Elkhart Citizen Praises Doans Kidney Pills
A Bristol road conductor on the Elkhart to Mishawaka line credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing a two and a half year backache. He reports acute pain when moving and relief after using the product bought at Houseworth Bros. Drug Store. Doan's is sold 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
A. B. Herrick
Bristol Road
Mishawaka
Dean
Houseworth Bros
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
U.S
Doan’s
Boy Bitten by Mad Dog Receives Treatment With Madstone
Eleven year old Fremont Windsor of Sycamore Indiana was bitten by a mad dog. The Henry Bundy madstone was applied and adhered for twenty hours. Upon removal a slimy green substance was washed from the stone, which Bundy claims absorbed poison from the wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Fremont Windsor
Sycamore
Ind
Henry Bundy
Bundy
Vacation Days and Outdoor Safety Warning
The article extols outdoor play during vacation and urges safety against accidents from open air sports. It promotes De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve as a quick pain reliever and wound remedy, citing endorsements and warnings about counterfeit products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt
L. B. Johnson
Swift. Wexss
Houseworth Bros
Fire burns Mrs. Culhar as kerosene mishap causes flare up
In a kerosene mishap at Bedford Mrs. James Culhar grabbed a gasoline can and saturated the wood. A match sparked a burst of flame burning one cheek and ear and singeing hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
James Culhar
Allen's Foot-Hase Powder Brings Instant Comfort
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Hase a powder cures painful smarting nervous feet growing nails and relieves corns and bunions. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy and helps sweating calluses hot tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. Mail 35c stamps Trial package free Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Ehoe
Pioneers of 1827 Hold Eleventh Annual Meeting
The Richmond society of those born in 1827 convened for its eleventh annual gathering. Henry Jameson of East Germantown and Dr. C. W. Nixon of Chicago, longtime associate editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, were admitted as members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Henry Jameson
East Germantown
C. W. Nixon
Chicago
Poisoning the System by Early Risers Pills
The note claims constipation poisons the body and causes headaches dullness and eruptions. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are advertised to stimulate the liver and promote easy bowel action without gripping, strengthening the bowels to work naturally. Houseworth Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
Houseworth Bros
Smallpox case reported in Whitestown area
Mechanics burgh in Boone county reports one new case, Jacob Moore, a farmer near the village. Other cases are improving and said to have passed the danger point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitestown
Mechanicsburgh
Boone County
Jacob Moore
Dealers Seek to Sell Substitute for Madison Medicine Rocky Mountain Tea
Reports indicate multiple dealers approached buyers offering a substitute for Madison Medicine Co. Rocky Mountain Tea. Houseworth Bras appears among the sellers, prompting caution for consumers seeking the original remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Medicine Co
Houseworth Bras
Monon School Names New Principal At Mt Iron High
The school board hires C. H. Carpenter, a state normal graduate, to replace Clyde C. Tull who resigns to teach at DePauw University this year.
Osmicure Medicinal Soap Offered For Sale By Rushton
Monon S W Ruth was knocked senseless by lightning near a threshing machine but not seriously hurt. The notice advertises Osmicure Medicinal Soap antiseptic for infants toilet bath at 25 cents, sold by C D Rushton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Rushton
Monon
S. W. Ruth
Braving Trails Through Chilkoot and Icebound Plains
A terse quarrel of travel and weather resolves into resolve to cross perilous routes. The speaker vows to push onward despite storms and frigid seas and to endure hardship on their journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilkoot
When Piracy Threatens Major's Dorothy Vernon
Charles Major, author of When Knighthood Was in Flower, may title a new work When Piracy Was in Flower. His Dorothy Vernon, from Macmillan, already has three cheap imitations sold on trains under the same title. The copies imitate text, with Chicago and New York editions, and no author named on the papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Major
Dorothy Vernon
Macmillan & Co
New York
Haddon Hall
Chicago
Henpecked Husbands and Witty Chinese Tales
Professor Herbert Allen Giles at Columbia recounted Chinese humor about henpecked husbands. A tale shows ten husbands forming a resistance society. nine flee and the tenth dies of fright, while the nine reappoint him president. Women’s privileges and fear of wives are noted in lighter social anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Allen Giles
University of Cambridge
Columbia University
New York Tribune
Prof. Giles
Giles
Neighboring Helpers Share Small Daily Roles
A brief exchange reveals neighborly tasks as Bill assists Mandy who helps their mother. The mother takes Rocky Mountain Tea, while House Worth Bros. is mentioned in passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Mandy
Mother
Houseworth Bros
Smallpox Quarantine Raised in Kokomo County
Kokomo quarantine reduced from thirty five of forty homes. County reports eight smallpox cases with no deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Grain-O praised as superior solid grain beverage
A letter from F Myers of LeeRoy New York to Genesee Pure Food Co in Washington DC extols Grain-O as a healthier, superior beverage for children. The writer asserts no other drink matches Grain-O's solid grain claim and signs off with best wishes for health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Genesee Pure Food Co
LeeRoy
N. Y
F. Myers
Unknown man swamps Muncie with cheap cigars
An unknown man sold inexpensive cigars in Muncie posing as Havana product. He amassed money before disappearing, leaving locals wary of the scam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Osmicure Vintment Heals Portland Orley Myers
Myers was coaxed across the Ohio line from Van Wert and arrested on a charge of disposing of mortgaged property. The report notes the arrest location and the nature of the alleged offense without graphic detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Orley Myers
Ohio Line
Vanwert
One Minute Cough Cure Promoted For Cold Throats
Fragmentary ad style note claims a one minute cure for coughs and colds. It suggests quick relief and safety, urging immediate use. The text is garbled but reads like a risky sales pitch urging act now.
