A Woman's Misery: Mrs John La Rue Sees Kidney Pain Fade
Mrs John La Rue of 115 Paterson Avenue Paterson New Jersey suffers for nine years from back ache headaches dizziness and nosebleeds. After using Doans Kidney Pills her pain and symptoms disappeared and she continued the treatment. Doans Kidney Pills cost 60 cents a box and are sold by all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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John la Rue
Paterson Avenue
Paterson
N. J
Dean
Doan
Foster: Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Woman Readers Ruled by Purring Heroines Says Globe
Dora D Esparis Chapman in the London Globe argues that male novelists common heroine type is a cat like figure. She says the stereotype irritates the average female reader and would seem dull or disagreeable on a visiting list.
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Dora D'Espaigne Chapman
London Globe
Swordsmanship Clubs Grow Across England
Swordsmanship in England progresses with new salles d armes and clubs opening in London and provinces. International matches are arranged and English teams have performed well in these events.
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England
New Salles D’armes
London
Hereros Cattle Description in Southwest Africa
The native Herero cattle of Southwest Africa are tall, lean, long horned and of little beef or milk value but suited for riding and draft. They travel days with little water or food and are steered by reins on a nose ring.
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Africa
Grease the Nail Tip Makes Hard Drives Easy
A reader recalls a man struggling to drive a nail through seasoned oak one and a half inches thick. After suggesting lubrication with grease the nail went in smoothly and without bending, as reported by National Magazine.
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National Magazine
The Best He Had
An Irishman tests wine quality and the reply admits it is not the best but it is the best available at the moment.
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Murphy
Grape Nuts Rivalry Sparks Food Fraud Probe
A seller questions imitators of grape-nuts breakfast cereal and reveals a wave of thin flaked imitations. Dozens of factories started three years ago to cash in on the brand, leaving stockpiles in mills and warehouses. Some buyers repurpose defunct plants while advertisers copy Grape-Nuts style. The public learns these thin flakes are just soaked wheat or oats, not the digestible Grape-Nuts processed through baking to form brain and nerve nourishing phosphates and albumen. The Postum Co. of Battle Creek backs the exposé with evidence.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Walter Kittredge Dies at Reed's Ferry New Hampshire
The poet and song composer Walter Kittredge died at his Reed's Ferry home last week. Born October 8, 1834 in Merrimac, New Hampshire, he wrote and performed many popular songs including Tenting on the Old Camp Ground. He married Misa Annie EB Fairfield of Boston in 1861.
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Walter Kittredge
Reed's Ferry
N. H
Merrimac
Kittredge
Misa Annie EB. Fairfield
Boston
Ryan a Money Getter
John Skelton Williams of Richmond Virginia portrays Thomas Fortune Ryan as a relentless money seeker and potential klepto who uses promises in bad faith. The quote cites years of business association and bitter disagreements over property control.
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Equitable
John Skelton Williams
Richmond
South
Thomas Fortune Ryan
The
Ryan
Chicago Chronicle
Shah on His Travels With Many Attendants and Two Sons
A Vienna visit shows the Persian shah traveling with a large retinue of officials and adjutants. He travels in a parlor car listening to his two young sons. a Viennese journalist notes jewels and a plain, almost shepherd like appearance. The shah is described as short stout with sloping shoulders and a pale blase expression.
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Persia
Vienna
Wall Street Confidence Wanes as Public Refuses Bait
Baltimore News calls for a thorough cleaning of Wall Street after investors grow wary of promoters and banking houses. It urges weed out crooked methods and bring offenders to justice, noting the public’s rising skepticism of stock and bond sales.
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Wall Street
Bar of Justice
Baltimore News
Russell Sage as a 19th Century Legislator in Congress
Russell Sage, known as a financier, previously served New York in Congress. Elected to the Thirty third Congress as a Whig, he took his seat December 5, 1842. Early in the session he debated the creed of a clergyman proposed as chaplain and soon became an active, strong debater in House deliberations.
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Russell Gage
Russell Sage
New York
Grave warning on American life pace from Surgeon General
Surgeon General Rixey warns that overwork and lack of exercise threaten American health. He cites Hay's death and other government figures as examples of the dangers of a hurried modern life. He urges Americans to temper toil with exercise to extend lifespans and reduce risk.
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Rixey
Hay
Chums Turn to Foes as War Divides Takahira and Rosen
In wartime Washington society watches how Lady Takahira wife of the Japanese minister and Baroness Rosen widow of the Russian ambassador will act when they meet. Both women share loves for music poetry and languages and were famed in Tokio for wit and sociable chess play. All three once played chess together in Tokyo.
