Nursing Mothers and Over-burdened Women
An advertisement for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription targets nursing mothers and women with fatigue, weakness, and gynecological symptoms. It claims to restore vigor, support infant nourishment, and offer relief from headaches, back pain, uterine distress, and irregular periods, asserting a pure glyceric extract with no alcohol and inviting readers to request a free booklet for composition details.
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Pierce
R. V. Pieres
Buffalo
N.Y
Sane
Koren
China Ruler and People Backward in Habits Says Traveler
A visitor describes Chinese customs as backward and rigid with unique contrasts. He notes dinner starts with dessert, south-pointing compass norms, dresses differing by gender, and language practices. He also mentions gender roles, wedding customs, book orientation, mourning colors, and odd barbering methods.
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Mowery Kingdom
China
Jong
Postum credits morning drink for calmer nerves in school
A reader recalls a year of coffee withdrawal and nervousness, finding relief after switching to Postum Food Coffee. She describes initial failure, then success after longer boiling, noting improved health and renewed ease and pleasure in teaching. The ad promotes Postum as a healthful alternative for children and adults and hints at a famous health message.
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Wellville
Indianapolis figure defrauded by alleged insurance broker
Nlervey Bates of Indianapolis, president of the American Flaming Company, lost $2 025 after a bogus broker offered a $100 000 fire policy for 850 and then vanished after cashing the full check. Bates says the broker claimed the rebate would be issued later and left with the funds.
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Nlervey Bates
Indianapolis
American Flaming Company
Bates
Settlement Ends Long Bvarsville Street Car Strike
The ten day Bvarsville street car strike ended as workers returned to duties. Both sides made concessions with the platform time and an eleven hour day replacing twelve. Wages rise to sixteen and a half cents hourly from fifteen to seventeen cents depending on position, with grievances to be considered.
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Myainsville
Chicago
Cleveland
Maccabees Depe Defeated In Indiana Election
Milo I. Merideth of Wabash, longtime commander of the Indiana Order of Maccabees, lost to S. B. Borden of Hartford City after no contest in South Bend. Other officers listed include lieutenant commander W. E B. Mowbray and record keeper TW. feplogie Goshen, with Thomas LaRuael as finance keeper and Ty. FN. Kelley as medical examiner in Westville. The Lady Maccabees election was deferred until after the supreme convention in July.
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Torna
Milo I. Merideth
Wabash
Indiana
Order of Maccabees
S. B. Borden
Hartford City
South Bend
W. E B. Mowbray
Pert
Feplogie
Goshen
Lrauel Phomas
Ty. F
Three Die After Train Strikes Bridge Diners
Three youths Frank St. John Orville Babb and Joseph Mair children ages 16 17 and ES all of Indianapolis were on a Cincinnati Tamil ton and Dayton railroad bridge east of Morristown when passenger train No 87 struck them. Their bodies were mangled and recovered from Pine river.
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Wossen
Saloon Sale Aims To End Town Liquor Trade
Henry Smith agrees to sell his single Swayne saloon for 800 dollars after a long battle with temperance factions. The anti saloon league plans to raise the funds and then pour the liquor into the street to rid the town of its last saloon.
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Henry Smith
Swayne
Bee
Vigarank
Tie
Anti-Saloon League
Temperance
Old Bayonet Found in Marion Tied to 1812 War Era
A musket bayonet from a bygone era was unearthed during Marion sewer excavation. Authorities presume it once belonged to an Indian fighter in General William Henry Harrison's command, amid a Miami Indians confrontation near Marion on the Mississinewa River.
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Codinnas
Marion Jin
William Henry Harrison
Benjaminarrison
Marion
Mississinewa River
Golden Wedding Celebration for Valparaiso Couple
Mr and Mrs H D Smith observed their golden wedding anniversary with a family gathering. The couple aged around 60s and 70s have lived in Valparaiso for fifty years.
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H. D. Smith
Valparaiso
Whisky Kiln a Child Dies After Drinking Whisky Found
The 38-year-old child of John Wells of Newberg drank half a pint of whisky from a dresser and died within hours. The incident is reported as a tragic accident under inquiry.
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John Wells
Newberg
Boy Falls From Hart In Evansville Pond
Ralph Rohrbecker aged 12 fell from a yart of fog near Evansville and drowned in the pond.
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Hart
Ralph Rohrbecker
Evansville
Knights of Columbus Hold State Convention at Evansville
The annual State convention of the Knights of Columbus met in Evansville with about 100 delegates present. Martha Taylor of Pike County is dead after alleged shooting by her stepson Abraham Taylor, who is jailed. In Terre Haute twenty one miners and one mine operator were arrested on mining law violations per State Mine Inspector Epperson, promising strict enforcement.
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the Knights of Columbus
Evansvile
Martha Taylor
Pike County
Abraham ‘Taylor
Taylor
Terre Haute
Epperson
The Sliver Lining and August Anderson Visit Duluth
August Anderson, a wealthy Minnesota farmer, takes his family to Duluth during deer season. He notes that many prowling hunters can threaten life, but argues his yearly city trip aids shipping and offers advantages from deer hunters’ conflicts. The speaker uses a folk analogy about a crash in a housewife’s kitchen.
