Peruna Testimonies Claim Cough and Cold Cure
A sample testimonial letter from Mrs. Joseph Hall Chase and others touts Peruna as an effective remedy for coughs and colds. Authors mention using the medicine, regaining sense of smell and hearing, and include requests for Peruna tablets as an alternative. Includes promotional language and offer for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna Drug Co
Columbus
Ohio
Joseph Hall Chase
Washington, D. C
Kaiser a Teetotaler Is Farfetched Rumor
In the New York Evening Post critique, the notion that Kaiser Wilhelm II is a teetotaler is dismissed as impossible. The piece argues abstinence would scandalize Germany and provoke national upheaval, noting Harvard professor Musneterberg’s controversial claim that sobriety ruins races, which is also rejected.
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Germany
Hohenzollern
London Telegraph
Reichstag
Rhine
France
Munich
Empire
Austria
Musneterberg
Harvard
Ingersoll Whisky Letter Clarified by Relative
A family member of Colonel Ingersoll responds to Everett Blackburn’s article and the claim that Ingersoll wrote the famous whisky letter. The letter allegedly addressed to Dr Buckley is disputed as a parody and misattribution, with the real text traced to Dr Buckley and published in the Christian Advocate in 1882.
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East Twenty-first Street
Gramercy Park
New York
the Star
Bob Ingersoll
Everett Blackburn
Colonel Ingersoll
Blackburn
Logersoll
Buckley
Walston H. Brown
Dr. Buckly
Christian Advocate
New York Evening Telegram
Father Wounded by Son in Cedar Grove Farm Home
C J Fitzgerald a farmer in Cedar Grove north of Robins had his lower right leg mangled when his son Roy 19 discharged a loaded shotgun while handling it in the sitting room Saturday. The load pierced the stove and tore the leg. surgeons amputated below the knee Sunday. Father recovering and reasonably hopeful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Fitzgerel
Cedar Grove
Robins
Webb
Higgineville
Mayview
Fitegerel
Fitzgerel
Roy Fitzgerel
Not So Bad As Fiction Makes Out From Emerson Hough
The excerpt reflects on Western figures as romantic yet real, noting cowboys as hardy, skilled riders who carried compact firearms. It argues Western plains men were capable light cavalry material, shaping a nostalgic image of the armed hero admired by American pop culture.
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Emerson Hough
Outing Magazine
Magic of Chemistry and Everyday Alchemy
A fragmented old note describes chemists turning patriotic boots into jelly and old ekirta into glucose. It mentions pen nibs from copper coffee pots, paper from collars, and a physician claiming New York sewage can yield artificial milk equal to a hundred thousand cows. Waste soapsuds from woolen factories now make bricks that illuminate gas.
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New York
Words of Praise for Pierce Medicines Highlight Honest Labels
Advertises Dr Pierce medicines as trustworthy with clear ingredient lists. Warns against secret nostrums while urging sick women to seek guidance by letter and notes the Pleasant Pellets as a mild laxative.
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Dr. Pierce
der. Pierce
Adaptorld
R. Pres
Buffald
Pierce
Lipari Islands Vanish In Mediterranean Disaster
Rome reports that Lipari Islands off Sicily with 28 000 inhabitants have disappeared. Italian ministers warn of 800 000 dead in the area as relief crews struggle to clear wreckage and bury victims. Troops rushed in, water scarce, and illumination needed to deter looting while ships and land stations coordinate aid efforts.
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Rome
Rome Vita Aage
Strait of Messina
Lipari
Mediterranean
Sicily
Minister of Marine
Facta
Messina
Catania
Signor Bertolini
Publi Works
Andh & Masa
Naples
Signor
Orlando
Meselna
Ehipa
Periahed
Natyes
Bucklen's Arnica Salve touted as fast healer
An old time ad claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly cures burns, wounds, cuts and bruises. It extols relief as instant and asserts it fights skin eruptions, ulcers and other sores. The text markets a popular topical remedy with dramatic claims.
