Peruna Cited By Miss Welch For Lung Relief
Miss Maggie Welch secretary of the Betsey Ross Educational and Benevolent Society writes from 328 North State street Chicago that a severe cold with dry cough and sore lungs improved after using Peruna. She says her doctor advised it and she immediately sent for it with gradual relief and cites the medicine company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Welch
Betsey Ross Educational and Benevolent Society
North State Street
Chicago
Washington Early Service Links to Virginia Militia and Forks of Ohio
George Washington rose to prominence in Virginia at nineteen as a major in the colonial militia and commanded a district. Gov Dinwiddie sent him to Ohio river French post, with Washington departing Williamsburg October 31 1753 and returning with the French reply on January 46 1754 after hardships.
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George Washington
Virginia
Gov. Dinwiddie
Ohio River
Washington
Williamsburg
Pungent Paragraphs and Witty Quips From Old Newspapers
A collage of sharp quotes from era papers features a bragging inventor of a worm less chestnut, a vain leading man eager for profits, a negligent business manager craving privacy, and a dancer of misfortune named Follansby. The humor centers on money, status, and social foibles with sly punch lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlet
Detroit Free Press
Follansby
Gruffman
Richmor
Haunting Tales and Stray Vices Prompt Local Oddities
The Philadelphia papers discuss a mingling of quips about cigars and a real sea serpent story from Japan. Fishermen slew two enormous serpents near Osaka, one 45 feet and the other 39 feet, with a human remains found in one carcass. The showman plans to present them in Tokyo before the emperor. In Altoona Pennsylvania a resurvey of a railway exposes rattlesnakes and wildlife mischief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empress of India
Osaka
Tokio
N. Y
Ingenious Convict's Arrow Escape Captures Attention
A Montana death row inmate Charles Lennox fashioned an arrow from a penknife tied to a message for Sheriff Furey's wife, using an old corset steel and pink ribbon. The note asks for literature as he seeks relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lennox
Butte, Mont
Sheriff Furey
Silver Bow County
Lennox
Furey
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