Week in Congress Highlights Railroads and Statehood
In a multi day session the House passed 416 private pension bills and debated the prohibition records bill blocked by a single objection. Senate hearings featured the Tillman backed rail rate bill, Indian affairs, and statehood votes. The Army appropriation bill moved in both chambers with Confederate graves marking approved.
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Washington
House
Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate
Till
Clapp
Indian Territory
Peveridge
Hopkins
Hele
Corbin
McArthur
Grosvenor
Ohio
Foraker
House of Representatives
Dolliver
Military Committee
Price
Brakeman Crushed to Death in Car Coupling
In Mason City on March 1 Otto Post, a Chicago and Northwestern brakeman, was crushed to death while coupling cars. His foot caught in a frog and the oncoming engine ground him to pieces. A London house agent’s clerk slumbers beside an empty bottle after a failed inventory attempt.
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Mason City
Otto Post
Chicago & Northwestern
London
Lewis' Single Binder Cigar Ad Jokes About Brains
Ad style lines promote Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Peoria Illinois claiming value and brain boosting humor. The copy mocks rivals as eating brain food while touting the product from Lewis' Factory.
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Advertises For Children
An advertisement claims Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children soothes teething pain calms fuss and relieves wind colic. The text presents a striking example of old patent medicine marketing and hints at skepticism about expertise at official levels.
Confidence and cures in scattered 19th century ads
A collage of old ads and quips including Red Cross Ball Blue price, a self help line about confidence, a pile cure offer with refund guarantee, Dr Klines nerve tonic trial, and humorous quotes from Town Topics and Puck. No single coherent news event.
Psoriasis cured after Cuticura regimen 35 years later
W M Chidester of Hutchinson Kansas reports a 35 year battle with psoriasis cured in 30 days using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. He describes red circular patches scaly crusts and bleeding skin with intense nightly itching before healing five years earlier.
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Cody
W. M. Chidester
Hutchinson
Kan
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A promotional notice extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for women’s health woes including backache and nervous symptoms. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Cottely, and others, urges women to write for advice, and notes Lynn Massachusetts as the address.
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Holmes
Cottely
J.C Ttomes
Larimore
North Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Denar
Pinkham
Lydia
Emma Cottely
East 12Th Street
New York City
Pinkers
Bacon's Essays and Shakespeare Best Reading Outside Bible
A short note from wW.N.U. Des Moines Iowa published March 1906 highlights Bacon's essays and Shakespeare plays as top reading choices besides the Bible, reflecting a literary opinion from that era.
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Bacon
Shakespeare
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Canada
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New York Life Bul
Uowsle
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Goagress
Miss
She Huss Company
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Ind
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BK. HL Kline, Ltd
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Philadelphia
Dora
Cholly
Eard
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Ham
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J.g.holmes
Emma Cotreely
DRS
Thornton & Minor
Oak ST
Kansas City
Sven Norticr Ar Sr Louls
Peabody-Macpherson CO
Union Park Flace
California Vig Syrup Co
California Fig Syrup Co
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California’ Fig Syrup Co
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