Martial Law Sought as Night Riders Wreck Tobacco Beds
Reports from Kentucky and Ohio describe farmer protests and fears of martial law after night riders destroyed a tobacco bed near Ripley Ohio. Officials warn of potential clashes with independent growers as calls for federal or state action grow to restore safety and curb retaliatory violence.
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Lexington
Fere
Blue Grass
Equity Movement
Ripley
Ohio
Stringtown
Moonshon
Wnh
Deaths and crimes reported in scattered March notices
March dispatches from multiple cities record the death of Rev Sephas Baird after a self inflicted fate following smoke inhalation. Other items note a wife fatally shooting her husband during a quarrel, a long serving Cambridge schoolmaster’s death, and a Chicago suspect held for extradition to Russia with another extradition case from Paris.
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Banta Monica
Cab
Sephas Baird
C. S. Baird
Cambridge
Mass
Charles FE. Sret
United States
Stetson
Cincinnati
Chicago
Mirota Zernogekow
Russia
Vilna
Fom
Remarkable 98 Year Old Credits Kidney Pills
Shepard Kollock of 44 Wallace St Red Bank New Jersey endured 40 years of kidney troubles with a weak back and nightly awakenings. He reports Dean's Kidney Pills brought permanent relief after trying many remedies. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Shepard Kollock
Wallace St
Red Bank
N. J
Mr. Kollock
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Why They Sleep in Church Hypnosis Claim From Speaker
A hypnotist warns churchgoers sleep not from drowsiness but hypnotic voice waves. He argues church services act as a sonic hypnotic instrument with measured wave changes and soothing recitation guiding listeners toward entrancement as clergy speak. In a punch line, a schoolmaster asks about learning dead languages for an undertaker business.
Seance Ends Amid Psychic Test and Wit Exchange
A Cincinnati Enquirer note describes a clairvoyant session where the medium aims to conjure any soul upon request. In a witty aside, a skeptic asks for brevity and the seance ends abruptly as the rift between credulity and humor closes. A light joke follows about a wife gifting cigars to her husband who now smokes a pipe to save the cigars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Grape Nuts Endorsement From Healthful Old Age Users
A promotional column extols Grape Nuts as ideal for the elderly offering easy digestion and steady nourishment. Testimonies cite a 74 year old Iowa man who stays active, a 92 year old customer who combines Grape Nuts with Postum, and improved bowel regularity and mental clarity after adopting the cereal.
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Towa
Arcat
Western Canada crops cannot be checked letter 1907
A letter from the Commissioner of Immigration in Winnipeg praises Western Canada homesteads and yields. It cites 70 acres of wheat at 20 bushels per acre, 80 acres fallow at 25 bushels, 9,000 bushels of oats from 160 acres, carloads shipped at 53 cents per bushel, and asserts crops cannot be checked even by adverse conditions.
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Domainion
Regina
Sask
Winnipeg
Rouleau and
Drinkwater
Moose Jaw Creek
Western Canada
A. Kaltenbrunner
Western
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Public Land Opening May 12 in Big Horn Basin
Public notice announces a land opening on May 12 in the Big Horn basin and directs readers to the Irrigation Department for particulars. The notice lists the 405 Home Insurance Building in Chicago as the contact point and includes miscellaneous ephemera such as branding slogans, advertisements, and historical quotes.
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Big Horn Basin
Irrigation Department
Home Insurance Building
Chicago
H. M. Williams
Law Building
Toledo
Ohias
Brom o price dispute in buyer seller clash
A local dispute centers on pricing dynamics as the seller leans toward higher terms than the buyer, with tensions noted in a public market setting. No clear settlement reported, but attention focuses on negotiation leverage and fairness.
White Lead safety and purity test explained
A historical note explains how white lead is produced ground and mixed with linseed oil and warns against adulterated substitutes. It describes a blow pipe test to prove purity, cites the National Lead Company Dutch Boy trade mark, and offers to mail a blow pipe kit and booklet. Also mentions a Harvard Lampoon exchange and a lampoon advertising quips.
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National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York
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Paul Roy
Metropolitan Opera House
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Jill
Wall Street
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
Ferdinand
Garfield
Harvard Lampoon
E.w.grove
Lydia E. Pinkham
Maggie Gilmer
West Union
S. C
Josephine Hall
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Pinkham
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Rite
Shane
Aviat
Douglas
W. J. Douglas
Jacobs
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
the Panhandle
BORAX
Pacific Coast
Borax ¢ Co
Eiseppaliscsienre
Ander Uartee
I. Zot
Gacd-U Chemical Co
South Haves
Mick
Bane
Dakotas
Montana
Chicago, Milwaukee
St. Paul Railway
Lombard
Butte
Moore
Lewistown
Judith Basin
St. Paul
Minneapolis
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F. A. Miller
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