Four Girls Facts for Sick Women in Pinkham Ad
An aide style advertorial claims Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cures female troubles including irregularities and backache. It invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass. A lecturer answers questions on women’s role, while a dyspeptic man quips about breakfast names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katharine Craig
Lafayette St
Denver
Col
Lydia
Marie Stoltzman
Laurel
Aran
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mall's Catarrh Cure Promise Reward and Testimonials
An advert touts one hundred dollars reward for incurable catarrh with Mall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Cheney and Co as Toledo makers, Watvine Kinvan Marvin as endorsing the firm. The medicine is said to act on blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials offered. Also promotes Hall's Fanny Pils for constipation and features a quoted literary aside about lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Watvine, Kinvan & Marvin
Hall
Chas. H. Fletcher
B. Halstead Scott
Chicago
Ill
William Belmont
Cleveland
Ohio
J. H. Taft
Brooklyn
N. Y
R. J. Hamlen
Detroit
Mich
Fletcher
Wm. J McCrain
Omaha
Neb
J. R. Clausen
Philadelphia
Ethical Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Endorsed
An advertisement extols a health laxative as an ethical remedy approved by physicians and well informed readers worldwide. It urges purchase of genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Co through leading druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
Bateman
Godfrey
Hall
Journal of Health
Plague of Locusts Ravages South America
Locust swarms devastate vast regions in Argentina Bolivia southern Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay for a third year. They originate in the Amazon basin and Chaco, with swarms up to 60 miles long and 12 to 15 miles wide. Governments wage war using commissions, fines, and arsenic sprays to curb the brood. Locust eggs and two week old hoppers threaten remaining vegetation as immense, marching colonies advance slowly but inexorably.
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South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Paraguay
Uruguay
Amazon Basin
Chaco
Republic
Neuquen
Patagonia
Evangelist Fined for Improper Language in Pulpit
The Rev. Walt Holcombe, son in law of the late Sam P Jones of Cartersville Ga, must pay a 500 fine for using improper language in the pulpit while women were present. The Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court verdict, calling it an indecent test of a minister of the gospel in a 5000 seat house.
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Walt Holcombe
Sam P. Jones
Cartersville
Court of Appeals
Hedin Greatest Discovery in Tibet Revealed
A Simla telegraph interview via the London Times outlines Sven Hedin’s Tibet journey findings. He identified the Brahmaputra and Indus rivers’ sources, crossed Bongha Province, and proposed naming a vast continuous Trans Himalaya range with high passes and sparse vegetation. He challenged officials when discovered. A separate note reports Colorado Free and Iron Company expanding to supply western railroad equipment, with Gould interests withdrawing and Rockefeller named manager candidates.
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Hedin
Sven Hedin
Forbidden Land
Tibet
Simla
London Times
Brahmaputra
Indus
Bongha
Mount Everest
Himalayan Range
Trans- Himalaya
Trust Eaters Steel
Colorado Free and Iron Company
Missouri River
Gould
John D. Rockefeller
Oil Trust
Aloot
Steel Trust
Wood pulp threads may replace cotton in goods abroad
United States Consul Atwell reports from Roubaix that wood pulp threads named xyloline silvaline and licella are being produced by pulping wood fibers. The thread shows lower dry resistance than jute and cotton but could improve with future advances. Factories already exist in Germany Spain and the Netherlands with France soon to follow and uses include passementerie and cloth goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Atwell
Roubaix
France
State Department
Justin Miller
Industrial Society of
Germany
Spain
Netherlands
Boy's skin finally healed with Cuticura remedies
A Newark mother recounts her seven year old son's severe eczema starting at six weeks old. After doctors failed, Cuticura Remedies brought relief within days and the skin fully healed, with no return anticipated.
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Wema
John G. Klumpp
Niagara St
Newark
N. J
Slow but Deadly Cockroaches and Hammers Mix-Up
A near sighted customer asks for a killer cockroach remedy. A shop assistant offers slow acting poison but shows house clearing samples, then reveals the items are hammers. A humorous exchange clarifies the store is a hardware shop, not a drugstore, in Chicago Tribune fashion.
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Chicago Tribune
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Lydia E
Lillian Ross
East Sith Street
New York
Trydia
Ellen M. Olson
N. East St
Rene
Lydia E. Pinkhan
Carters
Evangelist
Georgia Court of Appeals
Boy
Dodds
Ear Tae By
Pauly Ade Shao Larete
Guar
Canada
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
C. J. Broughton
Merchants’ Loan and Trust Building
Iwau
W. H. Rogers
Jour
Traction Terminal Pialling
Indianapolis
Ind
Castoria
Fasiut
Astoria
Portland
Pullman
Union Pacific
Seattle, Wash
Yellowstone Park
E. L. Lomax
Europe
Trilbert
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Sweden
Cascarets
Carets
Sterling Remedy Co
N.Y
Hipman
Kittredge
Cole
Dr. Martel
Bbug CO
New Mexico
Dubuq Land Co
Dabuens
Kroes Wi
Dave Been
Tien
Texas Lands Delite
W. R. Crammond Co
Houston
Tex
Wid Thompson Seye Waite
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