Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Women
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a restoring remedy for overburdened women. It claims to strengthen nerves, ease headaches back pain and menstrual issues, and support support through pregnancy, offering the glyceric extract of native roots with no alcohol. Readers are urged to request a free booklet for composition and endorsements.
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Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Affair
N. Y
A Dose of His Own Medicine Brander Matthews Quip
A mock exchange questions Brander Matthews as the father of simplified spelling. The other desk man notes he has not simplified his own name, and then crosses out the fancy spelling in front of him.
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Brander Matthews
Farm sale prompts bond payment and move to city
A distressed note claims a farm sold for 56000 dollars and urges paying a bond to John Brown. The writer warns against signing a friend's bond and suggests moving to the city to live out life, offering to provide particulars or contact the agent at the County Seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Surety Bond Issuance by Title Guaranty and Surety Co
The Title Guaranty and Surety Company, based in Scranton Pennsylvania, announces its home office and reports a capital and surplus exceeding $1,000,000. The notice highlights their capacity to issue surety bonds and underscores financial strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guaranty & Surety Company
Home Office
Scranton
Capta
Senator Gotleft Warns of Industrial Crisis
The reporter asks if fears are justified. the eminent statesman agrees, saying Gotleft faces a dreadful alternative of working at something or starving. The exchange underscores anxieties about looming economic hardship and potential labor shortages.
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Gotleft
Cures for Penny-Sized Sores After Measles
Mrs Henry Porter of Albion Wisconsin recalls a six month struggle with head and neck sores after measles. She tried doctors remedies with no relief. After using Cun dura Remedies she improved in a week and was fully cured in three weeks, seven years ago.
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Henry Porter
Albion, Web
Bobby Outsmarts Fractions Joke In School Play
Bobby uses fractions to answer a question about friends. He jokes that one sister is enough to satisfy the math tease, then quips about two half-sisters to win the moment. The vignette blends classroom learning with daily life.
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Bobby
Allen's Foot-Fase Powder for Feet and Shoes
In a pinch, use Allen's Foot-Fase to shake into shoes. It soothes corns, bunions, swelling, hot or sweaty feet, and ingrowing nails. Allen's Foot-Mase smooths tight shoes. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 28c. Sample mailed free. Address Afien Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Yon.
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Allen
Ajl Druggista and Shoe Stores
Olmsted
le Roy
Subtle Defender Reframes Irish Bull as Expressing Feeling
An earnest defender argues that the Irish bull of Lre lane reflects genuine Irish sentiment rather than blind intelligence. A fox-hunter recounts a near-fatal fall and jokes that dying in a field would be fine, but dying in another way would ruin him.
Labor News Roundup United Across North America
A broad labor update covers unions forming or negotiating across cities including San Francisco San Jose Toronto Minneapolis Albuquerque Chicago and Boston. Items note eight hour demands wage increases and new unions in fields such as plasterers plumbers leather workers and railway carmen with mergers talks and plans for a union hotel in Chicago and a proposed Allied Labor League for the Central Labor Union.
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Belville
Hardwick
Vty
Brantisco
San Jose
Cal
Algmeda
County
Loronto
Can
International Union of Horseshoers
United States
Canada
New York
Ontario
Canadian Labor Party
Toronto
Sacramento Labor Temple Association
Argenta
Kerra
Italy
New York Labor Bulletin
Department of Labor
Empire State
The
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Minneapolis
Hhe
Seo
Oakland
Central Labor Council
Alameda County
Minneapolis Team Owners’ Union
Louisville
Iix
American Federation of Labor
Stogicwakers
International Cigarmakers’ Union
League of North American
Great Falls
Mont
Gompers
San Francisco Water Works’ Union
Gas Workers
Gas and Water Workers’ Union
Metal Workers’ Union
Amalgamated Engineers of England
Employers’ Federation
Washington
D. C
Central Labor Union
Allied Labor League
Chiscago
Bell Boys
Chicago
San Francisco
Madame Midas ends in Melbourne Murder Trial Shock
In the Melbourne court Kitty Marehurst is found guilty of murdering Selina Sprotts with poison. Vandeloup and Pierre reveal a tangle of disguises and plots as letters and negotiations unfold, exposing the killer’s ruse and leaving Kitty facing imprisonment and a hunted Madame Midas seeking a new life abroad.
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Kitty Marehurst
Kitty
Madame Midas
Vandeloup
Miss Marehurst
Selina Sprotts
Witty
Selina
M. Vandeloup
Selina Jane Sprotts
Katherine Marchurst
Melbourne
Vandeloup Seeks Meeting With Kitty in Melbourne Gaol
M Vandeloup plans to visit Kitty in Melbourne gaol to ease his fear of exposure. He secures an official order, arranges a hansom, and arrives with Pierre the pensioner. A tense scene unfolds at the gate as guards approve entry after some trouble.
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M. Vandeloup
Kitty
Melbourne
Pierre
Gaston
Vandeloup
van Geloup
M. Vands- Joep
A Strange Romance of a Scot's Family Colony
George Ross, once a poor tenant farmer's son from Orkney, sailed to China, joined the East India Company navy, and became a shipbuilder. He returns to Scotland with his family, founding a colony on the Cocos Islands that becomes a model commonwealth. The piece praises order and contrasts virtue with past misconduct while noting a forthcoming cable station may bring change.
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George Ryan
Mr. Clifford
George Ross
Orkneys
China Seas
East India Company
Scotland
Cocos Islands
Sarawak
Hils
Cocos Malays
Asia
Bootland
Cligford
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Gmple
Boston
Mass
Inion
Bae
Winona Feather
Minnesota
Federation of Labor
AOS
Bern
Lousiana
Louisiana
Mississippi Valley
America
Hague Ov
Alfonso
England
Bebe
Randolph Villiers
Ganton Vandeloup
Yandar
Vierre
Mr. Villiers
Barty
Villiers
Madame
Ace
Sam Kandolpy Villiers
Vaudgoup
al Fng
Ballarat
Wattle Tree
Withers
Vandeloupis
Puqtolus
Black Hill
Wattle Tree Hotel
Andony
Pierre Lemaire
Mr. Calton
Calton
St. Kilda
Mugland
Caton
Guily
Dalton
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