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Bucklen
Unearth
Clay
Osage River Bend Proposal For River Dam Power
Ezra Clark proposes a plan to cut a channel through land at the Osage bend near Clinton to create a dam for electric railway and lighting power across Southwest Missouri. He claims to have data and expects to begin work next year if spring comes early and backing is secured. Some doubt but consider the project feasible with a high dam built in the fall.
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Grand River
Clinton
St. Clair County
Clinton Daily Democrat
Ezra Clark
Missouri
Ezra
Esra
Appleton City Journal
Cleveland's Love of Nature in a Princeton Memory
In Andrew F. Weat's January Century sketch Grover Cleveland is shown moved by spring beauty and autumn calm. The future president is described as silent before sunlit scenes, finding a word for the feeling beyond description. He recalls such moments as genuine, unearned joy.
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Andrew F. Weat
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Cleveland
Calmson
Fenimore Cooper
Huntaman
Deafness Cure Claim Promoted by Hall's Cure
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed mucous surfaces and the Eustachian tube. It pledges one hundred dollars to any remedy not cured by Hall's Cure and promotes a mail order remedy with a Toledo company and a laxative product.
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Barr
Hall
Etren Duratree
Cheney Aco
Alt Drigggiate
A Jew’s Appreciation of Jesus in American Magazine
In a January American Magazine story by James Oppenheim a Jew doctor reflects on Jesus as the greatest doctor. He describes a physician who lays his hand on filth and his heart on bruised hearts and broken souls, noting Jesus was a Jew and a model for care in the New York ghettos.
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New York
James Oppenheim
Miss Grabo
Dr. Rast
Jesus
Jeane
State Institutions to Call for Money Appropriation
State officials announce a $1,604,000 appropriation request to fund public services. The plan targets multiple agencies to cover expansions, salaries, and operating costs over the coming fiscal year.
State Hospital No 3 at Nevada Seeks 100000 Aid
Missouri state budget notes list for 1930s shows State Hospital No 3 at Nevada requesting 100000 as part of an omnibus appropriations package. The missive enumerates dozens of agencies including state fair, sanitarium, industrial home for girls, schools for the deaf, normal schools, and fish hatcheries seeking funds for the biennial period.
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Jefferson Clay
General Assembly
Agwre
Kirksville
State Normal
Wirrenaburg
Cape Girardeau
Springfield
Maryeville
State
St. Louis
St. Joseph
School of Mines
Confederate Howe
Missouri Training School
Bove
Remedies for Horse Ailments Sold by Frank T. Clay
An ad offers cures for hard or soft lumps blemishes including blood spavin corns splints Sweeney king bone swellings and sprains among others. A bowie bowwie device is claimed to save 50 cents? Use by customers for various horse ailments.
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Frank T. Clay
Druwgtss
Minister Defends Amusements in City View
The Rev. AL HB Tartlest of Chit CO argues amusements need management not abolition. He says amusements lack inherent character and are shaped by people, condemning nothing but advocating wholesome, uplifted entertainment including theatre. The low prices reach many, including children, and the city needs clean, not coarse, amusements.
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AL HB. Tartlest
Chit CO
A Horrible Hold-Up
A Washington man recalls his brother being bedridden for years with consumption before trying Dr King’s Discovery. Six bottles cured him. claims it relieves weak lungs, hemorrhages, coughs, colds, bronchitis, la grippe, and asthma. Trial bottle free, $1.00, guaranteed by F. T. Clay.
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Wos
W. St. Lipscomb
Washington, D. C
F. T. Clay
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Mra. A
Man-a-lin
Hallghale
Awashington D.C
Kaiser A Teetotaler
New York Evening Poat
F. Earl Tipton
Spacallist
Dept. B
Kansas City, MO
Ingersoll
KC Star
Journal-Democrat
Lipario
Sicilian
Osage
University
State Hospital No. 3
Nevada
Ayer
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