Grateful Detroit Woman Credits Peruna Cure
Miss Muriel Armitage, district organizer for the Royal Templars of Temperance, testifies that after five years of uterine irregularities and hysteria she found relief with Peruna. She attributes six months of use and fifteen bottles to a complete recovery. The ad asserts Peruna cures catarrh of pelvic organs as it does the head, linking female ailments to catarrh and claiming universal relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muriel Armitage
Greenwood Ave
Detroit
Mich
Royal Templars of Temperance
Peruna
Peruna Promises Cure for Pelvic Catarrh and Nervousness
An advertisement portrays female weakness as pelvic catarrh and claims Peruna cures it permanently. It argues many women suffer yearly, urges readers to seek Dr. Hartman’s free medical advice, and provides contact at the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Iowa Building at St Louis Exposition
The Iowa building at the St Louis fair is nearly complete at the southeast entrance. Former Governor Larrabee donated a magnificent pipe organ to be installed at the grand stairway with two manuals 30 stops 1512 pipes and nine pedal movements. Musical entertainments will be held at set hours and impromptu Iowa gatherings will occur at the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
St. Louis
Larrabee
W. W. Witmer
Commission
Missouri
Farmers Institute Convention to Discuss State Organization Plan
At the State Farmers Institute in Des Moines December 7 to 9 a campaign will promote a state organization for farmers county institutes. Speakers include John Hamilton, C F Curtiss, F A Squires, Eugene Secor, A B Storms and Gov. Cummins. A good roads program will be launched with W H Moore and Senator T Brooks also presenting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Institute
Des Moines
John Hamilton
Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Washington
C. F. Curtiss
State Agricultural College
Ames
F. A. Squires
Clay County Farmers’ Institute
Iowa
Eugene Secor
Forest City
Cummins
A. B. Storms
Iown
Qtate Agricultural College
W. H. Moore
St Louis
National Good Roads Association
T. Brooks
Hedrick
Tragedy Ties to Pardon Delay In Perjury Case
A Cresco man J W Booth convicted of perjury killed himself after receiving a pardon delay letter from his attorneys to the governor’s office. Booth had faced two years in prison, a suspension of sentence, and a possible supreme court appeal. He had clashed with his father in law H H Perkins who denied shooting Booth, but Booth was later convicted of perjury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Booth
Cresco
Garrett
Booth
Supreme Court
H. H. Perkins
Perkins
Curious Food Compound and Health Risks in Baking Powders
The article warns housekeepers about cheap baking powders offered by grocers and peddlers claiming equal quality. It notes alum powders are unhealthy, reports seized batches in New York with sharp grains, and explains many phosphate powders use bone-derived ingredients. It urges avoiding testers at doors and choosing cream of tartar based powders from known brands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tradesman Elected to Spanish Cortes for First Time
A cooper named James Angles becomes the first tradesman elected to the Spanish cortes. Madrid will host a monument to Emilio Castelar. A cloud of mosquitoes darkened Madrid on October 16, sweeping over streets and frightening horses. Provincial Spain promotes model farms and modern cultivation with expert staff. Castile agriculturists favor American farming implements over British for efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Angles
Emilio Castelar
Madrid
Board of Provincial Deputies
Disputacion Provincial
Basque
Spain
Castile
Industrial Items and Labor and Railway Facts
A summary of industrial notes reports 133000 women in Massachusetts factories. Dover New Jersey knitters form a cooperative mill. The Charleston and New Hamburg railway was the first steam car line. Siberian trains from Moscow to Port Arthur cover 5388 miles in 13 days with fare 134 dollars including sleeper. A globe trotter can hire a three car special train at 1.03 dollars per mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
N. J
Charleston & New Hamburg
South Carolina
Siberian Railway
Moscow
Port Arthur
Globe Trotter
Plan to reorganize Iowa medical societies meets resistance
Only 72 of Iowa counties have adopted the state medical society plan based on the American Medical Society model. Physicians in several counties especially Dubuque Des Moines and Johnson oppose the reorganization arguing it imposes state membership. Dubuque County circulated caustic resolutions criticizing the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
State Medical Society
American Medical Society
Dubuque
Des Moines
Johnson
Dubuque County
State Marshal Clubs to Push Five Iowa Districts
Des Moines hosts a January meeting of State Marshal clubs on January 13 and 14 to advocate a law creating five marshal districts and appointing 55 marshals to enforce liquor laws funded by the tax. A C Rankin leads the movement and cites broad legislative support from elected members of the incoming general assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
A. C. Rankin
Scorned stenographer seeks fare home from Denver bound suitor
Grace Harmon of Cedar Rapids asked Denver police to compel Edward D. Davis, an express messenger, to pay her fare home after she followed him to Denver to marry him. She claimed he promised a divorce and marriage, but found he lived with his wife. Davis scorned her appeals and refused aid.
