Magnificent hotel expansion at Indiana Mineral Springs
Major H L Kramer drives a large expansion of the Indiana Mineral Springs hotel complex. A new two story addition 80 by 160 feet will add forty guest rooms, a bath house, dining hall, music room, physicians offices and barber shop. Completion expected in 90 days with plans for a further 150 room structure. The project, already close to a quarter million dollars, aims to elevate the resort into one of the nation’s finest sanitariums.
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Indiana Mineral Springs Company
Indiana Mineral Springs
Indiana
H. L. Kramer
United States
Kramer
Indiana Mineral Springs Enterprise
Attics Daily Ledger
Unfamiliar Chinese Greeting Compared With Western Kiss
Letter from Landon Mail notes that 400 million Chinese have never kissed. Native greetings are hand clasp with a bow or kneeling kowtow. Foreigners’ kissing customs disgust many locals, including nurses who try to kiss.
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China
Landon Mail
Dueber Hampden Watch Co Supremacy Endorsed by Irish World
The article extols the Ducker Watch Works Canton Ohio as the finest for high grade movements and cases. It highlights the Hampden 17 jewel lever as the most reliable timekeeper for railroad service and promotes the Four Hundred ladies watch as a landmark product.
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Ducker Watch
Canton
Hampden
Hampden Watch Co
Ohio
Dueber-Hampden
Dueber-Hamden
Dangers to public morals and dangers to eating debated
Mr Blykins jokes that dangers appear in newspapers on politics morals food and air while his wife notes he never went to war. He quips it takes nerve to keep eating and breathing despite endless alarms from headlines in Washington.
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Mr. Blykins
Washington R
Ladies Can Wear Shoes Trial Free by Mail
An advertisement promoting shoe aids using Alien's Foot powder to relieve swollen hot sweating nails corns and related foot discomfort. It offers trial by mail from Allen B Olmstead Le Roy New York with eerie shoe-store style claims.
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Alien
Allen B. Olmstead
le Roy
Morning Alarm Prompts Lawn Mow Plan
Mrs Ridgely-Come urges Mr Ridgely to rise at six for an early mow. He yawns and explains his snore with a humorous mispronunciation. The snippet captures a light domestic moment and a newspaper reference to the Chicago Times Herald.
From Richest Man in Somerville to Vegetable Peddler
Charles H. North once valued at eight million dollars and dubbed Somerville’s richest man now lives in two rooms in a Prospect Hill mansion. A pork packing plant sits below his home as he reflects on a rise from a Waltham bakery to French's Academy, then a Boston Quincy Market stall and swift success.
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Somerville
Mass
Charles H. North
Prospect Hill
Waltham
Academy
John P. Squire
Quincy
Boston
Prospect Hill Home of Somerville's Richest Family
A description of Chas H North Today as a provision peddler and owner of a grand Prospect Hill house in Somerville. The home, once the town’s showplace, featured elaborate furnishings and was the birthplace and upbringing site for the family, including a daughter who married a University of Vermont professor.
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Prospect Hill
Somerville
University of Vermont
Charles H. North Becomes Peddler After Ventures
The article notes Charles H. North turning to peddling goods after investments in Nova Scotia gold mines and an Omaha pork packing plant. North argues his money was tied up while others profited from his labor, reflecting on his shifting livelihood and sense of lost ventures.
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Nova Scotia
Omaha
North
Charles H. North
White haired man charts own fate as peddler agent
The article profiles Charles H. North once a Somerville pork-packing magnate with 1300 workers in 1890. Now 68, he travels by peddler cart, living in a big hilltop house, cheerful amid loss of fortune. His past includes North Packing, Swift interests, and family links, with locals still recognizing him as Charley. Also notes James Allison, Kansas commissioner in Paris, lamenting fashion constraints.
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Vermont
Boston
Georgia
Covington, Ky
Shiloh
Charles H. North Packing & Provision Company
The
Swifts
Wichita
James Allison
Kansas
Allison
Women dentists expand field across nations
The article notes about 400 to 600 women dentists in the United States, with the New York Dental School admitting women for eight years and five women in its freshman class. It traces origins to Frau Dr. Hirschfeldt-Tiburtius in 1869, cites expanding use of women in Germany France England and Russia, and highlights paths from medicine or dental office work. It also discusses an unrelated note on Swiss iron ore smelting via electric furnaces and a 60,000 horsepower concession near Meiningen with a new ropeway to Innert Kirchen.
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New York Evening Post
New York Dental School
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
Michigan University
Washington
Hirschfeldt-Tiburtius
Russia
Germany
Bernese Oberland
Meiningen
Innert Kirchen
Aar
Switzerland
Smelting Iron by Electricity From Switzerland
Switzerland leads in electro metallurgy with a new development in electrically smelted iron. The country excels in engineering and electrical manufacturing but lacks coal, hindering industrial progress and adoption.
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Switzerland
Automobiles in War Bring Motorized Mail to Fronts
The article notes German maneuvers used four wheeled vehicles carrying officers and drivers for fast travel, with some speeds reaching twenty to forty miles an hour. It compares this to Franco Prussian War transport wagons, which averaged fifty miles in a twenty four hour march. Modern motor wagons run seven miles per hour and a ten hour day covers seventy miles. Authorities foresee widespread replacement of train horses by petroleum motors.