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August Anderson
Minnesota
Duluth
Anderson
A Wonderful Gain. A Utah Pioneer Tells a Remarkable Story
A Utah pioneer, J. W. Browning of Oden, recounts kidney and rheumatic troubles in 1848 leg and diabetes era. He credits Donn's Kidney Pills with relief and continued health for a year, noting his age around fifty. Sold by Foster-Mil l Co. Buffalo, N.Y., at 50 cents a box.
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Utah
J. W. Browning
2Nd Street
Oden
Foster-Millin Co
Buffalo
N.Y
The Busy Bee and the Labor of Honey Making
A Philadelphia Record excerpt explains how much work bees do to produce a pound of honey. It notes 62 000 clover blossoms visited to gather nectar and 2 750 000 nectar visits per pound of honey, with bees traveling vast distances from hive to fields, justifying their sting when disturbed.
Cure of Severe Skin Sores with Cuticura Tem
Mrs Henry Porter of Albion Nebraska reports widespread scalp and neck sores the size of pennies after menses. She tried doctors remedies with little success. After using Cuticura Tem vedios the sores cleared in about three weeks and never returned in seven years. August 25 1900.
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Cuthuria
Henry Porter
Albion
Neb
Forebodings of Sherman’s March to the Sea
The Chicago Tribune recalls Gen. Sherman’s famed march to the sea with a remark about the brass bands playing Marching Through Georgia. The piece notes a sense of smooth progress followed by a later warning of disaster, reflecting on historical memory of the campaign.
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Mistory
Gen. Sherman
Georgia
Chicago Tribune
Allen's Foot-Ens, A Powder for Shoes and Feet
In a pinch one Allen's Foot-Ense powder shakes into shoes to ease corns bunions swollen sore feet and ingrowing nails. It aids new or tight shoes and is sold by druggists and shoe stores with free sample by mail from Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Ambiguous Prose Quip Reveals Moral Critique
A dated prose line contrasts clarity with sin and hypocrisy. The passage notes that clarity exposes many sinners, while questioning whether such openness is widely accepted or effective.
Vyor r Clothes Seem Brightened By Cross Ball Blue Hint
A grocer advertises Cross Ball Blue to keep whites white at five cents per package. The note urges customers not to spoil Vyorr clothes.
Not So Grasping as That
An elderly uncle advises a nephew on marriage, noting fellow young men now courting. Harold blushes as the uncle insists only Muriel, the youngest, remains in question about marriage.
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Harold
Muriel
Attacking a System and the Attack on Individuals
In a Chesterton passage from Illustrated London News a critic argues that a system may be wrong yet individuals must still be fought. The author questions the idea of attacking only the system and defends direct action against brigands as necessary and justified.
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C. SK. Chesterton
London News
Tonnive Sells Farm for 870000 Then Plans City Move
The note states Mary Tonnive sold the farm for 870,000 and the family will relocate to the city to enjoy a more comfortable life with their belongings.
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Mary
Tonnive
Ceuomfort
Five Years Later Court Case Fallout Cited in Odd Dialogue
The fragment shows a tense exchange about paying a bond tied to a figure named Tohn Brown, with a warning that financial ruin awaits if the bond is not settled. The dialogue suggests legal pressure and potential poverty for Lo and Mary.
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Mary
Tohn Brown
Do Not Sign a Friend’s Bond Warns Counsel
Morals column cautions against signing a friend’s bond and urges individuals to procure their own bond if needed. Advises writing for particulars or consulting the agent at the County Seat for details.
Tithe Guaranty & Surety Company Bond Notice
The Tithe Guaranty and Surety Company based in Scranton Pennsylvania issues surety bonds. Its home office shows capital and surplus exceeding $1,000,000.
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Tithe Guaranty & Surety Company
Home Office
Scranton
Determined Optimism In A Quiet Conversation
A speaker asks how optimism and faith in humanity are maintained. The reply cites avoiding modern fiction and society dramas and limiting newspaper exposure as perhaps a coping mechanism amid concern about public displays and headlines.
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Tuman
Sal
Special trains to Pacific Coast offered by big lines
Special all expense tours at low rates for round trips via Chicago Malon Pacific and North Western Lines leave in July. Includes sleeping car, meals, and congenial company. Write S A Hutchison Tourist Department 212 Clark Street Chicago for itineraries and fall details. The Professor notes a shriveled porterhouse steak joke amidst the ad copy. Vinalow’s Soothing Syrup for Children advertised as gum relief and colic cure.
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Endeavor
Chicago
Malon Pacific & North Western
T Pacific Coast
S.A. Hutchison
Clark Street
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Nroker
Rich
Maccabrebes Depe
Old
HMA
Thomas
Lydia Se. Pinkham
James Chester
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Wath St
New York
Pinkhaw
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia Br. Pinkham
Libby
Tibbe
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Snowy
BORAX
Pacific Canat Borax Co
Canadian West
Ottawa
Canada
W. D. Scott
W. H. Rogera
Ind
H. J. Williams
Law Building
Toledo
Ohio
Fort Wayne
BF. W
N. UU
Port Wayne
Putnam
Monage Drug CO
Vaionvilia
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