Waited to a shadow but found a cure after fifteen years
A. H. Stotts, a Capitol messenger in Columbus Ohio, recounts kidney troubles for fifteen years. After failing medicine, he collapsed and wasted away, then used Deans Kidney Pills for two months and regained health, weighing 188 pounds. Twelve boxes cured him. he remains well for two years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Baby’s severe rash cured by Cuticura after scratching to blood
In Jasper Ontario a three month old boy suffered an itchy watery rash causing continual scratching until blood flowed and weight loss. After first Cuticura use he slept, and the family reports one set of Cuticura brought a complete cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Maitland
Jasper
Ontario
Bernhardt May Be Knight of the Legion of Honor
French minister proposes Sarah Bernhardt for the Legion of Honor Cross of Knight. The grand chancery reviews nominations, with hopes she will finally receive the decoration. Despite prior proposals, French actors have rarely been honored as performers, usually receiving recognition as professors or for charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Bernhardt
Conservatoire
Old Excuse Is Rejected in Ghost Rent Case
A married Italian couple who fled Avellino lodgings without paying rent claiming a haunted house were fined 100 dollars. The judge ruled science does not recognize ghosts. The piece also notes Brazilian shoe prices, duties, and uses of animal skins as currency, plus a travel aphorism about beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avellino
Porridge replaced in a Huntsville family diet
A Huntsville Ontario reader recounts switching from porridge to Grape-Nuts for a year with dramatic improvement. Her invalid husband gained 10 pounds in a month, strength returned, and their five year old son’s stomach pains vanished. She praises Grape-Nuts and notes she forgot doctor bills, endorsing the product from Postum Co. and inviting readers to read The Road to Wellville.
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Britain
Huntsville
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Prayer as Power in Tennyson’s Verse
The excerpt surveys themes of prayer and divine influence in Tennyson, contrasting human frailty with spiritual reach. It reflects on how prayer elevates minds and binds the world, suggesting a fountain of voice and supplication guiding personal and social life.
When Harry Emmerson Returns to Claim Helen Ashton
The 1905 tale follows engineer Harry Emmerson who wins respect through grit and prompts a return to his boyhood town. He confronts a changed Helen Ashton, now poised to marry Herbert Nieman, heir to Nieman fortunes, reshaping his hopes and jealousy as he contends with love, pride, and social ascent.
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Harry Emmerson
Helen Ashton
Old Town
Helen
Herbert Neiman
Nieman
Silent Exchange Ends In Carriage Return
In a tense moment, Nieman declares himself and the Nieman fortune at stake as they return home. Emmerson remains present, prompting questions and a playful but pointed reply from the woman, who challenges his authority with a mischievous line.
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Nieman
Emmerson
Outrage in Court as Speeding Man and Freeloader Fined
In a Seattle Post Intelligencer report, Mr. Percival Fitzrusher and Footloose Freddy appear in a justice court. Freddy is fined $20 for vagrancy, then Fitzrusher pleads guilty to speeding and is fined $20 plus costs. Fitzrusher laments injustice as Freddy quietly approves and walks away.
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Percival Fitzrusher
Justice Court
Footloose Freddy
Fitz Tusher
Freddy
Fitzrusher
Mr. Fitzrusher
Footloose
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Yielding All to Divine Will in Prayer
A devotional meditation in verse where the speaker offers their will as a gift to God and asks for it to be merged with the divine plan. The prayer asks for purification and a return of a transformed will, so that the giver no longer recognizes it as their own. It expresses struggle, tears, and longing for peace through submission to the divine will.
Men of Brilliancy Scarce at Vienna Medical Chair
The University of Vienna struggles to fill key medical professorships as candidates like Kraus decline offers. The hygiene chair has lingered vacant two years since Gruber left for Munich. Four eminent names remain unsecure, pushing the post toward a younger, yet-to-be-made reputation.
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University of Vienna
Nothnagel
Kraus
Berlin
Austria
Gruber
Munich
Rubrer
Flugge
Hueppe
Difference in Creeds in a Minnesota Village
A traveler recalls finding two new sects in a small Minnesota village. He observed two large churches amid a few hundred residents and notes apparent piety and differing views. A Swede quotes dialect about Eve and Adam, suggesting recurring moral judgments.
