The Evolution of Household Remedies in Patent Medicines
In early America every family kept home made medicines such as herb teas laxatives and tonics passed by word or note. The patent medicine business grew from this practice with doctors refining remedies for mass use and advertising them for home aid. Peruna began as a Mennonite remedy then became a commercial product by Dr Hartman. It is advertised for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis and catarrhal infections and many families trust his judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deaton
Pennsylvania
Hartman
Siberian Ex Explorer Recounts Harsh Far North Diet
A fragment from the Minneapolis Journal recalls a Siberian prisoner’s cold two weeks in a hut with bitter food. It includes raw walrus, frozen weeds in seal oil, and thick walrus hide as the meal sequence amid minus forty temperatures. Also notes King Edward’s quip, a Yukon caribou herd movement near Dawson, and various old notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
Aimilar
Minneapolis Journal
Truth and Quality Appeal to the Well Informed in Every Walk
The advertisement extols Syrup of Figa and Elixir of Senna as among the best laxatives. It claims they cleanse and relieve internal organs without debility or dosage increases, act pleasantly and naturally, and are physician approved. Genuine products are sold by the California Fig Syrup Co. and major druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
Human Machine Efficiency Revealed In Bicycle Box Study
A Wesleyan U experiment placed a rider in a sealed box with a fixed bicycle to measure energy input as food and drinks were consumed. The study found the rider produced 21 percent of fuel energy as electricity, with air resistance and internal body work consuming the rest, and compared human efficiency to engines. It notes a six day race showing a top athlete delivering high output, while internal functions added energy costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pross
Atwater and Rosa
Wesleyan University
Bia
Prof
Atwater
Doubtisa
Scientific American
La Follette Names Rich Men Who Rule the Nation
Senator La Follette in the final installment of his speech against the Aldrich Currency bill denounces a small group of powerful financiers led by Morgan and Rockefeller. He lists fourteen top figures, plus a broader class of wealthy operators and directors, asserting they control U.S. wealth and policy and demand a congressional currency commission to back broader reform.
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Rockefeller
Morgan
Senator la Follette
Aldrich
John Moody
Moody
la Follette
Alter Morgan
Rockefellers
W.K. Vanderblit
E. H. Harriman
August Belmont
Thomas F. Ryan
Frederick Weyer- Louis
W. H. Moore
Jacob Schiff
Combine
C Dodge
C. H. McCormick
Stephen $. Palmer
Brayton Ives, Co
A. Peabody
Gi. F. Baker
J. FB. Dryden
Post
H. Taylor Payne
Hubbard
G. G. Haven
W. J. Oakman
F. J. Bere
At of the Nest
E Divin
Marston
G. W. Perkins
John
Sterling
Otto H. Kuhn
James F. Jarvis
A. W. Krotch
Paul Morton
H. C. Deming
Charles H. Russell
Chauncey M. Depew
Olver IH. Payne
W. S. Webb
James 13. Forgan
Moses Taylor
Francis M. Bacon
J. A. Stillman
Luther Kountze
H. P. Whitney
PD. Cravath
Levi P. Morton
H. H. Vreeland
W. Woodbury Langden
C. W. Morse
Charles M. Schwab
E. F. C. Young
C. S. Fairchild
G. J. Whitson
Congress
Beveridge
Captain Made Soldier Parade at Barracks With Bad Boy Placard
Captain Dudley of the Fourteenth Cavalry at Boise Barracks Idaho was court-martialed for cruelty for forcing a young soldier to parade three hours with a placard reading Bad Boy. He was sentenced to four months confinement at his post.
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Washington, D. C
Clark P. “Dudley
Fourteenth Cavalry
Boise Barracks
Idaho
Dudley
Millionaire Walsh Pushes Bureau of Mines Plan
Colorado mine owner Thomas F. Walsh told the House Mines and Mining Committee that millions in radium gold and silver are wasted due to poor mining methods. He urged a federal bureau of mines and the panel agreed to report the bill, suggesting its passage.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Bureau of Mines
Hat Question in Oklahoma at Chickashe
The Chickashe Christian church held a vote on whether women should wear hats during services. Women were not allowed to vote, so men carried the election in favor of no hats.
