Alum in baking powders sparks health warnings
Professor Barker and Dr Clark condemn alum in baking powders as injurious. W G Tucker calls it harmful in food. Cream of tartar powders promoted as healthier and more efficient, Royal brand cited. Also notes on a WWI era one eyed colonel anecdote, Land's End description, Oregon Exposition music, and a Para to New York rubber cargo valued at $3,000,000.
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Geo. F. Barker
University of Penn
Alonzo Clark
W.G. Tucker
New York State
Gettysburg
New York Volunteer
Washington
Bent Om
Col. J
Re§Pinder
Santiago
Para
Brazil
New York
Generals and Senators Endorse Peruna Remedy
Major-General Joseph Wheeler praises Peruna as an excellent tonic and cure for catarrh. United States Senators McEnery Sullivan and Roach, plus W. V. Sullivan and W. N. Roach, vouch for relief and vigor from Peruna. A free book on catarrh is offered by The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co.
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Joseph Wheeler
Santiago
Peruna
Sullivan, Roach
McEnery
United States
S. D. McEnery
Louisiana
New Orleans
Sullivan
W. V. Sullivan
Oxford
Miss
Roach
W.N. Roach
Larimore
North Dakota
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna Heals Mucous Membranes to Prevent Malaria
The article claims Peruna heals mucous membranes made porous by catarrh to block malarial germs from entering through mucous membranes. It asserts that this prevents chills fever and malaria and also cures these affections.
Flings At Womankind and Exposition Notes
A collage of social quips on romance and manners, plus Portland Oregon Industrial Exposition items. Highlights include a girl with lace trimmed dress and a hostess planning a reception, a woman boasting of first kisses, hair selling notions, and a hair buyer in Atchison. Portland exposition features a large war weapons collection, a steamy ride, and child-friendly museum exhibits. Includes praise for Mrs Winslow soothing syrup and travel notes with low excursion rates.
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Atchison
Kansas City
Atchison Globe
Portland
War Museum
Edwards
Northwest
Philippines
Oregon Volunteers
Dan MadAllen
Wind Cave Near Hot Springs Explored To Ninety-One Miles
The Wind cave thirteen miles from Hot Springs, South Dakota, draws about 8,000 visitors annually. It is owned by Folsom, tied to Grover Cleveland's wife, and remains contested in court. Discovered by hunter Mike Bingham, the cave contains 2,100 chambers with passages reaching 500 feet below the entrance, and has required years of labor and significant funding.
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Wind Cave
Hot Springs
8. D
Folsom
Grover Cleveland
Mike Bingham
Mike
New York Journal
Food of Filipinos Flying Foxes At Chicago Zoo
Chicago zoo receives a pair of flying foxes from the Philippines. Malays consider these bats fine tit bits and they hang from the trees by day, drawing curiosity from local visitors.
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Chicago
Philippines
Living in France vs American Comfort Standards
Excerpt contrasts American expectations with European travel life. It notes poor elevators in continental hotels and impersonal service in Paris’s Continental hotel while praising opulent dining but criticising lack of personalized cards or notes for guests. It comments on winter warmth unfamiliarity.
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America
Paris
France
Harper’s Bazar
Willow Creek Church Argyle Ill Largest Country Church
Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Argyle Illinois asserts itself as the largest country church in the United States. The brick edifice cost 815000 in 1870 and seats 800 with about 500 members, mostly Scots. The Rev William Irvine Alexander, 32, earns 1500 a year from pew rents and abundant parish resources sustain a simple Arcadian life.
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Willow Creek Presbyterian Congregation
Argyle
Ill
Willow Creek Presbyterian Church
United States
Willow Creek
William Irvine Alexander
Unanimous minds fall for comfort in mock battle
A Rochester Democrat tale describes a Nashville area drill where soldiers feigned being shot to rest in shade. Everyone followed the idea, the captain fined each soldier five dollars, then they revived and completed the drill. The piece ends with a homespun moral about sharing happiness and not playing another’s game.
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Nashville
Rochester Democrat
Tides and winds shape Atlantic coast observations wanderings
A fragmented discussion notes tidal patterns and wind directions from Newfoundland to Nahant, describing seas, currents, rock shifts, and seasonal effects. It references signals and forecasts, plus a stray literary fragment about Louisa May Alcott and childhood promenades, ending with a note on coal reserves.
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Gulf Stream
Newfoundland
Maine
Nahant
Hatteras
Collier’s Weekly
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Royal Baking Powder CO
Land’s End
England
Oregon Industrial Exposition
Bennett
Gen
Joe Wheeler
San Juan Hill
Bellingham Bay
Mrs. Winslow
South Dakota
Kentucky
Wonder
Food OF
BIG Country Church
Willow Creek Church
Miss Alcott
Louisa M. Alcott
Boston Beacon
Maximil
Mexi
Duke of Albany
Hubert
Dawson 8
Ballarat
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