Broadstairs Summer Home of Kickers and Local Anecdotes
Fourteen years in Broadstairs shaped Kickers summer image as Diskells depicts his routine. A Londoner at heart, he writes, swims, reads, and naps in a bay window, with a festive innkeeper rumor and distant laughter from Lincoln’s Fields at night. Health ad blurbs about Foley products appear in the cluttered text.
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Kickers
Broadstairs
England
London
Channel Coast
Diskells
Broadstatia
Lincoln's Ten Fields
Duchess and King Edward Share a Musical Moment
In a Mar duchess entertainment for the late King Edward Miles Alice Nielsen the American opera singer performed Among others she joined a Tosti song and during the second stanza the king spoke aloud a remark The line hush tis a voice drew a teasing look from Miss Nielsen who then delivered the quip till the king laughed along The royal guest took the moment with garlanded good humor Jose Mitchell Chapple notes in National Magazine.
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Marcheater
Edward
Miles Alice Nielsen
Tosti
Goodby
Roys
Jose Mitchell Chapple
National Magazine
How Cold Causes Kidney Disease
How Cold Causes Kidney Disease discusses the impact of cold on kidney health including surface blood flow and workload. It mentions Foley Kidney Pills as a tonic aiding urinary organs and bladder function, with a dated teaser about post February pricing changes for show locals and church notices in the Vindicator and Republican.
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Vindicator
Republican
New Life Pills Promise Gentle Health Boost
A short consumer claim extols Dr. King’s New Life Pills offering fast, gentle benefit without griping or distress. The ad asserts the pills deliver thorough work for good health and fine feelings, urging readers to try the product.
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Dr. King
S. H. Williams
Morital Rheumatism Powders Offer Relief Claims
Morital Rheumatism Powders touted as the pinnacle of modern science promising permanent relief for rheumatism. An agent named J. Klopp of Focal endorses the remedy and urges sufferers to try it.
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J. Klopp
Focal
Taft Certain of Nomination for 1912 Run
President Taft appears headed for renomination with about 100 delegates pledged in Chicago. Big Republican states across the East and West grow to believe he is the only Republican who can win this fall. Byes and state victories in New York, Pennsylvania, New England, and other mid Atlantic states bolster the Taft column. Ohio and Indiana are highlighted as key states in securing a GOP victory.
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William H. Taft
Chicago
Taft
Mississippi River
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New England
Middle Atlantic
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
Taft renomination viewed as path to national prosperity
The piece argues President Taft has defined policy on reform and anti-trust issues, asserting his decisions have convinced business, labor, and farmers that a second Taft term will restore unparalleled prosperity. It notes delegates are shaping a Taft victory in Chicago, with broad regional support and limited opposition.
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Supreme Court
Congress
Taft
White House
William H. Taft
William McKinley
Chicago
Taft’s restraint averted war with Mexico
The article credits President Taft with rare discernment in handling a tense diplomatic situation with Mexico, preventing conflict and preserving friendly relations. It notes that yielding to jingoistic pressures could have dragged the U.S. into war, while he protected American citizens’ rights and kept relations undisturbed.
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Taft
Mexico
United States
Taft AntiTrust Record Marks Strong Trust Prosecutions
The Taft administration has built an unmatched record in enforcing the Sherman anti trust law. Pro moters of big combinations have been fined for disobedience and controlling corporations have been dis integrated as federal action reaches the bar.
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Taft
Federal
Theodore Roosevelt vows no further presidential bids
A series of Roosevelt quotes from 1904 1907 and 1912 state he will not seek or accept another nomination after his term. He emphasizes the two term limit is about substance not form and asserts his personal pledge not to run again, while later notes show changing stance when faced with a nomination.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Notable Taft Achievements Millione of Dollars Saved to Govern
A summarized list of Taft era policies highlights includes arbitration treaties with Britain and France, vetoes on statehood and tariff bills, enforcement of Sherman act, open door in China, canal progress, wage and safety laws, and extensive government reforms. The document touts fiscal savings, modernization of customs, and domestically focused reforms under Taft.
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Great Britain
France
Arizona
Russia
Panama Canal
New Mexico
Bureau of Mines
Congress
China
Cuba
South
Central America
Frendhy
Economy and Efficiency Commission
Parcela Post
Japan
Pacific
Post Office Department
Canada
United States
Commission
Court of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nonpartisan
Tar Board
Supreme Court
Stock and Bonds Commission
Courts of Customs Appeals
Taft
Grim tale of missionary and Dyak head hunters
A missionary recounts grim Dyak head hunting lore. A young convert, spurned by a girl for not producing heads, brings his lover her family’s heads in a bag. He is executed in a bamboo cage, starving under her gaze.
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Iip
Well Worth Jr Sir James Browne Story on Railway Tunnel
Sir James Browne recalls a tale about a railway tunnel and a newly married couple in first class. A passenger says the tunnel cost £100,000 to minimize confusion after emerging from darkness. The groom responds that it was well worth the money.
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Well Worth
James Critchton Browne
Skeich
Animals That Count and Their Curious Tasks
The piece notes humans vary in counting ability while many animals display numerical awareness. It cites Murray Island inhabitants and Torres Straits as examples alongside horses in Hainault mines that complete the same road thirty times before returning to the stable. It also recalls Montaigne's account of oxen in Susa gardens refusing more than 106 wheel turns daily.
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Murray Islands
Straits of Torres
Hainault
Montaigne
Susa
Russian Food Fakers Turn Oranges Into Blood Oranges
A Russta story reports fruit dealers using a hypodermic needle to inject aniline red and caccharina into ordinary oranges to create blood oranges. A St. Petersburg mother fed a blood orange to her daughter, who bled from a throat injury caused by a needle fragment.
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United States
Russta
St. Petersburg
Johannesburg Population Boom Reaches 240000
Johannesburg records a population of 240000 in the municipal area, up from 165000 six years ago. Of the current total 122000 are white, 105000 black, and 18000 Asiatic. The city remains in a tight race with Algiers for Africa's largest European city title.
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Johannesburg
Africa
Algiers
Routes Traversed by Christ in Assyrian India Tour
A brief note suggests Jesus may have joined a caravan near Nazareth and traveled Persia and India in youth. It cites a French traveler’s account of a Tibetan lamasery library and a medieval volume claiming Jesus debated with Magi and Buddha priests before beginning his mission.
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Christ
Assyria
India
Nazareth
Thibet
Thibetan
Persia
Sommerce
Magasing, Eemmitaainaaes Y
Eamsaal
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