Land of the Sky Asheville Prized As Health Resort
Asheville North Carolina gains fame as the Land of the Sky a dry healthful climate drawing visitors. The city sits at the joining of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers with Vanderbilts estate valued around four million dollars. A Southern Railway contact in Chattanooga offers descriptive material on Asheville for visitors.
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Asheville
Denver
Swannanoa
Dirk George W. Vanderbilt
Ashville
Ashville and Vicinity
Southern Railway
C. A. Benscover
Chattanooga, Tenn
Coal Dealers Defend Prices Amid Poor Quality Stock
A street confrontation prompts a coal dealer to defend high prices amid claims of poor fuel. The woman complains of 25 shillings per ton for unusable coal while the dealer says famine prices force costly sourcing and reveals his own cost of 23 shillings per ton. She scorns a rival offer from the man she says is merely a slater.
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Ant
Missus
Autobiography Question Sparks Bishop Brooks Talk
A Youth's Companion reflection notes Phillips Brooks's gentle spirit and keen feel for others. A friend wonders why Brown does not publish his autobiography, prompting a sharp, self aware reaction from Brooks about honesty and guard.
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Phillips Brooks
Brown
Storm Graphic by Jourd White Describes Night Gale
The Edwardsville Standard News prints Editor Jourd White's storm narrative describing a heavy wind and rain storm last night. The piece notes darkness after sundown, lightning, thunder, hail on windows, and a storm that raged until 2 a m with no reported major damage.
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Jourd White
Edwardsville Standard News
Hell
God
Jesus
Sea Gallilee
A Story of Sterility Suffering and Relief
Letter to Mrs Pinkham describes years of back pain heavy menses and leucorrhea leading to infertility. Patient followed Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound guidance and reports pregnancy and renewed use with strong praise to the remedy.
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Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mas
Cona Gilson
Yates
Manistex
Mic
Your Medicine Worked Wonders Mans Barnhart Story
A testimonial from Mans S Barnhart of New Castle Pennsylvania praising a medicine. He describes seven years of illness after marriage including womb sinking leucorrhoea back and leg pain digestive issues and nervous stomach tremors. After using the medicine he reports complete relief and renewed life.
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S. Barnhart
New Castle
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Health Through Digestion and Blood Purity
The piece claims health depends on perfect digestion and pure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a simple solution for stomach or blood disorders. It cites cures for scrofula, salt rheum, catarrh, dyspepsia, rheumatism and other diseases. It also extols Hood's Pills as a favorite family cathartic.
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Hood
Summer Resorts by Southern Railway Appeal
The Southern Railway promotes summer getaways from Asheville to Lookout Mountain and Virginia springs. A folder “Summer Homes and Resorts” details nearly one thousand resorts, hotels, and boarding houses with rate information. Contact C. A. Benscoter in Chattanooga for a copy.
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The
Southern Railway
C. A. Benscoter
Chattanooga
Tenn
Carpenter Defies Order Over Unpaid Gibbet
A carpenter in an English town delays building a required gibbet for the hangman due to lack of payment. The judge reproaches him on circuit, and the carpenter promises prompt compliance if the order is for a noble, then apologizes. Separately, Mecca’s Sultan orders construction of the world’s largest hotel to host 5,000 guests.
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Mecca
Speaker Reed Retorts Amid Farmhand Debate
In a lively House scene Reed yields his chair to a western Democrat and remarks on the other man's large hands from farm work. The Democrat boasts of farm roots, Reed counters that he never worked on a farm, and the exchange ends with a jab about branding him an internal liar.
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Schuylerville
N. Y
Vermont Volunteers
Reed
Mr. Reed
Tam
Reporters Adjourn Illinois Senate in Quirky Session
Two newspaper reporters reportedly used a civil approach to adjourn a dull Illinois senate session. In the tale, they proposed the motion and Littler the chair accepted the adjournment with both reporters voting in the affirmative.
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Illinois Senate
Dave Littler
Littler
Ocean liner sheds Shad and hats amid global notes
The article mixes diverse items: a liner taking 700000 young shad to English waters for planting, hat sizes and weights, Brazil's prosperity, Para’s thrift, rising demand for American products, and a testimonial praising One Minute Cough Cure by Wm. Orr of Newark, Ohio, with sale by W. H. Long.
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Brazil
Para
Wm. Orr
Newark
W. H. Long
How to broil a fillet with butter and potatoes
Split the fish, remove bones, brush with melted butter, and broil skin side toward the fire. Cook ten minutes, turn, cook four more. Transfer to hot dish with meat up. Mix butter salt and pepper until creamy, spread over fish, serve with baked or French fried potatoes. Ledger Monthly.
Not Suffering Again For Fifty Times Its Price
A Pennsylvanian liveryman recounts severe stomach pains and a breakthrough cure after using Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from Miller Curdy's drug store. He praises the product as the finest for stomach trouble and says he will not be without it. The ad notes availability through O. L. Cartwright.
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Miller & Curdy’s
Chamberlain
C. Hi. Wilson
Land of the Sky Asheville described as premier North Carolina resort
In Western North Carolina Asheville sits between the Blue Ridge and Alleghanies in the French Broad valley at two thousand feet. The region is praised for bright skies, incomparable climate, and scenic beauty attracting pleasure tourists and health seekers. Convenient schedules and low rates to Asheville via Southern Railway are noted.
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Asheville
N. C
Hot Springs
N. Y
Hale Springs
Venn
Roan Mountain
Tenn
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Land of the Sky
Tate Springs
Oliver Springs
Lookout Mountain
Monte Sano
Mountsville
Ala
Lithia Springs
Virginia Springs
Seashore
Southern Railway
Blue Ridge
Alleghanies
America
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Promoted As Cure
To secure the original witch hazel salve ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve known as a cure for piles and skin diseases. Warns against counterfeit products sold by W. H- Long.
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DeWitt
W. H- Long
A Winter Playroom For Busy Mothers
A New York Tribune guide suggests a warm lower floor playroom for young children. Include listed windows in old houses, a thick rug, window seats, low furniture, papered walls with pictures from nursery books, doll houses, toy workshops, and a miniature track area. Heat by hot air, steam, or hot water. avoid stoves. grate fires must be enclosed.
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N,. Y. Tribune
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Land of the
U.S
C. A. Snow & CO
U. S. Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Parker
M. H. DeLong
DR. Miles
Nervice
Dr. Miles Medical Company
Elkhart
Ind
John Sherman
Himself
Sherman
Academy of Music
Philadelphia
Wen
His
Criris
Bouse
Pia
C. I. Hoop & Co
Lowell
Mass
Ers
New York
Land of
Sky
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