Dr Williams Pink Pills Promised Relief From Heat Fatigue
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a cure for summer fatigue and weakness. It includes testimonials from Dr Williams customers and notes a price of 50 cents a box or six boxes for 2 dollars, with mailing options to Brookville Ontario. It also reports a separate Lowell Massachusetts explosion killing and injuring mill workers, damaging many homes and property valued at about 75 000 dollars.
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Dr. Winans
Louis Boucet
Westling
Oye A
Lowell
Mass
United States Cartridge Company
Scotch harvest yields near twenty year low
A Glasgow despatch reports this year's Scotch harvest near total failure with a yield the lowest in two decades. Farmers face losses totalling about eight million pounds as demand for American grain and cattle is expected to soar to record levels.
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Glasgow
Tragic Lockjaw Death Follows Boot Eyelet Injury
A London Ontario despatch reports nine year old George died after a boot eyelet wound led to lockjaw, with illness lasting a week. A Kansas City preacher, Rev Hillson, shot his wife after she sued for divorce in a confectionery store in Kansas City, Kansas. An infantum cholera warning notes the disease’ rapid progression in heat, advising fluids and medical consult, with a testimonial from Smiths Falls about infant care and remedies.
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London
George
Kansas City
Bays
Hilaon
Kan
Hillson
Markets Signal Mixed Grain Prices Across Regions
Leading Markets Toronto August 4 reports dull wheat at 75c for No 2 red and white east and middle freights. Goose and spring prices steady, Manitoba values quoted for flour, mill feed, and oats. Cheese and butter prices ease. exports to Europe show lower totals year over year. Montreal notes oats and rye steadiness, flour and meal prices, and jobbing meat and provisions activity. European markets show wheat activity with mixed signals as of August 4.
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Toronto
Manitoba
Fort William
Georgian Bay
Europe
Canadian
Italy
Montreal
Shorts
Ontario
Montrerl
Advand
Soap results and grain prices mixed in late market report
Market notes show eczema relief products and coarse-hand creams listed alongside ragged fabrics and shrunken flannels. Meanwhile price data for California flour, Manitoba parcels, and Antwerp cargoes indicate dull futures, nominal July terms, and various per cental values across commodities.
Cattle Market Report From Toronto Aug 4
Western at the Mare market in Toronto shows fair trade across cattle, sheep, hogs, and calves with firm tone and mostly steady prices. Receipts reach 78 cars totaling 984 cattle 1 666 sheep and lambs 1 144 hogs and 34 calves with export cattle priced high while stock and feed cattle ease slightly.
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Toronto
Mariem
Yeend
Miracle cure claim for Dodd's Kidney Pills
Reuben Draper of Bristol Quebec relates a dramatic recovery after using Dodd's Kidney Pills for gravel like kidney disease. He suffered severe pain, tried several doctors with little relief, and within a week passed a stone the size of a bush, then another the size of barley within four days. He says he has had no trouble since and credits the pills with curing his bladder and urinary issues.
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Reuben Draper
Bristol
P. O
Quebec
Reuben
Dodd
Mr. Draper
Fire destroys Bell Block in Dundalk
A morning blaze in Dundalk totally destroyed the Bell Block. McFarland and Richards general store, the Bank of Hamilton, a confectionery, printing office and editor A J McIntyre’s rooms were burned. Hudd’s dressmaking and the Massey Narri agency suffered damage. several clerks and offices were affected with minor losses.
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Dundalk
Audre
McFarland and Richards
Bank of Hamilton
William Lucas
P. McGregor
A. J. McIntyre
Mins James Lamon
Cure Deafness by Constitutional Remedies, Not Local
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and asserts proper treatment requires constitutional remedies. It attributes most deafness to inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucosa, promising a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, with pills marketed by F. J. Croney and sold by Toledo druggists.
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F. J. Creney
Toledo
Real
Ontario Women Farmers Lectures End Month of July Run
A Toronto despatch reports sixteen Ontario Government lectures by Women Farmers Institutes concluded last week. They taught butter making and table food prep with strong attendance, some driving ten miles to attend. About three hundred lectures were delivered across as many meetings, with 52 institutes this year, up from 40. The winter session will run January to March.
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Toronto
Ontario
Death at the Altar in Odessa Wedding Turned Tragic
A church wedding in Odessa ended when the bride collapsed and died after her sister revealed the bride’s secret. The sister, who loved the bridegroom, had warned the match would fail and then exposed the bride’s glass eye. The ceremony halted as authorities investigated the strange revelation.
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Odessa
Russia
Serbia
Oil Works Burned at Balakhamy in Incendiary Fire
A despatch from Taku reports Balakhamy petroleum works burned with burning towers and naphtha reservoirs destroyed. Nobel Brothers and Caspian Company holdings were hit amid water shortages and scant firefighting. The incident follows an incendiary suspicion with extensive damage to oil infrastructure.
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Taku
Trans-Caucasia
Balakhamy
Nobel Brothers
Caspian Company
SLAIN BY PERSIAN MOB IN PATCHY OUTBREAK
A despatch from London reports a murderous popular outbreak in the province of erd in southern Persia at the end of June against the Babis religious reformers. Rioters dragged bodies, plunder flourished, soldiers aided, and the governor finally yielded to orders to blow a Babi from a cannon as mob threats intensified. The report notes uncertain total fatalities and cites German pencil factory figures as unrelated statistical detail.
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London
the Times
Babi
Germany
Minard's Linient Cumberman's Friend Frank Prank Incident
A fragmentary report notes a prank involving a person nicknamed Frank and a girl, with disjointed dialogue about getting even and a claim of going broke. No clear date, location, or definite outcome is provided in the readable text.
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Frank
Fragmented Late Night Chat With Obscure Phrases
A garbled dialog-like text presents unclear phrases about candles burns and a late hour. The stream of words includes fragmented names and disjointed actions, yielding no coherent event, person, or location to report.
Inpatient Guest Calls for Turtle Soup
An obsequious waiter attends to an impatient guest who complains the soup he ordered is taking long. The guest insists he ordered turtle soup, prompting the server to remind him of his choice.
Uganda Songs and Dialects Shown in London Lecture
Sir Harry Johnston presented Uganda voices in London using phonograph records of native songs from war dances festivals and tribal dialects, illustrating cultural practices and speech across Uganda.
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Africa
London
Harry Johnston
Uganda
Cured by Meinard’s Liniment Claims Across Canada
An Ontario reader reports relief from goitre inflammation and facial neuralgia after using various liniments attributed to Meinard and Agenard brands. The testimonials mention Chatham and Wallace Ont, with names such as Mrs W W Johnson and J H Bailay.
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Meinard
Byard McMullin
Chatham
Ont
Minard
Lintmein
J. H. Bailay
Fragmented adrift chatter of adversity and bread banter
A garbled dialogue references adversity and philosophical quips, mentioning a prosaic man who avoids sweetness and a string of nonsensical names. The piece shifts to a kitchen scene where a scandalized figure questions bread making without washed hands, while a girl dismisses hygiene concerns over brown bread.
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Mary
Minard and Missionary Dialogue on a Year of Separation
Fragmentary timetable and travel notices describe a round trip by Great Northern railway from Toronto to Vancouver via Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Victoria, and BC. The text mentions Minard's Liniment in the house and sympathetic talk by a young woman, with elective daily schedules through August 13. Tickets are issued for return at Ontario points.
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Lye
Toronto
Saattle
Tacoma
Wash
Portland
Ore
Alta
Vancouver
Victoria
Ontario
ISCBS
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