Missouri notes on senate election and electric interurban plans
Missouri items describe approval of a student senate at a university led by Dr Al Ross Hill with representation from law engineering arts and agriculture schools. Proposals for an Ozarks interurban railway backed by Kansas City and St Louis capital, plus a Chicken Picking Challenge and various local honors and appointments across the state. Also reports on court adjournment, postmaster changes, wildlife depredations, and notable deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Ross Hill
Thi
University Council
Yale University
Hill
Ozarks
Cabool
Rolla
Licking
Houston
Raymondville
Kansas City
St Louis
St. James
South Missouri
St. Louis
Proof for Two Cents Kidney Pills Ad
An 1900s style testimonial claims Dean's Kidney Pills cured kidney and back pain. A man asserts weight gain from 143 to 162 pounds after 10 or 12 boxes. Advertisement ends with sold-by and price details. A separate joke dialogue closes the snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Mr. Winney
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Cured Itching Humor and Remedy Claims
A collage of 1908 era ads and snippets reports a cured itching condition with black scars, a testimonial for Cuthura Remedies, and assorted items about medicine, amusing quotes, and household tips. Includes references to Hall's Catarrh Cure, Castoria, Allen's Foot-Ease, and Marine Eye Remedy with brief product pitches and jokes.
Lydia Pinkham's Remedy Praised by Chicago Woman
Mrs Alvena Sperling describes severe female ailments and how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health after a troubling period. The testimonial touts the product as effective for displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities backache bearing down feelings and nervous prostration at a low cost with immense personal value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poe
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alvena Sperling
Langdon St
Chicago
Record Immigrant Train Flows Boost Canada Land Settlement
Confidence rises that new settler traffic will top all prior years as special trains carry wealth into Canada. Officials at North Portal and Emerson report US arrivals may reach 70 000 to 110 000 this year, with Southern arrivals last year at 53 723. Wheat prices above a dollar spur seeding, and Canadian agents offer transport rates and pamphlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Jokes About Nationalities and Misheard Phrases
A short quip dialogue plays on naming of people from Poland and Holland and a pun about tropical imaging. It uses a father son exchange to provoke a light chuckle about language and geography.
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Missouri
George Fisher
St. Joseph
Fisher
Philadelphia
St Joseph
William Jewell
William Jewell College
Washington University
Grante
John H. Lanning
Cole County
Osage River
Jefferson City
Lanning
Taft
Excelsior
William Howard Taft
Celsior Literary Society
Liberty
Robert B. Lee
Society
W. N. Evans
West Plains
Circuit Court
Carter County
van Buren
Andrew J. Cash
Rea. Andrew County
F. F. Meyer
Louis ‘W. Macklin
Triplitt
Chariton County
H. W. Buckles
Rt. Joseph
H. J. Gehrs
Clayton
Prosperine
Oliver P. Martin
Iene
Laclede County
B. B. Hulae
South South
Ozark Mountain
John Brown
Montrose
Henry County
Brown
W. W. Webb
R. C. Armstrong
Charlotte Gray
Charles Gray
Hopkins
Grand Jury
Macon
Shelton
Hazem
Springfield
Weather Bureau
Washington
South
Columbia
R. N. Dodine
Paris
W. W. Stone
Greenville
A. A. Walker
Lexington
John M. Rucker
George W. Hyde
Hadley
J. L. Gerr
Campbell
W. Eben Smith
Mound City
Holt County
Olin Harris Moore
University of Missouri
Harvard
Phillip Barlow
William Berry
Bates County
Dr. Williams
G. Williams
Odessa
Fulton Insane Asylum
John Williams
Joseph A. Bowers
Pettis County
Democrat
Democrat-Senier
Mr. Bowers
R. S. Duncan
Montgomery
Ozark
Theodosia & Town
Ozark County
Wood-Reed-Hurd Company
Henry Williams
Clay County
Kearney
Cuthura
L. Wilson
Puryear
Tenn
Potter Drog & Chom, Corp
Sole Props
Boston
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Fr. Cheney
Waioiwa, Kinnast @ MARVIN, "Winotenale
Eastbourne College
England
Allen
A. S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Marine Eye Remedy
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Drusgiss
Ethel
Esters Cal'seSary
DWE
Lydia E Pinkham
Poland
Pole
Holland
Hole
Tommy
W. H. May
Pearl Street
New York City
Parker
VELIE
Voon
Yohn Deere Plow Co
Seattle
Congress
Frank T. Hunter
the Trustee Company
Wash
Vocatile
Bern
Paxton
Boston, Mae
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
United States
D. Clem Deaver
Omaha
Neb
Denver
State
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