The Evolution of Household Remedies Story
The article traces the rise of modern patent medicines from home made remedies once common in every family. It notes Peruna as a key example, from Mennonite use to mass production by Dr. Hartman, and mentions other tonics and teas, with cautions about sensational claims and historical context. The piece references Beebe, Vine, and Garfield Tea as contemporaneous tonics and notes a decline in the American peanut crop.
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Pennsylvania
Hartman
Pinkham
Lfe
Henry Lee
New Haven
Conn
Mia. Pinkham
E. Pinkham
Txavie
Lydia K. Pinkham
Thad
Lydia E. Inkham
W. L. Douglas
W. L Douglas
Misvca
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Douglan
Ld Uy
Wdouglas
Mrockies
Maes
Cuticura Cures Eight Year Skin Sore In One Week
Fritz Hirschlaff of New York reports eight years of skin trouble cured in seven days by Cuticura Remedies after trying three hundred dollars in remedies and several doctors. He attributes rapid relief to the products and resumes work. Dated March 20 and April 6, 1906.
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Fritz Hirschlaff
Columbus Ave
New York
N. Y
Hall
Fd. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F.J. Ciexny & Co
Druguista
Wall
Drunkenness Quip Tied to Birthday Excuse
Arthur Symons quip about drunkenness contrasted with France's vineyards in a London Globe report. A police court case notes the prisoner apologizing and claiming his birthday led to excess, with mention of taking a paragraph too much.
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Arthur Symons
France
Ifrom
London Globe
Telephone misdial at Denver hotel causes confusion
A Denver hotel operator retells a strange call she received on the Houde exchange yesterday morning at about 11. The caller asked for the So and So Hotel, claimed to be at the Such and Such Hotel, and asked for a bromide. The operator clarified the mix up and the caller hung up.
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Denver
Houde Exchanes
Denver Post
Iniquity and Kinship in a Tyrant’s Shadow
A poet questions loyalties under oppression, asking if one can be their brother’s keeper. The verse laments self centeredness and recalls a shared fate of humanity, praising charity and a universal bond beyond tyrannical rule. Henry N. Bodge, in The Christian Register, writes with a moralistic plea for communal responsibility.
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Henry N. Bodge
Christian Regiser
Squinty Smith Holds Up Plankton Home In Outlaw Feud
A rough town scene centers on Squinty Smith storming the Mitchells’ home near Plankton. He robs the host, guns, and food, and threatens vengeance after claiming he killed Frank Copley and shot a deputy sheriff. Mitchell’s wife protects the household as Smith demands eggs and lodgings while a tense standoff unfolds.
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Squinty Smith
Frank Copley
Maria
Hank
Ff Housman
Plankton
Mitchell
Smith
Mitch
Lisa
Smithy
Tayzot
Copley
Depty
Housman
Lily
Ike
Giese
Camp Comfort camped for a real vacation on New Hampshire hills
A New Hampshire pamphlet proposes a permanent hillside camp as the cure for fatigue in women. Kate J Kimball details Camp Comfort a 24 by 28 foot one story and a half house painted olive green with white trim and a front porch. It costs 1860 including land and furnishings and sits 300 miles from New York and 175 from Boston with daily trains. The owner rises at four and keeps days simple with loafing sewing walking and light housework and family meals from fresh dairy and garden produce.
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Kate J. Kimball
State Board of Agricultre of
New Hampshire
Miss Kimball
Kimball
Camp Comfort
New York
Boston
Glx
New York Tribune
Red headed girl fights outlaw in tense roadside stand off
In a Chicago Record-Herald excerpt, a tense confrontation unfolds as Mitchell and his thin wife confront an outlaw tied to a chair while Sixs, a young girl, threatens with a revolver. Sheriff Housman arrives as the scene escalates into pursuit and capture.
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Smithy
Mitchell
Smith
Siss
Tte Virago
Mitchel
Japan buys Normandy horses for new cavalry regiments
The Baltimore American notes Japan has bought and is buying large numbers of Normandy horses for the new cavalry regiments of the empire. Prize winners at trotting races are preferred. Many horses of the Breton breed are also being purchased for Japanese service.
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Japan
Empire
Wireless wave leak blamed for Lena explosion
A French wireless expert cites secondary Wertzlan wave leakage from antenna to powder magazine as the likely cause of the Lena battle ship catastrophe. Other items note Frank M. Chapman will collect Southern birds including white herons, Theobald Smith debates blood analysis, and innovations in paper gas pipes and electric barber devices.
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Lena
Frank M. Chapman
Department of Ornithology
American Museum of Natural Fliistory
New York City
A Bit of Green for Busy Homes
Text discusses easy greenery for busy people. English ivy grows in water with minimal care and can be arranged behind pictures in bottles to create a decorative winter frieze. Water is refreshed occasionally and growth guided by a pin in the bottle. Loss by Fire follows, noting 1906 US property losses exceed half a billion dollars due to the San Francisco disaster.
