Change of Life and Other Medical Notes
A collage of medical testimonials and lifestyle tips from 1900s era notices. Mrs E Sailer endorses Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief of periodic illness while warning against irreverent claims. A separate item advertises Allen’s Foot-Ease free sample and promotes foot care remedies for chilblains frost-bites sweating and shoe comfort.
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E. Sailer
German Relief Association
Los Angeles
Cal
Lydia E.m
Mars
E. Sarer
Hill St
Society buds at spring reception prompt frost protection joke
A quip from the Ohio State Journal notes society buds appeared at a reception despite early spring frost fears. An ad promotes PUTNAM FACELESS DYES sold by druggists for 10c, claiming amateur dyeing equals professional results.
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Jimson
Jester
Ohio State Journal
Prolific Millet and Hay Seeds Advertised by Salzer Seed Co
An old advertisement promotes millet for hay with promises of 6 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre. It also notes prices for seeds from John A. Salzer Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin and touts Cole's Carbon salve as a remedy. The piece contains quips about wives and success and a Poe-like poet reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo Alam
John A. Salzer
To Mrs Brooklyn from Hubby Portrait Gift Plan
Brooklyn Life notes a husband plans a birthday portrait surprise for his wife while she remains unaware. The lighthearted exchange highlights domestic humor and affectionate gesture in a city society column.
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Brooklyn
Cure All Day Cold Tonic Ad Reflects Era Attitudes
An OCR fragment shows patent medicine claims and refunds, including Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and Hamlin's Wizard. It mixes quack cures with social commentary about hobbies, gender, and saloon critique, reflecting era attitudes and consumer culture.
Nurses Endorse St Jacobs Oil For Home Use
Nurse Eliza King praises St Jacobs Oil as effective for sprains bruises rheumatic pain and pleurisy noting it should be in every home. Sister Carolina of St Andrews Hospital also endorses its use for gout and sprains and says doctors order it regularly.
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Eliza King
St. Jacobs
Carolina
St. Andrew's Hospital
North Dakota towns buzz with growth and newcomers
A sprawling North Dakota update notes Litchville building a flour mill Knox opening a new photo gallery Kenmare demand for building lots and a dentist in demand at Kenmare Barrie farmers eye a creamery Souris population 358 and many towns planning water works electric plants and new schools Roots of a building boom stretch across Dickinson Williston Fabers Creek and beyond with new banks hotels and rail work plus incidents from a drunken lumberjack to smallpox quarantines and irrigation plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox
Kenmare
Souris
Drayton
Williston
Fargo
Casselton
Grand Forks
Linton
Hope
R. A. Foss
Iowa
Hunter
Wilton
Rugby
Courtenay
Granville
Lisbon
Pat Neary
Buffalo
Shooter Rice
McHenry
Jack Broderick
Tower City
Pembina County
Jamestown
Richburg
Wiliam Engelter
New Salem
Joe Sayer
Washburn
Grand
King John Satterland
Cathay
Jalmar Wiggs
Milton Pitcher
Portland
Soo
Braddock
Bismarck
Dan Campbell
Walhalla
Harvey
Sharpe
Kulm
North Dakota
Madrid Bend race killings provoke widespread fear in Kentucky
Paducah Kentucky March 22 great excitement at Madrid Bend along the Tennessee line where two black men were killed by white assailants and three more were badly beaten. Elijah Drake allegedly stole chickens and was driven into the Mississippi river and shot. Jim Stewart was also killed and three others severely attacked as locals fear further violence and call on the governor for a murder reward.
