Woman's Health Ad From Lydia Pinkham’s Medicine
Milwaukee reader Mrs. Esra Lusr endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female trouble and back pain after doctors advised surgery. The letter claims the remedy cured her and urges others to seek guidance from Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn, Massachusetts, whose advice is offered free.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Esra Lusr
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company of
Mags
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lydia I. Pinkham
Is. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Dean's Kidney Pills End Urinary Disorder Claims
A Richmond Virginia reader reports relief from bladder inflammation and swelling after using Doans Kidney Pills. The ad credits a doctor with diagnosing inflammation and notes prior bedfast illness, urging purchase at 65 cents per box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Dean
W. W. Gosden
Marshall St
Richmond
Baya
Doan
Dean's
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Ti Mourning and Parlor Musings Across the Day
The Washington Star records a scene as Robert Goelet chats at Fifth Avenue during a parade while a widow’s change in hair color sparks amused remarks. A Ellicott City anecdote reflects on class bias and charity, with a Methodist bishop’s wife mocked by a housewife. A Minneapolis Journal note jokes about the gap between ideal home life and real finances. A statistic in China notes eight billion yards of cloth needed to clothe people, enough to carpet paths to the moon or span the distance from New York to Chicago.
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Robert Goelet
Fifth Avenue
Tabb
Ellicott City
China
Patc
Moon
New York
Chigugo
Poem Fragment From Ainslee's Magazine Passage
A fragment from Theodosia Gartleon quoted in Ainslee's Magazine hints at longing and distance. The line references hearing a distant lover or friend across vast spaces, evoking nostalgia and farewell.
Lottie's Windham-Experience Seeks a Dance Night
Lottie Brett urges a Windham concert outing with the glee and mandolin clubs at Windham College. Chaperon Miss Gordon restricts after the show, but Lottie and others lobby to stay for a late dance, prompting a hurried car ride and a last-minute scramble as three girls vanish from the group.
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Lottie Brett
Miss Gordon
Lothie
Bowdoing Glee
Mandolin Clubs
Windham
Lillian
Walker
Edith Wallace
Winthrop Heights Seminary
Mandolin Club
Lillian Walter
Lottie
Doctor Manning
Ansious
Remai
Mutt
Jane” Dennilson
Aunt May
Edith
Brett
June Dennison
Edft. Wallace
Tathie
Dan
Lottie Brett Braves Five Mile Midnight Walk
Lottie Brett disobeys and walks five miles home at night after curfew. She battles fear along dark country roads, hides from a passing carriage, and reaches the seminary exhausted. Doctor Manning notes no extenuating circumstances but praises self punishment as lesson.
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Lottie
Lottia
Doctor Manning
Miss Winthrop
Lottle
Miss Gordon
Jane
May
Dolor Manning
Lothe
Windham
Lottie Brett
Quotations on character and society from Chicago News
A collage of maxims critiquing vice virtue and manners from Pointed Paragraphs. It references Cordelia and rain checks, elopements, charity, ho mendicant behavior, and fowl play. The piece cites King Vitt or Emmanuel and General Woodford presenting Italy with a gold medal marking the Hudson exploration anniversary.
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King Viet
Emmanuel Hes Ores
Stewart L. Woodford
Italy
Hudson River
Rural Market Prices and Livestock Listings Update
A dense listing of 1999 market items includes fruit vegetables and farm produce with prices for oysters kale spinach onions peppers tomatoes and cabbage. It also lists live stock rates for beeves calves sheep lambs and hogs with regional price ranges and unit measures across state and Pacific Coast markets.
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Ihennery
Hennery
Apples—Baldwin
Ben Davis
Pacific Coast
Maine
Guain
Duluth
Where the Money Has Gone Chicago Land Speculation and Ready Capital
In Chicago and the West money is tight with banks absorbing funds for home ventures. Land speculation spurs lending at loan-to-value ratios seen in recent years, while bankers and New York Exchange officials work to curb forged bills of lading as fraud cases surface. Bananas ship counts, rice acreage drops, and milk cheese demand wanes amid high prices. Fresh fowl demand is limited, hop markets stay quiet, and corn, twine, canned fish, and California fruits show varied shifts. Weather remains favorable for wheat.
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Chicago
West
Bankers’ Association
New York Cotton Exchange
Knight, Yancey & Co
Steele, Miller & Co
South
Rope of Ocnus and a Greek painter lesson
A fragment from a London Globe retells Polygnotus the fifth century B C Greek painter who allegedly gave life to figures and painted the rope of straw with a donkey biting it, illustrating thrift leading to prosperity. interleaved are lines from Mrs Jones and Mr Jones from the Newark Star about bringing Young Yabsley home for supper amid household woes.
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Polygnotus
Pliny
Ocnus
Oenus
London Globe
Mr. Jones
Young Yabsley
Munyon Paw Paw Pills Free Sample Mail Offer
A 1909 style advertisement promises free samples of Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills for stomach and liver ailments. The text extolls quick cures for constipation and indigestion, cites the Paw-Paw fruit basis, and lists the Philadelphia address for requests. It also includes assorted unrelated clippings about census humor, eczema remedies, and a bartender anecdote.
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Munyon
Homoeopathic Home Remedy CO
G3d
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
Original Norris town preacher humor in prayer
A Philadelphia Methodist recalls an eccentric Norris town preacher who, during a long Sunday night prayer, listed his misfortunes and woes and then asked God to also try him with wealth. The anecdote is attributed to Bishop Moss and cited by the St. Paul Dispatch.
