Buried Town Dig Unearths Ancient Skeletons in Arizona
In Arizona a farmer named Frank C. Erwin uncovers a buried village while digging an irrigation ditch near Cochise. He exposes bone remains, a wall stretch, and a slab with figures of men birds and animals. Erwin plans to send relics to the Smithsonian.
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Arizona
Frank. C. Erwin
Cochisa
Father Niza
Negro Estevanido
Culiacan
Sonora
Tabac
Tucson
Erwin
Tombstone
Smithsonian Institution
Bittercreek Writer Confesses Bitter Thoughts
Byron writes in a feisty vein about English Bards and Scotch Reviewers and proclaims he is a bad man from Bittercreek headwaters. He vents more vitriol on paper, regretting a real club would have let him strike back.
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Byron
Keats
Bittercreek
Cuticura Trial and a Medical Fee Fable
A woman testifies to scalp disease cured by Cuticura remedies after severe itching bleeding and hair loss. A Paris surgeon allegedly leaves a thousand dollar fee in absorbent wool during appendectomy, then reopens the patient to retrieve it. A closing quip notes men as fashion slaves bearing the freight.
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Cuthura
Lillian’ Brown
Liberty, Me
Paris
St. Louis Republic
Marine Eye Salve Trial Size Ad Claims Care
An old advertisement promotes Marine Eye Salve in aseptic trial size tubes priced at 25 cents. The copy urges readers to ask their druggist or write Marine Eye Remedy Co. in Chicago for this eye care product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Looking Backward Yale Princeton Rivalry Snapshot
A passerby helps a fallen youth after a Yale Princeton game. The man, wearing orange and black ribbon, learns Princeton lost from a bulletin board that reads Yale won today. He clarifies he means the 1903 game, not the current match.
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Princeton
Yale
Lippincott’s
Inventory Helps Furnishings Crowd a Bare Apartment
A New York Evening Sun piece urges making a detailed inventory of furnished space to curb clutter and spending. It notes how listing items honestly reveals excess and reshapes decorating choices, turning minimalism into contentment with one’s lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Sun
Understanding Bronchitis A reader guide to symptoms and care
Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane. In adults it is usually a lay red and distressing illness like a severe cold that moves to the chest. Elderly and young or weakened patients risk dangerous complications and the best rule is bed rest and early physician care. The piece stresses watching for progression to chronic bronchitis and possible tuberculous signals and advises staying in bed until normal temperature returns.
Poet Browning’s Poems Set to Strauss Music Proposed
The Cleveland Leader reports a plan to set Browning’s poems to Richard Strauss music, a move described by locals as drastic yet aimed at cultural enrichment. Skeptics warn of misfit tones, while supporters see bold art.
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Jones
Browning
Richard’ Strauss
Cleveland
Agricultural counsel and farming notes mix advice and forecasts
Practical tips cover pig and dairy care, orchard mulching, hog forage crops, duck farming profitability, and early 20th century cold storage concerns. Topics include liver and milk quality, rape and oats for hogs, orchard drainage, duck layers and breeders, turbine electricity and storage, and calls for regulating cold storage to prevent price manipulation.
Dusting hens and advanced wind turbine details
The article explains dusting hens during incubation to deter vermin with powders and tobacco, recommends a dry dust box with sulfur, and warns against greasing eggs. It then contrasts old windmills with modern wind turbines, noting a 16 foot diameter wheel on a 50 foot tower with galvanized steel, ball bearings, oil bath gears, and minimized friction for efficient operation in light winds.
How to Use Commercial Fertilisers in Farming Soils
A Kansas Farmer article explains nitrogen in atmosphere and its value in humus and soil fertility. It discusses when fertilizers may profitably be used, ideal mixes for various soils, and practical application steps for corn and other crops.
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Kansas
Munyon’s Paw-Paw Pills Free Sample Offer
A package mailed free on request of manyon’s paw paw pills advertised as the best stomach and liver pills. Claims include relief from constipation indigestion jaundice biliousness sour stomach headache and disorders from a sluggish liver. Promotes free samples via postal request from Munyon’s Homeopathic Co. Philadelphia.
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Munyon
Munyon's Homoeopathic Home Remedy Co
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
John and the Franchise
A woman suffrage lecturer in England argued that women lack the vote while men hold power in the home and at the stables. She mocked a husband’s possible response by asking him to exercise the franchise, and he would reply with a puzzled question about which horse is meant.
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John
England
Ortho Orthodox Brother Debates Higher Criticism
In a lively exchange, Brother Hardesty and Brother Irons clash over the higher criticism. Hardesty dismisses the approach, declaring orthodoxy and rejecting insurgent ideas. The Chicago Tribune notes the heated exchange.
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Hardesty
Brother Irons
Chicago Tribune
Doan's Kidney Pills Helped Iowa Woman End Severe Ailments
Mrs. M. McFadden of Iowa City credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing years of back pain nervousness and weakness after doctors failed to help. She states she nearly died before using the pills and urges others to remember the brand. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Doan
M. McFadden
Iowa City
Iowa
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Minnicog resort on Georgian Bay as ideale summer retreat
Description promotes Minnicog, or Minnicog, a picturesque Georgian Bay resort on a large island reachable by Grand Trunk from Toronto. It highlights hotel accommodations fishing boating and minimal hay fever with abundant bass trout pickerel and pike. For descriptive matter write W S Cookson in Chicago.
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Georgian Bay
Grand Trunk Railway
Toronto
Canada
W.S. Cookson
Merchants Loan & Trust Building
Chicago
Dictionaries Up To Date as Language Expands
The speaker notes dictionaries must stay current with new words daily. He cites examples like potato as a cross between tomato and potato, hopperdozer for grasshopper destroyer, and ancmnariasis for hookworm, highlighting slang terms such as rubberneck stunt tank up and fan.
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Men of Science
Girl questions marriage fate in youth and later life
A young girl contemplates whether she will ever marry. As she grows, she wonders if she will ever meet a man she would not marry.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Jefferson
W. H. Burger
Cherry St
Glenwood
C. W. ‘Dunn
IOC
Western
Shaw
Saya
Gine International
Unite Eta Ea
Afanita
Bankatowe H
Alberta
Landa Hery Hailway
Ten Land Companies
Ottawa
KH. T. Ata Tho
Sackepnet
Bt. Paul
Minn
J. A. MacLachlan
jBox
Watertown
South Dakota
Quantrell Garment Co
7Th Ave
New York
Florida
Palm Beach
New Commission
Jupiter Gand Co
P. J. Franklin
Mercantile Library Bldg
Cincinnati
Ohio
Qhicago
Sioux Olty
Telal
Dr. May
May Medical Laboratory
Guaranty
GR. W. H. May
Pearl Street
Nawy
York
Dodds
Guara
Paesarmey Dactor
Pele Mele
Marshall
Philadelpha
Manyon’s
Thomas A Kempts
Pettit
Howard Bros
Motiter Gilay
ALLEN
Olmsted
le Roy
Sigatue
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
W. IL. Douglas
W.l.douglas
L. Douglas
Brocktoo
Mass
S.C.N.U. No
R.¥. Pierce
Prea
Buffalo, N.Y
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