Farmers Buy Cheaper Despite Trust Power
Treasury statistics and Dun's Bradstreet data show prices of many manufactured goods fell by 10 to 40 percent since January while farm prices rose by 10 to 40 percent. The drop spans tin plate petroleum glass nails barbed wire steel, leather and woolen goods, with official figures from the Bureau of Statistics noted in the Monthly Summary and ongoing trade publications.
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Counterfeiting deceptions target medicines and merchants
The Secret Service uncovers more counterfeiters and seizes a large hoard of bogus bills. The text notes counterfeiters favor high value items like Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, claiming imitators abound, and urges reliance on reputable druggists for genuine remedies.
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Hostetter
Tom Brown’s son Thom suffers repeated ligaments injuries
Mrs Brown recounts her son Thom James Brown’s football woes with ligament injuries. He says a professor noted only three ligaments hold the foot to the ankle, all broken in recent games against Purdoe, Sham Pain University, and a college from Indiana, leaving only skin.
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Shampain University
Indianna
Chicago Tribune
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with testimonials
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure failure and cites endorsements from F. J. Cheney and Toledo druggists. The notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with testimonials praising their effectiveness and blood and mucous system action.
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Kinnan & Marvin
Too Much for Him Doctor What Dyspepsia Advice
A patient recounts failing to follow a doctor’s regimen to drink hot water before breakfast due to length of time. The exchange appears in the Chicago Daily News, illustrating a humorous or perplexed stance on medical advice.
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Chicago Daily News
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Ad Promises Easy Bowels
An old advertorial urges relief for bowel issues with Cascarets Candy Cathartic. It claims quick, natural movements at a low cost and warns against imitations while quoting lighthearted comments from the Philadelphia Press.
Grain-O and assorted ads mix in grain soaked chatter
An assortment of imprecise local notices and advertisements tout Grain-O as a coffee substitute for all ages with a similar price to coffee. The rest includes snippets about furniture purchases, a list of tonics and cures, a dog incident, jokes, and various brand plugs.
Mrs Pinkham Extends Free Advice to Mothers of Large Families
A lettered appeal from Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Mass invites women of large families to seek her free medical counsel. She urges that help is available at the onset of illness and promises guidance to ease the burdens of daily chores and menstruation related distress. One woman recounts relief after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
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Hurs
Kansas News Roundup Highlights Jayhawker Victory and Local Affairs
Kansas University celebrations led a parade in Lawrence with hundreds of students collecting dry goods and burning a symbolic offering for the Jayhawks after a big win over South Dakota. Reports cover state health policing, Katy railway case, a new Mennonite church bank, Kansas voters in the Philippines, wellsville rail protests, paper mill plans, and various local incidents including a fatal injury and a fire at a Waverly flow mill.
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Lawrence
North Park
Kansas
Diverse Local Notices Highlight Court, Crime and Agriculture
Reports from Mrs Hankeck matron of the industrial school for girls at Rexford show 93 inmates over the past year with 92 paroled. Causes include incorrigibility theft petty larceny and grand larceny plus escapes and faults. In Wyandotte county Anna Eakins asks divorce and property division from her third husband over child issues. Blackbirds damage the apple crop across state. Growth census notes Kansas City rank change. Wichita hosts Arkansas sportsmen division with 100 charter members and state game warden elected. Fire in a jail storage vault threatens the Dodge City courthouse. Concordia editor Robbed near Cape Nome. Ex Governor Morrill gravely ill in Hiawatha. Phipps sues for back salary from the state agricultural college. Oldest American photographer Stephen Waite keeps baby portraits as time passes. Nortonville tragedy as a son shoots himself amid his mother's illness. New Masonic temple in Independence dedicated with banquet and officers present.
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Retoit
Grirls
Prosperity in the South Boosts Farming and Banks
A Northern observer notes a surge of prosperity across Georgia and the South as crop markets rise and stores fill with goods. Banks report unprecedented funds from farm sales, with Capt Robert J Lowry estimating Georgia alone will gain substantial income this year.
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Irus
South
Georgia
Alabama
Capt Robert. J Lowry
Farm price shifts show gains for crops and livestock
The report notes most manufactured goods fell by October 1 1900 while farm products rose. Corn climbed from 40 to 41 1/2 cents per bushel, wheat from 73 8 to 79 7/10 cents, barley from 45 to 59 cents. Hogs rose from 4.50 to 5.30 per 100 pounds. cotton from 7 11/16 to 10 8/10 cents. cottonseed from 12 to 17 35 per ton.
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Kansas Civ
Texas
St.louis
Central Farmers Get Higher Prices in Oct 1906
Cadick and Craig of Grand View Indiana publish a price comparison from their books showing Oct 1906 prices paid by merchants versus Oct 1896 for crops like Wheat Corn Rye Clover seed Potatoes Hay Apples and Baled straw. The figures claim farmers received 40 to 100 percent more in 1906.
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United States
Cadick, ‘& Craig
General Merchants
Grand View
Ind
Middle West
Academy
Cadick & 4Uraig
Billion-dollar gain for farmers from crops and livestock
Farmers boosted income by about 1.03 billion dollars year over year 1899 to 1900 led by corn hay and cattle with notable gains in farm animal values and crop prices. The data show a strong rise in overall agricultural wealth and optimism for continued prosperity.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Ucsee
Bryan visit boosts stocks despite defeat
A Boston Transcript note says confidence in Mr Bryan’s defeat has driven stock prices up, arguing Wall Street views the outcome as a reliable gauge of business opinion rather than a decisive political risk. The remark frames market optimism as reflecting sentiment about policy continuity.
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Bryan
New York
Wall Street
Inaugural Address Echoes Unity and Cooperation
The faded OCR reflects an inaugural address from the east front of the Capitol in Washington on March 4, 1807. The speaker vows to avoid actions that disturb growing sentiment of unity and affiliation, pledging to promote cooperation and esteem amid old party antagonism.
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Capitol
Washington
Noted Knight Templar Credits Peruna For Health
Colonel T. P. Moody a Chicago jeweler and lodge member endorses Peruna in a long testimonial. He cites relief from catarrh and stomach issues after using the remedy for about a year, with his wife’s cough also improving. The ad promotes Peruna as a general cure and urges readers to obtain the company’s free catarrh book.
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Hell
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Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
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Michigan Avene
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Moody
Imagination of Surf Life on the North Shore
A Chicago Chronicle reminiscence recalls a North Side man and his Exonity friend renting a summer house by Kenilworth to hear the surf. The father pretends the broom’s swish is surf, as the family awakes early and tries to coax the sea’s imagined music into their waking hours.
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Chicago
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Ifa
Martha
Homeseekers Excursion Tickets Offer Across United States
Tickets sold at all Great Western Railway offices on the first and third Tuesdays of October November and December at an extremely low homeseekers rate of one fare plus 200. Return travel allowed within 21 days from sale date. Inquiries to H Lord G P and T A at 3 Adams St Chicago.
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Chicago
Great Western Railway
Great Western
H. Lord
G. P
T. A
Adams St
A Dash for the Pole and a Polar Book Title Query
The Baltimore American debates a catchy title for a new polar exploration book and discusses naming ideas such as A Dash for the Pole. A separate Minnesotan endorses Piso's Cure as a cough remedy, noting a belief in its efficacy.
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Baltimore American
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