Lightning as a Destroyer in U S Thunderstorms
Washington reports a Weather Bureau study on lightning deaths and injuries in 1900 and over recent years. It notes 713 killed or fatally injured, 291 outdoors, 158 in houses, and warns against sheltering under trees or near metal structures during storms. Advice includes avoiding barns, flagpoles, and crowds, plus first aid steps for lightning victims.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
United States
Harng
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Worida
Mississippi Alley
Missouri
Florida
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Mississippi Valley
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Intana
Ilinois
New York
Chicago
Weather’ Bureau
Exparte
Eich
Itie
Kenyal
Colorado
Danger of Colds Promotes Pneumonia Warning
An early 20th century pestilent note touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as preventing pneumonia when used promptly and judiciously. It claims many users avoided pneumonia and that it shortens colds and influenza attacks faster than other treatments, praising its pleasant taste. Orr-Gray & Co. is named as a supplier.
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Chamberlain
Thous
Orr-Gray
Donkey Cart Duel on a French Hill
A cyclist in southern France overtakes a donkey cart. The rider, guiding the cart with one hand, urges the stubborn beast up a steep incline. At the summit the donkey balks, exclaiming it would not have climbed alone with a single donkey. Youth's Companion.
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France
S. Companini
Prickly Ash-Bitters Promised To Restore Health
Fragmentary OCR claims a tonic named Prickly Ash-Bitters improves liver and kidney function, purifies the blood, aids digestion, and boosts appetite. It mentions Kyane Pharmacy and a Teinwald the happiness, a man in Weorgin hawels Gddlés, thirteen hounds, a deaf wife, and a pending state of affairs. The passage is incoherent and garbled but centers on a health remedy claim.
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Shussfalican
Kyane Pharmacy
Weorgin
Hawels
Moneshind
Ake
Fiyans Pharmacy
S. S
S.S.S
SWIFT
Atlanta, GA
Petaluma's Hen Town Turns Eggs Into Wealth
Petaluma, home to about 600000 hens, has transformed into the Pacific coast egg and poultry hub. Last year shipments reached 2,600,000 dozen eggs and 80,000 dozen poultry, with White Leghorns dominating the many-acre ranches. The industry fuels local land value, employment, and daily feeding routines, including a circulating sled delivering feed to colonies of hens.
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Petaluma
Petaluna
Kinte
Petalunia
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
San Franisco
Niocesa
Wid Hong
Sleeping preacher Major Perry draws crowds in illiterate trance
The Newberry Observer and San Francisco Call recount Major Perry, a North Logan area mulatto who preaches nightly in a cabin. His sermons begin with scripture, then drift into cataleptic fits lasting a minute, halted by his wife’s touch. Physicians failed to stop the episodes as crowds of whites and blacks attend.
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Leenville
Perry
Logan
Washia
Major
Newberry
Corny Cure Ad Promises One Day Relief
An old advertisement touts a laxative BromQuinine remedy labeled To Corn a Cold in One Day with a guarantee of refund if it fails to cure. It features E W Grove’s signature on every box and a 25 cent to 50 cent price range, noting druggists stock and sell it.
The Coming of Spring in a Match Woman's Home Companion
Ernest Warold Baynes captures the year’s first birth of spring as snow melts into singing soil and flowers wake. He notes May flowers pushing through needles, hepatica blue eyes peering from leaves, and anemones flecking once white woods, with daffodils, crocuses, magnolias, forsythia, and fruit blossoms soon following in town and country.
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Match Woman's Home Companion
Ernest Warold Baynes
Dentists Trick and Autobiographical Vignette in Washington Post Style
A tale describes a popular dentist working on a woman named Misa V as she protests he is harming her. He calmly continues, claiming an inevitable sign will reveal injury, though the exact sign is kept secret. The piece cites a Washington Post quote and comments on digestive tonics and animal safety on suspension bridges.
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Misa
Washington Post
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Weather Bureau
News and Courier
Alfa Millon
Wall
Morristown
Tonn
I. Vandiver
E. P. Vandiver
Vandiver Bros. & Major
Anderson
Decemer
Yours Truly
Vandiver Brothers & Major
Evans
Evans Pharmacy
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Compan
Charleston
Richmond
Atlanta
South
Virginia
Carolina Chemical Co
S. C
D. Anderson & Bro
Peoples Furniture
Andreth’s
Orr-Gray & Co
Acme Paint and Cement Care
ACM Paint & C Ment CO
F. B. Grayton & Co., Draggists
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