Child Eats Cuticura Box On Crackers In Bed
A New York family reports a three year old ate an entire box of Cuticura Ointment with graham crackers during a voyage. The child recovered from a cold and showed no injury. Advertisements tout Cuticura ingredients as pure. Other notes mention laxatives and pain relief products, with misc. lines on branding and pills.
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New York
Cuticura
Atlantic
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Cutiura Remedies
Boston
Fafilment of Prophecy Honors Desperate General’s Legacy
The misspelled tale notes that Tannibal, a dreaded general driven to despair by enemies, drank poison and lay down to die. He predicted his name would live in history. About five thousand years later a town in Missouri bore his name, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Tannibal
Missouri
Chicago ‘Tribune
Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure and $100 Reward
A long claim touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a positive constitutional cure for catarrh with a $100 reward for any case not cured. The ad cites testimonials and notes the product is sold by druggists with a suggestion to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Also includes a humor panel about horseless matches and a minister recounting a marrying fee.
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Hall
Lcharney & CO
Toledo
D. Td
Lane's Pleasant Tablets Cure Cold and Grip
An advertisement touts Lane's Pleasant Tablets as a laxative cure for cola in an hour and the heat treatment for grip. It urges immediate use at the onset of a cold and claims relief from suffering and expense. Sold by druggists and dealers at 25 cents a box. Sample free from Orator I Woodward Le Roy NY.
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Lane
I. Woodward
le Roy
Ragtime, Foot-Ease, and soap ad fragments collide
Juxtaposed snippets reveal a chaotic ad mix with Allen's Foot-Ease for feet and shoes, Ragtime music claimed dead by Sousa, eye remedy claims, maple syrup skepticism, and a Chicago Tribune quip about a well connected cook. Fragmentary items hint at varied 19th century consumer notices and humor.
Woman Dies for Murder by Electric Chair Exonerates Husband
Mrs Mary Parmer is executed at Auburn prison for the murder of Mrs Sarah Brennan. Mrs Mtnity Farmer is said to have aided and exonerates her husband who is convicted of the same crime. Two prison attendants witness the electrocution in New York State April 23, 1968 at Brownville Jefferson County.
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Mary Parmer
Wusboud
Mtnity
Wis Jeg
Auburn
Sarah Brenan
Brown Villa
Foulmer
New York State
Tvo
Euther Abkey
Nomon
Mrg. Farner
Shr Bronnan
Brownville
Jefferson County
Brennin
Deception Leads to Property Transfer in Brennan Case
In a case merging impersonation and fraud, Mrs. Parmer posed as Mrs. Brennan to transfer Brennan property to James D. Farmer in October 1907. The deed, later reissued to Peter J. Farmer, followed a sequence of court deeds and relocations involving the Brennan household and a child born the prior September.
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James D, Farmer
Forgery arrest ties Roy Horton to Kansas City swindle
Roy Horton was arrested in Kansas City on a forgery charge related to a 75000 dollar swindle. The case links Horton and his brother Jon Horton to a long history of questionable paper from Horton Brothers & Hees begun in St Louis and involving financing feeders in Texas.
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Roy Horton
Kanaas City
Kansas City
East St. Gonls
Wise
Stock Yarda Company
Fast St. Louis
Orton
Kanbag City
Wiliam Styon
Jon I. Horton
Ray
Upper Alton
Ill
Auarch
Hortons
St. Louis
Horton Brothers & Hees
Texas
Train 18 Burned After Rock Slide Wreck Near Castle Rock
West bound Union Pacific passenger train No. 3 struck a rock slide about a mile west of Castle Rock Utah at 4 30 am Wednesday and derailed. The wreckage caught fire destroying the baggage car engine and five coaches. The baggageman and fireman Ira were reported missing but all passengers reportedly escaped serious injury according to meager reports.
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Hacupe
Castle Rock
Utah
Union Pacifi
Man Believed Dead Is Alive in Nebraska Return
Henry Bethers, believed killed when a slag car burned in transit from Connell Bluffs to Valley, Nebraska, last month, has returned home alive from St. Louis. A charred body found in the slag car was identified as Bethers from clothing fragments and deformity and was buried by his family.
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Wenry Bethers
A& Body
Vagneil Blut
Henry Bethers
Connell Bluffs
Valley
Neb
Aliva
St. Loula
Bethers
Resolutions on extra session limit and census emerge in Senate
Senator male as Republican caucus chair introduces a resolution to confine extra session business to tariff and census matters but amends it to allow bills and executive business. Debates highlight representation on committees, tariff bills, lumber duties, and independent refiners, with House and Senate sessions described as long and contentious.
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Male
Senate
Onaday
Elkins
West Virginia
Mir Moon
Lenn
Wizgerald Ftigend
House
Vreeland
New York
Kitchen
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Pulo
Louisiana
Thomas
Munn
Tillnois
Larrinaga
Bacon
Committee On Finance
Aldrich
Ilite
Payne
Democrata
Messia
Gaines
W. Va
McCall
Maga
Waya and
Menia
Maasachusetta
Maasachusetta Member Wanted Something Specife Jn
Explosion at Coeur d Alene powder works kills three
Telegraphic brevities report three men died in an explosion at the Coeur d Alene powder works plant in Wallace Idaho. Count Tolstoy is suffering from leg inflammation but not seriously ill per St Petersburg reports. Dr Buner Lee told a New York medical legal society audience that Americans bathe too often and cited a man in attendance who had not bathed in twelve years.
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Coeur d'Alene
Wallace
Idaho
Lioolstoy
Buner
Lee
Medico-Legal Society
New York
French General and Loyal Servant Bargain in War Tale
A humorous tale from Success Magazine about a French general whose wife polices loyalty, forcing an old servant to resign while the general must stay. It closes with the servant expressing ecstatic gratitude before the twist ends. Also notes various 19th century remedies and products such as Dean's Kidney Pills and Garfield Tea.
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Jacques
Success Magazine
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