Be Not Simply Good Be Good For Something
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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
4
Pain Balm Ad Brings Relief for New Lebanon Woman
George Schaub reports his wife suffered back pain for eight years until using Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised in Dayton Volkseitung. After a few days she felt renewed and could perform household duties. she recommends the remedy and mentions Dr. O. B. Cartwright sells it. June. The life that is to be is determined by the way we live. Silence is a mighty good substitute for wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schaub
New Lebanon
Ohio
Dayton Volkseitung
Chamberlain
O. B. Cartwright
Chamberlains Colic Remedy Ad Promotes Family Health
In this period notice an advertisement extols Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as essential for families before summer, usable by children and adults, with sale by Dr O B Cartwright. It contrasts merit with popularity and touches on general social remarks about labor, farming, and modernization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. B. Cartwright
Dr King's New Discovery saves lives from coughs and consumption
Mrs Haviland of Armonk New York credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving her daughter from near fatal whooping cough and bordetitis and her niece with advanced consumption now well. The ad promotes this medicine for throat lung diseases and offers trials and guarantees. Also Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets praised for stomach disorder. June Cobwebs note and Good Will Farm fundraiser states $50 000 for a manual training school with cornerstone in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. K. Haviland
Armonk
N. Y
Dr. King
B. Cartwright
Friends of Good Will Farm
Hopeful faith in perilous times and Cuban ties
The poem praises hopeful faith amid night and storm. It cites Charley L. Greaves naming Herbert G. Squires as the first minister to Cuba. Roosevelt appoints Squires as secretary of legation at Peking during the siege, noting his resourcefulness and tact to foster U S friendship with Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Heaven
Charley L. Greaves
Baptist Union
Roosevelt
Herbert G. Squires
Cuba
Peking
United States
Plain and Fancy Sewing by Miss M Phinizy at Scruggs House
First class sewing with hand and machine work including buttonholes of all sorts. Available by the hour or day at your home or in her room at Scruggs House. Rates ten to fifteen cents per hour plus standard prices for piece and job lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss M Phinizy
Scruggs House
Rhymes and Jingles and the Price of Ice and Coal
A collage of verses from Washington Star and other periodicals echo discouragement in poetry and the sea. It presents lines about poets lamenting sentiment, longing for summer and sea life, and a fisherman’s boy content in the bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pie
Women in London Occupations rise in late census figures
The census data shows 700 women photographers and 5 525 lady musicians in London. Civil servants and municipal workers total 5 796 with 665 in authors editors journalists and reporters. The overall count in professional occupations and related services reaches 52 962 with religious workers around 3 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Altogther
Sisters of Charity
Tax Assessments Open for Inspection and July Court Session
Taxpayers informed that the Books of Assessment for 1902 and the tax lists are ready for inspection in the office. The Court of County Commissioners will meet on Monday July 14, 1992 to review the Assessor's returns and correct any errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of County Commissioners
Q Court
Sing the Song as You Go Along Oath and Bravery Cheer
A vintage ad style notice offers a cottage near central New Decatur for $800 to $1200 this week only. The piece riffs on a motivational song urging perseverance and courage, quoting lines about fighting doubts, brave hearts, and turning a heavy load into strength through song. It cites R McCain Fields in the Brown Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.S
Atlanta
New Decatur
Erica
R. McCain Fields
Plymouth Rock chickens and 13 eggs 50¢
From St. Pierce warnings a catastrophe struck near Trinity Ala. Cattle and dogs showed fear days before the event while birds fell silent and animals fled. Man failed to heed the warning and perished. Also ads for Chamberlain's tablets and Morrow Connington toiletries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth Rock
J W Robinson
Trinity
Ala
St. Pierce
Industrial Facts From Old Machinery and Materials
A chimney 115 feet high sways ten inches in a strong wind without danger. A cubic foot of soft steel weighs 45. pounds while hard steel weighs one pound less. Aluminium occurs in clay and is produced from cryolite in Iceland. In 1888 Germany had 717000 spindles in cotton mills. now over 1700000. Nitrogen 143 million pounds yearly are taken from soil for gunpowder. The U.S. leads in water power with 56500 water wheels producing over 1.5 million horsepower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iceland
Germany
United States
Science Gleanings: Moon to Earth in 144 Seconds
Facts from a science column note light transfer from moon to earth takes 144 seconds. Snow crystals numbered 151 forms. A bottle-nose whale yields ten thousand beaks of squids. Heart blood travels 4,292,000 miles in a 70 year lifetime. Thunderstorm in southern England June 6 1889 had 1244 lightning flashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Economic and geographic snapshots from South America and allies