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Denver
Col
Grace Harmon
Cedar Rapids
Edward D. Davis
Miss Harmon
Davis
Des Moines Ranks Tenth in Fire Loss Per Capita
The National Board of Underwriters lists 32 major cities. Des Moines shows a per capita fire loss of $1.66, ranking tenth. Washington DC leads with $0.49 and Birmingham, Alabama tops at $8.53. The share of electrical fires rose from 0.75% in 1901 to 4.31% in 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Board of Underwriters
Des Moines
United States
Washington, D. C
Birmingham
Ala
Iowa Railway Club to Launch Journal for Railroad Men
Special correspondence reports the Iowa Railway club planning a new magazine named the Iowa Railway Club Journal. Al Moore of Des Moines will edit and devote full time to the publication. The club will also issue a journal of meetings for absent members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Club
Des Moines
Iowa Railway Club
Iowa Railway Club Journal
al Moore
Moore
Readlyn Opens on Great Western Iowa Extension
The last new town on the Great Western Iowa extension has been opened. The final lot sale of the season was held at Readlyn on the Waverly cutoff between Waverly and Delvery. Readlyn’s opening was successful with many lots sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Western Iowa
Readlyn
Waverly
Great Western
Delvery
Omaha
Appanoose County Schools face winter supply shortages
Lack of adequate teacher salaries in Appanoose County is blamed for eight to ten county schools being unsupplied for winter, two months after the usual opening. Authorities argue salaries, not teacher shortages, cause the problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appanoose
Miss Whittaker Praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Savannah resident Miss Easy Wairraker testifies she was cured of ovarian troubles by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after four years of irregularities. She claims a three month recovery and full restoration of health and regularity, urging others to use the remedy despite doctors' limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Whittaker
Savannah
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pryxuam
Lydia EK. Pinkham
Miss Easy
39Th St
Educational notes and college obliquities in 1890s press
A survey of education and campus life. It cites state court views on compulsory schooling, Cornell president Schuman on student time, Heidelberg journalism training, Bowdoin’s Hawthorne centennial with Bliss Perry as orator, Yale’s Louis De Mores joining Sheffield class, and the Duke De Vallambrosa lineage and fortune amid modest living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bliss Perry
Atlantic Monthly
Hawthorne
Louis de Mores
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Duke de Vallambrosa
Marquis de Mores
West
Beef Trust
Soudan
University Commons
Patience and old fools quoted in Yonkers Statesman
A Yonkers Statesman snippet quotes dialogue on patience softening all things and warns against foolish aging with a wry exchange between Patrice and an unnamed speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrice
Yonkers
Another Life Saved by Deans Kidney Pills Say Salisbury Woman
Mrs. G W Fooks of Salisbury Maryland wife of Sheriff G W Fooks describes eight years of kidney trouble fatigue breathlessness and swelling. After three days on Deans Kidney Pills her back pain and other symptoms disappeared. Sold by all dealers priced 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Fooks
Salisbury
Wicomico County
Bright
Dean
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo N
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W.G. Neimyer
G. A
Clark St
Chicago, Il
Percey
Oshkosh
Wis
Altz
Maul
Jesson
Washington Ave
C.C.C
Farmers’ Institutes
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N. H
Schuman
Cornell
A. Koch
University of Heidelberg
Atte Pilsen
G. & C. Merriam CO
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Dr. Caldwell
Pepsin Syrup CO
Monticello
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