Left or Right Eyed and Corn Production in Indiana
The piece explains that most people are right eyed due to greater use of the right side, notes a minority with equal strength, and mentions long-term use strengthening a favored eye. It also observes artists and telescope use reinforcing eye strength and compares ear dominance to health. It closes with Indiana’s 1905 corn production ranking, third in the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Uug
Lydia
Pinkham
Chesterton and Beerbohm on children’s books
G K Chesterton argued most children’s stories are for grown ups. Max Beerbohm shared the view, noting a compliment from a lady who asked if children would read his book. His answer: yes, when they grow up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. K. Chesterton
Max Beerbohm
No Relief from Eczema Says Cure Found in Cuticura
A patient reports two years of eczema with failure of physicians and remedies until Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent produced immediate relief and recovery. Includes quote from C V Seltz of Tippecanoe Indiana dated Nov 15 1905. Also notes miscellaneous old ads and quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Olao
C. V. Seltz
Tippecanoe, Ind
Just Like Bridge Singaree Sparks Bee Keeping Talks
The Portland Advertiser notes a social function called singaree in bee keeping circles. The piece mentions a rheumatic subject and the bees’ activity offering a fine opportunity for the study of facial expression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Woman's Work In Missouri Eclipse Record
In Pleasant Hope an incident is recalled where a man who chopped a woman’s foot while splitting wood once set a record for failing to acknowledge that “that was what he got for doing a woman’s work.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woods
Kuugns City Ster
Paris
Arly
Madame Jusserand
New York Press
Poona Sentry Salutes Cats Believed Avatar of Governor Grant
In Poona at the government house a ruling persisted for over 25 years that any cat exiting after dark was saluted as the reincarnation of Sir Robert Grant the late Bombay governor. A priest explained the transmigration of souls and soldiers of various faiths accorded the animal military honors.
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Poona
Government House
Robert Grant
Bombay
Poone
Grant
Robert
South China Post
Raby Castle A Chronicle Of Neville Legacy And Hall Carriageway
Raby Castle, a principal Neville era fortress, retains much of its medieval aura with a later Inigo Jones south front addition. The great hall hosted Neville followers, NorthCouncil meetings, and royal visits by Charles I. A famed carriageway through the hall echoes a historic owner’s odd dream, though it harmed the castle’s windows and balcony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raby
Inigo Jones
John de Neville
House of Neville
Charles I
Scotland
Harry Vane
Edward VI
Eye depth changes with stomach state says Health Record
The Health Record notes a quote attributed to De Quincey about how eye depth and sweetness vary with appetite. It suggests that young ladies could alter their eye appearance through weeks of practice, predicting a shift in habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eimerton
de Quincey
Chinatown and immigrant labor stir Vancouver port scene
The report notes rising Chinese immigrant entry into Canada via Vancouver for mill and mine work. It mentions the Brooks Inn altar society of night policemen funding perpetual flower lights. San Francisco rebuilds its Barbary Coast on the old site, fulfilling critics who predicted quick return to old resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Vancouver
Society of Policemen
Brooks Inn
San Francisco
Chinatown
Old Seneca Falls Man Credits Kidney Pills Cure
Eighty seven year old Robert Scollan of 55 Garden St Seneca Falls N Y thanks Down s Kidney Pills for a sound back after years of pain. His daughter Mrs Goeteblous recalls his kidney trouble and ambago and says he was cured after using Dean s Kidney Pulp. The poster notes pills sold by all dealers for 50 cents through Poster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Scollan
Garden St. Seneca Falls
N. Y
Down
Goeteblous
Haa
Dean
Atrox
Poster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Winter Weather Sentences From A Fragmented Page
The readable text shows garbled weather notes and fragments mentioning wind, damp conditions, and cold. It references a persona or editor voice, but lacks coherent facts, dates, or clear events to report.
