Rural Water Supply Crisis Highlights Rural Health
A New York Herald clipping argues rural water systems lack city attention and funding. It cites 40 million rural residents drinking potentially unsafe water, with typhoid rates sometimes higher than urban areas, and notes widespread source variability across small wells and streams. The piece contrasts city control with rural chaos and warns of insufficient remedies. It ends with an ad for Electric Bitters claiming health benefits.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
New York Herald
Blood Red Lake Mystery in Swiss Morat Lake
Lake Morat in Switzerland reddens its waters about every decade due to the algae oscillillatoria rubescens and not human blood. Legends tie the phenomenon to Burgundian history, while fishermen note the plant bloom as the cause. An unrelated remedy ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea follows.
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Morat
Switzerland
Charles the Bold
Republic
Henri Martin
Snowslides of Rockies
The piece describes how miners face deadly snowslides in high mountain regions. It recounts rapid, destructive slides that bury workers, trap them near mine entrances, or fling people down slopes. It notes a Chinese cook carried 1,000 feet and found only in spring, illustrating suddenness and power.
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Idaho
Following the Flag Health Note Endorses Discovery
Willis T. Morgan of Concord New Hampshire recalls service in Cuba and the Philippines and credits Dr King s New Discovery with keeping him healthy. He calls it the best medicine for coughs colds bronchial troubles and lung diseases and notes it is sold by L M Bosworth druggist with a trial bottle free. Price 50 cents and 1.00.
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Cuba
Philippines
Willis T. Morgan
Concord
N. H
L. M. Bosworth Druggist
Special Excursion Rates to Colorado Utah and Black Hills
Beginning June 1 excursion tickets will be sold daily to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead and Custer 8S D good to return until October 31 Specially low rate round trip tickets to these and other points with favorable return limits will be sold the first and third Tuesday of each month until September 18 inclusive A splendid opportunity is offered for an enjoyable vacation trip Several fine trains via the North Western Line daily Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Ry.
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Colorado
Utah
Black Hills
North-Western
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Salt Lake City
Hot Springs
Deadwood
Lead and Custer
North-Western Line
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Odd Kiwi Facts and Bluffton Endorsement
An article describes the kiwi from New Zealand noting its wingless form large egg and nostril position with a fast foot and back legs. It includes a Bluffton Indiana resident’s endorsement of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best bowel remedy, sold by Judisch Bros.
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New Zealand
St. Nicholas
M. F. Burroughs
Bluffton
Ind
Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
The Best Oranges Grow on Almost Sterile Soils
The text argues that the finest and highest priced citrus fruit comes from nearly sterile soils rather than rich, alluvial land. It explains that too fertile soil yields rank trees and large crops but not the best quality, due to imbalanced plant food and improper fertilizer reactions.
A Penman’s Pace: Curves, Miles, and Daily Output
A rapid writer can hit thirty words a minute and trace a space sixteen and a half feet long. In forty minutes the pen covers a furlong and over five hours yields a full mile. Averaging sixteen curves per word, at thirty words a minute that’s eight curves per second. In a year at five hours daily the figure climbs to 43,200,000 pen acts, vastly surpassing the million mark. Each letter requires three to seven strokes, averaging about three and a half to four.
How to Break Up a Cold Quickly
The article claims a severe cold can be broken up in one or two days with prompt action. Early symptoms include a dry loud cough and watery nasal discharge. It recommends Chamberlain's cough remedy taken hourly at first signs to counteract the cold and restore health within a day or two. For sale by Judisch Bros.
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Judisch Bros
Stomach and Liver Tablets Offer Cure Claims
If your stomach troubles you do not conclude that there is no cure for a great many have been permanently cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are certain to prove beneficial and cost a quarter. Sold by Judisch Bros.
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Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
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B. A. Lockwood Grain Co
Frank N. Fowler
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Fowler
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14Th St
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Rural Water Supply
India
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S. C
L. M Bosworth Druggist
Hollister
L. M. Bosworth
Rockies
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K.c
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East Main Street
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Poland
China
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Ames, Iowa
H. D. Dutton
F. E. Roesler
IMMIG
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Thayer Blos
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W. M. Greevey
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Ass’t
Union National
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