Notable World Figures On Wealth And Vice
Figures and findings survey global wealth and vice including Paris debt London labor Paris earnings from petty trades and tips, Stockholm alcohol deaths Atacama nitre bed value mint profits penny piece gains and national pledge totals, with daily and annual estimates for pawnbrokers and tips in France and Paris.
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Great Britain
Paris
London
France
Italy
Stockholm
Atacama
Chili
Literature and Art Notes on Kipling Goelet and More
Kipling as a skilled carpenter and shipbuilder. Mrs. Ogden Goelet buys an enormous deluxe edition of Hyperion for her library. Annie Laurie’s heroine linked to Sir Walter Laurie. William Douglas composed the song in Kirkcudbright. Leonid Andreyev rises with Gorky in Russia. Prof. White returns to Berlin via Florence after securing Fiske collection for Cornell. Harold Speed, London artist, quips about artists and gentlemen and the dangers of pretension.
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Rudyard Kipling
Ogden Goelet
Annie Laurie
Walter Laurie
Maxwelltown
William Douglas
England
Kirkcudbright
Leonid Andreyev
Gorky
Prof. White
Ithaca
N. Y
Berlin
Florence
Italy
Cornell University
D. W. Fiske
Harold Speed
London
Mr. Speed
Shim
Cotton scandal probe sparks political turmoil report
A New York Sun item notes the government investigates a cotton scandal amid claims of misdeeds in high places. The exchange features Mrs Knicker and Mrs Knickerbocker complaining about a wool item being half cotton, reflecting public skepticism over the affair.
Grape-Nuts Restores Health in Welden Woman
A Welden Illinois woman shares how severe stomach trouble and headaches left her bedridden until she began eating Grape-Nuts. She regained strength, gained 20 pounds, and says she and her family thrived on the product, credited by Postum Co. as a life saver.
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Welden
Postum Co
Battle. Creek
Mich
Qollyne
Jacob the Fugitive and the Blessing Quest
Jacob flees Esau after a tense confrontation over the blessing. Rebekah schemes to protect him as Isaac blesses Jacob and sends him toward Haran. Esau pursues in anger, Judith pushes vengeance, and Jacob finds refuge at a rocky Bethel where he dreams of a ladder to heaven and divine promise.
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Esau
Jacob
Rebekah
Laban
Haran
Isaac
Padan-aram
Bethuel
Beersheba
Hsau
Judith
Wiau
God
Rube Et Ee
Heth
Canaan
Abraham
Bethel
House of God
Child Prayer Brings Larceny Justice in Pittsburgh
Pittsburg case reports ten year old Peter Johnson charged with stealing ten dollars from a Boston Street butcher shop. Parents’ church prayed for aid to stop mortgage holders threatening to sell the building. After a fervent prayer meeting, Peter slipped from the room, took the money, returned it to his father, and was released with a reprimand.
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Pittsburg
Peter Johnson
Boston Street
Johnston
Peter
Stenographer Burn by Celluloid Comb in Logansport
In Logansport Indiana a real estate office stenographer experienced a celluloid comb catching fire while combing her hair. She threw it on the dresser and flames spread to a dresser scarf and rug before she stamped them out. Friction is suspected as the ignition cause. A new sugar plant from South America named Eupatorium rebandium is praised by chemist Bertoni for its industrial value and its high saccharine content.
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Logansport
Ind
South America
Bertoni
What Did the Catcher Say in the Ninth Inning Mystery
In a tense ninth inning, with two strikes against him and bases loaded, the pitcher was rattled as the catcher whispered something to him. The ball cracked over the plate for strike three, preserving the lead and ending the game amid intrigue about the catcher’s whispered line.
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Newark News
AL Thanitahaw
One Night Cuticura Treatment for Chapped Hands
Soak hands or feet in hot creamy Cuticura Soap lather at night, dry, then apply Cuticura Ointment. Wear loose kid gloves or soft fabric in bed. Effective for forged rough hands cracked palms and painful nails, claimed to be a speedy economical cure.
Pheeder The Chiner Of A Man's Stomach Dialogue
A fragment from an old Philadelphia Press exchange jokes about a stomach matching a square meal. The quip pairs Pheeder and Dr Weeder debating appetite and fit.
Woman's Ordeal Drives Women to Seek Mrs Pinkham Advice
Thousands write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential guidance on female illness. A Manning Iowa woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life after years of ineffective treatments and severe symptoms. Mountains of proof support the medicine's health restoring claims for women.
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Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dr Melvin Page recounts his iced drink illness in 1895
Dr Melvin M Page of Page Optical Co Brie Pa recalls a severe kidney trouble after consuming excessive iced drinks in New York in 1895. He describes acute congestion sharp back pain headaches and dizziness that led to eye fatigue and a collapse of vision.
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Melvin M. Page
Page Optical Co
Brie,Pa
New York
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Jacob the Fugitive
Perihk
Pickaninny
TC Willadsen
The
Security Trust and Life Insurance Co
W. W. Scott
Chemical
St. Lowis
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Carters
Ittle Iver
UTES
Jefferson Street
Memphis
Tenn
Atlas
H. P
A. 3
Farquhar
York
Christie Degroff
Detroit
George Blake
Boston
Hancock
Obenchatin & Boyer
A. W. Kellogg Newspaper CO
Jefferson St
Fue A. Paxton comPany
Mac
America
Morse School OF
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Bond
National Business College
N. 4Th Street
Quincy
Iinois
A.n.ek.—B
Otay
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