The Art of Proper Drug Blending and Its Limits
A discussion on how the effectiveness of remedies hinges on precise proportioning and harmonious combination of ingredients. It cites Dr. Hartman and Peruna, arguing experience guides balance more than chemistry, and notes variability in stability and taste. The piece also mentions a quoted billing dilemma about returning a twenty seven cent check due to collection costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartman
Pharmaclats
Har
National Association of Credit Men
German inventor Ruhmer on wireless voice transmission
A German inventor E Ruhmer claims an apparatus using Poulsen high frequency arc to transmit spoken words by electric waves. Changes in voice impressed on the arc alter wave frequency and intensity. with a two foot aerial wire audible words were received forty yards away. Ruhmer expects longer antennas will send speech over several miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Rubkmer
Ruhmer
The Musical Fly Incident in the Orchestra
A conductor finds a dead fly on the first violin sheet during a rehearsal. He scolds the French violinist for a supposed error, but the musician shrugs that the fly was there and he still played it. The exchange is reported with a humorous tone.
Boy robs burglar proof safe. hairpin used
A New Jersey teen allegedly opened a burglar proof safe with a hairpin. The report hints the thief may be a woman in disguise, suggesting the instrument could enable such deception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Cleveland
Women’s Opportunities in Education Across Schools
The article notes no U S school is fully closed to women and many institutions exclude men more than women, highlighting evolving access for female students and ongoing gender barriers in higher education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Good-Natured Again After Grape-Nuts Change
A Montana man attributes long indigestion and nerves to poor blood and eyes. He reports better digestion and sharper nerves after using Grape-Nuts daily, saying he feels younger and kinder and would not give up the health gained. Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan. There is a reason. Read The Road to Wellville in the packages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Lute
Shewcase
Ulvon
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Personal testimonial touts Cuticura for severe skin itch relief
A wartime veteran Edward Wowell describes long lasting itchy skin sores, bandaged hands and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap ointment and Resolvent for six days the itching ceased and sores disappeared. The ad cites other remedies and mentions a public health notice about Catarrh cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Wovell
U. S. Infantry
Fort Crook
Nebraska
Too Much For the Class
A New York Tribune snippet features a substitute teacher prompting a mental arithmetic problem. Students request apples instead of oranges, underscoring a classroom moment about simple sums and practical counting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Gladys
Winifred
New York Tribune
Choice Couple Stores a Stuffed Great Dane Named Bowie
In a curious tale, Mr and Mrs Choice mourn their tall brindle Great Dane Bowie who died. They stuffed him to deter burglars and placed him by the door to frighten visitors. The mounted dog kept criminals at bay, becoming a feared deterrent in the neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Choice
Bowie
Mr. Choice
Dowie
What do you know of the character of this man
Witness testifies at a police court hearing. He declares his view of the man’s character with emphatic certainty, saying it is unbleachable. The exchange reflects dramatic courtroom dialogue reported in the American Home Monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Home Monthly
Inventor of Eau de Cologne and its receipts
An early claim traces eau de cologne to Italian Giovauni Farhna who allegedly offered to sell his formula for 3760 in 1803. Years later Farina’s heirs reportedly sold the receipt for 200000, with New York date noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eau de Cologne
Giovauni Farhna
Farina
Yainly
Moldavia in revolt as agrarian riots spread against Jews
Telegraph reports from Bucharest describe a widespread Moldavia revolt with 400 farms devastated and 10,000 Jews homeless. Romanian troops and 30,000 reserves were mobilized. attacks and plunder hit towns like Bacau and Dorobe, with significant casualties and mass emigration to Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Bucharest
Moldavia
Austria
Chika
Cantacuzene
Kapa
Rosett
Bacau
Berlad
Elizabeth I
Carmen Sylva
Dorobe
Cucuteni
Belgestle
Fokshanu
Sulice
Romania
Dangeni
Fischer
Costenal
Juster
Bucoce
Vasasco
Ex Senator Burton Freed After Federal Case
Ex senator Joseph R. Burton of Kansas is freed on good behavior after serving time for violating a federal statute by acting as a paid representative for a St Louis get rich quick scheme. He leaves Ironton for Abilene and plans to issue a statement accusing Roosevelt and the Sugar Trust of persecution. The $2500 fine remains unpaid and will be held as a civil judgment.
