Royal Baking Powder Endorsed for Alaska Miners Diet
An Alaska travel advisory stresses reliable food and especially baking powder. It cites Royal Baking Powder as essential for long trails in harsh climates, noting other brands fail. The piece quotes McQuesten and Peary praising Royal for strength and leavening in extreme conditions and warns against inferior powders from trading companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Baking
Alaska
Yukon
McQuesten
Faretic
Peary
Laska
Patent Medicine Ads and Oddities of the Era
A scanned miscellany of medical patent cures and endorsements. Claims for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Pitcher’s Castoria, plus ads for Piso’s Cure and Tea Garden Prins. Mentions of Magdaleen Cieute, a six foot nine inch woman, and assorted product promotions from Philadelphia and Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magdaleen Cieute
Mexico
America
Items of Interest From Around the World
A collage of curiosities notes Cooke on Colorado birds and 86g species, Pittsburg to add trolley car ambulances, Ormerod warns Germans threaten cockroach extermination, New York Island City claim, massive locomotive for Mexico, Lewisham and Islington London parishes, a prophecy of three world languages, Silesia mining bombs for bad air, Harvard admits a colored candidate, Louis XV antiques sold in Paris, London transit carries 453,000,000 yearly, grape cure gorging, Berlin fire brigade salute delay, Fifth Avenue New York demand for park-front property fetches $4,000 to $5,000 per front foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Eleanor Ormerod
Greater
New York
Island City
Mexico
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Black and Blue Bruises and a St Jacobs Oil Note
The piece praises black and blue bruises as enduring colors for men and soldiers while warning bruises hide nerve or muscle injuries. It promotes St Jacobs Oil as fast relief for bruises and sore spots after hard knocks. It also notes Russia’s population grew by about one million annually over the last century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jacobs
Open Letter Praises Lydia E Pinkham Remedies
An ill woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with restoring her health after years of weakness irregular periods and leucorrhea. She tried three doctors before relief and urges other women to consider the remedies as a godsend. The piece also notes a Chinese custom marking marriageability through a scarlet thread in hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Baking Powder Tax Hint From Schlling’s Best
A short note suggests that the upcoming year’s tax on baking powder will be light if Schlling’s Best is used with only one heaping teaspoonful per quart of flour.
Doings of Women in Wisconsin Highlight Park's Election
In Wisconsin, Dr Maybelle M. Park is elected county physician amid a contest with three male doctors. Her education spans Carroll College Waukesha State University the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and homeopathic postgraduate study in Philadelphia.
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Aukesna County
Wisconsin
Maybelle M. Park
County Board of Supervisors
Miss Park
Dodge's Corners
Waukesha County
Carroll College
Waukesha
Uni
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Post Graduate School of
Homeopathites
Homeopathies
Miss Culbertson and Miss Magrath Featured In Letters
Late Dr J W Culbertson renowned eye surgeon is cited alongside Miss Culbertson daughter of Major Anthony Filburn a noted British officer. Socially Miss Culbertson is praised for beauty brilliance and poise while Miss Magrath earns praise for bravery aiding wounded at Fort Gulistan during the Afghan siege under heavy fire.
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Paris
Colonel Inglesoll
Mine
Catve
Bika Wheeler Wilcox
Lew Wallace
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Culbertson
de J W. Culbertson
Therother
Anthony Plilborn
Miss Culbertson
Fort Gulistan
Samana Range
India
Miss Magrath
Notes About Women and Notable Figures
A South Africa to South Dakota divorce suit highlights a worn journey. Miss May Channing Wister joins the Philadelphia Board of Education. The Princess of Wales dislikes outdoor games though fond of Gromit. Mrs. Joseph Meek dies in Africa, linked to Princess Jejesi of Zulu royalty. Mrs. Humphry Ward, prolific yet frugal, earned $300,000. A New York divorce ad cites a North Dakota court. Miss Julia Clark of Dallas recalls gold rush days in California with the New Orleans party’s lone woman survivor.
