Reward for Jesters Who Lighten Life's Burdens
England knits laurels on playwrights and rich men and France goes further awarding three Fratellini clowns academic palms for boosting public morale. The New York World notes a merriment drought and calls for subsidies, cash prizes, and pensions to support top comics as a national need.
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England
France
Fratellini Brothers
New York World
Will Kemp
Shakespeare
Grimaldi
Charles Dickens
College Instructor Finds a Mixer Earns More Money
A University of Michigan instructor compiled an alumni index showing ten year post graduation incomes. High scholarship men average 8000 dollars yearly while those active outside academics average 10000 dollars. The explanation notes these figures reflect career choices rather than ability or potential.
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University of Michigan
Oil's Well That Ends Well in Nation's Business Note
The item notes various groups in college settings using oil cans with mixed outcomes. It contrasts those who burn oil with those who spread it, concluding that oil's fortune improves when ends are favorable.
Age of the Sun Estimated at Two to Three Billion Years
Prof. Walter Nernst reported at a Berlin Society for Industrial Progress meeting that the sun’s age lies between two and three billion years. Estimates combine radioactive decay timing and Einstein’s mass energy relation.
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Walter Nernst
Berlin
Society For Industrial Progress
Nernst
Sage and Sulphur Compound for Dark Hair Reform
An old time remedy for darkening gray hair returns as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound. Drug stores offer ready to use product that darkens a single strand with a comb or brush and leaves hair lustrous and full looking by morning.
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Wyeth
Have Kidneys Examined By Your Doctor
Flush your kidneys by drinking a quart of water daily and take salts occasionally. A noted authority says rich foods form acids that paralyze kidney function, causing back pain, headache, dizziness, indigestion, coated tongue, rheumatic pains, cloudy urine, and night urinary trips. Jad Salts, four ounces in water before breakfast for a few days, may help flush and neutralize acids. have your doctor examine your kidneys at least twice a year.
St Jacobs Oil Promises Fast Back Pain Relief
An advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as a gentle penetrating remedy for backache lumbago and sciatica. It claims almost instant relief from soreness stiffness and lameness after a rub and urges readers to get a trial bottle from their druggist.
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St. Jacobs Oi
St. Jacobs
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