North Pole flag raised amid Arctic expeditions
A 1909 overview traces notable polar exploits from Spitzbergen to Ellesmere Island. Reports cite August 1909 launches, Walter Wellman and Amer ican airship trials, Peary and Amundsen milestones, and Dr Frederick Cook claiming pole reach in 1908.
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Waltker Wellman
Island of Spitzbergen
Moebert
Peary
Sydney
N.S
Polar
Pole
Ronald Amundsen
Worthwest Passage
Herschel Island
Baron Tull
Siberia
Peeish
Jerickson
Dane
Saunders Island
Anthony Fiala
Abruzzi
Duke of
North Pole
Sok
Apernavice
Cape York
Hskinios
Cook
Lerwick
Hans Egede
Ryberg
Greenland Administration Bureau
Dr. Cook
Hans Heede
Legation
Maurice F. Mgan
Alexander Kouta
New York
Hovenard
Trme
Copenhagen
Fred
Frederick A. Cook
Bys
Iowa State Fair Closes With Record Attendance and Higher Premiums
The fifty-fifth Iowa state fair ended with a grand stock show and parade valued at $3,000,000 in the pavilion. Attendance topped 1908 by 42,040, yet net receipts lagged slightly due to rain and cold, while premiums rose by about $8,000 over last year. Night shows, a diverse stock parade, and high-class vaudeville acts drew large crowds. Scholarships were awarded to several youths, and Wednesday's receipts set new fair records with total gains over the previous year reaching $11,521.49 by Thursday evening.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Cook
North Pale
Department
Arctic
Antarctic
Admiral Wilkes
Dr. Kane
Greely
Dr. Cook
Greenland
Denmark
Pole
Nansen Strait
John St. Bradley
North Sydney
John TR. Bradley
Simith’s Sound
Peary
Comanni
Wosentham Sound
Upernavik
Rasmussen
Des Moines
Sapl
B. F. Carroll
A. B. Swift
Iowa Brigade
Durham
Swift & Co
J. Crouch & Sons
Kidney Pills Promise Quick Relief for Women Suffering
Mrs John H Wright reports ten years of kidney trouble with backache urinary issues and dizziness. After trying two doctors she found Tiian's Kidney Pills offered lasting relief, improving her condition markedly. Sold by Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Wright
East First St
Mitchell
S&s D
Tiian
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Wealthy Quick Gains Trickster in Rural Maine Street Show
A patent medicine salesman performs a sleight of hand on a Maine village street to draw a crowd. He proves an empty handkerchief can produce a coin before claiming he can conjure another, while an old farmer jokes about earning more if he could repeat the feat. A separate talking point features Betty learning grammar from her schoolteacher uncle on a May day.
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Maine
Betty
Hetty
Latheran
It Was His Way a Kansas Farmer Tells of Telephone Clicks
A Kansas farmer describes eagles dropping unseen along the farmers telephone line and explains how he avoids making his receiver click when lowering it. The remark reflects local rumor and a humorous take on listening devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kangas City
A Rude Suggestion in a Jestful Exchange
A young student asks why pretty women are called peaches. A sour bachelor replies that pretty women tire the fruit of mischief, framing the quip as a sharp social aside about beauty and mischief.
Grape-Nuts Promised Digestive Help Endorsed
A Terre Haute reader praises Grape-Nuts for easing four years of indigestion after typhoid. She notes her husband’s quick improvement after switching from regular foods, and their son’s reliance on Grape-Nuts for school performance. The ad cites nourishment and brain-nerve support from wheat and barley minerals as why it works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Tam
Fertile Farms for Thousands Registration Notice
Registration dates announced for mobridge Lemmon and Aberdeen to open Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations in North and South Dakota. Oct 4 through Oct 23, with a drawing Oct 26 in Aberdeen. Information desks and travel routes listed with folders about land opening and new railroad line access along routes via Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway.
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Standing Rock
Cheyenne River
Soth Dakota
North Dakota
Moyow
Airmay Lt
Aberdeen
Auth Dakota
St. Paul
Mobridge and Lemmon
South Dakota
Montiana
Iren
POA
Miller
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
Ulinois
Well Painted Houses Boost Value and Paint Outfit
The piece argues well painted homes add selling and occupying value and promotes National Lead Company free Houseowners' Painting Outfit No. 49 with color schemes, specifications, and adulteration detector. It also notes consump tives can be treated in any U S region and criticizes doctors who send poor patients southwest without funds, urging local hospitals and restricting indigent consumptives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lead Company
Trinity
New York City
United States
East
West
Southwest
California
Texas
Quaker Oats Praised For Purity And Strength
The article extols Quaker Oats as a clean pure food ideal for strength in muscles and brain. It notes the brand’s success in removing husks and specks and recommends regular or large family packages depending on store proximity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quaker Oats Company
Aunt Anne's Sizey Feet Prompt a Humble Telling Joke
In a vignette from Everybody's Magazine an elderly woman named Aunt Anne sits with crossed knees in a kitchen. The young daughter asks about her shoe size and Aunt Anne explains she usually wears nines but today has on twelves, noting they hurt her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne
Aunt Anne
Lund
Everybody's Magazine
Chicago to Boston and Return Fare Notice
Chicago to Boston and Return 25 60 Grand Trunk double track route tickets on sale daily until September 40th with a thirty day limit. Liberal stopovers through sleepers daily tourist sleepers Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. Low fares to all resort destinations in New England and Canada. Apply to agent of any eastbound line or write W Cookson A G P A 135 Adams St Chicago ML.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Trunk
Newngland
Canada
Cookson
Adams St
Chicago
Witness account in a quarrel overheard by magistrate
A magistrate questions a witness about overhearing a quarrel between a defendant and his wife. The witness notes the defendant seemed abstinent, with the exchange referenced from Pearson's Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson
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U.S
Paris
New York Herald
Hans Ygiede
Ipfost
Bradley
Smith Sound
Esquimaux
Etukishook
Ahwelsh
Brooklyn
N. Y
Colonial Office
Shetland Islands
Ellesmere Land
Rudolph Franke
Utah
Greenhind
America
Franke
Gank
Jeanie
Eiah
St. Johns
N. B
Tr. Cook
Ragwell O. Stebbins
Calhoun Depot
Sullivan County
Mary Stant
Penry “Eri
Mount Makinley
Alaska
Isia
Richard Willoughby
Wehard Chancellor
Martin Itrovisher
Capt
Davis
Barents
John Knight
Henry Hudson
Thomas Button
Jens Munk
Thonas James
Isle of
Jan Mayen
Deshnele
James Knight
Tebbe
Bering
Pronselisichell
Lasesvilus
Charlton Lapti
Lord Mu Ié
Capt. Cook
Parry
Franklin
Parr
John Rosssare
Pease
J. C. Ross
Plover
Kane
Isaac Hayes
Seaes
Hail
Hall
Ene Hall
Pogetthoff
Isa
Lele Smit
Sleannette
de Leng
Tee Vreeley
Andree
Heligan
Explorer Cook
Ames‘olege
Edward Vaughan
Marion
Earl ¢. Girton
State Center
Bruce Purvis
West Liberty
Noy Keables
Gilman
Ryle
McKee
Indianola
Jesse M. Dowell
Redford
Wriday Mae Beswacseee
Farmer
Epxchange
Cheyenne River Indian Reservations
Mobridge
Lemman
M. D
Gare
Boston
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