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South Africa
South Dakota
May Channing Wister
Philadelpha Board of Education
Princess of Wales
Gromit
Joseph Meek
Africa
Jejesi
Humphry Ward
New York
North Dakota
Julia Clark
Dallas
Texas
California
New Orleans
New Cure for Consumption Proclaimed by Dr Slocum
An advertisement touts Dr Slocum of New York as the discoverer of a new system that allegedly cures consumption and related lung and chest diseases. It offers three free bottles with instructions to readers who mail name and address, claiming no charge for medicine or correspondence and confidentiality.
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Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Pitcher
Chas. H. Fletcher
Astoria
Mothers of America
Chas. H, Fletcher
Centaur Company
H. Fletcher
Samull Pitcher
M.D
Dr. Slocusm
Pine Street
New York City
Slocum
Tle
Dr. Slocum
Renue
T. A. Slocum
Wing Street
New York
Michigan Law Pins Penalty on Railroads for Addicted Workers
A 19th century statute imposes a heavy penalty on railroad companies that employ workers addicted to intoxicants, aiming to curb impaired labor on rail lines. The provision reflects the era’s reform concerns and broad safety-minded regulation of industry.
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Michigan
Navy seeks battleships and port protection urged
The secretary of the navy calls for more battleships and stronger port defenses. Aimed at relieving disorder in harbors, the piece notes fortifications are seen as insufficient and touts Trostetter's Somach Bitters as a cure for malaria related issues and various ailments. An advertisement from Hop Lee in Mexico City promotes an American restaurant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Navy
Compress
Defense
Trostetter
Mexico City
Hop Lee
Allen's Poot-Ease Foot Powder Promises Quick Relief
An 19th century style advertisement claims Allen s Poot-Ease cures painful swollen feet and bunions. promotes light shoes feel easy, relieves sweaty damp feet and callouses. It touts 10 000 testimonials, offers mail orders and trial packages, and names Allen E Olmsted in Le Roy New York. It also oddly notes the female golden $20 piece blonde.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy, N.Y
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Suretoy H . Na A
P Dickens
Fou
Delaware
Hall
Cueney & CO
Toledo
la Moutheve
Dordogne
France
Ues
Mason Emical CO
P.O. Box
Chicago
United States
Castoria
C. L. Baker
Agent Sq
Tea Garden Prins
Firsteites Vrocers
Pactrre Coasy Syrup Co
Genme Tea Garden Prins
Colorado
W. W. Cooke
London
Lewisham
Islington
Silesia
Harvard
Millerton
N. Y
Beauvais
Switzerland
Austria
Berlin
Russia
May Lachner
Columbus, O
China
Woman County
Lani
Shire
Empress
Indy
Europe
Enghand
Nice
Italy
Spain
Isabella
Netherlands
London Queen
Elizabeth Lowe
The
Miss Lowe
Queen
Kansas University
Lawrence Institution
Pinta
Rhodes
Miss Magratiis
Mer Culbertson
Bine
Iae Hritindiud
Erent
Anya
Nate Cabertal
Wily Wajonnne Neem
Pilin
Mit
Maarten
EE Nana
Wille
Lila Etlintscig
Una
Pdewand
Walter Baker
Gooa
California Fig Syrup CO
Chicago Board of Trade
Downing, Hopkins & Co
Chicago Board of Trade Brokers
Portland
Oregon
Seattle
Wash
Dorchester
Mass
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
Buell Lamberson
Portland, OR
Moore
Stewart & Holmes Drug Co
Department of the Interior
Rudolph Kraft
P. O. Box
Portland Or
Fat Snyden
McVicker's Theatre
Lil
N.P.N. U
Wis
Ferry
D.M. Ferry & CO
Detroit, Mich
Bismarck
Salzer
B.C. Salzer Seed CO
LA Crosse
Winslow
Fowler
Maton
Mer
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