Dynamite Blunder Triggers Hazard on Railroad Cut
On a railroad excavation near Horseback, contractor Carrigan dismisses engineer Drew after a dynamite mishap. Drew improvises to save workers as a bag of charges overheats, evacuating sticks and risking his life to avert a catastrophe. Carrigan reluctantly offers Drew steady pay and control of the boiler house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Carrigan
Angelo Valente
Horrow
Murphy
Ry Jenson
Jenson
Carrigan
Drew
Valente
Peneral
Morrison Drew
Frankix
Inis
Angelo
Sian
Weston
Hix
Belukly
Het
Corrigan
Ana Dumpins
Carrion
Boss
Teldapar
Hoe
Hils
Gulf
Bollertop
Drews
Havon
Cueimeer
Bates
Hixial
Larrigan
Quotes and maxims from religious and moral authors
A collage of short quotations from Henry Ward Beecher R J Campbell Thomas Carlyle C H Spurgeon William Shakespeare Farrar Owen Wister and Allen Freeman Palmer. The excerpts extol faith perseverance and godly purpose, urging virtue, work, and gratitude.
Pie Washing on the Tablet in Yonkers Statesman
A fragmentary cartoon-style exchange questions how to eat a pie without dirtying hands. The dialogue includes playful misprints and names like Urideet Bribury and Sure, with a note about washing the pie before placing it on a tablet in Yonkers.
Dig From a Friend Fortunes and Forty Year Gap
Fragmentary dialogue hints at a friend’s query about a husband and age difference. The wording appears garbled, suggesting OCR errors while referencing a possible character dynamic and late-life reflection. No clear names or events emerge from the readable text.
Two Sides of the Case in a Dated Newspaper Parcel
The text presents a collage of opinions, social guidance, and notices covering women’s roles in business and home life, fashion notes, parental behavior, manners, and social expectations. It references readers, citizenship, economy, and culture with a stream of excerpts from various periodical sources.
Prosperity on the Increase Through Internal Commerce Growth
Washington reports 1906 shows record internal commerce with livestock at seven markets up 150000 head to 10,727. shipments of packing-house products exceed prior two years. Grain receipts at fifteen markets reach 798,921,588 bushels. Atlantic ports up 214,840,998 bushels. Anthracite coal shipments decline slightly. Great Lakes freight up to 75,610,690 net tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Bue
Department of Commerce and Labor
Atlantic
Gulf
Great Lakes
Canada
Southern Railway workers to gain wage increases
Conductors trainmen and yard men on Southern Railway will receive raises totaling between 350 000 and 400 000 dollars annually. Through freight conductors will earn 3 18 dollars per hundred miles, local freight conductors 3 80 per hundred miles, local freight brakemen 2 15 per hundred miles, and through freight brakemen 1 75 per hundred miles, with other workers receiving proportionate boosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
Supply Wheat Shortage Impacts Minneapolis Cattle Trade
The visible wheat supply is four million bushels lower, with stocks at Minneapolis and Duluth down to nine million from twenty two million last year. Had last winter’s crop not been phenomenal, shortages would be felt sooner. Cattle business remains heavy as Indianapolis reports record January cattle receipts and shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mins Neapolis
Duluth
Indianapolis
Oats Priced Near Com and Set to Rise
A brief market note explains oats at about six cents under corn per bushel while oats weigh thirty two pounds per bushel versus a thousand pounds per bushel for corn. The report hints oats may climb further despite current pricing.