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Takahira
Rosen
Count Cassini
Tokio
Washington
Tokyo
Baroness Oyama
Baroness Rosen
Roosevelt Praises Elihu Root as Greatest Public Figure
President Roosevelt called Elihu Root the ablest man in government service and the greatest man in public life in any country. He compared Root favorably to John Hay Philander Knox and other cabinet members and said Root could fill any post, including secretary of war, with equal or greater success.
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Roosevelt
Root
Elhu Root
John Hay
Philander Knox
Elihu Root
Railroad Company Grants Education To North Carolina Girl
Nannie Gibson an 11 year old barefoot girl from the Black mountains in North Carolina will receive a college education funded by the Southern Railway. The story recalls a mountain slide when she warned a locomotive by waving her red petticoat and a heavy train halted ten feet from a cave in abyss hundreds of feet deep.
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Nannie Gibson
Black Mountains
North Carolna
The
Southern Railway
No State Oil Refinery Chief Justice Absent from Kansas Court
Justice AL Greene of the Kansas Supreme Court, who ruled the $410,000 state refinery appropriation unconstitutional, is listed among absent jurists. A Missouri native, Greene served five years on the bench before his current status.
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AL. Greene
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas
Missouri
The Pace That Kills In City Life
Feature warns city dwellers about the dangerous rush of modern living. Editor cites pervasive hurry as a microbe in the air driving professionals and socialites toward catastrophe, urging slower meals, leisure, and consideration.
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Kansas City Star
New Russian Beauty Baroness Rosen Arrives in Washington
Miss Isabel Rosen daughter of Baron Rosen the newly named ambassador replaces Countess Cassini as a social figure in Washington. The 15 year old is described as very pretty and poised to aid diplomacy through social influence amid the Russia Japan peace talks.
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Baroness Rosen
Cassini
Washington
Alice Roosevelt
Isabel Rosen
Baron Rosen
Japan
Misa Rosen
Cost of Good Government and Public Trusts
The piece argues that municipal public utilities require citizen vigilance and education, linking good government to honest participation. It emphasizes that public business succeeds when all people actively engage, and warns against bad political organization without capable leadership and funds.
Millionaire George Baum Marries Housekeeper in Philadlephia
Philadelphia leather magnate George Baum, aged about 50, wed his housekeeper, a 28 year old Irish woman, in a church with a large crowd. The couple plans a Cape May honeymoon and a voyage aboard a new yacht nearing completion.
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George Baum
Philadelphia
Wrongs of the Children in Industry
Weld Mad Stream cites one in five youths ages ten to fifteen working in coal mines and factories. Education suffers, recreation vanishes, and moral development stalls. By fifteen many are physically and mentally dwarfed, becoming adults who pass on harm to their children. The piece contrasts Roosevelt’s ideals with a harsh critique of child labor and corporate greed.
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Feld
Roosevelt
Eignera
Cadman Recounts Debt and a Cab Driver’s Quiet Gratitude
The Rev S Parkes Cadman recalls a Brooklyn cabman who refused payment after a ride and shared how Cadman’s mercy and his sermon spurred life changes. The driver credited a single line from Cadman at Metropolitan Temple for his transformation and newfound stability.
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Cadman
S. Parkes Cadman
Brooklyn
Dr. Cadman
Bishop Potter
Metropolitan Temple
New York Times
Mary and the Lamb Advertising Lesson From London Tit Bits
Wise Gleter Mary tale recalls a lamb lost one summer day and a village store kept idle by John the brother. Brokers seize stock as Mary laments and learns that others prosper by advertising. The piece uses a parable about business and advice in a London periodical.
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Mary
John
Alster
London
Sensitiveness of Humorists at a Banquet Story
A poet at a humorists banquet recounts R K Munkittrick's response to a joke. On a New Jersey visit with Blank, Munkittrick grimaced when Blank read a humor piece aloud. He defended the joke, asking why it should not be funny.
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R. K. Munkittrick
Blank
Mr. Munkittrick
Umbrella Tale Provokes Royal Glee In Brussels
The Belgian king left his umbrella in a 4 horse cab in Brussels. A proud cabman returned it and was paid 100 francs by King Leopold. The cabman asked for the umbrella as a favor, which the king granted, and the umbrella later sold for 100 francs to a royal enthusiast. Leopold quipped that the umbrella could bring showers of cald.
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France
Brussels
Leopold
Jehu
Veteran of the Black Hawk Mexican and Civil Wars
An 83 year old Washington physician and veteran reports severe stomach catarrh improved by three bottles of a remedy named in Jahres Bottics of Perma. He credits gradual relief and declares the cure infallible and recommends it.
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W. W. Jackson
St. N.W
Washington, D. C
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