Come and See Sign Exposes Pinkham Lab Practices
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes a public sign for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at the Lynn Massachusetts lab. It promotes open inspection of methods and records as a pledge to honesty and customer confidence amid questions about the product and its testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
America
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia Eb, Pinkham
Cuthenra Remedies and Oddities in a 20th Century Page
Vintage clippings show a patient praising Cuthenra remedies for eczema after years of unsuccessful treatments. The page also features quirky jokes about household life, a home remedy ad for Allen's Foot-Ease, and light humor exchanges among characters, reflecting a mixed reading menu.
New York to Build 84-Story Municipal Center on Park Row
The New York board of estimates and Mayor McClullan plan a 84 story city hall costing 7 million dollars. The building will stand at Park Row Center and Danae streets, reach 349 feet to the roof with a 210 foot tower extension. Exterior French renaissance with steel and stone, 28 floors reserved for rental offices. All rooms will be exterior with no central light court. Rental revenue projected at 500 thousand annually.
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New York
New York Board of Estimates
McClullan
Paw Pareny
Park Row
Center
Danae Streets
Singer
New York Hall
How to Restore a Drowning Man Article
A dated instruction outlines restoring a drowning person with a headstand, rolling on a barrel, and artificial respiration. It advises flatting the back, lifting and lowering the arms to push air from the lungs, pacing at 18 motions per minute, and using stimulants briefly to restart the heart, then seeking a physician promptly.
Labor news from coast to coast across unions and shifts
A survey of labor activity reports French leather workers touring American factories and reforming unions in Boston while Hebrew painters and paperbangers work. San Francisco Building Trades organizes an athletic association. Carpenters in Mexico City join the AFL. Chicago sees rising union wear on buttons. New Orleans longshoremen sign five year contracts with stevedores and steamship agents. A seceding group renames as Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employes. Plans for a 500 acre labor home near Fort Scott Kansas. St Paul Typographical Union to display a label at Minnesota State fair. New York proposes shifting mercantile inspection to labor department. International Brotherhood of Bookbinders meets in Cedar Rapids in 1910. Cleveland ironstone miners seek 12 o'clock Saturday cessation, with no expected strike after decades.
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Boston
Nmoass
San Francisco
Cal
Building Trades Council
Mexico
A. F. of L
Uolon
Chicago
New Orleans
Atavedores
International Brotherhood of Bookbindera
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cleveland
England
Remarkable Chronology of Births Deaths and Events
A long OCR passage lists dates and figures from 1000 to 1908, noting births deaths battles and political milestones. It includes William II of England born in Normandy 1056. Bartholomew Columbus founder of San Domingo. the plague in London 1583. Hudson’s voyage to Cape Cod 1600. Von Tromp slain 1653. various U S and British political and military milestones. literary figures like Richard Henry Dana Jr Herman Melville and Oliver P Morton with birth or death notes. the Doukhobor raid in Saskatchewan. and industrial news about Weyerhauser heading a large lumber merger in St Louis.
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William II. of
Twogland
England
Normandy
Bartholomew Columbus
Christopher Columbus
San Domingo
Argentina
London
Hudson
Cape Cod
von Tromp
Texel
Frontenac
Onondaga
Montreal
Charleston
Baltimore
Sir Foufrey Amherst
Montress
Bonaparte
France
Flottsburg
Richard Henry Dana, Jr
Cambridge
Mass
Rome
Herman Melville
New York City
Wlliam Floyd
Oliver P. Morton
Indiago
Saulsbury
Ind
Indianapolis
Thomas I. Meagher
Waterford
Ireland
Port Benton
Mont
New London Bridge
Pell
Pampero
New Orleans
Cuba
Victoria
B. C
Halleck
McClellan
Peninsula
Virginia
Pennsylvania
King Haakon VII
Norway
Missouri's Veteran Men Keep Active in State Affairs
The Kansas City Star notes Missouri boasts unusually active elderly men across business, law, education, and politics. Prominent figures include Governor Norman J. Coleman at 81, Dr. W T Moore at 75, Col. Barland G. Brodhead, Col. J O Crawley, Judge Edward A. Stiles, Judge John E K Organ, and Judge Pirib Norton among others. Also features a card-shuffling machine that offers a square deal and portability, plus a humor item from Louisville remains.
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Missouri
Kansas City Star
Norman J. Colemar
St. Louis
United States
Gov. Coleman
W. 'T. Moore
Columbia
The
Christian Church
Barland G. Brodhead
Colubia
I. T. von Worn
Joseph
Chick
Edward A. Stiles
Kansas City
Col. von Horn
Ile
Judge Stiles
Col. J. O. Crawley
Koeytesville
Thomas H. Benton
Boonville
John N. Southern
Independence
Warwick Hough
Chester H. Krum
Missouri Bar
Missouri General Assembly
John EK. Organ
Dent County
J. P. W. Gray
California
Moniteau County
T. P. Haley
Pmjib I. Norton
Platte City
Atate
Grape Nuts and Postum. a Reader Letter of Recovery
A Michigan woman shares a ten year struggle with stomach and liver trouble. She quit coffee, used Grape Nuts with Postum, gained twenty pounds, and regained energy. She now does housework and work until noon, eating mainly Grape Nuts and Postum. The letter, signed by Postum Co, Battla Creek, Mich, promotes the product with a brief notice about ongoing reader letters.
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Hone
Postum Co
Battla Creek
Mich
Welville
Pligs
Sightseer John Chinaman Draws New York Attention
A New Yorker notes a surge of sightseeing wagons and first time visitors nicknamed sightseeing Chinamen. He describes seeing rubbernecking passengers, including Chinese residents of New York, taking in the city this spring with renewed municipal zeal and financial recklessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
John Chinaman
New York
Five Months In Hospital Then Discharged As Incureable
Levi P. Brockway of Second Ave Anoka recounts five months in a hospital where doctors deemed him incurable and gave six months to live. After using Donna kidney pills he reports improvement and asks readers to buy the remedy. The ad notes 65 cents a box from Voster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. A salmon anecdote follows noting 20 000 Chinook fry ate more than their stomachs could hold, needing only one pound of liver and a quart of herring roe daily to feed them.
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Levi P. Brockway
Anoka
Mina
Saya
Voster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
New York Aquarium
Young Clergymen Sail Across Atlantic in Quiet Reverence
A Chicago Tribune fragment recalls a young clergyman's first Atlantic crossing. He bows his head at sea and mutters he acts in response to an inward prompting, while companions step back to give him space with the vast ocean as witness.
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Atlantic
Chicago Tribune
Mira
Winslow
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Diag At
Andrew Johnson
Senate
Belknap
Louis Riel
Canadian Northwest
James David Edgar
Dominion House of Commons
Elihu Root
Alger F
Charles Tanner
House of Commons
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Willan Ellis Corey
Hubert B. Pattleon
Horn
Saghtlin
Morocco
Casablanca
Augustus Saint Gandens
Northwest Mounted Police
Yorkton
Saskatchewan
Northern
Faribault
Minn
F. ©. Weyerhauser
Frederick Weyerhauser
St. Paul
Positica
Louisville Courier- Journal
Bears
Castoria
iSkin of
T. Fella Gouraud
Ara
Rele
Pauege Goode Bester
Goundy
Europe
Ferd
T. Hopkins
Janes
Street
Mew
Fic Syrup Co
Paxton Toilet CO
Mase
Paxtine Land
Tonemelper
Armanant
Heyl’s Color Department Dept
Maiden Lane
JOS. Dughad & CO
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