Testimonial for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A nurse from Watertown praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for treating ovarian and womb ailments. She recounts personal recovery after use and endorses the product to other women, inviting others to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Virginia Granes
Nurses’Association
Watertown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Man requests change of menu over corned beef supply
A prisoner in county jail complains at a preliminary hearing after six weeks that he wants a change of menu not a change of venue. The judge clarifies and the man repeats his demand about the corned beef supply.
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Baltimore
Heinze Joins Alaska Central Board At Seattle Meeting
Montana copper magnate F August Heinze was elected director of the Alaska Central railway at a Seattle meeting of the board. Victor H Smalley of St Paul, general Eastern focal agent, confirms Heinze's large financial stake and says the addition boosts confidence and financing certainty for the railway.
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Montana
Seattle
Wash
Alaska Central Railway
F. August Heinze
Butte, Mont
Heinze
Victor H. Smalley
St. Paul
Alaska Central Bail. Sry Company
Atlantic
Pacific
Waiting for an Order Parody In New York Times Style
A humorous paragraph features Col Abraham Gruber waiting for service in a restaurant. He asks the waiter how long he has waited and learns the staffer has been there two weeks. Gruber replies they are not the same waiter and notes the order was placed at least three weeks ago.
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Col
Abraham Gruber
Col. Gruber
New York Times
List of Patents Inmited Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
Patent attorney notes list patentees from Minnesota and nearby states with items including bicycle mirror, wire stretcher, grain spout, concrete mixing machine, shoe protector, and floor jack. Inventors cited: Peter A. Burness Minneapolis Edward Hand Orient Benamin Kien holz Hallock Carl Otis Lindstrom Joseph Price New Rockford Roelf Welland Canistota.
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Northwestern
Peter A. Burness
Minneapolis
Minn
Edward Hand
Orient
Benamin Kienholz
Hallock
Carl Otis
Lindstrom
Joseph Price
New Rockford
N. D
Roelf Welland
Canistota
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press
Paul
Mina
Mrs A Captures Suitor’s First Glance and Witty Rebuttal
A man declares love at first sight for Mrs A, but a sharp reply from Ex suggests a second look would have been wiser. The exchange hints at social tension and lingering flirtation in a brief social vignette.
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children Advertised
Patent medicine notice from a New York Children's Home nursing source claiming success in curing feverishness teething disorders and worm infestations. Claims 30 900 testimonials and urges purchase at druggists for 26 cents with a free sample from Allen and Olmsted LeRoy NY.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen & Olmsted
LeRoy, N, TL
Too Expensive for Himself Doctor’s Self Reflective Dilemma
A Cassell's Journal excerpt presents a physician confessing feeble health and lack of confidence in other doctors while lamenting that his own charges are too high. The piece frames a personal medical ethic and cost concerns in a reflective, period voice.
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Cassell
Cole's Cough Cure Valued for Croup Relief
Mrs. C Mason praises Cole's Cough Cure for immediate relief from croup in her children. The advertisement claims the remedy is superior to others, with guarantees and prices of 2% and 50 cents, available at all druggists.
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Cole
C. Mason
The Field of Danger on Golf and Danger Perceptions
On golf as a dangerous game some readers wonder about real risks. Dr J J Rindland notes two friends who got engaged on the golf links last season and remarks on how people use religion as a lightning rod in debates.
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Greene
Gage
Amnesty for All Filipinos Promised in Independence Day Proclamation
Washington officials report a cabinet agreement on an amnesty proclamation to be issued on the Fourth of July. The plan would grant liberty to political offenders including Aguinaldo, while preserving criminal cases. The measure aims to transition from military to civilian rule and maintain military protection during the handover. The draft awaits Philippine government approval and congressional action.
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Washington
War Department
Root
Gov. Wright
Aguinaldo
Guam
Philippine Islands
Mindanao
United States
Archipelago
Lafayette Square
White House
Morgan Plan to Consolidate Missouri Coal Mines
Kansas City report says a syndicate controlled by J Pierpont Morgan aims to absorb all major Missouri coal mines. R G Rombauer of Jeffersonville says a previous attempt failed but a new consolidation plan is now favored for the state’s key mines.
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Missouri
Coronation Date Postponed to Autumn
London officials expect to fix the coronation date within a week with the ceremony likely in the autumn. An authoritative source says the king reads and converses with the queen and the prince and princess of Wales while doctors insist he avoid overstrain and worry.
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London
Associated Press
Prince and Princess of Wales
Socialist Leader Hounded by Crowd in Mattoon
John W. Anderson a Chicago socialist organizer faced a hostile reception in Assumption Christian County. Cries of lynching and murder followed him as he spoke. He was roughly handled and pelted with rotten eggs, then escorted to the railway station and sent away on the first train.
