Relief advertisement for National Medical Institute
An old advertisement promotes Relief as a safe dependable remedy not sold at drug stores. It urges readers to avoid experiments with others and to write for details to the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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National Medical Institute
Milwathhkes Wie
Trials of the moldy past pale beside modern duress
Kenneth L. Roberts writes in the Saturday Evening Post that genuine trials were once rare and costly illusions. He notes how fake demonstrations of endurance were common in old times and contrasts them with a contemporary European ordeal called the travel trial.
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Kenneth L. Roberts
Saturday Evening Post
Woman Learns to Write Her Name Then Changes It
Minerva Jones completes a writing course, proudly tracing her name. She later returns, announces a new name Mrs Ephraim Jackson, saying fate has changed her identity. The scene reflects persistence in an Americanization class as told by Youth's Companion.
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Minerva Jones
Minerva
Mineva
Miss Mary
Ephraim Jackson
When Laundry Traveled Far Across Regions
Historic note describes wealthy clients paying for laundry in distant places. French aristocrats had washing done in Holland for gloss from soft water. The practice persisted to late 18th century, with references to Paris tables and Bordeaux merchants sending linen to Santo Domingo for washing.
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Henry II
Holland
Paris
du Comte de Vaublans
Bordeaux
San Domingo
Plato on private virtue and public folly
The fragment reflects a speaker who distrusts mass politics and favors personal integrity. It asserts that the true statesman acts quietly, pursues a pure life, avoids injustice, and seeks peace and goodwill amid societal folly.
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Plato
Sex of an Egg and Egg Testing Methods
The Paria Academy of Science notes that pure bred fowls’ eggs may have their sex determined by weight and size. A known test from northern Scotland involves holding the egg in the left hand toward a light, shading the end with the right hand to observe the air space. A larger air space near the top indicates a male egg, while a larger space lower down indicates a female egg.
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Paria “Academy of Science
Scotland
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