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Ironton
Mwo
Joseph R. Burton
United States
Kansas
Roosevelt
Sugar Trust
Ile
Abilene
Kan
Burton
St Louis
Kidnaper Sentenced In Beasley Murder Case
Joshua Harrison aged sixty a brother in law of former Governor Jarvis was convicted at Elizabeth City North Carolina of kidnaping and murdering Kenneth Beasley son of a former state senator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joahua Harrison
Jarvis
Elizabeth
Kenneth Beasley
Disorders in Rumanian and society notes mix
The article reports Rumania deploying an army corps to crush peasant and Hebrew unrest at Botosani with fatalities. It also profiles notable women and society topics from the era, including Mrs. Kate Wilson Maine lobster catcher, Colony Club opening in New York, and charity and bridal news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumania
Kate Wilson
Maine
Colony Club
New York City
Sage
Russell Sage Charity Foundation
Artur W. Depue
Connecticut
Stamford
Ielen Gould
Fort Scott
Kansas
Mme
Patt
Taft
United States
Mary A. Sanders
Oklahoma
Railway and political notes from Washington and abroad
A roundup of federal moves and international events includes: new ICC testimony duties outside Washington. shortages of twine at the Postoffice. Roosevelt and Harvard ties noted. legal actions on Pittsburgh Allegheny case. railroad leadership shifts. Chinese boycott suppression. war department rifle use in Brownsville. Ute and Cheyenne relations. Koehter case appeal. Puerto Rico legislative activity and self-government drive. stock market losses in New York society. immigration concerns at Ellis Island. naval and diplomatic developments across Europe and Latin America. and various cultural and academic appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Postoffice Department
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard
Juasticn Harfard
Supreme Court
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Mellen
Lac New York, New Haven
Hartford
White House
State Department
War Department
Brownsville
Texas
Interior Department
Utah
Roosevelt
Lewis M. Koehter
Fourth Cavalry
Philippines
Leonard Wood
New York
Ellis Island
Warbor
Vestal
Brooklyn
Edna Howard
Afa
Finley
Southern Railway
Atlanta
South
Harry Pratt Judson
University’ of “Chicago
Charles A. McCue
Michigan Agricultural College
Delaware College
Harry Knowlton
Joy Line
Larchmont
Providence
NR. I
Castro
Venezuela
Caracas
Great Britain
Russia
Persia
House of Lords
M. Berthelot
Paris
Dempster
Jebba
Prawie Point
England
United Kingdom
Duma
Journalists’ Association of
Budapest
H. H. Asquith
House of Commons
San Francisco
Ernesto Tornquist
Argentina
Transvaal
von Budow
Reichstag
Stolberg- Wernigerode
Horace Rayner
William Whitely
London
Ronge Walt
Saint-Cloud-Porte-d’Orleans
France
Porte de Saint-Cloud
Vladimir Mikolaievitch Lamsdorff
Market goods and poultry prices from a historic listing
A dense OCR of a market price sheet shows fruits vegetables poultry and live stock with per unit prices. Items include berries, apples, pears, potatoes, tomatoes and greens along with fowls turkeys ducks geese capons squabs and other poultry plus grain and oats and live stock rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Turkova
Tay
Sthaw
Colery
Leeds
Duluth
Wheat and corn holdings of farmers reach new highs
Washington reports the Bureau of Statistics notes farmers hold 1,298,000,000 bushels of corn and 206,644,000 bushels of wheat, with 44.3 percent and 28.1 percent of last year’s crops still in their hands. Railroads question if farmers are too rich or unable to ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DC
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Shipyards Busy Across the Nation
Shipyards nationwide run at full blast with over a year of work ahead. A green bug threatens wheat prospects in Kansas and crop tendencies shift in Ohio Indiana Michigan and parts of final improvements. Spring brings higher demand for good serviceable big horses as the market improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Finais
Bonilla Under Pressure as Central American War Winds Down