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Mattoon
Ill
John W. Anderson
Chicago
Assumption
Christian County
Anderson
Toasted the King Change in Play in a New York Theater
In New York on June 30 the audience applauded a toast to the speedy recovery of Edward VII during the premiere of King Dodo. Topical hits by Ade Finley Dunne Pixley Broadhurst were to be introduced but were replaced by the toast while the orchestra played God Save the King.
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New York
New Yorke
George Ade
Finley
Peter Dunne
G. Frank
Pixley
George Broadhurst
Dodo
Edward VII
God Save the King
Fire devastates block of Portland horse stables
A June 27 blaze in Portland destroyed a row of frame buildings on Seventh Park Gil xan and Hoyt streets. Thirty five horses owned by the era Morestry perished while several lodging-house occupants escaped with difficulty. Insured value about 35 thousand dollars with 26 thousand on loss.
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Oremon City
Portland, Or
Park
Gilxan
Wheat and oats praised as North Dakota crops thrive
Readings from counties across the state report wheat and oats in excellent condition despite recent cool, wet weather and light frosts. Corn remains backward, flax and millet seedings continue, and grass growth is abundant. some local frost damage noted to gardens and certain crops.
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Barnes
Alderman
Oberon
Minnewaukan
Benson
Burleigh
Sterling
Cass—Warren
Timothy
Hickson
Gardner
Arthur
Tower City
Casselton
Cavalier
Dresden
Milton
Dickey
Wright
Emmons
Hampton
Livona
Grand Forest
Thompson
Bentry
Cable
Griggs
Lamoure
Berlin
Max
Millet
Logan
Napoleon
Mclean
Washburn
Coal
Morton
Glen Allin
Pembina
Bruce
Bowesmont
Akra
Hamilton
Bathgats
Richland
Falirmont
Barrie
Hankinson
Sargent
Rutland
Steele—Blabon
Stutsman
Eldridge
Pingree
Jamestown
Courtney
Train
Buxton
Walsh—Park River
Voss
Kellogg
Ward—Burlington
North Dakota to Get Wahpeton Topographic Sheet Map
The U S Geological Survey will send engineers to southeastern North Dakota to map about 800 square miles between Wild Rice and the South Dakota line. The Wahpeton Topographic sheet will show elevations every twenty feet and include townships roads lakes and farms. The project supports irrigation land surveys and school study and ten sheets from Fargo to Jamestown are available for six cents each.
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United States Geological Survey
North Dakota
C. M. Hall
Agricultural College Co-operative Survey
Washington, D. C
Wild Rice
South Dakota Line
Richland County
Wahpeton
Nes
Government Printing Office
Fargo
Casselton
Tower
Eckleson
Jamestown
Pingree
LaMoure
Edgeey
Ellendale
Columbia
United States
Department of Agriculture
Grand Forks
Larimore
Barnes and Ransom
Sheyenne Valley
Devils Lake
Red River
Hall
D. E. Willard
Maysville
J. A. McGlynn
White Earth
Washington
Accident May Be Fatal In Wisconsin Town
Two Wisconsin men in Menomonie face grave injuries after separate incidents on June 27. August Latsch was thrown from a sulky, with a broken leg likely to require amputation and his family left to cope with possible loss. Fred Goerke, a local furniture store clerk, fell down an elevator shaft and remains unconscious with fears of fatal injury.
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Wisconsin
Menomonie
Wis
Latsch
Uatsch
Fred Goerke
General strike erupts among Spanish agricultural workers
In Madrid June, a long feared general strike began among farm workers in Andalusia. Reportedly, a mob of strikers disrupted a religious procession in Alicante as tensions rose.
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Spain
Madrid
Andalusia
Alicante
Belasco Praised Yet Reluctant About Charity Ball Line
Herbert Kelcey praises David Belasco’s style but objects to a line in The Charity Ball quoted from a Psalm. Kelcey says the line is not his, and Belasco’s, noting he would recognize Belasco’s writing anywhere. The New York World recounts Kelcey’s remark.
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Herbert Kelcery
David Belasco
Belasco
H. C. de Mille
Herbert Kelcey
Kelcey
David
Mr. de Mille
Dave Belasco
New York World
John Hay as Lincoln's Secretary in Young Years
Leslie's Weekly quotes Rus sell Young on John Hay in Washington as Lincoln's secretary. The sketch highlights a comely youth with peach bloom, old fashioned speech, quick comprehension, and a serious temperament. It notes Hay's verses and Byron like charm plus strong home discipline.
