Dutch Boy White Lead test kit offered for safety
Property owners seek protection from misrepresentation and adulteration in paint materials. The Dutch Boy Painter trademark from National Lead Company offers a simple test kit and two paint books free to requestors, with address in Woodbridge Ridge, New York City. A tale from India notes Afridi recruits and a sniper incident, ending with a soldier explaining he knew his enemy by his ways, since the sniper was his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodbridge Ride
New York City
Hix
India
Afridis
Afridi
Sahib
Ten Years of Backache and Other Oddities
Ten years of backache plague Mrs Thos Dunn of Columbus Ohio. She found relief and cure after using Deans Kidney Pills, praising quick relief and lasting improvement. Also notes on glue that makes hair stand and a sharp exchange with a barker about a Circassian beauty and a living skeleton in a wild carnival scene.
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Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Chicago Tribune
EYESIGHT WAS IN DANGER From Terrible Eczema-Danbys Head
Mrs HW Budke of LeSueur Minnesota recalls a two month old child afflicted with severe facial eczema rash and sores. After failing with various remedies a Cuticura treatment was started at seven months. In two months the baby showed no sores and remained clear thereafter.
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Danby
Cutiura
HW. F. Budke
LeSueur
Minn
Fragmentary Chicago Tribune couples dialogue excerpt
An OCR fragment shows a couple debating finances before marriage. They discuss income, future support, and avoiding further household burdens, with casual dialogue indicating reliance on shared future. The line reflects domestic concerns voiced in a Chicago Tribune clipping.
Rosebud Reservation Farm Lands Open for Registration Drawing
The President signed a proclamation opening Rosebud Indian Lands in Tripp county South Dakota. Judge James W. Witten will oversee registration and the October 1908 drawing. Applicants must register at Chamberlain or Presho between October 5 and 17, traveling via Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul lines. Lands cover 28 000 acres with Indian allotments, located south of the state line near Gregory county. Similar adjoining lands fetch 33 to 40 dollars per acre.
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Rosebud
South Dakota
Tripp County
James W. Witten
General Land Office
Chamberlain
Presho
Dak
Chitago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Gregory County
Fragmented ad style lines from a garbled 1900s paper
A garbled Kansas City Times fragment quotes a speaker praising a taciturn man and criticizing noisy peevish behavior. The text mentions a dogmatic person and a boothlog strep for children, with references to a minister or listener and misleading claims about a remedy reducing symptoms.
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Met
Revivalist critique of Brother Grimshaw and church pull
A revivalist named Lewish accuses Brother Grimshaw of weakening church unity by pulling away converts for alleged heresy while he rapidly brings people into the faith. The clash highlights tensions within the congregation over doctrinal purity.
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Lewish
Grimshaw
The Fatal Three BY HIS The new ward Fay joins the Fausset home
In a London drawing room a widowed couple adopts Fay, a distant cousin, into their domestic circle as Mildred, the seven year old daughter, welcomes a new companion. Fay forms a close bond with Mildred, stirring Mrs Fausset's jealousy while Bell resents the arrangement. Fay nurses Mildred through scarlet fever, deepening the sisterly tie and heightening tensions over family roles.
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John
Mildred
London
Lyons
John Fausset
Maudonfrey
Castle- Connell
Fausset
Ile
Maud
Fay
Mr. Fausset
Hin
Mrs. Sausset
Mrs. Fausset
Bell
Mrs. Pausset
Ate
the Thames
Fey
Darling
Mamma
Global Labor Unions Press For Change In 1900s Network
Toronto clerks organize a union while Boston lamplighters and San Francisco drug clerks form unions. Washington trades council nears recovery. Lynn builders seek central council. Scottish congress backs pensions and compulsory intervention. Coopers weigh initiative and referendum. Bay Area machinists eye district council. New York Hebrew trades join Workmen’s Circle. US sick-benefit limits for overseas members. Mare Island enforces California child labor law. Boston roofers and sheet metal workers end long dispute. Poster Artists affiliate with AFL. union celebrates 10th anniversary with nationwide locals. British unions back a daily labor newspaper Morning Herald. Spain imposes child hours but lacks women/child protections in some heavy industries.
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Toronto
Canada
Boston
Lamplighters’ Union
Drug Clerks’ Union
San Fransisco
Cal
Trades Unionist
Washington
D. C
Lynn
Mass
Scottish
Trade Union Congress
Pldge
Coopers
San Francisco
Oakland
Bay Counties
Vallejo
Trades Council
Navy Department
California
Mare Island Navy Yard
Wis
Poster Artists’ Association of America
American Federation of Labor
Great Railroad Brotherhoods
Wich
France
Belgium
Morning Herald
Spain
Spinning History Sessions on Boston Common
Historic Boston Common hosted a rare scene around 1700 as spinning wheels lined three rows of young women and weavers displayed their crafts. In 1720 Boston planned public mills and premiums for the first linen spun by almshouse children. By 1747 a society promoted the industry, with a public fourth anniversary featuring 300 spinsters and weavers.
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Boston Common
Francis Drake
Memorial History
Boston
Descendants Begin Study of Washington Father of His Country Claim
A Nashville American fragment notes a discussion among To Mateh Hin descendants about George Washington being called the father of his country. One speaker asks why he did what he did, and the other suggests the title may be to qualify him as father of his country.
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George Washington
Nashville
It is not enough to have earned our livelihood
The quotation notes that earning money alone matters little unless the work served a purpose and benefited others, urging service over mere profit in daily life.
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B. Kl
Mevensa
Sioux Falls to host big shooting tournament
The article notes a new movement for a major shooting tournament in Sioux Falls. In Kalamazoo Spanish Queen won the $40,000 Burdick hotel purse amid eight rivals. Charley Griffin seeks a bout with Abe Attell as boxing news spans Layburn's defeat, Ketchel’s KO, and Saratoga’s leading filly Maskette in a sensational finish.
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Sioux Falls
Kalamazoo
Charley Griffin
Australia
Abe Attell
Jack Leyburn
Sterling McKinney
Stanley Ketchel
Grand Rapids
Mich
Joe Thomas
San Francisco
James R Keene
Saratoga
Maskette
New York
Idecks
Empire City
Jack Atkin
Notter
Elixir Doubts And A Dak Girl’s Cold Weather Cure
A fragmentary account shows Mrs Chugwal doubting a remedy’s efficacy amid cold weather health claims. A Dak girl recalls using a coffee caffeine drug and Watt’s Grape Nuts as a supposed cure, describing headaches indigestion and improved complexion, yet uncertainty remains about benefits.
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Nelson
Phere
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George
Lise
Svitnin
Mr. Fa
United Hebrew Trades Union of
Workmen's Circle
National
Hebrew Labor Fecaration
Journeymen Tailors’ General Executive Board
United States
Olpr
Uise
Archduchess
Utgo
St. Peter's
Dodds Lani
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minney
Dicky
St. Vitus
Mr Restorer
Klin
Cortelyou
Hilary Harkness
Hilary
Mrs. Chugwal
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