Quaker Oats Aid to Soldiers Feeds Recovery
A contractor in a warm climate faced illness among laborers. He reduced meat and increased Quaker Oats, boiling oats into drinking water. Signs of stomach disorders vanished and strength and spirits improved. The tale highlights oats value. A separate note recalls a mother admonishing six year old Mary to avoid sled hitching to sleighs, she retorts about keeping the ten commandments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agit W
Jamie
Mary
Cuticura Heals Eczema Says Virginia Woman
A Virginia reader reports severe eczema on hands cured after using Cuticura Ointment and Resolvent. She notes three bottles and full recovery, adding her daughter’s hands healed similarly within weeks. She urges others with skin or blood diseases to use Cuticura.
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Italveye
A. E. Folin
Speers Verry, Va
Untitled court note on driver faces jail term
A fragmented report describes a magistrate handling a case involving a teamster and his horses after a storm. The driver risks losing his job and serving a jail term for failing to pay a fine, with employers referenced in the dismissal context.
Ruling on Wedding Ring Mishap During Nuptials
A fragmentary report notes a court or public ruling mentioning slang toward a groom and a moment at a wedding when the groom handed the minister a Matah from his pocket for the ring. The text is garbled and names or specifics are unreadable.
Cure Deafness with Constitutional Remedies and Catarrh Cure
An advertisement claims deafness results from an inflamed Eustachian tube caused by catarrh. It asserts only constitutional remedies can restore hearing, promises $100 for incurable pantanas from catarrh, and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co of Toledo, with Wall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Wall
Fear in the Field: Man Upset by Imaginary Snake
A humorous observation notes that a man can be as frightened by an imaginary snake as a woman is by a real mouse, highlighting gendered reactions to frightful stimuli.
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G. H. Sumner
Town State Board of Health
Buchanan County
Sumner
O Actals
Governor's Good Roads Convention Calls Towns
Des Moines February 8 Governor Carroll asks county auditors and city mayors to appoint delegates for a March 8 and 9 good roads convention. Pre-convention discussions urged to draft proposals for state legislature. Mayors asked to send at least five delegates and notify the governor of selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Carroll
Township Good Roads
General Assembly
B. F. Carroll
Iowa
State Board of Agriculture
W. B. Barney
H. R. Wright
Second Iowa Infantry Banquet Marks Donelson Victory
Survivors of the Second Iowa infantry will hold a banquet on February 15 to commemorate the fort Donelson capture forty eight years past. W H Beale of Marshalltown seeks a patent for a Canada bound grain door for railway box cars, an inside grain door invention.
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Fort Donelson
Second Iowa Infantry
W. H. Beale
Marshalltown
Canada
Dr Royal Heads Alumni Association in New York
Dr George Royal elected president of the New York Homeopathic college alumni association after a mail ballot. He will preside at the next annual meeting in New York around early June.
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Royal
George Royal
Sixth Avenue
The
New York Homeopathic College
New York
Canadian West bargains draw Kentucky readers homeward
The Kentuckian cites readers from Kentucky and 35 to 40 states praising Canadian lands for free homesteads and sales near Calgary and Edmonton. It warns readers to research before moving, noting many Americans who settled in Canada stayed and prospered, with stories of family life and a light, humorous aside about a child’s sunset remark and a punchline between suitor and father.
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Kentucky
Canada
E. K. Bell
Frankfort
Alberta
Calgary
Edmonton
Canadian
America
H.’s
Roberta
Los Angeles Times
Saye
Bea Oh Deneen
Illinois
Saskatchewan
Western Canada
Sunaganda
Cone
Manitoba
Railway
John Lewis Childs
Floral Park
N. Y
When Your Joints Are Stiff and Pain Sore From Cold
A fragment lists home remedies for rheumatism and aches, praising DaVita Painkiller and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and inflammation. Mentions Mohammedan quote and a note on average wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eerry Davita
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Gro
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Stamm
State Mining Department
Monroe County
Polk County
Polk
Jasper
Dallas
Boone
Guthrie
Green
Scott
Mahaska
Marion
Wapello
Keokuk
Warren
van Buren
Davis
Jefferson
Appanoose
Lucas
Wayne
Taylor
Page
Adams
State Horticultural Society
Hag
Denver
J. Why
Glenwood
Omaha
Mutual
Iowa Telephone Company
Mutual Company
Carpenters
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Building Trades Council
Byers
Elijah Baba Badel
University of Maryland
Neenya E. Badel
Marie Lewson
Baltimore
Des Moines Bar Association
State Historical Society
Charles A. Bishop
Supreme Bench
Ninth Street
University Avenue
Edwin C. Beardsworth
H. J. Culver
Chariton
Methodist Hospital
Newton van
Lawrence DeGraff
Van
Crerly
New Telephone Company
Millville Farmers’ Telephone Company of
Millville
Hayward
New State Bank
Dawson Savings Bank of
Dawson
Dallas County
W. H. McCammon
Perry
Central
Mohammedan
MTR
OTA Taxin
Olek de Samuel Toner
Elk
Bears
the Centaur Company
Castoria
D, Ben Torserry
Carter
Hay
Philo Hay Spec. Co
Newark
N. F
U.S. A
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Western
Deneen
Gawee Alaaed
E.t.holmes
Jackson St
St.Paul
Minn
W.y.bennett
Bee Bidg
Omaha,Neb
Western Newspaper Union
W. Adams &T
Chicago
South Dakota
Gettysburg
W. N. U. Des Moines
Luther Burbank
California
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