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Paducah
Madrid Bend
Hickman
Tennessee Line
Elijah Drake
Mississippi River
Jim Stewart
Clever dummy baby used in West Madison street shoplifting
Merchants on West Madison street report two shoplifters using a dummy baby as a hidden storage for stolen hats shoes and diamond rings. The man carries the baby while the woman distracts clerks by chatting and asking to view goods, enabling theft as they move through the store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
West Madison Street
Jealous Wife Chases Husband With Club in Mobile
Mobile report details Albert A. Lordie and his wife from Chicago who after an afternoon spree in the main street chased him for blocks with a club striking him on the head several times. Lordie claims jealousy over his conduct and ticket and baggage issues led to the quarrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Albert A. Lordie
Chicago
Lordie
Missing Chicago Junction traffic manager Frank Hall
Chicago March 22. Frank M. Hall traffic manager of the Chicago Junction railway for ten years has been missing for nearly a month. Telegrams sent nationwide have yielded no trace. Authorities fear he may be temporarily unbalanced after a branding over a salary reduction.
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Chicago Junction
Chicago
Frank M. Hall
Chicago Junction Railway
United States
Hill
Peruna praised by lawmakers in early spring notes
Hon Dan A Grosvenor deputy auditor for the War Department writes from Washington praising Peruna as a spring tonic and catarrh remedy. H W Ogden congressman from Louisiana also endorses Peruna as a good tonic and reliable catarrh medicine. The text urges spring treatment with Peruna and offers free medical advice from Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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Dan. A. Grosvenor
Ohio
War Department
Washington, D. C
H. W. Ogden
Louisiana
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Ae Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Suitor Proposes as Father Tests Auto History
Dialogue from Brooklyn Life shows a suitor assuring a father he can support his daughter in the lifestyle she expects. The father recalls disposing of his own automobile after years of upkeep, acknowledging the match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Brooklyn
Alarm Clock Sells for Store Use in Closing Hour
A salesman explains he buys an alarm clock to set it for his store closing time. A friend notes the clock is out of order yet the plan remains business as usual. The Philadelphia Press captures a lively exchange reflecting shopper interest.
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Charley Spink
Buffalo
Spink
McKenzie
Northern Pacific
Emmons County
Charles Walden
Hope
Minnesota
Ward County
California
W. F. Gaulke
Philadelphia Press
Quincy
Ill
Elisha B. Hamilton
Grand Army
Hamilton
Salzer's Lightning Cabbage Seed Offer
The notice promotes Salzer's Lightning Cabbage as an early, valuable crop with big market potential for cabbage beets peas cucumbers and more. It invites readers to request the John A Salzer Seed Co. LaCrosse Wisconsin mammoth seed catalog and a market gardeners catalog for 20 postage. W N. U.
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John A. Salzer Seed Co
LaCrosse
Wis
Market Gardeners
W.N. U
No Mine Heiress Denials Spark Love Pact
In Town Topica a duke pleads for marriage to a girl who insists she is not an heiress and not an actress. She frets that affection, not status, drives the match as she insists love is the motive behind any union.
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Genevieve
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Chil dren
Advertisement for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders a nurse at the Children's Home New York claims to cure feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and destroy worms. Available at druggists for 25c samples mailed free Allen Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
New York
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Wore the Blue Inspires a Soldier’s Family Tale
A Chicago News fragment recalls a writer seeking a muse at a shanty door. The mother explains six sons wore the blue and served in the Civil War, answering with pride that they were not cavalry or infantry but part of a loyal unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Patents Invited Last Week by Northwestern Inventors
Northwestern inventors listed patents invited last week include Olaf Benson Red Wing Minnesota rake attachment Bertie Cole Dalesburg South Dakota corn planter Wm Cordill Grand View South Dakota car coupling Herman Brote Freeport Minnesota bobsleigh Thomas Paulson Estelline South Dakota traction engine John Stevens St Paul Minnesota seal for seal locks and the firm Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys 011 012 Pioneer Press Bidg St Paul Minnesota This student remark appears toward the end.
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Northwestern
Olaf Benson
Red Wing
Minn
Bertie Cole
Dalesburg
Wm. Cordill
Grand View
Herman Brote
Freeport
Thomas Paulson
John Stevens
St. Paul
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press Bidg
St. Paul, Minn
FILLING THE JAILS Haiti Arrests On Board Crete A. Plerot
Haitian authorities report continued arrests as unrest grows. Prisoners of note are transported on the cruiser Crete A. Plerot, with hopes the disturbances will not reach revolutionary levels.
