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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 164 words
  3. OUR SERIAL STORY

    To the letter the interuption was extremely unwelcome, but at least it served to recall him to the present position of affairs. No good could come of causing a scandal or of starting all the ...

    Article : 3,207 words
  4. PARS FROM ALL PARTS

    A question often raised in regard to the African elephant is whether these ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 98 words
  5. MISSING FRIENDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 404 words
  6. A FENCE THAT BLOOMS.

    Throughout the older parts of Mexico, Texas, and New Mexico many of the fences ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  7. THE MEDICINAL VALUE OF HERBS.

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has just issued an extremely interesting ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 201 words
  8. THE POLAR BEAR THAT CAUGHT COLD.

    There seems to be something inconsistent in the idea of a Polar bear ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 211 words
  9. THE MULTIPLICITY OF SCOTCH HAGGIS.

    Every once in a while, and particularly on the day after a Robert Burns ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 213 words
  10. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.

    Lord Northbourne, speaking at a meeting at Huddersfield, England, to protest against Welsh Disestablishment, gave the following description of the characteristics of the people of the ...

    Article : 66 words
  11. NO MORE "PAUPERS."

    By a unanimous vote the Northwich (Cheshire, Eng.) Board of Guardians decided that in future the word "pauper" shall not be used in any of the Board's records. The mover said many ...

    Article : 13 words
  12. WHAT IT COSTS TO BECOME A BARONET.

    The letters patent granted for the dignity of a baron cost £150, and for that of a baronet £100, payable to the Board of Inland Revenue. Other expenses to be incurred by the ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. WOMAN'S FIGHT WITH LIONESS.

    A young actress had a terrible experience at Rouen in a cage containing two lionesses. When M. Pierro Louise the lion tamer, went to feed the animals he was accompanied by ...

    Article : 129 words
  14. DECLINE OF THE HANDBILL IN PARIS.

    As a result of the new police regulations in Paris against the throwing down of handbills in the street, the appearance of the city is cleaner than it has been for years. ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. ENSURING THE SECRECY OF LETTERS.

    From the days of antiquity it has always been a problem unsolved how to ensure the secrecy of letters. A Frenchman named Phion claims, however, to have discovered the real method, ...

    Article : 105 words
  16. "I WONDER WHO'S KISSING HER NOW?"

    The Alimony Club, in New York, a name adopted by a coterie of men who are undergoing imprisonment there for default in payment of allowances to wives from whom they ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. GRECIAN GARB IN COURT.

    Mr. Raymond Duncan, a "simple life" propagandist. appeared at the Palace of Justice, Paris, to contest the right of a landlord to expel him from a flat. Mr. Duncan appeared ...

    Article : 43 words
  18. PREHISTORIC NURSING BOTTLES.

    According to recent discoveries it appears that nursing bottles were used even in prehistoric times. This is true at least for the age of polished stone, inasmuch as a French ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. A BEGGAR'S NEWSPAPER.

    Among all newspapers certainly the most curious is that called "The Mendicants' Journal," which has begun a semi-annual publication in Paris. It is presumably, intended for ...

    Article : 185 words
  20. FLOWERS AS FOOD.

    Not only does the violet please the sense of smell, but it pleases the palate as well. In days gone by a favorite sweetmeat was made of candied violets, while a sherbet made of extract ...

    Article : 180 words
  21. SKILL AND HUMOR OF TWO STAGE MONKEYS.

    Two strangely amusing apes made their London debut at the Hippodrome recently. They are reported to be the best and most entertaining monkeys that have ever descended from ...

    Article : 175 words
  22. LENGTH OF LIFE.

    From the death rates which give the number of deaths per 1000 births at the end of the first, second, third etc., year of life, the length of life, that is, the whole number of years that ...

    Article : 196 words
  23. MARRIED BY A CABDRIVER.

    A Scottish irregular marriage performed in a private house at Dumfries by a cabdriver, the couple having come from Carlisle, was upheld by the County Court judge at ...

    Article : 167 words
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