American polo founded by James Gordon Bennett in New York
James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald led polo’s introduction to the United States. In 1876 he hosted a dinner at his Fifth Avenue residence with guests including William Jay and Perry Belmont. A Texas cow pony shipment funded the sport, and early games were played at a Dickel Riding academy site and later at Jerome Park in Fordham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
New York City
Messrs
William Jay
William B. Douglass
Charles G. Francklyn
Winnie Thorn
Perry Belmont
John Mott
Samuel Howland
Lord Mandeville
Texas
Meadow Brook
Long Island
Dickel Riding Academy
Union League Club
Thirty-ninth Street
E. Willard Roby
Jerome Park
Fordham
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered with $100 Reward
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh in all stages by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proprietors offer $100 for any case it fails to cure and urge sending for testimonials from RF J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Hall's Family Pills are also promoted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lparn
RF. J.cheney & CO
Toledo
Hall
Value of Black Diamonds in Prospecting and Mining
The text notes black diamonds or carbons are valued for drilling in mining, valued for hardness and toughness, used to point steel bits in rock boring, found only in Brazil along river beds, with finest grade around $42 per carat and warns of suspicious lower prices due to possible treated stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Conscientious Thief Returns Ring to Owner
Frank Lash of Farmersburg Indiana received a letter claiming he stole a ring from his boarding house fourteen years ago. He admitted selling the ring but agreed to replace it, and soon a mail delivery brought a ring resembling the original.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Lash
Farmersburg
Ind
Kodol Helps Verona Woman Overcome Indigestion
Verona Missouri resident L W Spaulding reports his seventy six year old mother suffered long distress and indigestion until she started taking Kodol Two years later she eats anything and feels no adverse effects with a bottle always handy The ad claims Kodol rests the stomach and strengthens the body by digesting food as nature’s own tonic from Houseworth Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verona
Nature
Houseworth Bros
Marconi Joke Cited on Wireless Humor
The London Express notes Marconi’s wit about wireless telegraphy being as old as fire signaling among aboriginal peoples. In a lecture he compared night messaging ease to day and joked that only cable investors would link his work to darkness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi
The
London Express
Judge Jackson defends rulings amid impeachment talk
Wheeling West Virginia July 28 Judge John Jay Jackson rejects impeachment threats as intimidation over his mine workers injunction. He says any alleged error is only an error of judgment and that appeals lie to a higher court. He recalls Debs era pressure and remains steadfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
John Jay Jackson
Federal Court
Jackson
Backbones
Eugene Debs
West Virginia
Money Coming In Checks for Assessments Arrive
United Mine Workers officials report many checks and drafts from locals nationwide as assessments are paid. Secretary-Treasurer Wilson says membership responds cheerfully and supports the convention plan over a strike. Miners, including anthracite, concede the plan is better and no impeachment actions are planned until dockets clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers
Wilson
Jackson
Two Die in Sans Bois Coal Mine Explosion
An explosion of gas in a Sans Bois Coal Company mine near McCurtain Indian Territory killed James Brown and Andrew Dazell and seriously burned two others. The men, working 900 feet from the opening, were placing timbers when the blast occurred and a second lighter blast followed. Brown was related to Bennett Brown of Huntington Arkansas, the Southern manager of the Central Coal and Coke Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Territory
McCurtain
I. T
Sans Bois Coal Company
Here
James Brown
Andrew Dazell
Brown
Bennett Brown
Huntington, Ark
Central Coal and Coke Company
Sans Bois
SIERCE STORM LEVELS' GROPS IN OXFORD MICH
A severe midwestern storm swept Oxford Michigan on July 28 with a 25 minute, one o'clock strike. Homes were unroofed including the near completed Humphrey residence. Wheat and oats were flattened and fruit from orchards stripped, signaling heavy farm losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Mich
