Deborah and Barak Deliver Israel in Judges 4
Two inspired accounts of the same event from prose and poetry show Israel under Jabin and Sisera for twenty years. Deborah, the mother in Israel, calls Barak to conquer Canaanites at Mount Tabor, with Barak leading the troops while Deborah provides judgment and instruction.
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Israel
Jabin
Sisera
Naphtali
Asher
Zebulun
Interaet
Deborah
Joshua
Hezor
Izrael
Deborah Means
Hes
Matthew Henna Iz
Anna
Barak
Slaera
Bait al Rai
Attia
Devil Thumbs Curse and Indian Ghost Folklore
A collage of sensational items recounts Gian Singh in Ludhiana India losing his thumbs to a claimed divine act, hospital surgeons disputing the tale, and his exile from family. Also reported is a ghost sighting in Potts town cemetery debunked as a granite monument, plus a China business note criticizing dividend and commission practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allah
Gian Singh
Tuse
Ludhiana
Punjab
India
Glan Singh
United States
America
Omar
Hie
Los Angles
Henry W. Lockemith
Hanover Street
Pottatown
Henry
Robert C. Hawk
Hawk
Philadelphia Record
China
Joan
Powerful stimulant from bat plant leaves described
The leaves of the bat plant are a common stimulant among Abyyseinis and Arabia natives. They are chewed for long efforts, causing sleepless stimulation and a long lasting intoxication without harsh inebriety. Users may go days without food, and overindulgence can lead to dryness and emaciation of the face with trembling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abyseinis
Arabia
Cascarets Cleansing Claim Adverts a Ten Cent Box
An old newspaper advertisement touts Cascarets as a safe cleanse for bowels liver and stomach promising thorough regulation of the digestive tract overnight with a ten cent box. It contrasts Cascarets with salts cathartics and purgatives and claims many users avoid headaches biliousness coated tongues indigestion sour stomach and constipation.
Puzzle for the Physician and a Town Doctor Tale
A humorous reminiscence about medical advice and a country patient. A doctor explains a fad tonic for fatigue and a peasant begs for help with his elderly mother, who wishes to avoid dying naturally as the night weather rages outside. The excerpt includes Harold Begbie and Youth's Companion references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Begbie
Ireland
Patrick
Overwork and Kidney Trouble Patient Testimonial
Oakley Kentucky resident James McDaniel recounts overwork causing kidney and bladder disease with pain in the bladder stem, upset sleep, nerves, puffed eyes, and shortness of breath. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills for permanent improvement after ten months of rheumatic pain and ineffective medical care. Free household hints notes and anthem music offer with product ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McDaniel
Oakley, Ky
I. McDaniel
Dodd’s Medicine Co
Buffalo
Ducks Use Ducks to Fight Mosquitoes in Experiments
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that ducks, after being placed in a protected pond with goldfish, rapidly reduced mosquito larvae within twenty four to forty eight hours. Ducks fed on larvae and may drown many while stirring the water, proving highly efficient in controlling yellow fever and malaria vectors in swamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Samuel G. Dixon
Pennsylvania
Dixon
Sage Tea and Sulphur Remedy for Gray Hair
An old time recipe from Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy promises to restore natural hair color. Grandmother used this brew to darken hair, reduce dandruff and brittle dry scalp, with a dampened comb applying color that supposedly lasts days.
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Wyeth
Clergyman Hulteen to wed. telegrams greet union
The Brockton Enterprise notes Rev Julius Hulteen of Campello, a Swedish Lutheran clergyman and classmate, will marry. A West living friend sent a telegram, read by the clerk as Never too late to mend. Intensive happiness and expansive prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Hulteen
Swedish Lutheran Church
Campello
West
Hulteen
Husteen
Comparison of Alexander the Great in a student reader exchange
A student praises Alexander the Great as a wonderful general while a casual reader counters that his limited map made modern war news seem insignificant by comparison. The note appears in the Washington Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Compariaona
Alexander the Great
Washington Star
Fragmentary Dialogue Reflects Street Scene
A humorously clipped exchange shows a woman asking Jane to check the grocery man at the door while Jane replies the postman is bearing a bushel of chests. The dialogue shifts to a wartime reference about U.S. defense and offense with a jokey fence-sitter reply.
Untitled note on behavior and ambition
Odd fragment cites personal advice about discretion in troubles and a contrast between helping others and making money. Mentions " Remedy, Co." and "Uninleago" as garbled names, with a caution that popularity comes from stoicism. Contains stray phrases about ambition and keeping troubles private.
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B. C. Sellers
Sourah “and
Baat
Kdiin
Puzzke
Bocker
Thail Bingo Uring
Hve Remedy, Co
Uninleago
Man Cay
Hag
Joe
Sreta
Rav
Bears
The
Foc
the Centaur Company
NEW YO
Cumtaur Company
New York City
Sloan
Alen Dunn
Box 88
Pine Valley
Misa
Sea G.campbell
Florence
Texas
Earl S. Sloan, Inc
Indelphia
Dept
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ottawa
Orto G. A. Cook
West 9Th Street
Kansas City
Misseim
C. J. Broughton
WestAdamis Street
Chicago
Ill
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