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Oklahoma
Christian Church
Chickashe
Kansay City
Astor kin dominates diverse 1910s sports circuit
William Waldorf Astor's son Pon leads in English racquets. W Gardner loses to H A Wright in national amateur billiards. John Branson sets Duluth ski record at 131 feet. Billy Papke defeats Hugo Kelly in Milwaukee boxing. Kentucky to host 74 racing days per Racing Commission allotments. Peter Latham defeats Bustice Miles in Racquet and Tennis Club exhibition. Calvin Demarest sets world pool record at 170. Warren K Wood beats John Porter in Pinehurst golf final. Angelus wins New Orleans City Park Derby track record 2.043-6. Jay Gould defeats Peter Lathan in exhibition court tennis at Tuxedo Park.
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William Waldorf Astor
Pon
W. Gardner
H. A. Wright
Duluth
Minn
John Branson
Billy Papke
Spring Valley
Hugo Kelly
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kentucky
The
Racing Commission
Peter Latham
Bustice Miles
Racquet and Tennis Club
Tuxedo
J. Ferdinand Poggenburg
Baliime Billard
Calvin Demarest
Warren K.-Wood
John J. Porter
Pittsburg
Pinehurst
Burlew & O'Neil
Angelus
Whitney
New Orleans
Meellek
Tuxedo Park
N. Y
Jay Gould
United States
England
Peter Lathan
Ieta
Tuxada Tennis and
Taofquet Club
Fragments of 1907 fruit and produce prices list
A dense OCR readout lists weights and prices for fruits vegetables and poultry including cranberries strawberries celery lettuce cabbage tomatoes and onions. It includes figures for blueberries peaches squabs dressed poultry hogs and lambs with unit prices per bushel crate basket or pound across a regional market.
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Boone San
Jersey
Iss
Pacific Coast
Anart
Saidaras
Beeres
Calvea
Sheen
Agreement for Cheap Eggs Sets Spending Cap in 1908
Pittsburg bankers and New York Chicago financiers agree to cap stored eggs at ten cents a dozen to curb prices nationwide. Boston Philadelphia Cincinnati and others to be informed. about three hundred million dozen stored eggs affected. Pittsburg dealers plan to store three hundred thousand cases in April May and limit prices to fifteen cents per dozen. New York stores 1,500,000 cases. Meat prices rise in Kansas City markets with pork exceptions. Beef and lamb up several cents per pound. fat cattle scarce in the Southwest. Money glut abroad prompts talk of discount rate cuts. no gold exports. Livestock prices up in Chicago but market movement slows. April dividends to drop, rail freight claims rising. Cabbage demand weak. Maine potatoes sell briskly around $2.00 per bag. Box cars ordered for grain shippers. sugar prices up twenty cents per 100 pounds.
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Pittsburg
New York
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Southwest
Baby eczema cured after Cuticura treatment
A Kansas mother recalls a three month facial eczema on her one month old baby. After failing a doctor’s three month course, Cuticura Soap and Ointment plus Resolvent cleared the condition. The child is now two and a half with no recurrence. May 14 and June 12, 1907.
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M. L. Harris
Alton
Kan
Kidney Trouble and Backache Relief From Dean’s Pills
Mrs. Marie Sipfe of Helena Montana reports three years of backache weakness and kidney pain eased by Dean’s Kidney Pills. She purchased four boxes for a complete lasting cure at 650 cents per box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo.
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Marie Sipfe
Miller St
Helena
Mont
Dean
Fostere Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Responsibilities For Wrecks Require Photographs Details By Railways
Nebraska state railway commission requires railroads to provide photographs and complete wreck details. Details of equipment and the railroad’s opinion on accident cause must be supplied to fix responsibility. Public Service Commission also demands full accident details. Thimbles origin traced from English thumb-bell to Dutch invention with materials listed, including iron brass gold silver ivory and glass.
