School Girl Slain by Drink in Seven Months
Kansas City report details the death of Helen Chambers a high school girl from Aurora Illinois who after New Years Eve began drinking heavily. She describes her fall from restraint to dissipation culminating in morphine use and a fatal operation at General Hospital. Her life spiraled from a carefree start to a dangerous path after joining others in Chicago.
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Kansas City
Aug
Helen Chambers
General Hospital
Miss Chambers
Aurora
Chicago
Tran
Dallas
Texas
Doctor Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Ad Claims Potent Cure
An old advertisement touts Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a superior blood purifier and tonic for stomach disorders, citing forty years of experience. It lists ingredients like Golden Root and Bloodroot, promises to build up the system, and offers a free booklet from Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo. It also mentions Dr. Pierce's All Healing Salve for ulcers and assorted ailments.
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Doctor Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
At 68 She Saves 5 Lives Ida Lewis Heroic Rescue
Ida Lewis aged 68, keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse, earned praise for saving five girls from a capsized boat near the torpedo station. From her lifeboat Rescue she pulled each survivor aboard after a New York steamboat churned a heavy wake. Her long record of lifesaving spans thirty years beside her father Captain H Wilson.
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Newport
R. J
Ida Lewis
Grace Darling
America
Lime Rock
H. Wilson
New York
Commonwealth
Electric Bitters touted as cure for malaria
Washington's plague spots in Potomac marshes breed germs causing chills fever and general debility. Electric Bitters claimed to destroy them and cure malaria and related troubles. Endorsed by R. M. James of Louellen South Carolina. Price 60 cents. Guaranteed by F. T. Clay.
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Potomac
R. M. James
Louellen
8. C
New Kansas Drink Gains Fame As a Quick Jag Producer
Topeka Kansas August 9 The Jackson cocktail is the latest drink in Kansas named for Attorney General Fred Jackson It can be bought anywhere in the state anytime and sellers dodge prosecution while buyers avoid court. The mix is three parts apple cider one part Jamaica ginger described as palatable with a zesty flavor. two drinks make a man funny three for theft and five for preferring a shack to a bed.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Jackson
Fred Jackson
Jamaica
Tapers
Arnica Salve Proclaimed Earth’s Supreme Healer
An advertisement touts Buck-Jen’s Arnica Salve as infallible for boils ulcers fever sores eczema and piles and claims it subdues inflammation and pain. The text cites 25 cents at F. T. Clay’s.
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Buck- Jen
Earth
F. T. Clay’s
Kuhn Still After Salary In Missouri Asylum Row
In St Joseph Kansas City doctor W F Kuhn, former superintendent of State Hospital No 2, challenges salary payments. An attorney for Kuhn advised treasurer E L Hart Jr not to pay Doctor Patterson or any other person the superintendent’s salary, and Kuhn will seek court resolution on the dispute.
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St. Joseph, Mo
W. F. Kuhn
Kansas City
State Hospital No
Heavenly Twins in Kansas City Politics Clash
Hadley and Folk are described as identical in views and partisan zeal, each seeking further office and home rule opposition. A satirical note from Joplin Globe questions their unity and suggests no clear rift. The column then shifts to a medical ad promoting Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co.
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Hadley
Kansas City
Folk
Polithe
Joplin Globe
States Favor Income Tax Across 25 Governors
A New York newspaper surveyed twenty five state governors on the income tax amendment. Fifteen back it, seven are non committal, one opposes. Ratification leaning from Florida Montana Nevada Colorado Idaho Mississippi Kansas Indiana North Dakota Minnesota Virginia Oklahoma Texas Kentucky Iowa. Non commitments from Georgia Illinois Rhode Island Wyoming Missouri Oregon Washington. Utah forecast rejection. Kansas Governor Stubbs says legislature will adopt. Farmers & Stockman.
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Nevada
Colorado
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Mississippi
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Indiana
North Dakota
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Georgia
Illinois
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Missouri
Oregon
Washington
Utah
Stubbs
Farmer & Stockman
Wealthy Pine Village couple deed sixty acres to minister
Pine Village Indiana Aug Burgoine Davis and wife, among Montgomery county's wealthiest landowners, deed sixty fertile acres valued at 125 dollars per acre to Reverend J M Williams, a Methodist minister. The couple, childless, attended his church and helped retain his pastorate with short sermons of fifteen minutes or less.
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Pine Village
Ind
Burgoine Davis
Montgomery County
J. M. Williams
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