Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Helps Sick Women
Thousands of American women endure daily burdens from female troubles yet suffer in silence. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is praised by Mrs F Ellsworth and Mrs W P Boyd for restoring strength to do work. For thirty years it has been the standard remedy for displacements irregularities and related pains. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ag & Boon
F. Ellsworth
Mayville
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Ashokan Reservoir to Submerge Eight Villages in Catskills
Harper’s Weekly article by William Inglis details the Ashokan Reservoir project in the Catskill Mountains for New York City water. It will flood about Manhattan Island level, reach depths up to 220 feet, hold an estimated 120 billion gallons, submerge eight villages, and cost around 162 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashokan
Catskill Mountain
New York City
Manhattan Island
Metropolis
Harper's Weekly
William Inglis
Inglis
Vernon Howe Bailey
Grape-Nuts Heralded as Superior Baby Food in Ads
A promotional letter extols Grape-Nuts as a perfect baby and family food. It recounts a mother who saved a sick infant after doctors failed, detailing a recipe using soaked Grape-Nuts juice, milk, salt, and sugar. The message ends with a slogan and a pointer to The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby
Wellville
A Thousand Revolutions a Count in a Dream
Alonso Rice in the Indianapolis News sketches a surreal rapid ascent and dizzying motion as a figure spins through time and space. The narrator describes swift progress doubling and tripling efforts, celestial imagery, and a final quiet after the whirl. Reflective, whimsical verse lingers on minutes of fame and the stubborn pull of weariness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K Sock
Alonso Rice
Indianapolis News
Quip Filled Page of Jests and Jabs Across Papers
A collage of clipped jokes and quips from various papers including Gotham Yonkerr Statesman Philadelphia Record Baltimore American Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland Leader Philadelphia Press Washington Star and Punch. The items feature detectives resumes jokes about office workers suburb living piano sales and political boasts in a rapid fire humor column style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Bobby
Tommy
Subba
Indy
Puck
Boston
Verner
Philadelphia
Clarence
Burridges
Arthur
Old Capple
Mra. Bangs
Philadelphia Press
Candies
Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Eccentric Alfred Nobel and Saint Luke in Spectator notes
The Spectator columns review Alfred Nobel’s life noting his dislike of England and quirks such as his will, patents, and use of Hagen dynamite while recalling his visits to Scotland and Paris. The piece also surveys St Luke’s traditional art and gospel imagery, contrasting St Luke as painter, doctor, poet, and Greek slave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Nobel
England
London
Royal Society
Parla
San Remo
Nobel
Scotland
Paris
Sean
Hig Laboratory
London Chronicle
St. Luke
St. Paul
David
Joseph
Matthew
Elizabeth
Jerusalem
Tuat
Anna
Navy to trial armored cruiser North Carolina again
The Navy Department consents to another test of the armored cruiser North Carolina after two failed attempts to meet contract speed. A flurry of imperial and domestic updates follows, including bids for a military dirigible, policy shifts, and various international notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
North Carolina
Mar. Department
Army
Admiral Evans
Magdalena Bay
San Diego
Metcalfanys
Brownson-Rixey
Relief
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
LaFollette
Taft
Parsons
New York
Senate
Market prices for dairy and produce items from an old register
The list details varied products including butter creamery quality pricing, beans, corn, meats, fruits, vegetables, and live stock. Entries specify unit measures such as per quart, per basket, per barrel, and per hundredweight with regional labels like Jersey and State noting several price points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Cal
Jersep
Penra
Kiefer
Jersey
Valery
Nore
Blaze
Tesses
Pacifie Grant
Veneta
Sazrieh Ss
Brussels
Bi Rudy
City Dressel Ik
Blicen
Cash Pours Into Banks as Clearing House Certificates Fall
New York City reports rapid retirement of Clearing House certificates dropping outstanding to about 19 million from a peak near 100 million. Banks rebuild reserves and deposits rise as interior money returns. Government deposits may be called, time money loans fall below two percent, and trade shows mixed revival across industries including pottery, hops, shipbuilding, and tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Sherer
The
Clearing House, Etd
Clearing House
Washington, D. C
Tve
Freedom For Filipinos Promised By President
President Roosevelt states it will take a generation or longer for full self government in the Philippines. Taft reports on nine years of American occupation, noting growth and cautious steps toward self rule, with policy continuations and recommendations for trade, land, mining, banking, and coastwise laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Congress
Roosevelt
Taft
Philippines
National Assembly
Manila Bay
Ossordon
Snys
Cuba
Philippine Assembly
Pwre-Unites-Staten
Suger
United States
McKinley
Pink Eye Epidemic Hits Naval Academy Midshipmen
An outbreak of pink eye has infected about seventy five midshipmen at Annapolis Naval Academy. The illness, though not severely harmful by itself, risks serious eye trouble if not promptly treated. It spreads rapidly with a steady stream of new cases daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Bank Closures Hit Pittsburg Firms Amid Examiners Action
