Onions Advise Cure for Pneumonia Across towns
Northern New Jersey health boards cite a Washington remedy claiming onions rye meal and vinegar poultices can cure pneumonia. The paste is heated applied to the chest in stages with repeated reheating until perspiration begins, with claims of high success and a renowned New England physician behind it.
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Boards of Health
New Jersey
Health Board of
Washington
N. J
Papers of
New England
Witty Fragments and Scientific Finds from 1895
A humorous anecdote about an aspiring author who ends with ruined friendships after printing his book. A wily widow counsels remarriage to a widower who swears his late wife cleaned him out of carfare. A 1895 note reports Dubois locating the missing fossil link Pithecanthropus Erectus near the Bengawan river, describing its skull thigh bone and teeth.
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Dr. Dubois
Bengawan River
Java
New York American
Two Topers A Teacher's Experience in Postum Reform
A Minnesotan school teacher known as The Postum Preacher describes personal relief from nervous prostration after switching from coffee to Postum. She and her husband claim steadier nerves, better sleep, and improved appetites after boiling and drinking Postum with cream. The letter promotes Postum Co. and references The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Awakening China in Tientsin A Grand Educational Drive
A letter from a visitor to Tientsin describes an active Chinese push under Viceroy Yuan Shikai with a vast network of government run and private schools from kindergarten to university. The visit highlights reforms in education and industry, strict anti gambling and opium laws, and critical scrutiny of foreign concessions. The YMCA is praised as a key educator and moral force, needing more funding to sustain its influence.
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Tientsin
Robertson
Fay
Yale
China
Yuan Shi Kai
Peking
Board of Education
Japan
Tlentsin
China Times
Alhambra & Is
Pratt
A Harper
London
United States
Ganey
Etskueites
Aoittle
Invalids Sad Plight Cure Promises With Cuticura
A Stamford Connecticut testimonial from Mrs Lavina J Henderson describes a severe inflammatory rheumatism four years earlier. She says skin peeled hair fell out and bed sores appeared but improved after using Cuticura products. She notes hair regrowth and skin recovery after treatment. Dates March 6 and 12, 1907.
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Lavina J. Henderson
Broad St
Stamford, Conn
The Alphabet Lesson From a Six Year Old
A six year old girl named Marion questions an upstairs neighbor about letters while her confusion about the alphabet is revealed. Bridget, the upstairs girl, pretends to spell slowly as Marion asks for letters that are not in the alphabet and receives a candid reply that she does not know them.
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Marion
Bridget
Darlin
Wit at Cambridge Dinner by Sir Richard Jebb
In Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb a dinner at Cambridge recalls a witty exchange. Jebb, then Mr. Jebb, dined with a young woman who after the 61st course asked bluntly if women ever die of a broken heart. He quipped that perhaps other organs may have a role.
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Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Cambridge
Richard
Jebb
Mim
New Chart Corrects Magnetic Survey Errors at Sea
A magnetic chart from the 1905 Pacific survey aboard the Galilee shows previous navigator charts were erroneous along key routes by three to five degrees. Such systematic errors affect practical navigation where compass accuracy is critical.
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Pacific Ocean
Galilee
Fragmentary OCR Item on Transactions and Prices
The readable text references business transactions and obligations, mentioning Walocwo Riwwaw & lars and Windows-based terms. It hints at prices around 13 cents and duties or guarantees, but lacks coherent context or complete names or events.
Notable Confidences and Humorous Snippets From Then
A collage of wry exchanges and aphorisms, including Mrs Grammercy on marrying for love a year and Mrs Park on marriage for money. Short quips cover prudence, speech impediments, and social observations. A fragmented miscellany of light verse and ad phrases ends with mixed maxims.
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