Humming Bird Wards Nest and Global Tech Notes
Diverse clippings discuss a humming bird using cobweb as insulation for its nest, then pivot to transport and weather topics. Reports cite South American rail Bolivia costs, timber supply to La Paz, Berlin garbage wagon design, British wireless weather telegraph use, and cattle breed notes from Bordeaux. Deathly tolls from Chicago transport accidents are listed.
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Australia
Street Tailway Journal
South America
Bolivia
la Paz
Oregon
Berlin
British Admiralty
United States
France
Lsso
Bordeaux
England
Mispronouncing Grieg to Greg Shifts Listener Reactions
A young Englishman explains in a quirk of speech how he began pronouncing Grieg as Greg to avoid confusion with Greek and Latin. He tells several listeners his reasoning, noting their ignorance of Greek and Latin leads to misunderstanding.
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Quemen
Grieg
Greg
Thes
None but the brave deserve the fair fair tale
A witty note from The Catholic Standard and Times jokes that fair ladies at a church fair will draw men into taking chances, playing on the phrase none but the brave deserve the fair.
It Is an Easy Matter to Accomplish Great Things
Saying the average man would not notice unless he tries. The text urges action over passive work and frames effort as the path to achievement.
Reason for women's nerves in inherited kidney trouble
Mia Frank Roseboom of Moscow Idaho describes worsening nerves from kidney trouble. She suffered insomnia dizziness and back pain until using Deans Kidney Pills. Symptoms improved and she reports relief after trying the medicine sold by all dealers for 10 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mia
Frank Roseboom
Washington Street
Moscow
Idiaho
Dean
All Deatesa
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Hudson Bay New Outlet to Europe
J C Eliot in Technical World Magazine predicts Canada will raise half a billion bushels of grain annually within ten years and that Hudson Bay will become a major inland trade artery. A proposed Studson Bay route could shorten transport to Liverpool by about a thousand miles, cutting grain costs to Europe and shifting control of world markets to Western Canada.
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Hudson Bay
Europe
Canada
J.C. Eliot
Technical World Magazine
Trudson Bay
Liverpool
Great Lakes
New York
Caerdla Ous
Alaska
Greenland
Canadian Rockies
Montreal
Studson Bay
Grape Nuts Proves Ideal Appetite Aid for Railman
A railway worker recounts chronic indigestion that baffled doctors until he tried Grape-Nuts. He says the first day showed appetite satisfaction, a week brought energy and seven pounds gained, with no indigestion since. His wife also benefited after starting the food, supporting the claim that Grape-Nuts is the perfect food.
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Pestim Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Cure for Scaly Eruption by Cutieorn Ointment and Soap
A 1906 letter from Vermilion Dakota describes a decade of scaly skin eruptions covering most of the body and hair loss. After trials with leading doctors and remedies, the writer reports complete recovery after using Cutieorn Ointment and Cutieorn Soap, with about $50 to $60 spent previously on futile treatments.
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Tfirau Mattingly
Vermilion
Dak
Sloan's Liniment touted as neuralgia remedy and comfort aid
An advertisement extols Sloan's Liniment for neuralgia and nerve pain, claiming rapid relief and sedative effects that ease head and jaw pain, with a testimonial from J W Unbbard of Marietta. A stray line notes the Navy Department debating which bureau should shoe a mule and reline an icebox.
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Selatica Sloan
Ives
J. W. Unbbard
Marietta
Navy Department
Washington
One Drug Claim Appears Across Nations in 1907 Trade
The note cites Dromo Quinine alias Lanative Bromo Quine and mentions a signature BK WwW GROVE. It claims worldwide use to cure a cold in one day. It also compares 1907 Canada imports from the United States totaling about 165 million dollars versus 75 million from Great Britain.
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GROVE
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Souvenir Post Cards and Other Advertisements
The Evening Wisconsin prints souvenir post cards in five colors featuring Washington Park animals. Advertising blurb promotes Pet Peruna Day and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, with calls to order from Milwaukee offices and druggists. The Almanac is also advertised as soon to exhaust supply.
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Evening Wisconsin Company
Milwaukee
Wis
Washington Park
Wiscot Sim Company
Post Card Dept
Milwauckee
Far from It Former Resident Reflects on Old Town
A former resident muses on changes over twenty years, recalling Floogas and a loud money note at two percent monthly. The hotel clerk mentions Tie's rise to president of a New York trust company while debating mortality. A breakfast note praises Mrs. Austins famous pancakes ready in a jiffy.
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Floogas
Tie
New York
Chicago Tribune
Rubber Stamps Made to Order and Supplies
All kinds of Rubber Stamps made to order plus self-inking daters new offerings ink and inking pads. Send for catalogue to Lock Box 219 Fort Wayne Indiana FW.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chicago
New Zealand
W. G. FitzGerald
Technical World
North Island
Miver
Marlaine
Li Hilla
Bears
the Centaur Company
New York City
Douglas
Shane
W. L. Douglas
Douuglas
Brochtun
Aluas
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