Armored Train Patrols in South Africa Describe Fierce Night Skirmishes
Percy Tinall, a South Cape settler serving in the British army, describes armored trains on the east coast near East London. The account details a 58‑man train with armor, searchlights, two 12‑pounders, and a Maxim crew, plus a bicycle scout machine. It covers a night clash where Boers attempt a ford under heavy fire, with 40 Boers killed, 80 wounded, 165 horses lost, and three train casualties, and notes daily life aboard the train with concerts and games while temperatures sit around 90 by day.
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South Africa
Percy W. Tinal
South
Sioux Falls
S. D
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Young Tinen
Eastern University
Mounted Coast Patrol
Bicycle Corps
East London
Tommy
The Boy's Long Dream Dream Moment Lingers Briefly
A doctor watches a sick boy as bells ring outside. The boy dreams of hours while a single second passes in reality. Waking brings relief as the bell sounds prove the dream shorter than it seemed.
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Rob
Olives as Diet Warns on Quality Over Price
Olives may aid dyspepsia and nervous patients when chosen well. A good olive is firm and yellow green with a crisp bite and fresh aroma. Avoid soft dark olives and bargain prices hinting at doctored, unhealthy product.
What Alligators Eat Surprises with Stomach Trove
A twelve foot plus Sudan alligator yielded an extraordinary stomach haul. Inside were eighty five stones several birds claws two human finger nails and three donkey hoofs with a rope attached to one hoof.
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Sudan
Genuine Cascarets Candy Cathartic Warning
Consumer alert about ensuring authentic Cascarets tablets. Warns against substitutes or counterfeits and notes genuine packets are not sold in bulk and available from all druggists.
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C.C.C
Rocky Mountain Tea Promoted For Babies and Children
A vintage advertisement notes that one package yields two quarts of baby medicine and claims Rocky Mountain Tea is uniquely suitable for babies and children, priced at 35 cents from Frost & Spies.
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Frost & Spies
al Druggista
They Work While You Sleep Candies Cartel Pills
Ad claims a sleep aid exists for digestion liver and bowels with candy cathartic tablets stamped C. C. C. marketed to druggists for 160c.
Times Offers Binding Service For Books And Magazines
The Times invites orders for binding books and magazines. A selection of samples is available to view so customers can assess binding quality and style before placing orders for prompt service.
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the Times
Blind organ grinder counts time by watch winding trick
A downtown blind organ grinder demonstrates a time telling trick by winding a watch. A passerby pays a nickel and asks for the time. The grinder counts clicks to gauge how long a wind runs, estimating time within about ten minutes. The example shows eight hundred? minutes and a near match to 4 26.
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New York Mail and Express
Royal Tea Gifts Across Ancient Asian Courts
The text details how tea, highly valued in coastal Asian cities, served as royal gifts from Chinese rulers and merchants to eastern potentates. One notable record describes a package weighing forty catties, with leaves perfect in color and size, wrapped in silver foil and silk, packed in porcelain jars with camphor wood, sealed for security.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Japan
The Virtues of Cold Water and Lord Bulwer Lytton
The article profiles Lord Bulwer Lytton as a strong believer in the water cure aimed at relieving overworked writers. It describes his routine of days at a water cure establishment, limitless water drinking, sweating, and weight loss, followed by renewed energy and a harsh cold. He even authored a pamphlet arguing water cures all ailments with sufficient intake.
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Lord Bulwer-Lytton
Jie
A Great Favor From Parishioner Sparks Secret Plan
A mine worker visits the clergyman on a Saturday night and offers to help with a boxing event. He praises the clergyman for kindness to an ill old woman and hints at getting him into the inner line at Blean Hole's "Memories" for what he calls the grandest dog fight in town tomorrow.
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Mester Whiteworth
A Careless Poet Aubrey de Vere and His White Umbrella
M. A. P. notes Aubrey de Vere ignored etiquette and wore a shabby tweed suit with a white cotton umbrella as best man. He kept the umbrella for years, even causing a stir in Hyde Park with Mary Anderson’s carriage when she was at peak fame.
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Aubrey de Vere
London
Hyde Park
Mary Anderson
A Train Carriage Encounter on Regatta Day
A narrator travels in first class as a crowd of black dressed passengers floods the compartment. An orphan-like girl Annie influences a humpbacked old gentleman with gentle, curious roughness, sparking a rare moment of quiet humanity amid heat and crowding.
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Lostwithiel
George
Thomas
Pam
Annie
Simple Hindustan Marriage Ceremony Described
The article explains a short plain arranged wedding in Hindustan where friends arrange the union. The couple may meet for the first time at the ceremony as the bride sits beside the groom and the priest ties a veil corner to the shawl signaling marriage.
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Hindustan
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