Weight Changes and Fears About Health in Ordinary Life
A 19th century discussion on body weight variations shows daily shifts from meals and exertion, noting men can gain or lose pounds hourly. It cites experiments measuring pre and post breakfast scales, effects of physical activity, and how nerves and appetite influence weight. The piece also mentions famous athletes and the impact of exertion on weight, stressing variability and noncritical health implications.
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Gao
Jay
Lustace Miles
Jay Gould
Burgess
English Channel
The Koresh sect lecture sparks debate in St Louis
Mrs Hart proclaims Koreshanity as the true religion and science, claiming hollow earth theory and a gold crust. She discusses Isaiah quotes to support concave earth ideas, while Dr Teed’s Koreshanity followers publish experiments on a straight line indicating space convergence, drawing mixed scientific reaction.
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Tous Mili
Pradeti
Helana Hart
Loui
Hart
Washington
Koresh
Deed
Proft @ Morrow
Chicago
Treds
Karesl
The Central Solar Sphere Theory Explained by Mrs Hart
Mrs Hart outlines a planetary theory claiming the earth is a cellular globe with a seven metal shell and five mineral strata. She describes three atmospheres including a boron layer and Mercury discs within the earth. She asserts the sun is a refractive central sun rotating to produce day and night.
Medical art in China shows backward native practice and missionary insight
The article surveys Chinese medical knowledge as ancient and stagnated, detailing theories of pulse reading, humors, and the five elements, with crude materia medica and dangerous remedies. It notes Jesuit accounts, then praises medical mission hospitals and calls for government standardization before native doctors practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanghai
Chna
Te Comte
Tatler
China
Jolumure
Shrishin
Gueons
du Halde
Tere
le Comte
The Little Red Hen and Tim on the Train
A Morose Colonel recalls a stormy journey when a feared wreck becomes a tender tale after a cryptic rescue. An engineer’s affection for a red hen saves passengers, while a later threat from a snake is bravely dealt with by a baboon named Sarsfield on a tropical island voyage.
Baboon Saves Tim Coughlin in African Jungle Incident
In the Mozambican Channel a trained baboon named Sarsfield aided Tim Coughlin during a perilous riverbank episode. While Tim rested, a deadly snake threatened and the primate's alarm and proximity likely helped avert danger, reflecting the monkey's upbringing on condensed milk and training to behave calmly amid risk.
Champion Smokers Rise From North to East Clubs
The article profiles popular working men club life and long smoking contests in Britain and Germany. George Caton, a Highgate gardener, set pipe smoking records in 1906, while J Reynolds of Walthamstow holds the current world title by smoking an eighth of an ounce of shag for two hours and 24 minutes in competition against 109 peers from 19 clubs. The piece notes Britain’s shag saving culture and mentions a prior two hour record, plus a German example of a cigar lasting 7 hours 44 minutes.
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I Endea
Highgate
George Catlon
Renaud
J Reynolds
Walthamatow
Reynolds
Walthamstow
Agricultural Hall
Germany
The Value of Perspiration in Health
Health note extols sweating as essential to life and wellbeing. It cites body pore counts, daily water and food loss via perspiration, and regional differences in sweating among animals, stressing the necessity of insensible and sensible perspiration for maintenance of health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nothing New Under the Sun Promenades Aeriennes Illustrated
A Strind Magazine item discusses an old French print showing switchbacks and toboggans once known as Promenades Aeriennes. It argues the notion of novelty is illusion, presenting a historical example of aerial promenades as a revival rather than invention.
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Strind Magazine
Sign Language of Hobos Markings on Statue in Park Row
An article discusses a mystic sign on a Franklin statue in Park Row near Spruce Street. It describes lettering ATt 1007 with arrowhead bricks, speculating it is a hobo symbol indicating routes and meeting places used by transients and possibly tied to a wider set of chalked marks on fences and tanks across cities.
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Franklin State
Park Row
Spruce Street
New Jars
Tureid
Opalti
Jack Tondon
Riad
Railrad
Jack Land
Amonica
New York
Jimmi
Red Joe
Chete
Umea
Hoba
Momeca
Tis
London
Jall
Lordan
Trimp
Vilam
Ren
Glen Galt
Oratiens
Sal Tars
Rita
Iinea
Man's Stamp Covered Furniture Draws Wide Attention
Robert Blanken, a Philadelphia area retiree, covers furniture with postage stamps worth tens of thousands. He began eight years ago and has pasted about 75,300 stamps from 1450 to present on a bed, bureau, and table. The collection includes a five dollar revenue stamp from Gulf War era and spans multiple designs, with an estimated real value of around 34,473 though dealers estimate up to 35,000.
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Robert Blanken
Blanken
Gees
Furniture
Hess
Buffal
Messenger Bigs
Spetal
Orgaly
H Branken
J G Brill Car Company
Chuman
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Union Depot
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Iis Master 3
Surefield
Strane
Coughlin
Aya Tg Mansar
Jestophon
Nix
Shefield
Ganvas
Baboon
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Sailor
Orleans
Timothy Coughlin
Africa
Jim
Simian
Tim Ani
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Wis
Kenneth Tarhsie Purser
Monk
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Liverpool
Monkays
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Barsfield
Bobbie
Mirokes
Arsfield
Tim Siapped
Wudigsca
Moazambgue
Tim Wis
Ashoe
Dim
Shelyng
Sind
Uns
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Tam
Sattle
Ladelphia
Cor
New York Herald
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