Patents Issued Last Week To Northwestern Inventors
Northwestern inventors received patent grants last week for items including a buckle design and a steam boiler. Names listed include Martin L. Burkhardt Minneapolis and John T. Fanning Minneapolis with a steam boiler patent, John C. Fessenden St. Francis for collar, Fritz Koch St. Paul for brick kiln, and others.
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Northwestern
Martin L. Burkhardt
Minneapolis
Minn
John T. Fanning
John C. Fessenden
St. Francis
Fritz Koch
St. Paul
William Milbrath
Lakefield
Carl G. Skoog
St. Pau
Henry Hammer
Mountain Lake
William F. T. Bushnell
Aberdeen
Alfred L. Cole
Merwin
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press
Nurse Tomkins and a skeptical husband in a sickroom
The narrator recalls Nurse Tomkins who treats Mildred with little formal training yet claims long experience. She argues the value of advertisements and her self-taught methods, while the husband questions her lack of formal nursing education and worries about his wife's care. The scene ends with the narrator uneasy and silent.
Cold Remedies Sized For Every Illness
The 25 cent size targets ordinary colds while the 50 cent size helps bronchitis croup grip and hoarseness. The dollar size is advertised for chronic coughs consumption chronic bronchitis and asthma.
Careful Bilkins Marriage Pass Narrated in Jest
A brief note recalls Bilkins marrying suddenly after receiving a two person pass to New York, a gift he chose not to waste. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quote adds humorous context to the event.
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Bilkins
New York
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Piso's Cure and Brazilian Coffee Tabloid System
The note recalls Piso family medicine Piso's Cure for Consumption used since 1865 at 2409 42nd Ave Chicago Ill. It also mentions a Brazil patent for a coffee preparation process in tabloids using compression.
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42D Ave
Chicago
Ill
Brazil
Japan Opens Imperial Museum at Yokohama Modelled on Philadelphia
A note in the record describes Japan establishing an Imperial commercial museum at Yokohama modeled after the Philadelphia museum. It contrasts this with a claim that fourth class postmasters should not handle first class mail. The item also lists a dubious home cure advertisement by M. H. Baldwin of Chicago offering morphine and opium alternatives.
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Japan
Yokohama
Imperial Commercial Museum
Philadelphia
Gwansox Rrheumatic Cure CO
Lake &T
Chicago
Ile
Bluffing to Impress Stock Correspondents at Mines Co
A mining stock company manager urges a bold front to appear busy. The new clerk suggests sticking stamps on upside down as a cheeky ruse to mislead correspondents. Chicago News.
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Chicago News
Gas Lamp Roars as Better Light Than Electricity
Aggressive recruitment for gas lamp agents across counties. Advertises own lighting quality superior to electricity and Welsbach gas, cheaper than kerosene, and lucrative retail opportunity. From Standard Lamp Co. Dept. A, Chicago.
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Welsbach
Standard Lamp Co
Dept. A
Chicago
Making Allowances
A dialog on Beethoven notes a young man and woman debating the composer. The woman quips that Beethoven was fine for his era since ragtime had not yet been invented, in a light Washington Star style.
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Beethoven
Washington Star
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted As Internal Remedy
Claiming catarrh is a constitutional disease, the ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal solution that purifies blood and affects mucous surfaces. It asserts physician endorsement, prescribes Toledo Ohio company, cites testimonials, and notes a 75 cent price plus family pills.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Not All His Fault, A Whimsical Courtship Tale
A playful exchange between Dora and Alfred unfolds as he explains how friends nudged him into proposing. The Chicago Tribune vignette centers on flirtation, social pressure, and a hopeful couple.
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Alfred
Dora
Chicago Tribune
A Magnificent Woman Endorses Peruna For Female Catarrh
Mrs. Clara Makemer of Chicago writes from 302 Chestnut Street praising Peruna as the best tonic for general debility liver complaint and dyspepsia. She claims Peruna helps with female irregularities weak nerves and catarrh of the pelvic organs and notes health and beauty literature sent to women by The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus Ohio.
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Clara Makemer
Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission
Chicago
Chestnut Street
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
In the Swim. Penswipe Shifts From Novels to Dramatizations
Philadelphia North American notes a shift in Penswipe from publishing novels to writing stories for dramatization. The quip implies his current work focuses on stage adaptations rather than new book releases. The snippet reflects contemporary literary publication trends and authorial pivots.
