Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Restores Health
After seven years of female troubles Sallie French of Pancannia Indian Territory reports improved strength and well being after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts thirty years of medical credibility, invites letters to Mrs Pinkham for free confidential advice, and claims widespread cures of displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities and nervousprostration.
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Lydia BE. Pinkham
Sallie French
Pancannia
Ind
Ter
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cuticura Remedies Reported Cure for severe eczema and poison oak
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairmont Walden's Ridge Tenn shares a testimonial from October 13 1905. She says her daughter suffered running sores from eczema and poison oak was cured within six weeks using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with no need for prior medical prescriptions. A family boy also healed from poison oak sores in about three weeks using the same remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Vincent Thomas
Fairmont
Walden's Ridge
Tenn
Winter Wheat Crop Yields and Costs From Southern Alberta Farm
Coaldale Alberta Nov 19 1907 farm report details 449 acres of grain 197 acres spring wheat 152 acres oil wheat average yields 38 bushels per acre and 44 bushels per acre. Wheat valued at $1.00 per bushel oats 40 cents per bushel potatos 60 cents. Best yields include 47 bushels per acre on wheat and 15 bushels on oats. Total crops include hay 12 per ton and 600 bushels potatoes. Farm notes 300 acres oats stubbed in and 700 acres broken by steam with one four horse team yielding 19 000 bushels total worth about 12400. Signed W H DawsonPAWSON IR.
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Coaldale
Alto
W. HH
Pawson
Winter Wheat Yields Reported in Southern Alberta Settlement
A letter from PLoS. Leppingwell notes first farming year in the Nashvin to The Acre area. A. J. Warner raised 2500 and fifteen bushels of winter wheat on 100 acres of breaking, Tenny Brothers 60 acres yielding thirty bushels per acre. Spring wheat averaged thirty, barley fifty to eighty, oats ten to fifteen on sod. Stock fed by grass, all fat. settlers pleased with the country.
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Alberta
Warner
Alfa
Sir
A. J. Warner
Tenny Brothers
Plos
Leppingwell
Billion Dollar Grass Seed Offers Big Returns
A La Crosse Wisconsin seed company promotes Billion Dollar Grass and related seeds promising high yields and substantial profits. The notice asks readers to request the original seed catalog and samples by sending postage to John A. Salter Seed Co and Del A Salver Seed Co.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
America
Victoria
del A. Salver Seed Co
Reduced Colonist Rates and Through Tickets On Sale
Daily March and April sales on The North Western Line to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Puget Sound points. Tourists in sleeping cars via Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line double berth $7.00 from Chicago. Send inquiries to S A Hutchison Tourist Dept Chicago. Animal Post Cards eight color wild animals from Milwaukee Zoo mailed for twelve cents.
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North Western
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Puget Sound
Chicago
Union Pacific & North Western
S. A. Hutchison
Tourist Dept
Clark St
Ill
Washington Park Zoo
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Wilwaukee
Wis
Dragging Roads Improves Winter Haul for Farmers
A reader from Ti no is reports that poor roads delay corn hauling as farmers struggle to market crops. The Illinois guidance urges building and using a road drag correctly to smooth mud, raise earth toward center, and reduce road damage, with penalties for rutting a dragged road.
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Tinois
Sid Goodall
Ilnois State Mighway Commission
Mdi
Information Cheerfully Given in Telephone Call Mixup
A caller provides a rambling personal idiosyncratic dialogue with telephone company staff about names and numbers. The exchange includes address snippets, household details, and a chaotic request while the line remains tied up, ending with Mr. Miggles composing a letter.
Obscure Exchange Displays Rural Humor in Houston Post
A clipped dialogue from the Houston Post wittily contrasts a farmer's runaway team with a touring automobile. The playful exchange hints at lighthearted, backwards phrasing about obesity care and domestic duties.
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Houston Post
Fireproof Building Promise Marks Turning Point Says Magazine
A magazine essay argues American building booms hide true fire losses. It cites 25 years of $8.5 billion in property destroyed and 1,000,000 buildings lost, urging fireproofing with cemented steel structures, hollow tiles, enclosed stairs, asbestos glass, and wired glass to prevent fire damage. It notes 73 percent of damage stems from windows and 48 percent from lack of window protection. The author contends truly fireproof buildings are feasible and inexpensive with proper design.
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Appletons Magazine
Boston
Iintelligence
Amt
Glazed Kid Leads Shoes? Oddities and Echoes Across Period
A scattered montage notes Wee SRE trends and Cortelyou tangents, honey exports from Texas to England, and orchard grass protein levels. It recounts 1907 potato crop value at 100 million dollars, early English wire and hair fastenings, and a Virginia senator famed for quiet influence. It mentions Kangxi era measures returning in China, Sen Chandler’s long public life, Toselli’s opera plans, and a duck gun from Malcomb with 189-duck kill claim. Malta hosts the dwarf elephants remains and numerous skeletons on the island.
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Timothy
England
Martin
Virginia
Kang Ti
China
Senator Chandler
New Yapshire
Muuch
Signor Borico Toselli
Mouthenese
Nhing
Saxony
Tharty Malcomb
the Sun
Pototane
Baltimore Sun
Malta
Variance in Hell Theory Cited by Preacher Cobb
The Rev Zed H Cobb contrasts his belief that hell lies in the sun with the late Sam Jones who preached the hot place exists in the town he visited. The Citizen Press notes the enduring female instinct to outlive husbands and the perception of men as foolish at life’s bookends.
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Zed H. Cobb
Suis
Sam Jones
Jackson Citizen Press
Prolonged Storage Key To Eau de Cologne Craft
A foreign contemporary notes that true eau de cologne requires long aging. Production in Cologne blends ethereal oils with wine spirits, rests for two months, then heats gently, before aging five to six years in casks before sale.
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Cologne
Women and Adjectives in Language Reflect Gender use
A column discusses how adjectives differ by gender noting that men are rarely called beautiful while words like handsome and pretty shift meaning. It also mentions the terms belle and beau as gendered language and traces adjective usage in English.
Old Surgeon Credits Postum With Steady Hands
A surgeon recounts giving up coffee after tremors and insomnia. He tried Postum, found it mild and soothing, and saw his nervous symptoms disappear. He shared it with a friend who also moved away from coffee, praising Postum as a superior, safer drink. The ad urges boiling Postum per package directions and promotes it as a national drink.
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Oan Lila
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Weilville
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Toledo
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Thompson
Eya
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Tam
Mr. Mingles
Hne
Wee Sre
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Que
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