Little Black Boy Dream and Other Tales in a Domestic Journal
A feuilleton style column reviews a famed tale The Little Black Boy Dream about an Englishman in India saved from murder by a boy and two coincidental dreams. It also notes tobacco effects on muscle work by Lombard and Harley and reports on new paper products for straws and cigarette mouthpieces plus brief medical ads and miscellany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hartley
Warren Lombard
Vaughan Harley
Harley
Lombard
Charmed by a Snake Halts Girl in Florida Fields
In Simona Florida a seven foot rattlesnake hypnotized Miss Pauline Browne as she gathered white flowers. Her brother Arthur Browne saved her by shooting the snake’s head, ending a bizarre episode where the girl appeared entranced by iridescent flowers and a blazing tongue of flame. The monster measured seven feet with eighteen inch girth, sixteen rattles and a button.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simona
Florida
Pauline Browne
Miss Browne
Arthur
Arthur Browne
Ballet Dancers Lure Ball Guests in New York Nights
The New York Journal reports that paid ballet dancers and chorus girls appear at many balls and masquerades held by groups like the Cuckoos Early Birds and Night Hawks. Dancers at elite venues such as the Metropolitan Opera House and Olympia are in high demand for their beauty and trained grace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balla
Metropolitan Opera House
Olympia
New York Journal
The Wight of Cyclomania in Bois de Boulogne
In Bois de Boulogne an incident sees a cyclist run down by a brother of the wheel. The injured man fainted then regained consciousness and asked for the maker of the cyclist’s machine. A passerby aided him as the rider fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bois de Boulogne
le Rire
Left on the Care Fills New York’s Elevated Road Lost and Found
The last-article room on New York’s elevated road system handles about 30,000 items annually. Ten percent are umbrellas, second most common are satchels. Roughly half the items are claimed. the rest are kept six months or a year and then sold at auction by value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sunshine of Past Ages Explains Coal In Story Form
Amelia C. Fenton explains coal as the buried sunshine from ancient Earths. The Philadelphia Times essay traces how monsters, giant plants, and repeated burials created coal and how man later discovered its warmth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Amelia C. Fenton
Philadelphia Times
Color of Women's Eyes and Eye Color Stereotypes
Lillian Bell argues blue eyes signal gentleness and virtue while dark eyes imply energy and intellect. she notes many men misread women with brilliant black eyes as shallow or calculating. The piece suggests eye color shapes trust and fate more than true character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Bell
Ladies’ Home Journal
A Hot Pancake for Your Aches
A reader share a home remedy for back pain and headaches using a hot pancake placed between white cloths. The batter is fried in minimal grease, then applied to the sore area. The note claims rapid relief and notes it works better than wet cloths.
Hard Luck in Kansas Lost Coins Spark Stumble
A farmer and his wife in Wellington Kansas misplaced a ten dollar gold piece while searching the street. In the scramble the wife dropped a two dollar bill and they could not locate either item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Wellington
Kan
Cheap May Round Trip Excursions to Virginia and Carolina
West and northwest homeseekers can buy one fare round trip tickets on May 5 via the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and Ohio to Virginia and North Carolina. The note promotes Virginia land for settlers, praising mild winters and fertile crops, and invites readers to request pamphlets and folders. It also contains an unrelated ad for Syrup of Figs and a quip about being genial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Carolina
Chesapeake & Ohio
North Carolina
South
U. L. Truitt
Clark St
Chicago
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Drugfists
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Mas Winslow
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Ugh ‘Im
Ails Nates
LN U
The
California Fig Syrup Company
Ayer
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
East Tennessee
Kentucky
M. W. Richards
Land & Industrial Age
Southern Pathway
Washington, D.C
Uae
Jacobs C
Fering
le Iteur
Thomason
Uss
Eady
Poe
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd
Dorchester
Racycle
Price
Miami
Middletown
Ohio
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