Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Proves Helpful
Auburn New York Mrs William H Gill says ten years of nervousness and organic pains eased after four months with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. St Cloud Minnesota Mrs Bertha M Quickstart reports overwork and worry left her able to care for her children after using the remedy. The ad touts the compound as a reliable solution for female ills and urges readers to try it.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Auburn
N. Y
William H. Gill
Pleasant Street
New York
St. Cloud
Minn
Bertha M. Quickstapt
5Th Avenue
Moving Picture Shows Come Home Popular Mechanics Prediction
A May future predicts home moving pictures become common as house plans include a dedicated picture room and a projecting machine. Weekly film deliveries and home film photography will create new industries in cities and memories for birthdays weddings and other events.
New Paper Money Promises Safest Currency System
Leslie's describes a forthcoming redesigned national currency with uniform quarter sized notes chasing counterfeiters. Each denomination will display a prominent portrait and a fixed value on sight, reducing forgeries and simplifying transactions with immediate recognition of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and others.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Jackson
Franklin
John Marshall
George Washington
Leslie’s
Fortress of Silistria and the Berlin breach
The London Chronicle notes that Romania may press Bulgaria to cede Silistria as compensation for inactivity in the war. It cites Silistria as nearly impregnable since the Russians last held it, though the Berlin Congress ordered its forts demolished, a clause kept in the breach.
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Silistria
Roumania
Bulgaria
London Chronicle
Demolitions in Manhattan Add Up to a Small Town
The article reports that 820 buildings were demolished in Manhattan last year, including a gas tank. The combined front feet of houses pulled down measured 24 875 feet, about four and three quarter miles. Nine of ten destroyed structures were four stories high.
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Manhattan
Stenotype: A Fast Plain English Shorthand Machine
A new stenotype machine promises 400 to 600 words per minute in accurate plain English. It uses phonetic spelling and functions as a shorthand typewriter, recording work in standard characters.
J Hamilton Lewis a noted Democratic figure
J Hamilton Lewis, known as J Ham, has long been a Democratic political figure. He sought the Senate and vice presidency, served in Congress, and played a significant role at the recent Democratic convention amid Illinois senatorial contests.
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Illinois
J. Ham
Senate
Congress
J Hamilton Lewis
Uncle Sam evaluates Friedmann tuberculosis cure claim
The United States government and Surgeon General Rupert Blue scrutinize Dr Friedrich Franz Friedmann who claims a turtle blood culture can cure tuberculosis. In ten days he treated about 100 patients at Bellevue and New York hospitals under government supervision, with mixed indications of improvement and caution about proven benefits. Bozin's Roller Boat Scheme is noted as an impractical idea for sea sickness.
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Uncle Sam
Friedrich Franz Friedmann
United States
Philadelphia
Kansas City
Keokuk
New York
Sam
Friedmann
Rupert Blue
John F. Anderson
Hygienic Laboratory
Arthur F. Stimson
United States Public Health Service
Treasury Department
Bellevue Hospital
New
Jenner
Bozin
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Boston Transcript
J. Hamilton Lewis
American Press Association
Jefferson Oil Company Incorporated
E. C. Miller
A. W. Middleton
Treas
A. W. Lane
Vice Press
D. C
Ty, Pres
Electric Building
Aberdeen
Wash
Ery
Ialist
Standard Oil Company
Hoh River
George E. Woodard
Cessful
Woodard’s ‘Services
Woodard
Jefferson Oil Company
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