Rare Almanac Collector Says Priceless Volumes Found
Eemond M. Gladden of Philadelphia reports a rare almanac collection after an Europe trip. He owns one of Franklin’s Poor Richard's Almanacs and a 1592 Spanish almanac with feast days and daily weather signs. He cites the Chinese and Nautical Almanac as other extreme items and values.
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Eemond M. Gladden
Philadelphia
Europe
Richard
Benjamin Franklin
Spain
Don Michael Fernandez Y Perez
Gladden
England
British Museum
Great Britain
Royal Society
Coffee Drinking Linked to Heart and Nerve Trouble
An Illinois stockman recalls nervous spells indigestion and heart palpitations after years of heavy coffee use. He switched to Postum, reports sleeping better and gaining weight, claiming his health improved for two years. The ad-copy style letter promotes Postum and cites The Road to Wellville.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Iever
Cotton Crop Deteriorates in October Report
The New York Journal of Commerce reports from over 1,300 correspondents that cotton conditions fell to 67.5 in October, down 3.6 points from last month. Weather favored overall dry spells but heavy rains and frost in Oklahoma cut 13.5 points there, while rapid picking and ginning pushed government returns to 6,283,780 bales versus 4,420,258 last year, signaling early maturity.
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New York Journal of New York
The
Journal of Commerce
Oklahoma
Flight With His Aeroplane Marks New Record
Mourmelon, France. Henry Farman demonstrated the aeroplane's practical reach by flying twenty miles directly from Mourmelon to Rheims with no mishap. The craft ascended, circled, then headed toward Rheims and vanished from spectators. An hour later a telegram confirmed Farman's safe arrival at Rheims.
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Mourmelon
France
Henry Farman
Rheims
Farman
Waters-Pierce case argument in Supreme Court
Washington reports the start of oral argument in the Waters-Pierce Oil Company suit before the U S Supreme Court. The company seeks reversal of Texas court rulings that ousted it from operating in the state and upheld a fine totaling about 1.75 million dollars covering principal and interest.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Italian seeks police aid against Black Hand in Newark
Italian villardo Dipitti appealed to Newark police for a personal bodyguard saying Black Hand members attacked him after being lured from Morothorn West Virginia to a Shanty in St Michaels Pennsylvania where his arms were amputated.
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Newark
N. J
Villardo Dipitti
Black Hand
Morothorn W. Va
St. Michaels
Girl Burned to Death as Mother Fights Fire
In Port Arthur Texas Lulu Oschner aged 15 died after a pot of lard on a stove ignited and spilled when her mother tried to remove it. Mrs Oschner and two others were badly burned trying to extinguish the blaze.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Lulu Oschner
Von Buelow Resigns Offer Refused by Emperor
Berlin report says Prince Von Buelow offered his resignation after London's publication of the emperor's interview for which the prince took responsibility. The emperor declined to accept but allowed a full explanation to be published. In San Francisco Capt G E D Diamond, aged 112, applied for charity after decades as a centenarian lecturer on health and vegetarianism. He was born in 1796.
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Berlin
Prince von Buelow
William
London
San Francisco
G .E. D. Diamond
Oakland
Mother Keeps Vigil at Prison Wall in Atlanta
Mrs. Annie Hamilton, an aged woman, was found lying at the base of the prison wall where her son Charles Hamilton, jailed for burglary, served a five year sentence. Grief stricken, she kept vigil through the cold night and was taken to a hospital.
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Atlanta
Annie Hamilton
Charles
Jain
Cured Deafness Promised by Catarrh Cure Ads
Bundle of old advertisements tout cures for deafness and ailments. Claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure deafness caused by catarrh with a money back offer. Also pitches remedies for constipation dropsy headaches teething syrup and other patent medicines. One line notes singles face marriage risk and a generic quip about married life.
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Hall
F.j.crexex & Co
Toledo
Fifteen Years of Suffering Ends with Cuticura Cure
A wife recounts her husband’s rheumatic leg sores lasting fifteen years. After three doctors and various remedies failed, three weeks of Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent dried the sores and stopped the fire, with full recovery in three months, witnessed by Mrs V V Albert of Upper Frenchville, Me.
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V. V. Albert
Upper
French‘ille
Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Mothers and Patients
A plea to women in lonely homes to seek health through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials from Maggie Gilmer and Josephine Hall praise restored health and motherhood, urging sick women to write for advice. The ad touts thirty years of use for female ills including displacements, inflammation, fibroids, and nervous prostration, inviting letters from Lynn Mass. Rheumatism appears as an awkward trailing fragment.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Maggie Gilmer
West Union
D. C
Pinkham
Josephine Hall
Bardstown
Smallest Post Office Floats in Straits of Magellan
The world’s tiniest protected post office sits in the Straits of Magellan. A painted cask chained to rocks at a cape near Terra del Fuego. Ships send boats to exchange mail, a curious historic oddity noted in Home Notes.
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Straits of Magellan
Cape
Terra del Fuego
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Drugg|sts
J Tower CO
Boston
Tower Canadian CO
REA CO
Minneapolis
Minn
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Waters-Pierce Case
H. H. Green
Sloan
Sweeney
Price
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
Odenheimer
National Convention Farmers’ Union
Fort Worth
Textile Mills Corporation
New Orleans
J. Wilton Jones
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P.O. Box
Schwartz Co., Ltd
Hew
Orleans
F. Field CO
Brockton
J. LR. Atkins
Renee
Martel
Gerald
Geraldine
New York Press
Putnam
Ackage
Monroe
Cardui
Susan
A. Hall
Hayne
N. C
Cardus
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Philip Werlein, Ltd
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MUS
Canal St
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