Allen’s Foot-Base and Teething Syrup Ad Fragments
An old medical advertisement block touts Allen’s Foot-Base powder for swollen feet and bunions with a 25 cent price in drugstores and a Frey sample offer. It also promotes Mrs Winslow’s Teething Syrup for children with easing gums and wind colic. A note on slate production cites Britain leading global quarry output with the US rising on export demand.
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Allen
Frey
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
The Power of Storm Reaches Cayman Islands
A dated warning notes Cayman Islands nearly overwhelmed by a recent storm and urges vigilance against disease. It promotes Hostetter's Bitters for regular bowels and digestive relief, urging reform and health measures amid ongoing concerns.
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Cayman Islands
Soldier’s Drum to Save a Flag in 1871 Besieged France
A teenage drummer in besieged French town recalls joining his father and fellow citizens as civilians turned soldiers. After a brutal retreat and capture, a daring flag rescue is staged with a ruse that nearly costs him his life, yet honors sacrifice and patriotism.
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Saint Claude
Bigorne
Luneville
Sue
Patois
Sergeant Bigorne
The Window Oyster Substitutes Glass in Manila
In Manila a bivalve shell called placuna placentia serves as window glass. Transparent, about nine inches across, it admits light while resembling isinglass. Known in China as the Chinese window oyster, it also yields shell for lanterns and a silver paint in watercolours. The species is common in the Philippines and offers a cheap, ingenious glass substitute.
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Manila
Tropics
China
Philippines
Moonshiner Confesses as Smoke From Grave Raises Hush
In a rural Georgia scene a revenue officer finds a moonshiner near a grave with smoke rising from a headboard. The old man feigns grief claiming a brother is buried there while admitting a stovepipe and smoke suggest illicit activity. The moonshiner quips the departed is being roasted for sins.
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Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
A London Newspaper Trust Formed ToAcquire Major Titles
A syndicate in London raises 1 060 000 pounds to buy the Sketch Illustrated London News English Illustrated Magazine Penny Illustrated Paper and Lady s Pictorial. Public shares total 750 000 with 375 000 in common stock at 5 percent and a shilling premium and 319 000 in 4 percent bonds. Observers compare it to other press combine actions.
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London
Sketch
Illustrated London News
Lady's Pictorial
Newnes
Harmsworth and Pearson
America
Sirius Photographed at Midday by Harvard Telescope
A Harvard Observatory Draper telescope photographed Sirius at midday, astonishing visitors. The feat shows daylight meridian crossings of bright stars may advance astronomical knowledge and research.
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Sirius
Draper
Harvard Observatory
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Hawthorne
Great Britain
France
United States
Zists Sect
Ayer’s Sa
Western
Canada
Sen of Immigration
Department Interior
Otwa
C. J. Broughton
Onadnock Block
Chicago
Ill
Blonarch Acetylene Gas Generator Co
Omaha
Nebraska
Prvear
Mach
W.N. Y
Salt Lake
Fred
St Albena TR
J.h.mclean
J. H. McLean
Louis, MO
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