The item lists public debt in Mexico at 177 million dollars, Brazil’s 5000 mile coast with 52 ports, the Falkland bishopric covering South America’s Anglican church aside from British Guiana, Paraguay notes circulating near half a cent, and consumer values such as two notes to boot blacks, eight to mail to England, and prices for oranges bananas and a watermelon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Brazil
Falkland Islands
Church of England
South America
British Guiana
Paraguay
England
Public Life and Education Highlight Supreme Court Chiefs
Nine Supreme Court members are profiled with ages and education noted. The piece recounts Roosevelt's handling of his son Kermit in the cabinet, announces LL D degrees for Hitchcock Wilson and Galloway with Henry Van Dyke to preach, and notes autograph requests for McKinley’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Peckham
McKenna
Harlan
Gray
Brown
Brewer
Shiras
White
Roosevelt
Kermit
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Interior
James Wilson
Agriculture
BF. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Missouri State University
Henry van Dyke
Princeton University
Manna Daily
McKinley
Cartelyou
Hanna
Cortelyou
Judge Skerss Tax Announcement For Morgan County
Morgan County taxpayers are urged to heed the official notice announcing Judge Skerss. The document directs residents to follow the stated instructions and govern themselves accordingly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Notice of Revision in McCormack Liquor Fine
A notice announces a revision of a fifty dollar assessment in the County Court for Ben McCormack on the charge of selling liquor to persons of known intemperate habits, affirmed by the Supreme Court. Ben McCormack. June 13 1802-31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben McCormack
Supreme Court
Rail and Tie: Global rail stats from 1867 to tunnel lengths
A rapid survey of rail data notes an express locomotive delivering 1 056 puffs per mile, Canada’s railway mileage rising from 2 057 in 1867 to 17 824 in 1890, and axle life of 66 773 miles. It also reports a new German car coupling narrowing space to 7 8 inches and Britain’s 150 miles of tunnel with the seven longest tunnels totaling 13 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Great Britain
Five Gold Beds Found by Divining Rod in Western States
In the American West five gold beds were discovered using an electrical divining rod. Europe already has 40 wireless teleg raphy stations and America five. About 60 vessels have installed the necessary apparatus.
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America
Europe
East Lake and North Birmingham Park Touring Guide
Visit East Lake the Souths most popular resort with 100 acres 33 under water electric lights skating rink merry go round hoot the chutes summer theater and band concerts. See North Birmingham Park four miles from the city on the electric line with a bold cold spring and brilliant lighting. The Birmingham electric railway offers easy cheap travel to city and suburbs. Cartwrights advertises oxford style shoes and children's sandals in new lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
East Lake
North Birmingam Park
City
Buckner’s Arnica Salve Versus Severe Burns Claim
N. E. Palmer of Kirgman Tl reports a gasoline stove explosion caused a severe burn to a woman that resisted doctor care until Buckner’s Arnica Salve allegedly cured the wound. The ad promotes 25¢ salve from Dr. O. B. Cartwright for cuts corns sores boils bruises skin diseases and piles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. E. Palmer
Kirgman
Buckner
O. B. Cartwright
Health and Beauty Hints From an Early 20th Century Column
A health article extols massage for circulation and lists foods such as onions garlic leeks olives and shallots as circulatory stimulants. It warns salt intake below 20 pounds per person risks public health and notes puffiness under the eyes signals possible kidney issues. It advises ample water and a pre meal glass and post meal glass of water for clearer skin and better health.
Cider, crimes, and lilacs in foreign facts notes
A miscellany reports France outputting 336 402 053 gallons of cider and scandals including bigamy abroad, murder tallies in Italy Russia and Spain, land use in Norway, demographics in the Orange River Colony, ammunition curbs in India, women at political meetings in Germany, and Italy\ns secret cannon plans. It closes with poems The Soldier's Dirge and When the Lilacs Blow quoted from Chicago Record-Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Italy
Russia
Spain
Norway
Orange River Colony
India
E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
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World Herald
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The
China Ilall
Shaw
J. R. Marold
Canal St
Cohoes
N.Y
Washiington
Wisherman
Walcott Hutt
Jack
Rica
Pearso
Magazine
M. Hedderwick Browne
Chambers’ Journal
Hope
Mary KR. Diefendorf
Women Workers IN
Tlorgall Co
Winchester
Morrow & Connington
Science
Atlantic
Mey
the International Tailoring Co
Chicago
Rail and Tie
Cartwright's
Ehoe Man
Oxford
Cartwright’s Drug Store
W.r.smith
Casa Grande Block
Morow& Conyington
Tadies
Morrow & Conyington
Morrow (Orvington
Health and Beauty
Elizabeth Harman
Lippincott's
What Is
Castoria
Iebinhom
New Decatur Coal Company
Nome Sram Laundry
New Decatur, Alabama
Decaturs
Boston
Dtere
A. Spielberger
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