Managua reports Choluteca captured and Bonilla fled by boat as Nicaraguan forces, aided by Honduran revolutionists, pursue the president. The war's end is debated with calls for U.S. and Mexican mediation to enforce neutrality by El Salvador and Guatemala.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Bon- Ma
Bonilla
Santon Ramirez
Cholatdea
Honduras
Choluteca
Nicaraua
Tegueigalpa
Salvador
Maraita
Sula
San Padre
la Esperanza
Canayagua
Washington, D. C
Bonicia
Washington
Corea
Boni
Nicaraga
United States
Mexico
Guatemala
Senor Corea
Root
Senor Creel
Students In Train Wreck Kill Six In Los Angeles
A Santa Fe special train carrying USC and Occidental College students collided head on with an outbound limited train in Los Angeles. Four killed and seventeen injured, with several fatally. Victims named include C. G. Franklin A. Wi Edw ard e Major C Gall and Fred Hodgson. Locomotives and cars were demolished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Fe
Claremont
C. G. Franklin
University of Southern California
A. Wi. Edwarde
C. Gall
Fred Hodgson
Occidental College
Nine Year Old Boy Takes His Own Life Near Albany
Howard Shutter aged nine a bright Sel kirk schoolboy was found hanging in a barn on the Niver farm ten miles from Albany. The discovery was made by his father who works on the farm. He had been playing about that day and appeared well in spirits. Family members cannot explain his decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Howard Shutter
Selkirk
Charles Niver
Niver
Howard
Suicide pact ends tragedy in Jersey City home
Just released from an asylum for the theme in Snakeville No J, An drew Lindeblad a forty two year old watchmaker of Jersey City killed himself and his wife a forty year old in their home. They had lived happily for a score of years Lindeblad had a religious mania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snakeville
Andrew Lindeblad
Jersey City
Lindeblad
Western railways announce freight rate hike
Western railroads said they will raise freight charges prompting a test of the line law in the highest court. The move signals potential legal challenges as the industry adjusts to new pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Railroads
Insect Size Records and Global Tech Notes
The Central American crepus atrix moth expands wings from eleven to eighteen inches. Nigeria adopts fingerprinting for crime ID with 152 surpressions photos. Swedish inventor bets peat alcohol price under half of refined petroleum. German typewriter ribbons vary in durability. American-made ribbons sometimes outperform. Artificial wood pulp fabric in Sweden faces crease issues affecting wear. An English doctor cautions parents against feeding before surgery, linking deaths to pre op foods. Carbon monoxide and oxygen depletion blamed for ship hold deaths. Glemisn notes oxygen loss as key factor in stored substances and varnish drying.
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G. Glemisn
First Practical Use of Aluminum in America at Washington Monument
The article notes aluminum first saw practical use in 1881 for cap on the Washington Monument peak, detailing its square pyramid shape, weight of 100 ounces, and 9.1 inches height. It credits General George W. Davis with early practical handling and traces rapid industry growth to electricity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Monument
William E. Curtis
Tor
Chicago Record-Herald
Wohler
Goltingen University
Germany
George W. Davis
Washington
Casey
Patent Office
Sinburg Production Company
Naie
Aluminum Company of America
Motins of
Pittsby
New York
Potent Charm Discussion at Mug hone Club
A New York Press report describes a midnight talk on the potency of charms. About twenty attendees listed items like a rabbit foot, buckeye, horse shoe pin, hawk eye, and a red deer sinew. a Jossakeed priest from the Awann tribe in Yosemite Valley claimed it would grant great strength to the swearer and his descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mughone Club
Yosemite Valley
New York Press
A Romantic Tale of Lord Kelvin and a Signal Code
A romantic tale recounts Lord Kelvin on his schooner Lalla Roohlt near Weet Indian Willers asking Miss Crim to read his sea signal code. He sent a query about marriage and she replied in code with a playful phrase. The London news notes a Buckingham Street house sale and impending demolition for new offices.