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Moss
Philadelphia
Norristown
St. Paul
Best is best and coffee drinkers praise Postum
A Mississippi teacher testifies that quitting coffee and using Postum improved her health. She describes nervousness, moodiness, and heart palpitations when drinking coffee, and notes calmer days, better mood, and improved classroom conduct after switching. The letter claims Postum eased symptoms and boosted well being.
EXTRA SESSION CALLED OVER PRIMARY REFORM IN 1910
Albany. Governor Hughes issues proclamation for a special session on June 20 to push nationwide direct primary reforms. Legislators, including Speaker Wadsworth and opposition leaders, expect no change in stance as Hinman-Greene and Cobb omissions failed previously. Cobb and Grady receive silver gifts as session adjourns.
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Albany
Senate
Assembly
Nhecame
City of
Charles E. Hughes
Wadsworth
Cobb
White
Grady
Illinois Senator Indicted for Perjury in Bribery Inquiry
Springfield New Jersey reports State Senator D W Holtslaw of Iuka Illinois faces a perjury indictment from Sangamon County Grand Jury over alleged bribe discussions with J W Knox of Derby Desk Company Boston. A letter purportedly from Holtslaw to Knox dated January 18 1910 is cited. Holtslaw returned from a missionary convention in Baltimore as Illinois delegate and was among Democrats who backed Lorimer for Senate.
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Springfield
D. W. Holtslaw
Iuka
Sangamon County Grand Jury
Illiois
Holtslaw
J. W. Knox
Chicago
Derby Desk Company
Boston
Jowest
House
Senate
Burke
Knox
Baltimore
Illinois
Tle
Willian Lorimer
Jury drinks to evidence in Utah case amid hung verdict
In Salt Lake City a district court jury nullified its guilty verdict and made it impossible to proceed to another jury. The druggist Voull faced trial for selling Nynor withon Tenses. A whisky exhibit was requested, found empty, and the jury was dismissed. No motion for a new trial was made, and the State will have to dismiss the case for lack of chief evidence. Meanwhile news notes report a boarded American schooner near Bluefields and a possible Kitchener appointment as India’s viceroy, plus a record gun salute by the South Carolina at Norfolk.
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Salt Lake
Utah
1M _Voull
Nynor Withon
No Short Skirts Posters to Be Printed Por the Public Gate
Cincinnati reports a convention pledge by Clarence EB Raney of the International Poster Printers Association to ban posters with risqué content. Delegates echoed the stance aiming to curb objectionable imagery in public postings.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Clarence EB
Raney
International Poster Printers’ Association of
United States
Canada
Rane
Humorous Bits From Sail and Street
A collection of brief jokes and anecdotes from various sources, including Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock III party tales, a Scottish race story, a Scotsman at a horse event, a Scottish laird’s butler quip, and light exchanges about mistaken seasons and car mishaps. The pieces mix humor about luck, marriage, and daily life with stray wartime newspaper humor from classic papers.
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Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas
Sandy
Piking Around and Eyewash in a London Street
A mosaic of old headlines and ads. The piece references a boss shopping for an insurance company and banks, a steel plant, and a railroad, paired with eye salve ads, a London water figure, and teething syrup. It ends with commentary on Roosevelt, India, and a review of Indianapolis News series on unrest in India.
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Wall Street
Puck
Roosevelt
England
India
S Soid
Indianapolis News
Indiana Catholic
Mouse Heart Beats Counted At High Speed
The Scientific American notes that Buchanan used an ingenious electrical meter to count mouse heartbeats, about seven hundred per minute. The mouse’s heart pushes more than eleven times a second, far exceeding the human rate, while the elephant’s heart, beating once every two seconds, seems slow in comparison.
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Scientific American FY
Buchanan
New York Press
Yancheon For Travelers Luncheon At Grand Central
A travel luncheon offered by Yancheon For Travelers at Grand Central Station New York City features four sandwiches olives cake fruit and a napkin packed in a portable box priced at thirty five cents The concept echoes England where filled lunch baskets are common on railways though less widespread here The note remarks Sunday and holiday excursions boost field demand in big cities during summer.
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Grand Central Station
New York City
England
Railway Age Gazette
Massachu setts Losing Sheep as Dogs Drive Flocks Down
State agriculture officials report Massachusetts has transformed from a sheep raising state to a dying industry. From 1860 to now the flock shrank from 188,650 to about 26,000 as dogs frighten and deter owners from keeping sheep. Proposals to curb dogs face sympathy for canines and lack of legislative support.
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Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture
J. Lewis Ensworth
Boston Transcript
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Botti. Creamery- Western
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Tate
Bingler
Kok
California
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Kok OK
Kansas City Journal
Baby
J. Fish
Ella M. Fish
Vernon, Ky
Eepy
Patrick Grogan
Roxbury
Crowley
Mr. Grogan
Childre
Postum
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Madriz
Bluefields
Nicaragua
South Carolina
Norfolk
Scott Taylor
Oxmoor
Ala
Birmingham
Alk
Jesse Matson
Pelham
Matson
Taylor
Acton
Tintold Tiewn
Cleetsie Hecht Company
Utica
N.Y
Walt
Finneta
Murarea
Teyac
Ciitizen
Washington Star
the Beer Register
Jie
Jim
New York Sun
Marine Eye Remedy Co
London
Winslow
Post
Postum Cereal Co. Ltd
Buttle Creek, Mich
Yancheon
Wakefield
Chicago Tribune
West Africa
Europe
Germany
California Fig Syrup Co
Standard Oil Company Incorporated
M. H. Grhen
Atlanta
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M. Y
Allen
Crescent Mtg. Co
Geattles
Paxton Toilet Co
Maas
Nellance
Snear
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10Th St
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Nelia
Cate
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