Doan's Kidney Pills Bring Relief to Many Sufferers
A flood of grateful letters extols Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from Bright's Disease back pain and dropsy symptoms. Testimonies from Oakland and New Orleans praise free trial samples and rapid improvement in kidney and related ailments.
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Doan
Cusack & Co
Bern
Whem
Dean
Ainee
Gro
Junsovintina
Preston & Stauffer
New Orleans
BASH RAILROAD BELL MOBILE and return
Ambiguous OCR fragment lists travel terms and names with dates and places. The readable items reference New Orleans and Omaha Nebraska, with partial names like Harry and Moore, but the text is garbled and not a coherent event.
Toledo Patent Medicine Ad Promises Snow-White Clothes
A historic ad touts Red Crows Ball Bive starch as a premium product for whiter clothes and denounces competitors. It includes a sworn pledge from Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co offering a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cure claim not met by Hall's Catarrh Cure and notes notarized testimony.
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Brave
Toledo
Locas County
Cheney
Cenior
P47
Cheney &Co
Hall
Frank J. Chenity
State Cut Ont Gin Gottod Mew Amurll
Local act affects Gin Gottod Mew Amurll and Foster Milburn Ou with policy changes. Officials announce adjustments impacting residents and firms in the region. Details remain limited in the fragment.
Johnny Discovers Anatomy Through Rhetoric
A student named Johnny, urged by a desire to impress, dodges simple body parts and recalls terms his physician father and a medical student uncle discussed the interior exterior and back-terior. The scene highlights curiosity and clever wordplay about anatomy.
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Johnny
Milas Brown
Father
Jim
Brother as rival aids campaign in North Carolina race
In the tenth North Carolina district J M Gudson faced no active opponent beyond his brother, the United States consul at Panama. The consul took leave from his Panama post to help re elect Congressman Mowly, the Republican candidate.
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J. M. Gudson
Congress
North Carolina
United States
Panama
Mowly
Art auction records reveal high sums for classic works
Rembrandt's Old Woman from Mulliken of New York sold in London for 28105 dollars. Velasquez The Grape Seller and Turner's Dustanborough Castle from the game collection realized 12775 and 4287 dollars respectively. An anonymous Edward VI portrait drew 8253 dollars and Van Dyck pieces Edmund Waller 4176 dollars and Earl of Arundel 2520 dollars.
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Rembrandt
ER. F. Mulliken
New York
London
Velasquez
Turner
Dustanborough Castle
Edward VI
van Dyck
Edmund Waller
Earl of Arundel
Quick Wit and Bird Nest Pranks in College Life
A New England college janitor Bob jokes with students about grass color matching his face. A stylish young woman scolds a boy with a bird's nest on her hat, noting the mother bird's eggs as he shrugs and explains indifference.
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Bob
New England
Lincoln Quips On Davis Escape And Temperance Pledge
President Lincoln discussed whether Jefferson Davis should be captured in a remark to General Grant. He then told a humorous tale of an Irish temperance pledge signer who asked a barkeeper to sneak brandy into a lemonade, adding a quip about letting Davis escape unseen if possible.
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Jefferson Davis
General Grant
Lincoln
Father Mathew
Mr. Lincoln
Davis
The Grocer Gaffe With a New Brother
A five year old, newly a brother, was sent for leaf sugar and given granulated sugar by mistake. On returning, he was asked how he liked his new brother. He replied he cried all the time and they cannot change him now because they have used him three days.
Defiance Staren Package Promises Better Returns
A marketing pitch offers Defiance Staren with a one third bonus if the product pleases the buyer. It claims the item provides satisfaction and will not cling to the front. The text links happiness to divine clarity shining through lives.
Widow sells infant for five dollars amid strike poverty
Mrs. Fannie Urhouse of Pansale New Jersey sold her three week old son for five dollars due to extreme poverty after her husband died in a Pennsylvania strike. She had supported herself on two dollars a week until the birth. The purchaser was Mrs. Join Urban of Wallington. Forethought is better than after thought, but inner thought is best of all.
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Fannie Urhouse
Pansale
N. J
Revolutionary sword with Civil War ties in Columbia exhibit
A sword on display in Columbia traces to Colonel Tarleton and was captured by Wade Hampton, ancestor of the late General Wade Hampton. The weapon stayed in the family lineage and was used by General Hampton during the Civil War.
