Five Weeks in Bed With Painful Kidney Trouble
Mrs Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut recounts severe kidney disease causing weeks in bed with bearing down pain backaches headaches dizziness and blurred vision. She credits Deans Kidney Pills for rapid improvement after the first box and improvement after five boxes. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. President Roosevelt to speak at Indianapolis on Memorial Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Wagner
Kossuth Ave
Bridgeport
Conn
Dean
Huge Coal Bill Shows Rails Consume Massive Fuel
Railroads burn immense coal for locomotive fuel, averaging about 2500 tons per engine per year. Rock Island and Chicago Northwestern reports circa 1905 1906 reveal fuel costs near five million dollars for large fleets. Interstate Commerce data place U S coal use at 159 million dollars in 1904 totaling about 106 million tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Chicago and Northwestern
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Union Pacific
Chicago and Alton
Lehigh Valley
The Oatmeal Dodge Swindle At The Grocer
A detective recalls the oatmeal dodge a con artist used on a suburban grocer. A trio of youths enter to ask about oatmeal then depart with the grocer distracted and the till empty. The first two feign conversation, the third asks about oatmeal, and the grocer chases them to find the shop empty with no money. The scheme succeeds yet again.
Southern Rice Industry and Growth Across States
The text notes Northern farmers migrated to the Louisiana Gulf coast prairie to cultivate rice in 1884 and developed machinery. Louisiana and Texas now produce three quarters of the U S rice crop, reversing pre Civil War southern dominance. It highlights a new method of rice production introduced in history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Gulf Coast Prairie
Louisiana
Texas
United States
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Nervous and skin cures touted in old newspaper ads
An assortment of vintage medical ads tout cures for fits and nervous disorders, eczema and deafness, including Dr Kline's nerve restorer, Cuticura remedy anecdote, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and unrelated notes on farming ads and a quip about self-advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vitus
Kline
H. R. Kline
Arch St
Phila
Golden Medical Discovery and its Alcohol Free Cure Claims
A historical advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as an alcohol free remedy for weak stomach indigestion and torpid liver. It cites glycerine extraction, lists ingredients, endorses medical texts, and offers free literature from Buffalo New York. The copy also mentions other products and assorted testimonials to boost credibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
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Peruina
Perua Almanac
Weite
W. B. Limerick
Bastror
Hettanooga Edicine Co
Chattanooga
Teun
Eye
Wales
Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Cutiura
Oswego
Fulton, Oswego Co
Hall
F.j.cxexry & Co
Toledo
Workll
Humphreys, Godwin & Co
Memphis
Mra Winslow
Woolford
B. Detchon
Julie Florence Wals
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. F. Walsh
W. 36Th St
New York City
Arie
New York
Nessas St
Atinata
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Albany St
Boston, Mass
Ian
Frestuerd
Virginia Caro
Richmond
Norfolk
N.carleston
Baltimore
Ua Chemical Ce
Shreveport
R. Paxton Company
Boston
Mass
Aleo Leach
Mary Ang & Stratton Hanksens College
Dept. A
Locteviis
Carolina Cement Co
QestinGnam Crew
Orleans
Ree
Putnam
Cher
Taylor
Hicks
Talbots Aldred
Nnli
Allcock’s
Winchester
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