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Minnesota
Is your friend honest says visitor to mayor McClellan
A visitor asked the mayor to make an appointment and questioned a friend's honesty. The exchange features the visitor insisting the friend would steal hinges from a safe but calling him a good fellow, prompting the mayor to respond with a terse rebuttal.
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McClellan
Nixie
New York Sun
Nevada slot law drains nickel supply in Reno bank find
A Reno bank received a keg containing 1500 dollars in nickels from a factory, highlighting a nickel shortage since Nevada legalized slot machines. The shortage affects small purchases such as gum for a six year-old girl.
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Nevada
Reno
Senator Clark's Mansion on Fifth Avenue Nears Completion
The mansion built by Senator Clark of Montana in Fifth avenue New York is nearing completion. The total cost will be about five million dollars. It is not the largest in the area but is the costliest of them all.
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Senator Clark
Montana
Fifth Avenue
New York
British ER Relates Prince of Wales Christening Tale
Robert Christy, an elderly British er visiting here, recounts his long friendship with the Prince of Wales now King Edward and recalls the christening of a baby. The empire stores were lit that night as Albert Edward’s initials “A. E.” shone in windows a courtier notes the lad will need the four vows before the crown.
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Robert Christy
Prince of Wales
Edward
Empire
Albert Edward
A. E
Stomachs and preservatives parade in Paris lecture
The Paris Laboratory chief lecturing on digestion explains that long term use of milk preserved with formic aldehyds ham preserved with borax vegetables treated with copper sulfate and wine clarified with plaster of Paris risks serious stomach problems after 20 years.
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Paris
Indian Princesses in London at Fara day House
Three Indian princesses live in a red brick house at Hampton Court on the Thames named Fara day House. They are Bamba Catherine and Sophia daughters of the late Maharajah Dhuleep Singh raised in the English manner as young women of rank.
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Hampton Court
the Thames
London
Faraday
Queen Victoria
Bamba
Catherine
Sophia
Maharajah
Dhuleep Singh
Whisky 100 Years Old Hidden Behind Church Wall
A Philadelphia Record note claims a bottle of whisky at least a century old is concealed in the old Presbyterian church at Fairton. Workmen allegedly buried the quart in the walls during construction as the liquor proved undrinkable, with apprentice Hosea Husted and Robert Wescoat recounting the tale.
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Fairton
Hosea Husted
Robert Wescoat
Philadelphia
Cure Proven By Ark Woman After Recurrent Eczema
Mrs. Kate Howard of Little Rock Arkansas reports that after five to six spring résolutions of eczema resisting all treatments she used Hunt's Cure. The remedy cured her and two years have passed without a recurrence. She endorses Hunt's Cure as effective.
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Kate Howard
Little Rock
Ark
Florio left fortune and vow of restitution
Signor Vincenzo Florio, who recently died by suicide in Naples, left four million lire. His will, found on his room table, declared he took money from the rich by lending at interest and that the rich took it from the poor, to whom he wished it restored. He discarded the safe key before his death to guard the fortune.
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Nieman
Emmerson
Midas’ Castle
Mr. Nieman
Miss Ashton
Signor
Vincenzo Florio
Naples
Signor Florio
Women Driven to Operation by Womb and Ovary Ailments
Mrs Pinkham urges women to seek Lydia E Pink ham s Vegetable Compound for womb ovaries and nervous ailments warning that most hospital patients are women awaiting or recovering from operations. A Seattle reader details tumor fears and cites cure by the remedy with free advice offered from Lyon Mass.
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Luella Adams
Colonnade Hotel
Seattle
Wash
Miss Adams
Lydia E. Pinkham
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A. H. Stotts
State Capitol
Columbus
Strohbeck
Prussian Saxony
Eeelf
Cutiura
Bernhardt
Brazil
Tennyson
Daily Story Pub, Co
Sene
Senator Clark’s
Florio
Cna Ey NU
KNIGH
ST. Lou's
Stowers
Texas
G. A. Stowers Furniture Co
San Antonio
Houston
Dr. Earl
Sloan
Albany St
Boston
Mass
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