Smallpox Showing and Public Health Notes
Secretary Kennedy reports 24 smallpox deaths among 4,792 town cases over two years, noting underreporting likely but deaths well tracked. Otumwa and Burlington see earlier-season cases. counties vary due to medical skill and health funding. Plans call for better disease reporting and quarantine next winter. Also observations on a Vidley Junction face powder saleswoman and a Webster City gasoline labeling ruling by the supreme court, plus a nursing bottle advertisement anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cor
Republican
Kennedy
State Board of Health
Ottumwa
Burlington
Board of Health
Coon Rapids Enterprise
Vidley Junction
American Boy offers varied content for boys in October issue
The October American Boy from Sprague Publishing Co Detroit promotes stories like Hot Coffee, How Charlie Wounts Me and The Switch at Mud Run, plus features Working My Way Around the World and The Jefferson Monument. It includes home industries, Halloween plans, school notes, and a list of contributing sections and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amerigat Hoy
American Boy
Sprague Fabling Co
Detroit
Northeart Snde
Charlie
Mie Surattan
Mud Run
Thomas Jeferson
Hoys
Unely
Sam's Saling Pond
Ebony
Tumbvas Vanov
Thays
Stump
Moin Cathetous
Apgussian Association
Order of the
Shot In Society
World Fair Boys
Building Projpct
We Pangler
Sprague Publishing Co
Mich
Fiendish Cure Promises Health Boost With Electric Bitters
An 19th century style ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure for backache and kidney trouble. It claims dramatic health improvements, urging readers to buy at Williams & Anderson's drug store and to send for Inter-State Correspondence Institute info for railway and postal service job seekers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coorakee
Iowa
Williams & Anderson
Young
Inter-State Correspondence Institute
Dept. A.B
Cedar Rapids
Venice on the Maine coast proposed by Thomas Lawson
Boston dispatch reports multimillionaire Thomas W. Lawson plans a “Venice in America” on Deer Isle off Stonington Maine. He bought two islands with options on nine to twelve more, aiming to connect them by bridges, build a grand palace, landscape the site, and create conservatories, parks, and game enclosures at a projected cost over 1 million dollars.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Venice
Maine
Boston
Philadelphia North American
Stonington
Deer Isle
Isle Au Taut Bay
United States
Baddle Back
Lawson
America
Autograph Terrapin Remembers Local Notables in Ozark Find
Sheriff L. Copeland of Maries County near Vienna discovered a living terrapin with initials carved on its shell dating back over 20 years. The autographs include W. R. B. E. William Elle Rolla 1881 and B. H. Bill Hoops 1888, among others like J. P. A J. P. Anderson 1897 and J. P. B John Bade 1897.
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Missouri
L. Copeland
Marles
Vienna
Ozark
Maties County
W. RB. E
William Elle
Rolla
B. H
Bill Hoops
J. P. Anderson
John Bade
T. J. Ellis
J. T. Hoops
Copeland
Law Decisions On Mortgage Horses And Nuisance Rules
A mortgagee keeps rights against later buyers even if horse color changes after mortgage. Street railways may remove shade trees blocking roads without paying abutters, with notice and removal opportunity. Landowner liable for nuisance from another’s derrick if he knew and allowed the danger.
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Turpin
Cunningham
N.C
Miller
Detroit
A. R. Co
Mich
L. R
Rockport
Rockport Granite Co
Mystery Spider Web Letters Explained In Toledo
A Toledo mystery over spider web inscriptions near a courthouse is solved when Mrs Leggett reveals her Detroit husband makes the letters from spider web fibers. He places moistened letters on webs to form words like My Jim and Murder for attention announced as an advertising device.
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Toledo
Canton Avenue
Jim
Jim Lee
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Leggett
Detroit
Lee
A Proposal for a United States Collective Name
A Chicago Inter Ocean quote argues Americans should adopt Us as the collective name for the United States. The speaker claims Us is short, expressive, biblical, and widely recognizable, while critiquing alternatives like America Columbia and Usonia. He predicts Osites or Asses as possible demonyms and notes derisive reactions to other terms.
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United States
Congress
Chicago
Inter Ocean
America
Columbia
Usonia
Whisky Price Rise Predicted by Traveling Man
A Charleston article reports a traveling man warning lovers of cocktails that whisky prices will rise in coming months. He cites poor corn crops in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa, noting about 75 percent of U.S. whisky is corn based and distillers will pay more for raw material, with consumers footing the bill.
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Charleston
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Iowa
United States
Distance Judging and the Errors in Estimating Lengths
The article discusses the difficulty of judging distances and object sizes, noting common underestimations on flat versus uneven terrain. It cites the London Globe on top hat height Perceptions, and explains how varied group estimates differ widely and how training is crucial for accurate air line measurements in rifle shooting and warfare.
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London Globe
Banana regimen touted as cure for nervous dyspepsia
A New Fattening Fad story claims a thin patient recovered by a banana diet, baked desserts, and banana flour biscuits. It notes bananas’ easy to digest starch, mentions ripe Cuban varieties, homeopathic cautions, and the cure’s low cost while detailing the patient’s dramatic weight gain and optimism for permanence. Also mentions an odd Ancient Deed in Pennsylvania linking land to Adam and Eve, and Minnesota’s claim as the “Bread and butter state” with last year’s flour and butter output.
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Lie
P Atrior
New York Herald
Cuba
Northumberland County
Pennsylvania
Sunbury Republican
Parole
Liverey
Seizin
Earth
White Tattooing On The Beach Sparks Sea Shore Fad
A surge of white tattooing at Atlantic City and coastal resorts captivates summer crowds. Women apply adhesive stencils to arms and necks before sun tanning, revealing white University of Pennsylvania symbols and personal initials. Kipling’s poem The Absent Minded Beggar funded British relief efforts, earning about $100,000 plus additional payments from newspapers and reciters.
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Gothere
Atlantic City
University of Pennsylvania
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Daily Mail
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Lincoln Street
Orleans Hotel
Geo Galagher
Anderson Brothers, Proprietors
A. O. Peterson
Estherville
Dray Fine
Oscar Robins
Lewis
Frank F. Lewis
Ploruail
Omiginator
Boone Standard
Supreme Court
Cumoy Op
Webster City
Warri Dt
Vonder J
Philadelphia Press
W. HH. Kads
Jonesville
Bucklen
Arica
Bummer
Independence Lawson
Animale
Tuukes
Ullona
Bobs
Hastian Pals
F. Hammar Paint CO
St. Louis
R.A. Barron
Estherville, Iowa
Iercin
Minnesota
Maidena
Wheever & Wilson
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg
Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Ill
W. H. Waterman
Moler's
New Tork
Louie
F. H. Roopes
W. T. Raopes, Asn’t Cash
Bank OF
Chas. Hunt, Propr
Holand
Postomtice
Weat
Lincoln St
Rover
Notte
MO. O. Rygg
Westoft
P.O
Ferrick
Herrick
W. H. Davis
Mothera
Laxakola
Sea Sc
Nassau Street
Post Save
Kal
Ween Lane
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