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Columbia, & C
Tarieton
Wade Hampton
Hampton
Nebraska Senate Debates Bills and Statewide Elections
Nebraska Senate introduced multiple bills on water control boards and public health authority. Emergency clauses seek to empower county boards for health, regulate medical practice exams, redefine county bonds, and extend court commissions. Joint session reports election results and schedules inaugurations.
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Senate
Lincoln
Howell
Douglnas
Tte
Tte Cluthes
Ite
Water Board
Ita
Sheldon of
Cans
Nebraska
Sheldon
State Board of Health
O'Neill
Lancaster
Marshall
Otoe
Hastings
Rutter
Bewater Hall
Douglas
Supreme Court
Nebraska House Opens as Speaker Mook Calls Session
On Wednesday morning the Nebraska House, led by Speaker Mook, began in order at 4 30 p m. Reverend George Bevett offered the chaplaincy prayer as clerical heads and members prepared for business. A five member committee was appointed to advise the Speaker on needed employes and staffing, with members Rouse, Moll, Nelson, and Arundel joining a Senate liaison to notify the governor of the legislature's actions.
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Caldwell
Clay
Fiedback
Sweesy
Webster
Ford
Thayer
Eggenburger
Fillmore
John BR. Musick
Nuckolls County
Rouse
Hall
Atwood
Aoward
House
Moraman
Douglas
J. A. C. Kennedy
Joint Committee On
Savage
Senate of
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Representative Hall
Steele
Secretary of State
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Thompson
Travis
Bigelow
Scattering
McGilton
Gilbert
Highber
Flugh
March
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Lymon
Maddox
Beriel@h
Follmer
Brennan
Dilworth
Adama
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Howard
Spencer
Burkett
Wise
Hanks
Fraser
Christensen
Mercer
Tittehcock
McWaffrey
Mooket
Wrayer
Eorge Bevett
Ocood
Nemaha
Moll
Nelson
Arunderaon
Knox
Senate
House delays business for a death resolution
The assembly transacted little business on Thursday and adopted a resolution honoring John KR Music. On motion by Rouse of Hall, it was ordered the house adjourn to meet at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning.
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Senate
S. W
Hastings of Butleer
S. F
Marshall of
Otoe
Otero
Marshall
Tioulay
John KR
Rouse
Hall
Lincoln Governor's Reception Planned at Capitol
Arrangements for the governor's January reception at the capitol include open offices and senate chamber. National guard will staff all doors to guide guests while the retiring governor is introduced to the incoming governor and state officers.
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Lincoln
Capitol
Senate Chamber
Representative Hall
National Guard
Bia
Disown Archduke Leo pold Ferdinand in Saxony elopement fallout
Vienna reports the Tus can branch of the Hapsburg family resolved to disown Archduke Leopold Ferdinand who accompanied his sister the crown princess of Saxony when she eloped. They will remove him from the family fortune and dismiss him from the lineage.
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Vienna
Hapsburg
Leopold Ferdinand
Saxony
Laugher and incongruity in humor say Professor Sully
Professor James Sully argues laughter stems from the incongruous and unexpected. He cites a man arrested by soldiers who joins their card game, cheats, and is expelled as others forget he is a prisoner. Also two burglars in court poke each other in the ribs until one protests his right to be there.
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James Sully
Professor Sully
Riba
Preacher’s Gaffe Sparks Laughter in Church
Rev John McNeill notes it is common for any man to preach and shares a humorous incident. An elder, covering for the absent minister, begins the sermon with a stammered line inviting anyone whose conceit should be removed to come forward, provoking laughter.
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John McNeill
Dodd's Kidney Pills Promoted After Local Cure Claim
The article touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a modern remedy for kidney complaints citing a local case in Oolitic Indiana. W A Terry grocer reports four months of kidney and bladder trouble with rapid improvement by the second day of use and urges others to try the pills.
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Oolitie
Ind
Dodd
W. A. Terry
Gospel in Life and Literature Offer Different Worlds
A reflective line contrasts the Gospel in life with its performance in literature, suggesting practical salvation through lived faith over literary treatment. The idea frames ethics and belief as more potent in action than in artful writing.
Defiance Starch Claims Lasting Strength and Value
The ad praises Defiance starch as more durable and longer lasting than competitors and asserts you get one third more for your money. It concludes with a proverb about fools and wise men, praising the product’s virtues.
