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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
6
Prominent medical writers note native plants offer valuable remedies and that early Indigenous knowledge aided later discoveries. Dr. R V Pierce mails free extracts from standard works to readers, claiming his glyceric root medicines treat indigestion heart issues and women’s ailments, with no alcohol and clear ingredient lists on wrappers.
Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot, famed French chemist and College de France professor, died moments after his bedridden wife. Born 1827 in Paris, he reached eighty with a career reshaping organic synthesis and revolutionizing chemistry. He held multiple titles, including academy member and perpetual secretary, and Parliament granted a national funeral.
The account describes an immense ancient ship built by Ptolemy the Pharoah, allegedly 420 feet long, 57 wide, 72 deep, with four 45 foot steering oars and 2000 rowers per side in five banks. It carried 4000 rowers, 3000 marines, servants, provisions, and heavy lead weighted handles on oars. Its actual sea trials are debated, but historians agree it existed as a display ship of grand scale.
A quotation from the Cleveland Leader questions Jones's sense of humor. The remark references a troubling personal history involving a death, a sister, and joking about the deceased relative within the family circle.
A Cleveland grocer testifies that quitting coffee for Postum Food Coffee relieved his nerves and gastric issues. He recalls two years of coffee intolerance, morning irritability, and loss of appetite, then notes his wife’s suggestion and a successful switch. He urges others with nervousness or stomach trouble to abandon coffee. Read The Road to Wellville in packages.
Sweden reports 105000 union members while new unions form in Milford N F and Cleveland Ohio. Local councils fund a city hospital. the International Association of Machinists holds 100000 in treasury. Boston and Minneapolis push for eight to nine hour days and $3 per day minimum wages. California, Oregon, and Tennessee see labor actions and new federations. Japan mills focus on worker education. Oregon upholds child labor limits. Longshoremen in Boston and San Francisco unions pursue eight hour days. Spokane women invited to Clerks Union. Oldest San Francisco Robotic Union roots date to 1852 with no strikes.
A wave of violence erupts as Cossacks kill fifteen workers at Kuttner's spinning mills in Loda, Polish Russia after terrorists hit a mail wagon, seize $1,000, and trigger a factory massacre. Robberies also strike the Vistula railroad office in Warsaw with $5,000 stolen, two guards killed, and bystanders wounded. Separately, eleven conspirators plotting to assassinate Czar Nicholas II at Tsarskoe-Selo are arrested in Finland as plot details emerge.
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator from Wisconsin on the first ballot amid tense voting. The convention featured dramatic moments as Assemblyman Goldsworthy pledged to Stephenson, who was praised for wealth, self-made success, self-education, anti trust stance, and liberal giving to Marinette colleges churches and civic causes. Stephenson will be TS years old on June 18 and is described as vigorous and resourceful.
The Atlantic section reports Churches and The Atlantic section of the Council of Jewish Women severing ties with United Charities and continuing as a separate body. Cleveland hosts the national convention of the Catholic Oral Abstinence Union of America next August. Van Ogden Vogt resigns as general secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor to join the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. Dr. Francis E. Clark visits the West Indies, Panama, and South American republics for the Endeavor. The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon resigns from Metropolitan Temple London due to ill health, succeeding his father in 1892. Westminster refuses an Herbert Spencer memorial tablet, citing nonorthodoxy. The federal government builds four canal zone facilities for Young Men's Christian Association workmen and plans four more. Dr. George Sa. Stokes will assist Dr. Edward M. Taylor in New England missions duties until wealth permits Taylor to resume full work.
Cheshire Conn English instructor Colton Maynard teaches a Shipspeare class to title scenes. After reading The Merchant of Venice a student offered No Mother to Guide Her for the scene of Jessica eloping with Lorenzo, signaling melodrama influence.
Mrs Charles N Preston of Elkland Pennsylvania recounts a dramatic health turnaround after using Deans Kidney Pills. She describes extreme fatigue weight loss thirst and glycosuria before relief and recovery following treatment. The pill brand Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York marketed it nationally at fifty cents per box.
William Henry Harrison boasted that Indiana’s many military men could have matched his Tippecanoe victory but were busy writing novels. He trusted Indiana’s military fame to his illustrious grandson and returned to Ohio to watch over Foraker.
A fragment from Stray Stories recalls a couple in London discussing a honeymoon. The man replies abstractly that he will always return, painting a brief vignette of romance set in the capital city.
In the British Museum library a colossal atlas of engraved Dutch maps is described as the largest book ever printed. Weighing around 800 pounds and nearly seven feet high, it requires three men to move it and is bound in leather with solid silver clasps. It was presented to King Charles II before leaving Holland in 1660. Garfield Tea, claimed to purify blood and promote health, is advertised as a spring health product.
A fragment shows a dialogue about Western mining stock with remarks on dividends and a fortune seeking guesser. The page also features an ad for Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for Children claiming gum relief priced at 5c per bottle.
An ad asserts that women suffer nervous prostration and related symptoms due to organic derangement. It claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from native roots and herbs helps, citing Mrs Nellie Makham of 161 Morgan St Buffalo N Y as a testimonial in this period newspaper notice.
In a Fredonia New York letter Mrs Geo A James credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after severe nervous prostration and female troubles. She praises the remedy as the finest medicine and urges others to seek Pinkham's guidance with free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. The ad extols the product as a safe natural treatment with numerous testimonials.
An overview of Lilla E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound presented as a tonic claimed to ease various women's ailments. The piece outlines its advertised benefits, usage, and purported relief without medical endorsement, reflecting early 20th century patent medicine marketing.
Yonkers Statesman notes a brief exchange about a woman named in the church context and a reference to a pure food show in Gotham, suggesting a casual local conversation snippet from the Yonkers newspaper page.
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