woman, dies at Hell Gate after settling there in 1869 and marrying three times. The political noise remains quiet in the land.
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Kaiser
Stuttgart
William
Nicolaus
Silesia
Montana
Jane Dates
Montara
Hell Gate
The
Territory
Odd Feminine Nations and Fashion in Naples District
An elderly man Tasino near Naples offers marriage and wealth, with 1200 entries for a macaroni wedding prize and a £100 wedding gift. The piece notes battlegrounds over hunting women, new cravat styles, fur accessories, light cloths for races, lace-dominated gowns, corset criticisms by Dr Williams, rainbow parasols, and society women tattooing pets with gold cages for private shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tasino
Naples
Indy
Tai No
New Paris fashions shape grooming and decor trends
The Paris season introduces a new style in toilet tables echoing antique dressers with multi sided mirrors and lace. Dark colors like black surge in popularity, while new hats use twisted straw and velvet. Artificial flowers gain favor amid social rituals and insomnia driven carriage rides.
Kidney pills and a meteoric diamond tale
A Kentucky woman testifies that Downey Kidney Pills relieved her kidney pain and backache, with a free trial offered by Foster Milburn Co. A separate note describes an "imported" diamond found embedded in meteorite fragments in Diablo Canyon Arizona, now displayed at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Pare
Columbia Avenue
Glassow
Kentucky
B. Pare
Dean
Down's Kidney Pills
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Cusisme
Diablo Canyon
Crater Mountain
Arizona
G. A. Koenig
American Museum of Natural History
Tribute to Birds and a Century of Amos Martin’s Life
A Paris siege memorial plans a pedestal and bronze vase with a group of pigeons to honor dispatch carriers. The Paris memorial committee includes notable literary and scientific names. Amos Martin of Princeton, PA, turns 106, once Highland piper at Waterloo, with a lifelong romance ending in a second, much younger marriage after a rain soaked proposal.
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Amos Martin
Princeton
Waterloo
Propar food cures child with nervous dyspepsia in Bristol tale
A Bristol Ontario County woman recounts using Grape-Nuts to aid her only child suffering nervous dyspepsia. After prior failed remedies, a box of the cereal produced quick health and improved disposition, with the crisp nutty flavor becoming a family favorite. The testimony notes Western New York use and the reputation of the product claimed by Postum and Battle Creek.
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Bristol
Ontario County
Wee Geome
New York
Postum Battle
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Liverpool
Royal Southern Hospital
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Boston
Paris
Milady
Paria
Countess de Noailles
Murat
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Italy
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England
Charlotte Corday
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