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Lord Kelvin
Lalla Roohlt
Willers
Miss Crim
London
Buckingham Street
Strand
Water Gate
Embankment
Childens
Pater the Great
Deptford Dorkyard
Iaink
London News
Kansas Wheat Crop Expecting Record Harvest
Reports from across Kansas indicate the new wheat crop is in prime condition and a yield near a hundred million bushels may be achieved. Growers are contacting State Employment Agent Gerow to hire 10,000 additional workers for the harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Gerow
Three Cent Passenger Rate Ordered for Canadian Railways
The Dominion Railway Commission ordered the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Railways to cut passenger fares to three cents per mile, enforcing lower travel costs across Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Doninion
Timperty Breaking Records in New York Imports
The first ten weeks show dry goods and general merchandise arriving in New York valued at 25,874 dollars, exceeding 1906 and 1905 totals by over 20 million and doubling figures from ten years prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timperty
New York
Pennsylvania Road's Bawnings
The annual report of the Pennsylvania Railroad shows all lines earning a net of 84,551,009 dollars during 1906, reflecting total revenue and productivity across the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Road
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lta
Cotton congestion at Memphis slows exports
The Memphis market holds more than 29 000 bales of cotton in transit with carriers awaiting tar readings. Commission findings show the congestion there serious, rivaling wheat shortages in the Northwestern States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Cariers
Cotta
Nortwestern
Trade outlook remains stable amid mood and markets
Despite lingering caution in the market, trade activity is expected to improve gradually. Analysts note solid demand and steady shipments, with no immediate signs of a major downturn.
Dowle Son Barred From Prophet Dowle Funeral
Followers of John Alexander Dowle refused to permit his son to participate in the Zion prophet's funeral. The rift within the Dowle circle centers on succession or legitimacy of the son to join rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Alexander Dowle
Newsy Gleanings From The Times
A jumble of notes reports a Jewish massacre in Codohile Romania, Sioux protests against Ute policy on reservations, shipping and paper shortages, Nobel prize recipients wed after the distillation, and other varied items. Additional items cover stock slump speculation, smuggling alarms in Paris, railway appointments, coal price cuts, cotton ginning totals, and calls for rail and tax policy coordination.
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Codohile
Rumania
Poltientrenty
Uoon
William J. Bison
Paris
Ian
Missouri Pacific Railway
James I H. Agade
Coal Trust
Hall
Johnson
Minnesota
Bank of Japan
Roosevelt
Deneen
Hilneas
High Court of
Austria
Seeing Beneath the Surface in Lippincott's Magazine
The passage depicts a reporter's question about strikes and a strike breaker’s cautious reply. It notes a critical moment when the strike was refrained due to the discovery that D was unworriedly union-salt. The item also mentions Vermont wealthier sportsmen planning to stock coverts with feral game birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lippincott's Magazine
Vermont
Cat Beats Clock in Bath Clock Trick
A Brunswick woman received a morning call from a Bath friend who claimed it was 9 30 while her cat washed its face at 10. The Bath resident plans to regulate her clocks by the cat’s routine, a tale recounted by the Kennebec Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indy
Kennebec Journal
Distinguished Trio and a Comical Arrest Tale
The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Rosebery are accosted by a mud clean-up boy who offers alms. Rosebery proposes a swat at a policeman for ten shillings, the boy hits the officer, they are taken to the station, and the judge asks for names. The boy declares he is the Duke of Wellington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Chamberlain
Lord Rosebery
Rosebery
Chamberlain
Duke of Wellington
American Home Monthly
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Lucas County
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American University
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Sweden
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Andrew Carnegie
W. W. Astor
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A. M. Hogermann
Bay,Shore
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Pinkham
Mass
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Lumbago
Sciatica
ST. Jacobs Oil
Hale’s
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Depots
Hue de
Tokio
Burriisie
Atries, Lannion. Ltd
Boston
National Hotel Employment Association
Sixth Avenue
Hamilton
Leonard J
W. L. Douglas
Wong's
Misses
W.L Douglas
Judes
Rourrear
Brockton
Douglas Pes Besey Ayuate
Etessshiere
Douglas
Aeass
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Book Publishing House
Leonard St
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