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Harper's Bazar
United States
San Francisco
International Society of Building Inspectors
Soudan’s Asset and Egyptian Pyramids Attract Tourists
The London views Egypt's pyramids and temples as profitable assets drawing crowds each year. Windsor Magazine notes visitors contribute about £300,000 annually along the Nile. Contractors tunneling Lookout Mountain for the Southern railway say 6,600 feet were completed in thirteen months and fifteen days of work.
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London
Egypt
Windsor Magazine
Lookout Monta
The
Southern Railway
Domestic tips blend sewing aids with kitchen fare
A mixed domestic column offers do it yourself guidance from slip cleaning and drop tables to cooking steps for sauces soups and eggs. It notes a Cuba forecast method using plant and tailed signs and comments on Chinatown real estate and sanitation in San Francisco.
Artificial Teeth Factories Reach Global Market
A Technical World Magazine excerpt alleges American artificial teeth flood markets worldwide and speculates on possible cannibal fone activity tied to dentistry. It notes drastic shifts toward mass production in factories and cites figures on Australian entries and global reach.
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America
Japan
China
India
Technical World Magazine
Chicago
Large Movement of Grain Through Chicago Markets
The article notes a dramatic drop in corn receipts last week, down 1,426,000 bushels, while wheat fell 467,000 and oats 51,000. Overall arrivals at primary points declined by 2,735,000 bushels, eighteen percent, though compared with last year there were gains of 4,707,000 and 4,528,000 bushels over five-year averages. Receipts of corn near Chicago reached nearly 40,000,000 bushels, yet stocks remain low, with Minneapolis and Duluth reporting 3171 cars of wheat this week versus 3059 the prior week and 1343 last year.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Duluth
Texas Cotton Warehouse Company charter granted
The Secretary of State grants a charter to the Texas Cotton Warehouse Company of Houston with capital stock of 2,500,000. The firm plans to erect cotton warehouses across Texas as part of a farmers' union enterprise to hold cotton.
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Secretary of State
Texas Cotton Warehouse Company of Houston
Green Bug Invasion Reaches Kansas Wheat Fields
The green bug, once causing damage in Texas and Oklahoma, has spread into Kansas wheat fields. Tudliway reports prospects exceptionally good, with Colorado & Southern Railway lines showing strong territory prospects.
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Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado & Southern Railway
Crop Germination Check Amid Cold Weather
Cold weather has checked crop germination but the season as a whole is far ahead of last year and not regarded seriously.
Bandit Steals $25,000 From St Paul Depot Office
A bandit robbed the Northern Express Company Union Depot office in St. Paul Minnesota forcing the clerk to open the safe and take a $25,000 package. The robber escaped. The story also notes rising dividends on railroads and a surge in New York arrivals boosting prices, with rail passenger traffic increasing due to rail rate changes.
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Northern Express
St. Paul
Minn
Too Many People Die In Rail Accidents This Year
The annual toll from railroad incidents rises with 176 deaths and 436 injuries in the first eight weeks of the year. Harper's Weekly notes public indifference to minor casualties, while major accidents shock travelers and railroad workers alike.
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Harper's Weekly
Edisonlike Ear Drum Marketed To Aid Deafness
A movilidad journalism excerpt describes an antiseptic invisible ear drum developed by Leonard after over thirty years of deafness. Marketed four weeks earlier, all pairs sold out quickly with another consignment arriving. Inquiries to 1161 Broadway New York City. Also notes about Garfield Ten laxative and Carmania turbine blades, plus a London Times comment on Western education expansion.
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New York
Leonard
Broadway
New York City
Pekin
Tongkin
London Times
A Missouri Woman Describes Suffering and Relief
Mrs J D Johnson of Columbia Alabama recounts two years of dropsy heart distress and kidney disorder after an operation. She praises Dean's Kidney Pills noting relief after two boxes and says the trouble has not reappeared. Sold by dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co En?io, N Y.
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J. D. Johnson
West Fickman St
Columbia
Ala
Dean
Foster-Milbury Co
Enfinio
From a clerk to steel magnate Henry Frick's rise
Henry Clay Frick rose from a small Pennsylvania coke oven and coal land to help build United States Steel Corporation. He expanded to over 20 000 ovens in Pennsylvania and much more in West Virginia, producing more coke than any single company. The update notes his humble start and vast industry impact.
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Henry Clay Frick
Pennsylvania
United States Steel Corporation
West Virginia
Brick
Coal, Coke and Alec
Grape-Nuts Cited As Remedy After Appendicitis
A NHS girl with appendicitis recovered after living on milk and later on Grape-Nuts. She described constipation and indigestion before. The product allegedly converts starch to digestible sugar, claiming weight gain from 98 to 115 pounds. Testimonial attributed to Postum Co. and promotes The Road to Wellville.
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NHS
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pligs
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