Sufferers From Consumption urged to seek Kalamazoo remedy
An advertisement urges sufferers from consumption to write Derk P. Yonkerman & Co of Kalamazoo Michigan for a “wonderful remedy” and hints forgiveness without forgetting as a parallel to a pardon without punishment.
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Derk P. Yonkerman & Co
Kalamazoo, Mich
Defiance Starch Rumor Seeks 16 Oz Advantage
Some grocers say they do not stock Defiance Starch because existing stock of other brands comes in 12 oz. packages for the same price, while Defiance offers 16 oz. for the same money. The notice urges buyers to choose 16 oz. Defiance Starch.
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Defiance Sturch
Tila
de Hance
Defiance
Queen of the Belgians bred Hungarian horses and trained riders
The Queen of the Belgians was renowned for her passion for horses like the late Empress of Austria. She could break in any horse and raised her daughters to love riding and driving. At Laeken she ran a large riding school and operated a country stud farm breeding Hungarian horses.
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Austria
Laeken
No Gentleman Weighs More Than 200 Pounds
A humorous exchange about body weight features Thomas B. Reed replying that no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds. The conversation ends with the assertion that Reed weighs exactly 200 pounds, contradicting the friend's guess of near 300.
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Thomas B. Reed
Mr. Reed
Household tip on Red Cross Ball Blue use
A household note explains that clear white clothes indicate use of Red Cross Ball Blue. It specifies a large 2 oz package costs 5 cents.
Oldest U S magistrate in Rushville reaches new term
Thomas Poe, 92 year old justice of the peace in Rushville Indiana, is believed to be the oldest active magistrate in the United States. He has held office since 1854 and has occupied the same room for forty years. At the latest election he was chosen for another four year term.
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United States
Thomas Poe
Rushville
Ind
Prayer Movement Seeks Donations From Donors
Community volunteers urge supporters to fund charitable aid from personal wallets. Organizers emphasize prayer and action together to help others, building a grassroots drive to cover needs beyond official funding.
Winter resorts of the Southwest on Missouri Pacific trains
The Missouri Pacific offers palatial trains to winter health and pleasure resorts across the Southwest. Hot Springs Arkansas is highlighted as a premier national sanitarium, with others including New Orleans Galveston Houston San Antonio Laredo and coastal Texas options. The route network spans Arkansas Louisiana Texas New Mexico Arizona California and Mexico via the Iron Mountain Route and Gould system.
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Southwest
Missouri Pacific
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Old Mexico
California
Middle West
Ozark
Hot Springs Mountain
Hot Springs
United States
Gulf
New Orleans
Galveston
Houston
Iron Mountain
San Antonio
Guadalupe Mountains
Laredo
New Mexico
Arizona
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Missouri Pacific Railway
Tenby seaman debuts water walking boots demonstration
William Llewellyn of Tenby Pembrokeshire unveiled an invention allowing a person to walk on the sea in rough weather. He wore large wooden boots linked by a steering mechanism, forming catamaran-like pontoons, and walked on the sea for about thirty minutes before thousands at the pier-head.
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Tenby
Pembrokeshire
William Liewellyn
Liewellyn
Llewellyn
Modern French Pied Piper at Rosenthalles Choux Fair
At a Rosenthalles Choux country fair near Dunkirk a rat charmer named Ray shut himself inside a barrel with a hundred rats. Minutes later he emerged unharmed as rats gathered about his chest. He credited vocal modulations for keeping the rodents from attacking him.
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Rosenthalles- Choux
Dunkirk
France
Ray
London Mail
Indianapolis Doctor Documents Tinsley Family Heritage Curse
An Indianapolis physician explains how the Tinsley family and their ancestors have not laughed since a clergyman cursed them for antisocial merriment during the hanging of a thief in Oliver Cromwell’s era.
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Indianapolis
Tinsley
Oliver Cromwell
Loubet Visit to U S Not Grounded Says Paris Messenger
The Paris Messenger reports that claims President Loubet accepted an invitation to visit the United States for the Louisiana Purchase exposition are unfounded. The only probable trip next year is to Algeria and Touls.
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Paris Messenger
Loubet
United States
M. Haste
Algeria
Touls
Girls study scientific farming at Minneapolis college
More than fifty girls study scientific farming at the Minneapolis College of Agriculture. The curriculum covers botany chemistry physics and geology with two terms each in the first two years.
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Minneapolis College of Agriculture
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