President reviews canal progress and labor at Isthmus
The article recounts a presidential message from the Isthmus of Panama detailing work on the canal. It highlights labor practices, use of Chinese and West Indian workers, and central challenges at La Boca Gatun dam and Culebra cut with new French excavating equipment advancing the project.
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Asia
Culebra
Don
Panama
Colon
United States
Arp
West India
Rome
Niles
Ens
la Boca
Gatun
Sonia
Cuticura Remedies Touted By Suffering Patient 1906
A Philadelphia patient recounts long illness with eczema and scalp itching. After failures with doctors, he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent and reports recovery following six bathe cycles and nightly soap lather as the remedy. The note praises Cuticura and cites August 2 1906.
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Drake
Hades
Evan
Drie
Eric
Wm. H. Gray
Mt Vernon St
Philadelphia
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Universal Cure
A printed health ad boasts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the first positive cure for a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease's foundation and offers $100 for any case it cannot cure. It lists F J Cheney & Co of Toledo as the makers and notes availability from druggists in New York.
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J Cheney & CO
Toledo
Druxgrats
Vain Regret of a Degreed Professor on Stage Worth
A venerable college professor with a threadbare cloak recalls his errors. He laments dedicating himself to sixteen languages rather than mastering one dialect, believing he might have pursued the stage and earned substantial wealth.
Outside remedies and odd streetcar debate in one page
The text touts Allcock's Plaster as a universal pain remedy and PAZO Ointment for piles with quick cures promised. It also weaves in a humorous streetcar service aside and a brief scene of a detention hospital visit ending with a royal insult exchange and an unexpected pardoning ride.
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Allcock
Gorr
But you didn't give her up says the father in law bluff
A fragment describes a girl resisting a bluff about marriage to a disapproving suitor. Rival committees seek funds and a financier weighs large gifts to influence outcomes. An ad-like medical note touts Dr. Pierce's Discovery as a cure for colds and throat ailments, urging timely use.
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Pack
Philadelphia Ledger
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Gmslote
Svit Cena
Smaosti
SSE
Tosanmne Balsen Medical
Actice
Aoke
Pierce
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