Peruna Promises Kidney Disease Cure Stirring National Sensation
An advertisement touts Peruna as a cure for chronic kidney ailments with a testimonial from Major T. H. Mars of the First Wisconsin Cavalry praising its relief after army exposure. The pitch claims Peruna addresses the root of catarrh, cleanses the blood, and stimulates kidney function, offering free advice from Dr. Hartman of Columbus, Ohio.
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Peruna
T. H. Mars
Wisconsin Cavalry
Dunning Street
Chicago
Ill
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Airgrams and Old Time Remedies Collage
A pasted miscellany mentions Airgrams and Windicus airing opinions, plus Allen's Foot Base and Foot-Ease as shoe aids. It cites a Piso’s Cure for Consumption endorsement by Mrs. S. E. Borden of Washington D C dated May 25, 2001, and notes tobacco farm yields ranging from 00 to 1,000 pounds per acre.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
E. Borden
TP Street
Washington, D. C
How Fires May Start From Common Substances
Damp lampblack can ignite from sunlight and cotton waste moistened with lard or oil may ignite spontaneously. Nitric acid with charcoal causes spontaneous combustion. Ink on paper near a steam pipe can ignite quickly. Boiled linseed oil and turpentine with cotton waste ignite after some hours humoring a mild heat.
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Cassier
Venezuelan Etiquette and the Swords of Generals
A passage from Evangelist notes the Venezuelan army's many generals who may wear swords at official receptions. An English major visiting a governor learns that only generals can wear swords in streets, while his servant, a general himself, can wear his sword and present it to the governor.
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Venezula
Interior
Mozo
Venezuela
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia FB Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Guita Gannox
Jones St
Detroit, Mich
Amateur Art Association
Creative genius marks miso neism and exile in power
The passage notes how rejection of new ideas hindered progress. It cites Napoleon rejecting steam, Richelieu exiling a pioneer, Voltaire doubting fossils, Darwin mocking hypnotism, and Virchow denying Darwinism. It also observes that many Popes faced exile or death in exile, with few restored to power.
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Napoleon
Richelieu
Voltaire
Darwin
Virchow
Emeutes
Indiana Guardsmen Protected From Dismissals by Law
Gov Durbin met with National Guard officers after employers discharged militiamen seeking to serve the state. A new federal offense law prohibits firing soldiers for militia service, with fines and imprisonment. Evansville grand jury ends session amid riots. report says rioters caused July 6 violence, soldiers fired in self defense and law must set a precedent against anarchistic tendencies.
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Indiana
Panish Firme
Gov. Durbin
National Guard
H. M. Franklin
Company H
Evansville
Foreign Crop Prospects Report From Europe and India
The Agriculture Department reports improved cereal conditions across European Russia and Germany. France and Denmark show favorable wheat trends, while Hungary may lag. Britain faces late wheat yields. India's 1908 spring wheat harvest is pegged at 299 million bushels, with substantial 1902 tobacco crop values totaling 57.56 million dollars.
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Department of Agriculture
London
Russia
European
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Italy
France
Denmark
Great Britain
Department
Government of India
United States
Ice Storm Terror Hits Chicago Amid Terrific Hail
A noon Tuesday hail storm batters Chicago for about fifteen minutes, shattering windows, injuring people, scattering debris, and damaging trees and foliage. Horses panicked as ice chunks over an inch across damaged property, with a preceding rain and gale. The meteorologist classifies it as a local event, not related to prior Minnesota Iowa storms.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Iowa
Immigration records broken with record yearly arrivals
Prediction of over one million immigrants this year followed by a chart of 12 month totals ending June 30. The year set a record with 857,046 arrivals, 68,054 above 1882, Italians leading at 280,622 and Austria Hungary second at 206,011, the Russian Empire and Finland third with 136,003.
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United States
Congress
Austria- Hungary
Russian Empire
Finland
Tragic Missouri Pacific wreck near Lee's Summit kills three
A fast mail train collided with an excursion stopped for repairs near Lee's Summit Missouri, killing three Black passengers and injuring about thirty. Authorities investigated the crash as officials described the scene and began inquiries into the derailment.
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Missouri Pacific
Lee’s Summit
Philanthropist’s Gingerbread Scheme Provokes Altered Cry
An Exeter gentlewoman helps a maimed sailor sell gingerbread by training him to shout wares at her door. His early success inflates him and his cries drift through shifts of phrases. The new chant mocks the speaker and raises concern over charity’s sentiment versus spectacle.
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Exeter
England
Ballroom Banter Between Phyllis and Elvira
Phyllis boasts of a young millionaire dancing with her five times at a charity ball. Elvira downplays the claim, noting the event’s charitable nature and suggesting it proves little.
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Phyllis
Elvira
One Hundred Dollars Reward for Catarrh Cure
Advertisement declares a $100 reward for catarrh cases cured by Mall's Catarrh Cure. Promotes Mall's Catarrh Cure as internal medicine from Toledo firm F. J. Cheney & Co. Includes endorsements from West Truex and Walding Kinnan Marvin as wholesalers. Mentions Hall's Faulty Pills and quotes A. B. Alcott. Ends with assorted garbled text.
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Oy Mall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J
West & Truax
Q Walding
Kinnan & Marvin
Mall
Kidney Pills Ease Various Kidney Ailments and Poor Sleep
Dou's Kidney Pills claim to relieve kidney pain backache dropsy leg swelling and urine problems such as brick dust sediment high color pain during urination dribbling frequent urination bed wetting and calculi. A Rome New York woman Mrs James Beck reports long kidney trouble and relief after using the product.
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Dou
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Miss Gannon
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Detroit Amateur Art Association
L E. Pinkham
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