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John Hay
John Russell Young
Hay
Washington
Lincoln
Byron
Leslie's Weekly
Opie Read Nominated by Republicans for Alderman
Opie Read a Chicago resident and Southern novelist has accepted a Republican ward nomination for alderman. He had long affiliated with the Democratic Party but spoke for the sound money ticket in 1900. His Denver travel expenses drew scrutiny from Mr. Hanna, who approved them after Read quipped about poker in that town.
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Opie Read
Chicago
Read
The
Democracy
Sound Money
Hanna
Denver
Benedicte Confusion In Vestry Remark At Service
A talkative deacon noted the benedicte mentions priests while deacons seem left out. The bishop gently retorts that the blessing extends to all green things on earth, quoting a playful reinterpretation from the New York Times.
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Potter
New York Times
Teacher forecasts boy’s path from class to senate
A teacher teases the class genius with a future president’s fate while a tough boy questions his own lot. She unexpectedly declares he will reach the United States senate, eliciting his startled reaction in a Chicago News item tone.
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United States Senate
Chicago News
Mark Twain and his famed drawl recalled
A reminiscence notes Twain’s wit and his famed gray stage presence. It recalls a clever mother of great sons who inspired his incomparable drawl and a description once calling him a symphony in gray, now replaced by a mane of white hair.
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Mark Twain
Twain
Mr. Clemens
Man Recovers from Kidney Trouble After using Dodd's Pills
Bland Missouri resident F B Crider recounts a dramatic kidney illness near defeat. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with immediate relief and full recovery, calling them the only medicine that helped him and worth their weight in gold.
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Bland
F. B. Crider
Dodd
Conversation Sketch from Shared Home Life
A brief dialogue captures a house turning point as one person explains they sold the home due to marriage. The exchange hints at personal change and the idea of ownership shifting with life events.
Nonsensical Mix of Patent Remedies and Witty Lines
A collage of old advertisements and quips includes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claims for teething relief, various spoof exchanges about meals and providers, pills for colds and coughs, Piso's Cure for Consumption promotion, and a joke about a girl’s weight and sighs.
Peruna Promises Free Treatment for Summer Women
Dr Hartman markets Peruna as a cure for catarrh and female troubles with testimonials from women across North America. He urges doubtful patients to write for free advice and emphasizes confidentiality and widespread success, promoting Peruna as a universal remedy.
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Dr. Hartman
Peruna Ufers
America
Peruna
38Th St
New York City
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Lizzie Sneathing
Hartman
Ohio
Pa and son bet a cent on a nickel joke
In a Boston Globe item a boy nickels his father into a playful wager. Tommy bets a cent that his father won’t give him a nickel and pays up whatever the outcome. The tiny comic moment streams through a family exchange.
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Tommy
Boston Globe
What About Your School Houses
A plea urges school districts to tint interiors with Alabastine for eye-friendly colors and sanitary rock base cement coatings. The text stresses crowded classrooms need health safeguards and promotes Alabastine as the proper wall material.
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United States
Bables Found in St Patrick's Cathedral Pews
Report notes an average of fifteen babies left in St Patrick's Cathedral pews per year. The babies are said to be born to Catholic parents who intend them to be raised in Catholic homes, according to Ainslee's Magazine.
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St. Patrick's
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Ainslee's Magazine
Hoosier Cleroen Praises Self made Men
Indianapolis Sun quotes Jinks praising self made men for taking blame and acting in a Christian spirit. Jenks agrees noting some deserve praise for willingness to bear responsibility.
Allen's Foot-Ease Adverts Offer Comfort For Feet
An old advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Ease powder eases tight or new shoes and relieves swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25c with free trial by mail from Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N
Not Thanklenns Reframed as a Pessimism Exchange
Dialogue fragment presents a terse exchange where one asks if another is a pessimist and the response notes willingness to be thankful for any blessings if they occur. No clear event, source, or date available in the fragment.
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Thanklenns
Hall's Catarrh Cure Marketed Inside
Internal consumption advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with price listed as 7i&. A blunter note questions why some people lie to you citing they think highly of you to tell the truth.
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Hall
Price
Newlywed Melancholy and Lost Suitors in Punch Dialogue
Min Abrulam and Maud converse after marriage. Maud asks if George is sad to marry her. he denies and reveals he pities other eligible girls who cannot wed him. Punch captions reflect witty social mood.
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Maud
George
Space-Saving Dining Room Set Noted in Bungalow Exchange
A bungalow living room combines hall dining room library and parlor and highlights a green wicker and wood dining room set. It features a solid circular table and six low backed triangular seat chairs that tuck under the table to save space. A college training remark closes with a note on self belief.
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