The Traders and Mechanics' Bank of Pittsburg and its Treasury Trust Company subsidiary in the spine building were closed by state bank examiners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traders and Mechanics’ Bank
Pittsburg
Treasury Trust Company
Spine
Ate Bank Examiners
Multitude of 1900s Notes Span Crime to Society News
Fragmented notes cover an attempted dynamiting in Clarksville Tennessee, killings by guards, aging widows in Augusta and Oregon, Moeller’s Congress founder Theodora Birney’s death, Mme Gould reclaiming citizenship options, Myne Tinayre’s Legion of Honor reflection, a Devonshire offer to wed Mrs Pankhurst, Faneuil Hall suffrage talk, Helen Zimmerman’s daughter birth at Kylemore Castle, 546 piano mandolin pupils in Paris, Swedish hotel rates for women, Duchy of Manchester birth, Henrietta Crosman and Maurice Campbell bankruptcy petitions, Henry Miller’s California donation, and a permissive Santa Clara County homestead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mis
Eliza Allen
Augusta
Theodora W. Birney
MoUers’ Congress
Washington, D. C
State Department
Mme. Gould
Myne
Tinayre
Paris
Legion of Honor
Pankhurst
England
Cobden-Sanderson
London
Faneuil Hall
Boston
Mary’Stamsoy Lemons Wood
Oregon
United States
Duchess of Manchester
Helen Zimmerman
Clinchnnail
Kylemory Castle
Dublin
Henrietta Crosman
Maurice Campbell
Med
Commissioner Smith versus The Standard Oil Company
Analyzed critique of Commissioner Smith's rebuttal to Standard Oil Company of Indiana in rate filing dispute. Argues rates and filing practices misrepresented, condemns the commissioner's conclusions as weak, and contends the company was unfairly fined for a clerical filing error amid a broader anti trust campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Knox Smith
Moffett
Standard OU Company
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
East St. Louis
Iawfil
Alon
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Mulinois
Standard O!l Company
Tulne
Smith
Og Yeak
Inconcluatve
Ilneis
Dalton
Whitinka
Chicago and Eastern
Illnois
Dolton
Hilinata
St. Louis
East St. Louie
Commissioner of Corporations
Grand Jury
Standard Oil
Tory
Packera and
Elevator Mens of
Mogott
Landis
Alton
B Standard Oil Company
Marietta
Mberties
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Commonwealth
Tarbell
Standard
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Kenesaw Landis
Trons in the Fire and Odd Editorial Replies
A dated collage notes editors’ quips about submissions and a string of old ads. It parades a joke about a writer's phrase and a sharp comeback from a magazine editor, followed by a catalog-like barrage for seeds and a stray line on sickness.
Colombian Platinum Exports Focused in Cartagena and Barranquilla
Engineering and Mining Journal notes most Colombian platinum exports originate from Cartagena and Barranquilla, with increasing shipments passing through Buena venture. The report also mentions nine grades of national costumes compiled for officials and citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colombia
Cartagena
Barranquilla
Buenaventure
Shanghai Mercury
New Postal Ruling and Danish Power Trends
The Postmaster-General enacts a January 1 1908 rule forcing weekly papers to drop from subscribers listed twelve months or more in arrears with cancellation of the second-class small privilege for noncompliance. Denmark reports rising use of wind motors for electricity. survey notes 905 men, one over six feet tall. The piece also includes patent medicine ads and a historical note on the origin of the term zero from Spanish meaning nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postmaster-General
Esperanto Sermons to Be Preached in Constantine
A German merchant left 25 000 dollars to fund a church in Constantinople with sermons in Esperanto for all denominations. The note appeared in the London Standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottbus
Constantinople
Esperanto
London Standard
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Ataldus
Reims
Winchester
Judé Bhape
Bartholomew
Exeter
Bolivia
Street Railway Journal
South America
la Paz
Victor Smith
New York Press
WIT Burior Sarg Cacm
Church
Gotham
Yonkerr Statesman
Nell
Baltimore
Eastwood
Essex
Bishop
Urote
Late News BY Wire
Minganno
P. J
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
War Department
Hatana
Philippine Islands
Pacific Scientific Institution
Pacific Ocean
Edward Alexander MacDowell
Andrew J. Detsch
Antonio Yznaga
Duchess of
Manchester
Cumberland
Merrimac
Portland
International Independent Telephone Association
West
A. C. Lindenmuth
Richmond
Ind
Virginia
John Chambers
Amercus
Stephens
Bennington
Alfred Mohan
Minneapolis
Young Chow
Mock Hung
Moyameneing
Robert Hart
Norway
M. Hauge
Julies Louis Lewal
France
John Ilicka
United States Minster
Chile
Santiago
Lispon
China
Lemoine
Julius Wernher
Mma
Jowelers' Association of France
New
Panama Company
Antonio Dulucla
Cacorra
Naples
Black Hand
van Dyke
Courtral
Tages
Eeeb
Crooksville
Ohio
New York State
Cies
American Shipbuilding Company
Nin Kt
Californi
War Sacretory
Hayes-Lory Regio Tobacco
Clarksville
Tenn
Henry Miller
Brower
California
Wilroy
Santa Clara County
Commissioner Smith
Standard Oil Co
Railway World
Starper's Weekly
Leslie’s Weekly
Hall
Kj, Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ubia
F.J. Cnexer & Co
Druggista
Hail’s
Chicago Record-Herald
Oak
Mont
Ida
Colo
Salzer
Wrs
Renault
Book Publishing Mouse
Twonard Street
Brown
Woolford
Giant
India
Cuticura
Cally Cuticura
Lillie Wilcher
Eleventh St
Chattanooga
A. H. Gueex
Atlanta
Columon
Thio
Euclid
Arthur Wellesley
Pitt
Denmark
Ais
Dr. Kline
Fahrenhelt
Fahrenbelt
New York American
Texas
Utah
E. W. Grove
Sweden
Spain
Europe
N.y—S
Hale
Plee
Arerere
ST Jacobs Oil
W.l.douglas
SHOES
Douglas
Douglas, Mrocktou
Mas
J. Hamilton Ayers
Mun
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