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Nebraska State Railway Commission
Public Service Commission
China
England
Blazed Her Way Through Alaska Bride Tale
An Alaska story features a man who marries an Indian bride from near Chilcoat pass and takes her to a distant city like Montreal. She searches four stories above street level for him after he leaves to deal with a dog, grows lonely, and forges a path back using trailblazing skill and quiet resolve. The tale closes reflecting on education and the saying The superior man is evident in his conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Gordon
Gordon
Kansas City Journal
Alaska
Chilcoat Pass
Montreal
Good Modern Story Sparks City Editor Demand
The frantic scene describes a runaway carriage with wild horses, a crashing crash, and a hero rescue as a police officer intervenes. An auto crash follows with a driver killed, vehicle wrecked, and the machine badly damaged. The city editor orders a column for the first page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ad I Coud
John H. McNeely
Breeches Story and Tolstoy's Dante Critique
The tale recounts General Jackson’s mistaken introduction after the Seminole War when tailor Ballard claimed credit for making his breeches and was dubbed Major Breeches. It notes eight million telephone girls and mocks busy fines. Tolstoy criticizes Dante as cloudy and unintelligible in a separate note.
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Jackson
Washington
Ballard
Tenison
Jta
New York Press
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Caribou
Yukons
Sixty Mile River
Dawson
Tacoma
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo, O
Thenystem
Hal
Toledo
Ohio
T. J. Cheney & Co
Prupaita Price
E. W. Grove
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Rene Nache
Exlet
Fagin
Charles Dickens
Strainer
Oliver Twist
Scotland Yard
London
Free
Grace Church
Barbers’ College
West Broadway
Canal Street
Atelier
Great Britain
Wall Street Journal
Wisconsin
Serenata Tritz
Harry Tritz
Willams
Morris Stern
Williams
Mil‘awaukee
Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver
Sutton, Coldfield
Lelixstowe
St. Andrews
Taft
New York World
Herr Ganz
Bavarian Automobile Tub
Hag
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Munich
Aldrich Hill
Wreck
Johnson
New York Evening Journal
LA Folette
Standard Oil-Morgan
Mr. Morgan
No. 26 Broadway
Hill
Standard Oil
Gould
Morse and
Heinze
Smelter Trust
St. Louis
William Hurley
Beattie
Bob Unglaub
Tommy Leach
Cleveland
Griffith
Allanin
South
Johnstone
Pulliam
Navin
Joss, Turner
Birmingham
Bal Efinchman
Lafole
Macon
St. Laws Erlties
Bert Blue
Columbuag
Taf
Lew Criger
Chicago American Club
Alyah Williams
Terre Haute
Outhelder
Dennty Sullivan
Willamsportriends
Bob Unglauh
Boston Americans
Frank Taporte
Little Rock
Christy Mathawson
Mike Donlin
Mike
Texas
Frank Bowerman
Reading
the World of Sport
Western
Caudney
Lima
Cal
Akims
Fall
Bank of Sugland
New York City
Maine
Theebraska Railroad Commission
Ke & Brisk
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ONDON
Enels
Wallace Insersiona
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Petticont
Washington Flace
Dept. X
Mr. Gribble
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St. Vitus
Kiine
H.R. Kiine
Arch St. Phila
Woolford
Sawtelle
Mra. Winslow
California
Confucius
General Jackson
Louisville Courier- Journal
Count Tolstoy
Dante
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lilian Toes
Los Ashard
Katharine Craig
Lafayette Bt
Denver
Lydia E. Pinokbao
Miss Marl
Alealtan
Pinkham
Ellen Ote
Eri Dye
Méhoia
Brown
Nicaragua
Bargal
Strout CO
Nassau &T
THEF
Bae Bo
Wearlanper
Anc
Postpallon
Leonard St
N. Y. City
Eec
J. Hamilton Ayers, A. M
Peereeres Toe Pepe
IEEE
doca_sis
Book Publishing House
Egypt
Marinus
Tyre
New York American
Pike
Thompson
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