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Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Haitie
Crete A. Plerot
Encomium of Mexico by Meehan in Meehan's Monthly
A quoted praise from Meehan's Monthly extols Mexico as a land of bright sun flowers and hospitality. The traveler notes nature's beauty and the harmony of arts, calling out the land's welcoming atmosphere and architectural heritage.
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Mexico
England's Cavalry Charge Painted For Lady Butler
Cassell's Magazine recounts that while painting Scotland Forever Lady Butler requested an actual cavalry charge for her benefit. A general, hearing her remark, arranged the scene so she could witness and study a charging body of cavalry in action.
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Benet
Butler
Scotland
Cassell's Magazine
Emperor renames guard ship after Alice Roosevelt at Wilhelmshaven
March 22 report from Wilhelmshaven says Emperor William orders the former torpedo boat now guard ship here to be named Alice Roosevelt. The action reflects a tribute to the American figure amid wartime naval duties.
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Alice Roosevelt
Wilhelmshaven
William
Alice Roose
Early 1900s Patent Cure Ads and Gossip Snippet
A blend of medicinal ads and social quips from 1900 notes Cole’s Cough Cure promising quick relief for coughs and Piso’s Cure for Consumption praised by a Mrs Taos. It quotes a widow’s marriage motives and mocks a local surplus church as a “sheep stealing church” in Norwich New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Piso
Taos
Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich, N. Y
Storm Claims Rancher Family in North Dakota Losses
News from Jamestown North Dakota reports severe livestock losses in Medina and surrounding areas from the recent storm. At Medina flocks lost up to 60 sheep each, the Stewart ranch northwest of Medina reports 100 sheep lost and missing were Stewart's son and the herder Dan McLaughlin, presumed dead. North of Windsor at Marston Moor ranch 220 cattle perished.
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Jamestown
N. D
Medina
Stewart Ranch
Stewart
Dan McLaughlin
Marston Moor Ranch
Windsor
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Bome
Mrs. E. Sailer
Class
Boomitt
Philadelphia Bulletin
N. Y
Caargee
Hamlin
North Dakota State News
Litchville
Barrie
Dickinson
Henry Erickson
Towner
Granrile
Dunseith Country
J. M. Devine
W. H. Beard
Cavalier County
Jones
Ransom County
North Carolina
Oriska
Jamestown Northern
Page
Wheatland
Arnold of
Larimore
Minot
Richland County
United States Court
Aberdeen
J. O. Smith
Cassellon
Winnipeg
Bowers
McCormick Harvester Company
J. E. Burke
Velva
Barnes County
Moose River
Northern Pacific, Surveyors
Valley City
Mandan
Devils Lake
Rebekahs
Kenmere
Healy
Wyrdmere
Pembina County Baseball
Forest River
Anamoose
Pembina
Everest
Albert Rathke
Grafton
Masonic Temple
Langdon
Tom Haig
Dave Clover
Miss Case
Budge
National Bank
Gordon
Joe Miller
Hansbrough
McCumber
Jerry Bacon
Grand Forks County
John Sorley
Charles Cavileer
J. J. Cashel
Institute
Wahpeton
Juan Hil
Goen
Hubby
Dan Grosvenor
Peruna
Salzer
Atwater
Theden
Minnesota Sugar Company
St. Louis Park
Land of
Man
Earth
Peabody Medical Institute
Revere House
Boston
Mass
Boston Herald
M. M. Green
Bex E
Ailanis
Thompson
Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Aus
W. L. Douglas
W. 1. Douglas
Eer
Corona Kid
Corona Colt
L. Douglas
Exirn
Salzer's
Beardiess Sarvey
Speitz
Benes
Agadir
Waterbeooe Clothing
MAR ‘Gower ’S
Pip Bray
J. Tower CO
G @ J TIRE CO
G & J Tires
State Street
Crer
Tein City Paint & Wall Paper Co
Dept
Virginia
U.S
Pyle & Dehaen
Woodwand
Grain Commission
Inneapolis
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