Thomas
Rochester
Harry Humphrey
Brave girl drowns saving playmate in Minnesota lake
In New Brighton Long lake near St Paul two sisters aged 12 and 15 with a younger brother went bathing. Mary Sier panicked and sank. Josephine Kastner, who could not swim, leaped to save her and both drowned while their brother Willie was rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul, Minn
Josephine Kastner
Mary Sier
Kastner
Long Lake
New Brighton
Hera
Siler
Willie Kastner
Chicago Board of Trade Quotations Reported Today
Chicago Board of Trade quotations issued July 26 show activity across grain and futures markets with price movements and trading volumes noted by exchange officials. The report highlights minor shifts in corn, wheat, and soybeans as traders digest market signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Board of Trade
Schwab Stricken With Nervous Prostration At Atlantic City
Charles M. Schwab president of United States Steel was taken ill while driving with his mother and sister at the speedway in Atlantic City. Dr Marvel said there was no danger of collapse and the case is thought to be overworked nerves or nervous prostration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Company
Philip Marvel
Perry Davis Pain Killer Celebrated in Ad
An advertisement extols Perry Davis' Pain Killer as the cure for bruises strains and sprains. It touts the product's singular effectiveness and lists prices of 25 cents and 40 cents with energetic claims and motherly use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Davis
Big Trolley Line Gets a Franchise
Warsaw, July 25. The city council grants a franchise to the Winona Warsaw Elkhart South Bend Traction Co for an electric railway linking the named cities. The projectors are Ohio men building the Fort Wayne Dayton Cincinnati line. The company bonds to operate 53 miles within 18 months or forfeit 1000. Capital stock to rise from 400000 to 1250000. Major S A Collins says funds are raised and work will start when material is available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Ind
Winona
S. A. Collins
Tonic For sale by C. D. Rushton in Chicago
Chicago July 24. Quotations on the Osmicure Slood Ateeve Tonic for sale by C. D. Rushton are listed in the market report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Rushton
New Campaign Headquarters Opened in New York
Representative J. W. Babcock of Wisconsin opens headquarters in New York as chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He says the outlook is excellent and Republicans will retain a working majority in the next House. James S Sherman of Utica is expected to take charge next month. Babcock will divide time with Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babcock
Republican Committee
New York
J. W. Babcock
Wisconsin
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
James S&s. Sherman
Utica
Washington
Bay Ridge Mystery: Arrest In Sack Body Case
The body of Joseph Cateno, a Brooklyn Italian grocer, sewn in a sack found near Bay Ridge was identified. Police say Italian fruit-packer Vincent Trica, who allegedly threatened Cateno, was arrested on suspicion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Ridge
New York
Joseph Cateno
Brooklyn
Vincent Trica
Cateno
Fever Outbreak Hits Southern Kansas Cattle
Texas fever has broken out among native cattle in southern Kansas. In Arkansas City Dexter area over a hundred head have died within the past days as the disease is believed to be spreading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Arkansas City
Kans
Dexter
Kennedy Nominated for Congress in Ohio Vacancy
Salem Ohio July 25 The Republicans of the Eighteenth Ohio district nominate James Kennedy of Youngstown to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman R W Tayler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Kennedy
Salem, O
Ohio
Youngstown
Congress
Corbin on Inspection Tour to Forts and Canton
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Corbin have left for Canton to visit Mrs. McKinley. The adjutant general begins a tour of inspection to Fort Sheridan Chicago and Fort Leavenworth Kan.
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Dorothy Vernons
Mr. Major
W. C. Bobbs
Bowen-Merrill Company
William
Sierce
Fort Wayne
Verna Groves
Florence Wells
Hartford City
Philip
Luley
William Nill
Port’ Wayne
Otto
Cherch
Ouras
Laminai
San Francisco, Gak
Rusetowl Droestore
TATE
Meese
Co. M. Schwab
Steel Corporation Stricken III
Jan Weneeeres
Chiscago
Cincinnati
Cere
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