Preservatives in Milk Deemed Dangerous by City Inspector
Milk Inspector William Schurtz uncovers many preservatives used by dairymen to keep milk sweet without ice. He warns they are highly poisonous, especially to children, with formaldehyde as the main agent. Other preparations like albumoid thickens milk and is linked to embalming meat. City Chemist Kirchmaier confirms the danger. He notes widespread use across Ohio and links most infant illness to preserved milk and meat.
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William Schurtz
Schurtz
Inspector Schurtz
Kirchmaier
Ohio
How to mount a map on muslin with starch paste
To back a map or drawing with muslin, spread an even thin coat of boiled starch or flour paste on the back. Place the map on a cloth, smooth it, rub gently with clean paper to prevent friction, and let it dry. Soak the pasted map briefly to allow expansion, then drying will tighten into a smooth surface.
Automobile Horse Patented for Carriage Hitching
An inventor has created an automobile horse to be hitched to carriages, not in front of them. It uses two electric motors in the hind legs, chains and belts to drive wheels, and a ball bearing neck with reins for steering. The horse can be ridden or driven, with steering via a spindle in the forelegs. The animal is stated to be sound and kind.
Use of Weary Wanglee Pilgrim’s Odd Exchange
An exchange between a dusty pilgrim and a road knight collapses into a grim quip about producing smoke to trigger insurance payouts. The farmer questions usefulness while the knight mirrors the complaint. The Chicago News note hints at arson-driven mortgage relief as a dark punchline.
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Chicago News
The American Working Man Compared To Chinese Labor
The article contrasts the endurance of American workers with Chinese workers noting authorities say Americans surpass Chinese as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is superior to other cures. It claims the Bitters aid digestion relieve constipation and prevent malaria.
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America
Seven Is More Than Seven In Quizzical Verse
A Washington Star quote discusses a playful poem where a girl repeats a phrase at every question. The exchange notes the girl is not simply frank and ingenuous but very wise, suggesting she is more than seven.
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Washington Star
Allen's Foot-Fase and Foot-Ease advert
An old classified style ad promotes Allen's Foot-Fase as the sole remedy for swollen smarting burning and sweating feet corns and bunions. It advertises Allen's Foot-Ease powder for shaking into shoes with a 25 cent price and free sample, then provides a mail address in LeRoy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
When Children Grow Mont
The laws of child growth are summarized with age benchmarks for boys and girls. Girls peak in height around fourteen to fifteen, boys around eighteen. Growth patterns vary by season and climate, with rapid height gain April to July and weight gain June to November.
Family business turns tables as son teaches father
A business owner recalls teaching his son the trade months ago and now the roles have reversed. The father concedes the venture is successful as the son mentors him, signaling a positive swap in leadership within the establishment.
Beware Cascar ets substitute fraud warning card
An advertisement extols universal popularity of Cascarets Candy Cathartic, warns against substitutes sold in bulk, and urges buyers to trust genuine metal box packaging with the long tailed C and C. C. C. stamp, as substitutes are seen as deceitful and unsafe.
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CASCAR@TS
Jones-Great Scot! Census Prober in Town Decline
Detroit Free Press quips about a census enu merator arriving to report a smaller population than a decade ago. The remark skewers the humor of bureaucrats and the mystery of a town’s changing size.
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Jones
Brown
Detroit Free Press
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills Ad
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a internal remedy that reaches the disease, claims it purifies blood and mucous surfaces, and asserts endorsements by top physicians. It also promotes Ball's Family Pills as the best. Testimonials are offered free. Toledo, Ohio-based F. J. Cheney & Co. prop owners.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. Ball
Spottleport Visit Sparks Confusion and Farewell
Dialogic snippet shows a tense exchange between Hello Hardluck and HAL. Hello explains he left the hospital that morning and planned a half day off to visit this afternoon. The banter hints at tension and unresolved issues as HAL reacts with exasperation.
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Hardluck
Harper’s Bazar
Dr J H Rindlaub Eye Ear Nose Specialist
An advertisement lists Dr J H Rindlaub as a specialist in eye ear nose and throat based in Fargo North Dakota. The note includes a personal motto about life’s struggle and deserves.
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J. H. Rindlaub
Fargo, N. D
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Ad Claims Female Cure
An advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as curing ailments specific to women. It claims to tone health, ease nerves, relieve backaches, regulate menstruation, and address inflammation and displacements, insisting others are unsafe. The copy cites many testimonials appearing in the paper.
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Chas, H. North
J. M. Merriam
H. Skilton
Newman Conant
Mr. North
Charley
Mont
Spottleport
Cata- Eerstein. BU. Co
Iil. Ig
Dallas
Timc
Austin Mfg. Co
Harvey
Henry MH. Copp
N. F.M.E
B. L. Rowan
Wiiwankee
Isump
TION
Lydia Es Pinkham
A. J. Tower
Carter
Carters
Baker
Minnesota
Baker Drug Company
Fergus Falls
Minn
University OF Notre Dame
ST. Mary’s Academy
Notre Dame
Sisters of the Holy Cross
Neem
Conservatory of Music
Bethool
Boston Normal Bebool
Notre Dame, Laéleas
le Siuoters
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