Simple Home Remedy Claims Kidney Benefits
A home-made mixture of Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Kargon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla is touted to cleanse and strengthen kidneys, relieve backache and urinary issues, and regulate urination. The Scranton Times first printed the prescription in October 1906, with many papers nationwide later echoing the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
Scranton
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Congressman Heflin In Street Car Shooting Scandal
Washington March 28 Congressman Thomas Heflin of Alabama shot at a negro on a street car injuring Thomas Lumby and accidentally wounding Thomas McCreary a New York horse trainer. Heflin said he acted after Lumby insulted him while drinks were offered to ladies on board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
Thomas Lumby
Thomas McCreary
New York
McCreary
Heflin
Lumby
Seventy-One Miners Die in Wyoming Mine Disaster
A pair of explosions at Union Pacific Coal Mine No. 1 in Hanna Wyoming on March 28 29 killed seventy one miners including a rescue party of fifty led by State Inspector David Elias. The disaster followed a week long mine fire with most victims married caring for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna
Wyo
Union Pacific Coal Company
David Elias
Eat Crow Origin Tied to Soldier and Officer Tale
A Washington Star note traces the phrase eat crow to an old officer private story. A private forced his commanding officer to share a meal after seizing the officer’s gun during a crow punishment. The war court later heard the remark nothing except that Captain Blank and I dined together.
Private John Allen Story Haunts Georgia Bishop Tale
A Cleveland Leader excerpt recalls Private John Allen recounting a Georgia bishop seen with a shotgun on a Sunday. A church member objects that apostles did not shoot, and the bishop retorts that in Palestine the shooting was bad, so they went fishing instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John” Allen
Georgia
Palestin
Cleveland
Bill to abolish capital punishment in DC introduced
Washington reports a bill to end capital punishment in the District of Columbia was introduced in the House by Mr. Scott of Kansas. The item is among a series of notices and ads on pills, salves, and local events including a $10,000 reward for dynamite suspects and a post office robbery in South San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
District of Columbia
Scott
Kansas
San Francisco
South San Francisco
Berlin
St. Louis
Chapman- Dewey Lumber Company
Kansas City
Coffee values in buying habits and customer returns
A fragmented note discusses coffee quality in relation to buying choices and customer returns. It mentions Tris Schilling's Best and hints at payment for a mower, though the text is garbled and incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tris Schilling
Island cooperative plan aims for equal women colony
On a distant island south of Honolulu a cooperative plan envisions an ideal women colony with young girls, old maids, and married women treated equally. The report also notes a destructive tornado near Wilmathville, Kansas, killing several and destroying farms, and mentions a push by New York's Women's Democratic club for women policemen to protect women in the streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
New York
Women’s Democratic Club of
Guardians of the Peace
Manzan Pile Remedy and Local Murder Aboard Train
An ad lists Manzan Pile Remedy and Pineules with guarantees. The news item reports A Bailey, Wells Fargo messenger, killed on a Santa Fe train between Florence and Newton in a robbery, with safes rifled and about $1,000 plus jewelry taken. A clock project in Thomaston Conn is noted. Philadelphia and London clocks are mentioned for comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhon
Kan
O. A. Bailey
Wells-Fargo Company
Santa Fe
Florence
Newton
Manzan Pile Remedy Sold at Potts Drug Store
Manzan Pile Remedy comes ready to use in a collapsible tube with nozzle. One application heals inflammation relieves soreness and itching. Price 50 cents. Martin St. Louis March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potts Drug Store
Martin
Otis Drug Store
Bees Laxative Cough Syrup Advertisement Claim
An advertisement promotes Bees Laxative Cough Syrup as a guaranteed remedy for coughs and bronchial troubles. It claims the syrup is pleasant tasting and acts as a gentle laxative to expel phlegm, suitable for children, and covers conditions from colds to whooping cough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Potts
Foley
City Druc
Potts Drug Store
Martm
Bell's Red Wing makes test flight over Lake Keuka
In Hammondsport New York on March 30 Professor Alexander Graham Bell test flew the Red Wing. Built by the Aerial Experimentee for Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge the aeroplane glided about 200 feet over Lake Keuka then rose to roughly 10 feet and sailed 318 feet at a sustained speed of around 25 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammondsport
N. Y
Alexander Graham Bell
Lake Keuka
F. A. Baldwin
Thomas Selfridge
Also Mentioned on This Page
Upfer Drug CO
Music Books
Tribune
Dillon, Mont
Tattersall
E. H. Brundage
Undertaker
Dillon
Mont
Dillon Furniture CO
G. T. Paul
Teepiitin
Alg Volun
Willow
Montana
Angele
Wyoming
Leavenworth
Sikeston
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Patta
Lowell
Mass
Guthrie, Okla
West
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
J. P. Morgan
United States
DeWitt
Washington, D. C
Thomas H. Carter
Bell
Second Infantry
Philippines
Fort Assinniboine
Toledo
Reno
Nev
Southern Pacific Company
Orena
Winnemucca
Gustav H. Schwab
North German Lloyd Steamship Company
Admiral Evans
Magdalena Bay
San Louis Obispo
B.C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Ill
C. N. Cornell
Roding, Ga
Lem
George W Place of
Denver
Bulkeley Wells
Mexico City
Chilpancingo
Chilapa
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Little Rock
Ark
Thomas Helm
Jefferson Davis
Davis
St Louis
Heast
Missouri
Faeces
United
Pris
Hoyt Chemical CO
Podrianp, One
Red Cross
Fates Voge
Ayer
J.D. Ay
Manu
Lowell, ‘Mass
Rair yiGcor, Ague
Kirksville
Wilmathville
Here
Thomaston
Conn
Jersey City
Westminster
London
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!