Cranberry Growers Form New England Sales Company
At Wareham Massachusetts the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association plans a cranberry sales company named New England Cranberry Sales Company to regulate fruit sales. An Argentine corn estimate places this year’s corn crop at 60,000,100 bushels, vs 70,000,000 and 194,000,000 last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranberry Growers Combine
Wareham
Mass
Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association
Cranberry Sales Company
New England Cranberry Sales Company
Peruna ads and quips span la grippe cures and odd anecdotes
A collage of Peruna claims and reader letters tout the tonic for la grippe and catarrh with testimonials from Robt L Madison and others. The page also includes humorous vignettes from newspapers, jokes about a Philadelphia judge and a demijohn tale, plus ads for patent medicines and a note on English industry growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Grippe
Robt
L. Madison
A. M
Cullowhee High School
Painter
N. C
Poor Pussy and the Fur Trade in Philadelphia
A brief note on the decline of cat populations linked to the rising fur trade. Pelts fetch fifteen to twenty five cents and the industry centers in Philadelphia. Skins are sent to France for dyeing and reimported, becoming popular locally. The snippet also includes a light exchange about a man named Dadley and his supposed automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
France
Four States Corner Near Durango and Harper's Ferry
About fifty miles from Durango Colorado a point marks where Colorado Utah New Mexico and Arizona meet at a corner allowing momentary cross of all four. A similar scene exists at Harper's Ferry where trains stop revealing Maryland Virginia and West Virginia in view. The Unhistoric Acts quotes George Eliot on hidden deeds shaping the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durango
Col
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Arizona
Harper's Ferry
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
George Eliot
Grape-Nuts Endorsed by Mother for Health and School Brains
A mother endorses Grape-Nuts for her children and family health praising fewer medicines and doctor visits. She cites improved digestion, brighter minds in a 15 year old student, and routine breakfasts of toast with Grape-Nuts and milk, promoting Postum Co. messaging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G Byvan
Postum Co
Wattle Creek
Mich
No Panic Feared in American Market Says London Dispatch
A London dispatch quotes financiers who deny panic in the U S market while admitting discrimination against American stocks. The horse sale at Sacison Square, New York, concluded with receipts of 30 head at 82 dollars each, averaging a notable price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sacison Square
New York City
Prices and shortages hint at wartime scale in textile market
A general resume outlines high textile prices and scarce supplies, noting a wartime level of sev erity not seen since the Civil War. References to wheat prices in Chicago and mounting costs illustrate broader market pressures and inflation.
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Lydiae, Pinkham
Wdia, E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Lynn
Moss
Shee
Mra
Lydia B. Pinkhim
Ier
Thicherer
Mearest Yous Gilibaad
Cheado
Ett Cote
Dolphin
John T. Lente
D Dros, Co
Hitburgh
Nstlocel Laad & Gil Co
Omee
Gwan
Atchison Globe
Hall
D. Cunney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Wrat &Thuax
Watoiia
Kinnax & Manvin
O. Hoall
Old People’s Books
Cutleura
Baedeker
Italy
Wwe
London Academy
Booter and Salter
Pater
Boston Transcript
Like
Bridge
Woman's Work
Missouri
Hindoos
Bat
Ana
Lake Ma
Hwan
Henry Ward Heecher
R. J. Campbell
Thomas Carlyle
C. H. Spurgeon
Ife
Wil- Han Shakespeare
John M. Suh
Athey
Farrar
Owen Wister
Gol
Fi Wes
Freeman Palmer
Mark
Rays WM
New York
God
Beauty
New Haven Register
Christiania
Norway
Presa
New York Tribune
Weaver
Margaret Forderer
Miss Forderer
George A. Welsh
Por
Fashion Notes
India
Tividus
Mohanmedips
Lilly
St. Paul
Baston Trenesriot
Ligh ‘Apoth
Einglish Chauveura
Erican Chewhng Garay
Lobe Eet
Western
MURS
Aergey—Vaney Oy
Omar
Cremning
Ben Davin
Cranber
Turkoyr
State
Orange Co
Colery
Olera
Caulflower
S. O — Hays
Brock
Beever
Am Jalves
Peruna
Mia
Jennig W. Gilmore
White Oak
Ind
Ter
Ia Grippe
Perrin
Mannlin
Jane Uift
Athena
Ohio
Hig
Bartella
Altoona
John
Kunnel
Atlanta Constitution
St. Louis
Victor Ripen
Madison Bt
Opehn Kan
Grippe
Pacumonia
Barnecolt
Weat Aylmner
Ontario
Can
Pneumona
Ja.grippe
la Gripps
Chas
Welly
Delaware
Jagrippe
Duke of Marlborough
Caesar
Caesarea
Socrates
Kansas City Times
Ie Rose
St. Vitue
Kline
H.R. Wine
Arch
California
W.grove
Russia
Winslow
England
Fipidemio Jaterrh
Da’dley
Philadelphia Press
Als
Beltimore American
Chicago
Hale
Pixe
J. Hamilton Ayers
Dor
BOO Pub
Toulse
Leautrd Sn
Patsy Voultry
Neers
Bent
Bock Publishing House
Leonanl Street
Kew
Oek Chr
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