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Penswipe
Philadelphia
John M Smyth Co Advertises Low Prices For Broad Catalogue
The paper notes the John M Smyth Co advertisement promising extremely low prices and reliability. It touts one of the country’s largest houses with a strong reputation and invites readers to obtain their catalogue covering food wear and utilitarian goods. A Chicago street beggar who died recently left a fortune of 40000 dollars. Allen’s Foot Ease offers a 25 cent remedy for foot troubles with samples mailed from Le Roy New York. A London laundry offers daily wages from two to two and a half dollars for a good ironer.
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John M. Smyth Co
Typhoid Nurse Conflicts and a Crushed Hope at Sea Side
In a seaside room Mildred neared death from typhoid as nurse Tomkins boasted of purifying papers and smuggled meat to sustain the patient. The narrator reflects on fear and relief as Mrs Eames dies, leaving him convinced he saved Mildred by remaining at her side.
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Tomkins
Mildred
Capt. Eames
Westminster
Remarkable Drinks in World Cultures
A survey of extraordinary beverages notes blood from live horses once common among Tartars, lamb flesh paste wine in China, Laplanders smoked snow-water, Tonquin crab flavored with chicken blood, and absinthe as France’s famed spirit. The piece condemns absinthe as a strong, vile poison.
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Marco Polo
Carpini
China
France
New York Home Journal
Wanting Him to Stay from a Puck Sketch
Von Blumer offers another cigar to Plankington who declines saying he must go as it grows late. Von Blumer pleads not to leave since his wife objects to smoking in the house indicated by a puff.
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Puck
von Blumer
Plankington
Puff
English Magazine Writer Quotes Real English Man Earning Six A Week
An English magazine writer asserts the typical English worker earns about six dollars weekly. The claim frames the average laborer as the central figure of the national economy.
Marriage lowers property crime and boosts social restraint
Friedrich Pringing’s German study cited by the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune suggests married men show greater respect for property rights and commit fewer robberies extortion or fraud. It notes shifts in criminality by age and gender, with widowers and younger married men at higher risk in certain offenses and highlights the stabilizing influence of family companionship on behavior.
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Friedrich Pringing
Germany
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Giraffe Sighted in Marimba District of Central Africa
A European prospector shot a giraffe on the east bank of the Loangwa in the Marimba district. The complete skin is sent to Captain Chichester in Mpezeni's country, with hopes a full specimen will be studied at the British Museum. The herd numbered about thirty five and giraffes are believed rare in the area.
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Central Africa
British Central Africa
Loangwa
Marimba
Chichester
Mpezeni
British Museum
Miramba
Mariamba
Mazeres
Elton-Cotterill
Matabeleland
The Ruling Passion
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer wedding scene a radiant bride unveils a camera tucked inside a bound prayer book to surprise the audience as she and George proceed down the aisle. The moment blends humor with a sly personal touch.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
George
Beware of Overfeeding Infant Milk Cautions
The notice warns caregivers that cow's milk given to infants with weak digestion should be heavily diluted with warm water. It states over feeding commonly causes infantile dyspepsia and advises careful preparation.
Woman Helps Women to Boost Almond Demand
California produces about one third of the almonds used in the United States. The passage hints at cyclical patterns in history and the persistence of repeating lessons despite efforts to avoid them.
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California
United States
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Pate
Ayer
E. W. Grove
M. H. Baldwin
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton
Mass
Arnold
Fenwick & Lawrence
Washington, D. C
Lane City
Mice
SAR Pension Bickford
B.5th
N.H. Vols
20Th Corps
Sewleg Machines
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
London
Swase Rheumatic Cure Co
Richfield Springs
F. E. Price
Jersey City
N. J
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Mary A
Carbaugh
Black Gap
John W. Page
Stokes
Pitt County
John H. Small
Alphonso C. Page
Alphonso
Navy
George W. Pollard
John W. Pollard
Philippines
Greenville
U. S
Monadnock
Frank
Page
Nichols
J. H. Small
Small
Washington (N. C
Evia E. Brenner
East
Rochester
Lydia E. Pinkham
OTANI
Red Cross
Hubinger
MIB
Prievo
the Ledger Monthly
J. G. Brown
National Academy of Design
Ledger Monthly
Ledger
Ian Maclaren
Liverpool
Geline Lemcke
Brooklyn Cooking School
Red Ear
J.@. BROWN
L. T. Meade
Robert Eustace
Annetta Halliday-Antona
Canary Islands
Harry Broseland
Washington
James Grant Wilson
Maclaren
Walden Fawcett
Robert Bonner’s Sons
Ledger Building
D Steel
Japanix
Tse Paack
Seapke
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