Peruna Claimed To Cure La Grippe In 19th Century Ads
A collection of testimonials praising Peruna as the most effective remedy for la grippe. Readers report dramatic recoveries from grip and systemic catarrh, with claims of curing nasal congestion, throat inflammation, and post grippe weakness. References include Robt L Madison of Cullowhee High School and Mrs Jennie W Gilmore of White Oak Indiana.
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la Grippe
Robt
L. Madison
A. M
Cullowhee High School
Painter
N.C
Jackson County Board of Educcation
Madison Bays
Jennie W. Gilmore
White Oak
Ind
Indiana Reform School For Boys
Peruna
Manalin
Littl
Chas E. Wells
Delaware
Ohio
Jane Gift
Athena
Deathbed accusation against minister and doctor at Elsberry
Eisberry Mo March 2 Miss Elizabeth Gleason 23 the towns founder’s granddaughter told a coroner’s jury that Rev Cr Gow pastor of the Methodist church and Dr W A Hemphill were responsible for her illness. Her mother testified the daughter named both men and asked the secret be kept if she lived or died.
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Eisberry
Elizabeth Gleason
Cr . Gow
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Elsberry
Troy
W. A Hemphill
Miss Gleason
Hemphill
Bryan Urges Confidence in Memphis Speech
William J. Bryan spoke to about five hundred banquet attendees at a Memphis hotel urging reassurance of depositors to restore confidence and stimulate bank circulation. He cited moral aspects of economic questions and predicted brighter prospects for the upcoming Congressional year from a Democratic view. He planned to address Mississippi Legislature in Jackson after the event.
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Memphis
Tenn
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Jackson, Mias
Mississippi
Shrine monk Feodotoff jailed for fifteen years
In Verkhoturye Russia a monk Feodotoff who posed as a hermit ran a forest shrine attracting pilgrims. Though revered for sanctity his charity cloaked robbery murder and debauchery. Following disappearances of women pilgrims the circuit court sentenced him to penal servitude for fifteen years.
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Verkhoturye
Russia
Feodotoff
Perm
Berkshire hog Star Masterpiece dies after big sale
Kirksville Missouri February 24 Star Masterpiece a Berkshire hog bought for 5500 by Still and Laughlin Kinlock Farm died yesterday after a Berkshire sale the day before during which an offer was pressed but refused.
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Kirksville
Still & Laughlin
Kinlock
Women as Election Judges in Wichita
Movement in Wichita Kansas seeks to place women on the April city election boards. The Women's Christian Temperance Union has circulated petitions asking the mayor and city council to appoint one judge and one clerk per precinct. Councilmen and board of education members are to be elected. supporters see it as a good trial despite opposition.
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Wichita
Kas
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Board of Education
Fearful Noiseless Gun Invention Revealed by Maxim
Hartford reports on Hiram Percy Maxim, son of the inventor of the machine gun, admitting conscience regret over his quiet firearm. He warns of its potential to overwhelm armies or aid criminals, urges patent reform or government ownership, and explains his motive rooted in muffling engine noise rather than weapon creation.
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Hartford, Conn
Fils
Hiram Percy Maxim
Frank
Mr. Maxim
Maxim
Jun Fa
Congress
United States
Washington
Sedalia Woodcutter Confesses Rail-Removal Caused Freight Wreck
G W Cox of Sedalia Missouri a 35 year old woodchopper confessed to removing a rail on Missouri Pacific tracks near Otwerville on February 21. The act caused an extra freight wreck injuring three men he hoped would earn him a reward and gifts. He fled then rode the passenger train to the wreck then returned with the injured crew. Police and Missouri detectives tracked him to Obterville where he confessed he acted alone. He is jailed awaiting transfer to Boonville and has a wife and child.
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Sedalla
G. W. Cox
Missouri Pacific
Otwerville
Coxeave
Cox
Sedalia
Fred Robertson
Missouri Parithc
Obterville
Gauls
Cooper County
Boonville
Blizzard of 1888 remembered in Nebraska and Iowa
G Diggs recalls the great blizzard of 1888 in Nebraska and northwest Iowa. A noon sheltering moment in O Neill Neb, rescuers led 400 schoolchildren to safety while seven country teachers froze to death and thousands of cattle perished. Temperature dropped from freezing to twenty below zero that night.
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Nebraska
Norshweesern
Iowa
G. Diggs
Lwaein O'Neill
Neb
Atrees
Des Moines Register and Leader
Uxorcide Loses Share in Dead Wife Estate
Jefferson City March 3 The Missouri supreme court division No 1 rules a husband who murders his wife loses his curtesy share in her real estate. The Jackson county case involves George Evans who killed his wife Lillie Maud Evans and then himself. His children from a prior marriage cannot claim his half interest. the property goes to the murdered wife's heirs. The decision was written by Judge Graves.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Division No
Supreme Court
Jackson County
George Evans
Lillie Maud Evans
Bradley Wins In Kentucky Senate Vote At Frankfort
In Frankfort Kentucky on a formal count of the vote Governor W C Bradley Republican appears elected to the United States Senate with sixty four votes to sixty for Beckham one for Allen and one for Blackburn Democrats briefly balked but returned to verify the tally Four Democrats joined sixty Republicans and Bradley secured the required majority The result sparked wild excitement as Beckham tried to rally Democrats to switch their pledges and the scene showed deep party tensions within the legislature
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Frankfort
W. C. Bradley
Senate
Beckham
Allen
Blackburn
Jater
Eixty
Bradley
Thie
Fone Democrats
Leonteville
McNutt
Charlton
Mueller
Lillard
Movle
Bradley Alxty
Heckham
House
Bradley and the Kentucky governor race in a split Democrat party
The article outlines William Bradley's rise and fall in Kentucky politics, noting his switch from Democrat to Republican, his terms as governor ending in 1399, his opposition to Goebel, and the controversial prosecutions of Powers and others. It links party infighting and personal enmities to his failed Senate bid.
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Wiliam
Bradley
Kentucky
Clos
Goebel
Eleeber
Last Call For Taxes Deadline February 20
Taxes must be paid by February 20 or they will be turned back. Delinquent notices appear in community columns and municipal alerts urging timely payment to avoid penalties.
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Hartman
Victor Patneaude
Madison St
Topeka
Kan
Knights and Ladies of Security
T Barnecott
West Aylmer
Ontario
Can
Leun
J.M. Norris
Catterlin
Sured
Hiram Percy
Gioebel
Ile
Nleb Powers
Ayer
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